| 1. |  | 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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| 2. |  | 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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| 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. |  | 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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| 5. |  | 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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| 6. |  | La Dolce Vita (1960)
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend...tt0053779+
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| 7. |  | 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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| 8. |  | 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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| 9. |  | 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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| 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. |  | 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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| 12. |  | 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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| 13. |  | 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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| 14. |  | 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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| 15. |  | The Gold Rush (1925)
The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more. tt0015864+
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| 16. |  | 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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| 17. |  | On the Waterfront (1954)
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. tt0047296
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| 18. |  | 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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| 19. |  | 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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| 20. |  | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
A group of Earth children help a stranded alien botanist return home. tt0083866+
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| 21. |  | 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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| 22. |  | The Bicycle Thief (1948)
A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job. tt0040522+
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| 23. |  | 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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| 24. |  | 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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| 25. |  | 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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| 26. |  | 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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| 27. |  | 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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| 28. |  | 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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| 29. |  | 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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| 30. |  | 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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| 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 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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| 33. |  | Jules and Jim (1962)
Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.tt0055032+
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| 34. |  | Sherlock Jr. (1924)
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.tt0015324
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| 35. |  | 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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| 36. |  | 8 1/2 (1963)
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. tt0056801+
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| 37. |  | Blue Velvet (1986)
After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.tt0090756
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| 38. |  | 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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| 39. |  | 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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| 40. |  | 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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| 41. |  | 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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| 42. |  | Aliens (1986)
The planet from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, enough? tt0090605+
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| 43. |  | 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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| 44. |  | 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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| 45. |  | 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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| 46. |  | 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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| 47. |  | 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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| 48. |  | 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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| 49. |  | 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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| 50. |  | 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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| 51. |  | Children of Paradise (1945)
This tragic tale centers around the ill-fated love between Baptiste, a theater mime, and Claire Reine... tt0037674
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| 52. |  | 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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| 53. |  | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.tt0049366
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| 54. |  | Touch of Evil (1958)
Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town. tt0052311
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| 55. |  | 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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| 56. |  | 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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| 57. |  | 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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| 58. |  | Rules of the Game (1939)
Renoir's look at bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II. An assorted cast of characters - the rich and their poor servants - meet up at a French chateau.tt0031885+
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| 59. |  | The Lady Eve (1941)
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship... tt0033804
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| 60. |  | Annie Hall (1977)
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. tt0075686
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| 61. |  | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army. tt0029843+
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| 62. |  | Henry V (1944)
In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V...tt0036910
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| 63. |  | Breathless (1960)
A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him.tt0053472+
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| 64. |  | Mean Streets (1973)
A small-time hood struggles to succeed on the ''mean streets'' of Little Italy. tt0070379
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| 65. |  | The Third Man (1949)
Arriving in Vienna, Holly Martins learns that his friend Harry Lime, who has invited him, recently died in a car accident. tt0041959
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| 66. |  | Notorious (1946)
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? tt0038787
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| 67. |  | Airplane! (1980)
An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley. tt0080339
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| 68. |  | Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein (goaded by an even madder scientist) builds his monster a mate. tt0026138
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| 69. |  | The Conformist (1970)
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.tt0065571
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| 70. |  | Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Belle, whose father Maurice is imprisoned by the Beast (really an enchanted Prince), offers herself instead and finds the prince inside the Beast. tt0101414+
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| 71. |  | To Be or Not to Be (1942)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy. tt0035446+
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| 72. |  | M (1931)
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. tt0022100
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| 73. |  | Great Expectations (1946)
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.tt0038574
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| 74. |  | Funny Face (1957)
Fashion photographer Dick Avery, in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore...tt0050419+
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| 75. |  | 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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| 76. |  | The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him. tt0056218
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| 77. |  | Battleship Potemkin (1925)
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre. tt0015648
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| 78. |  | White Heat (1949)
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turntt0042041
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| 79. |  | It's a Gift (1934)
A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.tt0025318
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| 80. |  | Nosferatu the Vampire (1922)
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Silent classic based on the story ''Dracula.'' tt0013442
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| 81. |  | 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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| 82. |  | 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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| 83. |  | 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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| 84. |  | Blow-Up (1966)
A mod London photographer believes that he has photographed a murder.tt0060176
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| 85. |  | 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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| 86. |  | Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. tt0048545
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| 87. |  | L'age d'or (1930)
Bunuel's first feature has more of a plot than Un Chien Andalou, but it's still a pure Surrealist film...tt0021577
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| 88. |  | The Producers (1968)
Producers Max Bialystock (Mostel) and Leo Bloom (Wilder) make money by producing a sure-fire flop. tt0063462+
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| 89. |  | Wings of Desire (1987)
An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.tt0093191+
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| 90. |  | Pickup on South Street (1953)
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.tt0046187
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| 91. |  | Mildred Pierce (1945)
After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can't win the approval of her spoiled daughter.tt0037913+
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| 92. |  | 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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| 93. |  | Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.tt0082694
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| 94. |  | The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realizing that they're falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.tt0033045
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| 95. |  | 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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| 96. |  | The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.tt0104691
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| 97. |  | The Piano (1993)
A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she's soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.tt0107822
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| 98. |  | 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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| 99. |  | Swept Away (1974)
A rich woman, Raffaella, and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean Sea during summer. The sailor...tt0073817
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| 100. | | Celine & Julie Go Boating (1974) |