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#1
The Graduate poster

The Graduate (1967)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #3

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Dir. Mike Nichols · Dustin Hoffman · Anne Bancroft · Katharine Ross · Murray Hamilton

IMDb 8.0 (302,283 votes) · TMDB 7.632

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

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#2
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Stuart Rosenberg · Paul Newman · George Kennedy · Luke Askew · Morgan Woodward

IMDb 8.0 (196,415 votes) · TMDB 7.742

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

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#3
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Le Samouraï (1967)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · Alain Delon · François Périer · Nathalie Delon · Cathy Rosier

IMDb 8.0 (66,275 votes) · TMDB 7.8

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

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#4
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)

🏆 Winner⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Norman Jewison · Sidney Poitier · Rod Steiger · Warren Oates · Peter Whitney

IMDb 7.9 (91,409 votes) · TMDB 7.671

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

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#5
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #4

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Dir. Arthur Penn · Warren Beatty · Faye Dunaway · Michael J. Pollard · Gene Hackman

IMDb 7.7 (126,958 votes) · TMDB 7.498

In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

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#6
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The Dirty Dozen (1967)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #7

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Dir. Robert Aldrich · Lee Marvin · Ernest Borgnine · Charles Bronson · Jim Brown

IMDb 7.7 (84,242 votes) · TMDB 7.593

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

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#7
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The Jungle Book (1967)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #1

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Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman · Bruce Reitherman · Phil Harris · Sebastian Cabot · George Sanders

IMDb 7.6 (213,859 votes) · TMDB 7.282

The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.

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#8
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #5

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Dir. Stanley Kramer · Spencer Tracy · Sidney Poitier · Katharine Hepburn · Katharine Houghton

IMDb 7.8 (52,792 votes) · TMDB 7.582

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

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#9
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Samurai Rebellion (1967)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Masaki Kobayashi · Toshirō Mifune · Yōko Tsukasa · Gō Katō · Tatsuyoshi Ehara

IMDb 8.3 (15,684 votes) · TMDB 8.2

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.

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#10
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In Cold Blood (1967)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Richard Brooks · Robert Blake · Scott Wilson · John Forsythe · Paul Stewart

IMDb 7.9 (31,800 votes) · TMDB 7.513

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

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#11
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Playtime (1967)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Jacques Tati · Jacques Tati · Barbara Dennek · Rita Maiden · France Rumilly

IMDb 7.8 (29,636 votes) · TMDB 7.7

Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist, and as they weave through the inventive urban environment, they intermittently meet, developing an interest in one another. They eventually get together at a chaotic restaurant, along with several other quirky characters.

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#12
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Belle de Jour (1967)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Luis Buñuel · Catherine Deneuve · Jean Sorel · Michel Piccoli · Geneviève Page

IMDb 7.6 (53,597 votes) · TMDB 7.317

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

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#13
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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Leonid Gaidai · Aleksandr Demyanenko · Natalya Varley · Yuriy Nikulin · Georgiy Vitsin

IMDb 8.2 (15,095 votes) · TMDB 7.672

Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.

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#14
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Wait Until Dark (1967)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Terence Young · Audrey Hepburn · Alan Arkin · Richard Crenna · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

IMDb 7.7 (36,594 votes) · TMDB 7.3

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

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#15
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The Producers (1967)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Mel Brooks · Zero Mostel · Gene Wilder · Dick Shawn · Kenneth Mars

IMDb 7.5 (63,888 votes) · TMDB 7.067

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

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#16
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To Sir, with Love (1967)

💰 Box office #8

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Dir. James Clavell · Sidney Poitier · Christian Roberts · Judy Geeson · Suzy Kendall

IMDb 7.6 (22,057 votes) · TMDB 7.5

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.

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#17
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Barefoot in the Park (1967)

💰 Box office #10

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Dir. Gene Saks · Robert Redford · Jane Fonda · Charles Boyer · Mildred Natwick

IMDb 7.0 (22,853 votes) · TMDB 7.1

In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.

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#18
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You Only Live Twice (1967)

💰 Box office #2

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Dir. Lewis Gilbert · Sean Connery · Akiko Wakabayashi · Mie Hama · Tetsuro Tamba

IMDb 6.8 (127,795 votes) · TMDB 6.586

A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.

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#19
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Doctor Dolittle (1967)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. Richard Fleischer · Rex Harrison · Samantha Eggar · Anthony Newley · Richard Attenborough

IMDb 6.2 (11,066 votes) · TMDB 6.236

A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.

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#20
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Valley of the Dolls (1967)

💰 Box office #6

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Dir. Mark Robson · Barbara Parkins · Patty Duke · Sharon Tate · Paul Burke

IMDb 6.1 (10,707 votes) · TMDB 6.0

Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."

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Casino Royale (1967)

💰 Box office #9

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Dir. Val Guest · David Niven · Peter Sellers · Ursula Andress · Orson Welles

IMDb 5.0 (34,971 votes) · TMDB 5.254

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

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