The Top-Rated Films in Cinema History

Strangers on a Train

Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Strangers on a Train follows two men who meet on a train and devise a plan to murder someone in each of their lives. The film has been called a "magnificent absurdist crime drama" with suspense that builds "relentlessly, almost sickeningly." The cinematographer, Robert Burks, was nominated for an Oscar.

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