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    1

    12 Angry Men

    A 1957 American courtroom drama in which a single juror's doubts about a homicide case slowly turn the room toward acquittal across one summer afternoon.

    2

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    A 1968 British-American science fiction film tracing humanity's contact with a mysterious black monolith from prehistory through a Jupiter mission gone awry.

    3

    A Quiet Place

    A 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski, in which a family lives in silence to avoid blind extraterrestrial creatures that hunt by sound.

    4

    Asylum

    A 2005 British-Irish romantic drama directed by David Mackenzie about the wife of a psychiatrist at a 1950s mental hospital who begins a destructive affair with a patient.

    5

    Avatar

    A 2009 American science fiction film about a paraplegic marine inhabiting a remotely controlled alien body on a moon whose ecosystem is targeted for mining.

    6

    Back to the Future

    A 1985 American science fiction comedy about a teenager accidentally transported from 1985 to 1955 in his eccentric friend's DeLorean time machine.

    7

    Bambi

    A 1942 American animated coming-of-age film from Walt Disney Productions about a young white-tailed deer who grows from fawn to forest leader through the seasons.

    8

    Below

    A 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by David Twohy about a US Navy submarine in 1943 that picks up British survivors of a hospital ship and is haunted by mysterious events.

    9

    Ben-Hur

    A 1959 American epic about a Jewish prince in Roman-occupied Judea who is sold into slavery and returns years later to confront the friend who betrayed him.

    10

    Beowulf

    A 2007 American computer-animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis adapting the Old English epic poem about the warrior Beowulf and his fights with Grendel and a dragon.

    11

    Braveheart

    A 1995 American epic historical drama directed by and starring Mel Gibson as the 13th-century Scottish warrior William Wallace, who led a revolt against the English king Edward I.

    12

    Cabaret

    A 1972 American musical drama directed by Bob Fosse about an American singer at a seedy Berlin nightclub in 1931 as the Nazi Party rises to power.

    13

    Casablanca

    A 1942 American romantic drama set in wartime Morocco, where a jaded American expatriate must choose between love and the anti-Nazi resistance.

    14

    Citizen Kane

    A 1941 American drama tracing the rise and isolation of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane through a reporter's investigation of his final word.

    15

    Cobb

    A 1994 American biographical film directed by Ron Shelton about the final months in the life of the controversial Detroit Tigers baseball star Ty Cobb.

    16

    Coco

    A 2017 American computer-animated musical fantasy film from Pixar about a young Mexican boy who travels into the Land of the Dead to discover his family's musical heritage.

    17

    Crumb

    A 1994 American documentary directed by Terry Zwigoff about the underground comix artist Robert Crumb and his troubled brothers Charles and Maxon.

    18

    Double Indemnity

    A 1944 American film noir about an insurance salesman seduced into murdering a client's husband to collect on a policy he writes for him.

    19

    Drive

    A 2011 American neo-noir crime film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn about a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver and is drawn into a violent heist gone wrong.

    20

    Dune

    A 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve, adapting the first half of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel about feudal interstellar houses warring over the desert planet Arrakis.

    21

    Dunkirk

    A 2017 war film written and directed by Christopher Nolan dramatizing the May and June 1940 evacuation of British and Allied troops from the French coast.

    22

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    A 1982 American science fiction film about a suburban California boy who befriends a stranded alien and helps him return to his home planet.

    23

    Edge of Tomorrow

    A 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Doug Liman about a public relations officer caught in a time loop during an alien invasion of Europe.

    24

    Elf

    A 2003 American Christmas comedy directed by Jon Favreau about a human raised as one of Santa's elves who travels to New York City to find his biological father.

    25

    Fargo

    A 1996 American black comedy crime film written and directed by the Coen brothers about a kidnapping plot in Minnesota that escalates into a string of murders.

    26

    Fight Club

    A 1999 American drama about an alienated office worker who, with a charismatic soap salesman, founds a secret bare-knuckle club that escalates into something larger.

    27

    Forrest Gump

    A 1994 American comedy-drama following a slow-witted but kind-hearted Alabama man whose life intersects with several decades of American historical events.

    28

    Frozen

    A 2013 American computer-animated musical fantasy film from Walt Disney Animation Studios, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen.

    29

    Gladiator

    A 2000 epic historical drama directed by Ridley Scott about a Roman general betrayed by the new emperor Commodus and forced into the arena as a gladiator seeking revenge.

    30

    Gone with the Wind

    A 1939 American historical romance about a Southern plantation heiress whose life is upended by the Civil War and Reconstruction.

    31

    Goodfellas

    A 1990 American crime film tracing the rise and fall of New York mob associate Henry Hill from his 1950s youth to his 1980 turn as a federal witness.

    32

    Gravity

    A 2013 science fiction thriller directed by Alfonso Cuaron about two astronauts stranded in low Earth orbit after debris destroys their space shuttle.

    33

    Hamlet

    A 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier as the Prince of Denmark seeking revenge for his father's murder.

    34

    Hawaii

    A 1966 American epic drama directed by George Roy Hill adapting James A. Michener's 1959 novel about Calvinist missionaries arriving in the Hawaiian Islands in 1820.

    35

    Heat

    A 1995 American crime epic written and directed by Michael Mann about a Los Angeles homicide detective tracking a professional thief who plans one final score.

    36

    Heidi

    A 1937 American family drama directed by Allan Dwan adapting Johanna Spyri's novel about a Swiss orphan sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps.

    37

    Her

    A 2013 American science-fiction romantic drama written and directed by Spike Jonze about a lonely writer who falls in love with an artificially intelligent operating system.

    38

    Hugo

    A 2011 American 3D adventure film directed by Martin Scorsese about an orphan living in a Paris train station and his quest to repair a mechanical automaton.

    39

    I Am Sam

    A 2001 American drama directed by Jessie Nelson about an intellectually disabled father who battles in court to retain custody of his seven-year-old daughter.

    40

    Inception

    A 2010 American science fiction thriller about a corporate-espionage team that infiltrates dreams to plant ideas in a target's subconscious.

    41

    Interstellar

    A 2014 American science fiction film about a former NASA pilot leading an expedition through a wormhole in search of a habitable replacement for Earth.

    42

    It's a Wonderful Life

    A 1946 American Christmas fantasy about a despairing small-town banker shown by a guardian angel what the world would have been without him.

    43

    Jaws

    A 1975 American thriller about a beach-town police chief, a marine scientist, and a fisherman hunting a great white shark off the New England coast.

    44

    Joker

    A 2019 American psychological drama directed by Todd Phillips about a struggling stand-up comedian in Gotham City whose life unravels into violence and revolt.

    45

    Juno

    A 2007 American coming-of-age comedy directed by Jason Reitman about a sardonic Minnesota teenager who becomes pregnant and chooses an adoptive family for her child.

    46

    Jurassic Park

    A 1993 American science fiction film about a tropical-island theme park stocked with cloned dinosaurs that escape containment during a preview visit.

    47

    Kill Bill

    A 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino about a former assassin known as The Bride who seeks revenge on her old team and their leader Bill.

    48

    King Kong

    A 1933 American monster adventure film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack about a giant ape captured on Skull Island and brought to New York City.

    49

    Knives Out

    A 2019 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson about a Southern detective investigating the suspicious death of a wealthy crime novelist surrounded by self-interested heirs.

    50

    La La Land

    A 2016 American musical romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Damien Chazelle about an aspiring actress and a jazz pianist trying to build careers in Los Angeles.

    51

    Lawrence of Arabia

    A 1962 British epic drama about T. E. Lawrence, a British army officer whose role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans transformed his identity and reputation.

    52

    Logan

    A 2017 American superhero film directed by James Mangold about an aging Wolverine caring for a sick Professor X in a near-future where mutants have nearly vanished.

    53

    Macbeth

    A 1971 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy directed by Roman Polanski, in which a Scottish nobleman murders the king after a witches' prophecy.

    54

    Mad Max

    A 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller about a near-future Highway Patrol officer who turns vigilante after a violent biker gang murders his family.

    55

    Mary Poppins

    A 1964 American musical fantasy about a magical English nanny who arrives at a strained Edwardian London household and rearranges its priorities.

    56

    Memento

    A 2000 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan about a man with anterograde amnesia hunting the men he believes murdered his wife.

    57

    Moneyball

    A 2011 American biographical sports drama directed by Bennett Miller about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his data-driven approach to building a competitive baseball team.

    58

    Network

    A 1976 American satirical drama directed by Sidney Lumet about a fading television news anchor who becomes a ranting prophet and is exploited for ratings by his network.

    59

    Nomadland

    A 2020 American drama written and directed by Chloe Zhao about a woman in her sixties who lives in a van and travels the American West as a modern itinerant worker.

    60

    North by Northwest

    A 1959 American spy thriller about a Madison Avenue advertising executive mistaken for a government agent and pursued across the country.

    61

    Oldboy

    A 2003 South Korean neo-noir mystery thriller directed by Park Chan-wook about a man imprisoned in a hotel room for fifteen years who, after his release, has only days to find his captor.

    62

    On the Waterfront

    A 1954 American crime drama about a former boxer turned dockworker who must decide whether to testify against the mob-tied union running his New Jersey waterfront.

    63

    Oppenheimer

    A 2023 American biographical thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project.

    64

    Pi

    A 1998 American psychological thriller written and directed by Darren Aronofsky about a reclusive number theorist who believes he has found a pattern hidden in the stock market.

    65

    Psycho

    A 1960 American horror thriller about a secretary on the run who stops at an isolated motel run by a disturbed young man and his mother.

    66

    Pulp Fiction

    A 1994 American crime film weaving together the parallel stories of two hitmen, a boxer, and a gangster's wife over a few violent days in Los Angeles.

    67

    Quills

    A 2000 American historical drama directed by Philip Kaufman about the Marquis de Sade's final years in the Charenton asylum near Paris and his battle to keep writing.

    68

    Quiz Show

    A 1994 American historical drama directed by Robert Redford about the 1950s television quiz show scandals, focusing on the rigged NBC program Twenty-One.

    69

    Quo Vadis

    A 1951 American epic historical drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy about a Roman general who falls in love with a Christian woman during the reign of Emperor Nero.

    70

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    A 1981 American adventure about an archaeologist hired by US intelligence to recover the Ark of the Covenant before Nazi expeditions can find it first.

    71

    Rear Window

    A 1954 American thriller about a photographer immobilized by a broken leg who becomes convinced his neighbor across the courtyard has committed murder.

    72

    Rebel Without a Cause

    A 1955 American drama about a troubled high-school transfer student navigating one volatile night with two equally unmoored classmates in suburban Los Angeles.

    73

    Sanctum

    A 2011 Australian-American 3D adventure thriller directed by Alister Grierson about a group of cave divers trapped in a vast Papua New Guinea cave system after a tropical storm.

    74

    Sansho Dayu

    A 1954 Japanese period drama directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, often released abroad as Sansho the Bailiff, about a Heian-era family torn apart and sold into slavery.

    75

    Saving Private Ryan

    A 1998 American war film following an Army Ranger unit ordered to find and bring home a paratrooper whose three brothers have been killed in action.

    76

    Schindler's List

    A 1993 American historical drama about Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who used his Krakow factories to protect more than a thousand Jewish workers from Nazi extermination.

    77

    Singin' in the Rain

    A 1952 American musical comedy about a silent-film studio scrambling to adapt to the sudden arrival of talking pictures in 1927 Hollywood.

    78

    Sleepy Hollow

    A 1999 American gothic horror film directed by Tim Burton, very loosely adapting Washington Irving's 1820 short story about a New York town haunted by a headless horseman.

    79

    Sleuth

    A 1972 British mystery thriller directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz adapting Anthony Shaffer's stage play, in which a successful mystery writer invites his wife's lover to his English country house.

    80

    Some Like It Hot

    A 1959 American comedy about two Chicago musicians who witness a mob killing and flee disguised as women in a touring all-female band.

    81

    Star Wars

    A 1977 American space-opera adventure about a farm boy, a smuggler, and a princess fighting to deliver stolen battle-station plans to a galactic rebellion.

    82

    Step Up

    A 2006 American dance romance film directed by Anne Fletcher about a Baltimore street dancer who is paired with a classically trained student at the Maryland School of the Arts.

    83

    Sunset Boulevard

    A 1950 American film noir about a failed Hollywood screenwriter who becomes entangled with a forgotten silent-film star living in faded grandeur.

    84

    Tabu

    A 1931 American silent docufiction film directed by F. W. Murnau in collaboration with Robert J. Flaherty, set among Polynesians in the Pacific and shot on location in Bora Bora.

    85

    The Apartment

    A 1960 American comedy-drama about an insurance-company office worker who lends out his apartment to executives for their affairs in exchange for advancement.

    86

    The Avengers

    A 2012 American superhero film bringing together six Marvel heroes to repel an alien army led by Thor's adopted brother Loki against New York.

    87

    The Box

    A 2009 American psychological science fiction thriller written and directed by Richard Kelly about a 1970s Virginia couple who receive a wooden box that promises a million dollars in exchange for a stranger's death.

    88

    The Crow

    A 1994 American supernatural action film directed by Alex Proyas about a musician resurrected from the dead to avenge the murder of his fiancee on Devil's Night in Detroit.

    89

    The Dark Knight

    A 2008 American superhero film in which Batman, the Gotham district attorney, and the police commissioner together face a chaos-driven criminal called the Joker.

    90

    The Empire Strikes Back

    A 1980 American space-opera sequel in which the Rebel Alliance scatters under Imperial pursuit while a young Jedi trains under an ancient master.

    91

    The Godfather

    A 1972 American crime epic about the Corleone family's struggle to maintain control of a New York organized crime dynasty across the post-war decade.

    94

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    A 2002 New Zealand-American fantasy epic following the splintered fellowship as armies of Saruman threaten the kingdom of Rohan and the journey east continues.

    95

    The Maltese Falcon

    A 1941 American film noir about a San Francisco private detective drawn into a hunt for a jewel-encrusted statuette of legendary value.

    96

    The Matrix

    A 1999 American science fiction film about a hacker who learns that his reality is a computer simulation built to harvest energy from sedated human bodies.

    97

    The Queen

    A 2006 British historical drama directed by Stephen Frears about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during the week following the death of Princess Diana in 1997.

    98

    The Shawshank Redemption

    A 1994 American prison drama about a wrongfully convicted banker who endures two decades inside a Maine penitentiary while quietly engineering an escape.

    99

    The Silence of the Lambs

    A 1991 American psychological thriller about a young FBI trainee consulting an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist to catch a serial killer on the run.

    100

    The Sound of Music

    A 1965 American musical about a young Austrian postulant who becomes governess to a naval officer's seven children on the eve of the Nazi annexation.

    101

    The Stuff

    A 1985 American satirical horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen about a creamy, sugar-free dessert that turns out to be a parasitic organism consuming its consumers.

    102

    The Witch

    A 2015 American historical horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers about a Puritan family exiled from a New England colony in 1630 and tormented by supernatural forces.

    103

    The Wiz

    A 1978 American musical fantasy film directed by Sidney Lumet, an African-American retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with the action transposed to New York City.

    104

    The Wizard of Oz

    A 1939 American musical fantasy about a Kansas farm girl transported to a magical land where she must find the way home.

    105

    Titanic

    A 1997 American romantic disaster film about a love affair between a steerage artist and a first-class passenger aboard the doomed 1912 ocean liner.

    106

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    A 1962 American legal drama set in Depression-era Alabama, where a small-town lawyer defends a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman.

    107

    Topaz

    A 1969 American spy thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock adapting Leon Uris's novel about a French intelligence agent who investigates Soviet missile activity in Cuba.

    108

    Underworld

    A 2003 action horror film directed by Len Wiseman about a centuries-old war between vampires and werewolves, told through the perspective of a vampire warrior named Selene.

    109

    Unforgiven

    A 1992 American revisionist Western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as a retired outlaw who takes one last job to track down two cowboys who maimed a prostitute.

    110

    Up

    A 2009 American computer-animated comedy-drama from Pixar about an elderly widower who attaches balloons to his house and travels to South America with a young stowaway scout.

    111

    V for Vendetta

    A 2005 dystopian political thriller directed by James McTeigue based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, set in a future Britain ruled by a fascist regime.

    112

    Vacation

    A 1983 American road comedy directed by Harold Ramis about the Griswold family's disaster-filled cross-country drive to a theme park called Walley World.

    113

    Vertigo

    A 1958 American psychological thriller about a retired San Francisco detective hired to follow a friend's wife, and the obsession that follows.

    114

    WALL-E

    A 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film from Pixar about a small waste-collecting robot left on an abandoned Earth who falls in love with a sleek scout robot named EVE.

    115

    West Side Story

    A 1961 American musical updating Romeo and Juliet to 1950s Manhattan, where rival white and Puerto Rican street gangs collide around a love affair.

    116

    Whiplash

    A 2014 American drama written and directed by Damien Chazelle about an ambitious jazz drummer at an elite New York conservatory and his abusive bandleader.

    117

    Wolf

    A 1994 American horror romance film directed by Mike Nichols about a New York book editor who is bitten by a wolf and gradually transforms.

    118

    X-Men

    A 2000 American superhero film by Bryan Singer based on the Marvel Comics team of mutants led by Professor Xavier and opposed by Magneto.

    119

    X2 X-Men United

    A 2003 American superhero film directed by Bryan Singer in which the X-Men ally with their enemy Magneto to stop a paramilitary attack on mutants led by William Stryker.

    120

    Xanadu

    A 1980 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Olivia Newton-John as a roller-skating muse who inspires an artist and an aging musician.

    121

    Yentl

    A 1983 American musical drama directed by and starring Barbra Streisand as a young Jewish woman in early-20th-century Poland who disguises herself as a man to study Talmud.

    122

    Yojimbo

    A 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, in which a wandering ronin manipulates two rival gangs into destroying each other in a 19th-century town.

    123

    You Only Live Twice

    A 1967 British spy film directed by Lewis Gilbert, the fifth in the James Bond series, in which Bond investigates the hijacking of American and Soviet spacecraft from a Japanese island.

    124

    Zodiac

    A 2007 American mystery thriller directed by David Fincher about the hunt for the Zodiac killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and 1970s.

    125

    Zootopia

    A 2016 American animated buddy cop film from Walt Disney Animation Studios set in a city of anthropomorphic mammals, where a rookie rabbit officer and a con-artist fox uncover a conspiracy.

    126

    Zorba the Greek

    A 1964 drama directed by Michael Cacoyannis, in which a young Anglo-Greek writer travels to Crete and is transformed by his friendship with the exuberant peasant Alexis Zorba.

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