| 1. |  | 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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| 2. |  | The Seven Samurai (1954)
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. tt0047478
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| 3. |  | 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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| 4. |  | 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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| 5. |  | Paths of Glory (1957)
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them. tt0050825+
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| 6. |  | 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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| 7. |  | Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise. tt0051201
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| 8. |  | 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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| 9. |  | 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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| 10. |  | Singin' in the Rain (1952)
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. tt0045152+
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| 11. |  | Rashomon (1950)
A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view. tt0042876
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| 12. |  | Ikiru (1952)
Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing... tt0044741+
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| 13. |  | 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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| 14. |  | Wild Strawberries (1957)
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. tt0050986
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| 15. |  | On the Waterfront (1954)
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. tt0047296
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| 16. |  | The Seventh Seal (1957)
A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. tt0050976
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| 17. |  | 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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| 18. |  | The Wages of Fear (1953)
In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. tt0046268
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| 19. |  | Diabolique (1955)
The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women. tt0046911
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| 20. |  | Tokyo Story (1953)
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them.tt0046438+
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| 21. |  | Nights of Cabiria (1957)
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finding only heartbreak. tt0050783
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| 22. |  | Umberto D. (1952)
Umberto Ferrari, aged government-pensioner, attends a street demonstration held by his fellow pensioners... tt0045274
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| 23. |  | Touch of Evil (1958)
Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town. tt0052311
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| 24. |  | Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
In mediaeval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.tt0047445
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| 25. |  | The 400 Blows (1959)
Intensley touching story of a misunderstood young adolescent who left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. tt0053198+
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| 26. |  | Dial M for Murder (1954)
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. tt0046912
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| 27. |  | Ace in the Hole (1951)
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.tt0043338+
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| 28. |  | Throne of Blood (1957)
A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become Emperor.tt0050613
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| 29. |  | La Strada (1954)
A carefree girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way. tt0047528+
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| 30. |  | Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A biting look at the ruthless world of a powerful and evil New York columnist. tt0051036
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| 31. |  | Rififi (1955)
Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...tt0048021
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| 32. |  | 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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| 33. |  | 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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| 34. |  | Stalag 17 (1953)
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German POW camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. tt0046359
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| 35. |  | A Face in the Crowd (1957)
An Arkansas hobo becomes an overnight media sensation. But as he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?tt0050371
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| 36. |  | Strangers on a Train (1951)
A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder...a theory that he plans to implement. tt0044079+
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| 37. |  | The Night of the Hunter (1955)
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. tt0048424+
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| 38. |  | A Christmas Carol (1951)
An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.tt0044008+
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| 39. |  | Roman Holiday (1953)
A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. tt0046250
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| 40. |  | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.tt0051459
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| 41. |  | Limelight (1952)
A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find meaning and hope in their lives. tt0044837+
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| 42. |  | The Killing (1956)
Crooks plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery. tt0049406+
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| 43. | | Los Olvidados (1950) |
| 44. |  | Ugetsu (1953)
In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi...tt0046478+
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| 45. |  | Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case? tt0052561
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| 46. |  | Rio Bravo (1959)
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter... tt0053221
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| 47. |  | Harvey (1950)
Elwood P. Dowd is a mild-mannered, pleasant man, who just happens (he says) to have an invisible friend resembling a 6-foot rabbit. tt0042546
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| 48. |  | Pather Panchali (1955)
Sometime in the early years of the century, a boy, Apu, is born to a poor Brahmin family in a village in Bengal...tt0048473
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| 49. |  | 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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| 50. |  | Orpheus (1950)
Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee's wife, Eurydice...tt0041719
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