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1. Jane Eyre (1983) Feedback? Tell us what you think about

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239 min | Romance

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2. Les Misérables (1998)

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PG | 144 min | Drama, Romance

6.4 Rate 43 Metascore

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche

neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern,
Karen Black

Votes: 22,157

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4. Wuthering Heights (1992)

PG | 105 min | Drama, History, Romance

6.8 Rate
A man becomes obsessed with vengeance when his soul mate
marries another man.

Director: Peter Kosminsky | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet

McTeer, Sophie Ward

Votes: 11,311

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5. Anna Karenina (1997)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance

6.4 Rate
Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the
handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina,
Mia Kirshner

Votes: 5,210 | Gross: $0.79M

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6. The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

7.5 Rate
When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a
fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull
country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever
increasing confusion.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Michael
Denison, Walter Hudd

Votes: 4,769

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7. Pride and Prejudice (1995)

TV-PG | 327 min | Drama, Romance

8.9 Rate
While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-
minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth
Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.
Stars: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Susannah Harker, Julia Sawalha

Votes: 68,836

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8. Moby Dick (1956)

Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama

7.3 Rate
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his
captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale,
Moby Dick.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn,
James Robertson Justice

Votes: 15,742 | Gross: $10.40M

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9. Sense and Sensibility (1995)

PG | 136 min | Drama, Romance

7.7 Rate 84 Metascore

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three
daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest
daughters are the titular opposites.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom
Wilkinson

Votes: 93,063 | Gross: $43.18M

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10. A Farewell to Arms (1932)

Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Romance, War

6.5 Rate
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in
Italy during World War I.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou,
Mary Philips

Votes: 4,457

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11. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Passed | 170 min | Adventure, Drama, History

6.9 Rate
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the
Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up
a strategically important bridge.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff,
Arturo de Córdova

Votes: 7,683 | Gross: $17.80M

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12. Of Mice and Men (1992)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama

7.5 Rate
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money
working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their
dreams.

Director: Gary Sinise | Stars: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston,
Casey Siemaszko

Votes: 37,780 | Gross: $5.10M

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13. War & Peace (1972–1973)

890 min | Drama, War

8.2 Rate
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his
disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled
personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Morag Hood, Alan Dobie, Rupert Davies

Votes: 541

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14. The Three Musketeers (1993)

PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

6.4 Rate
The three best of the disbanded Musketeers - Athos, Porthos, and
Aramis - join a young hotheaded would-be-Musketeer,
D'Artagnan, to stop the Cardinal Richelieu's evil plot: to form an
... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris

O'Donnell, Oliver Platt

Votes: 47,129 | Gross: $53.90M

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15. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance

6.7 Rate
Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's
homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s
Russia.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom,
Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 2,285

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16. Crime and Punishment (1998 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama

6.1 Rate
A man who is haunted by a murder he committed.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Ben Kingsley, Julie
Delpy, Eddie Marsan

Votes: 757

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17. Oliver Twist (2005)

PG-13 | 130 min | Crime, Drama

6.8 Rate 65 Metascore

An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets

a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a
household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift,
Ian McNeice

Votes: 29,276 | Gross: $1.99M

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18. East of Eden (1955)

PG | 118 min | Drama

7.9 Rate 72 Metascore

A wilful young man contends against his brother for the attention
of their religious father while reconnecting with his estranged
mother and falling for his brother's girlfriend.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris,
Burl Ives

Votes: 37,193

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19. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Passed | 129 min | Drama, History

8 Rate 96 Metascore

A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to

California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great
Depression.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine,
Charley Grapewin

Votes: 81,624 | Gross: $0.06M

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20. Cannery Row (1982)

PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.7 Rate 52 Metascore

Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of

town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is
inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would
not ... See full summary »

Director: David S. Ward | Stars: Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley,
Frank McRae

Votes: 3,131 | Gross: $5.30M

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21. Treasure Island (1950)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Family

7 Rate
The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and
pirate captain Long John Silver.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney,
Walter Fitzgerald

Votes: 6,083

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22. Lord of the Flies (1963)

Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

7 Rate
Lost on an island, young survivors of a plane crash eventually
revert to savagery despite the few rational boys' attempts to
prevent that.

Director: Peter Brook | Stars: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards,
Roger Elwin

Votes: 16,116

23. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

R | 124 min | Drama, Romance

7 Rate 64 Metascore

Wife and husband, both actors, play a couple in love from the
Victorian era. Soon they begin to feel that fiction interweaves into
reality.

Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae,
Emily Morgan

Votes: 11,015 | Gross: $22.60M

24. The Invisible Man (1933)

Not Rated | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

7.7 Rate
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: 26,436

25. Howards End (1992)

PG | 142 min | Drama, Romance

7.5 Rate 89 Metascore

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another

woman.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa

Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter

Votes: 26,147 | Gross: $25.97M

26. All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, War

7.1 Rate
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-
destroying horror of World War I.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald
Pleasence, Ian Holm

Votes: 7,056

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27. Gulliver's Travels (1996)

PG | 186 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

6.9 Rate
An Englishman returns after nine years abroad and tells strange
stories of the tiny people of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnang,
the flying island Laputa, and the Houyhnhnms, a race of
intelligent horses.

Stars: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Robert Hardy

Votes: 5,942

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28. The Man in the Iron Mask (I) (1998)

PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

6.5 Rate 48 Metascore

The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother
whom he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the
real king?

Director: Randall Wallace | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John

Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu

Votes: 147,362 | Gross: $56.97M

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29. Beowulf (2007)

PG-13 | 115 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

6.2 Rate 59 Metascore

The warrior Beowulf (Ray Winstone) must fight and defeat the
monster Grendel (Crispin Glover), who is terrorizing Denmark,
and later, Grendel's Mother (Angelina Jolie), who begins killing
out of revenge.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover, Angelina
Jolie, Robin Wright

Votes: 155,712 | Gross: $82.16M

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30. Fellini Satyricon (1969)

R | 129 min | Drama, Fantasy, History

6.9 Rate
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born,
Salvo Randone

Votes: 13,658

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31. The Decameron (1971)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History

7.1 Rate
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan
Jovanovic, Vincenzo Amato

Votes: 8,649

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32. Taras Bulba (1962)

Approved | 122 min | Adventure, Drama, History

6.4 Rate
In the 16th century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and the
Cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish
invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine
Kaufmann, Sam Wanamaker

Votes: 3,291 | Gross: $4.00M

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33. A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Comedy

6.3 Rate
His life was emotionally closed off from the world, until an
orphaned baby showed up at his house.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura
Linney, Catherine O'Hara

Votes: 4,759 | Gross: $3.43M

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34. The Age of Innocence (1993)

PG | 139 min | Drama, Romance

7.2 Rate 90 Metascore

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a

young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her
husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer,

Winona Ryder, Linda Faye Farkas

Votes: 44,715 | Gross: $32.20M

35. The Bostonians (1984)

Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, Romance

6.3 Rate 59 Metascore

A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend

for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her
future.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica
Tandy, Madeleine Potter

Votes: 1,653 | Gross: $1.01M

36. Catch-22 (1970)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, War

7.2 Rate 70 Metascore

A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World

War II, so he can stop flying missions.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin,
Art Garfunkel

Votes: 20,349 | Gross: $24.91M

37. A Christmas Carol (1999 TV Movie)

PG | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy

7.4 Rate
An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature
learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas
Eve.

Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel
Grey, Ian McNeice

Votes: 7,485

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38. The Citadel (1938)

Passed | 110 min | Drama

7.1 Rate
Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job
in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent
cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its
... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph
Richardson, Rex Harrison

Votes: 1,691

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39. David Copperfield (1999– )

Unrated | 185 min | Drama

7.7 Rate
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult
world.
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Trevor Eve, Michael Elphick, James Thornton

Votes: 3,813

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40. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

PG | 168 min | Drama, History, Romance

7.2 Rate 55 Metascore

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman,

unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by
three very different men.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates,
Terence Stamp

Votes: 4,802

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41. Daisy Miller (1974)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.1 Rate
In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to
figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped
and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris
Leachman, Mildred Natwick

Votes: 984

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42. The Killers (1964)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.1 Rate
Surprised that their contract victim didn't try to run away from
them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them
and why.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes,
Clu Gulager

Votes: 6,066

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43. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

6.2 Rate
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an
infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.

Directors: Henry King, Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Gregory Peck, Susan
Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef

Votes: 4,307 | Gross: $18.05M

44. Great Expectations (2011–2012)

60 min | Drama

7.6 Rate
The orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is
transformed by a mystery benefactor.

Stars: Douglas Booth, Jack Roth, Ray Winstone, David Suchet

Votes: 6,696

45. The Trial (1962)

Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

7.8 Rate
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he
is never made aware of his charges.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn,
Billy Kearns

Votes: 17,433

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46. House of Usher (1960)

Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Horror

7 Rate
Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a
savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has
entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey,
Harry Ellerbe

Votes: 10,678

47. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War

8 Rate 69 Metascore

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to

another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and
experiences hardship during World War I and then the October
Revolution.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin,
Rod Steiger

Votes: 64,941 | Gross: $111.72M

48. Notes from Underground (1995)

88 min | Drama

6.5 Rate
Adapted from Dostoevsky's novella, Henry Czerny plays the
narrator, Underground Man. Filled with self-hatred, he keeps a
video diary where he discusses his own shortcomings and what
he ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Walkow | Stars: Henry Czerny, Seth Green, Sheryl Lee, Vic
Polizos

Votes: 358

49. The Plague (1992)

R | 148 min | Drama

5.9 Rate
In the 1990s, a South American city is rocked by the imminent
outbreak of a plague. While many attempt to flee the city, Dr.
Bernard Rieux sends his sick wife away and does his best to
care... See full summary »
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: William Hurt, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marc
Barr, Robert Duvall

Votes: 771

50. 1984 (1984)

R | 113 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

7.2 Rate 67 Metascore

In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-

writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Michael Radford | Stars: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna
Hamilton, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 60,588 | Gross: $8.40M

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