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1. The Rules of the Game (1939)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama

99 Metascore

A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély

Votes: 31,317

Aquello que llevó a Renoir a plantear un film como la Regla del Juego, no es más que la propia desilusión ante una sociedad que había pasado de la esperanza transformadora que lleva a la victoria del frente popular a mediados de los 30, a una actitud conformista y mediocre que culminará pocos meses después con la ocupación nazi de Francia y la implantación del gobierno colaboracionista de Vichy. Renoir, que participó entusiastamente en la renovación social de los 30' se incorporó algunos de sus grandes films a esta corriente política (La grande Illusion, La Marselleise, Toni, Le Crime de Ms. Lange, etc.), reconoce, derrotado y defraudado, a una sociedad estéril con unas clases sociales proletarias sumidas en el egoísmo oportunista para que palabras como solidaridad o fraternidad se hallan ya en el cajón del olvido, y unas élites inermes y decadentes. Una de las mejores películas de la historia del Cine. Obra Maestra.

2. Casablanca (1942)

PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War

100 Metascore

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

Votes: 605,931 | Gross: $1.02M

He aquí el mito hecho celuloide, la más grande entre las grandes. "Casablanca" es la obra maestra absoluta, un icono de la historia del cine merced a un guión sublime sembrado de diálogos insuperables (-Lorre: "me desprecias, ¿verdad? -Bogart: "si llegara a pensar en ti... probablemente"), envuelto en una dirección, puesta en escena e interpretaciones mágicas, que alcanzan el techo del séptimo arte. Puede que nunca se haga una película mejor.

3. Citizen Kane (1941)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery

100 Metascore

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

Votes: 465,911 | Gross: $1.59M

Sentenciada como la película que marca un antes y un después en la historia del séptimo arte, la "number one" en todas las listas de los críticos de las últimas décadas, "Citizen Kane" es una obra de arte de un poder insultante, una película magistral realizada por un joven prodigio de sólo 26 años de edad, que inventa con insólita personalidad varios conceptos cinematográficos de primer orden. Insistiendo en que hoy está indiscutiblemente considerada como la mejor película de todos los tiempos, el caso es que en su día ni obtuvo un gran éxito de público ni se llevó los premios que, quizá, la juventud y poca modestia de su director le privaron de conseguir (el film obtuvo 1 Oscar al guión de 9 nominaciones). Sin duda alguna, palabras mayores del firmamento del cine.

4. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir

94 Metascore

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson

Votes: 236,412

Obra maestra de Billy Wilder que retrata con venenosa ironía una crítica a los propios excesos del mundo de Hollywood. El paso del tiempo, los egos inmensos y el desesperado intento de recuperar el esplendor perdido se concentran en la violenta e impresionante mirada de la Swanson. Imprescindible.

5. The Aura (2005)

Not Rated | 134 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

78 Metascore

A deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.

Director: Fabián Bielinsky | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Manuel Rodal, Dolores Fonzi, Mariana Malamud

Votes: 14,737 | Gross: $0.06M

Seca, lacónica y de ritmo pausado pero tenso, la última película del malogrado Bielinsky es un bien rodado thriller, con un pie en su variante psicológica y otro en la más convencional del “atraco perfecto”. Su sólida dirección, buen uso del peculiar entorno natural en que se desarrolla la acción, y la tensión psicológica la transforman en un clásico instantáneo e l cine argentino. Un Darín insuperable.

6. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War

97 Metascore

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 334,245 | Gross: $198.68M

7. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

97 Metascore

A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason

Votes: 97,340 | Gross: $0.65M

No es sólo un clásico fundamental e inimitable. Es también el más perverso cuento de hadas de las historia del cine. Laughton, el director de una sola película, el director que logró filmar el miedo. Imperdible!

8. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

76 Metascore

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 137,824 | Gross: $8.18M

Excelente película, con la dosis de intriga de la obra de Christie, que crece en emoción hasta un final tan inesperado como sugestivo. El glamouroso reparto en el que destaca el impresionante trabajo de Laughton, hace el resto

9. The Quiet Man (1952)

Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

85 Metascore

A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond

Votes: 42,396 | Gross: $10.55M

El mundo del cine ha recreado multitud de pueblos encantadores con sus personajes, sus costumbres y sus vidas... pero ninguno como Inisfree. La historia de un ex-boxeador irlandés (Wayne) que vuelve de América a su pueblo natal y se enamora de la hermana de su mayor enemigo es una comedia en estado de gracia que transpira el mejor talento de John Ford en cada plano. Un film de una magia irrepetible.

10. The Wages of Fear (1953)

Not Rated | 131 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

85 Metascore

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli

Votes: 66,558

La obra maestra -junto a "Las diabólicas"- de Clouzot narra la peripecia de un grupo de hombres encargados de transportar un camión cargado de dinamita a través de un agreste país latinoamericano. El riesgo de que el cargamento explote con la menor sacudida da a la misión -y por ende a la película- no sólo un grado de suspense memorable, sino también un tono existencial -nihilista en ocasiones- realmente emotivo. Un soberbio "tour de force"

11. Rififi (1955)

Not Rated | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

97 Metascore

Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey

Votes: 36,835 | Gross: $0.06M

Con el nublado fatum marcado en las quijadas, estos tipos se disponen a planificar y ejecutar un robo de precisión científica con la profesionalidad de un ladrón de alta alcurnia y vieja escuela. Película que transformó el panorama del cine negro y le dio impulso. Obra cumbre del género, de obligada referencia. Un gran Dassin!

12. Shane (1953)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Western

85 Metascore

A weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde

Votes: 44,134 | Gross: $20.00M

Magistral clásico que no por previsible pierde un ápice de fuerza e intensidad. Un forastero llega a una granja a trabajar con una modesta familia. Pero pronto la presión que un terrateniente ocasiona a todos los campesinos de la zona hará la situación insostenible, y el recién llegado deberá acreditar su pasado como pistolero.... Los valores de honradez y fe en las convicciones, los paisajes imponentes y un duelo final -al que el espectador asiste tan ansioso como el propio niño- completan un western en verdad inolvidable.

13. The Godfather Part II (1974)

R | 202 min | Crime, Drama

90 Metascore

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Votes: 1,363,988 | Gross: $57.30M

Coppola se arroja a un inaudito entramado narrativo, un festín cinematográfico en forma de oscuro y desesperanzado descenso a los infiernos.

14. The Godfather (1972)

R | 175 min | Crime, Drama

100 Metascore

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

Votes: 2,012,071 | Gross: $134.97M

Fascinante compendio de cine de Coppola. La compleja historia de una familia mafiosa liderada por un implacable padre de familia y hombre de honor (Brando) y cuyo poder hereda su hijo más pacífico (Pacino) es, ante todo, un ejercicio narrativo de insuperable nivel. Para alzarse con el título de obra cumbre del cine moderno.

15. The Grand Illusion (1937)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, War

During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim

Votes: 38,864 | Gross: $0.17M

Personajes inolvidables y entrañables. Puesta en escena de una fluidez pasmosa. "La gran ilusión" va 20 años por delante del cine de su tiempo. Película antibélica alejada por completo de los clichés tremendistas del género, Renoir tiene los huevos de contarnos algo terrible como si fuera un cuento. Film para revisitar constantemente (mientras mas se ve, mejor es). La humanidad y la amistad por encima de conflictos que son asunto de grandes paises pero no de pequeñas personas. Lección absoluta de cine. La guerra como ilusión. El cine como ilusión. Gigantesco Renoir. Patrimonio de la humanidad.

16. Red River (1948)

Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western

96 Metascore

Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.

Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan

Votes: 34,370

Ver "Río Rojo" es una clase que enseña a amar el nostálgico y épico género del western. El maestro Hawks contó con un reparto maravilloso -en el que destaca el debut del insuperable Montgomery Clift- para dar vida a unos vaqueros que conducen el ganado en un largo viaje de millas y polvo, de aventuras y cambiantes relaciones humanas. De entre los clásicos del western, sin duda uno de los mejores.

17. The Wild Bunch (1969)

R | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

98 Metascore

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien

Votes: 90,349 | Gross: $12.06M

Todo el metraje de "La Pandilla Salvaje" funciona a la manera de una larga despedida. Un último trago amigos. Una última canción. El destino nos pisa los talones. No queda tiempo, nuestro mundo se acaba. No dejaremos aquí morir a uno de los nuestros. Basta una mirada para entender que ni los caballos ni el futuro nos esperan, así que agarremos el rifle una vez más, para un último vals. No faltemos a la cita. La historia y la moral quedan por momentos fuera de encuadre. El western, como género, transgredido, superado y, en fin, redimió.

18. The Searchers (1956)

Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

94 Metascore

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond

Votes: 96,271

Un hombre parte en busca de los indios que se llevaron a su sobrina. Este es el -aparentemente- simple argumento de un viaje al centro del odio y la intolerancia a cargo del mejor John Wayne. En la mirada cansada de Ethan el racismo late poco a poco, casi sin notarse. Ojos caídos de un perdedor que apenas puede esconder un desprecio tan brutal como poco explícito. El maestro Ford volvió a demostrar por qué es el mejor director de la historia del cine en un genial relato lleno de fuerza, amargura, poesía y perfección. Un obra de arte.

19. The Seventh Seal (1957)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy

88 Metascore

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe

Votes: 198,424

20. Army of Shadows (1969)

Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, War

99 Metascore

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret

Votes: 25,843 | Gross: $0.74M

Un clásico del cine francés en el que Jean-Pierre Melville da una magistral clase de cine. También se trata, sin lugar a dudas, del más memorable homenaje a los héroes de la Resistencia Francesa jamás filmado. Lejos de sacralizar las gestas de los hombres y mujeres que lucharon contra el gobierno de Vichy y la Gestapo, la película de Melville capta los claroscuros de unos personajes que, con aciertos y errores, se dejan la piel en una lucha solitaria y por la que pocos apuestan. Un Lino Ventura y Jean-Pierre Cassel en estado de gracia.

21. Kelly's Heroes (1970)

GP | 144 min | Adventure, Comedy, War

50 Metascore

A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines in WWII France to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.

Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor

Votes: 53,697 | Gross: $1.38M

Filme lleno de ritmo al que el director supo darle el toque justo de humor. Su elenco protagonista hizo el resto. Una película a la que le tengo mucho cariño.

22. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Approved | 123 min | Drama, Western

94 Metascore

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin

Votes: 82,279

Obra memorable, que revoluciona el género mediante la transgresión de sus propios códigos. Una reflexión de lirismo inaudito, de desatado romanticismo, acerca del significado del honor, de la distancia entre realidad y leyenda, todo ello retratando a unos personajes crepusculares y atormentados, repletos de matices. Una maravilla

23. Nine Queens (2000)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

80 Metascore

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").

Director: Fabián Bielinsky | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Graciela Tenenbaum, María Mercedes Villagra

Votes: 57,113 | Gross: $1.22M

Buenos Aires. Algo une a Juan y Marcos, dos estafadores de poca monta que casualmente se ven envueltos en un asunto que les puede hacer millonarios: tienen menos de un día para realizar una estafa que no puede fallar.

24. The Apartment (1960)

Approved | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

94 Metascore

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston

Votes: 196,779 | Gross: $18.60M

25. Some Like It Hot (1959)

Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

98 Metascore

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft

Votes: 283,497 | Gross: $25.00M

Lemmon y Curtis huyen de la mafia disfrazados de mujer e incorporándose a una banda de música femenina. Allí conocen a la sexy e ingenua Sugar Kane. Así empieza esta imprescindible comedia, una de las más famosas -y mejores- de la historia del cine, con una curvilínea Marilyn en estado de gracia. Wilder arriesga con una historia que, de no haber sido tan genial, hubiera bordeado el ridículo. Nada más lejos de la divertida irrealidad de mujeres musculosas y millonarios simpáticos. Cada escena es mejor que la anterior. Una obra maestra imperecedera cuyo delirante diálogo final pone broche a un film en verdad perfecto.

26. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

99 Metascore

A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.

Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen

Votes: 260,622 | Gross: $8.82M

"Simplemente perfecta. Lo más admirable es que su acumulación de números musicales (que aislados son magistrales) resulte una unidad coherente y fluida (...) Una obra maestra"

27. Vertigo (1958)

PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

100 Metascore

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore

Votes: 426,851 | Gross: $3.20M

Obra maestra del genial Hitchcock, y quizá su película más aclamada por la crítica, pues siempre aparece en las listas de los críticos sobre las mejores películas de la historia del cine.

28. Touch of Evil (1958)

PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

99 Metascore

A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 109,795 | Gross: $2.24M

Obra maestra de Welles de deslumbrante reparto y compleja historia sobre el poder y la corrupción. Atención a su escena de apertura, un prodigio de dominio de la técnica y puesta en escena.

29. Life of Brian (1979)

R | 94 min | Comedy

77 Metascore

Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam

Votes: 421,825 | Gross: $20.05M

30. Plata dulce (1982)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A man meets a former teammate of military service that offers a sweet deal. The money starts coming in abundance, but things change from one day to the other.

Director: Fernando Ayala | Stars: Federico Luppi, Julio De Grazia, Gianni Lunadei, Nora Cullen

Votes: 584

Un hombre se encuentra con un ex compañero de la colimba que le ofrece un negocio redondo. La "plata" comienza a venir a raudales, pero las cosas cambiarán de un día para el otro.

31. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

91 Metascore

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.

Directors: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam

Votes: 570,205 | Gross: $1.23M

Segunda película de los Monty Python, donde abordan la historia del rey Arturo y sus caballeros que van a la búsqueda del santo grial.

32. Pépé le Moko (1937)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

98 Metascore

A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Fernand Charpin

Votes: 8,071 | Gross: $0.15M

El peligroso gángster parisino Pépé Le Mokó, que vive en la casbah argelina donde la policía no puede atraparle, se enamora de una bella turista...

33. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Approved | 129 min | Crime, Drama

88 Metascore

Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy

Votes: 332,833

Una obra maestra que parece haber sido rodada en estado de gracia. Una película llena de matices, con mensaje sin caer en la sensiblería, de magnífico guión, espléndida fotografía y con una interpretación contenida y maravillosa de Gregory Peck, la mejor de toda su carrera. Inolvidable.

34. All About Eve (1950)

Passed | 138 min | Drama

98 Metascore

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm

Votes: 138,737 | Gross: $0.01M

Obra maestra de Joseph L. Mankiewicz sobre el mundo del teatro de Broadway. Sus 14 nominaciones a los Premios de la Academia de Hollywood marcaron un récord que hasta la fecha tan sólo ha podido ser igualado -por "Titanic"-. Ganó seis Oscar.

35. The Killing (1956)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

91 Metascore

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen

Votes: 97,483

Un guión genial. Kubrick exprimió el jugo de la imaginación del gran novelista Thompson y logró que escribiese uno de los juegos de geometría cinematográfica más precisos de la historia del cine.

36. The Blues Brothers (1980)

R | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

60 Metascore

Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.

Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, John Candy

Votes: 214,461 | Gross: $57.23M

Algo más que una simple película; con el ácido sabor de la irreverencia Una de las comedias más alabadas de los ochenta. Pareja protagonista realmente deliciosa y banda sonora de lujo.

37. The Lives of Others (2006)

R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

89 Metascore

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 410,435 | Gross: $11.29M

Florian Henckel Von Donnesmarck ha sido la gran sorpresa del 2006 con esta oscarizada opera prima. El actor Ulrich Mühe, a quien quedaba poco tiempo de vida, legó en esta cinta un monumento del arte interpretativo: sin la menor exageración, logra que un proceso íntimo, vivido en silencio por alguien obligado a permanecer oculto, se constituya en sólido núcleo de la obra. Una hazaña!

38. 12 Angry Men (1957)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama

97 Metascore

The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

Votes: 864,888 | Gross: $4.36M

Una obra capital que ofrece lecciones de cine. Virulenta y acerada crítica al sistema judicial estadounidense que muestra un profundo desprecio por la pena de muerte. Lumet crea con su cámara una continua asfixia, entre gestos crispados e íntimas angustias.

39. Seven Samurai (1954)

Not Rated | 207 min | Action, Drama

98 Metascore

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki

Votes: 366,778 | Gross: $0.27M

Los siete samuráis: Impresionante película del maestro Kurosawa cuyo argumento (como en tantísimas de sus películas) generó posteriores westerns, entre ellos "Los Siete Magníficos". Apabullante dirección y puesta en escena, toda una joya del cine mundial.

40. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance, War

86 Metascore

During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart

Votes: 43,008

41. Goodfellas (1990)

R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

92 Metascore

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco

Votes: 1,257,151 | Gross: $46.84M

"Que yo recuerde desde que tuve uso de razón quise ser un gangster." No alcanza la grandeza ni la magnitud de “El Padrino” y “El Padrino II”, pero le falta poco, muy poco. “Uno de los nuestros” es un peliculón incuestionable, un auténtico monumento al universo de la mafia que, lógicamente, forma parte ya -con derecho propio- de esa mítica antología del más puro y genuino cine negro.

42. The Usual Suspects (1995)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

76 Metascore

The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin

Votes: 1,145,262 | Gross: $23.34M

En su día, esta densa y apabullante intriga rompió moldes y se situó entre las propuestas más interesantes y renovadoras del thriller de los noventa. La sobria pero robusta labor de cámara de Singer se une al insuperable trabajo del elenco actoral, en el que brilla, como de costumbre, un arrollador Kevin Spacey.

43. Apocalypse Now (1979)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War

94 Metascore

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest

Votes: 710,090 | Gross: $83.47M

Al capitán Willard le encargan un peligroso viaje río arriba hacia el interior de la selva camboyana. Su misión: matar al coronel Kurtz. Durante el trayecto, Willard comienza a sentirse fascinado por el currículum de Kurtz, al tiempo que empieza a conocer aspectos de la guerra que le harán comprender mejor las razones de ese hombre al que tiene que asesinar. Magistral disección de los horrores y sinsentidos de la guerra, en "Apocalypse Now" Coppola exprimió todo su dinero, ambición y talento -que no era poco- para rodar una fascinante bajada a los infiernos del conflicto de Vietnam. Una obra colosal, tan impresionante como inigualable.

44. M (1931)

Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke

Votes: 168,440 | Gross: $0.03M

Cuando la industria del cine estadounidense sostenía que la llegada del cine sonoro únicamente servía para adaptar obras de teatro y realizar musicales M, el vampiro de Düsseldorf fue un bofetón en la cara. En el continente de las ideas, Hitchkock comenzaba a destacar así como Buñuel, Gance o Vigo y por supuesto, Fritz Lang. Para Hollywood un film como aquel no era viable, hasta que lo vieron, claro. Todo un clásico del género en el que el genial Peter Lorre debuta... y deslumbra.

45. The Third Man (1949)

Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

97 Metascore

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard

Votes: 181,812 | Gross: $0.45M

Una leyenda del cine. Elegida en 1999 como la mejor aportación británica a la historia del cine. Suena las notas de A. Karas. Siéntate y relájate. Eestás de suerte! Harry Lime no ha muerto, ni el buen cine tampoco y, lo mejor, te esperan noventa minutos de impagable celuloide.

46. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

R | 99 min | Crime, Thriller

81 Metascore

When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn

Votes: 1,088,060 | Gross: $2.83M

Estamos ante la mejor ópera prima de los noventa y una de las mejores películas "independientes" del cine americano de las últimas décadas. Un desconocido Quentin Tarantino sorprendió con un violento thriller sin apenas acción, de trama apasionante, ingeniosos diálogos, contundente banda sonora, puesta en escena calculada y un montaje espacio-temporal diferente. Un film genial que rebosa talento.

47. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War

88 Metascore

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa

Votes: 233,267 | Gross: $44.91M

48. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

84 Metascore

After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter

Votes: 719,392 | Gross: $56.95M

49. The Great Escape (1963)

Approved | 172 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

86 Metascore

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson

Votes: 258,875 | Gross: $12.10M

50. The Deer Hunter (1978)

R | 183 min | Drama, War

90 Metascore

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage

Votes: 362,163 | Gross: $48.98M

51. Notorious (1946)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

100 Metascore

The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern

Votes: 107,268 | Gross: $10.46M

52. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

80 Metascore

A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.

Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo

Votes: 222,361 | Gross: $6.39M

Estamos en el territorio del gran cine, del clasicismo, de un universo tan rico como complejo en el que todo tiene sentido, te envuelve, te sugiere, te implica y te conmueve.

53. Diabolique (1955)

Not Rated | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel

Votes: 69,383 | Gross: $1.09M

54. La Dolce Vita (1960)

Not Rated | 174 min | Comedy, Drama

95 Metascore

A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux

Votes: 78,198 | Gross: $19.52M

55. (1963)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama

93 Metascore

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo

Votes: 125,175 | Gross: $0.05M

56. The Hustler (1961)

Not Rated | 134 min | Drama, Sport

90 Metascore

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott

Votes: 86,787 | Gross: $8.28M

57. Rope (1948)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

73 Metascore

Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Dick Hogan

Votes: 153,607

58. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Passed | 108 min | Film-Noir, Thriller

94 Metascore

A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers

Votes: 70,494

59. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

PG | 135 min | Western

69 Metascore

Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney

Votes: 79,835 | Gross: $31.80M

60. The African Queen (1951)

PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

91 Metascore

In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull

Votes: 84,307 | Gross: $0.54M

61. Pulp Fiction (1994)

R | 154 min | Crime, Drama

95 Metascore

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis

Votes: 2,219,793 | Gross: $107.93M

62. The Straight Story (1999)

G | 112 min | Biography, Drama

86 Metascore

An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter

Votes: 97,453 | Gross: $6.20M

63. Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 16,171 | Gross: $1.04M

64. Moonfleet (1955)

Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Drama

A young orphan is sent to the village of Moonfleet in Dorset, England to stay with his mother's former lover, who has the facade of a gentleman but leads a gang of swashbuckling bootleggers; the duo go on a treasure hunt.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors

Votes: 3,976

65. Metropolis (1927)

Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

98 Metascore

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Votes: 185,501 | Gross: $1.24M

66. Wild Strawberries (1957)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance

88 Metascore

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand

Votes: 114,961

67. Amarcord (1973)

R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia

Votes: 46,813 | Gross: $0.58M

68. Paths of Glory (1957)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, War

90 Metascore

After a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready

Votes: 212,233

69. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

70 Metascore

This is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria, as told by writer/director Harry Dawes, from being discovered in Madrid, Spain, until her funeral in Italy.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring

Votes: 12,696

70. Double Indemnity (1944)

Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

95 Metascore

A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr

Votes: 167,433 | Gross: $5.72M

71. Sleuth (1972)

PG | 138 min | Mystery, Thriller

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews

Votes: 50,158 | Gross: $4.08M

72. To Catch a Thief (1955)

PG | 106 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

82 Metascore

A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams

Votes: 79,733 | Gross: $8.75M

73. Second Wind (1966)

Not Rated | 150 min | Crime, Drama

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, Christine Fabréga

Votes: 6,636

74. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders

Votes: 33,305 | Gross: $0.01M

75. Yojimbo (1961)

Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

93 Metascore

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa

Votes: 131,341

76. The Big Sleep (1946)

Passed | 114 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

86 Metascore

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers

Votes: 90,514 | Gross: $6.54M

77. Rio Bravo (1959)

Passed | 141 min | Western

93 Metascore

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.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson

Votes: 68,052 | Gross: $12.54M

78. Brief Encounter (1945)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance

92 Metascore

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey

Votes: 44,224

79. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

100 Metascore

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins

Votes: 314,327 | Gross: $44.82M

80. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War

69 Metascore

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger

Votes: 82,071 | Gross: $111.72M

81. Modern Times (1936)

G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

96 Metascore

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford

Votes: 259,432 | Gross: $0.16M

82. The Great Dictator (1940)

G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 237,324 | Gross: $0.29M

83. Limelight (1952)

G | 137 min | Drama, Music, Romance

84 Metascore

A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton

Votes: 22,133 | Gross: $1.00M

84. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Not Rated | 163 min | Drama, Romance, War

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie

Votes: 16,348

85. The Red Shoes (1948)

Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann

Votes: 39,154 | Gross: $10.90M

86. Black Narcissus (1947)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama

86 Metascore

A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jenny Laird

Votes: 27,655

87. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance

A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann

Votes: 23,848

88. All That Heaven Allows (1955)

Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance

An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel

Votes: 16,627

89. Night and the City (1950)

Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe

Votes: 15,269 | Gross: $3.60M

90. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

92 Metascore

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 349,798

91. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror

56 Metascore

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robins

Votes: 33,865

92. Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Approved | 137 min | Drama, Horror

96 Metascore

A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer

Votes: 235,135

93. The Exorcist (1973)

R | 122 min | Horror

83 Metascore

When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 454,894 | Gross: $232.91M

94. Ben-Hur (1959)

G | 212 min | Adventure, Drama

90 Metascore

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet

Votes: 253,632 | Gross: $74.70M

95. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Approved | 170 min | Drama, Romance, War

93 Metascore

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright

Votes: 70,542 | Gross: $23.65M

96. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Mystery

95 Metascore

An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell

Votes: 71,319 | Gross: $11.90M

97. Captain Conan (1996)

129 min | Drama, War

The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Torreton, Samuel Le Bihan, Bernard Le Coq, Catherine Rich

Votes: 2,450

98. The Last Tycoon (1976)

PG | 123 min | Drama, Romance

57 Metascore

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau

Votes: 9,585 | Gross: $1.82M

99. On the Waterfront (1954)

Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

91 Metascore

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger

Votes: 164,863 | Gross: $9.60M

100. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Passed | 100 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

97 Metascore

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre

Votes: 166,559 | Gross: $2.11M



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