Best American Cinema: Discover The Top 10 Movies from the USA
1.The Godfather (1972)
• Director – Francis Ford Coppola
• Genres – Crime, Drama, Movie
Box Office –
•Budget – $6 to $7 million
• Worldwide Collection – $250 to $291 million
About Movie –
As Christmas, dealer Virgil “The Turk” Solozzo asks Vito to invest in his narcotics business to provide police protection to them, Vito refused, saying his involvement in narcotics would isolate his political ties. Suspecting Sollozo’s partnership with the Tataglia crime family. Vito sends his promoter, Luca Brasi, to a city called Tatagileus on a great spy mission. Bracy was strangled to death during the initial meeting.
2.Citizen Kane (1941)
• Director – Orson Welles
•Genre – Mystery, Drama
About Movie –
In a mansion called “Xanadu”, which is part of a estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane is on his death bed. Holding a small snowball and he says his last word, “Rosebud”, and dies.
3.Casablanca (1942)
• Director – Michael Curtiz
• Genres – Romantic, Drama, War
Box Office –
• Budget – $839,727,
• Box Office Collection – $1,627,530 (US and Canada)
• Worldwide – $1,711,106
About Movie –
Little crook Ugart claims to Rick about the letters he obtained by two German couriers. The papers allow holders to travel freely in German-occupied Europe and neutral Portugal. Ugarte planned to sell them to the club and Rick to keep them.
4.The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• Director: Frank Darabont
• Genre -Drama
Box Office –
• Budget – $25 million
• Worldwide Collection – $29,333,735
About Movie –
In 1949 “Andy” overheard the guard captain name “Byron Hadley”, complaining about the inheritance being taxed and offered to help him hide the money legally from them. After his Sisters beat Andy to death, Hadley cripples Bogggs, who is later transferred to a hospital without security. Andy was never attacked again.
5.Schindler’s List (1993)
• Director – Steven Spielberg
• Genres – Historical Drama
Box Office –
• Budget – $22 million
• Worldwide Collection – $322.2 million
Cast –
• Liam Neeson – as Oskar Schindler
• Ben Kingsley – as Itzhak Stern
• Ralph Fiennes – as Amon Göth
• Caroline Goodall – as Emilie Schindler
About Movie –
“Schindler’s List” movie was opened in theaters on December 15, 1993 in the United States and December 25 in Canadian theatres. Its premiere in Germany was in March 1, 1994. Its American network television premiere was on “NBC” on February 23, 1997.
6. 12 Angry Men (1957)
•Director: Sidney Lumet
• Genres – Drama
Box Office –
• Budget – $340,000
• Worldwide – $2 million dollars
About Movie –
This case seems clear. A neighbor who lives right up front witness that she actually saw the a man stabbing her father, While she was lying on the bed and looking through the windows of the train passing through her window into the apartment where the murder took place. A disabled neighbor who lives downstairs witness that she heard the defendant threatening to kill her father, then heard the body hitting the ground.
7. Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Director – Quentin Tarantin
• Genres – Crime, Neo-Noir
• Budget – $8 million
• Worldwide Collection – $213.9 million .
Cast –
• John Travolta – as Vincent Vega
• Samuel L. Jackson – as Jules Winnfield
• Uma Thurman – as Mia Wallace
• Harvey Keitel – as Winston Wolfe
About Movie –
The story of movie “Pulp Fiction” is told in a order and follows three main stories, each one had a different characters name – Vincent Vega, a hitman, Butch Coolidge, and Jules Winnfield, Vincent’s partner in crime.
8. The Dark Knight (2008)
• Director- Christopher Nolan
• Genres – Superhero, Action, Crime
Box Office-
• Budget – $185 million
• Gross (Worldwide) – $1 billion
About Movie –
Overtaking the superhero Genres, earned critical acclaim for its complex and good themes, serious realism, and “Heath Ledger’s” iconic performance as the Joker character.
9. Psycho (1960)
• Director – Alfred Hitchcock
• Genres – Horror, Thriller
Budget And Box Office Collection –
• Budget – $806,947
• Grossed – $32,181,230 (US and Canada)
• Worldwide – $32,253,563
About Movie –
A ground breaking psychological thriller that shocked audiences with revolutionized the horror genre also known for its mystery, and Norman Bates.
A heavy rainstorm forced Marion to stop at the Bates Motel, just a few miles from Farewell. Norman Bates, the owner, whose second Empire-style in overlooks the motel, Register and Marion and invites her to dinner with him at the motel’s restaurant.
10. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• Directors – Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
• Genres: Musical, Comedy
Cast –
• Gene Kelly
• Donald O’Connor
• Debbie Reynolds
• Jean Hagen
• Millard Mitchell
About Movie –
It is considered one of the greatest concepts of all time, celebrated for its good choreography, songs, and pure depiction of the transition from silent films of Hollywood films to speaking films and colorful cinemas.