Movies that make you think about how you see the world

by stewiec85 | created - 03 Nov 2011 | updated - 16 Jan 2012 | Public

For 80 years there are films that touch us so much that we never expect them to change our views of the world and even on ourselves. Here is a list of movies that help take a good look at ourselves.

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1. In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

76 Metascore

A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant

Votes: 83,491 | Gross: $24.38M

In this film, at the time, racism was an issue not worth discussing and so people who are in the movies made sure the issue does not come undiscussed. In this film, Rod Steiger won a Best Actor Oscar for playing a sheriff whose views on race were changed when he met a black detective named Virgil Tibbs played by Sidney Poitier while investigating a murder.

2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Approved | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

63 Metascore

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton

Votes: 48,872 | Gross: $56.70M

For anyone who is a mixed-race couple, this is a film worth watching because in this film at that time, mixed-race couples were shunned by society and their loved ones because of their views on racism. With this film, Sidney Poitier shows us that it is ok find love in the most unexpected places when he plays a black man decided on marrying a white woman while everyone else disagrees. Spencer Tracy earned a Best Actor Nomination and Katharine Hepburn earned her second Best Actress Oscar for their portrayals of the would-be in-laws.

3. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Approved | 179 min | Drama, War

60 Metascore

In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich

Votes: 85,300

In this film, in 1948, three years after the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried, at this trial, four judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies, are being tried for war crimes. A retired American judge, Dan Haywood, (Spencer Tracy who earned Best Actor Nomination for his role) is asked to be one of three judges at a war crimes trial. At this time, a German lawyer Hans Rolfe (Maximillian Schell who earned a Best Actor Oscar for this role) defends one of the judges at a trial that asks the question; are these judges guilty of committing these horrendous crimes or are they guilty of just doing right by what was German Law. With a great cast, like Judy Garland and Montgomery Clift who earned acting nominations for their supporting roles in this film, this film makes us ask ourselves are we convicting the people who committed these crimes or are we convicting all of Germany?

4. Charly (1968)

M | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

50 Metascore

An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney

Votes: 7,280 | Gross: $15.83M

Charlie is a mentally-retarded man who through experimental surgery is given intelligence at a genius level and has opened his eyes to the world like he never thought before. Through an Oscar-winning performance by Cliff Robertson, we see his world living as a man who is persecuted by his mental status and how everyday people treats him. With the help of a female scientist, he was more opened to the world than ever especially to her heart. When he finds out his genius is not lasting, he tries to prevent that from happening. With this movie, it shows us how we should treat the mentally handicapped because like Charlie they want to be treated equally and fairly.

5. The Mark (1961)

Approved | 127 min | Drama

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

Director: Guy Green | Stars: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger, Brenda de Banzie

Votes: 991

This is the story of a 33 year old man, Jim Fuller, released from prison after serving a three year term for intent to commit child molestation. Fuller is assisted by the prison psychiatrist in obtaining a position. He does well in this position and falls in love with the secretary of the owner of the company. A child is molested and beaten in the town where he now lives and the police pick him up for questioning. He has an alibi and is released, but a reporter who covered his former trial recognizes him. The reporter begins to follow him and reports that Fuller spent time alone with the daughter of his girl friend. Stuart Whitman earned himself a Best Actor Nomination of a man who made mistakes and is trying to do right by them but is still being persecuted for his past crimes even though he did not commit the current crime. This film takes a hard look at sex offenders, how they are treated by other people, and how quick they can be accused before all the facts are collected before he is put back in prison.

6. Philadelphia (1993)

PG-13 | 125 min | Drama

66 Metascore

When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman

Votes: 257,830 | Gross: $77.32M

Tom Hanks earned himself a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a lawyer dying from AIDS who in his situation was fired from his job because he has this disease. But its up to him and his lawyer to prove that in court when he sues them for that reason. Hanks really pulled off a great performance that have people thinking about others with this disease and how they should be treated with human decency not being judged for what caused them to get this disease.

7. Dances with Wolves (1990)

PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

72 Metascore

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.

Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

Votes: 290,192 | Gross: $184.21M

In this movie, Kevin Costner stars and directs this film about Lt. John Dunbar who is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs "Two-socks" and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man's ways. What this film is about is how Native Americans were treated as villains in alot of films and how in this film they were a noble people that tried to live their lives by their tradition and how a stranger found himself through his friendship with the tribe. Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, and Mary McDonnell all earned acting nominations for this film but for Costner he earned a Best Director and Best Picture Oscar for this film.

8. Ordinary People (1980)

R | 124 min | Drama

86 Metascore

The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.

Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton

Votes: 56,623 | Gross: $54.80M

I would say the whole cast deserved acting nominations for this film that delves into how a family deals with a death of an older son. In this Best Picture winner, it delves into suicide, bitterness, and family dysfunction. Mary Tyler Moore plays the emotionally unavailable mother who despite her family falling apart tries to ignore the problems and act like it never happened. Moore plays her so well and was a given a Best Actress Golden Globe and a Best Actress Academy Award Nomination. Donald Sutherland plays the father who despite his son's problems is trying to ignore his own problems with his wife. Sutherland is so good in his role but it only earned him a Best Actor Golden Globe Nomination. Timothy Hutton is nothing short of brilliant in his role of a guilt-ridden boy who tried to kill himself and is seeing a therapist about it. Hutton really earned his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role and Judd Hirsch who played the therapist also earned himself an Oscar nomination especially when they shared very good scenes together. Either way it is a great film that is one of the first to deal with suicide.

9. Schindler's List (1993)

R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History

95 Metascore

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall

Votes: 1,448,738 | Gross: $96.90M

This great film, delves into the Holocaust like no other and it makes sure the audience knew that everything that happened in this film is how it was in Nazi-occupied Germany. Liam Neeson earned himself a Best Actor Nomination for his brilliant performance as Oscar Schindler, a businessman who went to Germany to get rich but instead found his soul when he realizes that the Nazis were killing Jewish people and had to deal with a German officer Amon Goeth who is brilliant, manipulative, and as a heartless savage to the Jews as the rest of the Nazis. This film deals with the Holocaust at emotional levels so deep that it makes us not forget it ever happened. Well deserving for Best Picture, that it made everyone wonder why did Liam Neeson not earn a Best Actor Win.

10. 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: 237,137 | Gross: $0.29M

One of the first films to deal with injustices of Nazi-occupied Germany in which the Jewish population were dealing with ant-semitism. Charlie Chaplin (who starred, written, produced, and directed this film) plays both the hero and the villain in this comic film. Chaplin plays the Jewish barber who gets caught up in the country's politics and as the cruel Adenoid Hynkel (an obvious parody of Adolf Hitler). This film will make you laugh, cry, and have tears of joy in the end.

11. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, War

97 Metascore

An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 517,517 | Gross: $0.28M

This black comedy actually satirize the nuclear scare at the time it was made. This film has Peter Sellers in multiple-roles that earned him a Best Actor Oscar Nomination and one of the them we all remember is the infamous Doctor Strangelove, a former Nazi who acts as the advisor to the Americans. This film deals with the craziness of having the power of the Atomic Bomb and how our leaders deal with it.

12. The Killing Fields (1984)

R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History

76 Metascore

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands

Votes: 59,048 | Gross: $34.70M

This film is about Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston in his Best Actor Oscar Nomination), a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in. Dr. Haing S. Ngor plays Dith Pran so admirably that it reflected upon his own experiences in Cambodia so much that earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. This film reflects a great deal on the turmoil of the people of Cambodia being forced to work and being killed for no reason. This is a film unlike any other and Ngor pulls off a performance that makes us want to watch this again and again.

13. 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: 361,823 | Gross: $48.98M

In the Deer Hunter, it confronts with Vietnam so much that it taps to the very core of any soldier that lived through it and for any soldier who was traumatized to a point where reality could not get passed their trauma. Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken give Oscar-nominated performances in this film which Walken earned an Oscar for. John Cazale also costarred in this film which unfortunately it was his last due to cancer.

14. Coming Home (1978)

R | 127 min | Drama, Romance, War

61 Metascore

In 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford

Votes: 14,780 | Gross: $32.65M

Coming Home was another film that confronts Vietnam but it states the issues at home not in Vietnam. Either way with a soldier's wife who waits for her husband to come home she helps a recently crippled soldier deal with his condition and ends up falling in love with him. When her husband comes home, the situation gets worse when the man is confronted by her cheating on him and the trauma he developed from the war. Jon Voight, Jane Fonda, and Bruce Dern gave Oscar-nominated performances that gave both Voight and Fonda their Oscars.

15. Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)

Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, War

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona, and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

Director: David Miller | Stars: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert

Votes: 2,914

Captain Newman is the first film to talk about what happens in a mental ward when soldiers are traumatized during World War II and are sent to Newman's ward to be helped. With Bobby Darin giving an Oscar-nominated performance, this film is a great realization of how our own soldiers dealt with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or mental problems they gained from the war.

16. Sayonara (1957)

Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, Romance

A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.

Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Owens, James Garner

Votes: 7,651 | Gross: $26.30M

Major Lloyd Gruver, (an Oscar-nominated performance by Marlon Brando) a Korean War flying ace reassigned to Japan, staunchly supports the military's opposition to marriages between American troops and Japanese women. But that's before Gruver experiences a love that challenges his own deeply set prejudices... and plunges him into conflict with the U.S. Air Force and Japan's own cultural taboos. This film confronted the problems by the military marrying japanese women with a story so human the two actors Red Buttons and Meyoshi Umeki who played American and Japanese couple who endured prejudice at a bad time earned themselves Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscars for their brave performances.

17. Platoon (1986)

R | 120 min | Drama, War

92 Metascore

Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David

Votes: 439,018 | Gross: $138.53M

Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two non-commissioned officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin. A line is drawn between the two NCOs and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon. With Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger in their Oscar-nominated performances as the two competing sergeants who were the balance of good and evil in this film it is a keeper for anyone who likes Oliver Stone and his films.

18. Forrest Gump (1994)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance

82 Metascore

The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Votes: 2,253,572 | Gross: $330.25M

For anyone who has been told they won't succeed in life, here's an example of a man who proved everyone wrong and more. He's an ordinary man who was able to be present for all the most memorable events in American history.

19. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

R | 142 min | Drama

82 Metascore

Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler

Votes: 2,884,762 | Gross: $28.34M

20. The Player (1992)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

86 Metascore

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one?

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg

Votes: 65,701 | Gross: $21.71M

21. Syriana (2005)

R | 128 min | Drama, Thriller

76 Metascore

A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it.

Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Kayvan Novak

Votes: 134,212 | Gross: $50.82M

22. Crash (I) (2004)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

66 Metascore

Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandiwe Newton, Karina Arroyave

Votes: 448,838 | Gross: $54.58M

23. Brokeback Mountain (2005)

R | 134 min | Drama, Romance

87 Metascore

Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid

Votes: 381,819 | Gross: $83.04M

24. The King's Speech (2010)

R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History

88 Metascore

The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 707,494 | Gross: $138.80M

25. Traffic (2000)

R | 147 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

86 Metascore

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas

Votes: 219,615 | Gross: $124.12M

26. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

PG | 105 min | Drama

77 Metascore

After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.

Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry

Votes: 154,543 | Gross: $106.26M

27. Rain Man (1988)

R | 133 min | Drama

65 Metascore

After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen

Votes: 546,110 | Gross: $178.80M

28. The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

R | 130 min | Biography, Drama

79 Metascore

The story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Brett Harrelson

Votes: 100,656 | Gross: $20.19M

29. The Messenger (I) (2009)

R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War

77 Metascore

An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.

Director: Oren Moverman | Stars: Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone

Votes: 36,750 | Gross: $0.07M

30. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

PG-13 | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

72 Metascore

A mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 985,851 | Gross: $170.74M

31. Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

PG | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History

80 Metascore

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels

Votes: 101,248 | Gross: $31.56M

32. The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Mystery

58 Metascore

A doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.

Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb, Edwin Jerome

Votes: 8,770

33. The Bad Seed (1956)

Approved | 129 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

51 Metascore

Rhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke, Jesse White

Votes: 15,747

34. Fatal Attraction (1987)

R | 119 min | Drama, Thriller

67 Metascore

A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Latzen

Votes: 96,963 | Gross: $156.65M

35. JFK (1991)

R | 189 min | Drama, History, Thriller

72 Metascore

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau

Votes: 169,785 | Gross: $70.41M

36. Inherit the Wind (1960)

Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History

75 Metascore

Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York

Votes: 32,739

37. Brubaker (1980)

R | 131 min | Crime, Drama

54 Metascore

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Morgan Freeman, Jane Alexander

Votes: 19,422 | Gross: $37.12M

38. Closer (I) (2004)

R | 104 min | Drama, Romance

65 Metascore

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts

Votes: 235,871 | Gross: $33.99M

39. Revolutionary Road (2008)

R | 119 min | Drama, Romance

69 Metascore

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jonathan Roumie

Votes: 224,830 | Gross: $22.91M

40. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

84 Metascore

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

Director: James Foley | Stars: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin

Votes: 116,070 | Gross: $10.73M

41. The Graduate (1967)

PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

83 Metascore

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

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels

Votes: 288,157 | Gross: $104.95M

42. Cool Hand Luke (1967)

GP | 127 min | Crime, Drama

92 Metascore

A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon

Votes: 188,359 | Gross: $16.22M

43. Witness (1985)

R | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

76 Metascore

While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer

Votes: 104,527 | Gross: $68.71M



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