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Your #1 was Sunset Blvd. (#1).
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Dir. Billy Wilder · William Holden · Gloria Swanson · Erich von Stroheim · Nancy Olson
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Bette Davis · Anne Baxter · George Sanders · Celeste Holm
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
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Dir. Akira Kurosawa · Toshirō Mifune · Machiko Kyō · Takashi Shimura · Masayuki Mori
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
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Dir. Henry Koster · James Stewart · Josephine Hull · Peggy Dow · Charles Drake
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
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Dir. Luis Buñuel · Estela Inda · Miguel Inclán · Alfonso Mejía · Roberto Cobo
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
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Dir. Nicholas Ray · Humphrey Bogart · Gloria Grahame · Frank Lovejoy · Carl Benton Reid
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
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Dir. John Huston · Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Jean Hagen · James Whitmore
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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Dir. Clyde Geronimi · Ilene Woods · Eleanor Audley · Verna Felton · Claire Du Brey
Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!
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Dir. Jules Dassin · Richard Widmark · Francis L. Sullivan · Gene Tierney · Googie Withers
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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Dir. Jean Cocteau · Jean Marais · François Périer · María Casares · Marie Déa
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.
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Dir. Anthony Mann · James Stewart · Shelley Winters · Dan Duryea · Stephen McNally
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
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Dir. Joseph H. Lewis · Peggy Cummins · John Dall · Berry Kroeger · Morris Carnovsky
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
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Dir. Henry King · Gregory Peck · Helen Westcott · Millard Mitchell · Jean Parker
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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Dir. George Cukor · Judy Holliday · Broderick Crawford · William Holden · Howard St. John
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.
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Dir. Otto Preminger · Dana Andrews · Gene Tierney · Bert Freed · Gary Merrill
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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Dir. Vincente Minnelli · Spencer Tracy · Joan Bennett · Elizabeth Taylor · Don Taylor
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Jane Wyman · Marlene Dietrich · Michael Wilding · Richard Todd
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Richard Widmark · Linda Darnell · Sidney Poitier · Stephen McNally
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
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Dir. Delmer Daves · James Stewart · Jeff Chandler · Debra Paget · Basil Ruysdael
Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the American settlers and Apaches in the late 1870s Arizona. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
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Dir. Byron Haskin · Bobby Driscoll · Robert Newton · Basil Sydney · Walter Fitzgerald
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
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Dir. Compton Bennett · Deborah Kerr · Stewart Granger · Richard Carlson · Hugo Haas
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
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