Release Date: 1959-08-06

Overview: Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Rating: 7.981 (4344 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: 8.348 (6919 votes)

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: 7.518 (4329 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: 8.4 (10665 votes)

Release Date: 1964-07-17

Overview: Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

Rating: 7.125 (1192 votes)

Release Date: 1948-02-01

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 (2898 votes)

Release Date: 1954-05-29

Overview: When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

Rating: 8.006 (2758 votes)

Release Date: 2006-02-23

Overview: In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.

Rating: 7.898 (15164 votes)

Release Date: 1972-05-25

Overview: London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.

Rating: 7.098 (975 votes)

Release Date: 1956-05-16

Overview: An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

Rating: 7.455 (1499 votes)

Release Date: 1956-05-16

Overview: As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Rating: 7.7 (1521 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: 7.997 (5833 votes)

Release Date: 1946-08-21

Overview: In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Rating: 7.751 (1686 votes)

Release Date: 1957-04-10

Overview: The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Rating: 8.549 (9580 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: 8.1 (1939 votes)

Release Date: 2004-03-19

Overview: Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

Rating: 8.1 (15851 votes)

Release Date: 1953-03-26

Overview: In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

Rating: 8.002 (623 votes)

Release Date: 2006-10-17

Overview: A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

Rating: 8.206 (17016 votes)

Release Date: 1946-12-20

Overview: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

Rating: 8.3 (4668 votes)

Release Date: 1994-07-14

Overview: Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

Rating: 8 (2069 votes)