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On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront

United States 1954

DIR Elia Kazan

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

The Searchers

The Searchers

United States 1956

DIR John Ford

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion

France 1937

DIR Jean Renoir

  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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Jean Renoir’s antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion, hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, stars Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp.

Melancholia

Melancholia

Denmark 2011

DIR Lars von Trier

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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Two sisters (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg) find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide into the Earth.

Y tu mamá también

Y tu mamá también

Mexico 2001

DIR Alfonso Cuarón

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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The basic plot of the film is that best friends Tenoch and Julio, who think of nothing but sex, convince a beautiful 28-year-old woman, Luisa, to go on a road trip with them to a nonexistent beach.

Hidden

Hidden

France 2005

DIR Michael Haneke

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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An upper-middle class Parisian family starts receiving anonymous video tapes of their house. There’s no commentary, no threats, but the message is clear: You’re being watched. Slowly, dark revelations come to light…

The Darjeeling Limited

The Darjeeling Limited

United States 2007

DIR Wes Anderson

  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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In director Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, three estranged American brothers reunite for a meticulously planned, soul-searching train voyage across India one year after the death of their father.

Irreversible

Irreversible

France 2002

DIR Gaspar Noé

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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After a fight with her coked-up boyfriend Marcus, Alex leaves a party to go home. She never gets there; instead she’s raped in a desolate tunnel. Her angry boyfriend, and her buddy Pierre decide to take justice into their own hands and hunt down the rapist themselves.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Germany 1920

DIR Robert Wiene

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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Shortly after a traveling showman, Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss), arrives in the town of Holstenwall with his cadaverous somnambulist, Cesare (Conrad Veidt), who, the former claims, is able to predict the future, a number of persons are murdered…

The Exorcist

The Exorcist

United States 1973

DIR William Friedkin

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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When a 12-year old girl is possessed by demons, a young priest takes it upon himself to selflessly save her at the behest of her famous movie-star mother.

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

West Germany 1982

DIR Werner Herzog

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, better known as Fitzcarraldo, wants to build the largest opera house that ever existed, in Iquitos, in the middle of Amazonia. To inaugurate the theater, he plans to invite Caruso, a tenor he heard perform in a production of Ernani in Manaus.

The Truman Show

The Truman Show

United States 1998

DIR Peter Weir

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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In this movie, Truman is a man whose life is a fake one… The place he lives is in fact a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere, and all his friends and people around him, are actors who play their roles in the most popular TV-series in the world: The Truman Show.

The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush

United States 1925

DIR Charlie Chaplin

  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia, whom he tries to win with his singular charm.

Sin City

Sin City

United States 2005

DIR Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino

  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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“Walk down the right back-alley in Sin City, and you can find anything.” From graphic novel legend Frank Miller comes three dark, jagged neo-noir stories of redemption and revenge.

Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria

Italy 1957

DIR Federico Fellini

  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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Giulietta Masina won Best Actress at Cannes as the title character of one of Fellini’s most haunting films. Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria) is the tragic story of a naive prostitute searching for true love in Rome.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Canada 2007

DIR Andrew Dominik

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

District 9

District 9

New Zealand 2009

DIR Neill Blomkamp, Peter Robert Gerber & Simon Hansen

  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over what to do with them.

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

United States 1951

DIR Elia Kazan

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

The Prestige

The Prestige

United States 2006

DIR Christopher Nolan

  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Robert and Alfred are rival magicians. When Alfred performs the ultimate magic trick, Robert tries desperately to find out the secret to the trick.

Stranger Than Paradise

Stranger Than Paradise

United States 1984

DIR Jim Jarmusch

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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With its delicate humor and dramatic nonchalance, Jim Jarmusch’s one-of-a-kind minimalist masterpiece, Stranger Than Paradise, forever transformed the landscape of American independent cinema.