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  #1 - Vertigo
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Vertigo
1958   |   128 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Alfred Hitchcock
Starring:James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, and Ellen Corby
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films ...
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  #2 - Citizen Kane
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Citizen Kane
1941   |   119 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Orson Welles
Starring:Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, and George Coulouris
Genre: Drama
Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing ...
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  #3 - Tokyo Story
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Tokyo Story
1953   |   134 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Yasujiro Ozu
Starring:Chishu Ryu, Hieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, and Haruko Sugimura
Genre: Drama
As with much of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, a plot summary of this film does not do justice to ...
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  #4 - The Rules of the Game
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The Rules of the Game
1939   |   110 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Jean Renoir
Starring:Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Mila Parely, Roland Tourain, and Jean Renoir
Genre: Drama
Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu/Rules of th...
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  #5 - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927   |   95 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:F.W. Murnau
Starring:Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, and J. Farrell MacDonald
Genre: Drama
Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Su...
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  #6 - 2001: A Space Odyssee
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968   |   139 Minutes   |   G
Directed by:Stanley Kubrick
Starring:Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, and Leonard Rossiter
Genre: Sci Fi
A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrati...
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  #7 - The Searchers
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The Searchers
1956   |   119 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:John Ford
Starring:John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, and Ward Bond
Genre: Western
If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at on...
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  #8 - Man With a Movie Camera
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Man With a Movie Camera
1929   |   80 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Dziga Vertov
Starring:
Genre: Documentary
Soviet director Dziga Vertov's experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor, El...
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  #9 - The Passion of Joan of Arc
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928   |   120 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring:Renee Falconetti, Eugene Sylvain, Michel Simon, Maurice Schutz, and Antonin Artaud
Genre: Biography
The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) is widely regarded as Danish director Car...
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  #10 - 8½
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8½
1963   |   135 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Federico Fellini
Starring:Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo, and Rossella Falk
Genre: Drama
Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved i...
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  #11 - Battleship Potemkin
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Battleship Potemkin
1925   |   73 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Sergei Eisenstein
Starring:Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigory Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, and Levchenko
Genre: Drama
After the success of Strike (1924), Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government t...
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  #12 - L'Atalante
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L'Atalante
1934   |   89 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Jean Vigo
Starring:Jean Daste, Dita Parlo, Michel Simon, Gilles Margaritis, and Louis Lefebvre
Genre: Drama
The most acclaimed (and sentimental) film in Jean Vigo's short career. L'Atalante is the name of...
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  #13 - Breathless
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Breathless
1960   |   92 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Jean-Luc Godard
Starring:Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Liliane Robin
Genre: Drama
The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New...
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  #14 - Apocalypse Now
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Apocalypse Now
1979   |   153 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Francis Ford Coppola
Starring:Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, and Larry Fishburne
Genre: Drama
One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now...
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  #15 - Late Spring
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Late Spring
1949   |   107 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Yasujiro Ozu
Starring:Yasujiro Ozu, Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, and Haruko Sugimura
Genre: Drama
Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late Spring ...
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  #16 - Au Hasard Balthazar
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Au hasard Balthazar
1966   |   95 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Robert Bresson
Starring:Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin, and Nathalie Joyaut
Genre: Drama
Robert Bresson's acclaimed Au Hasard, Balthazar presents an unfettered view of human cruelty, suf...
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  17 - Seven Samurai
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Seven Samurai
1954   |   200 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Akira Kurosawa
Starring:Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, and Minoru Chiaki
Genre: Action/Adventure
Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order i...
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  #18 - Persona
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Persona
1966   |   81 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Ingmar Bergman
Starring:Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Bjornstrand, and Jorgen Lindstrom
Genre: Drama
Persona is difficult to characterize in simple terms, but it may be helpful to describe this comp...
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  #19 - Mirror
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The Mirror
1975   |   108 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring:Margarita Terekhova, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ignat Daniltsev, and Larisa Tarkovskaya
Genre: Drama
The award-winning director Andrei Tarkovsky, (one of his better known films is Andrei Rublev), th...
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  #20 - Singin’ in the Rain
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Singin' in the Rain
1952   |   103 Minutes   |   G
Directed by:Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring:Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, and Millard Mitchell
Genre: Musical
Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean...
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  #21 - L'Avventura
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L'Avventura
1960   |   145 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring:Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, and James Addams
Genre: Drama
This ground-breaking film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and establish...
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  #21 - Le Mépris
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Contempt
1963   |   103 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Jean-Luc Godard
Starring:Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Georgia Moll, and Fritz Lang
Genre: Drama
Contempt is the story of the end of a marriage. Camille (Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with ...
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  #21 - The Godfather
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The Godfather
1972   |   180 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Francis Ford Coppola
Starring:Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, and Robert Duvall
Genre: Crime Drama
Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga T...
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  #24 - Ordet
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Ordet
1955   |   125 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring:Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye, and Birgitte Federspiel
Genre: Drama
With his masterful Ordet (aka The Word, [1955]), legendary Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer e...
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  #24 - In The Mood For Love
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In the Mood for Love
2000   |   98 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Kar-wai Wong, Wong Kar-Wai
Starring:Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Lai Chen, and Ping Lam Siu
Genre: Drama
For his first film since the 1997 Hong Kong handover, auteur filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directs this ...
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  #26 - Andrei Rublev
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Andrei Rublev
1966   |   174 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring:Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergueiev, and Irma Raush
Genre: Drama
Widely recognized as a masterpiece, Andrei Tarkovsky's 205-minute medieval epic, based on the lif...
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  #26 - Rashomon
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Rashomon
1950   |   88 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Akira Kurosawa
Starring:Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, and Minoru Chiaki
Genre: Drama
This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest...
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  #28 - Mulholland Drive
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Mulholland Dr.
2001   |   147 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:David Lynch
Starring:Laura Elena Harring, Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, and Robert Forster
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line bet...
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  #29 - Stalker
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Stalker
1979   |   161 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Andreï Tarkovski
Starring:Aleksandre Kaïdanovski, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolaï Grinko, and Alisa Freindlikh
Genre: Sci Fi
Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, an allegorical science fiction film like his earlier...
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  #29 - Shoah
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Shoah
1985   |   570 Minutes
Directed by:Claude Lanzmann
Starring:Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Hanna Zaidl, and Jan Piwonski
Shoah is an astonishing film on a number of levels, starting with its own existence -- a document...
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  #31- The Godfather Part II
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The Godfather: Part II
1974   |   200 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Francis Ford Coppola
Starring:Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Talia Shire
Genre: Crime Drama
Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather...
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  31 - Taxi Driver
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Taxi Driver
1976   |   112 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Martin Scorsese
Starring:Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Leonard Harris
Genre: Drama
"All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorse...
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  #33 - Bicycle Thieves
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The Bicycle Thief
1948   |   85 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Vittorio de Sica
Starring:Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, and Vittorio Antonucci
Genre: Drama
This landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and most widely acclaimed Eur...
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  #34 - The General
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The General
1927   |   79 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Starring:Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Smith, Frank Barnes, and Glen Cavender
Genre: Comedy
Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The Gen...
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  #35 - Metropolis
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Metropolis
1927   |   89 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Fritz Lang
Starring:Alfred Abel, Gustav Froelich, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Theodor Loos
Genre: Sci Fi
The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis con...
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  #35 - Psycho
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Psycho
1960   |   109 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Alfred Hitchcock
Starring:Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Martin Balsam
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the ...
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  #35 - Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1975   |   201 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Chantal Akerman
Starring:Delphine Seyrig, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jan Decorte, and Chantal Akerman
A classic of both feminist and experimental filmmaking, Chantal Akerman's marathon dissection of ...
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  35 - Sátántangó
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Sátántangó
1994   |   450 Minutes
Directed by:Béla Tarr
Starring:Mihály Vig, Janos Derzsi, Miklos B. Szekely, Erika Bok, and Erzsebet Gaal
Genre: Drama
This European epic is seven hours long. It is adapted from a novel by Laszlo Karsznahorkai and re...
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  39 - The 400 Blows
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The 400 Blows
1959   |   99 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Francois Truffaut
Starring:Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, and Guy Decombie
Genre: Drama
For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his ow...
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  39 - La Dolce Vita
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La Dolce Vita
1960   |   167 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Federico Fellini
Starring:Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee, Yvonne Furneaux, and Nadia Gray
Genre: Drama
In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featu...
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  41 Voyage in Italy
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Voyage in Italy
1954   |   97 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Roberto Rossellini
Starring:Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Leslie Daniels, Natalia Ray, and Maria Mauban
Genre: Drama
Roberto Rossellini directs this drama starring his then-wife Ingrid Bergman as Katherine Joyce, a...
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  42 - Pather Panchali
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Pather Panchali

1955   |   122 Minutes   |   NR

Directed by:Satyajit Ray

Starring:Kanu Banerjee, Subir Banerjee, Runki Banerjee, Uma Das Gupta, and Chunibala Devi

Genre: Drama

Pather Panchali (Father Panchali), Indian director Satyajit Ray's first feature film, relates the...

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  #42 - Some Like It Hot
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Some Like It Hot
1959   |   125 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Billy Wilder
Starring:Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, and Pat O'Brien
Genre: Comedy
The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, <I>Fanfares of ...
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  #42 - Gertrud
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Gertrud
1964   |   115 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Carl-Theodor Dreyer
Starring:Nina Pens Rode, Ebbe Rode, Bendt Rothe, Baard Owe, and Axel Strobye
Genre: Drama
Nine years after the release of his acknowledged masterpiece, Ordet, Danish director Carl Theodor...
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  #42 - Pierrot le fou
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Pierrot le Fou
1965   |   95 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Jean-Luc Godard
Starring:Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Raymond Devos, and Graziella Galvani
Genre: Drama
Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is ...
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  42 - Play Time
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Playtime
1967   |   155 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Jacques Tati
Starring:Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Georges Montant, John Abbey, and Billy Kearns
Genre: Comedy Drama
Arriving nearly a decade after Mon Oncle, Playtime continues the adventures of M. Hulot. More tha...
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  #42 - Close-Up
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Close-Up
1990   |   93 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Abbas Kiarostami
Starring:Hossain Sabzian, and Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Genre: Documentary
This Iranian film qualifies as a docudrama, and makes some telling comments on society as it tell...
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  #48 - The Battle of Algiers
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The Battle of Algiers
1966   |   117 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring:Yacef Saadi, Jean Martin, Brahim Haggiag, Tommaso Neri, and Samia Kerbash
Genre: Drama
This highly political film about the Algerian struggle for independence from France took "Best Fi...
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  #48 - Histoire(s) du Cinéma
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Histoire(s) du cinéma

1989   |   266 Minutes

Directed by:Jean-Luc Godard

Starring:

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  #50 - City Lights
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City Lights
1931   |   87 Minutes   |   G
Directed by:Charlie Chaplin
Starring:Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, and Allan Garcia
Genre: Comedy Drama
Charles Chaplin was deep into production of his silent City Lights when Hollywood was overwhelmed...
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  #50 - Ugetsu monogatari
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Ugetsu Monogatari
1953   |   96 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Kenji Mizoguchi
Starring:Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sakae Ozawa, and Mitsuko Mito
Genre: Drama
Presented in a manner as eerie as it is heartbreaking, this film is a gorgeous supernatural fable...
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  #50 - La Jetée
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La Jetee
1962   |   30 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Chris Marker
Starring:Davos Hanich, Hélène Chatelain, and Jacques Ledoux
Genre: Drama
The movie that inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, Chris Marker's La jetée is a landmark of scie...
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