Can You Pick the Movie from the Description?

Have you seen classic movies to know them by their description of the plot alone? We're going to let you prove it in this Classic Movie Quiz! All you have to do is read the description and choose the right movie title.
 
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This movie tells the story of a famous ship that drowned, and the story of two lovers on it at the time.
Captain Phillips
Titanic
The Bounty
Poseidon
 
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This movie is about the prison term and prison break of a banker who was innocent of killing his wife, and how he successfully escaped prison after decades.
Shawshank Redepmtion
Escape From Alcatraz
The Great Escape
Stalag 17
 
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This movie is about a family of Italian mobsters in America, lead by the father of the family who dies in the movie.
Scarface
The Godfather
Casino
Goodfellas
 
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This movie is about a man who saved many Jews from the Nazis during WWII by giving them work in his factory.
Schindler's List
Hanna's War
Escape from Sobibor
War and Remembrance
 
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This Western is about a bounty hunter who joins two men in an alliance against a third in a race to find buried gold.
Unforgiven
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
True Grit
 
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A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
The Ward
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Mailman Always Rings Twice
Shutter Island
 
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This movie is about a mysterious word a powerful tycoon says right before he dies, trying to find the meaning of it.
Casablanca
The Stranger
Citizen Kane
Journey Into Fear
 
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A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Seven
Psycho
Red Dragon
Silence of the Lambs
 
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An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Harvey
Singin' in the Rain
It's a Wonderful Life
 
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A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
American Psycho
Psycho
Motel
Bates Motel
 
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A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.
12 Angry Men
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
The Great Escape
 
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A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
The Deer Hunter
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
 
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A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Bates Motel
The Shining
Psycho
Tommyknockers
 
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A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
The Godfather
Bugsy
Once Upon a Time in America
Goodfellas
 
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The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Mozart
Wolfgang
Amadeus
Requiem For a Dream
 
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