The Great Film Archive
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1.
Alien
(1979)
The crew of a commercial deep space mining ship, investigating a suspected S.O.S., lands on a distant planet and discovers a nest of strange eggs. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
2.
American Gangster
(2007)
In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East. (157 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
3.
Black Hawk Down
(2001)
123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. (144 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
4.
The Crow
(1994)
A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder. (102 mins.)
Director: Alex Proyas
5.
Dead Poets Society
(1989)
English teacher John Keating inspires his students to a love of poetry and to seize the day. (128 mins.)
Director: Peter Weir
6.
Deliverance
(1972)
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. (110 mins.)
Director: John Boorman
7.
Goodfellas
(1990)
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy. (146 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
8.
Lincoln
(2012)
As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. (150 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
9.
Network
(1976)
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. (121 mins.)
Director: Sidney Lumet
10.
Psycho
(1960)
A thirty-something secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. (109 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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