Rear Window (1954)

The Godfather (1972)

Summary: Don Vito Corleone, head of a mafia family, decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son Michael. However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger.

Release Date: March 24, 1972

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writers: Mario Puzo

, Francis Ford Coppola

Runtime: 2 h 55 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Albert S. Ruddy Productions, Alfran Productions

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Godfather

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 136,381,073

International: $ 113,960,743

Boyhood (2014)

Summary: The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.

Release Date: August 15, 2014

Genre: Drama

Director: Richard Linklater

Writer: Richard Linklater

Runtime: 2 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: IFC Productions, Detour Filmproduction

Distributor: IFC Films, Paramount Home Entertainment, Showtime Networks, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,352,281

International: $ 22,785,385

Citizen Kane (1941)

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

Release Date: September 05, 1941

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Director: Orson Welles

Writers: Herman J. Mankiewicz

, Orson Welles

, John Houseman

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: RKO Radio Pictures, Mercury Productions

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Paramount Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, HBO Max, MGM/UA Entertainment Company

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 839,727

Domestic: $ 1,627,530

International: $ 77,444

Vertigo (1958)

Summary: A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.

Release Date: May 28, 1958

Genres: Romance, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Alec Coppel

, Samuel A. Taylor

, Pierre Boileau

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, HBO Max, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Peacock, Studio Distribution Services (SDS)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,479,000

Domestic: $ 7,705,225

International: $ 103,025

Best Kept Secret (2013)

Summary: In "Best Kept Secret," a Newark, NJ teacher struggles to prepare her students with autism to survive in the brutal world that awaits them once they graduate.

Release Date: May 04, 2013

Genres: Drama, Documentary

Director: Samantha Buck

Writers: Zeke Farrow

, Samantha Buck

, Francisco Bello

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: BKS Film, Occasional Giant Beard

Distributor: Argot Pictures, Orchard Enterprises, P.O.V./American Documentary

Country: United States

Language: English

Moonlight (2016)

Summary: A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.

Release Date: November 18, 2016

Genre: Drama

Director: Barry Jenkins

Writers: Barry Jenkins

, Tarell Alvin McCraney

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: A24, PASTEL, Plan B Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,854,932

International: $ 37,317,679

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Summary: A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.

Release Date: April 10, 1952

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Directors: Stanley Donen

, Gene Kelly

Writers: Betty Comden

, Adolph Green

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Loew's

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Disney Channel, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, Fathom Events, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,540,800

Domestic: $ 1,884,537

International: $ 203,450

City Lights (1931)

Summary: With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

Release Date: March 07, 1931

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Charles Chaplin

Writers: Charles Chaplin

, Harry Carr

, Harry Crocker

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: G

Production: Charles Chaplin Productions

Distributor: United Artists, Image Entertainment, RCA (II), CBS/Fox, Key Video, Warner Home Video, MK2 Diffusion, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Roy Export Company, RBC Film Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Domestic: $ 19,181

International: $ 31,238

Intolerance (1916)

Summary: The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Release Date: October 04, 1916

Genres: Drama, History

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writers: Hettie Grey Baker

, Tod Browning

, D.W. Griffith

Runtime: 2 h 43 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: D.W. Griffith Productions

Distributor: Image Entertainment, Alpha Video Distributors, Reel Media International, Kino Video, Cohen Media Group, Film Detective, The Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Blackhawk Films, Republic Pictures Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 385,907

All About Eve (1950)

Summary: A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

Release Date: October 27, 1950

Genre: Drama

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

, Mary Orr

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video, Disney Channel, Fathom Events, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,400,000

Domestic: $ 63,463

International: $ 87,589

Hoop Dreams (1994)

Summary: A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

Release Date: October 14, 1994

Genres: Drama, Documentary, Sport

Director: Steve James

Writers: Steve James

, Frederick Marx

Runtime: 2 h 50 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Kartemquin Films, KTCA Minneapolis

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, Spectra Filmworks

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 700,000

Domestic: $ 7,830,611

International: $ 4,000,000

North by Northwest (1959)

Summary: A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

Release Date: December 18, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writer: Ernest Lehman

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: CBS, RCA (II), MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Time-Life Video, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, Fathom Events, Home Box Office (HBO), The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,101,000

Domestic: $ 66,728

International: $ 78,039

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Summary: Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Release Date: January 07, 1948

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: John Huston

Writers: John Huston

, B. Traven

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), United Artists Television, Magnetic Video, MGM/UA Entertainment Company, CBS/Fox, Turner Entertainment, Key Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,014,000

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Summary: An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Release Date: June 19, 1969

Genres: Action, Adventure, Western

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Writers: Walon Green

, Sam Peckinpah

, Roy N. Sickner

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros./Seven Arts

Distributor: Warner Bros./Seven Arts, CBS, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,244,087

Domestic: $ 638,641

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Summary: While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Release Date: November 01, 1938

Genres: Thriller, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Ethel Lina White

, Sidney Gilliat

, Frank Launder

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Gainsborough Pictures

Distributor: Gaumont British Picture Corporation of America, United Artists, Janus Films, Hal Roach Studios, The Criterion Collection, Films sans Frontières, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Tubi TV, Diamond Video, MPI Home Video, Stream Go Media

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Summary: San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.

Release Date: October 18, 1941

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir

Director: John Huston

Writers: John Huston

, Dashiell Hammett

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Associated Artists Productions (AAP), United Artists Television, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, MGM/UA Entertainment Company, CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 375,000

Domestic: $ 18,180

International: $ 16,511

The Third Man (1949)

Summary: Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Release Date: February 01, 1950

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir

Director: Carol Reed

Writers: Graham Greene

, Orson Welles

, Alexander Korda

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: London Film Productions

Distributor: Selznick Releasing Organization, Twentieth Century Fox, Rialto Pictures, Alpha Video Distributors, Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), Jef Films International, Lion International Films, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, StudioCanal International, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,067,364

International: $ 172,733

Psycho (1960)

Summary: A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Release Date: September 08, 1960

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Joseph Stefano

, Robert Bloch

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Shamley Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA Videocassette, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Showtime Networks, Pioneer Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Psycho

Movie budget: $ 806,947

Domestic: $ 32,000,000

International: $ 52,925