| 2013 |  | 12 Years a Slave (2013)
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.tt2024544
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| 2012 |  | Argo (2012)
A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran. tt1024648
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| 2011 |  | The Descendants (2011)
A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.tt1033575
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| 2010 |  | The Social Network (2010)
A chronicle of the founding of Facebook, the social-networking Web site.tt1285016+
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| 2009 |  | Avatar (2009)
A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. tt0499549
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| 2008 |  | Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'' He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers. tt1010048
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| 2007 |  | Atonement (2007)
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.tt0783233
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| 2006 |  | Babel (2006)
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.tt0449467
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| 2005 |  | Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Based on the 'E. Annie Proulx' story about a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years.tt0388795
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| 2004 |  | Aviator (2004)
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.tt0338751+
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| 2003 |  | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. tt0167260+
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| 2002 |  | The Hours (2002)
The story of how the novel ''Mrs. Dalloway'' affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.tt0274558
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| 2001 |  | A Beautiful Mind (2001)
After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish. tt0268978+
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| 2000 |  | Gladiator (2000)
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. tt0172495+
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| 1999 |  | American Beauty (1999)
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend. tt0169547
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| 1998 |  | 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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| 1997 |  | 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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| 1996 |  | The English Patient (1996)
At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. tt0116209
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| 1995 |  | Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.tt0114388
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| 1994 |  | 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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| 1993 |  | 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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| 1992 |  | Scent of a Woman (1992)
A prep school student needing money agrees to ''babysit'' a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated. tt0105323
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| 1991 |  | Bugsy (1991)
The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.tt0101516+
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| 1990 |  | Dances With Wolves (1990)
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. tt0099348
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| 1989 |  | Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.tt0096969
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| 1988 |  | Rain Man (1988)
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country. tt0095953
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| 1987 |  | The Last Emperor (1987)
The story of the final Emperor of China. tt0093389+
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| 1986 |  | 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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| 1985 |  | Out of Africa (1985)
In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter. tt0089755
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| 1984 |  | Amadeus (1984)
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. tt0086879+
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| 1983 |  | Terms of Endearment (1983)
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage... tt0086425
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| 1982 |  | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
A group of Earth children help a stranded alien botanist return home. tt0083866+
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| 1981 |  | On Golden Pond (1981)
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage...tt0082846
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| 1980 |  | Ordinary People (1980)
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. tt0081283
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| 1979 |  | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him. tt0079417
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| 1978 |  | Midnight Express (1978)
Story of a man who is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.tt0077928
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| 1977 | | The Turning Point (1977) |
| 1976 |  | 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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| 1975 |  | 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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| 1974 |  | 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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| 1973 |  | The Exorcist (1973)
When a teenager is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. tt0070047
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| 1972 |  | 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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| 1971 |  | 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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| 1970 |  | Love Story (1970)
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore...tt0066011
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| 1969 |  | Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.tt0064030
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| 1968 |  | The Lion in Winter (1968)
1183 AD: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him. tt0063227
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| 1967 |  | 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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| 1966 |  | A Man for All Seasons (1966)
The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage. tt0060665
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| 1965 |  | Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution. tt0059113+
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| 1964 |  | Becket (1964)
An English king comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.tt0057877
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| 1963 |  | The Cardinal (1963)
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.tt0056907
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| 1962 |  | 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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| 1961 |  | The Guns of Navarone (1961)
A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.tt0054953
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| 1960 |  | Spartacus (1960)
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire. tt0054331+
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| 1959 |  | 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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| 1958 | | The Defiant Ones (1958) |
| 1957 |  | 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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| 1956 |  | Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Adaptation of Jules Verne's novel about a Victorian Englishman who bets that with the new steamships and railways he can do what the title says. tt0048960
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| 1955 |  | East of Eden (1955)
In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam...tt0048028+
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| 1954 |  | On the Waterfront (1954)
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. tt0047296
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| 1953 |  | The Robe (1953)
Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus...tt0046247
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| 1952 |  | The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer against a background of circus spectacle. tt0044672
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| 1951 |  | A Place in the Sun (1951)
Young up-and-comer George Eastman is thrust into the blue collar life of a rich uncle's family business... tt0043924
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| 1950 |  | 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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| 1949 |  | All the King's Men (1949)
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal. tt0041113
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| 1948 |  | 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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| 1947 |  | Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred. tt0039416
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| 1946 |  | 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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| 1945 |  | The Lost Weekend (1945)
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout. tt0037884
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| 1944 |  | Going My Way (1944)
A new priest shows up at the parish of a crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon. The new man, Father O'Malley... tt0036872
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| 1943 |  | The Song of Bernadette (1943)
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of ''a beautiful lady'' in the city dump...tt0036377
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