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Your #1 was It's a Wonderful Life (#1).
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Dir. Frank Capra · James Stewart · Donna Reed · Lionel Barrymore · Thomas Mitchell
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Dir. William Wyler · Dana Andrews · Fredric March · Harold Russell · Teresa Wright
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Cary Grant · Ingrid Bergman · Claude Rains · Leopoldine Konstantin
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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Dir. Howard Hawks · Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · John Ridgely · Martha Vickers
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
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Dir. Emeric Pressburger · David Niven · Kim Hunter · Roger Livesey · Marius Goring
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
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Dir. Jean Cocteau · Jean Marais · Josette Day · Marcel André · Mila Parély
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.
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Dir. Charles Vidor · Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · George Macready · Joseph Calleia
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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Dir. John Ford · Henry Fonda · Linda Darnell · Victor Mature · Cathy Downs
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.
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Dir. Robert Siodmak · Edmond O'Brien · Burt Lancaster · Ava Gardner · Albert Dekker
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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Dir. Vittorio De Sica · Franco Interlenghi · Rinaldo Smordoni · Annielo Mele · Bruno Ortenzi
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
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Dir. Orson Welles · Edward G. Robinson · Loretta Young · Orson Welles · Philip Merivale
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
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Dir. Tay Garnett · John Garfield · Lana Turner · Cecil Kellaway · Hume Cronyn
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Dir. Roberto Rossellini · Carmela Sazio · Robert Van Loon · Benjamin Emanuel · Raymond Campbell
Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.
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Dir. Lewis Milestone · Barbara Stanwyck · Van Heflin · Lizabeth Scott · Kirk Douglas
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.
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Dir. Edmund Goulding · Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · Herbert Marshall · Anne Baxter
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
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Dir. Clarence Brown · Gregory Peck · Jane Wyman · Claude Jarman Jr. · Chill Wills
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
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Dir. Harve Foster · James Baskett · Ruth Warrick · Bobby Driscoll · Luana Patten
Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation.
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Dir. Laurence Olivier · Laurence Olivier · Renée Asherson · Ralph Truman · Ernest Thesiger
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
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Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Vincent Price · Glenn Langan
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
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Dir. King Vidor · Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Gregory Peck · Lionel Barrymore
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
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