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Movies I highly recommend. I choose these films based not on special effects or amazing action, but because they have great characters and strong stories. Click on
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When it comes to dying for country, it's better not to die at all.
Apocalypse Now (AFI#28)
War is a mass expression of insanity.
Before Sunrise
Can the greatest romance of your life last only one night?
Ben-Hur (Best Picture Oscar/Golden Globe/AFI#72)
A Tale of Christ. A Roman slave seeks reunion with his family.
The Best Years of Our Lives (Best Picture Oscar/Golden Globe/AFI#37)
Some War Veterans Come Back to Happy Families... Some Come Back to Sad Times.
Casablanca (Best Picture Oscar/AFI#2)
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walked into mine.
Citizen Kane (AFI#1)
Rosebud...
Crimson Tide
The most powerful man in the world: The Captain of a nuclear submarine.
Dances with Wolves (Best Picture Oscar/Golden Globe/AFI#75)
The Civil War had ended, but one man's battle with himself was just beginning...
Das Boot (The Boat)
When the hunters become the hunted.
Death of a Salesman (1985)
The American Dream turns to Tragedy.
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
The death of syphillis.
Doctor Zhivago (Best Picture Golden Globe/AFI#39)
A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution
Driving Miss Daisy (Best Picture Oscar)
Two stubborn folks... one life.
The English Patient (Best Picture Oscar/Golden Globe)
In memory, love lives forever.
The Elephant Man
I am not an animal! I...am...a man!
The Fighting Sullivans
The sacrifices of World War II.
Forrest Gump (Best Picture Oscar/Golden Globe/AFI#71)
Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get.
Fury
Mob justice.
Gaslight
Strange drama of a captive sweetheart!
Gattaca
There is no gene for the human spirit.
Glory
The Civil War's first black fighting unit.
Goodbye Mr. Chips
A world always young.
GoodFellas
Murderers come with smiles.
The Good Earth
Famine, revolution, death, betrayal, and human spirit.
Gone with the Wind (Best Picture Oscar/AFI#4)
The destruction and rebirth of the South.
The Great Dictator: Adenoid Hynkel
Greed has poisoned men's souls; has barricaded the world with hate.
Greed
The root of all evil...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Sad tale of a deformed man...
It's A Wonderful Life (AFI#11)
One man's life touches so many others...
Julius Caesar (1953)
Friends, Romans, Countrymen... lend me your ear!
The Killing Fields
A nightmarish vision of one of history's darkest moments.
Lady and the Tramp
She's from the leash and license set... he's footloose and collar free!
Lawrence of Arabia (Best Picture Oscar/Golden Globe/AFI#5)
T.E. Lawrence rewrites the political history of Saudi Arabia.
The Lion King
Remember who you are. You are my son and the one true king. Remember...
Little Women (1933)
A story about four sisters and their dreams.
The Miracle Worker (1962)
A blind/deaf/mute girl learns to touch the world.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (AFI#29)
A fight against political corruption.
Mutiny on the Bounty (Best Picture Oscar/AFI#86)
A tyrant on the high seas.
North By Northwest (AFI#40)
The Master of Suspense presents a 3000-mile chase across America!
Of Mice and Men (1992)
We have a dream. Someday, we'll have a place to call home.
Paths of Glory
the roll of the drums... the click of the rifle-bolts... the last cigarette...
Patton (Best Picture Oscar/AFI#89)
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
Penny Serenade
Music, memories, and tragedies.
A Place in the Sun (Best Picture Golden Globe/AFI#92)
I'm in trouble, George... bad trouble.
Planet of the Apes
Somewhere in the Universe, there must be something better than man!
Psycho (1960) (AFI#18)
Oh God mother, blood! Blood!
Rear Window (AFI#42)
We've become a race of Peeping Toms.
Rebel Without a Cause (AFI#59)
To Belong...and be loved.
Romeo & Juliet (1968)
No ordinary love story...
Saving Private Ryan In the Last Great War, The Greatest Challenge for Eight Men was Saving... One.
Schindler's List (Best Picture Oscar/Golden Globe/AFI#9)
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Sail to high adventure with 'The Robin Hood of the Sea.'
The Search
Orphaned by World War, a boy searches for his mother.
Sergeant York
One of America's greatest heroes.
Se7en
Gluttony * Greed * Sloth * Envy * Wrath * Pride * Lust
The Seven Samurai
The Mighty Warriors Who Became Seven National Heroes
The Shawshank Redemption
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
The Shop Around the Corner
A secret romance.
The Sound of Music (Best Picture Oscar/AFI#55)
She brought music back into their lives.
Star Wars (Hugo Winner/AFI#15))
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Suddenly, Last Summer
A psychological journey into insanity.
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
America's revenge for Pearl Harbor.
Titanic (1997) (Best Picture Oscar/Golden Globe)
Collide with destiny.
To Kill A Mocking Bird (AFI#34)
Depression-Era rascism arises from rape.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (AFI#30)
They sold their souls...
The Truman Show
Fake Scenery, Fake Plots, and one Real Person
12 Angry Men
Life or death is in the hands of the jury!
2001: A Space Odyssey (Hugo Winner/AFI#22)
The Ultimate Trip.
Vertigo (AFI#61)
Alfred Hitchcock engulfs you in a whirlpool of terror and tension!
West Side Story (Best Picture Oscar/Globe/AFI#41)
A musical version of Romeo & Juliet set in New York.
When Harry Met Sally...
Can a man and a woman... just be friends?
The Wizard of Oz (AFI#6)
There's no place like home.
Yankee Doodle Dandy (AFI#100)
All-time patriotic show tunes from George M. Cohan.
AFI=American Film Institute's 100 Best Films: 1896-1996
