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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

United States 1982

DIR Steven Spielberg

  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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A group of Earth children help a stranded alien return home.

Amarcord

Amarcord

Italy 1973

DIR Federico Fellini

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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Federico Fellini satirizes his youth in this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy in the Fascist period. His most personal film, the Academy Award-winning Amarcord is one of cinema’s enduring treasures.

Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood

Japan 1957

DIR Akira Kurosawa

  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood reimagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warrior’s savage rise to power and his ignominious fall.

PlayTime

PlayTime

France 1967

DIR Jacques Tati

  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with Playtime, a lasting testament to a modern age tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.

Lolita

Lolita

United Kingdom 1962

DIR Stanley Kubrick

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita is the tale of a middle-aged college professor who becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old nymphet.

Delicatessen

Delicatessen

France 1991

DIR Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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The story is centered on a microcosm of a post-apocalyptic society where food is so rare it’s invaluable and is used as currency…

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

United States 1941

DIR John Huston

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.

2046

2046

Hong Kong 2004

DIR Wong Kar-wai

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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From the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-Wai, comes another lyrical and romantic masterpiece about love and memories.

The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch

United States 1969

DIR Sam Peckinpah

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the “traditional” American West is disappearing around them.

The Kid

The Kid

United States 1921

DIR Charlie Chaplin

  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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The Tramp finds and cares for an abandoned child, but events suddenly throw that relationship into jeopardy.

Funny Games

Funny Games

Austria 1997

DIR Michael Haneke

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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Arriving at their lakeside holiday home, a middle class family is alarmed by the unexpected visit of two young men who begin to subject them to twisted exercises in terror.

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain

Canada 2005

DIR Ang Lee

  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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Two young men – a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy – meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Ang Lee’s multi-awarded classic.

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes and Misdemeanors

United States 1989

DIR Woody Allen

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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An opthamologist’s mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

China 2000

DIR Ang Lee

  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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The fate of two women, both capable fighters, intertwine during the Ching Dynasty. One of them tries passionately to break free from the constraint society has placed upon her, even if it means giving up her aristocratic privileges for a life of crime and passion…

Volver

Volver

Spain 2006

DIR Pedro Almodóvar

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Two sisters learn that the bonds of family don’t always end after death in this gentle, observational comedy drama that marks celebrated Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s 16th feature.

A Prophet

A Prophet

Italy 2009

DIR Jacques Audiard

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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Winner of 9 César awards, A Prophet is the story of a young Arab man, played by Tahar Rahim in a breakthrough performance, is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

United States 1939

DIR Victor Fleming, George Cukor & Sam Wood

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dawn of the Dead

Dawn of the Dead

United States 1978

DIR George A. Romero

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

United States 1948

DIR John Huston

  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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John Huston won the Academy Award for writing and directing this powerful saga that pits gold and greed in the wilds of Mexico and stars his father (Walter Huston) and Humphrey Bogart.

28 Days Later

28 Days Later

United Kingdom 2002

DIR Danny Boyle

  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus–a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results…