Release Date: 1963-03-28

Overview: Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.

Rating: 7.52 (4230 votes)

Release Date: 1948-03-11

Overview: Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

Rating: 7.944 (2822 votes)

Release Date: 1955-08-03

Overview: An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.

Rating: 7.284 (1577 votes)

Release Date: 1957-10-11

Overview: The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Rating: 7.813 (2205 votes)

Release Date: 1958-05-28

Overview: A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Rating: 8.161 (5967 votes)

Release Date: 1954-08-01

Overview: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Rating: 8.353 (6757 votes)

Release Date: 1954-05-29

Overview: When American writer Mark Halliday visits the very married Margot Wendice in London, he unknowingly sets off a chain of blackmail and murder.

Rating: 8.018 (2699 votes)

Release Date: 1962-12-11

Overview: The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

Rating: 8 (3183 votes)

Release Date: 1956-05-16

Overview: A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.

Rating: 7.462 (1455 votes)

Release Date: 1981-09-17

Overview: A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

Rating: 8.085 (2322 votes)

Release Date: 1943-01-15

Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Rating: 8.2 (5670 votes)

Release Date: 1958-03-30

Overview: When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

Rating: 7.761 (1494 votes)

Release Date: 1944-07-06

Overview: A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.

Rating: 8.111 (1883 votes)

Release Date: 1940-03-23

Overview: Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

Rating: 7.9 (1843 votes)

Release Date: 1960-05-19

Overview: A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Rating: 7.01 (195 votes)

Release Date: 1957-07-11

Overview: A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

Rating: 7.361 (484 votes)

Release Date: 1949-08-31

Overview: In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Rating: 7.92 (1965 votes)

Release Date: 1941-04-17

Overview: Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Rating: 8 (5708 votes)

Release Date: 1960-06-22

Overview: When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Rating: 8.422 (10432 votes)

Release Date: 1966-12-18

Overview: Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.

Rating: 7.5 (1067 votes)