12 Angry Men. Poster of the 1957 movie and cover of the 1954 book, Twelve Angry Men
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Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose, 1954
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Sidney Lumet, 1957

In the overheated jury room of the New York County Courthouse, a jury prepares to deliberate the case of an 18-year-old impoverished youth accused of stabbing his father to death. The judge instructs them that if there is any reasonable doubt, the jurors are to return a verdict of not guilty; if found guilty, the defendant will receive a death sentence. The verdict must be unanimous.


Psycho. Poster of the 1960 movie and cover of the 1959 book
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Psycho
Robert Bloch, 1959
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1960

Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank forty thousand dollars by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into the Bates Motel.


All the President's Men. Poster of the 1976 movie and cover of the 1974 book
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All the President's Men
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, 1974
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Alan J. Pakula, 1976

On June 17, 1972, security guard Frank Wills at the Watergate complex finds a door’s bolt taped over so that it will not lock. Woodward learns that the five men, four Cuban-Americans from Miami and James W. McCord, Jr., had electronic bugging equipment and are represented by a high-priced country club attorney.


Cape Fear. Poster of the 1962 movie and cover of the 1957 book, The Executioners
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The Executioners
John D. MacDonald, 1957
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J. Lee Thompson, 1962

In Southeast Georgia in 1962, after spending eight years in prison for rape, Max Cady is released. Cady begins to stalk and subtly threaten Bowden’s family. A friend of Bowden, Police Chief Mark Dutton, attempts to intervene on Bowden’s behalf, but he cannot prove Cady guilty of any crime.


The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Poster of the 1974 movie and cover of the 1973 book
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
John Godey, 1973
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Joseph Sargent, 1974

In New York City, four men wearing similar disguises and carrying concealed weapons board the same downtown 6 train, Pelham 1-2-3, at different stations. Using codenames Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Brown, they take 18 people, including the conductor and an undercover police officer, hostage in the first car.


Breakfast at Tiffany's. Poster of the 1961 movie and cover of the 1958 book
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote, 1958
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Blake Edwards, 1961

Early one morning, a taxi pulls up in front of Tiffany & Co. and from it emerges elegantly dressed Holly Golightly, carrying a paper bag containing her breakfast. Once inside, Holly cannot find her keys so she buzzes her landlord, Mr. Yunioshi, to let her in. Tomato’s lawyer pays her $100 a week to deliver ‘the weather report’.


Tora! Tora! Tora!. Poster of the 1970 movie and cover of the 1981 book, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Gordon W. Prange, 1981
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Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, 1970

In August 1939, the United States imposes a trade embargo on a belligerent Japan, severely limiting raw materials. Meanwhile, in Washington, U.S. military intelligence has broken the Japanese Purple Code, allowing them to intercept secret Japanese radio transmissions indicating increased Japanese naval activity.


Tora! Tora! Tora!. Poster of the 1970 movie and cover of the 1967 book, The Broken Seal
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The Broken Seal
Ladislas Farago, 1967
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Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, 1970

In August 1939, the United States imposes a trade embargo on a belligerent Japan, severely limiting raw materials. Meanwhile, in Washington, U.S. military intelligence has broken the Japanese Purple Code, allowing them to intercept secret Japanese radio transmissions indicating increased Japanese naval activity.


Hombre. Poster of the 1967 movie and cover of the 1961 book
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Hombre
Elmore Leonard, 1961
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Martin Ritt, 1967

In late 19th-century Arizona, an Apache-raised white man, John Russell, faces prejudice in the white world after he returns for his inheritance upon his father’s death. Deciding to sell the house to buy a herd of horses, which does not endear him to the boarders who live there or to the caretaker, Jessie, Russell ends up riding a stagecoach with Jessie and unhappily married boarders Doris and Billy Lee Blake leaving town.


Cape Fear. Poster of the 1991 movie and cover of the 1957 book, The Executioners
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The Executioners
John D. MacDonald, 1957
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Martin Scorsese, 1991

Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) is a lawyer living in North Carolina with his wife Leigh (Jessica Lange) and teenage daughter Danielle (Juliette Lewis). Unbeknownst to him, however, his former client is a naturally intelligent and single-minded psychopath; he learned how to read and studied law in prison, and even unsuccessfully appealed his own conviction several times.


Murder on the Orient Express. Poster of the 1974 movie and cover of the 1934 book
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Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie, 1934
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Sidney Lumet, 1974

In December 1935, Hercule Poirot is travelling aboard the Orient Express, encountering his friend Signor Bianchi, a director of the company which owns the line. During the trip, American businessman Samuel Ratchett is found stabbed to death in his cabin. Bianchi entreats Poirot to solve the case.


Catch-22. Poster of the 1970 movie and cover of the 1961 book
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller, 1961
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Mike Nichols, 1970

Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bombardier, is stationed on the Mediterranean base on Pianosa during World War II. Futilely appealing to his commanding officer, Colonel Cathcart, who continually increases the number of missions required to rotate home before anyone can reach it, Yossarian learns that even a mental breakdown is no release when Doc Daneeka explains the Catch-22 the Army Air Corps employs.