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's Writing Credits

Citizen Kane's Flop

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Orson Welles and 'Citizen Kane'
