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| x An American in Paris |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 68 |
An American in Paris is a 1951 MGM musical film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by...
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| x Jaws |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 48 |
Jaws is a 1975 American horror/thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel Jaws. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant great white shark by...
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| x The Grapes of Wrath |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 21 |
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) is an American drama film directed by Academy Award Winner Best Director, John Ford. It was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939), written by John Steinbeck. The screenplay was written by Nunnally...
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| x Tootsie |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 62 |
Tootsie is a 1982 comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job. The movie stars Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange, with a supporting cast that...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 99 | |||
| x Rear Window |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 42 |
Rear Window is a 1954 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder", and starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey and Raymond...
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| x Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 50 |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and his partner The Sundance Kid (played by Robert Redford), based loosely on historical fact.
The film was...
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| x Raiders of the Lost Ark |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 60 |
Raiders of the Lost Ark (also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a 1981 action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 37 | |||
| x It Happened One Night |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 35 |
It Happened One Night is an 1934 American comedy with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ...
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| x Unforgiven |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 98 |
Unforgiven is a 1992 Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging and retired gunslinger who takes on one more job years after he had hung...
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| x Some Like It Hot |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 14 |
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and Nehemiah Persoff. The film was adapted by...
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| x Goodfellas |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 94 |
Goodfellas (also styled GoodFellas) is a 1990 semi-fictional crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. The film follows...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 69 | |||
| x Amadeus |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 53 |
Peter Shaffer's Amadeus is a 1984 musical film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the story is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 19 | |||
| x Annie Hall |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 31 |
Annie Hall a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in 2002...
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| x Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 64 |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban and Cary Guffey. It tells the story of Roy Neary,...
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| x The Manchurian Candidate |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 67 |
The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 Cold War political thriller film starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury and featuring Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish and John McGiver. It was directed by John...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 8 | |||
| x MASH |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 56 |
MASH is a 1970 American Academy Award-winning satirical dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr. based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. It is the only feature film in the M*A*S...
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| x The Third Man |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 57 |
The Third Man also spelled The 3rd Man, is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. The screenplay was written by novelist Graham Greene. Greene's novella of the same...
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| x Singin' in the Rain |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 10 |
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography. It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood, and its...
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| x Frankenstein |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 87 |
Frankenstein is a 1931 horror film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and very loosely based on the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley as well as the play adapted from it by Peggy Webling. The film stars Colin Clive, Mae Clarke,...
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| x Vertigo |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 61 |
Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. The film was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor and based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac. In the...
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| x The French Connection |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 70 |
The French Connection is a 1971 American crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore. It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives named ...
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| x Modern Times |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 81 |
Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that has his iconic Little Tramp character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced...
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| x The Wizard of Oz |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 6 |
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical / fantasy film directed mainly by Victor Fleming from a script by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, and others and based on the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank...
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| x The African Queen |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 17 |
The African Queen is an American 1951 drama film adapted from the 1935 novel by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and...
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| x Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 26 |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (commonly known as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 American/British black comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 6 | |||
| x The Godfather |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 3 |
The Godfather is a 1972 American thriller film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne (uncredited). It stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 1 | |||
| x High Noon |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 33 |
High Noon is an American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells in real time the story of a town marshal forced to face a gang of killers by himself. The screenplay was written by Carl...
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| x The Godfather Part II |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 32 |
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American thriller film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, chronicling the story of the Corleone family following the...
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| x Fargo |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 84 |
Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy, crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. The film is about a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for $80,000. The crime leads to a series of murders that Marge...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 166 | |||
| x The Deer Hunter |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 79 |
The Deer Hunter is a 1978 war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. It is loosely inspired by the German novel Three Comrades (1937),...
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| x Rebel Without a Cause |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 59 |
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 film directed by Nicholas Ray that tells the story of a rebellious teenager played by James Dean, who comes to a town, meets a girl, disobeys his parents, and defies the local high school bullies. It was an attempt to...
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| x Sunset Boulevard |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 12 |
Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir/black comedy directed and co-written by Billy Wilder. It was named after the boulevard that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California.
It stars William Holden as down-on-his-luck...
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| x Forrest Gump |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 71 |
Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film, directed by Robert Zemeckis, stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, and Gary Sinise. The story is of Forrest Gump, a simple man...
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| x Lawrence of Arabia |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 5 |
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel (through his British company, Horizon Pictures), from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. ...
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| x Midnight Cowboy |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 36 |
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and then-newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. Notable smaller...
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| x The Jazz Singer |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 90 |
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Produced by Warner...
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| x To Kill a Mockingbird |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 34 |
To Kill A Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Mary Badham in the role of Scout and Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch.
In 1995, the film was...
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| x The Gold Rush |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 74 |
The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. The film also stars Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite. Chaplin declared several times...
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| x City Lights |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 76 |
City Lights is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film starring, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It also stars Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Despite the fact that the production of silent films had dwindled with the rise of ...
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| x Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 99 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by William Rose. The movie...
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| x A Place in the Sun |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 92 |
A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney. It tells the story of a working class young man who is entangled with two...
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| x Dances with Wolves |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 75 |
Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic film based on the book of the same name which tells the story of a Civil War-era United States Army lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post. He eventually befriends a local Sioux...
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| x The Birth of a Nation |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 44 |
The Birth of a Nation (premiered with the title The Clansman) is a 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play. The Birth of a Nation...
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| x Double Indemnity |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 38 |
Double Indemnity (1944) is an American film noir starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. The film was directed by Billy Wilder and adapted by Wilder and Raymond Chandler from the novella of the same title by James M. Cain...
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| x One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 20 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman. The film is an adaptation of the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The movie was the first to win all five major Academy Awards (Best...
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| x Chinatown |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 19 |
Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir film, directed by Roman Polanski. The film features many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part psychological drama. It stars Jack Nicholson, Faye...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 123 | |||
| x The Apartment |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 93 |
The Apartment is a 1960 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. It was Wilder's follow up to the enormously popular Some Like It Hot and was an equal...
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| x American Graffiti |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 77 |
American Graffiti is a 1973 coming of age comedy-drama film co-written/directed by George Lucas, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips and Harrison Ford. Set in...
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| x Giant |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 82 |
Giant is a 1956 drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. The movie stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill...
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| x Platoon |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 83 |
Platoon is a 1986 war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe, with a small supporting turn from Johnny Depp. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the...
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| x A Streetcar Named Desire |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 45 |
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 film adaptation of the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. It was directed by Elia Kazan, who had also directed the original stage production, and stars Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl...
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| x E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 25 |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Dee Wallace. It tells the story of...
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| x North by Northwest |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 40 |
North by Northwest is a 1959 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write ...
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| x Network |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 66 |
Network is a 1976 satirical film about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System (UBS), and its struggle with poor ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter...
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| x Wuthering Heights |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 73 |
Wuthering Heights is a 1939 black and white film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the celebrated novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The film only depicts sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters,...
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| x The Searchers |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 96 |
The Searchers is a 1956 epic Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May. It is the story of Ethan Edwards, a middle-aged Civil War veteran portrayed by John Wayne, who spends years looking for his abducted niece with...
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| x Ben-Hur |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 72 |
Ben-Hur is a 1959 epic film directed by William Wyler, and is the third film version of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It premiered at Loew's State Theatre in New York City on November 18, 1959. The film went on to win a...
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| x My Fair Lady |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 91 |
My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, My Fair Lady, based on the film adaptation of the stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ending and the ballroom scene are from the 1938 film Pygmalion...
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| x West Side Story |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 41 |
West Side Story is a 1961 American film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, which itself was adapted from Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard...
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| x King Kong |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 43 |
King Kong is a 1933 landmark black-and-white monster film about a gigantic gorilla named "Kong" and how he is captured from a remote lost prehistoric island and brought to civilization against his will. The film was made by RKO and was originally...
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