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Roger Ebert's "Great Movies"

  • "Broken Blossoms"

    "Broken Blossoms"
    Directed by: D. W. Griffith
    Starring: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Donald Crisp
  • "Nosferatu"

    "Nosferatu"
    Directed by: F. W. Murnau
    Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, Ruth Landshoff and Wolfgang Heinz
  • "Greed"

    "Greed"
    Directed by: Erich von Stroheim
    Starring: Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts and Jean Hersholt
  • "The Wizard of Oz"

    "The Wizard of Oz"
    Directed by: Victor Fleming
    Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Clara Blandick, Pat Walshe and Terry (dog)
  • "Battleship Potemkin"

    "Battleship Potemkin"
    Directed by: Sergei Eisenstein
    Starring: Nina Agadzhanova, Nikolai Aseyev, Sergei Eisenstein and Sergei Tretyakov
    (Photo by Britannica)
  • "The General"

    "The General"
    Directed by: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
    Starring: Buster Keaton and Marion Mack
  • "Metroplis"

    "Metroplis"
    Directed by: Fritz Lang
    Starring: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich and Rudolf Klein-Rogge
  • "The Passion of Joan of Arc"

    "The Passion of Joan of Arc"
    Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
    Starring: Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley and Maurice Schutz
    (Photo by. Erling Mandelmann)
  • "Pandora's Box"

    "Pandora's Box"
    Directed by: G. W. Pabst
    Starring: Louise Brooks, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz and Alice Roberts
  • "Un Chien Andalou"

    "Un Chien Andalou"
    Directed by: Luis Buñuel
    Starring: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí and Jaime Miravilles
  • "City Lights"

    "City Lights"
    Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
    Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee and Harry Myers
    (Photo by. Strauss-Peyton Studio)
  • "Dracula"

    "Dracula"
    Directed by: Tod Browning
    Starring: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye and Edward Van Sloan
  • "M"

    "M"
    Directed by: Fritz Lang
    Starring: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke and Gustaf Gründgens
  • "Trouble in Paradise"

    "Trouble in Paradise"
    Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
    Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall
  • "Duck Soup"

    "Duck Soup"
    Directed by: Leo McCarey
    Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres and Edgar Kennedy
  • "L'Atalante"

    "L'Atalante"
    Directed by: Jean Vigo
    Starring: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté
  • "Bride of Frankenstein"

    "Bride of Frankenstein"
    Directed by: James Whale
    Starring: Boris Karloff
    (Photo by. Imdb.com)
  • "Swing Time"

    "Swing Time"
    Directed by: George Stevens
    Starring: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
  • "Grand Illusion"

    "Grand Illusion"
    DIrected by: Jean Renoir
    Starring: Jean Gabin and Dita Parlo
    (Photo by. The AMICA Library)
  • "Gone with the Wind"

    "Gone with the Wind"
    Directed by: Victor Fleming
    Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland
    (Photo by. John Doe)
  • "Pinocchio"

    "Pinocchio"
    Directed by: Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, William "Bill" Roberts, Norman Ferguson, Jack Kinney, Wilfred Jackson and T. Hee
    Starring: Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc, Walter Catlett, Charles Judels, Evelyn Venable and Frankie Darro
  • "The Lady Eve"

    "The Lady Eve"
    Directed by: Preston Sturges
    Starring: Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda
    (Photo by. Infoplease.com)
  • "Citizen Kane"

    "Citizen Kane"
    Directed by: Orson Welles
    Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford and William AllandPhoto by. Carl Van Vecthen
  • "The Maltese Falcon"

    "The Maltese Falcon"
    Directed by: John Houston
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
  • "Casablanca"

    "Casablanca"
    Directed by: Michael Curtiz
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid
  • "Double Indemnity"

    "Double Indemnity"
    Directed by: Billy Wilder
    Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson
    (Photo by. MUBI.com)
  • "Detour"

    "Detour"
    Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
    Starring: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake and Edmund MacDonald
  • "Notorious"

    "Notorious"
    Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
    Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains
  • "The Big Sleep"

    "The Big Sleep"
    Directed by Howard Hawks
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
    (Photo by. Leofuchs.com)
  • "Beauty and the Beast"

    "Beauty and the Beast"
    Directed by: Jean Cocteau
    Starring: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair and Marcel André
  • "My Darling Clementine"

    "My Darling Clementine"
    Directed by: John Ford
    Starring: Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell and Walter Brennan
  • "It's a Wonderful Life"

    "It's a Wonderful Life"
    DIrected by: Frank Capra
    Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore and Henry Travers
  • "Red River"

    "Red River"
    Directed by: Howard Hawks
    Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift and Walter Brennan
  • "The Bicycle Thief"

    "The Bicycle Thief"
    Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
    Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell and Vittorio Antonucci
  • "The Third Man"

    "The Third Man"
    Directed by: Carol Reed
    Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard
    (Photo by. Flickr user twm1340)
  • "Sunset Blvd"

    "Sunset Blvd"
    Directed by: Billy Wilder
    Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim and Nancy Olson
  • "All About Eve"

    "All About Eve"
    Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders and Celeste Holm
    (Photo by. Filmreference.com)
  • "Singin' in the Rain"

    "Singin' in the Rain"
    Directed by: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
    Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen and Millard Mitchell
  • "Ikiru"

    "Ikiru"
    Directed by. Akira Kurosawa
    Starring: Takashi Shimura
    (Photo by. Eiga No Tomo)
  • "Mr. Hulot's Holiday"

    "Mr. Hulot's Holiday"
    Directed by: Jacques Tati
    Starring: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud and Micheline Rolla
    (Photo by. Gahetna.nl)
  • "The Seven Samurai"

    "The Seven Samurai"
    Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
    Starring: Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune
    (Photo by. Eiga No Tomo)
  • "On the Waterfront"

    "On the Waterfront"
    Directed by: Elia Kazan
    Starring: Marlon Brando
  • "The Night of the Hunter"

    "The Night of the Hunter"
    DIrected by: Charles Laughton
    Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish
    (Photo by, Clarencr Bull)
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    "The Apu Trilogy"

    Directed by: Satyajit Ray
    Starring: Kanu Banerjee and Karuna Banerjee
  • "Written on the Wind"

    "Written on the Wind"
    DIrected by: Douglas Sirk
    Starring: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone
  • "Sweet Smell of Success"

    "Sweet Smell of Success"
    Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
    Starring: Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis
  • "Vertigo"

    "Vertigo"
    Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
    Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes
  • "Some Like It Hot"

    "Some Like It Hot"
    DIrected by: Billy Wilder
    Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown and Pat O'Brien
  • "The 400 Blows"

    "The 400 Blows"
    Directed by: François Truffaut
    Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy and Claire Maurier
    (Photo by. Ron Kroon)
  • "Floating Weeds"

    "Floating Weeds"
    Directed by: Yasujirō Ozu
    Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Haruko Sugimura
  • "Pickpocket"

    "Pickpocket"
    Directed by: Robert Bresson
    Starring: Martin LaSalle
    (Photo by. The Film Reference Library Toronto)
  • "La Dolce Vita"

    "La Dolce Vita"
    Directed by: Federico Fellini
    Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny and Nadia Gray
  • L'Avventura

    L'Avventura
    Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
    Starring: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti and Lea Massari
    (Photo by. Heinz Trenczak)
  • "Peeping Tom"

    "Peeping Tom"
    Directed by: Michael Powell
    Starring: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley and Pamela Green
  • "The Apartment"

    "The Apartment"
    Directed by: Billy Wilder
    Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray
    (Photo by. MUBI.com)
  • "Psycho"

    "Psycho"
    Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
    Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam and John McIntire
  • "Last Year at Marienbad"

    "Last Year at Marienbad"
    Directed by: Alain Resnais
    Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi and Sacha Pitoëff
    (Photo by. Georges Biard)
  • "My Life to Live"

    "My Life to Live"
    Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
    Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger and Gérard Hoffman
    (Photo by. Gary Stevens)
  • "The Exterminating Angel"

    "The Exterminating Angel"
    Directed by: Luis Buñuel
    Starring: Silvia Pinal and Enrique Rambal
  • "Lawrence of Arabia"

    "Lawrence of Arabia"
    Directed by: David Lean
    Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins and Omar Sharif
  • "8 1/2"

    "8 1/2"
    DIrected by: Federico Fellini
    Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée and Sandra Milo
    (Photo by Italiamia.com)
  • "Dr. Strangelove"

    "Dr. Strangelove"
    Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
    Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens
  • "The Woman in the Dunes"

    "The Woman in the Dunes"
    Directed by: Hiroshi Teshigahara
    Starring: Eiji Okada and Kyōko Kishida
    (Photo by. Frédéric Pierre André Morin Nafa)
  • The "Up" Documentaries

    The "Up" Documentaries
    Directed by: Paul Almond and Michael Apted
    Starring: Bruce Balden, Jackie Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield, John Brisby, Peter Davies, Susan Davis, Charles Furneaux, Nicholas Hitchon, Neil Hughes, Lynn Johnson, Paul Kligerman, Suzanne Lusk and Tony Walker
    (Photo by. Wiki user Marty555)
  • "A Hard Day's Night"

    "A Hard Day's Night"
    Directed by: Richard Lester
    Starring:John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti and Maggie d'Abo
  • "Persona"

    "Persona"
    Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
    Starring: Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann
  • "Blowup"

    "Blowup"
    Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
    Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles
    (Photo by. Heinz Trenczak)
  • "The Seventh Seal"

    "The Seventh Seal"
    Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
    Starring: Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Inga Landgré and Åke Fridell
  • "Belle de Jour"

    "Belle de Jour"
    Directed by: Luis Buñuel
    Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli and Francisco Rabal
  • "Bonnie and Clyde"

    "Bonnie and Clyde"
    Directed by: Arthur Penn
    Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons
  • "Le Samourai"

    "Le Samourai"
    Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
    Starring: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon and Cathy Rosier
  • "2001: A Space Odyssey"

    "2001: A Space Odyssey"
    Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
    Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester and Douglas Rain
    (Photo by. Hilary Cummins)
  • "The Wild Bunch"

    "The Wild Bunch"
    Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
    Starring: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez and Ben Johnson
  • "McCabe & Mrs. Miller"

    "McCabe & Mrs. Miller"
    Directed by: Robert Altman
    Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Murphy, William Devane, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Keith Carradine and Bert Remsen
  • "The Godfather"

    "The Godfather"
    Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
    Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton.
    (Photo by. Gerald Geronimo)
  • "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"

    "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"
    Directed by: Werner Herzog
    Starring: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Ruy Guerra and Del Negro
    (Photo by. Flickr user erinc salor)
  • "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul"

    "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul"
    Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    Starring: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin and Irm Hermann
    (Photo by. Roger Fritz)
  • "Chinatown"

    "Chinatown"
    Directed by: Roman Polanski
    Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston
    (Photo by. Georges Biard)
  • "A Woman Under the Influence"

    "A Woman Under the Influence"
    Directed by: John Cassavetes
    Starring: Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk
  • "Nashville"

    "Nashville"
    Directed by: Robert Altman
    Starring: Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Henry Gibson, Michael Murphy and Lily Tomlin
  • "Taxi Driver"

    "Taxi Driver"
    Directed by: Martin Scorsese
    Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd
    (Photo by. David Shankbone)
  • "Network"

    "Network"
    Directed by: Sidney Lumet
    Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall
  • "Star Wars"

    "Star Wars"
    Directed by: George Lucas
    Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness
    (Photo by. Nicholas Genin)
  • "Days of Heaven"

    "Days of Heaven"
    Directed by: Terrence Malick
    Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz
    (Photo by. Michael Brown)
  • "Manhattan"

    "Manhattan"
    Directed by: Woody Allen
    Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep and Anne Byrne
    (Photo by. Colin Swan)
  • "Apocalypse Now"

    "Apocalypse Now"
    Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
    Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne and Dennis Hopper
    (Photo by. Gerald Geronimo)
  • "Gates of Heaven"

    "Gates of Heaven"
    Directed by: Errol Morris
    Starring: Floyd McClure, Cal Harberts and Florence Rasmussen
    (Photo by. Bridget Laudien)
  • "Raging Bull"

    "Raging Bull"
    Directed by: Martin Scorsese
    Starring: Robert De Niro
    (Photo by. David Shankbone)
  • "Body Heat"

    "Body Heat"
    DIrected by: Lawrence Kasdan
    Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston and Mickey Rourke
  • "E.T."

    "E.T."
    Directed by: Steven Spielberg
    Starring: Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore
    (Photo by Roman Dubois)
  • "Wings of Desire"

    "Wings of Desire"
    Directed by: Wim Wenders
    Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois and Peter Falk
    (Photo by. Thiago Piccoli)
  • "Do the Right Thing"

    "Do the Right Thing"
    Directed by: Spike Lee
    Starring: Rosie Perez, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro and John Savage
    (Photo by. Peabody Awards)
  • "The Decalogue"

    "The Decalogue"
    Directed by: Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Starring: Artur Barciś
    (Photo by. Alberto Terrile)
  • "The Silence of the Lambs"

    "The Silence of the Lambs"
    Directed by: Jonathan Demme
    Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins and Scott Glenn
    (Photo by. John Stephen Dwyer)
  • "JFK"

    "JFK"
    Directed by: Oliver Stone
    Starring: Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Oldman, Michael Rooker, Jay O. Sanders and Sissy Spacek
    (Photo by. Georges Biard)
  • "Schindler's List"

    "Schindler's List"
    Directed by: Steven Spielberg
    Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall and Embeth Davidtz
    (Photo by. Roman Dubois)
  • "The Shawshank Redemption"

    "The Shawshank Redemption"
    Directed by: Frank Darabont
    Starring: Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman
    (Photo by. Popculturegeek.com)
  • "Hoop Dreams"

    "Hoop Dreams"
    Directed by. Steve James
    Starring: William Gates and Arthur Agee
  • "Pulp Fiction"

    "Pulp Fiction"
    Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
    Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken and Bruce Willis
    (Photo by, Georges Biard)
  • "Fargo"

    "Fargo"
    Directed by: Joen Coen (Produced by Ethan Coen)
    Starring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell and Peter Stormare
    (Photo by. Rita Molnár)