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The Godfather  Director: Francis Ford Coppola  Writer: Mario Puzo  Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall  Plot: The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. Click for book info on Godfather movies

Citizen Kane  Director: Orson Welles  Writers: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles  Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead  Plot: Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

Casablanca  Director: Michael Curtiz  Writers: Julius and Philip Epstein  Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid  Plot: Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Lawrence of Arabia  Director: David Lean  Writers: T.E. Lawrence and Robert Bolt  Actors: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins  Plot: Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.

Gone with the Wind  Director: Victor Fleming  Writers: Margaret Mitchell, Sydney Howard  Actors: Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O’Neil, Vivian Leigh, George Reeves  Plot: American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

On the Waterfront  Director: Elia Kazan  Writers: Malcolm Johnson and Budd Schullberg  Actors: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb  Plot: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

It’s A Wonderful Life  Director: Frank Capra  Writers: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett  Actors: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell  Plot: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.

The Graduate  Director: Mike Nichols  Writers: Calder Willingham and Buck Henry  Actors: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman  Plot: Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine.

Schindler’s List  Director: Steven Spielberg  Writers: Thomas Keneally and Steven Zaillian  Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes  Plot: Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.

Some Like It Hot  Director: Billy Wilder  Writers: Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan  Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon  Plot: When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

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