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- Aguirre,
The Wrath of God
- A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the
Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians,
the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the
self-styled " Wrath of God ") is consumed by visions of conquering
all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre 's megalomania
turns the expedition into a death trip. Directed by Werner Herzog.
Starring Klaus Kinski. NR
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- The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparjito,
& The World of Apu)
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- The
Awful Truth
- Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner
both do their best to ruin each other's plans for remarriage,
Jerry to haughty socialite Molly Lamont, she to oil-rich bumpkin
Daniel Leeson. Directed by Leo McCarey. Starring Irene Dunne &
Cary Grant. NR
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- Baby Face
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- Bande à part
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- Barry
Lyndon
- The rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on
achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage. Directed by Stanley
Kubrick. Starring Ryan O'Neal. Based on the book
The
Memoris of Barry Lyndon, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray.
PG
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- Berlin Alexanderplatz
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- Blade
Runner
-
Rick Deckard prowls the steel and microchip jungle of 21st
century Los Angeles. He's a " blade runner " stalking
genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them.
Their crime: wanting to be human. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, & Sean Young. Based on the book
Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. R
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- Bonnie
and Clyde
- A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based
on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's,
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Directed by Arthur Penn. Starring
Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway. R
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- Brazil
- A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground
superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic
victim of his own romantic illusions. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
Starring Jonathan Pryce & Robert De Niro. R
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- Bride
of Frankenstein
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Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive,
not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein abandons evil
experiments, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps
his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature:
a woman to be the companion of the monster. Directed by James
Whale. Starring Boris Karloff & Elsa Lanchester. NR
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- Camille
-
Tragic heroine who must sacrifice her own happiness in order
to prove her love. Directed by George Cukor. Starring Greta Garbo
& Robert Taylor. Based on the book Camille
by Alexandre Dumas. NR
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- Casablanca
- "You must remember this ... ". For the sentimentalists
among us, Casablanca is the great movie of all times: exotic locale,
Nazi villains, a bitter-sweet love triangle, and the 1940's Warner
Brothers stock company fighting World War II as it should have
been fought-- "Play it, Sam." Directed by Michael Curtiz.
Starring Humphry Bogart & Ingrid Bergman. NR
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- Charade
- A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through
Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them. Directed
by Stanley Donen. Starring Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn. NR
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- Children
of Paradise
- Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage
their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman.
Directed by Marcel Carné. NR
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- Chinatown
- Jake Gittes is a private eye living off the murky moral climate
of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful
socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes
is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits,
uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come
crashing together for one unforgettable night. Directed by Roman
Polanski. Starring Jack Nicholson & Faye Dunaway. R
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- Chungking
Express
- Two interwined romantic tales take place inside the Ch?ung-ch?ing
high-rise shopping center in downtown Hong Kong: A policeman falls
in love with a snack bar waitress while a house detective gets
involved with a female drug dealer. Directed by Kar Wai Wong.
Starring Brigitte Lin & Tony Leung Chiu Wai. PG-13
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- Citizen
Kane
-
Regarded as one of the finest films ever made, Citizen Kane
tells the story of idealism corrupted by wealth. Prominant publisher,
William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version
of his career and attempted to suppress it. The controversy has
faded, but not the film's power and brilliance. Directed by and
Starring Orson Welles. NR
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- City
Lights
-
A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts
to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight.
Directed by & starring Charles Chaplin. NR
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- City
of God
- The world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God
, where combat photographers and police rarely go. The true story
of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition
as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.
Directed by Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund. Starring
Alexandre Rodrigues & Leandro Firmino. R
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- Closely Watched Trains
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- The Crime of Monsieur Lange
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- The Crowd
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- Day
for Night (La Nuit américaine)
- Frictions and personality clashes beset the making of a romantic
film in Nice. Directed by François Truffaut. Starring Jacqueline
Bisset. PG
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- The
Decalogue
- Ten films that each feature one of the Ten Commandments as
a thematic construct. Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. NR
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- Detour
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- The
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (La Charme discret
de la bourgeoisie)
- An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their
attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events
both actual and imagined. Directed by Luis Buñuel. PG
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- Dodsworth
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- Double
Indemnity
-
A man becomes increasingly accident prone only after his wife
and a smooth-talking insurance agent encourage him to sign a double
-indemnity policy. Then the partners in crime plan the perfect
murder to collect on the insurance. Directed by Billy Wilder.
Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, & Edward G. Robinson.
Based on the book Double
Indemnity by James M. Cain. NR
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- Dr.
Strangelove
- Fueled by paranoia and a fanatical sense of patriotism, two
psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper and
Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson - trigger an ingenious,
irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear
bombs. Funny and frightening, this black comedy about a group
of military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse seems as relevant
todayas ever. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Peter Sellers
& George C. Scott. PG
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- Drunken
Master II
- When the British government is discovered smuggling precious
Chinese artifacts out of the country, folklore hero Wong Fei Hong
uses his uniquely outlandish style of martial arts ... Drunken
Boxing ... to fight the conspirators and salvage the valuables
before it's too late. And the more Hong drinks, the more agile
he becomes -- able to fend off numerous attacks with unbelievable
moves! With Chinese treasures and family pride on the line, Hong
steps up to every challenge. Directed by Chia-Liang Liu. Starring
Jackie Chan. R
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- E.T.
The Extra-Terrestrial
- A ten-year-old boy befriends a creature from another planet
that has been stranded on earth. Directed by Stephen Spielberg.
Starring Henry Thomas & Dee Wallace-Stone. PG
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- 8
1/2
- Fellini 's autobiographical film about a famous film director
who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film. Directed
by Federico Fellini. Starring Marcello Mastroianni & Claudia
Cardinale. NR
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- The
400 Blows
- Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment
with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky
at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets
into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which
he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
Directed by François Truffaut. NR
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- Farewell
My Concubine
- Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men
at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who
comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese
history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.
Directed by Kaige Chen. Starring Leslie Cheung & Fengyi Zhang.
Based on the book Ba wang bie ji by Lillian Lee. R
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- Finding
Nemo
- The fretful Marlin and his young son Nemo become separated from
each other in the Great Barrier Reef. Nemo , a clown fish, is
unexpectedly taken from his home and thrust into a fish tank in
a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbor. Buoyed by the companionship
of a friendly fish named Dory, Marlin embarks on a dangerous trek
and finds himself the unlikely hero. Directed by Andrew Stanton
& Lee Unkrich. Produced by Pixar & Walt Disney. G
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- The
Fly
- An over-ambitious scientist accidentally merges with a housefly
while conducting a bizarre teleporting experiment. A journalist
suddenly finds herself caring for a horrifying creature whose
insect half gradually begins to take over. Directed by David Cronenberg.
Starring Jeff Goldblum & Geena Davis. R
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- The
Godfather
- A chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall
from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between
the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which
they are engaged. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Marlon
Brando & Al Pacino. Starring Al Pacino. Based on the book
The
Godfather by Mario Puzo. R
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- The
Godfather Part II
- The rise of gangster Vito Corleone in the early 20th century
and the ascendancy of his son Michael in the 1960s and 70s. Directed
by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Al Pacino. Based on the book
The
Godfather by Mario Puzo. R
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- The
Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- During the height of the American Civil War, a mysterious gunman
roams the western frontier. He has no home, no loyalties and no
companions until he meets two strangers who are as ruthless and
detached as he is. Thrown together by fate, the three men join
forces to track down a fortune in stolen gold. Directed by Sergio
Leone. Starring Clint Eastwood. R
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- Goodfellas
- Henry Hill had always wanted to be a gangster, until three decades
later when his life comes crashing down around him. Directed by
Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, & Joe
Pesci. Based on the book Wiseguy:
Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi. R
|
|
- A
Hard Day's Night
- A lively, good-natured spoof of "Beatlemania" portraying a
frantic 36 hours in the lives of the rock group. Directed by Richard
Lester. Starring The Beatles. NR
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- His
Girl Friday
- An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses every dirty trick in the
book to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and remarrying
in this twist on The front page. Directed by Howard Hawks. Starring
Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell. Based on the play The
Front Page by Ben Hecht. NR
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- Ikiru
- Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a
clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life.
After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization
in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the
slums and dies quiety fulfilled. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Starring
Takashi Shimura. PG
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- In A Lonely Place
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- Invasion
of the Body Snatchers
-
Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small
town in California, replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods"
and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. In a terrifying
race, for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the
deadly invasion of the pod people. Directed by Don Siegel. Starring
Kevin McCarthy & Dana Wynter. NR
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- It's
a Gift
- Harold Bissonette is a bungling, henpecked grocer who dreams
of California's golden sunshine. A small inheritance from his
Uncle Bean tempts Harold to sell everything and buy an orange
ranch sight unseen. Along the way, he matches wits with dogs,
kids, and chicken feathers, snatching victory from the jaws of
defeat at the last madcap minute. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod.
Starring W.C. Fields. NR
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- It's
a Wonderful Life
- A man is prevented from committing suicide by an elderly angel
who takes him back through his life to see what good he has done
and how the world would be if he had not been born. Directed by
Frank Capra. Starring James Stewart & Donna Reed. NR
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- Kandahar
- Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland
in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with
grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the
Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit
suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days
away. Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Starring Nelofer Pazira.
NR
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- Kind
Hearts and Coronets
- Impatient to become duke, the ninth in line decides to eliminate
the eight relatives standing in his way in this tart black comedy.
Obstructing the path to his title is Alec Guinness, in one of
his greatest performances, playing all eight relatives. Directed
by Robert Hamer. Starring Dennis Price & Alec Guinness. Based
on the book by Roy Horniman. NR
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- King
Kong
-
Adventure story of the giant ape King Kong , discovered on
Skull Island, his voyage to New York and his fatal attraction
to a young woman leading to death and destruction as he pursues
her. Directed by Merian Cooper & Ernest Schoedsack. Starring
Fay Wray & Robert Armstrong. NR
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- The
Lady Eve
-
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a
brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naive snake enthusiast-- and attempt
to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly
abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But
when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot
to re-conquer his heart. Directed by Preston Sturges. Starring
Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda. NR
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- The Last Command
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- Lawrence
of Arabia
- The story of T.E. Lawrence , assigned to Arabia during World
War I. Lawrence courageously unites the warring Arab factions
into a strong guerrilla front and leads them to brilliant victories
in treacherous desert battlefields where they eventually defeat
the ruling Turkish Empire. Directed by David Lean. Starring Peter
O'Toole. Based on the book Seven
Pillars of Wisdom: a Triumph by T. E. Lawrence. PG
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- Leolo
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- The
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Fellowship of the Ring,
The Two Towers, Return of the King)
- In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths,
and Sauron, the Dark Lord , forged the One Ring, filling it with
his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring
was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth
still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance,
into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his eleventy-first
birthday, Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin,
Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across
Middle-Earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy
the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. Directed by Peter
Jackson. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Elijah Wood, & Ian McKellen.
Based on the The
Lord of the Rings trilogy of books by J.R.R. Tolkien.
PG-13
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- The Man With a Camera
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- The
Manchurian Candidate
- Ask Major Bennett Marco and he'll say that Sergeant Raymond
Shaw is a hero worthy of the Medal of Honor. But despite what
he says, Marco suspects otherwise. A bizarre, recurring nightmare
gives him the uneasy feeling that Shaw is something far less heroic
and far more insidious. Is it possible that Shaw is a traitor?
Can Marco convince the Army of his suspicions? How does Shaw's
power-mad mother figure into all of this? So many questions. So
precious little time. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring
Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey, & Janet Leigh. Based on the
book The
Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon.
PG-13
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- Meet
Me in St. Louis
- The Smith family is crushed to learn of father's transfer to
New York. The five children don't want to leave their friends,
or, most of all, miss the the St . Louis World Fair. Directed
by Vincente Minnelli. Starring Judy Garland. Based on the book
by Sally Benson. NR
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- Metropolis
- The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee"
and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers
are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground.
In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and
attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
Directed by Fritz Lang. NR
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- Miller's
Crossing
- The control of the gangster-political boss of an eastern city
is slipping. The situation is complicated by a woman- both the
boss and his trusted lieutenant are in love with her. Then the
boss's control is challenged by an upstart Italian underboss and
his ruthless henchman. Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen. Starring
Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, & Albert
Finney. R
|
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- Mon
oncle d'Amerique
- Jean, René, Janine: two men and a woman from different generations
and different backgrounds, whose paths meet at a crisis point
in mid-life. Faced with disappointment and frustration, all three
muse about a legendary "uncle in America", a guardian angel who
gives them their hearts' desires and them exactly what they want
to hear. Directed by Alain Resnais. Starring Gerard Depardieu.
PG
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- Mouchette
-
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- Nayakan
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- Ninotchka
-
A Soviet official in Paris soon turns to pleasure as she discovers
the magic of Paris and finds herself succumbing to the special
charms of a suave Frenchman named Leon D'Algout. Directed by Ernst
Lubitsch. Starring Greta Garbo & Mervyn Douglas. NR
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- Notorious
- A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American
agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage
work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair
of the Nazi ring, Alex. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do
so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge
that he's loved her all along. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring
Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman. NR
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- Olympia
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- On
the Waterfront
- Ex-fighter Terry Malloy could have been a contender but now
toils for boss Johnny Friendly on the gang-ridden waterfront .
Terry is guilt-stricken, however, when he lures a rebellious worker
to his death. But it takes the love of Edie Doyle, the dead man's
sister, to show Terry how low he has fallen. And when the brutality
hits even closer to home, Terry battles to crush Friendly's underworld
empire. Directed by Elia Kazan. Starring Marlon Brando. NR
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- Once
Upon a Time in the West
- A story of a vicious villain coldly wiping out an entire family
and leaving another man to be falsely accused of the slaughter.
Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Henry Fonda. PG-13
|
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- Out of the Past
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- Persona
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- Pinocchio
- An animated musical version of Carlo Collodi's story of a little
puppet who dreams of being a real boy. Directed by Hamilton Luske
& Ben Sharpsteen. Produced by Walt Disney. Based on the book
The
Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. G
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- Psycho
-
When Marion Crane steals money from her employer and escapes
out of town, her getaway takes her to the Bates Motel, run by
a young man with his own terrible secrets. Directed by Alfred
Hitchcock. Starring Anthony Perkins & Janet Leigh. Based on
the book Psycho
by Robert Bloch. NR
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- Pulp
Fiction
- Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually
brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss
and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring John Travolta & Samuel
L. Jackson. R
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- The
Purple Rose of Cairo
- Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who
goes to movies to escape the realities of the Depression Era life.
Her favorite is "The purple rose of Cairo ." When the leading
man Tom Baxter decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds.
Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Mia Farrow & Jeff Daniels.
PG
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- Pyaasa
- A struggling young poet searches for fame and love. Directed
by Guru Dutt. Starring Guru Dutt & Waheeda Rehman. NR
|
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- Raging
Bull
- Based on the true story of Jake La Motta, a boxer whose psychological
and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of
the ring. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Nero.
Based on the book by Jake La Motta. R
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- Schindler's
List
- Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during
the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts
to save them. Directed by Stephen Spielberg. Starring Liam Neeson
& Ben Kingsley. Based on the book Schindler's
List by Thomas Keneally. R
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- The
Searchers
-
Ex-Confederate
soldier Ethan Edwards is an Indian-hater who believes more in
bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been
taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness.
And in his obsessive quest, Ethan finds something unexpected:
his own humanity. Directed by John Ford. Starring John Wayne.
Based on the book The
Searchers by Alan Le May. NR
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- Sherlock,
Jr.
- Dramatizes the uproarious exploits of a meek theater projectionist
turned amateur sleuth. Directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbauckle
& Buster Keaton. Starring Buster Keaton. NR
|
|
- The
Shop Around the Corner
- In pre-World War II Europe, quiet, unassuming Kralik - who works
long hours in a small gift shop owned by the demanding yet endearing
Matuschek - adds color to his lackluster life through correspondence
with an anonymous pen pal. As the letters turn towards the subject
of love, not even his constant bickering with a new female co-worker
can tarnish his newfound happiness. But when he's suddenly and
inexplicably fired, all of his romantic aspirations crumble. Until,
that is, he discovers the identity of his secret friend. Directed
by Ernst Lubitsch. Starring Margaret Sullivan & James Stewart.
NR
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- Singin'
in the Rain
- Set in Hollywood of the 1920s, silent movies are giving way
to talkies - and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol is caught in the
bumpy transition, as well as his buddy, a prospective ladylove
and his shrewish co-star. Silence may be golden, but not when
you have such magical numbers as "Good Mornin'," "Make
'Em Laugh," the "Broadway Melody" ballet and the
title tune, " Singin ' in the Rain." Directed by Stanley
Donan. Starring Gene Kelly. NR
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- The
Singing Detective
- Wracked by a terrible skin disease, the unsuccessful writer
Philip Marlow looks cynically back on life from his bed in a busy
National Health hospital, fantasising himself into one of his
own pulp thrillers as a crooning '40s detective enmeshed in baffling
murder cases. Directed by Jon Amiel. Starring Michael Gambon.
NR
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- Smiles of a Summer Night
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- Some
Like it Hot
- When Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry accidentally witness a
gangland shooting, they quickly board a southbound train to Florida,
disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the two newest -- and homeliest
-- members of an all-girl jazz band. Directed by Billy Wilder.
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, & Jack Lemmon. NR
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- Star
Wars
-
A young Luke Skywalker begins to discover his destiny when,
searching for a lost droid, he is saved by reclusive Jedi Obi-Wan
Kenobi. As civil war rages in the galaxy, and Rebel forces struggle
against the evil Galactic Empire, Luke and Obi-Wan enlist the
aid of hotshot pilot Han Solo. Directed by George Lucas. Starring
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, & Carrie Fisher. PG
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- A
Streetcar Named Desire
-
An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who
visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by
her brother-in-law. Directed by Elia Kazan. Starring Vivien Leigh
& Marlon Brando. Based on the play A
Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. PG
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- Sunrise
- A villager in love with a city woman tries to kill his wife;
later he repents and spends a happy day with her. Directed by
F.W. Murnau. Starring George O'Brien & Janet Gaynor. NR
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- Sweet
Smell Of Success
- A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous
press agent who'll do anthing to achieve success. Directed by
Alexander Mackendrick. Starring Burt Lancaster & Tony Curtis.
NR
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- Swing
Time
- Gambling man Lucky Garnett blows into the city, eager to make
the ($) 25,000 that will allow him to marry his sweetheart back
home. One glimpse of a pretty, no-nonsense dance instructor, however,
and all bets are off. After all, what's 25 grand compared to a
lovely Penny? Directed by George Stevens. Starring Fred Astaire
& Ginger Rogers. NR
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- Talk
to Her
- Two men hold vigil over the women they love as the lives of
the four are further entwined and their relationships move toward
a surprising conclusion. Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Starring
Javier Camara & Dario Grandinetti. R
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- Taxi
Driver
- Story about a psychotic cabbie driven to violence in an attempt
to "rescue" a teenage prostitute. Propelled by this
obsession and his rejection by a beautiful political campaigner,
the cabbie begins his violent rampage that includes an attempted
assassination of a presidential candidate. Directed by Martin
Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro & Cybill Shepherd. R
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- Tokyo Story
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- A Touch of Zen
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- Ugetsu
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- Ulysses' Gaze
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- Umberto
D
- Follow Umberto D ., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to
make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except
for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while
trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems
to have lost out to the forces of modernization. Directed by Vittorio
De Sica. Starring Carlo Battisti. NR
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- Unforgiven
- An ex-gunslinger is drawn back into his murderous past when
a bounty is put out to avenge an attack on a frontier town prostitute.
Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman,
Morgan Freeman, & Richard Harris. R
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- White
Heat
- James Cagney plays Cody Jarrett is a cold-blooded criminal
and a psychological time bomb ruled by impulse. He murders a wounded
accomplice and revels in the act. He neglects his sultry wife
and adores his doting mother. It is among the most vivid screen
performances of Cagney's career. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Starring
James Cagney & Virginia Mayo. NR
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- Wings
Of Desire
- An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become
human when he falls in love with a mortal. Directed by Wim Wenders.
NR
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- Yojimbo
- In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war
between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his
own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human
weakness. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Starring Toshirô Mifune
& Tatsuya Nakadai. PG-13
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