1Sunset Boulevard
TMDB8.3
1950·2.9K votes
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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2Witness for the Prosecution
TMDB8.2
1957·1.7K votes
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
3The Apartment
TMDB8.2
1960·2.7K votes
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
4Double Indemnity
TMDB8.1
1944·2K votes
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
5Some Like It Hot
TMDB8.1
1959·3.9K votes
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
6Ace in the Hole
TMDB7.8
1951·748 votes
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
7Stalag 17
TMDB7.7
1953·665 votes
After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
8The Lost Weekend
TMDB7.6
1945·668 votes
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
9Ninotchka
TMDB7.5
1939·436 votes
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
10One, Two, Three
TMDB7.5
1961·422 votes
In Cold War-era West Berlin, American Coca-Cola executive C.R. 'Mac' MacNamara is tasked with playing babysitter to his boss' spoiled 17-year-old daughter Scarlett, who proves more difficult than anticipated when she reveals that she is pregnant by a Communist.
11Sabrina
TMDB7.5
1954·1.4K votes
After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter Sabrina, who's long had a crush on him, but he questions his more serious brother's motives when he warns against getting involved with her.
12Irma la Douce
TMDB7.4
1963·477 votes
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
13Ball of Fire
TMDB7.4
1941·243 votes
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
14The Front Page
TMDB7.3
1974·384 votes
Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
15People on Sunday
TMDB7.2
1930·114 votes
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
16The Fortune Cookie
TMDB7.2
1966·348 votes
TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
17A Foreign Affair
TMDB7.1
1948·159 votes
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.
18The Bishop's Wife
TMDB7.1
1947·279 votes
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
19Bluebeard's 8th Wife
TMDB7.1
1938·107 votes
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.
20The Major and the Minor
TMDB7.1
1942·148 votes
Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay half fare home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself in a whole heap of grownup trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Philip Kirby.