Take the Tour: "Top 100 FA - The best films ever made"
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United States - 1972
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- Marlon Brando, Al Pacino ...
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- Epic tale of a 1940s New York Mafia family and their struggle to protect their empire from rival families as the leadership switches from the father (Marlon Brando) to ...
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United States - 1974
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- Al Pacino, Robert De Niro ...
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- Continuing saga of the Corleone family as they move to Nevada and make the casino business their major income source under the leadership of the increasingly paranoid and ...
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United States - 1957
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- Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb ...
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- Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion?
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United States - 1993
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- Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley ...
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- Oskar Schindler is a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, ...
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United States - 1942
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- Carole Lombard, Jack Benny ...
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- Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to meet in ...
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United States - 1950
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- Bette Davis, Anne Baxter ...
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- Margo Channing (Bette Davis), leading dame of the New York stage, is pushed aside by a fresh-faced fan who becomes her understudy, the duplicitous Eve (Anne Baxter). ...
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United States - 1990
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- Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro ...
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- As a poor Irish-Italian growing up in 1950s New York City, Henry Hill rises through the ranks of his Brooklyn neighborhood's crime branch, and with money from the mob he ...
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Mexico - 1950
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- Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán ...
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- El Jaibo is a teenager who escapes from a reformatory institution and joins his friends in the neighborhood. After a couple of days, el Jaibo kills, with the presence of ...
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United States - 1962
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- John Wayne, James Stewart ...
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- Congressman Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to the tiny town of Shinbone to bury an old friend, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), and ...
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United States - 1962
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- Gregory Peck, Mary Badham ...
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- The lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), decides to defend a black man (Brock Peters) undeservedly charged with raping a poor white woman. The bigoted townspeople would ...
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Germany - 1931
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- Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke ...
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- In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert’s heinous crimes are ...
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United States - 1940
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- Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell ...
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- When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison, he discovers his family has been kicked out of their farm. Seeking a better future, he leaves ...
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United States - 1926
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- Buster Keaton, Marion Mack ...
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- Johnny Gray is the engineer for the Western and Atlantic Flyer, and his engine is named "The General." There are two loves in Johnny's life, "The General" and Annabelle ...
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Spain - 1963
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- José Isbert, Nino Manfredi ...
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- An undertaker's assistant marries an executioner's daughter, and the new groom takes on his father-in-law's job but grows real squeamish when the time comes to execute ...
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United States - 1962
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- Bette Davis, Joan Crawford ...
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- In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.
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United States - 1958
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- James Stewart, Kim Novak ...
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- San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson (James Stewart) develops a fear of heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during a chase. An ...
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United Kingdom - 1949
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- Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli ...
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- Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his friend, Harry Lime. When he finds that Lime has just been killed in a ...
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United States - 1983
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- Al Pacino, Steven Bauer ...
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- Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and ...
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United States - 1995
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- Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman ...
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- Set in a perpetually gloomy unnamed city, the film follows Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a retiring police detective, as he experiences his final week on the job, ...
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United States - 1954
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- James Stewart, Grace Kelly ...
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- A professional photographer, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Stewart), is obliged to stay at home because he broke a leg. Despite the company of his girlfriend (Kelly) and his ...
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United States - 1932
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- Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams ...
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- The story involves duplicitous trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) seducing sideshow midget Hans (Earles) for his inheritance. Hans’ reluctant friends, the other ...
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United States - 1924
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- Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts ...
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- Miner-turned-dentist McTeague wins young Trina Sieppe away from her cousin Marcus, McTeague's friend. When Trina wins five thousand dollars in a lottery, Marcus accuses ...
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Italy - 1945
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- Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani ...
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- Based on real events, it tells the story of several Italian Resistance fighters battling fascism in Nazi-occupied Rome. When Gestapo agents raid an apartment where ...
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Japan - 1953
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- Machiko Kyô, Mitsuko Mito ...
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- In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his wares for vast profits in the local ...
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United States - 1946
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- James Stewart, Donna Reed ...
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- A good but slightly ineffectual man tries to off himself after an error that really wasnt his fault. In Christmas carol fashion, his crusty-but-lovable guardian angel ...
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United States - 1944
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- Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews ...
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- Beautiful Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is found shot to death in her apartment. Hard nosed Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned as the lead investigator for ...
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United States - 1954
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- Grace Kelly, Ray Milland ...
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- British tennis pro (Ray Milland) suspects that his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly) is fooling around with a handsome American (Robert Cummings). He blackmails a disgraced ...
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Japan - 1964
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- Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida ...
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- An entomologist looking for insects in the desert accepts locals' offer to stay with a widow whose house is at the bottom of a sandpit, accessible only by a rope ladder. ...
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United States - 1953
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- Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame ...
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- Dave Bannion is an upright but unscrupulous cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's ...
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