#1 SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)
Recommendations: 15 (out of 16)
Highest Rank: #1 (four times) | Lowest Rank: #20
IMDb: 8.8 | RT: 100%
Genre: Adventure | Drama
Synopsis: Impressed by his bravery, a group of farmers begs master samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) to defend their village from encroaching bandits. Kambei agrees and assembles a group of six other samurai, and together they build a militia with the villagers while the bandits loom nearby.
#2 PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
Recommendations: 12 (out of 14)
Highest Rank: #3 | Lowest Rank: #36
IMDb: 8.6 | RT: 93%
Genre: Drama | War
Synopsis: When French generals order the regiment to carry out what amounts to a suicide mission against heavy German fire, some of the men refuse. But when the army tries three of the soldiers on charges of cowardice, Col. Dax (Kirk Douglas) acts as their defense attorney.
#3 12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
Recommendations: 11 (out of 13)
Highest Rank: #1 | Lowest Rank: #45
IMDb: 8.9 | RT: 100%
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: Knowing full well that a guilty verdict means death, a jury of 12 men (including Jack Warden and Jack Klugman) must decide the fate of an 18-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his father. But only one juror (Henry Fonda) wants to take the time to coolly deliberate the case.
#4 THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953)
Recommendations: 11 (out of 13)
Highest Rank: #2 (two times) | Lowest Rank: #37
IMDb: 8.3 | RT: 100%
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Synopsis: An oil company enlists four destitute drifters -- Mario (Yves Montand), Luigi (Folco Lulli), Bimba (Peter Van Eyck) and Jo (Charles Vanel) -- for a dangerous mission transporting volatile explosives across Central America's treacherous terrain.
#5 YOJIMBO (1961)
Recommendations: 11 (out of 13)
Highest Rank: #2 (two times) | Lowest Rank: #49
IMDb: 8.4 | RT: 97%
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Synopsis: As two factions of ruthless crime lords battle, masterless samurai Sanjuro Kuwabatake (Toshiro Mifune) secretly convinces each side to hire him as protection against the other.
#6 THE THIN RED LINE (1998)
Recommendations: 11 (out of 15)
Highest Rank: #2 | Lowest Rank: #68
IMDb: 7.6 | RT: 78%
Genre: Drama | War
Synopsis: With narration by Pvt. Witt (Jim Cavaziel), the men of C-Company become a tight-knit group as they each individually face the horrors of war to hold onto a key-positioned airfield.
#7 THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008)
Recommendations: 11 (out of 17)
Highest Rank: #1 | Lowest Rank: #53
IMDb: 7.9 | RT: 72%
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Synopsis: David Fincher directs this Oscar-nominated tale of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) -- a man who was born old and wrinkled but grows younger as the years go by.
#8 DIABOLIQUE (1955)
Recommendations: 10 (out of 11)
Highest Rank: #3 | Lowest Rank: #38
IMDb: 8.3 | RT: 97%
Genre: Film-Noir | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Synopsis: The ailing spouse (Véra Clouzot) and manhandled mistress (Simone Signoret) of a sadistic boarding school headmaster (Paul Meurisse) plan and execute the man's murder -- but their plan goes haywire when the corpse vanishes.
#9 M (1931)
Recommendations: 10 (out of 13)
Highest Rank: #1 | Lowest Rank: #39
IMDb: 8.6 | RT: 100%
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: Propelled by a compulsion he can't control, plump pedophile Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) escapes the eye of the law -- but not the wrath of the Berlin underworld being blamed for his crimes.
#10 THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
Recommendations: 10 (out of 13)
Highest Rank: #2 | Lowest Rank: #45
IMDb: 8.2 | RT: 98%
Genre: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Synopsis: Bogus "preacher" Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) learns cellmate Ben Harper (Peter Graves) has stashed stolen loot on his property. So after the demented Powell is released, he charms Ben's widow (Shelley Winters) into getting hitched, and in time, only Ben's kids stand between him and the money.
#11 THE THIRD MAN (1949)
Recommendations: 10 (out of 15)
Highest Rank: #1 (three times) | Lowest Rank: #47
IMDb: 8.5 | RT: 100%
Genre: Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Synopsis: After arriving in post-World War II Vienna, unemployed pulp novelist Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) learns that his friend Harry (Orson Welles) has died in an accident. Compelled to investigate the death, Holly slowly uncovers startling revelations about Harry's life.
#12 BLOW OUT (1981)
Recommendations: 9 (out of 12)
Highest Rank: #2 | Lowest Rank: #51
IMDb: 7.2 | RT: 90%
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Synopsis: B-movie soundman Jack Terri (John Travolta) has heard it all in his line of work -- until he accidentally records a murder.
#13 DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993)
Recommendations: 9 (out of 14)
Highest Rank: #2 | Lowest Rank: #63
IMDb: 7.6 | RT: 98%
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Synopsis: Director Richard Linklater's follow-up to Slacker takes an autobiographical look at some Texas teens (including Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey) on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd (Jason London), who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks.
#14 HIGH AND LOW (1963)
Recommendations: 8 (out of 9)
Highest Rank: #1 | Lowest Rank: #56
IMDb: 8.3 | RT: 93%
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Synopsis: Toshirô Mifune plays a wealthy corporate boss who must choose between saving his company and paying the ransom for his chauffeur's kidnapped child.
#15 SANJURO (1962)
Recommendations: 8 (out of 10)
Highest Rank: #2 | Lowest Rank: #61
IMDb: 8.1 | RT: 100%
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Synopsis: Akira Kurosawa's sequel to Yojimbo is a dark comedy about surly Sanjuro (Toshirô Mifune), a larger-than-life samurai who, adrift in an era of fading tradition and increasing lawlessness, instructs a gang of scheming radicals in samurai wisdom.
#16 BROADCAST NEWS (1987)
Recommendations: 8 (out of 11)
Highest Rank: #1 | Lowest Rank: #55
IMDb: 7.1 | RT: 98%
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Synopsis: Three ambitious workaholics are set loose in a network TV newsroom, where their professional and personal lives become hopelessly cross-wired.
#17 THE RED SHOES (1948)
Recommendations: 8 (out of 11)
Highest Rank: #3 | Lowest Rank: #53
IMDb: 8.2 | RT: 98%
Genre: Drama | Romance | Music
Synopsis: Fledgling ballerina Victoria (Moira Shearer) falls in love with brilliant composer Julian (Marius Goring) while they collaborate on a ballet that makes her a star.
#18 CHARADE (1963)
Recommendations: 8 (out of 11)
Highest Rank: #7 | Lowest Rank: #67
IMDb: 8.0 | RT: 91%
Genre: Comedy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Synopsis: Cary Grant stars as Peter, who may or may not be a flimflam man who aids the recently widowed Regina (Audrey Hepburn) in her mission to recover a fortune hidden by her late husband.
#19 THE 400 BLOWS (1959)
Recommendations: 8 (out of 13)
Highest Rank: #3 | Lowest Rank: #66
IMDb: 8.2 | RT: 100%
Genre: Crime | Drama
Synopsis: After young Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) runs away, life on the streets of Paris leads to nothing but trouble and guilt.
#20 FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (1998)
Recommendations: 8 (out of 14)
Highest Rank: #1 (two times) | Lowest Rank: #53
IMDb: 7.6 | RT: 48%
Genre: Adventure | Drama
Synopsis: Director Terry Gilliam's episodic cult favorite chronicles the hallucinogenic misadventures of sportswriter Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and his Samoan lawyer, Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro), on a three-day romp from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
#21 RUSHMORE (1998)
Recommendations: 8 (out of 14)
Highest Rank: #2 | Lowest Rank: #52
IMDb: 7.7 | RT: 87%
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Synopsis: Wunderkind Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), a sophomore at upscale Rushmore Academy and the president of myriad school clubs, sees his world turn topsy-turvy when he's smitten with widowed first-grade teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams). To win her heart, Max enlists the aid of self-made steel magnate and school benefactor Herman J. Blume (Bill Murray), only to end up vying with the millionaire industrialist for Rosemary's affections.
#22 THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957)
Recommendations: 8 (out of 16)
Highest Rank: #3 | Lowest Rank: #46
IMDb: 8.4 | RT: 94%
Genre: Drama | Fantasy
Synopsis: Exhausted and disillusioned, a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) makes the journey home after years of combat in the Crusades. But when the black-robed figure of Death confronts him, the knight challenges him to a game of chess.
#23 THE KILLING (1956)
Recommendations: 7 (out of 10)
Highest Rank: #2 (two times) | Lowest Rank: #42
IMDb: 8.2 | RT: 97%
Genre: Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
Synopsis: Career criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) plans one last heist before settling down to a respectable life with Fay (Colleen Gray). Clay and several cohorts devise a complex racetrack robbery, but inner tensions and bad luck work against them.
#24 KAGEMUSHA (1980)
Recommendations: 7 (out of 10)
Highest Rank: #4 | Lowest Rank: #83
IMDb: 7.9 | RT: 84%
Genre: Drama | History | War
Synopsis: When the leader of the Takeda clan, Lord Shingen (Tatsuya Nakadai), is mortally wounded, he orders that his death be kept secret from his enemies. The clan searches for a "shadow warrior," an exact double, to take his place.
#25 VIDEODROME (1983)
Recommendations: 7 (out of 11)
Highest Rank: #2 | Lowest Rank: #49
IMDb: 7.3 | RT: 80%
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Synopsis: Sleazy TV executive Max Renn (James Woods) is looking for cheap, exciting programming for his fly-by-night channel when he fortuitously stumbles across a fuzzy satellite feed showing torture, punishment ... and possibly murder.
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