(2001, Ron Howard): Mental illness plunges a once-brilliant mathematician into devastating paranoia ...and schizophrenia.
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(1949, Robert Rossen): A corrupt politician parlays folksy talk and fake populism to rise through th...e ranks.
(1984, Milos Forman): The story of Mozart and his forgotten contemporary Salieri poses questions of ...fate and fairness.
(1999, Sam Mendes): An ordinary American family is torn apart by internal stress and personal demons....
(1951, Vincente Minnelli): Showstopping dance numbers distinguish this musical about a WWII veteran ...trying to make it as an artist in Paris.
(1977, Woody Allen): A neurotic New York Jew and a ditzy suburban WASP try to make their relationshi...p work.
(1956, Michael Anderson): The story of a Brit circumnavigating the globe in a balloon featured block...buster effects, dozens of cameos and exotic locations.
(1959, William Wyler): A chance encounter with Jesus of Nazareth changes the life of a Jewish prince... in this lavish epic.
(1995, Mel Gibson): Thirteenth-century Scot Sir William Wallace takes up the sword to defend his peo...ple against the English.
(1943, Michael Curtiz): Love, heroism, and betrayal unfold against the backdrop of a Moroccan nightc...lub during WWII.
(1981, Hugh Hudson): The fates of two Olympic runners, one Christian and one Jewish, reflect the pre...judices of twenties England.
(1931, Wesley Ruggles): The land rush into Oklahoma Territory and the saga of an American family, ba...sed on a best-selling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Ferber.
(2005, Paul Haggis): The lives of LA's rich and poor, smug and desperate, law abiding and criminal b...oth intersect and collide.
(1990, Kevin Costner): A nineteenth-century soldier learns to respect and then love the Lakota way o...f life.
(1989, Bruce Beresford): The long-running relationship between an elderly white woman and her black ...chauffeur illuminates American race relations.
(1994, Robert Zemeckis): The upheavals of the American sixties and seventies are seen through the ey...es of a childlike young man.
(1953, Fred Zinnemann): A gritty drama about American servicemen in Hawaii in the days leading up to... the attack on Pearl Harbor.
(1982, Richard Attenborough): This biopic focuses on the revered political activist's efforts to end... Britain's colonial occupation of India.
(1947, Elia Kazan): A journalist poses as a Jew and discovers that anti-Semitism is alive and well i...n post-WWII America.
(1958, Vincente Minnelli): The last of the great MGM musicals, based on a Colette story about life a...nd love in turn-of-the-century Paris.
(2000, Ridley Scott): A slave in ancient Rome finds dignity and a reason to live in gladiatorial com...bat.
(1944, Leo McCarey): A comedy-drama in which an idealistic young priest takes over an old-fashioned ...parish.
(1939, Victor Fleming): Love, money, ambition, and family conflict made this Civil War spectacle an ...enduring critical and popular favorite.
(1932, Edmund Goulding): A cross section of guests, from a world-famous ballerina to a dying account...ant, check into a Berlin hotel.
(1941, John Ford): A poor turn-of-the-century Welsh mining family sees its own disintegration and wa...y of life passing.
(1967, Norman Jewison): An African-American cop from Philadelphia and a Mississippi police chief joi...n forces to solve a murder.
(1934, Frank Capra): A runaway heiress and a macho reporter fall in love on the road in this pioneer...ing screwball comedy.
(1979, Robert Benton): A divorced dad resents playing Mr. Mom, then fights for his son when his ex-w...ife demands custody.
(1962, David Lean): A spectacular adventure about a British officer who found his place among Bedoui...n tribesmen in WWI Arabia.
(1955, Delbert Mann): A lonely, middle-aged butcher finds love in this adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky...'s 1953 made-for-TV drama.
(1969, John Schlesinger): A portrait of a naive hustler and a bottom-feeding con man living on New Y...ork's fringes.
(2004, Clint Eastwood): A cranky, aging boxing trainer agrees to work with an underdog female boxer ...in this macho tearjerker.
(1942, William Wyler): A small-town British housewife fights the war at home with common sense and q...uiet determination.
(1935, Frank Lloyd): Abused sailors rebel against sadistic Captain Bligh in a movie based on a real-...life incident.
(1964, George Cukor): George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion reinvented as a musical about a flower girl ta...ught to pass as a cultured duchess.
(2007, Joel and Ethan Coen): A disillusioned, retiring sheriff tracks a sociopathic killer through m...odern West Texas.
(1968, Carol Reed): Charles Dickens's story of a plucky orphan scrambling to survive the mean street...s of nineteenth-century London.
(1954, Elia Kazan): Hardworking New York longshoremen try to make a living while thugs, mobsters, an...d corrupt businessmen prosper.
(1975, Milos Forman): The struggle between submission to authority and rebellion plays out in a ment...al hospital.
(1980, Robert Redford): A son's suicide reveals the unhappiness beneath the surface of an apparently... perfect family.
(1985, Sydney Pollack): Isak Dinesen's autobiographical writings inspired this story of romance in c...olonial Africa.
(1970, Franklin J. Schaffner): A rousing biopic of the WWII general, a brilliant tactician sidelined... by his outspokenness.
(1986, Oliver Stone): America's Vietnam experience is dramatized via the relationship between a priv...ate and two hardened officers.
(1988, Barry Levinson): A shallow ne'er-do-well is changed for the better by meeting his autistic-sa...vant brother.
(1940, Alfred Hitchcock): A meek, high-strung second wife feels she can't live up to her predecessor... in this psychological thriller.
(1976, John G. Avildsen): An unsuccessful boxer pins his hopes on a high-profile match against a cha...mp.
(1993, Steven Spielberg): An apparently ordinary German businessman saves 1,000-plus Polish-Jewish r...efugees during WWII.
(1998, John Madden): Romance and heartbreak inspires young Will Shakespeare's new play: Romeo and Ju...liet.
(2008, Danny Boyle): Game-show success fuels one man's escape from poverty in this Bollywood-tinged ...romantic drama.
(1983, James L. Brooks): A mismatched mother and daughter live, love, and fight like wildcats until ...fate forces a reconciliation.
(1960, Billy Wilder): A comedy about an insurance clerk who advances by letting his scummy bosses me...et with their mistresses at his apartment.
(2011; Michel Hazanavicius) This daring, dialogue-free comedy-drama stars Jean Dujardin as a matinee... idol before the dawn of talkies.
(1946, William Wyler): Three servicemen try to rebuild their broken lives at home after seeing comba...t in WWII.
(1957, David Lean): American and British POWs find ways to survive harsh internment in a Japanese ca...mp.
(1978, Michael Cimino): Three young men from small-town Pennsylvania are forever changed by their ex...perience in Vietnam.
(2006, Martin Scorsese): A cop and a criminal go undercover and infiltrate each other's world, in th...is crime thriller.
(1971, William Friedkin): The fact-based story of two determined New York detectives who pursue a ma...jor drug-smuggling operation.
(1972, Francis Ford Coppola): A Mafia family struggles to reconcile old-country traditions and the r...ealities of doing business in America.
(1974, Francis Ford Coppola): The Corleone family's past is explored while its activities expand int...o Vegas in the late 1950s.
(1936, Robert Z. Leonard): Showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s fictionalized life is an excuse to showcas...e Follies featuring catchy tunes, famous comedians, and leggy girls.
(2008, Kathryn Bigelow): US Army ordnance disposal teams disarm IEDs placed by Iraqi guerilla fighte...rs.
(2010, Tom Hooper): A speech therapist helps insecure monarch King George VI control his stuttering.
(1987, Bernardo Bertolucci): This lavish spectacle views the birth of twentieth-century China throug...h the unique life of emperor Pu Yi.
(1937, William Dieterle): The French writer's fight for Capt. Dreyfus, a victim of nineteenth-centur...y anti-Semitism, is the focus of this biopic.
(2003, Peter Jackson): The spectacular conclusion to J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy trilogy.
(1945, Billy Wilder): In an era of funny-drunk movies, a hard-drinking writer discovers that alcohol...ism is no joke.
(1991, Jonathan Demme): Damaged FBI agent trainee Clarice Starling takes on one sociopathic serial k...iller with the help of a deranged, cannibalistic psychiatrist.
(1965, Robert Wise): The singing Von Trapp family and their governess, an aspiring nun, escape Nazi-...occupied Austria.
(1973, George Roy Hill): Two charming grifters decide to work an elaborate con in thirties Chicago.
(1997, James Cameron): A rich girl and poor boy defy convention and fall in love during the 1912 mai...den voyage of the ill-fated ship.
(1963, Tony Richardson): The comic and amorous adventures of an eighteenth-century foundling, told w...ith swinging sixties style.
(1992, Clint Eastwood): Retired gunslinger Bill Munny picks up his gun for a good cause but soon rem...embers why he put it down.
(1961, Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise): Romeo and Juliet as a musical about warring white and Puerto... Rican gangs in New York City.
(1927, William A. Wellman): Jazz baby Clara Bow plus spectacular aerial scenes of WWI fighter planes... made this silent war film a hit.
(1938, Frank Capra): This timeless comedy revolves around a dinner for the in-laws of a liberal girl... who falls for a conservative guy.
(2001, Ron Howard): Mental illness plunges a once-brilliant mathematician into devastating paranoia and schizophrenia.
