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1927
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Metropolis
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Fritz Lang
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This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers.
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1943
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Meshes of the Afternoon
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Maya Deren
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A non-narrative work in which a protagonist appears in a dreamlike state, and where the camera conveys his or her subjective focus. Symbolic objects, such as a key and a knife, recur throughout the film; events are open-ended and interrupted.
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1952
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Singin' in the Rain
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Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
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Musical film that offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to "talkies".
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1958
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Vertigo
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Alfred Hitchcock
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An ex-police officer who suffers from an intense fear of heights is hired to prevent an old friend's wife from committing suicide, but all is not as it seems.
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1966
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Blow-Up
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Michelangelo Antonioni
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Thomas is a London photographer who spends his time photographing fashion models. But one day he thinks he may have photographed something far more sinister: a murder.
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1968
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If....
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Lindsay Anderson
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Teenage rebel Mick Travis returns to his upper-crust English public school, caught between the sadistic older boys and the first-year students who are forced to do their bidding.
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1969
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Easy Rider
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Dennis Hopper
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Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.
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1980
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The Blues Brothers
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John Landis
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After his release from prison, Jake reunites with his brother, Elwood. Jake's first task is to save the orphanage the brothers grew up in from closing, by raising $5,000 to pay back taxes.
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1985
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A Room with a View
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James Ivory
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Lucy Honeychurch a young Englishwoman, is touring Italy and meets the charming and free-spirited George Emerson. When thinking about settling down, Lucy must choose between George and Cecil Vyse.
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1987
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The Untouchables
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Brian De Palma
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During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
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1989
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Do The Right Thing
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Spike Lee
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A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that Sal's pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors and tensions rise.
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1996
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Trainspotting
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Danny Boyle
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Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
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1998
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The Truman Show
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Peter Weir
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An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
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1999
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Ratcatcher
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Lynne Ramsay
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A naïve young who is haunted by a secret lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow and the poor youth around him.
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2000
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The Gleaners and I
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Agnès Varda
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An 1867 painting by Jean-Francois Millet inspired septuagenarian documentarian Agnes Varda to cross the French countryside to videotape people who scavenge.
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2001
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Amélie
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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A fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making.
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2002
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Chicago
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Rob Marshall
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A musical film centered on Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, two murderers who find themselves in jail together awaiting trial in 1920s Chicago.
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2004
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Michel Gondry
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After a painful breakup, Clementine undergoes a procedure to erase memories of her former boyfriend Joe from her mind. When Joel discovers this, he undergoes the same procedure and slowly begins to forget the woman that he loved.
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2008
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Cadillac Records
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Darnell Martin
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The film chronicling the life of the influential Chicago-based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records, including Chuck Berry and Etta James.
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2008
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Man On Wire
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James Marsh
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Using actual footage from the event seamlessly mingled with new re-enactments, filmmaker James Marsh masterfully recreates high-wire daredevil Philippe Petit's 1974 stunt: performing acrobatics on a thin wire strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
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2010
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Exit Through The Gift Shop
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Banksy
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The infamous, shadowy British graffiti street artist Banksy comes in contact with Thierry Guetta, a Los Angeles-based Frenchman who videotapes various underground art escapades. Rhys Ifans narrates an overlapping documentary where the line between what is real and what might be fake blurs.
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2012
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Kony 2012
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Jason Russell
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One of the most controversial documentaries of all time, its purpose was to make Ugandan cult leader, war criminal, and ICC fugitive Joseph Kony globally known so as to have him arrested by the end of 2012.
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2012
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The Act of Killing
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Joshua Oppenheimer
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Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating the crime.
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2017
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Get Out
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Jordan Peele
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A young African-American visits his White girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
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2017
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The Big Sick
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Michael Showalter
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Pakistan-born comedian Kumail and grad student Emily fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
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