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National Film Registry: 1993

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  • Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in An American in Paris (1951)

    1. An American in Paris

    19511h 54mApproved83Metascore
    7.1 (38K)
    Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
    DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGene KellyLeslie CaronOscar Levant
  • Badlands (1973)

    2. Badlands

    19731h 34mPG94Metascore
    7.7 (81K)
    An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.
    DirectorTerrence MalickStarsMartin SheenSissy SpacekWarren Oates
  • Douglas Fairbanks in The Black Pirate (1926)

    3. The Black Pirate

    19261h 28mNot Rated
    7.0 (2.3K)
    Seeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death.
    DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsDouglas FairbanksBillie DoveTempe Pigott
  • Harrison Ford and Sean Young in Blade Runner (1982)

    4. Blade Runner

    19821h 57mR84Metascore
    8.1 (855K)
    A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
    DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean Young
  • Simone Simon in Cat People (1942)

    5. Cat People

    19421h 13mApproved85Metascore
    7.2 (27K)
    An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsSimone SimonTom ConwayKent Smith
  • Sessue Hayakawa and Fannie Ward in The Cheat (1915)

    6. The Cheat

    191559mNot Rated
    6.5 (2.9K)
    A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.
    DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsFannie WardSessue HayakawaJack Dean
  • Los Alegres De Teran in Chulas Fronteras (1976)

    7. Chulas Fronteras

    197658m
    7.3 (196)
    "Chulas Fronteras" examines the origins and social significance of the traditional Tejano (or 'Tex-Mex') music that developed along the U.S.-Mexico border.
    DirectorLes BlankStarsRamiro CavazosLos Alegres De TeranLos Pinguinos del Norte
  • Eaux d'artifice (1953)

    8. Eaux d'artifice

    195312mNot RatedShort
    6.9 (1.9K)
    A woman dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este.
    DirectorKenneth AngerStarCarmilla Salvatorelli
  • Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II (1974)

    9. The Godfather Part II

    19743h 22mR90Metascore
    9.0 (1.4M)
    The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
    DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert Duvall
  • Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday (1940)

    10. His Girl Friday

    19401h 32mApproved
    7.8 (66K)
    When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
    DirectorHoward HawksStarsCary GrantRosalind RussellRalph Bellamy
  • Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (1934)

    11. It Happened One Night

    19341h 45mApproved87Metascore
    8.1 (117K)
    A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter Connolly
  • Roddy McDowall and Pal in Lassie Come Home (1943)

    12. Lassie Come Home

    19431h 29mApproved78Metascore
    7.1 (6.2K)
    After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.
    DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsRoddy McDowallDonald CrispMay Whitty
  • Magical Maestro (1952)

    13. Magical Maestro

    19526mApprovedShort
    7.7 (1.3K)
    A magician seeks revenge against an opera singer for refusing to let him perform his magic act. He then devises what he thinks is a clever plan to enact his revenge with some hilarious results.
    DirectorTex AveryStarsDaws ButlerTex AveryCarlos Ramírez
  • Inside Nazi Germany (1938)

    14. Inside Nazi Germany

    193818mApprovedShort
    6.7 (265)
    A newsreel made to condemn the militarization, oppressiveness, and ideology of the Nazi regime - using reedited stock footage of Nazi rallies in both Germany and the United States, with added narration to drive home its points.
    DirectorJack GlennStarsJackson BeckJoseph GoebbelsAdolf Hitler
  • Groucho Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and The Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935)

    15. A Night at the Opera

    19351h 36mApproved
    7.8 (36K)
    A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
    DirectorsSam WoodEdmund GouldingStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo Marx
  • Abbey Lincoln in Nothing But a Man (1964)

    16. Nothing But a Man

    19641h 35mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.9 (2.2K)
    A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
    DirectorMichael RoemerStarsIvan DixonAbbey LincolnJulius Harris
  • Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

    17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    19752h 13mR84Metascore
    8.7 (1.1M)
    A newly admitted mental patient helps his docile companions defy the tyrannical head nurse.
    DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael Berryman
  • Point of Order! (1964)

    18. Point of Order!

    19641h 37mNot Rated
    7.8 (532)
    An unfiltered, unflinching document of the notorious 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, compiled entirely from raw TV footage (with no narration, music, or added scenes).
    DirectorEmile de AntonioStarsJohn G. AdamsRoy M. CohnRay Jenkins
  • Shadows (1958)

    19. Shadows

    19581h 27mPG86Metascore
    7.2 (13K)
    Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.
    DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsBen CarruthersLelia GoldoniHugh Hurd
  • Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Brandon De Wilde, Van Heflin, Jack Palance, and Ben Johnson in Shane (1953)

    20. Shane

    19531h 58mApproved85Metascore
    7.6 (46K)
    An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.
    DirectorGeorge StevensStarsAlan LaddJean ArthurVan Heflin
  • Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

    21. Sweet Smell of Success

    19571h 36mApproved100Metascore
    8.0 (38K)
    A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
    DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsBurt LancasterTony CurtisSusan Harrison
  • Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, and Janet Leigh in Touch of Evil (1958)

    22. Touch of Evil

    19581h 35mPG-1399Metascore
    7.9 (113K)
    A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation he needs.
    DirectorOrson WellesStarsCharlton HestonOrson WellesJanet Leigh
  • Where Are My Children? (1916)

    23. Where Are My Children?

    19161h 2mApproved
    6.2 (906)
    A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion lands him in trouble with the local community.
    DirectorsPhillips SmalleyLois WeberStarsTyrone Power Sr.Mrs. Tyrone PowerMarie Walcamp
  • The Wind (1928)

    24. The Wind

    19281h 35mNot Rated
    8.0 (7.5K)
    A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.
    DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsLillian GishLars HansonMontagu Love
  • James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

    25. Yankee Doodle Dandy

    19422h 6mApproved89Metascore
    7.6 (17K)
    The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter Huston

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