My Favorite Movies

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the movies that extra-terrestrials must watch when they will move to our world. Thanks to all great directors that day after day make our life more rich.A special thank to MONSIEUR Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton.

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Playtime (Play Time) (1967,  Unrated)
Playtime (Play Time)
the youngest movie forever!!!It is incredible and Tati is one of the greatest director,not only a comic.
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L'Atalante (1934,  Unrated)
L'Atalante
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The Cameraman (1928,  Unrated)
The Cameraman
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Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902,  Unrated)
Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon)
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La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1950,  Unrated)
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Greed (1924,  Unrated)
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Rear Window (1954,  PG)
Rear Window
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Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945,  Unrated)
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Vertigo (1958,  PG)
Vertigo
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Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows) (1959,  Unrated)
Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows)
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Victor Victoria (1982,  PG)
Victor Victoria
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Partie de Campagne (A Day in the Country) (1936,  Unrated)
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La Ronde (Roundabout) (1950,  Unrated)
La Ronde (Roundabout)
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The Party (1968,  PG)
The Party
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La Bête humaine (Judas Was a Woman)(The Human Beast) (1940,  Unrated)
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L'Avventura (The Adventure) (1960,  Unrated)
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8 1/2 (1963,  Unrated)
8 1/2
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Short Cuts (1993,  R)
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Notorious (1946,  Unrated)
Notorious
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Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (Bicycle Thieves) (1949,  Unrated)
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Nashville (1975,  R)
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La Grande illusion (The Grand Illusion) (1937,  Unrated)
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The Third Man (1949,  Unrated)
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Citizen Kane (1941,  PG)
Citizen Kane
DEEP FOCUS AND LONG TAKE...THIS MOVIE REVOLUZIONIZED THE ART OF MAKING MOVIES.
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L' Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961,  Unrated)
L' Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad)
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26
Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man with a Movie Camera) (1929,  Unrated)
Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man with a Movie Camera)
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27
To Be or Not to Be (1942,  PG)
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Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr. Hulot's Holiday) (1953,  Unrated)
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr. Hulot's Holiday)
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Jules and Jim (1962,  Unrated)
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961,  Unrated)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF CLASSIC DECOUPAGE...THE CUTS MUST BE INVISIBLE...SO THE SPECTATOR CAN IDENTIFY AND DREAM...EVERGREEN.
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The Big Day (Jour De Fete) (1997,  Unrated)
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Professione: reporter (The Passenger) (1975,  PG-13)
Professione: reporter (The Passenger)
in the end of this movie the camera moves for seven minutes without cuts.
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Umberto D. (1952,  Unrated)
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The Red Shoes (1948,  R)
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Mon Oncle (My Uncle) (1958,  Unrated)
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Sherlock Jr. (1924,  Unrated)
Sherlock Jr.
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What is montage? The answer is in this magic dream-scene that shows the differences between movies and life...in real life there aren't cuts...The idea of Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo is here.
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Il Grido (The Cry) (1957,  Unrated)
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Heaven Can Wait (1943,  Unrated)
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Peeping Tom (1960,  Unrated)
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Touch of Evil (1958,  PG-13)
Touch of Evil
the film starts with the best long take in the history of cinema.
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940,  Unrated)
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Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948,  Unrated)
Letter From an Unknown Woman
from a novel of Stefan Zweig a masterpiece by Ophuls
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Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (1955,  Unrated)
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Psycho (1960,  R)
Psycho
RHYTHMIC AND FORMAL MONTAGE IN THE FAMOUS SHOWER SCENE...THE VIOLENCE IS ALL IN THE RHYTHM OF CUTS...THE STORYBOARD WAS DRAWED BY SAUL BASS.
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Blowup (Blow-Up) (Blow Up) (1966,  Unrated)
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F for Fake (1974,  Unrated)
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La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night) (The American Night) (1973,  PG)
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Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960,  Unrated)
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Baisers Volés (Stolen Kisses) (1968,  R)
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L' Homme qui Aimait les Femmes (The Man Who Loved Women) (1977,  R)
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Smoking/No Smoking (1993,  Unrated)
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Hiroshima Mon Amour (Hiroshima, My Love) (1959,  Unrated)
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Suspicion (1941,  Unrated)
Suspicion
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54
The General (1927,  Unrated)
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Un coeur en hiver (A Heart of Stone) (A Heart in Winter) (1993,  Unrated)
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Cul-de-Sac (1966,  Unrated)
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991,  R)
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La Dolce Vita (1960,  Unrated)
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Amarcord (1974,  R)
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E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982,  PG)
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Always (1989,  PG)
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Duel (1972,  PG)
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The Pianist (2002,  R)
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After Hours (1985,  R)
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Chinatown (1974,  R)
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The Age of Innocence (1993,  PG)
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Taxi Driver (1976,  R)
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Raging Bull (1980,  R)
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Who is Cletis Tout? (2002,  R)
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Hellzapoppin (1941,  Unrated)
Hellzapoppin
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Breathless (À bout de souffle) (By a Tether) (1961,  Unrated)
Breathless (À bout de souffle) (By a Tether)
THE OPPOSITE OF A CLASSIC MOVIE...MONTAGE IS VISIBLE...THE LIBERTY AND POETIC OF NOUVELLE VAGUE.
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Pierrot le Fou (Pierrot Goes Wild) (Crazy Pete) (1969,  Unrated)
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Passion (Godard's Passion) (1982,  R)
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The Gold Rush (1925,  Unrated)
The Gold Rush
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) (1920,  Unrated)
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947,  Unrated)
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Zero de Conduite (,  Unrated)
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'Round Midnight (1986,  R)
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927,  Unrated)
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Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987,  PG)
Au Revoir Les Enfants
A very strange situation:the book was based on the movie.
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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) (Lift to the Scaffold) (Frantic) (2005,  Unrated)
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Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows) (1939,  Unrated)
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M (1931,  Unrated)
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Blue Velvet (1986,  R)
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Les Favoris de la lune (Favourites of the Moon) (1984,  Unrated)
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Roma, città aperta (Open City) (1946,  Unrated)
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Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (Strangers) (The Lonely Woman) (1954,  Unrated)
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Germania Anno Zero (Germany Year Zero) (1949,  Unrated)
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The Straight Story (1999,  G)
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A Short Film About Love (1988,  Unrated)
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Eraserhead (1977,  Unrated)
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The Shining (1980,  R)
The Shining
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Lundi matin (Monday Morning) (2002,  Unrated)
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) (1928,  Unrated)
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A Clockwork Orange (1971,  R)
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968,  G)
2001: A Space Odyssey
THE BEST TEMPORAL CUT IN THE HISTORY OF MOVING PICTURES...FROM ORIGINS OF WORLD TO THE FUTURE IN A CUT...MAGIC!!!
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Barry Lyndon (1975,  PG)
Barry Lyndon
from Thakeray an infinite gallery of paintings:Watteau,Hogarth,Gainsborough run behind our eyes...magic!!!
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The Conversation (1974,  PG)
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The Godfather (1972,  R)
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Apocalypse Now (1979,  R)
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The Killing (1956,  Unrated)
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Rumble Fish (1983,  R)
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La Double Vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique) (1991,  R)
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S.O.B. (1981,  R)
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Close-up (1999,  R)
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Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987,  Unrated)
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And Life Goes On (Zendegi va digar hich) (Life, and Nothing More) (1991,  Unrated)
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Persona (1966,  Unrated)
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Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (1957,  Unrated)
Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)
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110
Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) (1925,  PG)
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The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954,  Unrated)
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Rashômon (Rashomon) (In the Woods) (1951,  Unrated)
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Equinox Flower (1958,  Unrated)
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Kohayagawa-ke no aki (The End of Summer) (Early Autumn) (1961,  Unrated)
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Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953,  Unrated)
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Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) (1962,  Unrated)
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Jacquot de Nantes (1991,  PG)
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Bread and Tulips (2001,  PG-13)
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Pulp Fiction (1994,  R)
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Back to the Future (1985,  PG)
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001,  R)
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004,  R)
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007,  R)
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Hotel Chevalier (2007,  R)
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Reservoir Dogs (1992,  R)
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The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville, Belleville Rendez-vous) (2003,  PG-13)
The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville, Belleville Rendez-vous)
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Fantasia (1940,  G)
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Grindhouse (Grind House) (2007,  R)
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Caro diario (Dear Diary) (Journal Intime) (1994,  Unrated)
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A Chump at Oxford (1940,  Unrated)
A Chump at Oxford
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131
Paris, Texas (1984,  R)
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Der Amerikanische Freund (The American Friend) (1977,  Unrated)
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Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities) (1974,  Unrated)
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Tokyo-Ga (2003,  Unrated)
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Singin' in the Rain (1952,  G)
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The Big Sleep (1946,  Unrated)
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Scarface (1932,  PG)
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Body Double (1984,  R)
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The Blues Brothers (1980,  R)
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I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (J'entends Plus La Guitare) (1991,  Unrated)
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (J'entends Plus La Guitare)
This film is dedicated to Nico,the singer of Velvet Underground...for me is one of the most important movie of last forty years..i should like that all flixster's people can watch this movie...dedicato a tutti coloro che amano l'amore.
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Ultimo Tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris) (1972,  NC-17)
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Il conformista (The Conformist) (1970,  R)
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Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray) (Summer) (1986,  R)
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Conte d'Automne (Autumn Tale) (1999,  PG)
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Les Nuits de la pleine lune (Full Moon in Paris) (1984,  R)
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A Summer's Tale (1996,  G)
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Duck Soup (1933,  Unrated)
Duck Soup
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A Night at the Opera (1935,  Unrated)
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Casablanca (1943,  Unrated)
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Greenaway: The Falls (1978,  Unrated)
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Senso (The Wanton Countess) (1954,  Unrated)
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Stolen Children (Il Ladro di bambini) (1992,  Unrated)
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Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice) (1971,  PG)
Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice)
more Proust than Mann in a decadent movie...
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154
Gran Torino (2009,  R)
Gran Torino
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155
The Night of the Hunter (1955,  PG)
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Belle de Jour (1968,  R)
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Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) (1929,  Unrated)
Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)
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158
Drowning by Numbers (1988,  R)
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The Draughtsman's Contract (1982,  R)
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Hotel du Nord (1940,  Unrated)
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La Grande Guerra (The Great War) (1959,  Unrated)
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Shadows (1959,  PG)
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976,  R)
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Prospero's Books (1991,  R)
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Sleuth (1972,  PG)
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Minnie and Moskowitz (1971,  PG)
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37°2 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Degrees in the Morning) (1986,  Unrated)
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Diva (1981,  R)
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Gake no ue no Ponyo (Ponyo) (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) (2009,  G)
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Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) (1963,  PG)
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Le Samouraï (The Godson) (1967,  PG)
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Le Cercle Rouge (1990,  Unrated)
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Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers) (1960,  Unrated)
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Ossessione (1943,  Unrated)
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986,  PG-13)
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975,  PG)
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Two Lovers (2008,  R)
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Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (,  Unrated)
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We Own the Night (2007,  R)
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I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street) (The Usual Unidentified Thieves) (1960,  Unrated)
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Amici miei (My Friends) (1975,  Unrated)
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Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione) (1964,  Unrated)
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Vive l'Amour (1994,  Unrated)
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985,  R)
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La Maman et la putain (The Mother and the Whore) (1973,  Unrated)
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The Killer (Dip huet seung hung) (1989,  Unrated)
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The Thin Red Line (1999,  R)
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After Midnight (Dopo Mezzanotte) (2004,  Unrated)
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A Nous La Liberte (Liberty for Us) (1931,  Unrated)
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Entr'acte (1924,  Unrated)
Entr'acte
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It Happened Tomorrow (1944,  Unrated)
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Zelig (1983,  PG)
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The Fortune Cookie (1966,  Unrated)
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Manhunter (1986,  R)
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Ordet (The Word) (1954,  Unrated)
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Gertrud (1964,  Unrated)
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Manhattan (1979,  R)
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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986,  PG-13)
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Everyone Says I Love You (1996,  R)
Everyone Says I Love You
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The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985,  PG)
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Miami Vice (2006,  R)
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Edward II (1992,  R)
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Wittgenstein (1993,  Unrated)
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The Last of England (1989,  Unrated)
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Aria (1988,  R)
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Caravaggio (1986,  R)
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Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai (2000,  R)
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Stranger Than Paradise (1984,  R)
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Permanent Vacation (1980,  Unrated)
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A Snake of June (Rokugatsu no hebi) (2002,  R)
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981,  R)
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Vanishing Point (1971,  R)
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Regen (Rain) (1929,  Unrated)
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Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie) (1972,  PG)
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Napoléon (1929,  Unrated)
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Pandora's Box (1929,  Unrated)
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Da hong deng long gao gao gua (Raise the Red Lantern) (1991,  PG)
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The Trouble With Harry (1955,  PG)
The Trouble With Harry
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Rebecca (1940,  Unrated)
Rebecca
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Strangers on a Train (1951,  PG)
Strangers on a Train
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927,  Unrated)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
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Fargo (1996,  R)
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Blood Simple (1984,  R)
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Three Colors: Blue (Trois couleurs: Bleu) (1993,  R)
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No End (1986,  Unrated)
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Camera Buff (1980,  Unrated)
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Roger & Me (1989,  R)
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) (1981,  PG)
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Witness (1985,  R)
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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001,  R)
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The Long Goodbye (1973,  R)

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