| 1. |  | Citizen Kane (1941)
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. tt0033467+
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| 2. |  | The Godfather (1972)
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. tt0068646+
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| 3. |  | Casablanca (1942)
Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. tt0034583
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| 4. |  | Raging Bull (1980)
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it. tt0081398+
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| 5. |  | Singin' in the Rain (1952)
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. tt0045152+
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| 6. |  | Gone with the Wind (1939)
American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction. tt0031381
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| 7. |  | Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service. tt0056172
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| 8. |  | Schindler's List (1993)
Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them. tt0108052+
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| 9. |  | Vertigo (1958)
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. tt0052357
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| 10. |  | The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home. tt0032138
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| 11. |  | City Lights (1931)
The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with. tt0021749+
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| 12. |  | The Searchers (1956)
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable. tt0049730
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| 13. |  | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader. tt0076759+
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| 14. |  | Psycho (1960)
A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. tt0054215
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| 15. |  | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest. tt0062622
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| 16. |  | Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. tt0043014
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| 17. |  | The Graduate (1967)
Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine. tt0061722+
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| 18. |  | The General (1926)
When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines. tt0017925
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| 19. |  | On the Waterfront (1954)
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. tt0047296
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| 20. |  | It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed. tt0038650+
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| 21. |  | Chinatown (1974)
A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water. tt0071315
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| 22. |  | Some Like It Hot (1959)
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. tt0053291
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| 23. |  | The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. tt0032551+
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| 24. |  | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
A group of Earth children help a stranded alien botanist return home. tt0083866+
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| 25. |  | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. tt0056592
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| 26. |  | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down. tt0031679
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| 27. |  | High Noon (1952)
A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him. tt0044706
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| 28. |  | All About Eve (1950)
An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends. tt0042192
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| 29. |  | Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. tt0036775+
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| 30. |  | Apocalypse Now (1979)
During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe. tt0078788+
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| 31. |  | The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. tt0033870
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| 32. |  | The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The early life & career of Vito Corleone in 1920's New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-Revolution 1958 Cuba. tt0071562
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| 33. |  | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse. tt0073486
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| 34. |  | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen feeds her a poison apple, but Prince Charming awakens her with a kiss. tt0029583+
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| 35. |  | Annie Hall (1977)
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. tt0075686
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| 36. |  | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. tt0050212+
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| 37. |  | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. tt0036868
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| 38. |  | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled... tt0040897+
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| 39. |  | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. tt0057012
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| 40. |  | The Sound of Music (1965)
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer widower. tt0059742+
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| 41. |  | King Kong (1933)
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star. tt0024216+
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| 42. |  | Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
A somewhat romantized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang. tt0061418
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| 43. |  | Midnight Cowboy (1969)
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City. tt0064665
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| 44. |  | The Philadelphia Story (1940)
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. tt0032904
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| 45. |  | Shane (1953)
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act. tt0046303
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| 46. |  | It Happened One Night (1934)
A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. But then he falls for her... tt0025316
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| 47. |  | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. tt0044081
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| 48. |  | Rear Window (1954)
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. tt0047396
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| 49. |  | Intolerance (1916)
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. tt0006864
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| 50. |  | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Ring. Now he must embark on an Epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it. tt0120737+
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| 51. |  | West Side Story (1961)
Musical about two youngsters from rival NYC gangs who fall in love. tt0055614+
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| 52. |  | Taxi Driver (1976)
A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process. tt0075314
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| 53. |  | The Deer Hunter (1978)
An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA. tt0077416
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| 54. |  | M*A*S*H (1970)
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. tt0066026+
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| 55. |  | North by Northwest (1959)
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. tt0053125
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| 56. |  | Jaws (1975)
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it. tt0073195
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| 57. |  | Rocky (1976)
A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. tt0075148
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| 58. |  | The Gold Rush (1925)
The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more. tt0015864+
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| 59. |  | Nashville (1975)
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated individuals prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed. tt0073440
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| 60. |  | Duck Soup (1933)
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale. tt0023969+
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| 61. |  | Sullivan's Travels (1941)
A director of escapist films goes on the road as a hobo to learn about Life...which gives him a rude awakening. tt0034240
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| 62. |  | American Graffiti (1973)
A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. tt0069704
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| 63. |  | Cabaret (1972)
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. tt0068327
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| 64. |  | Network (1976)
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. tt0074958+
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| 65. |  | The African Queen (1951)
In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. tt0043265
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| 66. |  | Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. tt0082971+
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| 67. |  | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
A bitter aging couple with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other. tt0061184
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| 68. |  | Unforgiven (1992)
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man. tt0105695
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| 69. |  | Tootsie (1982)
An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera. tt0084805
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| 70. |  | A Clockwork Orange (1971)
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and later volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan. tt0066921
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| 71. |  | Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. tt0120815
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| 72. |  | The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. tt0111161+
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| 73. |  | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close. tt0064115
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| 74. |  | The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims. tt0102926+
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| 75. |  | In the Heat of the Night (1967)
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town. tt0061811
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| 76. |  | Forrest Gump (1994)
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him. tt0109830+
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| 77. |  | All the President's Men (1976)
Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation. tt0074119
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| 78. |  | Modern Times (1936)
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. tt0027977+
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| 79. |  | The Wild Bunch (1969)
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the ''traditional'' American West is disappearing around them. tt0065214
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| 80. |  | The Apartment (1960)
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. tt0053604
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| 81. |  | Spartacus (1960)
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire. tt0054331+
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| 82. |  | Sunrise (1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife. tt0018455
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| 83. |  | Titanic (1997)
Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship. tt0120338
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| 84. |  | Easy Rider (1969)
Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America. tt0064276
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| 85. |  | A Night at the Opera (1935)
A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. tt0026778
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| 86. |  | Platoon (1986)
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. tt0091763
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| 87. |  | 12 Angry Men (1957)
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. tt0050083
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| 88. |  | Bringing Up Baby (1938)
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances... tt0029947+
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| 89. |  | The Sixth Sense (1999)
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist. tt0167404
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| 90. |  | Swing Time (1936)
A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer. tt0028333
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| 91. |  | Sophie's Choice (1982)
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling... tt0084707
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| 92. |  | Goodfellas (1990)
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy. tt0099685+
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| 93. |  | The French Connection (1971)
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. tt0067116+
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| 94. |  | Pulp Fiction (1994)
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. tt0110912+
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| 95. |  | The Last Picture Show (1971)
The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s. tt0067328
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| 96. |  | Do the Right Thing (1989)
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. tt0097216+
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| 97. |  | Blade Runner (1982)
Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker. tt0083658+
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| 98. |  | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan. tt0035575+
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| 99. |  | Toy Story (1995)
A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. tt0114709+
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| 100. |  | Ben-Hur (1959)
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. tt0052618
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