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Your #1 was Strangers on a Train (#1).
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Farley Granger · Ruth Roman · Robert Walker · Leo G. Carroll
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
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Dir. Elia Kazan · Vivien Leigh · Marlon Brando · Kim Hunter · Karl Malden
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
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Dir. Billy Wilder · Kirk Douglas · Jan Sterling · Robert Arthur · Porter Hall
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
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Dir. Robert Wise · Michael Rennie · Patricia Neal · Billy Gray · Sam Jaffe
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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Dir. John Huston · Humphrey Bogart · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Morley · Peter Bull
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
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Dir. Brian Desmond Hurst · Alastair Sim · Mervyn Johns · Glyn Dearman · George Cole
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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Dir. Clyde Geronimi · Kathryn Beaumont · Ed Wynn · Richard Haydn · Sterling Holloway
On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.
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Dir. George Stevens · Montgomery Clift · Elizabeth Taylor · Shelley Winters · Anne Revere
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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Dir. Yasujirō Ozu · Setsuko Hara · Chishū Ryū · Chikage Awashima · Kuniko Miyake
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.
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Dir. Robert Bresson · Claude Laydu · Jean Riveyre · Adrien Borel · Rachel Bérendt
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.
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Dir. Charles Crichton · Alec Guinness · Stanley Holloway · Sidney James · Alfie Bass
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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Dir. Vincente Minnelli · Gene Kelly · Leslie Caron · Oscar Levant · Georges Guétary
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
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Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · Robert Taylor · Deborah Kerr · Leo Genn · Peter Ustinov
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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Dir. William Wyler · Kirk Douglas · Eleanor Parker · William Bendix · Cathy O'Donnell
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
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Dir. Christian Nyby · Kenneth Tobey · Margaret Sheridan · Robert Cornthwaite · Douglas Spencer
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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Dir. Bretaigne Windust · Humphrey Bogart · Zero Mostel · Ted de Corsia · Everett Sloane
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
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Dir. Stanley Donen · Fred Astaire · Jane Powell · Peter Lawford · Sarah Churchill
A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.
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Dir. Anatole Litvak · Richard Basehart · Gary Merrill · Oskar Werner · Hildegard Knef
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
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