1The Great Dictator
TMDB8.3
1940·3.7K votes
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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2Make Way for Tomorrow
TMDB7.5
1937·220 votes
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
3It Happened One Night
TMDB7.8
1934·1.4K votes
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
4Inherit the Wind
TMDB7.7
1960·470 votes
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
5Strangers on a Train
TMDB7.7
1951·1.9K votes
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
6In a Lonely Place
TMDB7.6
1950·663 votes
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
7Monsieur Verdoux
TMDB7.7
1947·475 votes
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
8A Star Is Born
TMDB7.1
1954·330 votes
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
9To Catch a Thief
TMDB7.3
1955·1.7K votes
When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.
10The Man Who Knew Too Much
TMDB7.4
1956·1.6K votes
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
11The Postman Always Rings Twice
TMDB7.1
1946·376 votes
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
12Written on the Wind
TMDB7.0
1956·270 votes
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
13Christmas in Connecticut
TMDB7.0
1945·174 votes
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
14Phantom Lady
TMDB7.0
1944·136 votes
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.
15Saboteur
TMDB6.9
1942·549 votes
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
16Father of the Bride
TMDB7.0
1950·233 votes
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
17Teacher's Pet
TMDB6.8
1958·103 votes
A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
18How to Marry a Millionaire
TMDB6.8
1953·562 votes
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
19Whirlpool
TMDB6.4
1950·100 votes
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
20Houseboat
TMDB6.4
1958·199 votes
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.