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| 101 |  | Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) |  2.9887 34 reviews | NA | Drama |
$4.89
| The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a ...more about Magnificent Ambersons starring Joseph Cotten and Dolores Costello |
| 102 |  | Anna and the King of Siam (1946) | 2.9841 15 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$4.86
| In 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On ...more about Anna and the King of Siam starring Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison |
| 103 |  | Love Crazy (1941) | 2.9823 7 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Steve and Susan Ireland are about to celebrate their 4th wedding anniversary by re-enacting their ...more about Love Crazy starring William Powell and Myrna Loy |
| 104 |  | My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) | 2.9823 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir | N/A | Some sources cite this as an early example of British film noir, which is rather interesting since ...more about My Name Is Julia Ross starring Nina Foch and Dame May Whitty |
| 105 |  | Spiral Staircase, The (1946) | 2.9809 21 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Mystery |
$4.99
| Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, ...more about Spiral Staircase starring Dorothy McGuire and George Brent |
| 106 |  | Johnny Belinda (1948) | 2.9807 12 reviews | NA | Drama |
$7.00
| In a small fishing village on the island of Cape Breton, Dr. Robert Richardson takes an interest in ...more about Johnny Belinda starring Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres |
| 107 |  | Lady in the Lake (1947) | 2.9798 13 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir |
$28.99
| The camera shows Phillip Marlowe's view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond ...more about Lady in the Lake starring Robert Montgomery and Audrey Totter |
| 108 |  | Life with Father (1947) | 2.9740 6 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$5.99
| In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but ...more about Life with Father starring William Powell and Irene Dunne |
| 109 |  | My Favorite Blonde (1942) | 2.9730 13 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$8.89
| Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train bound for Los Angeles. Is Hollywood ...more about My Favorite Blonde starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll |
| 110 |  | Kings Row (1942) | 2.9725 13 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$12.71
| Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years ...more about Kings Row starring Ann Sheridan and Robert Cummings |
| 111 |  | Pride of the Yankees, The (1942) | 2.9706 21 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Family, Sports |
$8.99
| Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games ...more about Pride of the Yankees starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright |
| 112 | | Shanghai Gesture, The (1941) | 2.9679 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir |
$11.01
| A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin ...more about Shanghai Gesture starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston |
| 113 |  | Now, Voyager (1942) | 2.9679 31 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$8.68
| Charlotte Vale suffers under the domination of her Boston matron mother until Dr. Jaquith gets her ...more about Now starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid |
| 114 |  | Beast with Five Fingers, The (1946) | 2.9679 15 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist ...more about Beast with Five Fingers starring Robert Alda and Andrea King |
| 115 |  | Boy! What a Girl! (1947) | 2.9679 1 reviews | PG | Musical |
$3.18
| Two small-time (aspiring to be big-time) producers are trying to convince a Chicago businessman to ...more about Boy! What a Girl! starring Elwood Smith and Duke Williams |
| 116 |  | My Friend Flicka (1943) | 2.9668 10 reviews | NA | Western |
$7.99
| Young Ken McLaughlin has a problem doing anything to please his father. The boy is constantly ...more about My Friend Flicka starring Preston Foster and Rita Johnson |
| 117 |  | Somewhere in the Night (1946) | 2.9668 8 reviews | NA | Crime, Film-Noir |
$6.50
| ...more about Somewhere in the Night starring John Hodiak and Nancy Guild |
| 118 |  | Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) | 2.9661 31 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$12.20
| Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage with an inordinate ...more about Mr. & Mrs. Smith starring Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond |
| 119 |  | Letter to Three Wives, A (1949) | 2.9623 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$9.27
| Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks ...more about Letter to Three Wives starring Jeanne Crain and Linda Darnell |
| 120 |  | I Married a Witch (1942) | 2.9588 16 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Comedy | N/A | After a ancestor of Wallace Wooley has burned Jennifer, a witch and her father, they cursed his ...more about I Married a Witch starring Veronica Lake and Robert Benchley |
| 121 |  | Boom Town (1940) | 2.9575 8 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$12.71
| McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsey comes West intending to marry Sand but ...more about Boom Town starring Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy |
| 122 |  | Anchors Aweigh (1945) | 2.9575 20 reviews | NA | Adventure, Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$9.76
| Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, on liberty in Los Angeles, ...more about Anchors Aweigh starring Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly |
| 123 |  | Story of G.I. Joe (1945) | 2.9569 5 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Biography |
$21.99
| War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its ...more about Story of G.I. Joe starring Freddie Steele and Wally Cassell |
| 124 |  | They Were Expendable (1945) | 2.9542 19 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$6.62
| The fall of the Phillippines to the Japanese in World War II, and the heroism and tragedy of the ...more about They Were Expendable starring John Wayne and Donna Reed |
| 125 |  | Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) | 2.9527 25 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$13.34
| Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's ...more about Lady from Shanghai starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles |
| 126 |  | Yearling, The (1946) | 2.9519 14 reviews | NA | Drama, Family |
$4.49
| After the American Civil War, a rebel soldier and his wife become pioneer farmers in Florida. Their ...more about Yearling starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman |
| 127 |  | 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945) | 2.9492 33 reviews | G | Drama, Romance |
$27.95
| Young middle-class Englishwoman Joan Webster is determined to have the finer things in life, and to ...more about 'I Know Where I'm Going!' starring George Carney |
| 128 |  | Orchestra Wives (1942) | 2.9487 14 reviews | NA | Musical |
$8.99
| Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her ...more about Orchestra Wives starring Ann Rutherford |
| 129 |  | My Favorite Wife (1940) | 2.9469 10 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$12.71
| Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick ...more about My Favorite Wife starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant |
| 130 |  | Fort Apache (1948) | 2.9463 12 reviews | G | Western |
$11.52
| In John Ford's sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character ...more about Fort Apache starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda |
| 131 |  | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) | 2.9379 10 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the novel of the same name. ...more about Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo starring Van Johnson and Robert Walker |
| 132 |  | Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) | 2.9379 12 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy, Sports |
$9.76
| The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a ...more about Take Me Out to the Ball Game starring Frank Sinatra and Esther Williams |
| 133 |  | Woman in the Window, The (1945) | 2.9259 13 reviews | NA | Thriller, Film-Noir | N/A | Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the ...more about Woman in the Window starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett |
| 134 |  | Jungle Book (1942) | 2.9222 6 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Fantasy |
$2.95
| Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. ...more about Jungle Book starring Sabu (I) and Joseph Calleia |
| 135 | | The Thieves' Market (1949) | 2.9222 9 reviews | NA |
$27.95
| ...more about The Thieves' Market starring Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb | |
| 136 |  | Palm Beach Story, The (1942) | 2.9208 28 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$4.08
| Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is ...more about Palm Beach Story starring Claudette Colbert and Franklin Pangborn |
| 137 |  | My Darling Clementine (1946) | 2.9206 48 reviews | NA | Western |
$4.86
| Wyatt Earp and his brothers move to Tombstone to live the lives of quiet farmers, but when a band ...more about My Darling Clementine starring Henry Fonda and Linda Darnell |
| 138 |  | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | 2.9181 40 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi |
$8.89
| Graverobbers open the grave of the Wolfman and awake him. He doesn't like the idea of being ...more about Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man starring Ilona Massey and Patric Knowles |
| 139 |  | Batman and Robin (1949) | 2.9165 8 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Crime |
$12.20
| Antisocial Prof. Hammil's Remote Control device, which enables the user to take over any motor ...more about Batman and Robin starring Robert Lowery and Johnny Duncan |
| 140 |  | Body Snatcher, The (1945) | 2.9157 20 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$12.71
| In Edinburgh, renowned surgeon and now teacher of anatomy Dr. MacFarlane, has been paying John ...more about Body Snatcher starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi |
| 141 | | Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) | 2.9154 16 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy |
$42.20
| Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, ...more about Never Give a Sucker an Even Break starring Leon Errol and W.C. Fields |
| 142 |  | Portrait of Jennie (1948) | 2.9146 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance |
$9.99
| Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find ...more about Portrait of Jennie starring Lillian Gish and Jennifer Jones |
| 143 |  | Blithe Spirit (1945) | 2.9131 18 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Comedy | N/A | Adapted from a play by Noel Coward, Charles and his second wife Constance, are haunted by the ghost ...more about Blithe Spirit starring Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings |
| 144 |  | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | 2.9119 23 reviews | NA |
$27.95
| Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who ...more about Sullivan's Travels starring Veronica Lake and Robert Warwick | |
| 145 |  | Mighty Joe Young (1949) | 2.9119 16 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy |
$9.49
| Jill Young has brought up her pet gorilla since she was a child. Twelve years later, when the ...more about Mighty Joe Young starring Terry Moore and Ben Johnson |
| 146 |  | Lured (1947) | 2.9118 7 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$19.95
| A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns of ...more about Lured starring George Sanders and Lucille Ball |
| 147 |  | Make Mine Music (1946) | 2.9111 10 reviews | NA | Musical, Family, Animation, Disney |
$10.98
| Segments: "A Rustic Ballad," a story of feuding hillbillys; "A Tone Poem," a mood piece set on a ...more about Make Mine Music starring Nelson Eddy and Dinah Shore |
| 148 |  | Nightmare Alley (1947) | 2.9102 36 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir |
$6.59
| Stanton Carlisle is an ambitious carnie who plays scams alongside phony mentalist Zeena and her ...more about Nightmare Alley starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell |
| 149 |  | Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947) | 2.9049 25 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Romance |
$5.53
| In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even ...more about Ghost and Mrs. Muir starring Isobel Elsom and Gene Tierney |
| 150 |  | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) | 2.9017 11 reviews | NA | Thriller, Sci-Fi, Crime, Mystery |
$5.16
| Starting in Switzerland, Sherlock Holmes rescues the inventor of a bomb-sight which the allies want ...more about Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce |
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