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17 movies containing the letter Y — each with origin, classification, and notes.

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Table of contents 17 entries
12 Angry Men2001: A Space OdysseyAsylumDouble Indemnity
GravityMary PoppinsMoneyballNorth by Northwest
OldboyPsychoSansho DayuSaving Private Ryan
Sleepy HollowWest Side StoryYentlYojimbo
You Only Live Twice

List of Movies That Contain Y

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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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    Asylum

    A 2005 British-Irish romantic drama directed by David Mackenzie about the wife of a psychiatrist at a 1950s mental hospital who begins a destructive affair with a patient.

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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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    Gravity

    A 2013 science fiction thriller directed by Alfonso Cuaron about two astronauts stranded in low Earth orbit after debris destroys their space shuttle.

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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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    Moneyball

    A 2011 American biographical sports drama directed by Bennett Miller about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his data-driven approach to building a competitive baseball team.

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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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    Oldboy

    A 2003 South Korean neo-noir mystery thriller directed by Park Chan-wook about a man imprisoned in a hotel room for fifteen years who, after his release, has only days to find his captor.

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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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    Sansho Dayu

    A 1954 Japanese period drama directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, often released abroad as Sansho the Bailiff, about a Heian-era family torn apart and sold into slavery.

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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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    Sleepy Hollow

    A 1999 American gothic horror film directed by Tim Burton, very loosely adapting Washington Irving's 1820 short story about a New York town haunted by a headless horseman.

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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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    Yentl

    A 1983 American musical drama directed by and starring Barbra Streisand as a young Jewish woman in early-20th-century Poland who disguises herself as a man to study Talmud.

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    Yojimbo

    A 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, in which a wandering ronin manipulates two rival gangs into destroying each other in a 19th-century town.

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    You Only Live Twice

    A 1967 British spy film directed by Lewis Gilbert, the fifth in the James Bond series, in which Bond investigates the hijacking of American and Soviet spacecraft from a Japanese island.

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