#80. The Grapes of Wrath
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Smart Rating: 94.96
Release date (U.S.): 03/15/40
Genre: Drama
Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Poor sharecroppers the Joads (Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell) leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better luck in California.
#79. The Wild Bunch
Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
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Smart Rating: 94.97
Release date (U.S.): 06/18/69
Genre: Western
Starring: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
An outlaw (William Holden) and his gang, on the run from the Mexican Army and bounty hunters, plot to rob a United States Army train.
#78. Notorious
Vanguard Films / RKO Radio Pictures
Smart Rating: 94.99
Release date (U.S.): 08/15/46
Genre: Thriller
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
A U.S. agent (Cary Grant) brings a traitor's daughter (Ingrid Bergman) to Rio de Janeiro to seduce an exiled Nazi (Claude Rains).
#77. A Streetcar Named Desire
Charles K. Feldman Group / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 95
Release date (U.S.): 01/01/51
Genre: Drama
Starring: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter
Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) moves in with her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), and brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando).
#76. Shadow of a Doubt
Skirball Productions / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 95.04
Release date (U.S.): 01/01/43
Genre: Crime Drama, Mystery
Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Hume Cronyn
A girl (Teresa Wright) thinks her visiting uncle (Joseph Cotten) is the strangler dubbed the Merry Widow Murderer.
#75. High Noon
Stanley Kramer Productions / United Artists
Smart Rating: 95.04
Release date (U.S.): 07/24/52
Genre: Western
Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado
On the verge of retirement, a marshal (Gary Cooper) stands alone to face a vengeful gunman and his gang.
#74. Repulsion
Compton Films / Royal Films International
Smart Rating: 95.05
Release date (U.S.): 10/03/65
Genre: Horror
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Yvonne Furneaux, Ian Hendry
A chilling tale of the mental deterioration of a sexually repressed woman whose tenuous grip on reality snaps violently.
#73. Barry Lyndon
Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 95.05
Release date (U.S.): 12/18/75
Genre: Drama
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
Thackeray's 18th-century Irish rogue (Ryan O'Neal) woos and wins a rich widow (Marisa Berenson), then plays aristocrat.
#72. The Killing
Harris-Kubrick Productions / United Artists
Smart Rating: 95.07
Release date (U.S.): 05/20/56
Genre: Crime Drama
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
The organizers of a brilliantly conceived racetrack heist find their perfect crime beginning to unravel.
#71. The Last Picture Show
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Smart Rating: 95.12
Release date (U.S.): 01/01/71
Genre: Drama
Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
The lives of high schoolers (Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges), a debutante (Cybill Shepherd) and others overlap in a dying 1950s Texas town.
