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  • Citizen Kane
    United States - 1941
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    The story charts the rise and fall of a newpaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolate him in his castle-like refuge. The last word he utters before his ...
  • The 400 Blows
    France - 1959
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    14-year-old Antoine Doinel has troubles at home and at school. Ignored and neglected by his parents, his relationship with his mother is further strained when he ...
  • Reservoir Dogs
    United States - 1992
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    They were six strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Hired by mob boss Joe Cabot and given fake names so no one could identify the others, they thought there ...
  • Son of Saul
    Hungary - 2015
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    In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a jewish prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
  • The Maltese Falcon
    United States - 1941
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    Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye who gets involved in the hunt for a statuette while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). ...
  • Crisis
    Sweden - 1946
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    Young Nelly lives a quiet life with her foster mother until her real mother makes an appearance. Attracted by the fancy dresses and daring adult life in Stockholm offered ...
  • Ivan's Childhood
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1962
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    The film is centered around a 12 year old Russian boy, Ivan, whose parents died at the hands of Germans invading Russia during the Second World War. In striving ...
  • Family Nest
    Hungary - 1979
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    In 1978, Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr released FAMILY NEST onto the world. It told the story of life under the opressive Communist regime that ruled over Tarr's country ...
  • The Duellists
    United Kingdom - 1977
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    During the era of the Napoleonic wars, a conflict arises between two of the emperor's cavalry officers when one of them, the aristocratic Lt. D'Hubert (Keith Carradine), ...
  • Pride & Prejudice
    United Kingdom - 2005
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    The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down ...
  • Sex, Lies and Videotape
    United States - 1989
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    Steven Soderbergh explodes onto the scene with this provocative, intelligent drama about infidelity and voyeurism. Ann Milaney (Andie MacDowell) lives in a comfortable ...
  • Alien³
    United States - 1992
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    Despite the efforts of Ripley and the space marines in the film Aliens, an embryonic alien infiltrates the starship. It accidentally triggers the ship's emergency ...
  • Eraserhead
    United States - 1977
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    Lynch's fiendish cult classic adopts the logic of dreams and nightmares as layers of reality dissolve, sucking you into the eerie world of a warped mind. The befuddled ...
  • Duel (TV)
    United States - 1971
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    Dennis Weaver stars as the traveling salesman waging a desperate battle for survival after he is mysteriously singled out for destruction. Praised for its deft use of ...
  • The Killing Fields
    United Kingdom - 1984
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    An American journalist from The New York Times, Sidney, is engulfed in the horror of Cambodia, and his native adviser disappears and is thought to be dead.
  • Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom
    Spain - 1980
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    Pepi is raped by the policeman who catches her growing marijuana in her apartment. She seeks revenge by getting his masochist wife to leave him.
  • Amores perros
    Mexico - 2000
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    Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly ...
  • Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
    Japan - 1979
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    Reknowned international thief Lupin III comes to the small European duchy of Cagliostro to investigate some excellently-forged money and stumbles across a national ...
  • Following
    United Kingdom - 1998
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    A 16mm black-and-white British suspense drama, shot on weekends with a $6,000 budget. Wannabe writer Bill, aka "The Young Man" (Jeremy Theobald), is "between jobs," ...
  • The Virgin Suicides
    United States - 1999
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    In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates ...
  • Who's That Knocking at My Door? (AKA I Call First)
    United States - 1967
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    J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that ...
  • THX 1138
    United States - 1971
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    Visit the future where love is the ultimate crime. George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt ...
  • Dawn of the Dead
    United States - 2004
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    As the United States is turned upside-down by a strange plague-like event in which millions of corpses walk the earth as blood-thirsty zombies (with the recently-deceased ...
  • Elevator to the Gallows
    France - 1958
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    Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper want to murder her husband by faking a suicide. But after Julien has killed him and he puts his things ...
  • Accattone
    Italy - 1961
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    Pasolini's first film is a painfully realistic study of a pimp in Rome. Vittorio Accattone has never worked a day in his life, and has apparently made a good living ...
  • Fear and Desire
    United States - 1953
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    Four soldiers whose plane has crashed discover they're behind enemy lines in an unnamed country. Desperate to escape, they decide to build a raft and travel up the nearby ...
  • Piranha Part Two: The Spawning
    United States - 1981
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    In this sequel to Joe Dante's PIRANHA, unsuspecting vacationers at tropical Club Elysium find that they are the main course for a school of deadly piranha fish, ...
  • House of Games
    United States - 1987
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    The film is a character study of Dr. Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse), a psychiatrist and best-selling author specializing in addictive behaviour. During a therapy session, ...
  • The Professor
    Italy - 1986
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    Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in ...
  • 12 Angry Men
    United States - 1957
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    Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion?
  • Knife in the Water
    Poland - 1962
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    An attractive young woman, Christine, takes the wheel of a car belonging to her partner Andrzej, a sports columnist. While he criticizes her driving skills, a reckless ...
  • Stereo
    Canada - 1969
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    Somewhere in the future, the Canadian Academy for Erotic Inquiry is investigating the theories of para-psychologist Luther Stringfellow. Seven young adults volunteer to ...
  • Blood Simple
    United States - 1984
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    Abby is cheating on her saloonkeeper husband, Marty. The object of her affections is Ray, one of Marty's bartenders. Marty hires Visser, an unscrupulous detective, to ...
  • American History X
    United States - 1998
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    Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) is a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he sees the error of ...
  • Cube
    Canada - 1997
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    7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
  • Truly, Madly, Deeply
    United Kingdom - 1990
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    Unable to get over the death of her musician lover, a young women gets the shock of her life when he turns up in her apartment--seemingly alive--and helps her back to the world of the living.
  • The Grim Reaper
    Italy - 1962
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    The brutalized corpse of a Roman prostitute is found along the banks of the Tiber River. The police round up a handful of possible suspects and interrogate them, one by ...
  • The Sign of Leo
    France - 1962
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    Pierre Wesserlin (Jess Hahn) is a 39 old American composer, who lives a reckless, bohemian life in Paris. One morning he receives a telegram notifying him that his ...
  • Shallow Grave
    United Kingdom - 1994
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    To avoid spoiling the movie this plot summary is very brief. It starts when three people living together in a four bedroom flat are looking for a house mate. The ...
  • Bad Taste
    New Zealand - 1987
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    Four dim-witted men from the New Zealand National Air and Space Defense League arrive in a small New Zealand fishing town to investigate a report of landing UFO's and ...
  • Strictly Ballroom
    Australia - 1992
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    It's the magical story of a championship ballroom dancer who's breaking all the rules, and his ugly duckling dancing partner. Together they make their dreams come true!
  • She's Gotta Have It
    United States - 1986
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    The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to ...
  • Lola
    France - 1961
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    In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens: she's Lola, now a cabaret dancer. ...
  • The Murderer Lives at Number 21
    France - 1942
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    Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.
  • Clerks
    United States - 1994
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    Dante Hicks is a clerk at a local convenience store in New Jersey. On one particular Saturday morning, he gets called in on his day off. Once there, he must deal with ...
  • Play Misty for Me
    United States - 1971
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    This was Clint Eastwood's directorial debut. Dave Garver (Eastwood) is a Carmel, California, disc jockey who gets a call every night from a mysterious woman listener who ...
  • The Element of Crime
    Denmark - 1984
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    A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.
  • They Live by Night
    United States - 1948
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    In the '30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to ...
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    United States - 1945
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    An outstanding film version of Betty Smith's novel about the hardships facing an Irish family living in a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement. McGuire is splendid as ...
  • Breathless
    France - 1960
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    The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a ...
  • Hard Eight
    United States - 1996
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    John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room ...
  • Ossessione
    Italy - 1943
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    "Ossessione", made in 1942 and banned in Italy by Mussolini, is a powerful delineation of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter who arrives by chance at ...
  • Boy Meets Girl
    France - 1984
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    This highly acclaimed first feature by wunderkind filmmaker Leos Carax (he was only 22 at the time) is an unconventional, moody tone poem that centers on a young man ...
  • Permanent Vacation
    United States - 1980
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    In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy (Chris Parker) whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost ...
  • Fando and Lis
    Mexico - 1968
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    Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
  • Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
    United States - 1974
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    As much an eccentric character study as a road movie, Michael Cimino's directorial debut follows the adventures of a quartet of misfits in their life of crime. Retired ...
Movies from this Rating List. (Click on a movie to rate it)
  • Citizen Kane
  • The 400 Blows
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Son of Saul
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Crisis
  • Ivan's Childhood
  • Family Nest
  • The Duellists
  • Pride & Prejudice
  • Sex, Lies and Videotape
  • Alien³
  • Eraserhead
  • Duel (TV)
  • The Killing Fields
  • Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom
  • Amores perros
  • Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
  • Following
  • The Virgin Suicides
  • Who's That Knocking at My Door? (AKA I Call First)
  • THX 1138
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • Elevator to the Gallows
  • Accattone
  • Fear and Desire
  • Piranha Part Two: The Spawning
  • House of Games
  • The Professor
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Knife in the Water
  • Stereo
  • Blood Simple
  • American History X
  • Cube
  • Truly, Madly, Deeply
  • The Grim Reaper
  • The Sign of Leo
  • Shallow Grave
  • Bad Taste
  • Strictly Ballroom
  • She's Gotta Have It
  • Lola
  • The Murderer Lives at Number 21
  • Clerks
  • Play Misty for Me
  • The Element of Crime
  • They Live by Night
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Breathless
  • Hard Eight
  • Ossessione
  • Boy Meets Girl
  • Permanent Vacation
  • Fando and Lis
  • Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
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