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100. Modern Times (1936)
Besides 'City Lights', this is The Best Charlie Chaplin Film
Silent films were already old-fashioned and out of vogue in 1936 when Charlie Chaplin completed his last silent feature film, Modern Times, almost ten years after the sound revolution began with The Jazz Singer. A silent film consciously made for the sound era, Modern Times is a comic masterpiece that remains approachable today even for movie lovers raised on computer imaging and surround sound. the most important reason for the film’s ongoing relevance is its contemporary themes and forward-looking perspective. The famous symbolic opening shot, with footage of wave after wave of sheep crowding through a sheepfold passageway suddenly dissolving into footage of workers bustling out of a subway station, has lost nothing of its impact. Indeed, contemporary viewers will easily make the connection between Chaplin’s image and the world of enclosures and passageways so familiar to corporate America’s cubicle dwellers — and to fans of Scott Adams’s Dilbert comic strip (who of course tend to be the same people). Source - DecentFilms
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City Lights (1931)
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99. Frankenstein (1933)
The first Horror / Sci-Fi Movie Blockbuster
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. The project goes awry when Dr. Frankenstein's assistant accidentally gives the creature an abnormal, murderer's brain. In 1991, the Library of Congress selected Frankenstein for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Source - WikipediaBuy The Movie
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98. The Great Zeigfeld (1936)
Winner of 3 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he stage manages a tour for legendary strongman Sandow. He charms European stage star Anna Held to headline his "Follies." From 1907 onward, Ziegfeld stages annual editions of Broadway's most fabulous revue. - Source Rotten Tomatoes
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Easter Parade
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97. The Third Man (1947)
Produced by men who knew the devastation of Europe
Carol Reed and his Academy Award-winning cinematographer, Robert Krasker, also devised a reckless, unforgettable visual style. More shots, I suspect, are tilted than are held straight; they suggest a world out of joint. There are fantastic oblique angles. Wide-angle lenses distort faces and locations. And the bizarre lighting makes the city into an expressionist nightmare. (During a stakeout for Lime, a little balloon man wanders onto the scene, and his shadow is a monster three stories high). Vienna in "The Third Man" is a more particular and unmistakable *place* than almost any other location in the history of the movies; the action fits the city like a hand slipping on a glove. - Source Roger Ebert
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96. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Winner of 3 Academy Awards
American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the thoroughfare with the same name that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California. The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent-film star who draws him into her fantasy world, where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen. Praised by many critics when first released, Sunset Boulevard was nominated for 11 Academy Awards (including nominations in all four acting categories) and won three. Deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1989, Sunset Boulevard was included in the first group of films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 1998, it was ranked number 12 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best American films of the 20th century, and in 2007, it was 16th on their 10th Anniversary list. - Source WikipediaBuy The Movie
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94. The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
Winner of 2 Academy Awards
John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath" is a left-wing parable, directed by a right-wing American director, about how a sharecropper's son, a barroom brawler, is converted into a union organizer. The message is boldly displayed, but told with characters of such sympathy and images of such beauty that audiences leave the theater feeling more pity than anger or resolve. It's a message movie, but not a recruiting poster. American drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The film tells the story of the Joads, an Oklahoma family, who, after losing their farm during the Great Depression in the 1930s, become migrant workers and end up in California. The film is widely considered as one of the greatest American films of all time. In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." - Source Wikipedia Buy The Movie
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93. Some Like It Hot (1959)
Winner of 1 Academy Award For Best Costume Design
Two Struggling musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and are now on the run from the Mob. Jerry and Joe cross-dress into an all female band. In addition to hiding, each has his own problems; One falls for another band member but can't tell her his gender, and the other has a rich suitor who will not take "No," for an answer. - Source Rotten Tomatoes
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92. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Soundtrack Won a Grammy for Album of the Year
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles. The film is set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression. Its story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer's epic Greek poem The Odyssey that incorporates social features of the American South. The title of the film is a reference to the Preston Sturges 1941 film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictitious book about the Great Depression.
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
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91. The Odd Couple (1969)
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Two friends try sharing an apartment, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day. It is the story of two divorced men - neurotic neat-freak Felix Ungar and fun-loving slob Oscar Madison - who decide to live together, even though their personalities clash.
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90. Rebecca (1948)
Winner of 2 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
Rebecca was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won Oscars for Best Picture and Cinematography- Source Classicclips.ca
As a psychological study, the picture is a brilliant effort in its delineation of the tremendous power which the personality of a woman dead continues to exert over the living. Faithfully preserving the theme and atmosphere of the du Maurier story, it portrays the apparently insuperable barriers which are encountered by the girl who attempts to follow in the footsteps of the deceased Rebecca as the new wife of the man who had permitted Rebecca completely to dominate his home, fighting a seemingly hopeless battle until the dramatic denouement which forever removes the ghostly influence. - Source The Holywood Reporter
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Released in the United Kingdom as Battle of Midway, 'Midway' is a 1976 American Technicolorwar film directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford The film features an international cast of stars including Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Ed Nelson, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, James Shigeta, Pat Morita, John Fujioka, Robert Ito and Christina Kokubo.
The music score by John Williams and the cinematography by Harry Stradling Jr. were both highly regarded. The soundtrack used Sensurround to augment the physical sensation of engine noise, explosions, crashes and gunfire. Despite mixed reviews, Midway became the tenth most popular movie at the box office in 1976. A remake film of the same name was released in 2019.
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88. The Wizard Of Oz (1947)
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards
The Wizard of Oz, a legendary movie that has enchantand the minds and warned the hearts of genrations of children and adults alike, will remain one of the greatest, fantasy/adventure films ever made. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score. Judy Garland, as Dorthy Gale, and her renditiie of (the song Over The Rainbow was written for the movie) 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' Sofia Coppola's second film is the ultimate jet lag movie, locating its central almost-romance between listless college grad Scarlett Johansson and life-worn actor Bill Murray amid the woozy, daydreamy bewilderment of being in a very foreign country and a very different time zone. And it's exactly right that we stilldon't know what he whispered to her at the end. Legendary for its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score and memorable characters, the film has become an icon of American popular culture.
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86. And Justice For All
(1979)
Nominated for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay
After a year of careful and objective consideration, we have relegated '12 Angry Men' to Honorable Mentions' status and have given the thumbs up to 'And Justice For All.'
After re-watching both films several times, it was decided that 'And Justice For All' was a much better film, as far as drama is concerned. The plot, too, was much more complex, engaging and exciting. Critics may argue that the acting in '12 Angry Men' was much more indepth and multi-dimensional, yet, the argument holds true for 'And Justcie For All.' Al Pacino's character as the ethically determined and unwavering, cynical and angry Lawyer, 'Arthur Kirkland', was indeed worthy of not just a nomination for Best Actor, but, in our opionion, absolutely worthy of the title.
While '12 Angry Men' was nominated for Academy Awards in the categories of Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing of Adapted Screenplay, it lost, rightfully so, to The Bridge on the River Kwai in all three categories. At the 7th Berlin International Film Festival, the film won the Golden Bear Award. - Source Classic Clips.
While 'And Justice For All' finds its drama inside and outside the courtroom, '12 Angry Men' are packed inside a jury deliberation room teeming with fantastic character actors who are forced to re-examine a seemingly straightforward case by lone-voice juror Henry Fonda. It’s all about the value of looking at things differently, and a reminder that nothing is more important than great dialogue. - Source Wikipedia / Classic Clips.
What really decided us was the striking contrast of both films' final scenes; the first ('12 Angry Men'), concluding with a rather medium level of intensity in the jury deliberation room and the other ('And Jusitce For All') with an emotionally explosive and satisfying dramatic ending inside the courtroom. Al Pacino in this final courtroom finale is absolutely riveting (perhaps his best performance ever) and his iconic and historic outburst, "You're out of order! You're Out of order! The whole trial is out of order!" "They're out of order!" is one of the best lines of all time. - Source Classic Clips.
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85. White Heat (1949)
Considered to be one of the Best Gangster Movies of all Time
Yes, we knowm, two entirely different genres - but one great actor! How can anyone forget the legendary James Cagney in both stunning roles; first, above, as the cold, Psychopathic gangster Codey Jericks, and, as honorably mentioned, as the broadway music stage entertainer in Yankee Doodle Dandy. The contrast in characters is as extrodinary as the actor himself. Although 'White Heat' did not recieve even one Acadey Award Nomination, it reamins today the template for every gangster movie that followed. Cagney received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Yankee Doodle Dandy and the film itself captured two other of its 8 Academy Award Nominations, including Best Sound Mixing and Best Original Musical. White Heat was listed in Time magazine's top 100 films of all time. Based upon both contemporary and more recent film reviews, the film has a 100% "fresh" rating on film review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. Do not pass on either movie lightly, especially White Heat. Both are Holloywood Classics, forever etched in Film history, but White Heat is a must see. The acting, especially Cagney, is superb, the script brilliant and the screeplay and editing unmatched, and that is why we give it the nod for one of the greatest 100 movies of all time. - Source Classicclips.ca
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Yankee Doodle
Dandy
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83. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards
It's a Wonderful Life won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement. Frank Capra’s Christmas fantasy was the movie that coaxed a war-battered James Stewart back to acting, and a good thing, too: as George Bailey, who’s mind-blowingly shown a parallel reality in which he never existed, Stewart’s never been more appealing. And he tempers any potential schmaltz, too, with a sense of underlying world-weariness - one that he no doubt brought back from the conflict in Europe.
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82. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards
This landmark juvenile-delinquent drama scrupulously follows the classic theatrical disciplines, telling all within a 24-hour period. Teenager Jimmy Stark (James Dean) can't help but get into trouble, a problem that has forced his appearance-conscious parents (Jim Backus and Ann Doran) to move from one town to another. The film was a groundbreaking attempt to portray the moral decay of American youth, critique parental style, and explore the differences and conflicts between generations. Buy The Movie
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81. The Alamo (1965)
A Classic, Epic Film, Nominated for 6 Academy Awards
American historical epic war film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo produced and directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne as Davy Crockett. Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas. - Source Wikipedia
The film took home one of its six Academy Awards nominations: Best Sound Editing. - Source Classicclips.ca
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80. GoodFellas (1990)
Winner of 1 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway. Where Coppola embroiled us in the politics of the Mafia elite, Martin Scorsese drew us into the treacherous but seductive world of the Mob’s foot soldiers. And its honesty was as impactful as its sudden outbursts of (usually Joe Pesci-instigated) violence. Not merely via Henry Hill’s (Ray Liotta) narrative, but also Karen’s (Lorraine Bracco) perspective: when Henry gives her a gun to hide, she admits, “It turned me on.”
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79. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1967)
A Sergio Leone, Spaghetti Western Materpiece
The ultimate Spaghetti Western! Sergio Leone sets three renegades against each other in a treasure hunt backdropped against the chaos and madness of the American Civil War. The result is the movie on his CV which best balances art and entertainment. Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef are great value as Blondie and Angel Eyes, but it's Eli Wallach's Tuco who steals this Wild West show: "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
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77. Rocky (1976)
Winner of 3 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
An American boxing film, released in 1976, that was the highest-grossing movie of that year, earning more than $117 million at the box office. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won three, including best picture, and made its writer and lead actor, Sylvester Stallone, a star. - Source Britannica.com
The film has spawned seven sequels: Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky V (1990), Rocky Balboa (2006), Creed (2015), and Creed II (2018). Stallone portrays Rocky in all seven sequels, wrote the first six, and directed four of the six titular installments. Source Wikipedia
After closer review, we give Rocky a TKO over Raging Bull, the Honorable mention here. We had previously listed Raging Bull in the Spotlight and Rocky as the Honorable Mention. Rocky was a sensation, a hollywood box office smash. We found Raging Bull a slow watch, Rocky is of course a much more intense movie. - Source Classicclips.ca
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Raging Bull (1980)
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76. 12 Years A Slave (2013)
Winner of 3 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup, the New York State citizen who was kidnapped and made to work on a plantation in New Orleans in the 1800s. Steve McQueen (Hunger) directs from a script he co-wrote with John Ridley, based in part by Northup's memoir. Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Paulson, and Paul Giamatti co-star. - Source Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
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Mississippi Burning (1988)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
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75. Back To The Future (1985)
Nominated for 1 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Part science-fiction caper, part generational culture-clash movie, part weirdo family drama (in which the hero has to rescue his own existence after his mother falls in lust with him, eww), Back To The Future still manages to be timeless despite being so rooted in, well, time. And it might just have the best title of anything on this entire list. When teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is blasted to 1955 in the DeLorean time machine created by the eccentric Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), he finds himself mixed up in a time-altering chain reaction that could vaporize his future — and leave him trapped in the past. Powered by innovative special effects, unforgettable songs and non-stop action, Back to the Future is an unrivaled adventure that stands the test of time!
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74. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Winner of 1 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
If Reservoir Dogs was a blood-spattered calling card, Pulp Fiction saw Quentin Tarantino kick our front door off its hinges - and then get applauded for doing it with. It wore its numerous influences on its sleeve (from The Great Train Robbery to Psycho via Kiss Me Deadly and Karate Kiba) and yet felt utterly, invigoratingly fresh and new.
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73. The Illusionist (2006)
Nominated for Best Cinematography
Another hihgly underated film, a masterfull blend of mystery, suspense and romance. Only Houdini (1953) can compare to this brilliant, colloboration production by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Michael London, Cathy Schulman and Bob Yari. Directed by Neil Norman Burger, The film tells the story of Eisenheim, a magician in turn-of-the-century Vienna who reunites with his childhood love, a woman far above his social standing. It's limited release to theaters on August 18, 2006, may have contributed to the film's being so underated. However, it was later released nationwide on September 1, 2006 and became a commercial and critical success. The film was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 2007 Academy Awards. - Source Classicclips.ca/ Wikipedia
We must also say something about the Honorable Mention, Houdini: No great special effects, only the magic and slight of hand that makes you think there is! There was no need for it in this classic film, really; all eyes, after all, are riveted on the Great Houdini, superbly portrayed by handsome, lady-killer, Tony Curtis. And that's the real trick of Special Effects, making you believe something unreal is...well, real (or, is it?) - Source Classicclips.ca Buy The Movie
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72. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino in his Feature-Length Debut
In 1992, Reservoir Dogs transformed Quentin Tarantino practically overnight from an obscure, unproduced screenwriter and part-time actor to the most influential new filmmaker of the 1990s. The story looks at what happens before and after (but not during) a botched jewelry store robbery organized by Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney). Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) is a career criminal who takes a liking to newcomer Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) and enjoys showing him the ropes. Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) is a weaselly loner obsessed with professionalism. Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) has just gotten out of jail after taking the rap on a job for Cabot; he's grateful for the work but isn't the same person he used to be. While Mr. Blonde goes nuts during the heist, the thieves are surprised by the sudden arrival of the police, and Mr. Pink is convinced one of their team is a cop. So who's the rat? What do they do about Mr. Blonde? And what do they do with Mr. Orange, who took a bullet in the gut and is slowly bleeding to death? Reservoir Dogs jumps back and forth between pre- and post-robbery events, occasionally putting the narrative on pause to let the characters discuss such topics as the relative importance of tipping, who starred in Get Christie Love!, and what to do when you enter a men's room full of cops carrying a briefcase full of marijuana. - Source Mark Deming, Rovi
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71. Cleopatra (1963)
Winner of 4 Academy Awards
The Film was nominated for 9 Academy Awards and took home Oscars for Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Visual Effects. How could a film become one of the year's highest grossing movies and still manage to be widely regarded as one of Hollywood's biggest flops of all time? Perhaps if a film's budget surges from around $2 million to over $45 million (some reports say $60 million) and takes years rather than the allotted time to shoot, then you have a good justification. Add Elizabeth Taylor's near-fatal illness, director and cast changes during filming, and constant rewrites to the mixture. Then top it all off with an adulterous love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and you have a perfect recipe for disaster. Well, either that, or just enough scandal and publicity to garner Oscar® acclaim and entice curious moviegoers to the theatre. This is exactly what happened when 20th Century Fox released Cleopatra in 1963. It received nine nominations at the 36th Academy Awards including for Best Picture and won the highest four : Best Production Design (Color), Best Cinematography (Color), Best Visual Effects and Best Costume Design (Color). - Source Turner Classic Movies
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Samson and Delilah (1949)
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70. As Good as it Gets (1997)
Winner of Best Actor and Best Actress Academy Awards
Jack Nicholson is hilariously funny as a compulsive-obsessive romance novelist who is compelled by circumstances to get to know his neighbor (Greg Kinnear) and the waitress (Helen Hunt) a single mother with a chronically ill sonwho puts up with Nicholson's abuse at the diner where she works during breakfast every morning. - Source Classicclips.ca
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69. Forrest Gump (1994)
Winner of 6 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
"Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Entirely without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as the remarkable parade of his life goes by, Forrest never forgets Jenny (Robin Wright Penn), the girl he loved as a boy, who makes her own journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s that is far more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon. Featured alongside Tom Hanks are Sally Field as Forrest's mother; Gary Sinise as his commanding officer in Vietnam; Mykelti Williamson as his ill-fated Army buddy who is familiar with every recipe that involves shrimp; and the special effects artists whose digital magic place Forrest amidst a remarkable array of historical events and people. - Source Mark Deming, Rovi
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68. Zulu (1964)
Time Out Magazine Ranked it the 93rd Best British Film Ever
Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley Baker) is determined to stand his ground, despite having only a skeleton garrison at his command. His steamroller tactics are constantly at odds with those of a by-the-book lieutenant (Michael Caine), who feels that a retreat is called for, but it becomes clear that if the garrison is to survive, they'd better pay heed. Jack Hawkins and Ulla Jacobsson are also on hand as an idealistic missionary and his somewhat more pragmatic daughter. Richard Burton provides the narration for Zulu, closing the film with the observation that 11 of the 1,344 Victoria Crosses awarded since 1856 were bestowed upon the survivors of Rorke's Drift. Zulu was followed in 1979 by a "prequel," Zulu Dawn. -Source Rotten Tomatoes
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67. Manhattan (1979)
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Yes, we know, WE KNOW! Annie Hall won 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, so why have we relegated it to 'Honorable Mentions Status? Well, simply put, we thought Manhattan was a better movie. Most will disagree, perhaps, but I've watched both movies several times and have grown quite fond of this enchanting, heart engaging, black and white comedy/drama. I don't know, maybe its the use of shadows, the effect of deliberate space to alienate the characters (did you notice that?), the strange, nostalgic, sentimental way you feel about them; the disappointments, heartaches, uncertainties and the pure insanity of love and devastation it causes, you choose. I have, and I just gots-a-call-em-as-I sees-em. But hey, even the best critics and fans of Woody Allen Movies are torn between the two. - Source ClassicClips.ca
Director Woody Allen's love letter to New York City stars Allen as frustrated television writer Isaac Davis, a twice-divorced malcontent facing middle age alone after his wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), leaves him for a woman. Isaac is dating fresh-faced Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a high school girl he knows is wrong for him, and begins to wonder if he and brainy writer Mary (Diane Keaton), the mistress of his best friend, Yale (Michael Murphy), might make a better couple. - Source Unnown Critic Review
The film received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hemingway and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Allen and Brickman. Often considered one of his best films, it ranks 46th on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list and number 63 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. - Source Wikipedia
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64. The Others (2001)
1st English-language film to receive Best Film Award at the Goyas
Billed as a gothic horror, mystery suspense film, it is, hands down, the best and most unique Ghost Story ever told. Nicole Kidman as mother of two, Grace Stewart, is outstanding, mysterious and cryptically eccentric. The plot is unique, the setting as eerie as the psychological head-spin created by this twisting corridor of intrigue that keep you riveted to the screen. The performances of all actors in this film, especailly that of the two children, Christopher Eccleston, who plays Charles Stewart and Alakina Mann, who plays his sister, Anne Stewart, is sensational. Brilliantly written, directed and scored by Alejandro Amenábar. - Source Classicclips.ca
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63. King Kong (1933)
The Greatest Classic Adventure-Fantasy-Horror Film of all Time
The greatest and most famous classic adventure-fantasy (and part-horror) film of all time is King Kong (1933). Co-producers and directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (both real-life adventurers and film documentarians) conceived of the low-budget story of a beautiful, plucky blonde woman (Fay Wray) and a frightening, gigantic, 50 foot ape-monster as a metaphoric re-telling of the archetypal Beauty and the Beast fable. [Note: Fay Wray mistakenly believed that her RKO film co-star, 'the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood,' would be Cary Grant rather than the beast. Later in her life, she titled her autobiography "On the Other Hand" in memory of her squirming in Kong's grip. - Source Filmsite
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62. Alien (1979)
Winner of 2 Academy Awards
"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas's (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company. - Source Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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Aliens (1986)
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61. Cast Away (2000)
Nominated For 2 Academy Awards
A stunnning and compelling performance by Tom Hanks! - Source Classic Clips
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. Initial filming took place from January to March of 1999 before resuming in April 2000 and concluding that May. Cast Away was released on December 22, 2000 by 20th Century Fox in North America and DreamWorks Pictures in its international markets. - Source Wikipedia
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All Is Lost (2013)
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60. The Deer Hunter (1978)
Winner of 5 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
The Deer Hunter moves from the steel mills outside of Pittsburgh to the mountains of Pennsylvania to the jungles of Vietnam as it explores the upheaval faced by a tight-knit group of Russian Americans when three of their number enlist to serve in Vietnam. - Source Rotten Tomatoes
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58. Airport (1970)
Winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Airport is a 1970 American air disaster–drama film written and directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin.Based on Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel of the same name, it originated the 1970s disaster film genre. It is also the first in the Airport film series. Produced on a $10 million budget, it earned over $100 million.
The film is about an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight. It takes place at fictional Lincoln International Airport near Chicago. The film was a commercial success and surpassed Spartacus as Universal Pictures' biggest moneymaker. The movie won Helen Hayes an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as an elderly stowaway and was nominated for nine other Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design for designer Edith Head.
With attention paid to the detail of day-to-day airport and airline operations, the plot concerns the response to a paralyzing snowstorm, environmental concerns over noise pollution, and an attempt to blow up an airliner. The film is characterized by personal stories intertwining while decisions are made minute-by-minute by the airport and airline staffs, operations and maintenance crews, flight crews, and Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers.
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57. American Graffiti (1973)
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards
Young George Lucas' influential hallmark film American Graffiti (1973) recreates the feel, landscape, and sounds of early 60s, small-town America - an historical time period (of JFK's Presidency and the New Frontier before the jarring assassination of late 1963 and the rest of an unpredictable era) that has since been irretrievably lost. Advertising posters and theatrical trailers for the film asked a nostalgic question to get viewers to reflect back to the pre-Beatles era. - Source Filmsite
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56. Taxi Driver (1976)
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards
Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader’s gripping portrayal of a mentally crumbling Vietnam vet (Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle) who ultimately figures the only way to wash the crime-caked streets of New York is with a nice, big bloodbath. Everyone here’s at the top of their game: Scorsese, Schrader, De Niro, 14-year-old Jodie Foster and composer Bernard Herrmann. Yes, it’s still talkin’ to us.
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55. The Usual Suspects (1995)
Winner of 2 Academy Awards
A massive explosion rips through a ship in a San Pedro, CA, harbor, leaving 27 men dead, the lone survivor horribly burned, and 91 million dollars' worth of cocaine, believed to be on board, mysteriously missing. Police detective Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) soon brings in the only witness and key suspect, "Verbal" Kint. Kint's nickname stems from his inability to keep his mouth shut, and he recounts the events that led to the disaster. - Source Mark Deming, Rovi
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54. The Shining (1980)
The Most Unappreciated, Classic Horror Film Ever
Stanley Kubrick’s elegant adaptation of Stephen King’s haunted-hotel story - starring a wonderfully deranged Jack Nicholson - is often cited as The Scariest Horror Movie Ever Made (perhaps tied with The Exorcist), but it’s also the Least Suitable Movie To Watch On Father’s Day Ever. Unless you’re the kind of Dad who thinks obsessively typing the same sentence over and over then chasing after your wife and kid with an axe constitutes good fathering.
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53. The Birds (1963)
Nominated for 1 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
The Birds (1963) is a modern Hitchcock thriller/masterpiece, his first film with Universal Studios. It is the apocalyptic story of a northern California coastal town filled with an onslaught of seemingly unexplained, arbitrary and chaotic attacks of ordinary birds - not birds of prey. Ungrammatical advertising campaigns emphasized: "The Birds Is Coming." This Technicolor feature came after Psycho (1960) - another film loaded with 'bird' references. - AMC Fiomsite
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52. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
Nominated For 2 Academy Awards
Gene Kelly's birthday, the screen legend who starred in some of the best musicals of the 1940s and '50s. "An American in Paris" won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture in 1952. Gene showed his versatility as a screen star—hence, he won an honorary Oscar that same year. But "Singin' in the Rain" is lauded as one of the most iconic films ever made; the Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry back in 1989. Which film is Gene's best? "An American in Paris" is regarded as a big budget musical of the '50s movie era, and the film won a total of six Academy Awards: Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Color), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Color), Best Costume Design (Color), Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) and Best Picture. The film was also nominated for Best Director and Best Film Editing. Gene won an honorary Oscar the same year for his versatility as an actor, singer, dancer, and director. - Source TheTYLT.com
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50. Vertigo (1958)
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
If Psycho (see next entry) was Hitchcock's big shocker, then Vertigo is the one that gets properly under your skin. With James Stewart's detective stalking Kim Novak's mysterious woman, witnessing her suicide, then becoming obsessed with her double, it's certainly disturbing and most definitely (as the title suggests) disorientating. In the most artful and inventive way. Buy The Movie
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49. Casablanca (1942)
Winner of 3 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid; it also features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson. Set during contemporary World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate who must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazi. Although Casablanca was an A-list film with established stars and first-rate writers, no one involved with its production expected it to be anything other than one of the hundreds of ordinary pictures produced by Hollywood that year. Casablanca was rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa a few weeks earlier. It had its world premiere on November 26, 1942, in New York City and was released nationally in the United States on January 23, 1943. The film was a solid if unspectacular success in its initial run.Exceeding expectations, Casablanca went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture - Source Wikiedia
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48. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Great Western, Great Musical Score by Elmer Bernstein
No Seven Samurai, no Magnificent Seven. Many of course will argue that Seven Samurai should have been given the nod here, and The Maginificent Seven the 'Honorable Mention.' No can do! This brilliant American Western film was directed by John Sturges and stars Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburnand Horst Buchholz. The film is an Old West–style remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanesefilm Seven Samurai. Brynner, McQueen, Bronson, Vaughn, Dexter, Coburn and Buchholz portray the title characters, a group of seven gunfighters hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits (whose leader is played by Wallach). The film's musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. In 2013, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significan - Source Classicclips.caBuy The Movie
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Seven Samurai (1954)
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46. Rear Window (1954)
Nominated For 4 Academy Awards
Technicolor mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayesbased on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the greatest films ever made. It received four Academy Award nominations and was ranked number 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and number 48 on the 10th-anniversary edition, and in 1997 was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. - Source Wikipedia
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45. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Winner of 3 Academy Awards
John Huston's 1948 treasure-hunt classic begins as drifter Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), down and out in Tampico, Mexico, impulsively spends his last bit of dough on a lottery ticket. Later on, Dobbs and fellow indigent Curtin (Tim Holt) seek shelter in a cheap flophouse and meet Howard (Walter Huston), a toothless, garrulous old coot who regales them with stories about prospecting for gold. Forcibly collecting their pay from their shifty boss, Dobbs and Curtin combine this money with Dobbs's unexpected windfall from a lottery ticket and, together with Howard, buy the tools for a prospecting expedition. Dobbs has pledged that anything they dig up will be split three ways, but Howard, who's heard that song before, doesn't quite swallow this. As the gold is mined and measured, Dobbs grows increasingly paranoid and distrustful, and the men gradually turn against each other on the way toward a bitterly ironic conclusion. - Source Hal Erickson, Rovi
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44. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Winner of 5 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
"Hey, we always knew Jacky boy was crazy!" - Classicclips.ca
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American comedy-drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson, and features a supporting cast of Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, and Brad Dourif. The film also featured Christopher Lloyd in his film debut.Considered by some to be one of the greatest films ever made, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is No. 33 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list. The film was the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director and Screenplay) following It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 with The Silence of the Lambs. It also won numerous Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards.In 1993, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. - Source Wikipedia
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43. The Bridge On The River Kwai
(1957)
Winner of 7 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over the river Kwai, which will be used to transport Japanese munitions. Nicholson refuses, despite all the various "persuasive" devices at Saito's disposal. Finally, Nicholson agrees, not so much to cooperate with his captor as to provide a morale-boosting project for the military engineers under his command. The colonel will prove that, by building a better bridge than Saito's men could build, the British soldier is a superior being even when under the thumb of the enemy. As the bridge goes up, Nicholson becomes obsessed with completing it to perfection, eventually losing sight of the fact that it will benefit the Japanese. Meanwhile, American POW Shears (William Holden), having escaped from the camp, agrees to save himself from a court martial by leading a group of British soldiers back to the camp to destroy Nicholson's bridge. Upon his return, Shears realizes that Nicholson's mania to complete his project has driven him mad. Filmed in Ceylon, Bridge on the River Kwai won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for the legendary British filmmaker David Lean, and Best Actor for Guinness. It also won Best Screenplay for Pierre Boulle, the author of the novel on which the film was based, even though the actual writers were blacklisted writers Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, who were given their Oscars under the table. - Source Hal Erickson, Rovi
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42. Amadeus
(1984)
Winner of 8 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporary composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him. The film was nominated for 53 awards and received 40, which included eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture), four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Directors Guild of America ( DGA) award. As of 2017, it is the most recent film to have more than one nomination in the Academy Award for Best Actor category. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked Amadeus 53rd on its 100 Years, 100 Movies list. Buy The Movie
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41. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Winner of 4 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
The story of a man who is one of the greatest mathematicians, and a victim of schizophrenia. Nash's ( Russell Crowe )discoveries in game theory have an impact on our lives every day. He also believed for a time that Russians were sending him coded messages on the front page of the New York Times. It is the story of a man whose mind was of enormous service to humanity while at the same time betrayed him with frightening delusions. Crowe brings the character to life by sidestepping sensationalism and building with small behavioral details. He shows a man who descends into madness and then, unexpectedly, regains the ability to function in the academic world. Nash has been compared to Newton. - Source Roger EbertBuy The Movie
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40. The Great Escape (1963)
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
How this film was passed up by literally every Top 100 list on the internet (and we've searched at least 100 sites) is mind blowing! On top of that, it received only one Academy Award Nomination for Film Editing. The film features an-up-and-rising, Super-Mega-Star-Studded Cast: Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn, all of whom made Hollywood history in their first major roles in the 1960 sensation "The Maginifcent Seven, with the lead role played by, at the time, super-star Yul Bryner. "The Great Escape stars James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Donald Pleasence and David McCallum. The film was based on actual events; however, numerous compromises were made for commercial appeal, such as including Americans among the escapees (none of whom were actually American, but Canadian and British). The Great Escape was made by The Mirisch Company, released by United Artists, and produced and directed by John Sturges. - Source Classicclips.caBuy The Movie
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39. Psycho (1960)
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards
The movie Universal originally didn't want Hitchcock to make not only turned out to be a hands-down masterpiece but also effectively invented a genre: the psycho-killer slasher movie. No longer were movie monsters just big, hairy wolfmen, or vampires, or swampy fish-things. They could now look completely normal. They could be the guy sat right next to you, in fact. Psycho is now considered one of Hitchcock's best films. Often ranked among the greatest films of all time,
it set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior and sexuality in American films. The marketing genius of Hitchcock caused lineups at the box office - no one (absolutely NO ONE!) was to be allowed into the theater if the show had just started. - Soure Classicclips.ca
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38. On The Waterfront (1954)
Winner of 8 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of New York and New Jersey. Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) rules the waterfront with an iron fist. The police know that he's been responsible for a number of murders, but witnesses play deaf and dumb ("plead D & D"). Washed-up boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) has had an errand-boy job because of the influence of his brother Charley, a crooked union lawyer (Rod Steiger). - Source Rotten Tomatoes
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
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35. Argo (2012)
Winner of 3 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
The film kept movie goers on the edge of their seats from start to finish. Rarely can a film create the combination (let alone one or the other) of suspense and tenstion as Argo. It builds, and builds, and it doesn't stop building til the very end of the movie. You immediately feel and care for the characters, you are there with them, you are them! The tension (and angst, and guilt, and apprenesion, and fear) is also plastered all over this cast of pretend movie maker's faces like a neon sign. They won't pull it off, they can't pull it off, how can they pull it off? At any moment, one of them is going to snap, its inevitable. At any moment, one of the Airport Secuirty is going to call their bluff, exposing them. There's no way they can get away with this caper! Brilliant Driecting, Producing, Acting (and you do actually forget the actors on the screen are acting, becasue the roles they find themselves in demand they put on the performances of their lives - becasue their character's lives depend on it! Will the Airport Security, the Irananian Secret Service and Police finally discover who they really are? - Source Classiclips.ca
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34. The Sting (1973)
Winner of 7 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who had directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Created by screenwriter David S. Ward, the story was inspired by real-life cons perpetrated by brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his 1940 book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.
The title phrase refers to the moment when a con artist finishes the "play" and takes the mark's money. If a con is successful, the mark does not realize he has been cheated until the con men are long gone, if at all. The film is played out in distinct sections with old-fashioned title cards drawn by artist Jaroslav "Jerry" Gebr, the lettering and illustrations rendered in a style reminiscent of the Saturday Evening Post. The film is noted for its anachronistic use of ragtime, particularly the melody "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin, which was adapted (along with others by Joplin) for the film by Marvin Hamlisch (and a top-ten chart single for Hamlisch when released as a single from the film's soundtrack). The film's success created a resurgence of interest in Joplin's work.
Released on Christmas Day of 1973, The Sting was a massive critical and commercial success and was hugely successful at the 46th Academy Awards, being nominated for ten Oscars and winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Writing (Original Screenplay); Redford was also nominated for Best Actor. The film also rekindled Newman's career after a series of big screen flops. Regarded as having one of the best screenplays ever written, in 2005, The Sting was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Following the murder of a mutual friend, aspiring con man Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) teams up with old pro Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) to take revenge on the ruthless crime boss responsible, Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Hooker and Gondorff set about implementing an elaborate scheme, one so crafty that Lonnegan won't even know he's been swindled. As their big con unfolds, however, things don't go according to plan, requiring some last-minute improvisation by the undaunted duo. - Source Wikipedia
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33. All About Eve (1959)
Winner of 6 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
A drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It was based on the 1946 short story " The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, although screen credit was not given for it. The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne Baxter plays Eve Harrington, an ambitious yo fan who insinuates herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career anungd her personal relationships. The film co-stars George Sanders, Celeste Holm, and features Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates and Walter Hampden. Praised by critics at the time of its release, All About Eve received 14 Academy Award nominations and won six, including Best Picture. All About Eve is the only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations (Davis and Baxter as Best Actress, Holm and Ritter as Best Supporting Actress). All About Eve was selected in 1990 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry and was among the first 50 films to be registered. All About Eve appeared at #16 on AFI's 1998 list of the 100 best American films. - Source WikipediaBuy The Movie
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32. The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
Winner of 5 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
A Psychological horror- thriller film [Not only the first (and still only) horror to win a Best Picture Oscar, it’s also only the third movie to score in all four main categories: Picture, Director (the late, great Jonathan Demme), Actress (Jodie Foster) and Actor (Anthony Hopkins) — the latter managing that despite technically being a supporting performer, with a mere 25-ish minutes of screentime. Even so, it feels like Foster’s movie more than anybody’s: her vulnerable-but-steely Starling is defined by her ability, not her gender. It is regularly cited by critics, film directors, and audiences alike as one of the greatest and most influential films of all time. In 2018, Empire ranked it 48th, on their list of 500 greatest movies of all time. The American Film Institute, ranked it as the 5th greatest and most influential thriller film of all time while the characters Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter were ranked as the greatest film heroine and villain respectively. The film is considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the U.S. Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2011. A sequel titled Hannibal was released in 2001, in which Hopkins reprised his role. It was followed by two prequels: Red Dragon (2002) and Hannibal Rising (2007) - Source Wikipedia
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30. It Happened One Night (1934)
Winner of 5 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
Won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. The only other movies to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay) were One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Paul Brenner, Rovibaddies win (temporarily), or because it Force-slammed us with that twist (“No, I am your father”). Empiresuper-stardestroys thanks to the way it deepens the core relationships — none more effectively than Han and Leia’s. She loves him. He knows. And it still hurts.
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29. The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
Winner of 7 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is producer Samuel Goldwyn's classic, significant American film about the difficult, traumatic adjustments (unemployment, adultery, alcoholism, and ostracism) that three returning veteran servicemen experienced in the aftermath of World War II. The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Academy Awards in 1946, including Best Picture.
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28. From Here To Eternity (1953)
Winner of 8 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
From Here to Eternity (1953) is the powerful, realistic story (and fierce indictment) of the lives of American military men (and their women) stationed in peacetime Hawaii (near Honolulu) in the summer and fall before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941 and the US entrance into WW II. The successful film, both critically and financially, soon became the second biggest hit of the year, behind The Robe (1953) (the first CinemaScope film) and ahead of Shane (1953). - Source AMC Filmsite
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27. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Winner of 3 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
A con man and a Texas hustler try to survive on the tough streets of New York. directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, with notable smaller roles being filled by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt, and Barnard Hughes. Set in New York City, Midnight Cowboy depicts the unlikely friendship between two hustlers: naive prostitute Joe Buck (Voight), and ailing con man "Ratso" Rizz. Buy The Movie
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26. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Nominated for 7 Academy Awards
In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most likely to crack under the pressure. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown), and inmates who are little better than animals, willing to use rape or beatings to insure their dominance. But Andy does not crack: he has the hope of the truly innocent, which (together with his smarts) allow him to prevail behind bars. He uses his banking skills to win favor with the warden and the guards, doing the books for Norton's illegal business schemes and keeping an eye on the investments of most of the prison staff. In exchange, he is able to improve the prison library and bring some dignity and respect back to many of the inmates, including Red. Based on a story by Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption was the directorial debut of screenwriter Frank Darabont. - Source Mark Deming, Rovi
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25. Chicago (2002)
Winner of 6 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
A starry-eyed would-be star discovers just how far the notion that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" can go in this screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Chicago, originally directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. In the mid-'20s, Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) is a small-time chorus dancer married to a well-meaning dunderhead named Amos (John C. Reilly). Roxie is having an affair on the side with Fred Casley (Dominic West), a smooth talker who insists he can make her a star. However, Fred strings Roxie along a bit too far for his own good, and when she realizes that his promises are empty, she becomes enraged and murders Fred in cold blood. Roxie soon finds herself behind bars alongside Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a sexy vaudeville star who used to perform with her sister until Velma discovered that her sister had been sleeping with her husband. Velma shot them both dead, and, after scheming prison matron "Mama" Morton hooks Velma up with hotshot lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), Velma becomes the new Queen of the scandal sheets. Roxie is just shrewd enough to realize that her poor fortune could also bring her fame, so she convinces Amos to also hire Flynn. Soon Flynn is splashing Roxie's story -- or, more accurately, a highly melodramatic revision of Roxie's story -- all over the gutter press, and Roxy and Velma are soon battling neck-to-neck over who can win greater fame through the headlines. A project that had been moving from studio to studio since the musical opened on Broadway in 1973, Chicago also features guest appearances by Lucy Liu and Christine Baranski. - Source Mark Deming, Rovi
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24. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
Winner of 7 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
If you only ever see one David Lean movie… Well, don’t. Watch as many as you can. But if you really insist on only seeing one David Lean movie, then make sure it’s Lawrence Of Arabia, the movie that put both the sweeping and the epic into sweeping epic with its breath-taking depiction of T.E. Lawrence’s (Peter O’Toole) Arab-uniting efforts against the German-allied Turks during World War I. It’s a different world to the one we’re in now, of course, but Lean’s mastery of expansive storytelling does much to smooth out any elements (such as Alec Guinness playing an Arab) that may rankle modern sensibilities.
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23. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1978)
Winner of 2 Academy Awards
Science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss,Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying objects. In December 2007, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. A Special Edition of the film, featuring additional scenes, was released theatrically in 1980. A third cut of the film was issued on VHS and LaserDisc in 1998 (and later DVD and Blu-ray). The film was remastered in 4K and re-released in theatres on September 1, 2017 for its 40th anniversary.- Source Wikipedia
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22. The Towering Inferno (1976)
Winner of 2 Academy Awards
A Special Effects Extravaganza, a pinnacle achievemet for this action, drama, disaster film produced by disaster extrodinaire, Irwin Allen and directed by John Guillermin. A massive joint undertaking by two major movie studios (a first, ever), 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. The Super-Mega-Star-Studded-Cast include Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, O. J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner. The film was a critical success and was nominated for eight Academy Award, including Best Picture, winning Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. It was the highest-grossing film released in 1974. - Source Classicclips.ca
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20. Schindler’s List (1993)
Winner of 7 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, 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, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony. Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory (now refitted to manufacture ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers and starts bribing Nazi leaders to keep Jews on his employee lists and out of the camps. By the time Germany falls to the allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune -- and saved 1,100 people from likely death. Schindler's List was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture and a long-coveted Best Director for Spielberg, and it quickly gained praise as one of the finest American movies about the Holocaust. - Source Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Pianist (2002)
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19. West Side Story (1961)
Winner of 10 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
This romantic musical update of 'Romeo and Juliet' won ten Oscars. The tale of a turf war between rival teenage gangs in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and the two lovers who cross battle lines has captivated audiences for four decades. The Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein score is just one of the reasons.
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17. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Winner of 5 Academy Awards
Epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat The sheer bludgeoning, blood-spilling, visceral power of its Omaha Beach, D-Day-landing opening act ensured that Spielberg’s fourth World War II movie set the standard for all future battle depictions. Its shaky-staccato-desaturated style (courtesy of Janusz Kaminski’s ingenious cinematography) - newsreel made cinema - has been oft-copied, but rarely bettered. The film has been widely hailed as one of the best films ever made. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." - Source Wikipedia
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
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16. My Fair Lady (1964)
Winner of 8 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
My Fair Lady is now more "lovelier" than ever with a breathtaking new restoration playing in cinemas nationwide for a limited time only. In honor of its 50th Anniversary, this eight time OSCAR winning musical has been restored frame-by-frame from the original 65mm negative and scanned utilizing start-of-the-art technology under the supervision of Robert Harris (the famed film historian). - Source Rotten Tomatoes
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15. The Greatest Show On Earth (1955)
Winner of 2 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in Technicolor, and released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring, and Charlton Heston as the circus manager running the show. James Stewart also stars in a supporting role as a mysterious clown who never removes his make-up, even between shows, while Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame also play supporting roles. In addition to the film actors, the real Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Circus' 1951 troupe appears in the film, with its complement of 1400 people, hundreds of animals, and 60 carloads of equipment and tents. The actors learned their respective circus roles and participated in the acts. The film's storyline is supported by lavish production values, actual circus acts, and documentary, behind-the-rings looks at the massive logistics effort which made big top circuses possible. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Story, and was nominated for Best Costume Design, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. It also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Motion Picture – Drama. - Source Wikipedia
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14. La La Land (2016)
Winner of 6 Academy Awards, Including Best Actress
Romantic musical film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as an aspiring actress, who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles while pursuing their dreams. Having been fond of musicals during his time as a drummer, Chazelle first conceptualised the film alongside Justin Hurwitz while attending Harvard University together. Moving to Los Angeles in 2010, Chazelle wrote the screenplay but did not find a studio willing to finance the production without changes to his design. The film received 14 nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, tying the record for the most Oscar nominations with All About Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997). It won six: Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song (" City of Stars"), and Best Production Design. - Source Wikipedia
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13. The English Patient (1996)
Winner of 9 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
Romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje and produced by Saul Zaentz. The film tells the story of Count László de Almásy, who is burned from a plane crash and tells his past story in flashbacks involving a romantic affair, while he is tended by a nurse. The film was released to critical acclaim, and received 12 nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, winning nine, including Best Picture, Best Director for Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche. Ralph Fiennes, playing the titular character, and Kristin Scott Thomas were Oscar-nominated for their performances. The film also won five BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globes. The British Film Institute ranked The English Patient the 55th greatest British film of the 20th century. - Source Wikipedia
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12. Jurassic Park (1993)
Winner of 3 Academy Awards
Science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedyand Gerald R. Molen. The dinosaurs were created with groundbreaking computer-generated imagery by Industrial Light & Magic and with life-sized animatronic dinosaurs built by Stan Winston's teamThe first installment in the Jurassic Park franchiseWhen dinosaurs first ruled the movie-Earth, they did so in a herky-jerky stop-motion manner that while charmingly effective, required a fair dose of disbelief-suspension. When Steven Spielberg brought them back on Isla Nublar, we felt for the first time they could be real, breathing animals (as opposed to monsters). And that's as much thanks to Stan Winston's astonishing animatronics work as to ILM's groundbreaking CGI. The film won more than twenty awards, including three Academy Awards for its technical achievements in visual effects and sound design. Jurassic Park is considered a landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual effects, and was followed by four commercially successful sequels, The Lost World: Jurassic Park(1997), Jurassic Park III (2001), Jurassic World (2015) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom(2018), with a fifth and final sequel, currently titled Jurassic World 3, scheduled for a 2021 release.
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11. Mary Poppins (1964)
Winner of 4 Academy Awards, Including Best Actress
Musical- fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars Julie Andrews in her feature film debut as Mary Poppins, who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family's dynamic. Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns are featured in supporting roles. It received a total of 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture – a record for any other film released by Walt Disney Studios – and won five; Best Actress for Andrews, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Song for " Chim Chim Cher-ee". In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. - Source Wikipedia
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10. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
Winner of 5 Academy Awards
A ction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Lawrence Kasdan from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. The first installment in the Indiana Jones film franchise, it stars Harrison Ford as archaeologist Indiana Jones, who battles a group of Nazis searching for the Ark of the CovenantIn ’81, it must have sounded like the ultimate pitch: the creator of Star Wars teams up with the director of Jaws to make a rip-roaring, Bond-style adventure starring the guy who played Han Solo, in which the bad guys are the evillest ever (the Nazis) and the MacGuffin is a big, gold box which unleashes the power of God. It still sounds like the ultimate pitch. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1982, including Best Picture, and won for Best Art Direction, Film Editing, Sound, and Visual Effects with a fifth Academy Award: a Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing. It is often considered one of the greatest films ever made. In 1999, it was included in the U.S. Library of Congress' National Film Registryas "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film began a franchise including several sequels, a television series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992–1996), and numerous video games. Buy The Movie
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9. The Godfather Part II (1974)
Winner of 6 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his son Michael's spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather's depiction of the dark side of the American dream. In the early 1900s, the child Vito flees his Sicilian village for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito (Robert De Niro) struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy, killing the local Black Hand Fanucci (Gastone Moschin) after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's communal stature grows, but it is his family (past and present) who matters most to him -- a familial legacy then upended by Michael's (Al Pacino) business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael conspires to make inroads in Las Vegas and Havana pleasure industries by any means necessary. As he realizes that allies like Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg) are trying to kill him, the increasingly paranoid Michael also discovers that his ambition has crippled his marriage to Kay (Diane Keaton) and turned his brother, Fredo (John Cazale), against him. Barely escaping a federal indictment, Michael turns his attention to dealing with his enemies, completing his own corruption. - Source Lucia Bozzola, Rovis
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 The Godfather (1972)
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8. The Exorcist (1973)
Winner of 2 Academy Awards
A S upernatural horror film adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name, directed by William Friedkin, and starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller. The film is part of The Exorcist franchise. The book, inspired by the 1949 exorcism of Roland Doe, follows the demonic possession of a 12-year-old girl and her mother's attempts to win her back through an exorcism conducted by two priests. The film experienced a troubled production; even in the beginning, several prestigious film directors including Stanley Kubrickand Arthur Penn turned it down. Incidents such as the toddler son of one of the main actors being hit by a motorbike and hospitalized attracted claims that the set was cursed. The complex special effects used, as well as the nature of the film locations, also presented severe challenges. The film earned ten Academy Award nominations, winning Best Sound and Writing (Adapted Screenplay). It became one of the highest-grossing films in history, grossing over $441 million worldwide in the aftermath of various re-releases, and was the first horror film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film has had a significant influence on popular culture, and several publications have regarded it one of the greatest horror films of all time. In addition, a scene from the film was ranked #3 on Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments. In 2010, the Library of Congress selected the film to be preserved as part of its National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". On January 22, 2016, 20th Century Fox Television announced that they were developing a television series of The Exorcist It premiered on the Fox TV network on September 23, 2016. - Source WikipediaBuy The Movie
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7. Jaws (1975)
Winner of 3 Academy Awards
A thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name. In it, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional New England summer resort town, prompting police chief Martin Brody ( Roy Scheider) to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist ( Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter ( Robert Shaw). Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jaws was the prototypical summer blockbuster, with its release regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history, and it won several awards for its music and editing. It became the highest-grossing film of all time until the release of Star Wars in 1977. Both films were pivotal in establishing the modern Hollywood business model, which revolves around high box-office returns from action and adventure pictures with simple high-concept premises released during the summer in thousands of theaters and heavily advertised. It was followed by three sequels, all without Spielberg or Benchley, and many imitative thrillers. In 2001, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". - Source Wikipedia
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6. The Ten Commandments (1956)
Winner of 1 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
An epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Prince of Egypt by Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Pillar of Fire by J.H. Ingraham, On Eagle's Wings by A.E. Southon, and the Book of Exodus. The Ten Commandmentsdramatizes the biblicalstory of the life of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince who becomes the deliverer of his real brethren, the enslaved Hebrews, and therefore leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai, where he receives, from God, the Ten Commandments. The film stars Charlton Heston in the lead role, Yul Brynner as Rameses, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Edward G. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora, Debra Paget as Lilia, and John Derek as Joshua; and features Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Sethi, Nina Foch as Bithiah, Martha Scott as Yoshebel, Judith Anderson as Memnet, and Vincent Price as Baka, among others.
Filmed on location in Egypt, Mount Sinai and the Sinai Peninsula, the film was DeMille's last and most successful work. It is a partial remake of his 1923 silent film of the same title, and features one of the largest sets ever created for a film. The film was released to cinemas in the United States on November 8, 1956 and, at the time of its release, was the most expensive film ever made.
In 1957, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (John P. Fulton, A.S.C.). Charlton Heston was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) for his role as Moses. Yul Brynner won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his role as Rameses and his other roles in Anastasia and The King and I. It is also one of the most financially successful films ever made, grossing approximately $122.7 million at the box office during its initial release; it was the most successful film of 1956 and the second-highest-grossing film of the decade. According to Guinness World Records, in terms of theatrical exhibition it is the seventh most successful film of all-time when the box office gross is adjusted for inflation.
In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten Top Ten"—the best ten films in ten American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. The film was listed as the tenth best film in the epic genre. Network television has aired the film in prime time during the Passover/Easter season every year since 1973. - Source Wikipedia
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5. The Sound Of Music (1965)
Winner of 5 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
The Sound of Music (1965) was an exceptionally successful film in the mid-1960s - at the time of its release, it surpassed Gone With the Wind (1939) as the number one box office hit of all time. It was the high-point of the Hollywood musical. [Note: In 1978, the film's status as the most successful musical was finally surpassed by Grease (1978). However, it was earlier ousted by the box-office epic The Godfather (1972). The story follows a good-natured, flighty novitiate (Andrews) who is hired to care for the seven children of a militaristic, icy, widowed Austrian captain (Plummer). She ultimately wins the heart of the children - and the captain, but their lives are threatened by the encroachment of Nazis. - Source AMC Filmsite
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4. Ben-Hur (1960)
Winner of 11 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
Ben-Hur won a record-breaking 11 of its 12 Academy Award Nomations, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, and Score. This epic masterpiece stars Charlton Heston ("The Ten Commandments", "Touch of Evil") in the title role of a rebellious Israelite Jew who takes on the Roman Empire during the time of Christ. Featuring one of the most famous action sequences of all time - the breathtaking chariot race. Directed by Oscar-winner William Wyler ("Mrs. Miniver," "The Best Years of Our Lives"). Recently selected as one of the top 100 American films of all time by the prestigious American Film Institute. - Source Rotten Tomatoes
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3. Titanic (1997)
Winner of 11 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
An epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCapriond Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. James Cameron's movie about the 1912 sinking of the world's biggest cruise liner was the most expensive made, suffered a difficult, overrunning shoot, and was predicted to be a career-ending flop. But it turned out to be one of the most successful films ever made and made him King Of The World! Nominated for 14 Academy Awards, it tied All About Eve (1950) for the most Oscar nominations, and won 11, including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director, tying Ben-Hur (1959) for the most Oscars won by a single film. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, Titanic was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. Buy The Movie
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2. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Winner of 7 Academy Awards
An epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star. Star Wars is the second-highest-grossing film in North America the U.S. Library of Congress's National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". - Source WikipediaBuy The Movie
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1. Gone With The Wind (1948)
Winner of 8 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
An epic historical romance film, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner. It follows her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler. The leading roles are played by Vivien Leigh (Scarlett), Clark Gable (Rhett), Leslie Howard (Ashley), and Olivia de Havilland (Melanie).
At the 12th Acade my Awards, it received ten Academy Awards (eight competitive, two honorary) from thirteen nominations, including wins for Best Picture, Best Director (Fleming), Best Adapted Screenplay (posthumously awarded to Sidney Howard), Best Actress (Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, becoming the first African American to win an Academy Award). It set records for the total number of wins and nominations at the time. The film has been criticized as historical revisionism glorifying slavery, and it has been credited with triggering changes in the way in which African Americans are depicted cinematically.
Gone with the Wind was immensely popular when first released. It became the highest-earning film made up to that point, and held the record for over a quarter of a century. When adjusted for monetary inflation, it is still the most successful film in box-office history. It was re-released periodically throughout the 20th century and became ingrained in popular culture. The film is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time; it has placed in the top ten of the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 American films since the list's inception in 1998; and, in 1989, the United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. - Source Wikipedia
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