Release Date: 1959-07-08

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

Rating: 7.983 (4257 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: 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: 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: 1964-07-17

Overview: Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.

Rating: 7.136 (1162 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: 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: 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: 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: 7.899 (14883 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: 7.704 (1478 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: 7.748 (1652 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: 7.105 (930 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: 8.204 (16628 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 (4534 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: 1958-09-10

Overview: A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.

Rating: 6.217 (627 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: 8.092 (15545 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: 1959-06-10

Overview: The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

Rating: 7.692 (852 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)