#70. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Avon Productions (II) / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Smart Rating: 95.12
Release date (U.S.): 09/18/58
Genre: Drama
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
Two brothers, one an alcoholic (Paul Newman) who resents his devoted wife (Elizabeth Taylor), visit their dying millionaire father (Burl Ives) in the South.
#69. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Decla-Bioscop AG / Goldwyn Distributing Company
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Smart Rating: 95.13
Release date (U.S.): 02/26/20
Genre: Horror
Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher
A hypnotist (Werner Krauss) in black exhibits a cabinet, which contains a pale man (Conrad Veidt) in black in a trance.
#68. Diabolique
Filmsonor / United Motion Pictures Organization
Smart Rating: 95.14
Release date (U.S.): 01/29/55
Genre: Thriller
Starring: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse
A wife (Vera Clouzot) and a mistress (Simone Signoret) conspire to murder the brutal headmaster (Paul Meurisse) of a school for boys, then the body disappears.
#67. Stalag 17
Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 95.14
Release date (U.S.): 07/01/53
Genre: War
Starring: William Holden, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss
In a Nazi prison barracks, other POWs believe that a cynical American sergeant (William Holden) is an informer.
#66. The Bridge on the River Kwai
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Smart Rating: 95.15
Release date (U.S.): 12/18/57
Genre: War
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa
A British POW colonel (Alec Guinness) orders his men to build their Japanese captor (Sessue Hayakawa) a railway bridge in the jungle.
#65. The Apartment
Mirisch Corporation, The / United Artists
Smart Rating: 95.17
Release date (U.S.): 06/15/60
Genre: Comedy Drama
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
A corporate climber (Jack Lemmon), whose boss (Fred MacMurray) and others use his apartment for hanky-panky, aids a young woman (Shirley MacLaine).
#64. Solaris
Creative Unit of Writers & Cinema Workers / Magna
Smart Rating: 95.18
Release date (U.S.): 03/20/72
Genre: Science Fiction, Drama, Crime Drama
Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
#63. Anatomy of a Murder
Carlyle Productions / Columbia Pictures
Smart Rating: 95.26
Release date (U.S.): 07/01/59
Genre: Crime Drama, Mystery
Starring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
A Michigan lawyer (James Stewart) and his colleague defend an Army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) who killed the man who raped the officer's wife (Lee Remick).
#62. Wild Strawberries
Svensk Filmindustri (SF) / Janus Films
Smart Rating: 95.29
Release date (U.S.): 06/22/57
Genre: Drama
Starring: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
An old Swedish professor sees his life pass by in a series of nightmarish flashbacks.
#61. To Kill a Mockingbird
Universal International Pictures (UI) / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 95.29
Release date (U.S.): 12/25/62
Genre: Drama
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
A widowed lawyer (Gregory Peck) with two bright children (Mary Badham, Phillip Alford) defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama.
