 | All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.25 The earliest anti-war film, and the best.
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 | A Night at the Opera
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $6.99 The Marx Brothers at the peak of their anarchic hilarity.
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 | Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $51.99 / Used from: $49.90 The best spectacal film prior to WWII; the theme is human endurance in adversity, and hence timeless.
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 | The Maltese Falcon Three-Disc Special Edition (1941 & 1931 versions / Satan Met a Lady)
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $12.99 The first, and arguably the best, film noir.
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 | Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $9.50 The Wunderkind Orson Wells strikes gold; ironically, this story is more an autobiography of Wells than an indictment of W. R. Hearst.
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 | Casablanca
Buy used from: $9.99 A story of idealism and self-sacrifice in a world where neither seems to be valued.
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 | The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
Buy used from: $27.94 Orson Wells proves Citizen Kane was no fluke; corruption and love battle in the ruins of postwar Vienna.
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 | High Noon (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $15.01 The archetypical American western; seldom equalled, never bettered.
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 | The Man in the White Suit
Buy used from: $5.85 Alec Guinness at his very best in a science fiction tale that is more about the human condition than the science.
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 | The Magnificent Seven (Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.09 A brilliant Japanese movie is translated into an equally brilliant western.
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 | Anatomy of a Murder
Buy new: $14.94 / Used from: $5.73 Arguably the best courtoom drama ever brought to screen.
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 | Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $4.00 The best epic film ever brought to screen, bar none. Every actor gives the performance of his career.
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 | The Haunting
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.16 The best haunted house movie ever. Or, is the house really haunted?
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 | 2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $9.98 The first film to prove space opera could be thoughtful, even mystical.
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 | The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset DVD
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $20.26 Francis Ford Coppola's supreme achievement.
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 | Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (1977 & 2004 Versions, 2-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.91 The film that showed special effects would have few limits in the future.
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 | Alien (The Director's Cut)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $6.15 H. P. Lovecraft in outer space; if you are not chilled to the bone, you are not human!
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 | Reversal of Fortune
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $9.15 A true-life story of (perhaps) attempted murder, told as a ghost story.
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 | The Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition)
Buy used from: $57.99 Fantasy has never been brought more convincingly to the screen than in this trilogy.
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 | The Complete Musketeers (The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $19.97 Undoutedly the best of the many versions of this Dumas tale; Charleton Heston's performance as Richileau is alone worth the price.
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