1Limelight
TMDB7.9
1952·594 votes
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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2Laura
TMDB7.6
1944·911 votes
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
3Gaslight
TMDB7.5
1944·571 votes
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
4Monsieur 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.
5The Bad and the Beautiful
TMDB7.3
1952·299 votes
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
6Libeled Lady
TMDB7.3
1936·134 votes
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
7A Place in the Sun
TMDB7.3
1951·418 votes
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
8Waterloo Bridge
TMDB7.5
1940·180 votes
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
9Mutiny on the Bounty
TMDB7.4
1935·388 votes
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
10Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
TMDB7.2
1931·324 votes
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
11A 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.
12Wuthering Heights
TMDB7.2
1939·322 votes
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
13The Wolf Man
TMDB7.0
1941·682 votes
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
14The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
TMDB6.9
1939·166 votes
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
15Topper
TMDB6.7
1937·139 votes
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
16Ministry of Fear
TMDB6.9
1944·200 votes
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
17The Joker is Wild
TMDB8.1
1957·155 votes
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
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.
19The Invisible Man Returns
TMDB6.3
1940·139 votes
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
20Dracula's Daughter
TMDB6.0
1936·227 votes
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.