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51. Le dictateur (1940)

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries toavoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Dir: Charles Chaplin With: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie

52. Les infiltrés (2006)

An undercover state cop who has infiltrated an Irish gang and a mole in the police forceworking for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before beingexposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat.

Dir: Martin Scorsese With: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson

53. Gladiator (2000)

When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son,he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Dir: Ridley Scott With: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen

54. Le Loup de Wall Street (2013)

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living thehigh life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.

Dir: Martin Scorsese With: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie

55. La vie des autres (2006)

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer andhis lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck With: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, SebastianKoch

56. Les sentiers de la gloire (1957)

When soldiers in World War I refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiorofficers decide to make an example of them.

Dir: Stanley Kubrick With: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou

57. Retour vers le futur (1985)

A teenager is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLoreaninvented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-ageparents unite in order to save his own existence.

Dir: Robert Zemeckis With: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

58. Alien - Le huitième passager (1979)

The commercial vessel Nostromo receives a distress call from an unexplored planet. Aftersearching for survivors, the crew heads home only to realize that a deadly bioform hasjoined them.

Dir: Ridley Scott With: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt

59. Le prestige (2006)

The rivalry between two magicians becomes more exacerbated by their attempt toperform the ultimate illusion.

Dir: Christopher Nolan With: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson

60. Une séparation (2011)

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child bymoving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who hasAlzheimer's disease.

Dir: Asghar Farhadi With: Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat

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Drama 123 mins.

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Crime | Drama | Thriller 117 mins.

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Comedy | Drama | Romance 170 mins.

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Action | Adventure | Crime | Mystery | Thriller 136 mins.

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Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family | Musical 89 mins.

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Horror | Mystery 144 mins.

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Animation | Adventure | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi 98 mins.

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Animation | Drama | War 89 mins.

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Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War 149 mins.

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Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller 107 mins.

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Dir: Asghar Farhadi With: Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat

61. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)

Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to helpthose around her and along the way, discovers love.

Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet With: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus

62. M le maudit (1931)

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminalsjoin in the manhunt.

Dir: Fritz Lang With: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut

63. 3 Idiots (2009)

Two friends are searching for their long lost companion. They revisit their college daysand recall the memories of their friend who inspired them to think differently, even as therest of the world called them "idiots".

Dir: Rajkumar Hirani With: Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Mona Singh

64. La mort aux trousses (1959)

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a groupof foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

65. Le roi lion (1994)

Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile andabandons his identity as the future King.

Dir: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff With: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones

66. Shining (1980)

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presenceinfluences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from thepast and of the future.

Dir: Stanley Kubrick With: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

67. Wall-E (2008)

In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a spacejourney that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Dir: Andrew Stanton With: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin

68. Le tombeau des lucioles (1988)

A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister's struggle to survive in Japan duringWorld War II.

Dir: Isao Takahata With: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi

69. Le bateau (1981)

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.

Dir: Wolfgang Petersen With: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann

70. Assurance sur la mort (1944)

An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme thatarouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

Dir: Billy Wilder With: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

71. American Beauty (1999)

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hecticlife around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend.

Dir: Sam Mendes With: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch

72. Témoin à charge (1957)

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Crime | Drama | Mystery 116 mins.

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Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy 103 mins.

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Mystery | Romance | Thriller 128 mins.

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Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller 137 mins.

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Animation | Adventure | Fantasy 134 mins.

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Crime | Drama | Mystery 129 mins.

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Crime | Drama 229 mins.

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Drama | Mystery | Thriller 120 mins.

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Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise.

Dir: Billy Wilder With: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton

73. Citizen Kane (1941)

Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover themeaning of his final utterance.

Dir: Orson Welles With: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

74. Toy Story 3 (2010)

The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right beforeAndy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren'tabandoned and to return home.

Dir: Lee Unkrich With: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack

75. Sueurs froides (1958)

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strangeactivities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

76. Aliens - Le retour (1986)

The planet from Alien - Le huitième passager has been colonized, but contact is lost.This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

Dir: James Cameron With: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn

77. Princesse Mononoké (1997)

On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middleof a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meetsSan, the Mononoke Hime.

Dir: Hayao Miyazaki With: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka

78. Du silence et des ombres (1962)

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against anundeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.

Dir: Robert Mulligan With: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton

79. Il était une fois en Amérique (1984)

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over

thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Dir: Sergio Leone With: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern

80. Old Boy (2003)

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to findthat he must find his captor in 5 days.

Dir: Chan-wook Park With: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang

81. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for anexperimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solvesociety's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan.

Dir: Stanley Kubrick With: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates

82. Lawrence d'Arabie (1962)

A flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during hisWorld War I service in the Middle East.

Dir: David Lean With: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn

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Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War 216 mins.

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Drama 138 mins.

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Drama 102 mins.

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Crime | Drama 113 mins.

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Biography | Drama | History 134 mins.

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Action | Biography | Drama | History | War 177 mins.

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Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi 108 mins.

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Comedy | Drama | Family 68 mins.

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Comedy | Musical | Romance 103 mins.

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Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi 134 mins.

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Crime | Thriller 99 mins.

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Dir: David Lean With: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn

83. Le voleur de bicyclette (1948)

A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job.

Dir: Vittorio De Sica With: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell

84. Ève (1950)

An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actressand her circle of theater friends.

Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz With: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders

85. Requiem for a Dream (2000)

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island individuals are shattered when theiraddictions become stronger.

Dir: Darren Aronofsky With: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly

86. Taxi Driver (1976)

A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New YorkCity where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action,attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Dir: Martin Scorsese With: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

87. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate NewYork, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Dir: Steve McQueen With: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender

88. Braveheart (1995)

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, acommoner begins a revolt and leads Scottish warriors against the cruel English tyrant whorules Scotland with an iron fist.

Dir: Mel Gibson With: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan

89. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when theirrelationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover whatthey had to begin with.

Dir: Michel Gondry With: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson

90. Le Kid (1921)

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.

Dir: Charles Chaplin With: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan

91. Chantons sous la pluie (1952)

A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Dir: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly With: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

92. Le retour du Jedi (1983)

After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroythe Second Death Star, while Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father back to the LightSide of the Force.

Dir: Richard Marquand With: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

93. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspectthat one of them is a police informant.

Dir: Quentin Tarantino With: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen

94. Le trésor de la Sierra Madre (1948)

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Action | Adventure | Drama | Western 126 mins.

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Crime | Drama 88 mins.

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Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an oldprospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Dir: John Huston With: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt

95. Le garde du corps (1961)

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play themagainst each other to free the town.

Dir: Akira Kurosawa With: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai

96. Rashômon (1950)

A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.

Dir: Akira Kurosawa With: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori

97. L'arnaque (1973)

In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams upwith a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Dir: George Roy Hill With: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw

98. Le troisième homme (1949)

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himselfinvestigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime.

Dir: Carol Reed With: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli

99. La garçonnière (1960)

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts,but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Dir: Billy Wilder With: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

100. Vivre (1952)

A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Dir: Akira Kurosawa With: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori

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