9.2/10 

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. (175 mins.)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

  9.0/10 

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba. (200 mins.)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

  8.9/10 

A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. (96 mins.)

Director: Sidney Lumet

Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

  8.7/10 

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed. (130 mins.)

Director: Frank Capra

Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

  8.7/10 

Set in unoccupied Africa during the Early Days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. (102 mins.)

Director: Michael Curtiz

Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

  8.7/10 

Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him. (142 mins.)

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

  7.7/10 

Stars: Robert X. Cringely, Douglas Adams, Sam Albert, Paul G. Allen

  8.5/10 

Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. (119 mins.)

Director: Orson Welles

Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

  8.6/10 

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. (87 mins.)

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford

  8.1/10 

The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. (118 mins.)

Director: Tom Hooper

Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi

  8.0/10 

Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.(145 mins.)

Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott

Stars: Mikela Jay, Rob Beckwermert, Christopher Gora, Nina Jones

  8.2/10 

Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire. (178 mins.)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods

  8.1/10 

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. (158 mins.)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer

  8.1/10 

A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.(121 mins.)

Director: Sidney Lumet

Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall

  8.2/10 

Takes a closer look at what brought about the financial meltdown. (105 mins.)

Director: Charles Ferguson

Stars: Matt Damon, William Ackman, Daniel Alpert, Jonathan Alpert

  8.1/10 

Biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest. (191 mins.)

Director: Richard Attenborough

Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox

  7.9/10 

Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the cofounder who was later squeezed out of the business. (120 mins.)

Director: David Fincher

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara

  7.9/10 

Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan--a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander. (129 mins.)

Director: John Huston

Stars: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey

  7.9/10 

After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can't win the approval of her spoiled daughter. (111 mins.)

Director: Michael Curtiz

Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden

  7.9/10 

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco. (157 mins.)

Director: Michael Mann

Stars: Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora