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Your #1 was Seven Samurai (#1).
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Dir. Akira Kurosawa · Toshirō Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Yoshio Inaba · Seiji Miyaguchi
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · James Stewart · Grace Kelly · Wendell Corey · Thelma Ritter
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Ray Milland · Grace Kelly · Robert Cummings · John Williams
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
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Dir. Elia Kazan · Marlon Brando · Eva Marie Saint · Karl Malden · Lee J. Cobb
A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.
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Dir. Federico Fellini · Giulietta Masina · Anthony Quinn · Richard Basehart · Aldo Silvani
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
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Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Yoshiaki Hanayagi · Kyōko Kagawa · Eitarō Shindō
In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.
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Dir. Billy Wilder · Humphrey Bogart · Audrey Hepburn · William Holden · Walter Hampden
After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter Sabrina, who's long had a crush on him, but he questions his more serious brother's motives when he warns against getting involved with her.
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Dir. Ishirō Honda · Akira Takarada · Momoko Kôchi · Akihiko Hirata · Takashi Shimura
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
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Dir. Michael Curtiz · Bing Crosby · Danny Kaye · Rosemary Clooney · Vera-Ellen
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
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Dir. Edward Dmytryk · Humphrey Bogart · Robert Francis · Van Johnson · Fred MacMurray
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
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Dir. Nicholas Ray · Joan Crawford · Sterling Hayden · Mercedes McCambridge · Scott Brady
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
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Dir. Richard Fleischer · Kirk Douglas · James Mason · Paul Lukas · Peter Lorre
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
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Dir. George Cukor · Judy Garland · James Mason · Jack Carson · Charles Bickford
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Dir. Stanley Donen · Jane Powell · Howard Keel · Jeff Richards · Russ Tamblyn
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
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Dir. Gordon Douglas · James Whitmore · James Arness · Joan Weldon · Edmund Gwenn
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
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Dir. George Seaton · Bing Crosby · Grace Kelly · William Holden · Anthony Ross
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.
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Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Humphrey Bogart · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Marius Goring
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then star in, his next big picture. But as the producer's possessive nature and the realities of stardom weigh on Maria, she seeks a genuine lover with whom she can escape.
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Dir. Michael Curtiz · Edmund Purdom · Victor Mature · Peter Ustinov · Jean Simmons
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
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Dir. Walter Lang · Ethel Merman · Marilyn Monroe · Mitzi Gaynor · Dan Dailey
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
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Dir. Jean Negulesco · Clifton Webb · Dorothy McGuire · Jean Peters · Louis Jourdan
Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a secretary at a government agency, sets out to win the heart of her smooth-talking novelist employer; Anita, her coworker, defies office regulations by romancing an Italian who works at the agency; and office newcomer Maria meets a real Italian Prince Charming and falls madly in love. The only thing the three hopeful ladies need to do is seal their fate.
How scoring works: films are ranked by a composite of a weighted (Bayesian) IMDb rating — the same method as the IMDb Top 250, so a high score from few voters can't outrank a strong score from many — blended with TMDB. Box office is a tiebreaker and a badge, never part of the score. Raw IMDb ratings and vote counts are shown on each card.