But with so many films being released yearly, it’s hard to find the perfect film to watch.
Having options is good, but having too many options can be exhausting or overwhelming.
Here areessential movies that every film fanatic needs to watch at least once.
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Ilsa begs for Blaine’s help, as he holds letters that will allow for Laszlo to escape safely.
Though it wasn’t as popular upon release,Citizen Kanegrew in popularity in the years following.
However, things turn awry when their fraud is discovered.
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And with all due respect toStagecoachandThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,The Searchersis their finest hour.
However, the crew members are awakened when a transmission is detected from a nearby planet.
They go to investigate, discovering an alien spaceship.
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Alienis another popular monster film, akin to that of films likeThe Thing.
The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship.
However, both scientists are surprised to find HAL, the computer system, acting oddly.
Then, things get really strange when Dr.
Bowman finds another monolith orbiting Jupiter.
For those who enjoy modern-day sci-fi films,2001: A Space Odysseyis a must-watch.
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At the beginning of World War II, he hopes to grow his wealth.
Schindler’s Listis a Spielberg film based on a true story.
That’s not how it went down, though.
Directed by and starring Orson Welles in his feature film debut, Citizen Kane tells the life story of Charles Foster Kane, a self-made business tycoon partially based on William Randolph Hearst. The film tells the story of Kane’s rise and fall from power, narratively framed by the sensation caused by death at the beginning and end of the film. Besides Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, and Ruth Warrick also star.
The film was an immediate and sustained hit, the highest-selling film ever at the time, in fact.
It’s still as good and as sophisticated an animated film as you’ll ever see.
Fight Clubis a thought-provoking film.
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Fun and emotionally-engaging,Fight Clubwill make viewers question the entire movie after watching it from start to finish.
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
Greed and class discrimination threatens the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
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In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.
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After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
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An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
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The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
