Release Date: 1954-04-26

Overview: A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Rating: 8.451 (4045 votes)

Release Date: 2004-10-08

Overview: Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake Clark National Park. Using color footage he shot himself, Proenneke traces how he came to this remote area, selected a homestead site and built his log cabin completely by himself. The documentary covers his first year in-country, showing his day-to-day activities and the passing of the seasons as he sought to scratch out a living alone in the wilderness.

Rating: 7.9 (81 votes)

Release Date: 1964-12-01

Overview: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Rating: 7.501 (1383 votes)

Release Date: 2006-03-23

Overview: In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.

Rating: 8.038 (3946 votes)

Release Date: 1970-02-18

Overview: The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Rating: 7 (1106 votes)

Release Date: 1997-12-25

Overview: Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

Rating: 7.358 (6723 votes)

Release Date: 1957-10-25

Overview: A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Rating: 8.26 (3147 votes)

Release Date: 2004-06-28

Overview: It's the 1970s and San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.

Rating: 6.702 (4410 votes)

Release Date: 1999-09-15

Overview: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

Rating: 8.004 (12677 votes)

Release Date: 1927-02-06

Overview: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Rating: 8.102 (2974 votes)

Release Date: 1956-06-06

Overview: Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Rating: 7.65 (1654 votes)

Release Date: 1959-03-19

Overview: Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunity comes in the form of joining an all-girl band as they prepare to leave on a tour. The two disguise themselves as women and struggle to keep their identities secret as the gangsters close in.

Rating: 8.089 (3724 votes)

Release Date: 1961-01-25

Overview: When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

Rating: 7.174 (6519 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: 7.943 (2899 votes)

Release Date: 1987-06-29

Overview: After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.

Rating: 6.54 (1930 votes)

Release Date: 1982-12-17

Overview: A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

Rating: 6.65 (346 votes)

Release Date: 1965-11-05

Overview: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Rating: 7.4 (911 votes)

Release Date: 1990-04-05

Overview: The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Rating: 6.142 (995 votes)

Release Date: 1962-09-25

Overview: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Rating: 7.602 (989 votes)

Release Date: 1979-03-23

Overview: Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

Rating: 7.356 (288 votes)