Release Date: 1950-11-09

Overview: From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Rating: 8.08 (1592 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: 1960-06-21

Overview: 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.

Rating: 8.2 (2442 votes)

Release Date: 1950-12-04

Overview: The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

Rating: 7.668 (642 votes)

Release Date: 1931-02-06

Overview: A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

Rating: 8.3 (2290 votes)

Release Date: 1957-12-17

Overview: An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing testimony of the defendant's wife becomes a subject of confusion.

Rating: 8.216 (1513 votes)

Release Date: 1959-03-19

Overview: Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

Rating: 8.095 (3626 votes)

Release Date: 1956-09-15

Overview: An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Rating: 7.2 (196 votes)

Release Date: 2005-07-29

Overview: One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.

Rating: 5.9 (168 votes)

Release Date: 1944-10-11

Overview: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Rating: 7.632 (838 votes)

Release Date: 1962-10-31

Overview: A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Rating: 7.912 (1092 votes)

Release Date: 1950-08-26

Overview: Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Rating: 8.1 (2342 votes)

Release Date: 1931-05-11

Overview: In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Rating: 8.074 (2298 votes)

Release Date: 1953-05-29

Overview: It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.

Rating: 7.698 (624 votes)

Release Date: 1952-10-09

Overview: Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Rating: 8.3 (1214 votes)

Release Date: 1940-10-15

Overview: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Rating: 8.296 (3489 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: 1952-04-10

Overview: In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Rating: 8.149 (3277 votes)

Release Date: 1972-09-15

Overview: In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Rating: 7.478 (846 votes)