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Your #1 was North by Northwest (#1).
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Cary Grant · Eva Marie Saint · James Mason · Jessie Royce Landis
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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Dir. Billy Wilder · Tony Curtis · Jack Lemmon · Marilyn Monroe · George Raft
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
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Dir. William Wyler · Charlton Heston · Stephen Boyd · Hugh Griffith · Jack Hawkins
In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.
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Dir. François Truffaut · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claire Maurier · Albert Rémy · Georges Flamant
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
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Dir. Otto Preminger · James Stewart · Lee Remick · Ben Gazzara · Arthur O'Connell
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
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Dir. Howard Hawks · John Wayne · Dean Martin · Ricky Nelson · Angie Dickinson
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
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Dir. Satyajit Ray · Soumitra Chatterjee · Sharmila Tagore · Alok Chakravarty · Swapan Mukherjee
Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.
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Dir. Alain Resnais · Emmanuelle Riva · Eiji Okada · Stella Dassas · Pierre Barbaud
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
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Dir. Masaki Kobayashi · Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Chikage Awashima · Ineko Arima
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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Dir. Masaki Kobayashi · Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kokinji Katsura · Jun Tatara
Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He also sees his friend Shinjô defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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Dir. Grigoriy Chukhray · Vladimir Ivashov · Zhanna Prokhorenko · Antonina Maksimova · Nikolay Kryuchkov
During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
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Dir. Douglas Sirk · Lana Turner · John Gavin · Juanita Moore · Sandra Dee
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
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Dir. Clyde Geronimi · Mary Costa · Bill Shirley · Eleanor Audley · Verna Felton
Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she grows up far away, Maleficent becomes increasingly determined to seal the princess's fate.
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Dir. Robert Bresson · Martin LaSalle · Marika Green · Jean Pélégri · Dolly Scal
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
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Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Elizabeth Taylor · Katharine Hepburn · Montgomery Clift · Albert Dekker
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
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Dir. Michael Gordon · Doris Day · Rock Hudson · Tony Randall · Thelma Ritter
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
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Dir. George Stevens · Millie Perkins · Joseph Schildkraut · Shelley Winters · Richard Beymer
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
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Dir. Fred Zinnemann · Audrey Hepburn · Peter Finch · Edith Evans · Peggy Ashcroft
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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Dir. Henry Levin · James Mason · Arlene Dahl · Pat Boone · Peter Ronson
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
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Dir. Jack Clayton · Laurence Harvey · Simone Signoret · Heather Sears · Donald Wolfit
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
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Dir. King Vidor · Yul Brynner · Gina Lollobrigida · George Sanders · Marisa Pavan
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest in monotheism will threaten their tyrannical, polytheistic kingdoms. The Queen of Sheba makes an agreement with the Egyptian pharaoh to corrupt Solomon for their mutual benefit.
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