20 Top-Tier Facts About Some of the Best Movies Ever Made

We love classic movies, like Bring It On and Face-Off. Alright, we mean really classic movies, like The Dark Knight and Parasite. OK, OK, we're just gonna come out of the closet and say we love really, really classic movies. We mean movies like, drum roll please, Citizen Kane. It is the Citizen Kane of movies, if you will, which is absolutely a joke we were going to make. It is the Citizen Kane of jokes about Citizen Kane, after all.
In this Pictofact, we discuss the true classics, some of the best, most well-regarded movies ever made. And don't get us wrong, we'd love for Bring It On to finally get the respect we all know it deserves, it's just that here we're talking about the sort of movies your film buff friend tells you you should watch while you're praising the Snyder cut off as a “masterpiece.” OK, not you you. We know no Cracked reader would ever say that, but you get it. Trashing Zack Snyder movies is the Citizen Kane of talking about awful movies, after all.
Marlon Brando in 'The Godfather'

Al Pacino
The Godfather
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It’s a Wonderful Life
The Shawshank Redemption
Vertigo's Title Sequence
Vertigo's Ending
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Casablanca
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Sunset Blvd.
Schindler's List
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Bicycle Thieves
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Six Samurai
Seven Samurai's Running Time
12 Angry Men
La Dolce Vita
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane's Flop
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