61 Fantasia | Animation, Family, Fantasy | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, T. Hee | 126 minutes | English | Joe Grant, Dick Huemer | James Wong Howe | Honorary Academy Award for outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures (1942) | A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. | $2.28 million | USA | Walt Disney Productions | $76.4 million (US and Canada) | Deems Taylor (narrator), Leopold Stokowski (conductor), The Philadelphia Orchestra | 1940 |
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62 To be or not to be | Comedy, War | Ernst Lubitsch | 99 minutes | English | Melchior Lengyel, Edwin Justus Mayer | Rudolph Maté | Nominated for Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (1943) | During the Nazi occupation of Poland, a troupe of actors becomes involved in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy. | $1 million | USA | Romaine Film Corporation | Not specified | Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart | 1942 |
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63 Casablanca | Drama, Romance, War | Michael Curtiz | 102 minutes | English | Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch | Arthur Edeson | Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing, Screenplay (1944) | In World War II Casablanca, an American expatriate must choose between his love for a woman and helping her husband escape the Nazis. | $878,000 | USA | Warner Bros. | $3.7 million (US and Canada) | Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains | 1942 |
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64 Notorious | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | Alfred Hitchcock | 102 minutes | English | Ben Hecht | Ted Tetzlaff | Nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Writing, Original Screenplay (1947) | A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? | $1 million | USA | RKO Radio Pictures | $24.5 million (worldwide) | Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern | 1946 |
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65 Rashomon | Crime, Drama, Mystery | Akira Kurosawa | 88 minutes | Japanese | Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto | Kazuo Miyagawa | Academy Honorary Award for Foreign Language Film (1952) | The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost, and a woodcutter. | $250,000 | Japan | Daiei Film | Not specified | Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura | 1950 |
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66 The Seven Samurai | Action, Drama | Akira Kurosawa | 207 minutes | Japanese | Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni | Asakazu Nakai | Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival (1954) | A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. | $500,000 | Japan | Toho | Not specified | Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki | 1954 |
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67 Wild Strawberries | Drama | Ingmar Bergman | 91 minutes | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman | Gunnar Fischer | Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival (1958) | After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. | Not specified | Sweden | Svensk Filmindustri | Not specified | Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand | 1957 |
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68 Vertigo | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | Alfred Hitchcock | 128 minutes | English | Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor | Robert Burks | Not specified | A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman. | $2.5 million | USA | Paramount Pictures | $7.3 million (US and Canada) | James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore | 1958 |
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69 Some like it hot | Comedy, Romance | Billy Wilder | 121 minutes | English | Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond | Charles Lang | Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (1960) | When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. | $2.9 million | USA | United Artists | $25 million (worldwide) | Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft | 1959 |
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70 Ben Hur | Historical Drama | William Wyler | 212 minutes | English | Karl Tunberg | Robert L. Surtees | 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture | A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, but regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. | $15 million | Rome, Italy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $146.9 million | Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith | 1959 |
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