Top Ten Critically Acclaimed Movies

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TOP TEN CRITICALLY

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The Godfather

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writer: Mario Puzo

Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino,James Caan, Robert Duvall

Plot: The aging patriarch of anorganized crime dynasty transferscontrol of his clandestine empire tohis reluctant son.

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Citizen Kane

Director: Orson Welles

Writers: Herman J. Mankiewiczand Orson Welles

Actors: Joseph Cotten, DorothyComingore, Agnes Moorehead

Plot: Following the death of apublishing tycoon, newsreporters scramble to discover

the meaning of his finalutterance.


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Casablanca

Director: Michael Curtiz

Writers: Julius and Philip Epstein

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, IngridBergman, Paul Henreid

Plot: Set in unoccupied Africaduring the early days of WorldWar II: An American expatriatemeets a former lover, with

unforeseen complications.


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Lawrence of Arabia

Director: David Lean

Writers: T.E. Lawrence andRobert Bolt

Actors: Peter OToole, AlecGuinness, Anthony Quinn, JackHawkins

Plot: Epic rumination on aflamboyant and controversialBritish military figure and hisconflicted loyalties duringwartime service.


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Gone with the Wind

Director: Victor Fleming

Writers: Margaret Mitchell,Sydney Howard

Actors: Thomas Mitchell,Barbara ONeil, Vivian Leigh,George Reeves

Plot: American classic in which amanipulative woman and aroguish man carry on a turbulentlove affair in the American southduring the Civil War andReconstruction.


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On the Waterfront

Director: Elia Kazan

Writers: Malcolm Johnson andBudd Schullberg

Actors: Marlon Brando, KarlMalden, Lee J. Cobb

Plot: An ex-prize fighter turnedlongshoreman struggles tostand up to his corrupt unionbosses.


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Its A Wonderful Life

Director: Frank Capra

Writers: Frances Goodrich andAlbert Hackett

Actors: James Stewart, DonnaReed, Lionel Barrymore, ThomasMitchell

Plot: An angel helps acompassionate but despairinglyfrustrated businessman byshowing what life would hadbeen like if he never existed.


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The Graduate

Director: Mike Nichols

Writers: Calder Willingham andBuck Henry

Actors: Anne Bancroft, DustinHoffman

Plot: Recent college graduateBenjamin Braddock is trappedinto an affair with Mrs.Robinson, who happens to bethe wife of his father's businesspartner and then finds himselffalling in love with her teenagedaughter, Elaine.


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Schindlers List

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Thomas Keneally andSteven Zaillian

Actors: Liam Neeson, BenKingsley, Ralph Fiennes

Plot: Oskar Schindler uses Jewsto start a factory in Polandduring the war. He witnesses thehorrors endured by the Jews,and starts to save them.


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Some Like It Hot

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Robert Thoeren andMichael Logan

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, TonyCurtis, Jack Lemmon

Plot: When two musicianswitness a mob hit, they flee thestate in an all female banddisguised as women, but furthercomplications set in.


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