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12 Angry Men
A 1957 American courtroom drama in which a single juror's doubts about a homicide case slowly turn the room toward acquittal across one summer afternoon.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
A 1968 British-American science fiction film tracing humanity's contact with a mysterious black monolith from prehistory through a Jupiter mission gone awry.
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Avatar
A 2009 American science fiction film about a paraplegic marine inhabiting a remotely controlled alien body on a moon whose ecosystem is targeted for mining.
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Back to the Future
A 1985 American science fiction comedy about a teenager accidentally transported from 1985 to 1955 in his eccentric friend's DeLorean time machine.
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Ben-Hur
A 1959 American epic about a Jewish prince in Roman-occupied Judea who is sold into slavery and returns years later to confront the friend who betrayed him.
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Casablanca
A 1942 American romantic drama set in wartime Morocco, where a jaded American expatriate must choose between love and the anti-Nazi resistance.
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Citizen Kane
A 1941 American drama tracing the rise and isolation of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane through a reporter's investigation of his final word.
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Double Indemnity
A 1944 American film noir about an insurance salesman seduced into murdering a client's husband to collect on a policy he writes for him.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A 1982 American science fiction film about a suburban California boy who befriends a stranded alien and helps him return to his home planet.
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Fight Club
A 1999 American drama about an alienated office worker who, with a charismatic soap salesman, founds a secret bare-knuckle club that escalates into something larger.
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Forrest Gump
A 1994 American comedy-drama following a slow-witted but kind-hearted Alabama man whose life intersects with several decades of American historical events.
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Gone with the Wind
A 1939 American historical romance about a Southern plantation heiress whose life is upended by the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Goodfellas
A 1990 American crime film tracing the rise and fall of New York mob associate Henry Hill from his 1950s youth to his 1980 turn as a federal witness.
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Inception
A 2010 American science fiction thriller about a corporate-espionage team that infiltrates dreams to plant ideas in a target's subconscious.
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Interstellar
A 2014 American science fiction film about a former NASA pilot leading an expedition through a wormhole in search of a habitable replacement for Earth.
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It's a Wonderful Life
A 1946 American Christmas fantasy about a despairing small-town banker shown by a guardian angel what the world would have been without him.
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Jaws
A 1975 American thriller about a beach-town police chief, a marine scientist, and a fisherman hunting a great white shark off the New England coast.
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Jurassic Park
A 1993 American science fiction film about a tropical-island theme park stocked with cloned dinosaurs that escape containment during a preview visit.
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Lawrence of Arabia
A 1962 British epic drama about T. E. Lawrence, a British army officer whose role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans transformed his identity and reputation.
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Mary Poppins
A 1964 American musical fantasy about a magical English nanny who arrives at a strained Edwardian London household and rearranges its priorities.
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North by Northwest
A 1959 American spy thriller about a Madison Avenue advertising executive mistaken for a government agent and pursued across the country.
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On the Waterfront
A 1954 American crime drama about a former boxer turned dockworker who must decide whether to testify against the mob-tied union running his New Jersey waterfront.
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Psycho
A 1960 American horror thriller about a secretary on the run who stops at an isolated motel run by a disturbed young man and his mother.
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Pulp Fiction
A 1994 American crime film weaving together the parallel stories of two hitmen, a boxer, and a gangster's wife over a few violent days in Los Angeles.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
A 1981 American adventure about an archaeologist hired by US intelligence to recover the Ark of the Covenant before Nazi expeditions can find it first.
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Rear Window
A 1954 American thriller about a photographer immobilized by a broken leg who becomes convinced his neighbor across the courtyard has committed murder.
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Rebel Without a Cause
A 1955 American drama about a troubled high-school transfer student navigating one volatile night with two equally unmoored classmates in suburban Los Angeles.
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Saving Private Ryan
A 1998 American war film following an Army Ranger unit ordered to find and bring home a paratrooper whose three brothers have been killed in action.
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Schindler's List
A 1993 American historical drama about Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who used his Kraków factories to protect more than a thousand Jewish workers from Nazi extermination.
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Singin' in the Rain
A 1952 American musical comedy about a silent-film studio scrambling to adapt to the sudden arrival of talking pictures in 1927 Hollywood.
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Some Like It Hot
A 1959 American comedy about two Chicago musicians who witness a mob killing and flee disguised as women in a touring all-female band.
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Star Wars
A 1977 American space-opera adventure about a farm boy, a smuggler, and a princess fighting to deliver stolen battle-station plans to a galactic rebellion.
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Sunset Boulevard
A 1950 American film noir about a failed Hollywood screenwriter who becomes entangled with a forgotten silent-film star living in faded grandeur.
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The Apartment
A 1960 American comedy-drama about an insurance-company office worker who lends out his apartment to executives for their affairs in exchange for advancement.
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The Avengers
A 2012 American superhero film bringing together six Marvel heroes to repel an alien army led by Thor's adopted brother Loki against New York.
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The Dark Knight
A 2008 American superhero film in which Batman, the Gotham district attorney, and the police commissioner together face a chaos-driven criminal called the Joker.
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The Empire Strikes Back
A 1980 American space-opera sequel in which the Rebel Alliance scatters under Imperial pursuit while a young Jedi trains under an ancient master.
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The Godfather
A 1972 American crime epic about the Corleone family's struggle to maintain control of a New York organized crime dynasty across the post-war decade.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A 2001 New Zealand-American fantasy epic about a hobbit who inherits a dangerous magical ring and joins a quest to destroy it in the fires of its making.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
A 2003 New Zealand-American fantasy epic concluding the quest as the armies of the West confront Sauron while the ring approaches Mount Doom.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
A 2002 New Zealand-American fantasy epic following the splintered fellowship as armies of Saruman threaten the kingdom of Rohan and the journey east continues.
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The Maltese Falcon
A 1941 American film noir about a San Francisco private detective drawn into a hunt for a jewel-encrusted statuette of legendary value.
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The Matrix
A 1999 American science fiction film about a hacker who learns that his reality is a computer simulation built to harvest energy from sedated human bodies.
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The Shawshank Redemption
A 1994 American prison drama about a wrongfully convicted banker who endures two decades inside a Maine penitentiary while quietly engineering an escape.
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The Silence of the Lambs
A 1991 American psychological thriller about a young FBI trainee consulting an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist to catch a serial killer on the run.
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The Sound of Music
A 1965 American musical about a young Austrian postulant who becomes governess to a naval officer's seven children on the eve of the Nazi annexation.
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The Wizard of Oz
A 1939 American musical fantasy about a Kansas farm girl transported to a magical land where she must find the way home.
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Titanic
A 1997 American romantic disaster film about a love affair between a steerage artist and a first-class passenger aboard the doomed 1912 ocean liner.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
A 1962 American legal drama set in Depression-era Alabama, where a small-town lawyer defends a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman.
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Vertigo
A 1958 American psychological thriller about a retired San Francisco detective hired to follow a friend's wife, and the obsession that follows.
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West Side Story
A 1961 American musical updating Romeo and Juliet to 1950s Manhattan, where rival white and Puerto Rican street gangs collide around a love affair.
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