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Your #1 was The Great Escape (#1).
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Dir. John Sturges · Steve McQueen · James Garner · Richard Attenborough · James Donald
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
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Dir. Akira Kurosawa · Toshirō Mifune · Tatsuya Nakadai · Kyōko Kagawa · Tatsuya Mihashi
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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Dir. Federico Fellini · Marcello Mastroianni · Claudia Cardinale · Anouk Aimée · Sandra Milo
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
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Dir. Stanley Donen · Cary Grant · Audrey Hepburn · Walter Matthau · James Coburn
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Tippi Hedren · Rod Taylor · Jessica Tandy · Suzanne Pleshette
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
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Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Ingrid Thulin · Gunnar Björnstrand · Gunnel Lindblom · Max von Sydow
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
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Dir. Luchino Visconti · Burt Lancaster · Claudia Cardinale · Alain Delon · Paolo Stoppa
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.
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Dir. Terence Young · Sean Connery · Daniela Bianchi · Pedro Armendáriz · Robert Shaw
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
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Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Ingrid Thulin · Gunnel Lindblom · Birger Malmsten · Håkan Jahnberg
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
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Dir. Martin Ritt · Paul Newman · Melvyn Douglas · Patricia Neal · Brandon De Wilde
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
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Dir. Stanley Kramer · Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Buddy Hackett
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
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Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman · Sebastian Cabot · Karl Swenson · Junius Matthews · Martha Wentworth
Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.
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Dir. Robert Wise · Julie Harris · Claire Bloom · Richard Johnson · Russ Tamblyn
Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…
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Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · Brigitte Bardot · Michel Piccoli · Jack Palance · Giorgia Moll
Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
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Dir. Don Chaffey · Todd Armstrong · Nancy Kovack · Gary Raymond · Laurence Naismith
Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.
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Dir. Billy Wilder · Shirley MacLaine · Jack Lemmon · Lou Jacobi · Bruce Yarnell
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
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Dir. Ralph Nelson · Sidney Poitier · Lilia Skala · Lisa Mann · Isa Crino
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
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Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Rex Harrison · Pamela Brown
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
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Dir. John Ford · Carroll Baker · Lee J. Cobb · Henry Fonda · Carolyn Jones
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
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Dir. Elia Kazan · Stathis Giallelis · Frank Wolff · Harry Davis · Elena Karam
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
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Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Patrick Wayne · Stefanie Powers
Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
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Dir. Harald Reinl · Lex Barker · Pierre Brice · Mario Adorf · Marie Versini
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.
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Dir. Michael Gordon · Doris Day · James Garner · Polly Bergen · Thelma Ritter
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
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Dir. George Sidney · Janet Leigh · Dick Van Dyke · Ann-Margret · Maureen Stapleton
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
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Dir. Tony Richardson · Albert Finney · Susannah York · Hugh Griffith · Edith Evans
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
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.