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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.
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List of Movies That Contain A
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Casablanca
A 1942 American romantic drama set in wartime Morocco, where a jaded American expatriate must choose between love and the anti-Nazi resistance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gravity
A 2013 science fiction thriller directed by Alfonso Cuaron about two astronauts stranded in low Earth orbit after debris destroys their space shuttle.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mary Poppins
A 1964 American musical fantasy about a magical English nanny who arrives at a strained Edwardian London household and rearranges its priorities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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