TCM Presents: The Essentials

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Every movie featured on the Turner Classic Movies series "The Essentials".

Movies are listed chronologically.

Last updated April 22, 2020. Now up to date through January 2021.

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  1. 48 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  2. 238 -7

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  3. 213 -6

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  4. 252 -8

    It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

    1963, in 6 top lists Check
  5. 178 -4

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  6. 193 -6

    Giant

    1956, in 10 top lists Check
  7. 260 -9

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  8. 228 -7

    Spartacus

    1960, in 19 top lists Check
  9. 313 new

    Gandhi

    1982, in 15 top lists Check
  10. 215 new

    The Diary of Anne Frank

    1959, in 3 top lists Check
  11. 233 -7

    Judgment at Nuremberg

    1961, in 7 top lists Check
  12. 244 -8

    Mutiny on the Bounty

    1962, in 2 top lists Check
  13. 249 -8

    The Great Escape

    1963, in 14 top lists Check
  14. 111 -1

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  15. 258 -9

    My Fair Lady

    1964, in 18 top lists Check
  16. 276 -10

    C'era una volta il West

    1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 28 top lists Check
  17. 198 -6

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  18. 231 -7

    The Guns of Navarone

    1961, in 6 top lists Check
  19. 179 -4

    A Star Is Born

    1954, in 13 top lists Check
  20. 239 -7

    Lolita

    1962, in 11 top lists Check
  21. 2 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  22. 236 -7

    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
  23. 6 -

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
  24. 273 -10

    Funny Girl

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
  25. 243 new

    The Music Man

    1962, in 6 top lists Check
  26. 287 -11

    Papillon

    1973, in 6 top lists Check
  27. 268 -10

    The Dirty Dozen

    1967, in 8 top lists Check
  28. 183 -4

    Guys and Dolls

    1955, in 7 top lists Check
  29. 277 -10

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  30. 219 -7

    The Nun's Story

    1959, in 3 top lists Check
  31. 237 -7

    Birdman of Alcatraz

    1962, in 2 top lists Check
  32. 224 -7

    Elmer Gantry

    1960, in 6 top lists Check
  33. 119 -2

    The Razor's Edge

    1946, in 1 top list Check
  34. 280 -10

    The Wild Bunch

    1969, in 25 top lists Check
  35. 205 -6

    Auntie Mame

    1958, in 3 top lists Check
  36. 285 -11

    The Day of the Jackal

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
  37. 144 -2

    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  38. 303 -15

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
  39. 99 -1

    Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

    1944, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 192 -6

    Friendly Persuasion

    1956, in 3 top lists Check
  41. 210 -6

    Some Came Running

    1958, in 7 top lists Check
  42. 218 -7

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  43. 75 -

    Meet John Doe

    1941, in 3 top lists Check
  44. 133 -2

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  45. 108 -1

    They Were Expendable

    1945, in 4 top lists Check
  46. 230 -7

    Fanny

    1961, in 1 top list Check
  47. 232 -7

    The Hustler

    1961, in 15 top lists Check
  48. 130 -2

    I Remember Mama

    1948, in 2 top lists Check
  49. 275 -10

    The Lion in Winter

    1968, in 4 top lists Check
  50. 248 -8

    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    1962, in 15 top lists Check
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Last updated on Apr 22, 2020 by MovieDearest; source