thanks for the thread, but my wrist is sore from scrolling through all these posts.
Here are some of my faves:
"Once upon a time in America" (1984) - dir. Sergio Leone, starring DeNiro [A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30 years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.]
"A Simple Plan" (1998) - dir. Sam Raimi, starring Bill Paxton, BB Thornton [Two brothers and a friend find $4 million in the cockpit of a downed plane. The pilot is dead. No one is looking for the money. To keep it, all they have to do is wait. IT ALL SOUNDED SO SIMPLE...]
"Notorious" (1946) - dir. Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman [A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?]
"It Happened One Night" (1934) - dir. Frank Capra, starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert [A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. But then he falls for her...]
"High Noon" (1952) - dir. Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly [A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.]
