Top Ten Films

1935 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerAlice AdamsThe misadventures of two social-climbing women in small town America.AmazonAnna KareninaThe married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.AmazonDavid CopperfieldA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.AmazonLes misérablesThe lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.AmazonMutiny on the BountyA tyrannical ship captain decides to exact revenge on his abused crew after they form a mutiny against him, but the...

1936 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerCeiling ZeroWar veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this, he changes flights with ...AmazonFuryWhen a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.AmazonModern TimesThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.AmazonMr. Deeds Goes to TownA simple, small town man inherits a massive fortune, making him the target for scammers and publicity-seekers. Overwhelmed by the turn his life has taken, and awoken to another use for his new-found fortune, he makes a mo...

1937 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Star Is BornA young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, but achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.AmazonBlack LegionWhen a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.AmazonCamilleA Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.AmazonCaptains CourageousA spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.AmazonMake Way for TomorrowAn elderly couple are force...

1938 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerJezebelIn 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.AmazonOf Human HeartsThis is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son ...AmazonSing, You SinnersOf the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through ...AmazonSnow White and the Seven DwarfsExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.Amazon...

1974 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Woman Under the InfluenceMabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.AmazonChinatownA private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.AmazonDaisy MillerIn this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.AmazonHarry and TontoWhen his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.AmazonLennyThe story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentar...

1940 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerFantasiaA collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music.AmazonForeign CorrespondentOn the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.AmazonGone with the WindA manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.AmazonOf Mice and MenTwo itinerant migrant workers, one mentally disabled and the other his carer, take jobs as ranch hands during the Great Depression to fulfill their shared dream of owning their own ranch.AmazonOur TownChange comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every mor...

1941 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerCitizen KaneFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.AmazonDumboRidiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.AmazonHere Comes Mr. JordanBoxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.AmazonHigh SierraAfter being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.AmazonHow Green Was My ValleyAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise c...

1942 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerIn Which We ServeThis "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.AmazonJourney for MargaretAn American newspaperman and his wife, caught in the London blitz, lose their unborn child in an air raid. Outraged, they visit a shelter for homeless children where they fall in love with ...AmazonMrs. MiniverA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.AmazonOne of Our Aircraft Is MissingWhen Nazi anti-aircraft fire damages a British bomber, its crew bails out and seeks help from the Dutch underground.AmazonSullivan's TravelsA director of escapist films goes on the road as a hobo to learn about life, which gives him a rude awakening.AmazonThe Maj...

1943 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerAir ForceThe crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.AmazonBataanIn 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.AmazonCasablancaA cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.AmazonHoly MatrimonyFrom Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.AmazonLassie Come HomeAfter her destitute family i...

1944 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerGoing My WayFather Charles O'Malley, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior.AmazonHail the Conquering HeroWoodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.AmazonLifeboatSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the U-boat men who sunk it.AmazonMeet Me in St. LouisIn the year leading up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.AmazonNone But the Lonely HeartWhen an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sic...