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1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 499,774
2. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Passed | 108 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers
Votes: 70,598
3. The Invisible Man (1933)
TV-PG | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers
Votes: 40,019
4. High Sierra (1940)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 19,269
5. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, War
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, May Whitty
Votes: 19,491 | Gross: $13.50M
6. Random Harvest (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Votes: 8,434 | Gross: $10.14M
7. Ball of Fire (1941)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Romance
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers
Votes: 14,091
8. Dark Victory (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 12,413
9. Primrose Path (1940)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers
Votes: 1,817
10. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Unrated | 126 min | Drama
At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan
Votes: 9,380 | Gross: $21.30M
11. The Yearling (1946)
Approved | 128 min | Drama, Family, Western
A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills
Votes: 6,474 | Gross: $5.20M
12. Dodge City (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Western
A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 5,769
13. Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 2,416
14. Madame Curie (1943)
Passed | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Lewin | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann
Votes: 3,195
15. The Rains Came (1939)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce
Votes: 2,297
16. Dragon Seed (1944)
Passed | 148 min | Drama, History, War
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned upside down when the Japanese invade it, and a heroic young woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against these invaders.
Directors: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 1,342
17. On Borrowed Time (1939)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs with the help of an agent of Death and a magical apple tree.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel
Votes: 2,252
18. The Sisters (1938)
Approved | 99 min | Drama
Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter
Votes: 2,132
19. The Naughty Nineties (1945)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy
When their captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers, stage show star Abbott and his bumbling sidekick Costello must put things right.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson
Votes: 2,165
20. The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Romance
A pinup artist (Ronald Reagan) in search of the perfect woman poses as a Czech immigrant to win over a shapely schoolteacher (Virginia Mayo) who’s more into facts than figures.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken, Dona Drake
Votes: 621
21. Edison, the Man (1940)
Passed | 107 min | Biography, Drama
82-year-old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty-year career of scientific achievement.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn
Votes: 1,779
22. AFI Life Achievement Award (1973– )
Documentary
The Award is the highest honor for a career in film and celebrates an individual whose career has greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture.
Stars: Carole Bayer Sager, George Stevens Jr., Jack Nicholson, Gregory Peck
Votes: 50
23. Born to Be Bad (1934)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Romance
An immoral mother blackmails a wealthy businessman after he accidentally hits her delinquent son with his truck.
Directors: Lowell Sherman, Jack Conway | Stars: Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Jackie Kelk, Marion Burns
Votes: 1,262
24. The Flame (1947)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman falls for the victim of an intended blackmail plot.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 408
25. The Moon Is Down (1943)
90 min | Drama, War
During the Nazi occupation of Norway, a small Norwegian village struggles to cope with the invaders and some locals choose collaboration while others prefer armed resistance.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon
Votes: 539
26. After Office Hours (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,045
27. The Accused (1949)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A beautiful psychology professor tries to hide a self-defense killing.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 1,101
28. Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Approved | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Tasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
Directors: Henry King, Otto Brower | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,543
29. Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A swim teacher and a wealthy businessman are married after a brief courtship. A charming war hero falls in love with this newly-married woman, after her husband abandons her on their honeymoon for the sake of a business meeting.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Frances Gifford, Henry Travers
Votes: 910
30. Remember? (1939)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
A jilted man gives his divorced best friend and his ex-wife - to whom he was previously engaged - a potion that causes them to forget each other. Will they fall in love all over again?
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Lew Ayres, Billie Burke
Votes: 610
31. Ready for Love (1934)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
Marigold Tate (Lupino) runs away from boarding school to stay with her retired aunt. She faces hostility from the locals, who display bigotry and snobbery towards her. During a witchcraft ... See full summary »
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Marjorie Rambeau, Junior Durkin
Votes: 83
32. The Very Thought of You (1944)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance, War
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson
Votes: 703
33. None Shall Escape (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, War
The career of a German officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Erik Rolf
Votes: 979
34. Beyond Glory (1948)
Approved | 82 min | Drama
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to ... See full summary »
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, George Macready, George Coulouris
Votes: 296
35. You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Youthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, John Litel
Votes: 1,289
36. Another Language (1933)
Approved | 77 min | Drama
Stella and Victor meet in Europe, fall deeply in love, and marry soon thereafter. Then they sail back to the States to meet Victor's family, and the honeymoon is over: Victor's family, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Louise Closser Hale, John Beal, Henry Travers, Margaret Hamilton
Votes: 399
37. Wyoming (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier is murdered by cattle-rustlers when he returns home to Wyoming, but a fugitive train-robber steps in to avenge his death and aid his family in their fight against a local land-grabber.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Ann Rutherford, Lee Bowman
Votes: 297
38. Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Anne Shirley, now betrothed to her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe, takes a teaching position in a prestigious school far from her home on Prince Edward Island. While she is quickly ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Henry Travers, Patric Knowles
Votes: 217
39. Escapade (1935)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Escapade is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring William Powell and Luise Rainer. It is a remake of Maskerade (1934).
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Virginia Bruce
Votes: 92
40. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Directors: William Hamilton, Edward Killy | Stars: Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan, Eric Blore, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 321
41. A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Stephen is a shy, quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the opera where she had his seats, and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: George Murphy, Lucille Ball, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Travers
Votes: 532
42. Gallant Journey (1946)
Passed | 85 min | Biography, Drama, History
This historical drama is a biopic of the U.S. aviation pioneer John J. Montgomery who was the first American to fly a glider in 1883.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles, Henry Travers
Votes: 289
43. I'll Wait for You (1941)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance
A gangster (Robert Sterling) hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter (Marsha Hunt).
Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Robert Sterling, Marsha Hunt, Virginia Weidler, Paul Kelly
Votes: 224
44. Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses ... See full summary »
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael, Helen Mack
Votes: 211
45. Reunion in Vienna (1933)
98 min | Drama, Romance
An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: John Barrymore, Diana Wynyard, Frank Morgan, Henry Travers
Votes: 361
46. Maybe It's Love (1935)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Gloria Stuart, Ross Alexander, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 177
47. Too Many Parents (1936)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Drama
A story of the boys who are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart (George Ernest) writes ... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Frances Farmer, Lester Matthews, Porter Hall, Henry Travers
Votes: 85
48. The Bad Man (1941)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Western
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan. Saying ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 328
49. My Weakness (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Lew Ayres, Charles Butterworth, Harry Langdon
Votes: 39
50. The Party's Over (1934)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Bruce Blakely, a meek, mild-mannered certified public accountant, finally gets fed up with his money-grubbing family sponging off of him, and decides to partake of a different side and slice of life. A blonde secretary helps guide him.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Ann Sothern, Arline Judge, Chick Chandler
Votes: 27