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1. Citizen Kane (1941)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

Votes: 465,800 | Gross: $1.59M

2. Winchester '73 (1950)

Passed | 92 min | Action, Drama, Western

A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally

Votes: 21,970

3. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Directors: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise | Stars: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter

Votes: 26,742

4. This Land Is Mine (1943)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, War

A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak

Votes: 3,730

5. All My Sons (1948)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Film-Noir

During WW2, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever but years later his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Louisa Horton

Votes: 2,405

6. Cat People (1942)

Not Rated | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph

Votes: 25,980 | Gross: $4.00M

7. Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Music, Sport

At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Charles Coburn, Gloria DeHaven, Joshua Shelley

Votes: 94

8. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett

Votes: 13,664

9. The Leopard Man (1943)

Approved | 66 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller

A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell

Votes: 5,958

10. One Touch of Venus (1948)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

Fantasy comedy about a young window dresser who kisses a statue of Venus, which then comes to life in the form of Ava Gardner. However, the problems begin when Venus falls in love with him.

Directors: William A. Seiter, Gregory La Cava | Stars: Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Dick Haymes, Eve Arden

Votes: 1,642

11. The Milkman (1950)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy

Roger Bradley, son of a milk magnate, isn't allowed to work for his dad's company because of a lingering war trauma: in moments of stress he quacks like a duck. Desperate to escape from ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Durante, Piper Laurie, Joyce Holden

Votes: 254

12. The Story of Molly X (1949)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After gang leader Rick is killed, his wife Molly takes over his gang but a robbery goes wrong and Molly finds herself in jail where she undergoes a personal transformation.

Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: June Havoc, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Connie Gilchrist

Votes: 211

13. Heaven Only Knows (1947)

Approved | 100 min | Family, Western

An angel is sent to earth to help save the soul of a saloon and gambling house owner.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy, Marjorie Reynolds, Jorja Curtright

Votes: 490

14. Undertow (1949)

Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A paroled convict is framed for murder and must clear himself before the police catch him.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Peggy Dow

Votes: 917

15. Apache Drums (1951)

Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker, Arthur Shields

Votes: 942

16. Sword in the Desert (1949)

Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1947, with only months remaining until the partition of British-administered Palestine, an American freighter captain smuggles European Jewish refugees ashore under the nose of the British authorities.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler

Votes: 319

17. Francis (1950)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Patricia Medina, Zasu Pitts, Ray Collins

Votes: 1,455

18. Family Honeymoon (1948)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A bachelor marries a widow and her three kids join the honeymoon.

Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Rita Johnson, William H. Daniels

Votes: 271

19. Show Business (1944)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A song-and-dance man and his comic partner undergo romantic ups and downs when they team up with a female duo and transition from burlesque to vaudeville.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly

Votes: 253

20. A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

Facing forty, a NYC spinster on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her unsuitable city suitors.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers

Votes: 1,457

21. Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, War

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger, Alan Napier

Votes: 619

22. Bride by Mistake (1944)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Norah is very rich, owns her own shipyard and has Sylvia double for her at all outside functions. But Sylvia is now married and wants to go to Washington with her new husband while Norah's ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Alan Marshal, Laraine Day, Marsha Hunt, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 333

23. The Time of Your Life (1948)

Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Drama

A wide variety of persons come into Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.

Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris, Jeanne Cagney

Votes: 1,348

24. Tender Comrade (1943)

Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War

Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge

Votes: 973

25. Free for All (1949)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

An inventor comes up with a pill that turns water into gasoline. Complications ensue.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Robert Cummings, Ann Blyth, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins

Votes: 87

26. My Pal Wolf (1944)

Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A girl with a strict governess heads to Washington to purchase her dog from the Secretary of War.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Sharyn Moffett, Jill Esmond, Una O'Connor, George Cleveland

Votes: 172

27. Sword of the Avenger (1948)

Approved | 76 min | Adventure, Romance

In 1827, in the Philippines, Robert Balagtas is framed by his romantic rival and condemned to prison without trial. Years later, he escapes, finds a hidden treasure and returns to Manila a ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Ramon Del Gado, Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Morgan, Duncan Renaldo

Votes: 19

28. Petticoat Larceny (1943)

Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Music

An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.

Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: Ruth Warrick, Joan Carroll, Walter Reed, Wally Brown

Votes: 188

29. Blood on the Sun (1945)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery

Votes: 2,268

30. The Great Gildersleeve (1942)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Gildersleeve, a small town bachelor, has slapstick troubles with a husband-hunting woman and two helpful kids.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Harold Peary, Jane Darwell, Nancy Gates, Charles Arnt

Votes: 413

31. Kentucky Kernels (1934)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Music

Two out-of-work magicians help lovelorn Jerry adopt little Spanky. When Jerry makes up and elopes, the duo are stuck with the brat. Then Spanky inherits a fortune, so they all head to Kentucky and get caught between two feuding clans.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Mary Carlisle, George 'Spanky' McFarland

Votes: 395

32. The Master Race (1944)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, War

In the dying days of World War II a German agent infiltrates a recently liberated Belgian town. His aim is to turn them against their Allied liberators.

Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: George Coulouris, Stanley Ridges, Osa Massen, Carl Esmond

Votes: 286

33. China Sky (1945)

Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, War

The conflicts of war-torn China are reflected in miniature within an American mission hospital.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Ruth Warrick, Ellen Drew, Anthony Quinn

Votes: 516

34. The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be aristocrats. Included in the film are ice skating numbers and songs.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Sonja Henie, Olga San Juan, Dorothy Hart, Michael Kirby

Votes: 119

35. Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)

Approved | 86 min | Western

Good luck with horses and women pushes Sam Bass toward outlawry.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Willard Parker

Votes: 447

36. West Point of the Air (1935)

Passed | 89 min | Drama

A father-and-son aviation drama in which a gruff sergeant wants to make a man and a flyer out of his young son.

Director: Richard Rosson | Stars: Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Lewis Stone, Maureen O'Sullivan

Votes: 235

37. Here We Go Again (1942)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy

It's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead. After one night at... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy

Votes: 322

38. Smuggler's Island (1951)

Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

In 1950s Macao, an American expat diver is hired by a mysterious woman to retrieve a sunken cargo that eventually attracts unwanted attention from a crooked banker, corrupt authorities and local pirates.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Philip Friend, Marvin Miller

Votes: 126

39. The Iron Major (1943)

Passed | 85 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Coach Frank Cavanaugh returns to college football after World War I, then gradually goes blind.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Warrick, Leon Ames

Votes: 276

40. Government Girl (1943)

Passed | 94 min | Romance

The secretary of a newly appointed government official strives to make him a success in spite of his shortcomings.

Director: Dudley Nichols | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Anne Shirley, Sonny Tufts, Jess Barker

Votes: 630

41. Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: James Craig, Bonita Granville, Frank Jenks, Cliff Edwards

Votes: 325

42. Arctic Manhunt (1949)

Approved | 60 min | Adventure

An ex-convict loses his stolen loot in an Alaskan storm, and takes it as a sign that he has to change his life for the better. However, when an Eskimo later finds the money and returns it to him, he begins to revert back to his old ways.

Director: Ewing Scott | Stars: Mikel Conrad, Carol Thurston, Wally Cassell, Joseph E. Bernard

Votes: 15

43. Rookies in Burma (1943)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, War

Even in the jungles of Burma, U.S. Army Privates Jerry Miles (Wally Brown), and Mike Strager (Alan Carney, are still spending most of their time on KP (Kitchen Police) duty. But they are ... See full summary »

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Erford Gage, Joan Barclay

Votes: 58

44. The Fargo Phantom (1950)

Approved | 25 min | Short, Western

THis is a remake of Universal's 1939 "The Phantom Stage" starring Bob Baker. This entry in Universal's series of "Musical Westerns" shorts has Tex Williams, assisted by Deuce Spriggins and ... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Tex Williams, Smokey Rogers, Deuce Spriggins, Shirlee Allard