Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". The film was originally released by Paramount Pictures. It stars James Stewart and Grace Kelly. The movie is ...

Psycho is a 1960 American suspense and horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It stars Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. The screenplay, by Joseph Stefano, is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The novel was loosely inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin murderer and gr ...

Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. It is set during the third year of World War I. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refused to continue a suicidal at ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman. It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The movie stars Jack Nicholson, who plays Randle, a prisoner who is transferred from prison to a mental institution for evaluation. Altho ...

Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone for Paramount Pictures. It stars Henry Fonda, unusually cast as the villain, and Charles Bronson as his enemy. Bronson was offered the role after Clint Eastwood turned it down. The screenplay ...

North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures". It is a tale of mistaken identity. ...

Memento is a 2000 American psychological thriller and neo-noir film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It was adapted from his younger brother Jonathan's short story, Memento Mori . The movie is presented as two different sequences of scenes: a series in black-and-white that a ...

It's a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra. It was based on the short story "The Greatest Gift", written by Philip Van Doren Stern. The movie was released in 1946 and stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Ch ...

Inception is a 2010 British-American science fiction action film. It was written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film features an international ensemble cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe and Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a specialized corporate ...

Forrest Gump is a 1994 epic comedy-drama romance film. It was based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and starred Tom Hanks. The story portrays several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a naïve and slow-witted native of Alab ...