Release Date: 1947-11-25

Overview: The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

Rating: 7.619 (612 votes)

Release Date: 1948-01-09

Overview: Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

Rating: 6.9 (126 votes)

Release Date: 1955-10-05

Overview: Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

Rating: 6.985 (166 votes)

Release Date: 1944-02-24

Overview: A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast. They soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.

Rating: 6.885 (213 votes)

Release Date: 1946-06-12

Overview: George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.

Rating: 6.7 (71 votes)

Release Date: 1945-11-23

Overview: A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

Rating: 6 (42 votes)

Release Date: 1979-08-17

Overview: A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

Rating: 6.176 (71 votes)

Release Date: 1949-02-04

Overview: An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

Rating: 7.136 (166 votes)

Release Date: 1977-05-20

Overview: The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.

Rating: 6.9 (119 votes)

Release Date: 2005-03-11

Overview: After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a former baseball player. As the two grow closer, and her daughters increasingly rely on Denny, Terry starts to have reservations about where their relationship is headed.

Rating: 6.284 (271 votes)

Release Date: 1946-10-25

Overview: In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.

Rating: 6.1 (38 votes)

Release Date: 1944-06-23

Overview: A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.

Rating: 7 (49 votes)

Release Date: 1986-07-21

Overview: Carefree Californians Noera and Marcia find themselves at the center of a massive government conspiracy when they discover a mysterious object in the wreckage of a military convoy. Their search for answers leads them all the way to the heart of Death Valley, where a secret of international proportions (or bigger) is just waiting to get out.

Rating: 5.1 (7 votes)

Release Date: 1952-12-25

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.339 (264 votes)

Release Date: 1937-01-28

Overview: Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

Rating: 7.199 (176 votes)

Release Date: 1957-08-07

Overview: Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.

Rating: 7.2 (380 votes)

Release Date: 2016-07-29

Overview: In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.

Rating: 6.4 (272 votes)

Release Date: 1945-11-30

Overview: The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

Rating: 7.222 (374 votes)

Release Date: 2000-11-01

Overview: Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois.

Rating: 7.2 (113 votes)

Release Date: 1974-10-02

Overview: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Rating: 7.473 (561 votes)