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| 1 |  | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |  3.8987 80 reviews | NA | Drama |
$9.00
| Local lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman in a ...more about To Kill a Mockingbird starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham |
| 2 |  | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | 3.8557 145 reviews | PG | Adventure, Drama, War, Biography |
$3.95
| Based on the true story of British Army lieutenant T.E. Lawrence. During WWI Lawrence manages to ...more about Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole and Alec Guinness |
| 3 |  | Oliver! (1968) |  3.7393 41 reviews | G | Drama, Crime, Musical, Family |
$3.95
| Originally performed on the London stage, Charles Dickens’ classical tale is brought to film ...more about Oliver! starring Ron Moody and Shani Wallis |
| 4 |  | Spartacus (1960) | 3.6087 29 reviews | PG-13 | Action, Drama, History, War, Biography, Romance |
$12.87
| A slave, trained to be a Gladiator, insights a revolt and uprising against the corrupt Roman ...more about Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier |
| 5 |  | Planet of the Apes (1968) | 3.6000 60 reviews | G | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi |
$9.99
| Three astronauts come out of deep hibernation after their ship crashes on a strange planet. They ...more about Planet of the Apes starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall |
| 6 |  | Cool Hand Luke (1967) | 3.5756 39 reviews | NA | Drama |
$2.87
| Lucas “Luke” Jackson (Paul Newman) is charged with a petty theft he committed when he was ...more about Cool Hand Luke starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy |
| 7 |  | Au hasard Balthazar (1966) | 3.5640 47 reviews | NA | Drama |
$17.99
| The sad life and death of Balthazar, a donkey, from an idyllic childhood surrounded by loving ...more about Au hasard Balthazar starring Anne Wiazemsky and Francois Lafarge |
| 8 |  | Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) | 3.5363 105 reviews | PG-13 | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$4.86
| A Korean War veteran is sent home a hero. He later finds he was captured and brainwashed by ...more about Manchurian Candidate starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey |
| 9 |  | Wild Bunch, The (1969) | 3.5099 103 reviews | R | Action, Drama, Western |
$8.68
| A band of aging outlaws plan for one last bank heist, but when their plan goes wrong the group is ...more about Wild Bunch starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine |
| 10 |  | Guns of Navarone, The (1961) | 3.4619 32 reviews | PG | Action, Adventure, Drama, War |
$10.23
| Based on the novel by Alistair MacLean, a World War II a commando team consisting of Capt. Keith ...more about Guns of Navarone starring Gregory Peck and David Niven |
| 11 |  | Graduate, The (1967) | 3.4551 66 reviews | PG | Drama, Romance, Comedy, Teen |
$4.86
| Shortly after graduating from college, Benjamin begins a secret affair with an older woman. ...more about Graduate starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft |
| 12 |  | Army of Shadows (1969) | 3.3310 79 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$24.99
| Philippe Gerbier is a civil engineer and a chief for the French Resistance in 1942. When Philippe ...more about Army of Shadows starring Lino Ventura and Paul Crauchet |
| 13 |  | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | 3.3144 25 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$12.74
| The answer to that question is, your new son-in-law's parents. A wealthy white family is informed ...more about Guess Who's Coming to Dinner starring Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poitier |
| 14 |  | Point Blank (1967) | 3.3128 36 reviews | R | Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$12.71
| Trying to help his gangster friend Reese, Walker is shot and left for dead by him and his own wife ...more about Point Blank starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson |
| 15 |  | Hustler, The (1961) | 3.2533 42 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Sports |
$14.99
| "Fast" Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive ...more about Hustler starring Jackie Gleason and Piper Laurie |
| 16 |  | Magnificent Seven, The (1960) | 3.2520 59 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Western |
$4.86
| Seven men come to a small Mexican village to help repel the bandits that terrorize the villagers ...more about Magnificent Seven starring James Coburn and Yul Brynner |
| 17 |  | Bullitt (1968) |  3.2346 61 reviews | PG | Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$9.76
| Frank Bullitt is selected by Chalmers, a politician with ambition, to guard a Mafia informant. ...more about Bullitt starring Steve McQueen and Robert Vaughn |
| 18 |  | Repulsion (1965) | 3.2326 32 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller |
$9.95
| A beautiful but sexually repressed young woman lives with her older sister, but disapproves of her ...more about Repulsion starring Catherine Deneuve and Ian Hendry |
| 19 |  | Wait Until Dark (1967) | 3.2173 28 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$13.79
| Susie's husband is asked to hold a doll for a woman as they get off an airplane. She disappears. ...more about Wait Until Dark starring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin |
| 20 |  | Peeping Tom (1960) | 3.2029 64 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$27.95
| As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to ...more about Peeping Tom starring Moira Shearer and Anna Massey |
| 21 |  | West Side Story (1961) | 3.2013 99 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical, Romance |
$5.96
| When two members of rival gangs fall in love there is little that can stop them from being together. ...more about West Side Story starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer |
| 22 |  | Funny Girl (1968) | 3.1908 41 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$3.95
| The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East ...more about Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif |
| 23 |  | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | 3.1822 42 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
$9.99
| Virgil Tibbs is a Philadelphia Homicide detective home to see his mother in the rural south. He is ...more about In the Heat of the Night starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger |
| 24 |  | Midnight Cowboy (1969) | 3.1810 81 reviews | R | Drama |
$9.99
| A "cowboy," Joe Buck, moves to New York City from Texas to make his fortune as a hustler servicing ...more about Midnight Cowboy starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight |
| 25 |  | Medium Cool (1969) | 3.1778 34 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance |
$17.99
| John Cassellis is the toughtest TV-news-reporter around. He becomes an expert in reporting about ...more about Medium Cool starring Verna Bloom and Peter Bonerz |
| 26 |  | Born Free (1966) | 3.1676 21 reviews | PG | Adventure, Drama, Family |
$3.92
| Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa ...more about Born Free starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers |
| 27 |  | Miracle Worker, The (1962) | 3.1339 21 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Disney |
$6.62
| Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an ...more about Miracle Worker starring Anne Bancroft and Victor Jory |
| 28 |  | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) | 3.1298 36 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$15.52
| Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a ...more about What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford |
| 29 |  | Cape Fear (1962) | 3.1273 34 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$5.49
| Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went ...more about Cape Fear starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum |
| 30 |  | My Fair Lady (1964) | 3.1260 72 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical, Romance, Comedy, Family |
$6.69
| Henry Higgins, a speech and language professor, makes a bet with one of his colleagues that just by ...more about My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison |
| 31 |  | Swimmer, The (1968) | 3.1185 21 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friends pool. As they talk, ...more about Swimmer starring Burt Lancaster and Janet Landgard |
| 32 |  | In Cold Blood (1967) | 3.1137 40 reviews | R | Drama, Crime |
$10.23
| Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break ...more about In Cold Blood starring Robert Blake and Scott Wilson |
| 33 |  | Seven Days in May (1964) | 3.1017 17 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller |
$9.76
| An unpopular U.S. President manages to get a nuclear disarmament treaty through the Senate, but ...more about Seven Days in May starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas |
| 34 |  | Lion in Winter, The (1968) | 3.0865 11 reviews | NA | Drama |
$4.12
| Christmas 1183--an aging and conniving King Henry II plans a reunion where he hopes to name his ...more about Lion in Winter starring Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn |
| 35 |  | Doctor Zhivago (1965) | 3.0815 59 reviews | PG-13 | Drama, Romance |
$10.99
| Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother's lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs ...more about Doctor Zhivago starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie |
| 36 |  | Birds, The (1963) | 3.0798 95 reviews | PG-13 | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$13.80
| Flocks of sea gulls begin to take over a small costal town attacking anyone that gets in their ...more about Birds starring Rod Taylor and Jessica Tandy |
| 37 |  | True Grit (1969) | 3.0659 21 reviews | G | Adventure, Drama, Western |
$9.99
| The sudden death of her father sends a young tomboy of a girl, 'Mattie Ross' (Kim Darby) on a ...more about True Grit starring John Wayne and Glen Campbell |
| 38 | | Becket (1964) | 3.0590 24 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography |
$15.95
| King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he ...more about Becket starring Richard Burton and John Gielgud |
| 39 |  | Man for All Seasons, A (1966) | 3.0573 19 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography |
$7.25
| Henry VIII wants to divorce his wife, and seeks the approval of the aristocracy. Sir Thomas More is ...more about Man for All Seasons starring Paul Scofield and Wendy Hiller |
| 40 |  | World of Henry Orient, The (1964) | 3.0519 15 reviews | NA | Drama |
$6.57
| In New York City, adolescent friends Gil and Val follow pianist Henry Orient all over town, while ...more about World of Henry Orient starring Peter Sellers and Paula Prentiss |
| 41 |  | Khartoum (1966) | 3.0473 11 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War |
$5.70
| English General Charles George Gordon, a devout Christian, is appointed military governor of ...more about Khartoum starring Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier |
| 42 |  | Lord of the Flies (1963) | 3.0300 23 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$27.95
| A group of young boys are stranded alone on an island. Left to fend for themselves, they must take ...more about Lord of the Flies starring James Aubrey and Tom Chapin |
| 43 |  | Longest Day, The (1962) | 3.0260 15 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, History, War |
$7.26
| Tells the story of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in WWII. There are dozens of characters, some ...more about Longest Day starring Eddie Albert and Paul Anka |
| 44 |  | Pollyanna (1960) | 3.0229 14 reviews | G | Drama, Comedy, Family, Disney |
$14.99
| A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time ...more about Pollyanna starring Hayley Mills and Jane Wyman |
| 45 |  | Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) | 3.0032 28 reviews | PG-13 | Action, Drama, Crime, Comedy | N/A | Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the ...more about Faster starring Tura Satana and Haji (I) |
| 46 |  | Hud (1963) | 2.9940 34 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Western |
$6.34
| Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of ...more about Hud starring Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal |
| 47 | | Akahige (1965) | 2.9879 27 reviews | NA | Drama |
$27.95
| In a charity hospital, a hard-bitten but honorable older doctor, Dr. Niide, takes a young intern ...more about Akahige starring Reiko Dan |
| 48 | | Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) | 2.9856 13 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical | N/A | ...more about Goodbye starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark |
| 49 |  | Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968) | 2.9846 32 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance |
$4.12
| Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dump the money in a trash can and go their ...more about Thomas Crown Affair starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway |
| 50 |  | Seconds (1966) | 2.9719 16 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$13.99
| There is a very secret organization that offers wealthy people a second chance at life; the ...more about Seconds starring Rock Hudson and Salome Jens |
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