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Oliver! Poster

Oliver!

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.

38,335 votes
4. 7 imdb
% 74 metacritic
% tomato meter
In the Heat of the Night Poster

In the Heat of the Night

Detective Virgil Tibbs is caught up in the racial tension of the US South when he is arrested after the murder of a prominent businessman. Tibbs was simply waiting for his next train at the station in Sparta, Mississippi and the confusion is soon resolved but when local police chief Gillespie learns that Tibbs is the Philadelphia PD's number one homicide expert, he reluctantly asks for his assistance. The murdered man, Mr. Colbert, had come to Sparta from the North to build a new factory and his wife and business associates immediately point the finger at Endicott, the most powerful man in the county and the one who had the most to lose if a major new employer comes to the area. Tibbs' life is clearly in danger but he perseveres in a highly charged and racially explosive environment until the killer is found.

75,996 votes
9. 7 imdb
% 75 metacritic
% 96 tomato meter
On the Waterfront Poster

On the Waterfront

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.

153K votes
1. 8 imdb
% 91 metacritic
% 99 tomato meter
From Here to Eternity Poster

From Here to Eternity

It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him to represent the company. However, 'Prew' is adamant that he doesn't box anymore, so Captain Holmes gets his subordinates to make his life a living hell. Meanwhile Sergeant Warden starts seeing the captain's wife, who has a history of seeking external relief from a troubled marriage. Prew's friend Maggio has a few altercations with the sadistic stockade Sergeant 'Fatso' Judson, and Prew begins falling in love with social club employee Lorene. Unbeknownst to anyone, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor looms in the distance.

46,935 votes
6. 7 imdb
% 85 metacritic
% 88 tomato meter
The Greatest Show on Earth Poster

The Greatest Show on Earth

The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.

14,587 votes
6. 6 imdb
% metacritic
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Gone with the Wind Poster

Gone with the Wind

Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.

312K votes
2. 8 imdb
% 97 metacritic
% 90 tomato meter
You Can't Take It with You Poster

You Can't Take It with You

The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father Anthony P. Kirby. Kirby Sr. is dealing a monopoly in the trade of weapons, and needs to buy one last house in a twelve block area owned by Alice's grandparent Martin Vanderhof. However, Martin is the patriarch of an anarchic and eccentric family where the members do not care for money but for having fun and making friends. When Tony proposes Alice, she states that it would be mandatory to introduce her simple and lunatic family to the snobbish Kirbys, and Tony decides to visit Alice with his parents one day before the scheduled. There is an inevitable clash of classes and lifestyles, the Kirbys spurn the Sycamores and Alice breaks with Tony, changing the lives of the Kirby family.

25,778 votes
8. 7 imdb
% metacritic
% 95 tomato meter
The Life of Emile Zola Poster

The Life of Emile Zola

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.

8,565 votes
2. 7 imdb
% metacritic
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The Great Ziegfeld Poster

The Great Ziegfeld

The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.

8,185 votes
7. 6 imdb
% metacritic
% 72 tomato meter
Mutiny on the Bounty Poster

Mutiny on the Bounty

Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian leads the crew to mutiny on the homeward voyage. Even though Byam takes no part in the mutiny, he must defend himself against charges that he supported Christian.

23,039 votes
7. 7 imdb
% 87 metacritic
% 96 tomato meter
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