Blake Edwards, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, United Artists, 1976

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 15, 1976.
• Running time: 103 minutes.
• Tagline: Why are the world’s chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is.

• The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

Blake Edwards, The Return of the Pink Panther, United Artists, 1975

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 21, 1975.
• Running time: 114 minutes.
• Tagline: You may rest assured that there’s trouble, because Inspector Clouseau is on the case… That’s the trouble.

• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

Alfred Hitchcock, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Paramount Pictures, 1956

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 1, 1956.
• Running time: 120 minutes.
• Tagline: A little knowledge can be a deadly thing!
• Jay Livingston and Ray Evans won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song. For the song “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)”.

• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Federico Fellini, 8½, Angelo Rizzoli, 1963

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: February 14, 1963 (Italy).
• Running time: 138 minutes.
• Language: Italian.
• Tagline: A picture that goes beyond what men think about – because no man ever thought about it in quite this way!
• Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Italian).
• Piero Gherardi won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White.

• 8½ (1963)

Woody Allen, Manhattan, United Artists, 1979

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 15, 1979.
• Running time: 96 minutes.
• Tagline: Woody Allen’s New Comedy Hit.

• Manhattan (1979)

John Huston, Moby Dick, Warner Bros., 1956

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 27, 1956.
• Running time: 116 minutes.
• Tagline: In all the world – in all the seas – in all adventure, there is no might like the might of Moby Dick.

• Moby Dick (1956)

Alfred Hitchcock, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Gaumont-British, 1934

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 1934 (UK).
• Running time: 75 minutes.
• Tagline: Public Enemy No. 1 of all the world…

• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

Sergio Leone, For a Few Dollars More, United Artists, 1965

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 18, 1965 (Italy).
• Running time: 132 minutes.
• Language: Italian, English.
• Tagline: The man with no name is back! The man in black is waiting… As if one wasn’t enough…  As if death needed a double!
• “Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.”

• For a Few Dollars More (1965)

Jack Clayton, The Innocents, 20th Century Fox, 1961

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 25, 1961.
• Running time: 100 minutes.
• Tagline: Apparitions? Evils? Corruptions?

• The Innocents (1961)

Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, United Artists, 1957

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 13, 1957.
• Running time: 96 minutes.
• Tagline: Life Is In Their Hands — Death Is On Their Minds!

• 12 Angry Men (1957)

Mary Harron, American Psycho, Lions Gate Entertainment, 2000

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 14, 2000.
• Running time: 101 minutes.
• Tagline: Killer looks.

• American Psycho (2000)

Sergio Leone, A Fistful of Dollars, United Artists, 1964

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: September 12, 1964 (Italy).
• Running time: 100 minutes.
• Language: Italian, English, Spanish.
• Tagline: This short cigar belongs to a man with no name. This long gun belongs to a man with no name. This poncho belongs to a man with no name. He’s going to trigger a whole new style in adventure.

• A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Val Guest, Casino Royale, Columbia Pictures, 1967

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 28, 1967.
• Running time: 131 minutes.
• Tagline: Casino Royale is too much for one James Bond!

• Casino Royale (1967)

Martin Scorsese, The Departed, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2006

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 6, 2006.
• Running time: 151 minutes.
• Tagline: Cops or Criminals. When you’re facing a loaded gun what’s the difference?
• Martin Scorsese won the Academy Award for Best Director.
• Thelma Schoonmaker won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
• Graham King won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture.
• William Monahan won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.

• The Departed (2006)

Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder, Warner Bros., 1954

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 29, 1954.
• Running time: 105 minutes.
• Tagline: “…is that you, darling?”
• “The scissors don’t gleam. Scissors that don’t gleam are like asparagus without bearnaise sauce.” – Alfred Hitchcock.

• Dial M for Murder (1954)

Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West, Paramount Pictures, 1968

Rating: 4.5/5 Buy

• Release date: December 21, 1968 (Italy).
• Running time: 165 minutes.
• Language: Italian, English.
• Tagline: There were three men in her life. One to take her… one to love her… and one to kill her.

• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Andrew Grieve, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, ITV1, 2000

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: January 2, 2000 (season 7, episode 1).
• Running time: 100 minutes.

• Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2000)

Robert Aldrich, The Dirty Dozen, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 15, 1967.
• Running time: 150 minutes.
• Tagline: Train them! Excite them! Arm them! …Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
• John Poyner won the Academy Award for Best Effects, Sound Effects.

• The Dirty Dozen (1967)

John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Warner Bros., 1948

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: January 6, 1948.
• Running time: 126 minutes.
• Tagline: They sold their souls for…
• Walter Huston won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
• John Huston won the Academy Award for Best Director.
• John Huston won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.

• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Byron Haskin, The War of the Worlds, Paramount Pictures, 1953

Rating: 3/5 Buy

• Release date: August 26, 1953.
• Running time: 86 minutes.
• Tagline: The original invasion!
• Won an Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects.

• The War of the Worlds (1953)

Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, 20th Century Fox, 1974

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 15, 1974.
• Running time: 106 minutes.
• Tagline: The scariest comedy of all time!

• Young Frankenstein (1974)

Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1988

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 15, 1988.
• Running time: 108 minutes.
• Tagline: A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood.
• Kevin Kline won Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

• A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

George Pal, The Time Machine, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1960

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: August 17, 1960.
• Running time: 103 minutes.
• Tagline: You Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future!
• Gene Warren and Tim Baar won the Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects.

• The Time Machine (1960)

Adrian Pennick, The Ascent of Money, Channel 4, 2008

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: 2008.
• Running time: 6 x 50 minutes.
• Presented by Niall Ferguson. Based on his book of the same name.
• Episode list:
  1. Dreams of Avarice
  2. Human Bondage
  3. Blowing Bubbles
  4. Risky Business
  5. Safe As Houses
  6. Chimerica

• The Ascent of Money (2008)
• PBS: The Ascent of Money
• BBC: The Ascent of Money

David Cronenberg, The Fly, 20th Century Fox, 1986

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: August 15, 1986.
• Running time: 95 minutes.
• Tagline: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
• Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis won Academy Award for Best Makeup.

• The Fly (1986)

Michael Schwarz, The Botany of Desire, PBS, 2009

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: October 28, 2009.
• Running time: 120 minutes.
• Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book of the same name.
• Narrated by Frances McDormand.
• How four familiar plant species — the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato — evolved to satisfy our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control.

• The Botany of Desire (2009)
• PBS: The Botany of Desire

Woody Allen, Annie Hall, United Artists, 1977

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 20, 1977.
• Running time: 93 minutes.
• Tagline: A nervous romance.
• Diane Keaton won Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
• Woody Allen won Academy Award for Best Director
• Charles H. Joffe won Academy Award for Best Picture.
• Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman won Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

• Annie Hall (1977)

Fred Zinnemann, High Noon, United Artists, 1952

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 24, 1952.
• Running time: 85 minutes.
• Tagline: Simple. Powerful. Unforgettable.
• Gary Cooper won Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
• Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad won Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
• Dimitri Tiomkin (music) and Ned Washington (lyrics)  won Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song. “High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin)”.
• Dimitri Tiomkin won Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

• High Noon (1952)

Blake Edwards, The Pink Panther, United Artists, 1963

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 19, 1963 (Germany).
• Running time: 113 minutes.
• Tagline: You only live once… so see the Pink Panther twice!!!
• The first film of the The Pink Panther series.

• The Pink Panther (1963)

F. W. Murnau, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, Film Arts Guild, 1922

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: March 4, 1922.
• Running time: 94 minutes.
• Country: Germany.
• Language: Silent film (German intertitles).
• An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

• Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)
• Nosferatu (1922)

John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate, United Artists, 1962

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 24, 1962.
• Running time: 126 minutes.
• Tagline: If you come in five minutes after this picture begins, you won’t know what it’s all about! When you’ve seen it all, you’ll swear there’s never been anything like it!

• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

William A. Wellman, The Ox-Bow Incident, 20th Century Fox, 1943

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 21, 1943.
• Running time: 75 minutes.
• Tagline: LYNCH LAW RULES THE MOB!

• The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Lo Wei, Fist of Fury, Golden Harvest, 1972

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: March 22, 1972.
• Running time: 108 minutes.
• Country: Hong Kong.
• Language: Cantonese.
• Tagline: Bruce Lee claims his revenge through death and beyond.
• AKA The Chinese Connection in the U.S.
• Jackie Chan was a stuntman.

• Fist of Fury (1972)

Henri-Georges Clouzot, Les Diaboliques, Filmsonor, 1955

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: January 29, 1955.
• Running time: 107 minutes.
• Tagline: See it, be amazed at it, but… BE QUIET ABOUT IT!
• Country: France.
• Language: French.

• Les diaboliques (1955)

Bruce Lee, Way of the Dragon, Golden Harvest, 1972

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 30, 1972.
• Running time: 88 minutes.
• Country: Hong Kong.
• Language: Cantonese.
• Tagline: The Colosseum… the battleground of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.
• AKA Return of the Dragon in the U.S.

• Way of the Dragon (1972)

George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 26, 1940.
• Running time: 112 minutes.
• Tagline: Uncle Leo’s bedtime story for you older tots! The things they do among the playful rich – Oh, boy!
• James Stewart won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
• Donald Ogden Stewart won Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

• The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Clint Eastwood, Mystic River, Warner Bros., 2003

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 15, 2003.
• Running time: 137 minutes.
• Tagline: We bury our sins, we wash them clean.
• Sean Penn won Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
• Tim Robbins won Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

• Mystic River (2003)

Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps, Gaumont British Pictures, 1935

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 6, 1935 (UK).
• Running time: 86 minutes.
• Tagline: Handcuffed to the girl who double-crossed him.
• Hitchcock’s first great romantic thriller is a great example of the MacGuffin principle in action.

• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Foreign Exercises: Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps” (1935)

Delmer Daves, 3:10 to Yuma, Columbia Pictures, 1957

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: August 7, 1957.
• Running time: 92 minutes.
• Tagline: The Lonesome Whistle of a Train… bringing the gallows closer to a desperado–the showdown nearer to his captor!

• 3:10 to Yuma (1957)

Robert Rodriguez, From Dusk Till Dawn, Dimension Films, 1996

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: January 19, 1996.
• Running time: 108 minutes.
• Tagline: A terrifying evil has been unleashed. And five strangers are our only hope to stop it.

• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Agatha Christie’s Poirot, The Chocolate Box, ITV, 1993

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: February 21, 1993 (season 5, episode 6).
• Running time: 51 minutes.
• From the short story collection Poirot Investigates.

• Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Chocolate Box (1993)

Ken Burns, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, PBS, 2009

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: September 27, 2009.
• Running time: 12 hours (6 episodes of 2 hours each).
• Narrated by Peter Coyote.
• Episodes:
  1. “The Scripture of Nature” (1851–1890)
  2. “The Last Refuge” (1890–1915)
  3. “The Empire of Grandeur” (1915–1919)
  4. “Going Home” (1920–1933)
  5. “Great Nature” (1933–1945)
  6. “The Morning of Creation” (1946–1980)

• The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (2009)
• PBS: The National Parks

Ken Burns, The Statue of Liberty, PBS, 1985

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: October 28, 1985.
• Running time: 60 minutes.
• Narrated by historian David McCullough.

• The Statue of Liberty (1985)
• PBS: The Statue of Liberty

Ken Burns, The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God, PBS, 1984

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: 1984.
• Running time: 58 minutes.
• Narrated by David McCullough.

• The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984)
• PBS: The Shakers

Ken Burns, Brooklyn Bridge, PBS, 1981

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: November, 1981.
• Running time: 58 minutes.
• Ken Burns’s first film.
• Narrated by David McCullough.
• Chronicles the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.

• Brooklyn Bridge (1981)
• PBS: Brooklyn Bridge

Robert Clouse, Enter the Dragon, Warner Brothers, 1973

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 26, 1973.
• Running time: 98 minutes.
• Tagline: The first American produced martial arts spectacular!
• The last Bruce Lee film (completed). Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973.

• Enter the Dragon (1973)

Agatha Christie’s Poirot, The Lost Mine, ITV, 1990

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: January 21, 1990 (season 2, episode 3).
• Running time: 51 minutes.
• From the short story collection Poirot Investigates.

• Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Lost Mine (1990)

Frank Capra, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Columbia Pictures, 1939

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original release date: October 17, 1939.
• Running time: 129 minutes.
• Tagline: Capra at his greatest!
• Lewis R. Foster won Academy Award for Best Original Story.

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

John Sturges, The Great Escape, United Artists, 1963

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 4, 1963.
• Running time: 172 minutes.
• Tagline: put a fence in front of these men… and they’ll climb it…

• The Great Escape (1963)

Robert Mulligan, To Kill a Mockingbird, Universal Pictures, 1962

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 25, 1962.
• Running time: 128 minutes.
• Tagline: The most beloved and widely read Pulitzer Prize Winner now comes vividly alive on the screen!
• Gregory Peck won Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)