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During the early weeks of the pandemic lockdown, restless Americans turned to streaming services as a lifeline and haven’t looked back. Netflix, Hulu, and Disney Plus have all gained millions of subscribers in the U.S. and worldwide since the first quarter of 2020.
It’s no surprise that when faced with stressful circumstances and perhaps a plethora of free time, people have chosen to consume art in the forms of TV and film. Cinema has always had the ability to move people to anger, tears, compassion, and action. A great movie can shed light on another’s experience despite any cultural or demographic differences with the viewer. The movies with the broadest appeal highlight the most universal human emotions and trials.
Using information generated by the American Film Institute, 24/7 Tempo has compiled the 100 best American movies of the last 100 years, according to top directors, producers, film critics, and more.
The director with the most movies in the mix is none other than Stephen Spielberg, with Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder also boasting several movies on the list. Spanning the years 1915 to 1996, from Charlie Chaplin’s silent films to modern classics like “Pulp Fiction” and “Fargo,” these movies are loved by critics and viewers alike.
Perhaps it’s time to pick up another pandemic hobby: watching all 100 of the greatest American movies. What better time to tap into the universality of human experience than during a global pandemic? Here are another 25 activities to make staying at home easier during the pandemic.
Click here to see 100 best movies of the last 100 years, according to critics
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100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
> Gross: $11.8 million
> Lead: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
> Director: Michael Curtiz
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99. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967)
> Gross: $56.7 million
> Lead: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn
> Director: Stanley Kramer
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98. Unforgiven (1992)
> Gross: $101.2 million
> Lead: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
> Director: Clint Eastwood
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97. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
> Director: Howard Hawks
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96. The Searchers (1956)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
> Director: John Ford
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95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
> Gross: $107.9 million
> Lead: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson
> Director: Quentin Tarantino
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94. Goodfellas (1990)
> Gross: $46.8 million
> Lead: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
> Director: Martin Scorsese
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93. The Apartment (1960)
> Gross: $18.6 million
> Lead: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
> Director: Billy Wilder
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92. A Place In The Sun (1951)
> Gross: $3.5 million
> Lead: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
> Director: George Stevens
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91. My Fair Lady (1964)
> Gross: $72.0 million
> Lead: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
> Director: George Cukor
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90. The Jazz Singer (1928)
> Gross: $2.1 million
> Lead: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland
> Director: Alan Crosland
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89. Patton (1970)
> Gross: $61.7 million
> Lead: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young
> Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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88. Easy Rider (1969)
> Gross: $41.7 million
> Lead: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
> Director: Dennis Hopper
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87. Frankenstein (1931)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff
> Director: James Whale
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86. Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)
> Gross: $4.5 million
> Lead: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
> Director: Frank Lloyd
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85. Duck Soup (1933)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
> Director: Leo McCarey
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84. Fargo (1996)
> Gross: $24.6 million
> Lead: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
> Director: Joel Coen
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83. Platoon (1986)
> Gross: $138.5 million
> Lead: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
> Director: Oliver Stone
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82. Giant (1956)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
> Director: George Stevens
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81. Modern Times (1936)
> Gross: $0.2 million
> Lead: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
> Director: Charles Chaplin
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80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
> Gross: $12.1 million
> Lead: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
> Director: Sam Peckinpah
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79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
> Gross: $49.0 million
> Lead: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale
> Director: Michael Cimino
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78. Rocky (1976)
> Gross: $117.2 million
> Lead: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
> Director: John G. Avildsen
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77. American Graffiti (1973)
> Gross: $115.0 million
> Lead: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat
> Director: George Lucas
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76. City Lights (1931)
> Gross: $460,000
> Lead: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
> Director: Charles Chaplin
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75. Dances With Wolves (1990)
> Gross: $184.2 million
> Lead: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene
> Director: Kevin Costner
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74. The Gold Rush (1925)
> Gross: $5.5 million
> Lead: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray
> Director: Charles Chaplin
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73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
> Gross: $624,600
> Lead: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
> Director: William Wyler
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72. Ben-Hur (1959)
> Gross: $74.7 million
> Lead: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd
> Director: William Wyler
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71. Forrest Gump (1994)
> Gross: $330.3 million
> Lead: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
> Director: Robert Zemeckis
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70. The French Connection (1971)
> Gross: $15.6 million
> Lead: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
> Director: William Friedkin
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69. Shane (1953)
> Gross: $20.0 million
> Lead: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
> Director: George Stevens
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68. An American In Paris (1951)
> Gross: $4.5 million
> Lead: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
> Director: Vincente Minnelli
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67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
> Director: John Frankenheimer
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66. Network (1976)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
> Director: Sidney Lumet
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65. The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
> Gross: $130.7 million
> Lead: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney
> Director: Jonathan Demme
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64. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
> Gross: $132.1 million
> Lead: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
> Director: Steven Spielberg
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63. Stagecoach (1939)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine
> Director: John Ford
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62. Tootsie (1982)
> Gross: $177.2 million
> Lead: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
> Director: Sydney Pollack
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61. Vertigo (1958)
> Gross: $3.2 million
> Lead: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
> Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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60. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
> Gross: $248.2 million
> Lead: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
> Director: Steven Spielberg
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59. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
> Director: Nicholas Ray
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58. Fantasia (1942)
> Gross: $76.4 million
> Lead: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, The Philadelphia Orchestra
> Director: James Algar
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57. The Third Man (1950)
> Gross: $0.5 million
> Lead: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli
> Director: Carol Reed
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56. M*A*S*H (1970)
> Gross: $81.6 million
> Lead: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
> Director: Robert Altman
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55. The Sound Of Music (1965)
> Gross: $163.2 million
> Lead: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
> Director: Robert Wise
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54. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
> Gross: $3.3 million
> Lead: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray
> Director: Lewis Milestone
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53. Amadeus (1984)
> Gross: $52.0 million
> Lead: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
> Director: Milos Forman
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52. From Here To Eternity (1953)
> Gross: $30.5 million
> Lead: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
> Director: Fred Zinnemann
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51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
> Director: George Cukor
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50. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
> Gross: $102.3 million
> Lead: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
> Director: George Roy Hill
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49. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
> Gross: $184.9 million
> Lead: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne
> Director: William Cottrell
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48. Jaws (1975)
> Gross: $260.0 million
> Lead: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
> Director: Steven Spielberg
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47. Taxi Driver (1976)
> Gross: $28.3 million
> Lead: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd
> Director: Martin Scorsese
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46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
> Gross: $6.2 million
> Lead: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
> Director: Stanley Kubrick
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45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
> Gross: $8.0 million
> Lead: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter
> Director: Elia Kazan
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44. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
> Gross: $10.0 million
> Lead: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
> Director: D.W. Griffith
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43. King Kong (1933)
> Gross: $10.0 million
> Lead: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
> Director: Merian C. Cooper
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42. Rear Window (1954)
> Gross: $36.8 million
> Lead: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
> Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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41. West Side Story (1961)
> Gross: $43.7 million
> Lead: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer
> Director: Jerome Robbins
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40. North By Northwest (1959)
> Gross: $13.3 million
> Lead: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
> Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
> Gross: $111.7 million
> Lead: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
> Director: David Lean
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38. Double Indemnity (1944)
> Gross: $5.7 million
> Lead: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
> Director: Billy Wilder
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37. The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
> Gross: $23.7 million
> Lead: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March
> Director: William Wyler
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36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
> Gross: $44.8 million
> Lead: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles
> Director: John Schlesinger
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35. It Happened One Night (1934)
> Gross: $4.4 million
> Lead: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
> Director: Frank Capra
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34. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
> Director: Robert Mulligan
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33. High Noon (1952)
> Gross: $9.5 million
> Lead: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell
> Director: Fred Zinnemann
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32. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
> Gross: $57.3 million
> Lead: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall
> Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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31. Annie Hall (1977)
> Gross: $39.2 million
> Lead: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
> Director: Woody Allen
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30. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948)
> Gross: $5.0 million
> Lead: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
> Director: John Huston
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29. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
> Gross: $9.6 million
> Lead: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
> Director: Frank Capra
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28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
> Gross: $83.5 million
> Lead: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
> Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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27. Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
> Director: Arthur Penn
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26. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
> Gross: $9.2 million
> Lead: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
> Director: Stanley Kubrick
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25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
> Gross: $435.1 million
> Lead: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote
> Director: Steven Spielberg
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24. Raging Bull (1980)
> Gross: $23.4 million
> Lead: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
> Director: Martin Scorsese
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23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
> Gross: $2.1 million
> Lead: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
> Director: John Huston
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22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
> Gross: $57.0 million
> Lead: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
> Director: Stanley Kubrick
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21. The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
> Gross: $60,000
> Lead: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
> Director: John Ford
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20. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
> Gross: $112.0 million
> Lead: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman
> Director: Milos Forman
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19. Chinatown (1974)
> Gross: $8.5 million
> Lead: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
> Director: Roman Polanski
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18. Psycho (1960)
> Gross: $32.0 million
> Lead: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
> Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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17. The African Queen (1951)
> Gross: $540,000
> Lead: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
> Director: John Huston
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16. All About Eve (1950)
> Gross: $10,000
> Lead: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
> Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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15. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
> Gross: $322.7 million
> Lead: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
> Director: George Lucas
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14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
> Gross: $25.0 million
> Lead: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
> Director: Billy Wilder
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13. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
> Gross: $44.9 million
> Lead: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
> Director: David Lean
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12. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
> Director: Billy Wilder
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11. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
> Gross: Not available
> Lead: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
> Director: Frank Capra
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10. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
> Gross: $8.8 million
> Lead: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds
> Director: Stanley Donen
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9. Schindler’S List (1993)
> Gross: $96.9 million
> Lead: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
> Director: Steven Spielberg
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8. On The Waterfront (1954)
> Gross: $9.6 million
> Lead: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
> Director: Elia Kazan
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7. The Graduate (1967)
> Gross: $105.0 million
> Lead: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
> Director: Mike Nichols
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6. The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
> Gross: $2.1 million
> Lead: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
> Director: Victor Fleming
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5. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
> Gross: $44.8 million
> Lead: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
> Director: David Lean
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4. Gone With The Wind (1939)
> Gross: $198.7 million
> Lead: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
> Director: Victor Fleming
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3. The Godfather (1972)
> Gross: $135.0 million
> Lead: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
> Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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2. Casablanca (1942)
> Gross: $1.0 million
> Lead: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
> Director: Michael Curtiz
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1. Citizen Kane (1941)
> Gross: $1.6 million
> Lead: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
> Director: Orson Welles
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