Thursday, March 5, 2015

Top 100 Movies of All Time Continued...

Enjoy movies? Want something truly classic? Check out this list...



1) The Exorcist

A visiting actress in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic enemy.

Director: William Friedkin
Writers: William Peter Blatty (written for the screen by),William Peter Blatty (novel)
Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1973


2) The Deer Hunter

Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who enlist into the Army to fight in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela, and their wedding party also serves as the men's farewell party. After some time and many horrors, the three friends fall in the hands of the Vietcong and are brought to a prison camp in which they are forced to play Russian roulette against each other. Michael makes it possible for them to escape, but they soon get separated again.

Director: Michael Cimino
Writers: Michael Cimino (story), Deric Washburn (story), 3 more credits »
Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1978


3) All Quiet on the Western Front

This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. As the boys witness death and mutilation all around them, any preconceptions about "the enemy" and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear, leaving them angry and bewildered. This is highlighted in the scene where Paul mortally wounds a French soldier and then weeps bitterly as he fights to save his life while trapped in a shell crater with the body. The film is not about heroism but about drudgery and futility and the gulf between the concept of war and the actuality.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Writers: Erich Maria Remarque (by), Maxwell Anderson(adaptation), 5 more credits »
Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1930


4) The French Connection

William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed.

Director: William Friedkin
Writers: Ernest Tidyman (screenplay), Robin Moore (based on the book by), 1 more credit »
Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1971


5) City Lights

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. The tramp's on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

Director: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1931


6) The King's Speech

Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.

Director: Tom Hooper
Writer: David Seidler (screenplay)
Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter |See full cast and crew »
Released: 2010


7) It Happened One Night

Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father's yacht and out of King's clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. Actually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story.

Director: Frank Capra
Writers: Robert Riskin (screen play), Samuel Hopkins Adams (based on the short story by)
Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1934


8) A Place in the Sun

The young and poor George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) leaves his religious mother and Chicago and arrives in California expecting to find a better job in the business of his wealthy uncle Charles Eastman. His cousin Earl Eastman advises him that there are many women in the factory and the basic rule is that he must not hang around with any of them. George meets the worker of the assembly line, Alice Tripp, in the movie theater and they date. Meanwhile, the outcast George is promoted and he meets the gorgeous Angela Vickers at a party thrown at his uncle's house. Angela introduces him to the local high society and they fall in love with each other. However, Alice is pregnant and she wants to get married with George. During a dinner party at Angela's lake house with parents, relatives, and friends, Alice calls George from the bus station and gives him thirty minutes to meet her; otherwise she will crash the party and tell what has happened. George is pressed by the situation which ends...

Director: George Stevens
Writers: Theodore Dreiser (based on the novel: "An American Tragedy" by), Patrick Kearney (play), 2 more credits »
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters| See full cast and crew »
Released:1951


9) Midnight Cowboy

Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial 'country cousin meets city cousin' relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.

Director: John Schlesinger
Writers: Waldo Salt (screenplay), James Leo Herlihy(based on the novel by)
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1969


10) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal.

Director: Frank Capra
Writers: Sidney Buchman (screen play), Lewis R. Foster(story), 1 more credit »
Stars: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1939


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