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Selection: ranked from the FlickRatings core library (up to 25,000 titles). Size: this page shows the top 100 results for this slice. Updates: list refreshes as underlying metadata and availability updates (page last built: January 13, 2026). Tip: use title pages to check where-to-watch by country and provider.
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Rebel Without A Cause (1955) FR #907 | Movie | Drama | USA | English
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Director Nicholas Ray
Writer Stewart Stern, Irving Shulman, Nicholas Ray
Cast James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
Plot A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
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In A Lonely Place (1950) FR #1914 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
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Director Nicholas Ray
Writer Andrew Solt, Edmund H. North, Dorothy B. Hughes
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Plot A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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They Live By Night (1948) FR #2461 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English
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Director Nicholas Ray
Writer Charles Schnee, Nicholas Ray, Edward Anderson
Cast Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
Plot An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
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Johnny Guitar (1954) FR #2926 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA, Japan | English, Japanese
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Director Nicholas Ray
Writer Philip Yordan, Roy Chanslor, Nicholas Ray
Cast Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes Mccambridge
Plot After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
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Bigger Than Life (1956) FR #4663 | Movie | Drama | USA | English, Japanese
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Director Nicholas Ray
Writer Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, Burton Roueche
Cast James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
Plot A seriously-ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.
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Editorial Best Nicholas Ray Movies/TV Shows collects the director’s most important, popular and top regarded work. This list is built from the cataogue of 25000 core titles provided on FlickRatings, and showcases most important movies and TV shows as ordered by our score generated using public metadata. Combine this with our weekly updated OTT information to shortlist your next watch.
