The Top Movies
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| Loosely based on the life of the newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, Citizen Kane is Orson Welles’s story of a young idealistic newspaperman transformed by scandal and vice into a reclusive and regretful old man. It is also a meditation on emotional greed, the ease of amassing wealth, and the difficulty of sustaining love. A much respected masterpiece.
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 | Itis impossible to overstate the importance of Casablanca in the history of film-making.It is a technically superior movie that tells a great story. |
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| It has everything - great cast, a wonderful story and great songs and dance routines, two of which have passed into folklore for their inventive brilliance. |
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| Gone With the Wind, even after 60 years, remains an unquestionable masterpiece. It is without doubt one of cinema's crowning achievements.
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| Vertigo, 1958Hitchcock's classic thriller. Although it received mixed reviews on its first release, it has since gained in esteem and is frequently listed among the greatest films ever made.
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| The film has rightly proved to be one of the classics of Hollywood musicals with comedy and a fairytale of good and evil besides. It is still the movie for which Judy Garland is best remembered.
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| Charmingly simple story of The Little Tramp who meets a lovely blind girl who mistakes him for a wealthy duke. When he learns that an operation may restore her sight, he sets off to earn the money she needs to have the surgery. Charles Chaplin's first film made during the sound era. |
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| The Searchers,1956Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), fierce, alone, a defeated soldier with no role in peacetime, is one of the most compelling characters Wayne ever created. He is a man on an obsessive quest and with a fierce hatred of indians. |
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| Psycho, 1960 The motel is run by Norman Bates, a nice young man who appears to be dominated by his invalid mother.The release provided by the famous shower scene is profoundly shocking. |
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 | A classic, often cited as one of the most noteworthy films of American cinema, and featuring a bravado performance by Gloria Swanson as former silent-movie star Norma Desmond. It was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won three. |