#90. Frankenstein
Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 94.71
Release date (U.S.): 11/21/31
Genre: Horror
Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke
Baron Frankenstein (Colin Clive) creates a monster (Boris Karloff) from cadavers and a killer's brain.
#89. In the Heat of the Night
Mirisch Corporation, The / United Artists
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Smart Rating: 94.71
Release date (U.S.): 08/02/67
Genre: Crime Drama
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
A black Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) helps a white Mississippi sheriff (Rod Steiger) solve a murder.
#88. Rosemary's Baby
William Castle Productions / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 94.8
Release date (U.S.): 06/12/68
Genre: Horror
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
A pregnant woman's (Mia Farrow) husband (John Cassavetes) and their satanic neighbors want her baby to be the Antichrist.
#87. All Quiet on the Western Front
Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 94.82
Release date (U.S.): 08/24/30
Genre: War
Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
#86. The General
Joseph M. Schenck Productions / United Artists
Smart Rating: 94.83
Release date (U.S.): 02/05/27
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.
#85. The Searchers
Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 94.85
Release date (U.S.): 03/13/56
Genre: Western
Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood
A Confederate veteran (John Wayne) and his part-Cherokee partner (Jeffrey Hunter) search five years for a kidnapped girl (Natalie Wood).
#84. The Big Sleep
Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 94.86
Release date (U.S.): 08/31/46
Genre: Mystery, Crime Drama
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers
Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) follows two wealthy sisters (Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers) through a maze of murders. Unedited version.
#83. The Conversation
The Coppola Company / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 94.86
Release date (U.S.): 04/07/74
Genre: Thriller
Starring: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Frederic Forrest
When a surveillance expert (Gene Hackman) suspects that the subjects of his current job will be killed, his conscience interferes.
#82. The Seventh Seal
Svensk Filmindustri (SF) / Janus Films
Smart Rating: 94.86
Release date (U.S.): 10/13/56
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Starring: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot
Returning from a Crusade with his squire, a weary knight (Max von Sydow) plays chess with Death.
#81. Dog Day Afternoon
Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 94.89
Release date (U.S.): 09/21/75
Genre: Crime Drama
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning
A loser (Al Pacino) robs a Brooklyn bank with his stupid buddy (John Cazale) to pay for his lover's sex change.
