1 Star Wars | Science Fiction | George Lucas | 121 minutes | English | George Lucas | Gilbert Taylor | 7 Academy Awards | A young farm boy joins a rebellion against a tyrannical empire. | $11 million | Tunisia, United Kingdom | Lucasfilm | $775 million | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher | 1977 |
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2 Blade Runner | Science Fiction | Ridley Scott | 117 minutes | English | Hampton Fancher, David Peoples | Jordan Cronenweth | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards | A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator. | $28 million | Los Angeles, California, USA | The Ladd Company | $41.6 million | Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos | 1982 |
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3 The Godfather | Crime | Francis Ford Coppola | 175 minutes | English | Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola | Gordon Willis | 3 Academy Awards | The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control to his reluctant son. | $6 million | New York City, Sicily | Paramount Pictures | $250 million | Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan | 1972 |
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4 Dune | Science Fiction | Denis Villeneuve | 155 minutes | English | Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth | Greig Fraser | 6 Academy Awards | A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset. | $165 million | Jordan, Norway, United Arab Emirates | Legendary Pictures | $400 million | Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac | 2021 |
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5 Citizen Kane | Drama, Mystery | Orson Welles | 119 minutes | English | Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles | Gregg Toland | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay | Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.' | $839,727 | RKO Studios, Hollywood, California, USA | RKO Radio Pictures | $1.6 million | Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane | 1941 |
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6 007, Goldfinger | Action, Adventure, Thriller | Guy Hamilton | 110 minutes | English | Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn | Ted Moore | Academy Award for Best Sound Editing | James Bond investigates gold magnate Auric Goldfinger's smuggling operation and uncovers a plot to contaminate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox. | $3 million | Miami, Florida; Pinewood Studios, UK; Fort Knox, Kentucky | Eon Productions | $125 million | Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton | 1964 |
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7 Good Will Hunting | Drama | Gus Van Sant | 126 minutes | English | Matt Damon, Ben Affleck | Jean-Yves Escoffier | 2 Academy Awards | A janitor at MIT has a gift for mathematics but needs help from a psychologist to find direction. | $10 million | Massachusetts, USA | Miramax Films | $225 million | Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck | 1997 |
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8 Dead Poets Society | Drama | Peter Weir | 128 minutes | English | Tom Schulman | John Seale | 1 Academy Award | An English teacher inspires his students to embrace poetry and seize the day. | $16.4 million | Delaware, USA | Touchstone Pictures | $235 million | Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke | 1989 |
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9 Sound of Music | Musical | Robert Wise | 174 minutes | English | Ernest Lehman | Ted D. McCord | 5 Academy Awards | A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer. | $8.2 million | Austria, Germany | 20th Century Fox | $286 million | Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker | 1965 |
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10 Patton | Biographical War | Franklin J. Schaffner | 172 minutes | English | Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North | Fred J. Koenekamp | 7 Academy Awards | The story of General George S. Patton during World War II. | $12 million | Spain, Morocco | 20th Century Fox | $61 million | George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates | 1970 |
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