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Lost Highway

Lost Highway

United States 1997

DIR David Lynch

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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From director David Lynch comes the surreal story of Fred Madison, a successful saxophonist, who finds himself accused of murdering his wife Renee. On death row, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton, leading a different parallel life.

Hiroshima, mon amour

Hiroshima, mon amour

France 1959

DIR Alain Resnais

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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In Alain Resnais’s cornerstone film of the French New Wave, a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering.

Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle

Japan 2004

DIR Hayao Miyazaki

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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Sophie, a diligent teenage girl working in her family’s hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome-but-mysterious wizard named Howl…

Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan

United States 1998

DIR Steven Spielberg

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead

United States 1968

DIR George A. Romero

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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The story is simple: Radiation from a fallen satellite has caused the dead to walk, and hunger for human flesh. Once bitten, you become one of them. And the only way to kill one is by a shot or blow to the head. A group holed up in a small farmhouse must try to fend off an onslaught of the dead.

The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game

France 1939

DIR Jean Renoir

  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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Renoir’s look at bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II. An assorted cast of characters – the rich and their poor servants – meet up at a French chateau.

Talk to Her

Talk to Her

Spain 2002

DIR Pedro Almodóvar

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas in this Oscar-winning film from Pedro Almodóvar.

Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story

Japan 1953

DIR Yasujirô Ozu

  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, postwar Tokyo.

Ed Wood

Ed Wood

United States 1994

DIR Tim Burton

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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From Tim Burton comes the hilarious, true-life story of the wackiest filmmaker in Hollywood history, Ed Wood! Johnny Depp stars as the high-spirited movieman who refuses to let unfinished scenes, terrible reviews, and hostile studio executives derail his big-screen dreams.

All About My Mother

All About My Mother

Spain 1999

DIR Pedro Almodóvar

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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After her son Esteban is killed in an accident, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid for Barcelona in search of her son’s estranged father.

Heat

Heat

United States 1995

DIR Michael Mann

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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Hunters and their prey—Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division…

Amores perros

Amores perros

Mexico 2000

DIR Alejandro González Iñárritu

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life’s harsh realities, all in the name of love.

Le samouraï

Le samouraï

France 1967

DIR Jean-Pierre Melville

  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture, maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Samouraï defines cool.

Elephant

Elephant

United States 2003

DIR Gus Van Sant

  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Director Gus Van Sant returned to the low-key style of his early independent efforts with this semi-improvised exploration of how violence makes its way into a typical American high school, which won the Best Director and the Palme d’Or at 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

Before Sunset

Before Sunset

United States 2004

DIR Richard Linklater

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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It’s nine years after Jesse and Celine first met; now, they encounter one another on the French leg of Jesse’s book tour.

This Is Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap

United States 1984

DIR Rob Reiner

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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Following the ill-fated American comeback tour of an aging heavy metal group, Rob Reiner’s cult phenomenon (and first “rockumentary”) This Is Spinal Tap has joined the ranks of the greatest comedies ever made.

Man With a Movie Camera

Soviet Union 1929

DIR Dziga Vertov

  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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The city wakes, and cameraman travels through to record it all…

The Double Life of Véronique

The Double Life of Véronique

France 1991

DIR Krzysztof Kieślowski

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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Two young women lead totally separate lives in France and in Poland, one called Veronique and one called Weronika. They have no blood relation and they and their families have never met, but they are physically identical to one another, and strangely aware of each other’s presence.

Drive

Drive

United States 2011

DIR Nicolas Winding Refn

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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Drive is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day, a loner by nature who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA’s most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene.

The Social Network

The Social Network

United States 2010

DIR David Fincher

  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Drawn from multiple sources, The Social Network moves from the halls of Harvard to the cubicles of Palo Alto as it captures the visceral thrill of the heady early days of a culture-changing phenomenon in the making.