1North by Northwest
TMDB8.0
1959·4.5K votes
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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2The Verdict
TMDB7.5
1982·733 votes
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
3Odd Man Out
TMDB7.3
1947·229 votes
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
45 Fingers
TMDB7.6
1952·102 votes
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
5Lolita
TMDB7.3
1962·2.3K votes
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
6A 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.
7Cross of Iron
TMDB7.1
1977·481 votes
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
8Bigger Than Life
TMDB7.2
1956·184 votes
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.
920,000 Leagues Under the Sea
TMDB7.1
1954·985 votes
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
10Julius Caesar
TMDB7.1
1953·238 votes
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
11The Last of Sheila
TMDB7.0
1973·168 votes
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game—but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
12The Reckless Moment
TMDB6.8
1949·138 votes
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
13The Blue Max
TMDB6.8
1966·117 votes
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
14Journey to the Center of the Earth
TMDB6.9
1959·512 votes
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
15Evil Under the Sun
TMDB6.9
1982·511 votes
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
16The Boys from Brazil
TMDB6.7
1978·445 votes
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
17Heaven Can Wait
TMDB6.6
1978·442 votes
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
18Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
TMDB6.7
1951·122 votes
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.
19The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
TMDB6.7
1951·114 votes
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
20Murder by Decree
TMDB6.3
1979·174 votes
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have their roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.