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Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

United States 2008

DIR Charlie Kaufman

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Punch-Drunk Love

Punch-Drunk Love

United States 2002

DIR Paul Thomas Anderson

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Barry Egan is a small business owner with seven sisters whose abuse has kept him alone and unable to fall in love. When a harmonium and a mysterious woman enter his life, his romantic journey begins.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fantastic Mr. Fox

United States 2009

DIR Wes Anderson

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox is Wes Anderson’s first animated film, utilizing classic handmade stop motion techniques to tell the story of the best selling children’s book by Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach.

The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon

Germany 2009

DIR Michael Haneke

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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Strange events happen at a rural school in the north of Germany during the year 1913, which seem to be ritual punishment. Does this affect the school system, and how does the school have an influence on fascism?

Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America

United States 1984

DIR Sergio Leone

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30 years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

United States 2000

DIR Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Loosely based on Homer’s “Odyssey” the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi.

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev

Soviet Union 1966

DIR Andrei Tarkovsky

  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia’s greatest icon painter.

Ratatouille

Ratatouille

United States 2007

DIR Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession.

Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies

Japan 1988

DIR Isao Takahata

  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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In the aftermath of a World War II bombing, two orphaned children struggle to survive in the Japanese countryside. To Seita and his four-year old sister, the helplessness and indifference of their countrymen is even more painful than the enemy raids.

L'avventura

L'avventura

Italy 1960

DIR Michelangelo Antonioni

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love.

Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon

United States 1975

DIR Sidney Lumet

  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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Still the standard by which many New York movies are compared, Lumet’s terrific telling of a true-story Brooklyn bank robbery gone way out of hand is just as captivating as ever.

The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects

United States 1995

DIR Bryan Singer

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.

La strada

La strada

Italy 1954

DIR Federico Fellini

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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Acclaimed Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini drew on his own circus background for the 1954 classic, symbolism-laden drama La Strada, which was the winner of the first official Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, awarded in 1956.

A Woman Under the Influence

A Woman Under the Influence

United States 1974

DIR John Cassavetes

  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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John Cassavetes’ devastating drama details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. This is one of the benchmark films of American independent cinema—a heroic document from a true maverick director.

Badlands

Badlands

United States 1973

DIR Terrence Malick

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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After a charismatic rebel blows away her dad, a baton-twirling teen decides it just might be fun to join him on his shooting spree through Montana’s badlands.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

France 2007

DIR Julian Schnabel

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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After a stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby can only move his left eye—and through that eye he learns to communicate, one letter at a time. With the help of his speech therapist and a stenographer (Anne Consigny, Anna M.), Bauby writes the stunning memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

United States 1991

DIR James Cameron

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor must now protect her teenager son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced cyborg.

Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein

United States 1974

DIR Mel Brooks

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder) inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback called Igor, a pretty lab assistant named Inga and the old housekeeper, Frau Blücher…

Barton Fink

Barton Fink

United States 1991

DIR Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer’s block…

Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead

United Kingdom 2004

DIR Edgar Wright

  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.