Top 50 EverGreen American Movies

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It is said, “Old is Gold” which remains evergreen in all the time. American Film Institution is asked to vote the best 50 movies that are immortal & memorable all the time. So the AFI selected the best 50 movies in regard of legends. A film is judged & voted on the following criteria:

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Feature Length
Critical Recognition
Major Award Winner
Popularity Over Time
Historical Significance
Cultural Impact

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Here we have selected top fifty films which have fulfilled the above criteria in all aspects.

1: Film Name: How Green Was My Valley

Focus on: Life is tough in a Welsh Mining town and no fewer so for the Morgan family. It is seen through the eyes of the family’s earliest. It is about 118 minutes long.

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Released on: 1941
Director: John Ford
Actors: Mr.Walter Pidgeon, M O’Hara, Anna Lee and Donald Crisp
US Gross: 6 Million

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2: Film Name: Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Focus on: A young New York one of the in-crowd becomes interested in a young man who has enthused into her flat building. It is about 115 minutes long.

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Released on: 1961
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: Mr. Audrey Hepburn, Mr. George Peppard, Patricia Neal and Buddy Ebsen
US Gross: 8 Million

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3: Film Name: Singin’ In The Rain

Focus on: It is silent film Production Company and company makes a difficult evolution to sound. It is about103 minutes long.

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Released on: 1952
Director: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Actors: Mr. Gene Kelly, Mr. Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Jean Hagen
US Gross: 7.2 Million Dollars

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4: Film Name: From Here To Eternity

Focus on: In the year 1941 Hawaii, a private is brutally penalized for not fighting on his entity’s team, whereas, his captain’s spouse and second in command are falling in love. It’s about118 minutes long.

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Released on: 1953
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Mr. Burt Lancaster, Mr. Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed
US Gross: 30.5 Million Dollars

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5: Film Name: Judgment At Nuremberg

Focus on: In the year 1948, an American law court in engaged Germany tries four Nazi judges for war corruptions. It is about186 minutes long.

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Released on: 1961
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Mr. Spencer Tracy, Mr. Burt Lancaster, Mr. Richard Widmark and Marlene Dietrich
US Gross: 10 Million Dollars

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6: Film Name: Mutiny On The Bounty

Focus on: The Bounty leaves for Portsmouth in the year 1787. Its endpoint: to set sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. It is about178 minutes long.

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Released on: 1962
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Mr. Marlon Brando, Mr. Trevor Howard, Mr. Richard Harris and Hugh Griffith
US Gross: 13.68 Million Dollars

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7: Film Name: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Focus on: Mr. Brick is an alcoholic ex-football competitor, drinks in his days away and repels the loves of his wife, Maggie. His gathering with his father, Big Daddy, who is at the end stage due to cancer, prods a mass of memories and exposés for both father and son as well. It is about108 minutes long.

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Released on: 1958
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Ms. Elizabeth Taylor, Mr. Paul Newman, Burl Ives and Jack Carson
US Gross: 17.57 Million Dollars

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8: Film Name: To Kill A Mockingbird

Focus on: Atticus Finch, a legal representative in the Depression epoch South, secures a black man against an unmerited rape charge and his offspring against bias. It is about129 minutes long.

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Released on: 1962
Director: Robert Mulligan
Actors: Gregory Peck, Mr. John Megna, Mr. Frank Overton and Rosemary Murphy
US Gross: 13.12 Million Dollars

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9: Film Name: His Girl Friday

Focus on: A newspaper publishing supervisor uses every artificial in the book to keep his super reporter and ex-wife from get married again. It is about 92 minutes long.

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Released on: 1940
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Cary Grant, Mr. Rosalind Russell, Mr. Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart
US Gross: 195 Million Dollars

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10: Film Name: Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

Focus on: It is the event of two Western bank and intercity robbers escape to Bolivia when the law approaches to them. It is about 110 minutes long.

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Released on: 1969
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Paul Newman, Mr. Robert Redford, Ms. Katharine Ross and Strother Martin
US Gross: 97 Million Dollars

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11: Film Name: The Hustler

Focus on: A best pool player plays, who has been a long-time winner in a single high risks match. It is about 134 minutes long.

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Released on: 1961
Director: Robert Rossen
Actors: Mr. Paul Newman, Mr. Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie and Mr. George C. Scott
US Gross: 36 Million Dollars

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12: Film Name: Hud

Focus on: Hud Bannon is a cruel young man , he blemishes everything and everyone, when he touches. Hud signifies the perfect personification of disaffected youth. It is about 112 minutes long.

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Released on: 1963
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Paul Newman, Ms. Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal and Mr. Brandon De Wilde
US Gross: 10 Million Dollars

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13: Film Name: Raging Bull

Focus on: A passionately self-destructive fighter’s trip through his life, because the viciousness and annoyance that hints him to the top in the hoop, abolishes his life outside it. It is about 129 minutes.

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Released on: 1980
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Mr. Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci and Mr. Frank Vincent
US Gross: 23.38 Million Dollars

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14: Film Name: The Shawshank Redemption

Focus on: Two captive men aptitude over many of years, finding consolation and ultimate renovation through acts of common politeness. It is about142 minutes long.

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Released on: 1994
Director: Frank Darabont
Actors: Tim Robbins, Mr. Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton and Mr. William Sadler
US Gross: 58.50 Million Dollars

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15: Film Name: The Guns Of Navarone

Focus on: A British group is directed to cross engaged Greek area and terminate the enormous German gun emplacement that commands a key sea conduit. It is about158 minutes long.

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Released on: 1961
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Mr. David Niven, Gregory Peck, Ms. Anthony Quinn and Anthony Quayle
US Gross: 75+10 % Thousand Dollars

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16: Film Name: On The Waterfront

Focus on: This film minutes were ready for the New York State. Authors Institute by Kevin Jack Hagopian, who is Senior Speaker in Media Studies in Pennsylvania State University. It is about 108 minutes long.

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Released on: 1954
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Mr. Rod Steiger and Eva Marie Saint
US Gross: 9.6 Million Dollars

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17: Film Name: Letters From Iwo Jima

Focus on: The tale of film focuses on the fight of Iwo Jima between the United States and Majestic Japan during World War II, as told from the outlook of the Japanese who struggled on it. It is about 141 minutes long.

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Released on: 2006
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: : Ken Watanabe, Ms. Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara and Ryo Kase
US Gross: 8.67 Million Dollars

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18: Film Name: The Talk Of The Town

Focus on: A fugitive jailbird and a stale law professor vie for the hand of a brave schoolteacher. It is about 118 minutes long.

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Released on: 1942
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Cary Grant, Mr. Jean Arthur, Mr. Ronald Colman and Edgar Buchanan.
US Gross: 72 Million Dollars

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19: Film Name: The Odd Couple

Focus on: there are two friends try to share a flat, but their ideas of housework and routines are as dissimilar as night and day. It is about105 minutes long.

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Released on: 1968
Director: Gene Saks
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Mr. Walter Matthau, Mr. John Fiedler and Herb Edelman.
US Gross: 18.87 Million Dollars

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20: Film Name: The Elephant Man

Focus on: A Victorian surgeon releases a profoundly flawed man who is neglected while grating a living as a side-show rarity. Behind his horrific frontage, there is exposed a person of aptitude and thoughtfulness. It is about124 minutes long.

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Released on: 1980
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Mr. John Hurt, Ms. Anne Bancroft and Mr. John Gielgud
US Gross: 26 Million Dollars

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21: Film Name: Milk

Focus on: The tale of film Harvey Milk, and his melees as an American boy advanced. He fought for gay privileges and became California’s first openly gay selected authorized. It is about 128 minutes long.

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Released on: 1980
Director: Gus Van Sant
Actors: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ms. Emile Hirsch and Diego Luna
US Gross: 1.9 Million Dollars

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22: Film Name: My Fair Lady

Focus on: A misogynistic and superior phonetics professor agrees to a bet that he can take a blossom girl and make her respectable in high civilization. It is about 170 minutes long.

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Released on: 1964
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Mr. Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Wilfrid Hyde-White
US Gross: 72 Million Dollars

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23: Film Name: Maurice

Focus on: when his lover rejects him, a young man stuck by the forcefulness of Edwardian civilization tries to come to footings with and admit his sexuality. It is about140 minutes long.

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Released on: 1987
Director: James Ivory
Actors: Mr. James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Mr. Hugh Grant and Denholm Elliott
US Gross: 3.13 Million Dollars

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24: Film Name: The Greatest Game Ever Played

Focus on: It is a golf theater founded on the true story of the 1913 US Open, where 20 year old Francis Ouimet overcome his pinup, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman and Harry Vardon. It is about 120 minutes long.

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Released on:2005
Director: Bill Paxton
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Mr. Stephen Dillane, Elias Koteas and Mr. James Paxton
US Gross: 15.33 Million Dollars

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25: Film Name: In The Name Of The Father

Focus on: Man’s forced acknowledgment to an IRA bombing he didn’t do jails his father as well. A British legal representative helps contest for their freedom. It is about 133 minutes long.

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Released on: 1993
Director: Jim Sheridan
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Mr. Alison Crosbie and Mr. Philip King
US Gross: 65.79 Million Dollars

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26: Film Name: My Left Foot

Focus on: it is the story of Christy Brown, who was born with intellectual palsy. He is well-educated to paint and write with his only manageable member and his left foot. It is about 103 minutes long.

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Released on:1989
Director: Jim Sheridan
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Mr. Alison Whelan and Mr. Kirsten Sheridan
US Gross: 190.76 Million Dollars

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27: Film Name: Fiddler on the Roof

Focus on: In pre ground-breaking Russia, a deprived Jewish laborer must oppose with espousing off his three daughters while anti-Semitic soppiness lurks his home. It is about181 minutes long.

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Released on: 1971
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Topol, Norma Crane, Mr. Leonard Frey and Mr. Molly Picon
US Gross: 50 Million Dollars

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28: Film Name: East of Eden

Focus on: It is the story of the Salinas Valley, in and everywhere World War I, Cal Trask feels he must contest against devastating. It is about 115 minutes long.

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Released on: 1955
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: James Dean, Mr. Raymond Massey, Ms. Julie Harris and Burl Ives
US Gross: 70 Million Dollars

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29: Film Name: Rebel Without A Cause

Focus on: A disobedient young man with a bothered past comes to a new town. He was finding friends and opponents. It is about 111 minutes long.

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Released on: 1955
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Mr. James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Mr. Jim Backus
US Gross: 68 Million Dollars

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30: Film Name: The Color Purple

Focus on: The lifespan and court-martials of a young African American lady. It is about 154 minutes long.

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Released on: 1985
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Mr. Danny Glover, Mr. Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery
US Gross: 142 Million Dollars

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31: Film Name: District 9

Focus on: A celestial race involuntary to live in favela like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a associated essence in a government agent who is unprotected to their biotechnology. It is about112 minutes long movie.

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Released on: 2009
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Actors: Sharlto Copley, Mr. David James, Mr. Jason Cope and Nathalie Boltt
US Gross:115.50 Million Dollars

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32: Film Name: Se7en

Focus on: There are two investigators, one is rookie and second is veteran, search a serial executioner who uses the seven lethal iniquities as his modus operandi. It is about127 minutes long.

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Released on: 1995
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Mr. Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey and Mr. Gwyneth Paltrow
US Gross: 316.40 Million Dollars

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33: Film Name: V for Vendetta

Focus on: A spectral autonomy fighter known as “V”. He uses guerrilla strategies to fight against his authoritarian society. Upon saving a girl from the underground police, he also finds his best fortuitous at having a friend. It is about132 minutes long.

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Released on: 2005
Director: James McTeigue
Actors: Mr. Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Mr. Rupert Graves and Mr. Stephen Rea
US Gross: 132.51 Million Dollars

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34: Film Name: Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels

Focus on: there are four London employed class corpses pool their currency to put one in a high risks card game, but all go wrong and they finish having 1/2 million pounds and having one week to come up with the currency. It is about 107 minute’s long movie.

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Released on: 1998
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Jason Flemyng, Mr. Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran and Jason Statham
US Gross: 3.65 Million Dollars

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35: Film Name: Ordinary People

Focus on: it is an unplanned death of the older son of a rich family deeply straining the associations among the nasty mother, and the good nature father, and the faulty galloped younger son. It is about 124 minutes long.

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Released on: 1980
Director: Robert Redford
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Ms. Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Mr. Timothy Hutton
US Gross: 54.76 Million Dollars

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36: Film Name: The Green Mile

Focus on: The story of film lies on the lives of guards on Demise Row is exaggerated by one of their charges. A black man blamed of child homicide and rape, who has a enigmatic gift. It is about 189 minutes long.

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Released on: 1999
Director: Frank Darabont
Actors: Tom Hanks, Mr. Michael Clarke Duncan, Mr. David Morse and Bonnie Hunt
US Gross: 136.80 Million Dollars

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37: Film Name: 12 Angry Men

Focus on: A rebel assessor in a murder experimental slowly manages to persuade the others that the case is not as clearly clear as it appeared in law court. It is about 96 minutes long.

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Released on: 1957
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Henry Fonda, Mr. Lee J. Cobb, Mr. Martin Balsam and Mr. John Fiedler
US Gross: 122 Million Dollars

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38: Film Name: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Focus on: It expresses the story of Elliott presented on played by Thomas, an isolated boy who helps an extraterrestrial, called “E.T.”, who is beached on Earth. Elliott and his brothers help the celestial reappearance home while trying to keep it concealed from mother and the government.

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Released on: 1982
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Mr. Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Mr. Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Mr. Peter Coyote
US Gross: 11 Million Dollars

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39: Film Name: Titanic

Focus on: The basic theme is that the ship descended and took a lot of people in the sea. However, of course, there was some recklessness, where people acted in an strange manner, as contrasting to some members of the team, who got into lifeboats before the other travelers.

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Released on: 1997
Director: James Horner
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane, Mr. Frances Fisher, Bill Paxton, David Warner, Ms. Kate Winslet
US Gross: 658 Million Dollars

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40: Film Name: Chariots Of Fire

Focus on: In this film, there are two British track sportspersons, one a single-minded Jew and the other a sincere Christian, vie in the 1924 Olympics. It is about 124 minutes long.

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Released on: 1981
Director: Hugh Hudson
Actors: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Mr. Nicholas Farrell and Nigel Havers
US Gross: 58.97 Million Dollars

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41: Film Name: Pulp Fiction

Focus on: This story lies on the lives of two horde winner men, a boxer, a criminal’s wife, and a pair of patron outlaws entwine in four stories of ferocity and recovery. It is about 154 minutes.

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Released on: 1994
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: : John Travolta, Ms. Uma Thurman, Mr. Samuel L. Jackson and Mr. Bruce Willis
US Gross: 107.92 Million Dollars

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42: Film Name: Philadelphia

Focus on: This film focuses on when a man with AIDS is fired up by a traditional law firm because of his disorder; he rentals a homophobic small time legal representative as the only eager advocate for a illegal discharge outfit. It is about 125 minutes long.

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Released on: 1993
Director: Jonathan Demme
Actors: Tom Hanks, Mr. Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell and Buzz Kilman
US Gross:17 Million Dollars

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43: Film Name: The Deer Hunter

Focus on: In the depth inspection of the technique that the Vietnam War touches the lives of people in a small business town in the United State. It is about182 minutes long.

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Released on: 1978
Director: Michael Cimino
Actors: : Robert De Niro, Mr. Christopher Walken, Mr. John Cazale and John Savage
US Gross: 50 Million Dollars

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44: Film Name: Zodiac

Focus on: A San Francisco artist becomes an unprofessional investigator preoccupied with following down the Zodiac murderer. It is about157 minutes.

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Released on: 2007
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mr. Robert Downey Jr., Mr. Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Edwards
US Gross: 84.78 Million Dollars

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45: Film Name: Lions For Lambs

Focus on: Wounds continued by two Military ranger’s behindhand opponent lines in Afghanistan set off a arrangement of events linking a assembly man, a reporter and a professor. It is about 92 minutes long.

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Released on: 2007
Director: Robert Redford
Actors: Tom Cruise, Mr. Meryl Streep, Mr. Robert Redford and Michael Peña
US Gross: 14.99 Million Dollars

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46: Film Name: Inglourious Basterds

Focus on: In Nazi engaged France through World War II, a strategy to kill Nazi leaders by a set of Jewish U.S. militaries consensuses with a drama owner’s unforgiving plans for the same. It is about153 minutes long.

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Released on: 2009
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Mr. Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Ms. Eli Roth and Mélanie Laurent
US Gross: 120.5 Million Dollars

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47: Film Name: Modigliani

Focus on: The tale of film is Amedeo Modigliani’s unpleasant competition with Pablo Picasso and his sad amorousness with Jeanne Hebuterne. It is about128 minutes long

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Released on: 2004
Director: Mick Davis
Actors: Andy Garcia, Ms. Elsa Zylberstein, Mr. Omid Djalili and Hippolyte Girardot
US Gross: 195.37 Million Dollars

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48: Film Name: My Own Private Idaho

Focus on: There are two best contacts living in the roads of Portland as hustlers embark on a trip of self-discovery and catch their association hesitant along the system. It is about 104 minutes long.

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Released on: 1991
Director: Gus Van Sant
Actors: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, Mr. James Russo and Mr. William Richert
US Gross: 6.40 Million Dollars

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49: Film Name: The Social Network

Focus on: Harvard University student, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg makes the social interacting website that is known as Facebook, but in advanced prosecuted by two brothers who appealed he wrapped their knowledge, and the cofounder who was later embraced out of the business. It is about 120 minutes long movie and really wonderful.

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Released on: 2010
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Mr. Justin Timberlake and Ms. Rooney Mara
US Gross: 96.91 Million Dollars

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50: Film Name: Black Swan

Focus on: A salsa ballerina successes the prime in “Swan Lake” and is flawless for the person of the subtle White Drift – Princess Odette – but slowly misplaces her attention as she becomes much like Oldie, the Black Wander. It is about 108 minutes long.

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