The Best of the Best Pictures
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Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall Director: Francis Ford Coppola Synopsis: Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the... [MORE] |
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Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt Director: Michael Curtiz Synopsis: One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard cat... [MORE] |
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Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Gary Merrill, George Sanders, Celeste Holm Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Synopsis: Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrin... [MORE] |
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Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire Director: Francis Ford Coppola Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with hi... [MORE] |
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Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood Synopsis: Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O. Selznick managed to exp... [MORE] |
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Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins, James Donald Director: David Lean Synopsis: 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 Colone... [MORE] |
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Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins Director: David Lean Synopsis: This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic ... [MORE] |
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Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger Director: Elia Kazan Synopsis: 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... [MORE] |
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Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Danny DeVito Director: Milos Forman Synopsis: With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of... [MORE] |
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett Director: Clint Eastwood Synopsis: Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the... [MORE] |
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Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith Director: John G. Avildsen Synopsis: Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a Philadelphia boxer, is but one step removed from total bum-hood. A once-promising pugilist, Rocky is now takin... [MORE] |
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Cast: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice Director: Milos Forman Synopsis: For this film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Broadway hit, director Milos Forman returned to the city of Prague that he'd left behind during the Cze... [MORE] |
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Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle Director: Steven Spielberg Synopsis: 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 opportu... [MORE] |
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Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly, Jason Thomas, Roscoe Karns Director: Frank Capra Synopsis: Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling today. Claudette Colbert... [MORE] |
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Marcel Bozzuffi, Tony Lo Bianco Director: William Friedkin Synopsis: This gritty, fast-paced, and innovative police drama earned five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written by Ernest... [MORE] |
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Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Charmian Carr Director: Robert Wise Synopsis: One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars ... [MORE] |
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Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon, Carol Kane Director: Woody Allen Synopsis: Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy... [MORE] |
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Cast: Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper Director: George Cukor Synopsis: At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw come... [MORE] |
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Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald Director: Joel Coen Synopsis: When a Vietnam veteran discovers two million dollars while wandering through the aftermath of a Texas drug deal gone horribly awry, his decision to... [MORE] |
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Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald Director: Jonathan Demme Synopsis: In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses ... [MORE] |
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Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom Director: Peter Jackson Synopsis: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic to a close in suitably epic fas... [MORE] |
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Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Martha Scott Director: William Wyler Synopsis: This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. A... [MORE] |
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Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck Director: John Madden Synopsis: William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is on a cold streak. Not only is he writing for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of "The Rose," a theatr... [MORE] |
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Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari Director: Sam Mendes Synopsis: Noted theater director Sam Mendes, who was responsible for the acclaimed 1998 revival of Cabaret and Nicole Kidman's turn in The Blue Room, made hi... [MORE] |
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher Director: James Cameron Synopsis: This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of Apr... [MORE] |
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Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Edward Binns, Karl Michael Vogler Director: Franklin J. Schaffner Synopsis: In 1943 North Africa, George Patton (George C. Scott) assumes command of (and instills some much-needed discipline in) the American forces. Engaged... [MORE] |
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Cast: John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell, Missi Pyle, Penelope Ann Miller, Jean Dujardin Director: Michel Hazanavicius Synopsis: Michel Hazanavicius' stylistically daring, dialogue free comedy The Artist stars Jean Dujardin as George Valentin, a matinee idol in Hollywood befo... [MORE] |
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Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Nigel Bruce Director: Alfred Hitchcock Synopsis: Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the classic psychological thriller Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock's first American film. Joan Fontaine plays... [MORE] |
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Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes Director: Kathryn Bigelow Synopsis: Based on the personal wartime experiences of journalist Mark Boal (who adapted his experiences with a bomb squad into a fact-based, yet fictional s... [MORE] |
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Cast: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn Director: Oliver Stone Synopsis: Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie... [MORE] |
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Cast: Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi, Geoffrey Rush, Guy Pearce Director: Tom Hooper Synopsis: Emmy Award-winning director Tom Hooper (John Adams) teams with screenwriter David Seidler (Tucker: A Man and His Dreams) to tell the story of King ... [MORE] |
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Cast: Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch, M. Emmet Walsh Director: Robert Redford Synopsis: Robert Redford's directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It is a simple but painfully emotional story of the disintegrat... [MORE] |
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter Director: Clint Eastwood Synopsis: Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it; his daughter... [MORE] |
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Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn Director: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins Synopsis: +Romeo and Juliet is updated to the tenements of New York City in this Oscar-winning musical landmark. Adapted by Ernest Lehman from the Broadway p... [MORE] |
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen Director: Martin Scorsese Synopsis: Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized... [MORE] |
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage Director: Michael Cimino Synopsis: One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The ... [MORE] |
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Cast: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper, Jobyna Ralston Director: William A. Wellman Synopsis: Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is afforded the wheezy old plotl... [MORE] |
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Jerry Molen, Michael D. Roberts Director: Barry Levinson Synopsis: Self-centered, avaricious Californian Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is informed that his long-estranged father has died. Expecting at least a portio... [MORE] |
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro Director: John Schlesinger Synopsis: Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel, British director John Schlesinger's first American film dramatized the small hopes, dashed dreams, and unlikely... [MORE] |
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Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed Director: Fred Zinnemann Synopsis: The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel Fro... [MORE] |
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Cast: Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly Director: Rob Marshall Synopsis: 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... [MORE] |
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Cast: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan Director: Danny Boyle Synopsis: Accused of cheating and desperate to prove his innocence, an eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai reflects back on his tumultuous life... [MORE] |
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Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, David Lewis Director: Billy Wilder Synopsis: Widely regarded as a comedy in 1960, The Apartment seems more melancholy with each passing year. Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, a go-getting office... [MORE] |
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Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany Director: Ron Howard Synopsis: The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is the subject of this biographical drama from director Ron Howard. Russell Crowe st... [MORE] |
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Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone Director: Edmund Goulding Synopsis: Based on Vicki Baum's novel and produced by Irving Thalberg, this film is about the lavish Grand Hotel in Berlin, a place where "nothing ever happe... [MORE] |
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Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Edward Fox Director: Richard Attenborough Synopsis: It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it... [MORE] |
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Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson Director: Mel Gibson Synopsis: Mel Gibson, long-time heartthrob of the silver screen, came into his own as a director with Braveheart, an account of the life and times of medieva... [MORE] |
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Cast: Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, James Patterson Director: Norman Jewison Synopsis: The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small Mississippi town where an ... [MORE] |
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Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston Director: George Roy Hill Synopsis: Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-tea... [MORE] |
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Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, Anna Lee Director: John Ford Synopsis: Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining family, as told through the... [MORE] |
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Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Ian Holm, John Gielgud Director: Hugh Hudson Synopsis: Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire is the internationally acclaimed Oscar-winning drama of two very different men who compete as runners in th... [MORE] |
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Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman Director: Kevin Costner Synopsis: historical drama about the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of Sioux Indians, Kevin Costner's directorial debut was also a surp... [MORE] |
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Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Nina Foch, Georges Guetary Director: Vincente Minnelli Synopsis: Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving artists" colony. He is di... [MORE] |
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Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth Director: Anthony Minghella Synopsis: Anthony Minghella wrote and directed this award-winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a doomed and tragic romance set against the ba... [MORE] |
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Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field Director: Robert Zemeckis Synopsis: "Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intellige... [MORE] |
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff Director: Robert Benton Synopsis: Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jil... [MORE] |
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Cast: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Synopsis: The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years ... [MORE] |
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Cast: Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle Director: Bruce Beresford Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy affectionately covers the 25-year relationship between a wealthy, stron... [MORE] |
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Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner Director: Paul Haggis Synopsis: Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this drama from director and screenwri... [MORE] |
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Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris Director: Ridley Scott Writer: David Franzoni Synopsis: A man robbed of his name and his dignity strives to win them back, and gain the freedom of his people, in this epic historical drama from director ... [MORE] |
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Cast: Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor Director: Vincente Minnelli Synopsis: Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young girl raised by two veteran Parisian courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of wealthy y... [MORE] |
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Cast: David Niven, Mario Moreno 'Cantinflas', Shirley MacLaine, Robert Newton, Charles Boyer Director: Michael Anderson Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 8... [MORE] |
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Cast: Broderick Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, John Derek, Joanne Dru, John Ireland Director: Robert Rossen Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career of Louisiana go... [MORE] |
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Cast: Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Mark Lester, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild Director: Carol Reed Synopsis: Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart's 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens' more graphic pass... [MORE] |
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Cast: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, James Stewart, Dorothy Lamour Director: Cecil B. DeMille Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines concerning romance and rivalr... [MORE] |
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Cast: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen Director: Robert Z. Leonard Synopsis: In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he s... [MORE] |
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Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland Director: Laurence Olivier Synopsis: Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large po... [MORE] |
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Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Rise Stevens, James Brown, Jean Heather Director: Leo McCarey Synopsis: It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he acquiesced, winning a... [MORE] |
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Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard da Silva, Philip Terry, Doris Dowling Director: Billy Wilder Synopsis: Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer whose lust for booze c... [MORE] |
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Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens Director: Sydney Pollack Synopsis: Out of Africa is drawn from the life and writings of Danish author Isak Dinesen, who during the time that the film's events occured was known by he... [MORE] |
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Cast: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson Director: Harry Beaumont Synopsis: This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of standards by the songwriti... [MORE] |
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Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp Director: William Dieterle, Irving Rapper Synopsis: The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best, even allowing for the d... [MORE] |
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Cast: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Ursula Jeans, Herbert Mundin, Una O'Connor Director: Frank Lloyd Synopsis: The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film adaptation of the pageant-lik... [MORE] |
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Cast: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Mayo Director: William Wyler Synopsis: The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult readjustments of returning World... [MORE] |
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Cast: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Slim Summerville, Ben Alexander, John Wray Director: Lewis Milestone Synopsis: One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join the Army during World ... [MORE] |
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Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Richard Ney, May Whitty Director: William Wyler Synopsis: As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of the upper-class Briti... [MORE] |
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Cast: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Susannah York Director: Fred Zinnemann Synopsis: Adapted by Robert Bolt and Constance Willis from Bolt's hit stage play, A Man for All Seasons stars Paul Scofield, triumphantly repeating his stage... [MORE] |
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Cast: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer Director: Frank Capra Synopsis: Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play +You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populi... [MORE] |
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Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith Director: Tony Richardson Synopsis: Tony Richardson's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, winning f... [MORE] |
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Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan Director: Frank Lloyd Synopsis: The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the titular 1789 ship mutiny... [MORE] |
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Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere Director: Elia Kazan Synopsis: Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, this film stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil Green. With a growing son ... [MORE] |
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Cast: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier Jr. Director: Wesley Ruggles Synopsis: Cimarron was the first Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture--and, until Dances with Wolves in 1990, the only one. The film begins on April 22,... [MORE] |
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Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Danny DeVito Director: James L. Brooks Synopsis: Terms of Endearment covers three decades in the lives of widow Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Debra Winger). Fiercely pr... [MORE] |
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Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Esther Minciotti, Karen Steele Director: Delbert Mann Synopsis: Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning slice-of-life drama is a heartwarming story about Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine), a lonely Bronx butcher. Marty i... [MORE] |
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