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Your #1 was Vertigo (#1).
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · James Stewart · Kim Novak · Barbara Bel Geddes · Tom Helmore
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Dir. Orson Welles · Charlton Heston · Janet Leigh · Orson Welles · Joseph Calleia
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.
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Dir. Akira Kurosawa · Toshirō Mifune · Minoru Chiaki · Kamatari Fujiwara · Misa Uehara
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
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Dir. Richard Brooks · Paul Newman · Elizabeth Taylor · Burl Ives · Judith Anderson
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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Dir. Louis Malle · Jeanne Moreau · Maurice Ronet · Georges Poujouly · Yori Bertin
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
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Dir. William Wyler · Gregory Peck · Jean Simmons · Carroll Baker · Charlton Heston
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.
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Dir. Roy Ward Baker · Kenneth More · Ronald Allen · Robert Ayres · Honor Blackman
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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Dir. Mario Monicelli · Vittorio Gassman · Renato Salvatori · Memmo Carotenuto · Rossana Rory
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
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Dir. Jacques Tati · Jacques Tati · Jean-Pierre Zola · Adrienne Servantie · Lucien Frégis
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
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Dir. Andrzej Wajda · Zbigniew Cybulski · Ewa Krzyżewska · Wacław Zastrzeżynski · Adam Pawlikowski
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
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Dir. Terence Fisher · Peter Cushing · Christopher Lee · Michael Gough · Melissa Stribling
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
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Dir. Stanley Kramer · Tony Curtis · Sidney Poitier · Theodore Bikel · Charles McGraw
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
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Dir. Morton DaCosta · Rosalind Russell · Forrest Tucker · Coral Browne · Peggy Cass
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
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Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Max von Sydow · Ingrid Thulin · Gunnar Björnstrand · Naima Wifstrand
A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.
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Dir. Kurt Neumann · David Hedison · Patricia Owens · Vincent Price · Herbert Marshall
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.
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Dir. Delbert Mann · Deborah Kerr · Rita Hayworth · David Niven · Wendy Hiller
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel.
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Dir. Otto Preminger · Deborah Kerr · David Niven · Jean Seberg · Mylène Demongeot
A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, but when his old flame resurfaces, she resolves to keep her frivolous lifestyle at all costs.
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Dir. Vincente Minnelli · Leslie Caron · Maurice Chevalier · Louis Jourdan · Hermione Gingold
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
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Dir. Melville Shavelson · Cary Grant · Sophia Loren · Martha Hyer · Harry Guardino
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
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Dir. Joshua Logan · Rossano Brazzi · Mitzi Gaynor · John Kerr · Ray Walston
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.
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Dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. · Steve McQueen · Aneta Corsaut · Earl Rowe · John Benson
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
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