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Here's your chance
to take a look at our comprehensive guide to the 100 greatest movies
of all-time. To find out more about each movie,
simply click on the movie title to be taken to a definitive movie
review.
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Much-loved
British crime caper starring Michael Caine, Noël Coward and,
er, Benny Hill. Plus a whole fleet of Minis.
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Billy
Wilder's sordid, angry classic is a razor-sharp dig at the Hollywood
star system. William Holden plays a struggling writer who gets entangled
with Gloria Swanon's silent era has-been.
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Family
favourite Disney animated adventure fare with show-stopping tunes
and hilarious characterisation of Mowgli the Man Cub, Baloo the
Bear and, of course, King Louie - king of the swingers, that is.
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Spectacular
movie from James Cameron in which the central romance between Leonardo
DiCaprio's poor artist and Kate Winslet's society girl is overwhelmed
by the monumental recreation of the historical disaster
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A
naive city dweller (Depardieu) inherits a farm - and the ill-will
of his neighbours in this story of avarice and peasant unpleasantry
in turn of the century Provence. Manon de Sources, the beautifully
realised sequel to Jean De Florette, is a superbly crafted revenge
story.
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High
cynical satire from Stanley Kubrick, with Peter Sellers, playing
three key protagonists in the end of the world, George C Scott and
Sterling Hayden.
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The
film that established and immortalised James Dean as the ultimate
icon for anguished youth. Charged, good looking and only slightly
silly, this is a genuine teen classic.
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A
simple story of seven mercenaries hired to protect a village from
marauding bandits becomes a unique and mesmerising action-packed
epic of sustained tension and stoic humanity in Kurosawa's hands:
an enduring classic.
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Originally
commissioned by the wartime Ministry of Information to bolster relations
between Britain and the US, Powell's compassionate and technically
superb film about a pilot who cheats death has come to be regarded
as a masterpiece in its own right.
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Paul
Newman and Robert Reford make one of cinema's greatest partnerships
in this superb gangster Western.
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