The Academy got it right.
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The Academy and the numbers agree.
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Dir. Michael Curtiz · Humphrey Bogart · Ingrid Bergman · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Teresa Wright · Joseph Cotten · Macdonald Carey · Henry Travers
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
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Dir. William A. Wellman · Henry Fonda · Dana Andrews · Mary Beth Hughes · Anthony Quinn
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
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Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer · Thorkild Roose · Lisbeth Movin · Preben Lerdorff Rye · Sigrid Neiiendam
In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.
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Dir. Emeric Pressburger · Roger Livesey · Deborah Kerr · Anton Walbrook · Roland Culver
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
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Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot · Pierre Fresnay · Ginette Leclerc · Micheline Francey · Héléna Manson
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.
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Dir. Luchino Visconti · Clara Calamai · Massimo Girotti · Dhia Cristiani · Elio Marcuzzo
Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.
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Dir. Zoltan Korda · Humphrey Bogart · Bruce Bennett · J. Carrol Naish · Lloyd Bridges
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
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Dir. Henry King · Jennifer Jones · William Eythe · Charles Bickford · Vincent Price
In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady to be the Virgin Mary. Pompous government officials think the girl is insane, doing their best to suppress her and her followers, while the church wants nothing to do with the matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the town, ultimately transforming their lives.
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Dir. George Stevens · Jean Arthur · Joel McCrea · Charles Coburn · Richard Gaines
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
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Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · Don Ameche · Gene Tierney · Charles Coburn · Marjorie Main
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
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Dir. Robert Stevenson · Orson Welles · Joan Fontaine · Margaret O'Brien · Peggy Ann Garner
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
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Dir. Preston Sturges · Eddie Bracken · Betty Hutton · Diana Lynn · William Demarest
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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Dir. Billy Wilder · Franchot Tone · Anne Baxter · Akim Tamiroff · Erich von Stroheim
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.
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Dir. Fritz Lang · Brian Donlevy · Walter Brennan · Anna Lee · Gene Lockhart
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Dir. Jacques Tourneur · James Ellison · Frances Dee · Tom Conway · Edith Barrett
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
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Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Henry Travers · Albert Bassermann
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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Dir. Noël Coward · Noël Coward · John Mills · Bernard Miles · Celia Johnson
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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Dir. Herman Shumlin · Bette Davis · Paul Lukas · Geraldine Fitzgerald · George Coulouris
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.
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Dir. Fred M. Wilcox · Roddy McDowall · Donald Crisp · May Whitty · Edmund Gwenn
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
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Dir. Sam Wood · Gary Cooper · Ingrid Bergman · Akim Tamiroff · Arturo de Córdova
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
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Dir. Clarence Brown · Mickey Rooney · Frank Morgan · James Craig · Marsha Hunt
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
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Dir. Howard Hughes · Jack Buetel · Jane Russell · Thomas Mitchell · Walter Huston
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.
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