| 1. |  | 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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| 2. |  | 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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| 3. |  | 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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| 4. |  | 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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| 5. |  | 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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| 6. |  | Singin' in the Rain (1952)
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. tt0045152+
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| 7. |  | 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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| 8. |  | 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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| 9. |  | 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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| 10. |  | 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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| 11. |  | 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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| 12. |  | 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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| 13. |  | Pinocchio (1940)
A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. tt0032910
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| 14. |  | 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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| 15. |  | 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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| 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. |  | 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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| 18. |  | 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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| 19. |  | 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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| 20. |  | 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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| 21. |  | Annie Hall (1977)
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. tt0075686
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| 22. |  | Ninotchka (1939)
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.tt0031725
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| 23. |  | 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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| 24. |  | 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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| 25. |  | 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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| 26. |  | 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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| 27. |  | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke. tt0080684
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| 28. |  | 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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| 29. |  | The Lion King (1994)
Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King. tt0110357+
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| 30. |  | The Palm Beach Story (1942)
An inventor needs cash to develop his big idea. His wife, who loves him, decides to raise it for him by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.tt0035169
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| 31. |  | 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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| 32. |  | 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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| 33. |  | 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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| 34. |  | Apollo 13 (1995)
True story of the moon-bound mission that developed severe trouble and the men that rescued it with skill and dedication. tt0112384+
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| 35. |  | 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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| 36. |  | 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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| 37. |  | 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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| 38. |  | 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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| 39. |  | Laura (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating. tt0037008
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| 40. |  | On the Waterfront (1954)
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. tt0047296
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| 41. |  | Saturday Night Fever (1977)
A Brooklyn youth feels his only chance to get somewhere is as the king of the disco floor. tt0076666
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| 42. |  | 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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| 43. |  | 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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| 44. |  | Babe (1995)
Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.tt0112431
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| 45. |  | Top Hat (1935)
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel...tt0027125
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| 46. |  | 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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| 47. |  | 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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| 48. |  | The Quiet Man (1952)
A disgraced American boxer retires to Ireland, where he finds love.tt0045061
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| 49. |  | Dirty Harry (1971)
A San Francisco cop with little regard for rules (but who always gets results) tries to track down a serial killer who snipes at random victims.tt0066999
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| 50. |  | 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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