CITIZEN KANE
de Orson Welles / USA / Drama, Mystery /
1941 with Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Jedediah Leland, Susan Alexander Kane, Mary Kane, Emily Monroe Norton Kane, James W. Gettys
Best movie #52 (-37)
, Quality:92%, Popularity:28% |
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world's richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - "Rosebud..." What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circ Similar movies, recommandations : Raging Bull , Taxi Driver , Madame Bovary , Dreamgirls , Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 , The Godfather , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , The Deer Hunter , A Streetcar Named Desire | |
THE MALTESE FALCON
de John Huston / USA / Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir /
1941 with Mary Astor, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Best movie #81 (-33)
, Quality:94%, Popularity:41% |
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Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed whilst tailing a man. The girl who asked him to follow the man turns out not to be who she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind. Similar movies, recommandations : The Big Sleep , The Postman Always Rings Twice , Strangers on a Train , Vertigo , Casablanca , To Have and Have Not , North by Northwest , Key Largo , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | |
SUNSET BLVD
de Billy Wilder / USA / Drama, Romance, Film-Noir /
1949 with William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark
Best movie #106 (-30)
, Quality:99%, Popularity:50% |
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The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total Similar movies, recommandations : Double Indemnity , Casablanca , The Apartment , It's a Wonderful Life , Sabrina , The Night of the Hunter , Stalag 17 , Singin' in the Rain , Bringing Up Baby | |
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
de Frank Capra / USA / Drama, Comedy / Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Cartoons /
1946 with James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Donna Reed, Henry Travers
Best movie #144 (-102)
, Quality:95%, Popularity:48% |
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George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinations of the evil millionaire, Mr. Potter. His guardian angel, Clarence, falls to Earth, literally, and shows him how his town, family, and friends would turn out if he had never been born. George meant so much to so many people; should he really throw it a Similar movies, recommandations : The Pianist , Schindler's List , Gone with the Wind , The Night of the Hunter , Forrest Gump , The Shawshank Redemption , The Sixth Sense , The Green Mile | |
