Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Casablanca
1943
8.1/10

Touch of Evil
1958
7.8/10

The Wizard of Oz
1939
7.6/10

Mank
2020
6.7/10

Modern Times
1936
8.3/10

The Third Man
1949
7.9/10

The Maltese Falcon
1941
7.7/10

Bicycle Thieves
1948
8.2/10

It's a Wonderful Life
1946
8.3/10

Double Indemnity
1944
8.1/10

Vertigo
1958
8.2/10

The Lady from Shanghai
1947
7.3/10

The Stranger
1946
7.2/10

Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
7.9/10

Notorious
1946
7.8/10

Othello
1951
7.3/10

Breathless
1960
7.5/10

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
7.9/10

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
8.0/10

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
8.1/10
Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965
7.2/10