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‘Gone with the Wind’ (1939)
Forget Avatar."
Adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind is actually the highest-grossing movie in cinema history.
Full of drama and thrills Casablanca is a true cinema classic.
This epic war movie builds to a grand crescendo that will have your heart racing and your palms sweating.
Oh, and the rest of the movie is absolutely excellent as well.
Winner of Best Picture at the 30th Academy Awards it’s also morally complex and rich with narrative depth.
Central to this movies charms are its two lovable leads, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.
Their will-they-wont-they romantic entanglement is one for the ages.
The Apartment centers on a lonely office worker named C.C.
Baxter (Lemmon) who allows his companys executives to use his Manhattan apartment for extramarital affairs.
“The Apartment is a warm hug of a movie.
The Godfather istheepic crime movie that the rest of the genre has been copying for decades.
Titanic gives you two incredible movies in one.
Then, the movie transitions into one of the most remarkable disaster flicks ever crafted.
And then the movie itself went on to score the nights biggest prize as well.
Its a humbling movie that lays bare the terrible sufferings endured by slaves in America.
You won’t be surprised to know it’s often a pretty tough watch.
Perhaps, it is the most current Best Picture holder afterward.
Cillian Murphy anchors the sprawling movie in the titular role and thoroughly deserves his Best Actor gong.
Oppenheimer is a movie well be talking about for decades.
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