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Ultimate Films - the top 100

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60 High Society 1956 - Estimated Admissions 9.6m
A delightful romp through the troubled lives of America's super rich and ridiculous. The wilful, beautiful but ever so stuck-up Tracy Samantha Lord's (Gracy Kelly) plans to wed her second husband are dashed by her troublesome ex, CK Dexter Haven (Bing Crosby), and by 'Spy' magazine's decision to cover the event. Tracy's ice-queen nose is firmly out of joint, and it takes a drunken bachelor party to finally loosen her. When, on the night before her wedding, Tracy ends up in the arms of the wrong man the question arises of who will end up marrying whom.
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59 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1976 - Estimated Admissions 9.65m
An artistic, commercial and critical triumph which swept the board at the Academy Awards, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is the story of Jack Nicholson's social misfit, who finds himself locked up in an insane asylum and rebels against his keepers. The film remains as fresh, shocking, depressing and exhilarating as when it was released. Its conspicuous success marked the high point of the counter-culture assault on Hollywood that had begun in the late 1960s with Easy Rider.
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58 For Whom The Bell Tolls 1944 - Estimated Admissions 9.7m
ary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman star in this hit adaptation of Ernest Hemmingway's novel about an American fighting in the Spanish Civil War. As Robert Jordan, the volunteer trained in demolitions, Cooper proves the ultimate incarnation of Hemingway's machismo aesthetic - his tough-jawed, steely-eyed resolve suggesting just the right kind of masculine reliability - while his relationship with Spanish peasant girl Maria (Bergman) hits a note of passionate fatalism. Paramount pictures marketed the film around a scene in which Bergman and Cooper share a sleeping bag, which caused a scandal at the time.
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57 Men In Black 1997 - Estimated Admissions 9.73m
Sci-fi comedy that combines the talents of Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and director Barry Sonnenfeld to hilarious, endearing effect. Smith joins Jones at the MIB agency, which polices aliens living on Earth, and is soon charged with tracking down an intergalactic cockroach terrorist. The pair make a great comic partnership and the film is a special effects extravaganza.
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56 Finding Nemo 2003 - Estimated Admissions 9.79m
A clown fish goes on a desperate search for his only son, who has been captured and put in a tank in a dentist's surgery. Anyone who's every dived a coral reef will know the magic of such an environment. Heck, even watching a documentary gives an impression of the incredible, colourful society down there. So it was a neat choice for Pixar to locate their follow-up to Monsters, Inc. largely on the Great Barrier Reef.
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