When The Price Is Dead Right

Nightfall. It is calmest before the storm as five hearses roll up the hillside carrying five fresh victims. Very much alive for now, they have all been invited by that eccentric millionaire Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) for his wife’s party… at the House on Haunted Hill. How he spoils her! To make the night more interesting (for himself), he has decreed that the guests will win $10,000 each if they last until morning locked inside the spooky mansion. They needn’t worry about losing by default of death since the money will then go to their next of kin. That Frederick… always thinking ahead.

The guests are strangers to each other as well as their host. More interesting that way. They include a typist and wallflower named Nora Manning (Carolyn Craig), the confident pilot Lance Schroeder (Richard Long), the psychiatrist Dr. David Trent (Alan Marshal), the columnist Ruth Bridgers (Julie Mitchum – Robert Mitchum’s sister!), and the owner of the house Watson Pritchard (Elisha Cook Jr.) who is visibly frightened beyond his wits. He goes on and on about their imminent doom by the housed evil. Why go in? They all need money, you see.

Just upstairs held up in her room forever freshening her face is Annabelle (Carol Ohmart), Frederick’s scheming wife. Annabelle insists that it was not he who married her, but she. She also makes no secret of the fact that she loves only his wealth and wants it all for herself. Actually, Annabelle is just wife #4, but what’s most alarming is that those last three wives are dead. Frederick knows of Annabelle’s infidelities and can’t prove them. They’re a perfect match because Annabelle is smart and can hold her own. Frederick would surely agree she is a worthy opponent. Oh, how they love implicating their petty torments on one another! It is their mutual hatred that makes their relationship so strong.

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“Approximately and exactly.”
— Parabatial Kanhaiyalal ‘P.K.’ Dubey (Vijay Raaz) from Monsoon Wedding (2001)

Great Television Shows

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About Dry Grasses (Kuru Otlar Üstüne) (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Snack Shack (dir. Adam Rehmeier)
Don’t Expect Too Much from the End of the World (dir. Radu Jude)
Club Zero (dir. Jessica Hausner)
Hundreds of Beavers (dir. Mike Cheslik)
The Beast (dir. Bertrand Bonello)
Coup de Chance (Stroke of Luck) (dir. Woody Allen)
Stopmotion (dir. Robert Morgan)

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The Iron Claw (dir. Sean Durkin)
The Zone of Interest (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
Palm Trees and Power Lines (dir. Jamie Dack)
The Wait (La Espera) (dir. F. Javier Gutiérrez)
Full Time (À Plein Temps) (dir. Eric Gravel)
Eileen (dir. William Oldroyd)
Beau is Afraid (Disappointment Blvd.) (dir. Ari Aster)
BlackBerry (dir. Matt Johnson)
Red Rooms (dir. Pascal Plante)
Poor Things (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

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HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+3)

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Godzilla Minus One (Color/Minus Color) (dir. Takashi Yamazaki)
Sick of Myself / Dream Scenario (dir. Kristoffer Borgli)
Undercurrent (dir. Rikiya Imaizumi)
Perfect Days (dir. Wim Wenders)
Ferrari (dir. Michael Mann)
The Holdovers (dir. Alexander Payne)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
The Boy and the Heron (How Do You Live) (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
The Crime is Mine (Mon Crime) (dir. François Ozon)
Rotting in the Sun (dir. Sebastián Silva)

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Memory (dir. Michel Franco)
Suitable Flesh (dir. Joe Lynch)
Chile ’76 (1976) (dir. Manuela Martelli)
May December (dir. Todd Haynes)
Godland (Vanskabte Land ✝ Volaða land) (dir. Hlynur Pálmason)
Sisu (dir. Jalmari Helander)
Fallen Leaves (dir. Aki Kaurismäki)
Passages (dir. Ira Sachs)
The Killer (dir. David Fincher)
Infinity Pool (dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

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MORE MOVIES (35-64)

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MORE MOVIES (65-86)

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Speak No Evil (dir. Christian Tafdrup)
Crimes of the Future (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Quiet Girl (dir. Colm Bairéad)
The Whale (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Resurrection (dir. Andrew Semans)
Pearl / X (dir. Ti West)
Vortex / Lux Aeterna (dir. Gaspar Noé)
Dinner in America (dir. Adam Rehmeier)
The Innocents (dir. Eskil Vogt)
Out of the Blue / House of Darkness (dir. Neil Labute)

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HONOURABLE SELECTION (+2)

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Tár (dir. Todd Field)
True Things (dir. Harry Wootliff)
Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer (dir. Vincent Le Port)
Scarlet (dir. Pietro Marcello)
The Beasts (dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
Madeleine Collins (dir. Antoine Barraud)
Funny Pages (dir. Owen Kline)
Blonde (dir. Andrew Dominik)
Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells)
The Banshees of Inisherin (dir. Martin McDonagh)

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Happening (dir. Audrey Diwan)
Decision to Leave (dir. Park Chan-wook)
Nitram (dir. Justin Kurzel)
To Leslie (dir. Michael Morris)
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (dir. Richard Linklater)
Falcon Lake (dir. Charlotte Le Bon)
Terror on the Prairie (dir. Michael Polish)
EO (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
Maigret (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Bloody Oranges (dir. Jean-Christophe Meurisse)

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MORE MOVIES (36-67)

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MORE MOVIES (68-98)

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MORE MOVIES (99-112)

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The Girl and the Spider (dir. Silvan Zürcher and Ramon Zürcher)
The Worst Person in the World (Julie en 12 Chapitres)
(dir. Joachim Trier)
The Killing of Two Lovers (dir. Robert Machoian)
Red Rocket (dir. Sean Baker)
Licorice Pizza (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Wrath of Man (dir. Guy Ritchie)
Only the Animals (dir. Dominik Moll)
Night Blooms (dir. Stephanie Joline)
House of Gucci (dir. Ridley Scott)
Celts (dir. Milica Tomović)

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HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+2)

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The Sadness (dir. Rob Jabbaz)
Azor (dir. Andreas Fontana)
Titane (dir. Julia Ducournau)
No Sudden Move (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Martin Eden (dir. Pietro Marcello)
Saloum (dir. Jean Luc Herbulot)
Wife of a Spy (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
New Order (dir. Michel Franco)
Come True (dir. Anthony Scott Burns)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
(dir. Wes Anderson)

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Nightmare Alley (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Benediction (dir. Terence Davies)
Some Kind of Heaven (dir. Lance Oppenheim)
French Exit (dir. Azazel Jacobs)
One Second (dir. Yi-Mou Zhang)
Wild Indian (dir. Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.)
The Humans (dir. Stephen Karam)
The Scary of Sixty-First (dir. Dasha Nekrasova)
Crisis (dir. Nicholas Jarecki)
Maria Capdelaine (dir. Sébastien Pilote)

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MORE MOVIES (31-60)

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MORE MOVIES (61-84)

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There is No Evil (Sheytan Vojud Nadarad: The Devil Doesn’t Exist)
(dir. Mohammad Rasoulof)
The Nest (dir. Sean Durkin)
The Father (dir. Florian Zeller)
Bad Tales (dir. The D’Innocenzo Brothers)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (dir. Charlie Kaufman)
An Officer and a Spy (J’Accuse) (dir. Roman Polanski)
Servants (dir. Ivan Ostrochovsky)
The Trouble with Being Born (dir. Sandra Wollner)
The Weasels’ Tale (dir. Juan José Campanella)
Possessor (dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

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My Mexican Pretzel (dir. Nuria Giménez)
Tesla (dir. Michael Almereyda)
Light From Light (dir. Paul Harrill)
The Swerve (dir. Dean Kapsalis)
Wolfwalkers (dir. Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart)
My Wonderful Wanda (dir. Bettina Oberli)
Why Don’t You Just Die! (dir. Kirill Sokolov)
Undine (dir. Christian Petzold)
Summer of 85 (dir. François Ozon)
The Dry (dir. Robert Connolly)

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Pinocchio (dir. Matteo Garrone)
Violation (dir. Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli)
Echo (dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson)
Emma. (dir. Autumn de Wilde)
The Pencil (dir. Natalya Nazarova)
Dear Comrades! (dir. Andrei Konchalovsky)
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (dir. Lili Horvát)
Wildland (Kød & Blod) (dir. Jeanette Nordahl)
Jumbo (dir. Zoé Wittock)
Beauty Water (dir. Kyung-hun Cho)

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MORE MOVIES (31-60)

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MORE MOVIES (61-90)

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MORE MOVIES (91-101)

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Uncut Gems (dir. Joshua and Ben Safdie)
High Life (dir. Claire Denis)
The Golden Glove (dir. Fatih Akin)
Beanpole (dir. Kantemir Balagov)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (dir. Joe Talbot)
Dragged Across Concrete (dir. S. Craig Zahler)
All the Gods in the Sky (dir. Quarxx)
The Sower (dir. Marine Francen)
A Girl Missing (Yokogao) (dir. Kôji Fukada)

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HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+4)

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Ford v Ferrari (dir. James Mangold)
Honeyland (dir. Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov)
Greener Grass (dir. Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe)
The Whistlers (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
Serenity (dir. Steven Knight)
The Vast of Night (dir. Andrew Patterson)
The Ground Beneath My Feet (dir. Marie Kreutzer)
The Nightingale (dir. Jennifer Kent)
The Irishman (I Heard You Paint Houses) (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Monos (dir. Alejandro Landes)

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Peterloo (dir. Mike Leigh)
Synonyms (dir. Nadav Lapid)
Passage of Birds (dir. Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego)
Marriage Story (dir. Noah Baumbach)
The Audition (dir. Ina Weisse)
Sorry We Missed You (dir. Ken Loach)
Adoration (dir. Fabrice du Welz)
Richard Jewell (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Aniara (dir. Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja)
Them That Follow (dir. Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage)

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MORE MOVIES (31-60)

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MORE MOVIES (61-90)

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MORE MOVIES (91-136)

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Hereditary (dir. Ari Aster)
First Reformed (dir. Paul Schrader)
Where is Kyra? (dir. Andrew Dosunmu)
Burning (dir. Chang-dong Lee)
Elizabeth Harvest (dir. Sebastian Gutierrez)
Transit (dir. Christian Petzold)
An Impossible Love (dir. Catherine Corsini)
Nancy (dir. Christina Choe)
Under the Silver Lake (dir. David Robert Mitchell)
The House That Jack Built (Director’s Cut) (dir. Lars von Trier)

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HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+11)

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Ray & Liz (dir. Richard Billingham)
Good Manners (dir. Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas)
The Favourite (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
Thoroughbreds (dir. Cory Finley)
Wildlife (dir. Paul Dano)
Mandy (dir. Panos Cosmatos)
Black Tide (dir. Erick Zonca)
The Double Lover (dir. François Ozon)
The Rider (dir. Chloé Zhao)
Borders (Gräns) (dir. Ali Abbasi)

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The Breadwinner (dir. Nora Twomey)
Vox Lux (dir. Brady Corbet)
Sicilian Ghost Story (dir. Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza)
Under the Tree (dir. Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson)
The Red Phallus (dir. Tashi Gyeltshen)
Leave No Trace (dir. Debra Granik)
School’s Out (L’heure de la Sortie) (dir. Sébastien Marnier)
Holiday (dir. Isabella Eklöf)
The Charmer (dir. Milad Alami)
Petra (dir. Jaime Rosales)

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MORE MOVIES (31-60)

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MORE MOVIES (61-90)

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MORE MOVIES (92-121)

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MORE MOVIES (122-153)

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Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
A Quiet Passion (dir. Terence Davies)
Raw (dir. Julia Ducournau)
mother! (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (February) (dir. Oz Perkins)
The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker)
Marjorie Prime (dir. Michael Almereyda)
Thelma (dir. Joachim Trier)
My Life as a Zucchini (dir. Claude Barras)

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HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+5)

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Marrowbone (dir. Sergio G. Sánchez)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (dir. S. Craig Zahler)
Lady Macbeth (dir. William Oldroyd)
Hounds of Love (dir. Ben Young)
A Ghost Story (dir. David Lowrey)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir. Martin McDonagh)
Harmonium (Fuchi Ni Tatsu) (dir. Kôji Fukada)
Good Time (dir. Ben and Josh Sadie)
The Nile Hilton Incident (dir. Tarik Saleh)
Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele)

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Wonderstruck (dir. Todd Haynes)
The Lovers (dir. Azazel Jacobs)
Jane (dir. Brett Morgen)
The Midwife (Sage Femme) (dir. Martin Provost)
Werewolf (dir. Ashley McKenzie)
I, Daniel Blake (dir. Ken Loach)
Manifesto (dir. Julian Rosefeldt)
The Transfiguration (dir. Michael O’Shea)
In the Fade (dir. Faith Akin)
Wonder Wheel (dir. Woody Allen)

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MORE MOVIES (31-60)

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MORE MOVIES (61-90)

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MORE MOVIES (91-120)

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MORE MOVIES (121-150)

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MORE MOVIES (151-183)

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Manchester by the Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
Krisha (dir. Trey Edward Shults)
Tower (dir. Keith Maitland)
Mountains May Depart (dir. Jia Zhangke)
The Last Family (dir. Jan P. Matuszynski)
The Handmaiden (dir. Chan-wook Park)
The Neon Demon (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
The Witch: A New England Folk-Tale (dir. Robert Eggers)
The Childhood of a Leader (dir. Brady Corbet)
Graduation (Bacalaureat) (dir. Cristian Mungiu)

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HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+5)

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Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)
Weiner-Dog (dir. Todd Solondz)
De Palma (dir. Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow)
Elle (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Évolution (dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović)
Princess (dir. Tali Shalom-Ezer)
Nocternal Animals (dir. Tom Ford)
The Invitation (dir. Karyn Kusama)
A Monster Calls (dir. J.A. Bayona)
Creepy (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

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The Fits (dir. Anna Rose Holmer)
Tale of Tales (dir. Matteo Garrone)
The Hunt for the Wilderpeople (dir. Taika Waititi)
April and the Extraordinary World (dir. Franck Ekinci and Christian Desmares)
Disorder (Maryland) (dir. Alice Winocour)
Tomcat (dir. Klaus Händl)
Brimstone (dir. Martin Koolhoven)
Little Sister (dir. Zach Clark)
Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)
All of a Sudden (Auf Einmal) (dir. Asli Özge)

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MORE MOVIES (31-60)

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MORE MOVIES (63-92)

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MORE MOVIES (93-122)

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MORE MOVIES (123-152)

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MORE MOVIES (153-191)

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Anomalisa (dir. Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman)
45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)
Mad Max: Fury Road (Diesel Hue / Black and Chrome) (dir. George Miller)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (dir. Marielle Heller)
The Lobster (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (dir. Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz)
Buzzard (dir. Joel Potrykus)
Something, Anything (dir. Paul Harrill)
Man from Reno (dir. Dave Boyle)
Louder Than Bombs (dir. Joachim Trier)

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HONOURABLE SELECTIONS (+8)

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Experimenter (dir. Michael Almereyda)
Carol (dir. Todd Haynes)
The Ocean of Helena Lee (dir. Jim Akin)
Love & Mercy (dir. Bill Pohlad)
Chronic (dir. Michel Franco)
Girlhood (Bande de Filles) (dir. Céline Sciamma)
Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
Breathe (Respire) (dir. Mélanie Laurent)
The Falling (dir. Carol Morley)
Nasty Baby (dir. Sebastián Silva)
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Great Television Shows

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Army of Shadows (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (dir. Ronald Neame)
Last Summer (dir. Frank Perry)
Kes (dir. Ken Loach)
Women in Love (dir. Ken Russell)
La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) (dir. Jacques Deray)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (dir. Sidney Pollack)
Midnight Cowboy (dir. John Schlesinger)
Z (dir. Costa-Gavras)
Medium Cool (dir. Haskell Wexler)

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Dillinger Is Dead (dir. Marco Ferreri)
That Cold Day in the Park (dir. Robert Altman)
Bambi Meets Godzilla (dir. Marv Newland)
The Learning Tree (dir. Gordon Parks)
Downhill Racer (dir. Michael Ritchie)
The Wild Bunch (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
Funeral Parade of Roses (dir. Toshio Matsumoto)
Une Femme Douce (dir. Robert Bresson)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (dir. Paul Mazursky)
Easy Rider (dir. Dennis Hopper)

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Machine Gun McCain (dir. Giuliano Montaldo)
The Gypsy Moths (dir. John Frankenheimer)
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (dir. Lee H. Katzin)
Anne of the Thousand Days (dir. Charles Jarrott)
100 Rifles (dir. Tom Gries)
The Cow (dir. Dariush Mehrjui)
Loving Memory (dir. Tony Scott)
Nocturno 29 (dir. Pere Portabella)
Mississippi Mermaid (dir. François Truffaut)
A Married Couple (dir. Allen King)

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MORE MOVIES (31-35)

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2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Rosemary’s Baby (dir. Roman Polanski)
If…. (dir. Lindsay Anderson)
The Great Silence (dir. Sergio Corbucci)
Les Biches (dir. Claude Chabrol)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (dir. Robert Ellis Miller)
Once Upon a Time in the West (dir. Sergio Leone)
Night of the Living Dead (dir. George A. Romero)
Kuroneko (Black Cat) (dir. Kaneto Shindo)
Targets (AKA Blood and Candy) (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)

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Salesman (dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin)
Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zeffirelli)
Naked Childhood (L’enfance Nue) (dir. Maurice Pialat)
Oliver! (dir. Carol Reed)
Where Eagles Dare (dir. Brian G. Hutton)
Rachel, Rachel (dir. Paul Newman)
High School (dir. Frederick Wiseman)
Shame / Hour of the Wolf (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Planet of the Apes (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
The Producers (dir. Mel Brooks)

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Pretty Poison (dir. Noel Black)
Je T’aime, Je T’aime (dir. Alain Resnais)
David Holzman’s Diary (dir. Jim McBride)
The Scalphunters (dir. Sydney Pollack)
A Quiet Place in the Country dir. Elio Petri)
Yellow Submarine (dir. George Dunning)
Faces (dir. John Cassavetes)
Secret Ceremony (dir. Joseph Losey)
Witchfinder General (dir. Michael Reeves)
The Girl on a Motorcycle (dir. Jack Cardiff)

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MORE MOVIES (31-37)

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Bonnie and Clyde (dir. Arthur Penn)
Le Samourai (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Mouchette (dir. Robert Bresson)
Point Blank (dir. John Boorman)
Playtime (dir. Jacques Tati)
In Cold Blood (dir. Richard Brooks)
Wait Until Dark (dir. Terence Young)
Marketa Lazarová (dir. Frantisek Vlácil)
The Two of Us (The Old Man and the Boy) (dir. Claude Berri)
Spring Night, Summer Night (Director’s Cut) (dir. Joseph L. Anderson)

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The Young Girls of Rochefort (dir. Jacques Demy)
Samurai Rebellion (dir. Masaki Kobayashi)
Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her / Week End
(dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Belle de Jour (dir. Luis Buñuel)
In the Heat of the Night (dir. Norman Jewison)
The Firemen’s Ball (dir. Milos Forman)
The Battle of Algiers (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
Warrendale (dir. Alan King)
Titicut Follies (dir. Frederick Wiseman)

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Who’s That Knocking at My Door (dir. Martin Scorsese)
To Sir, with Love (dir. James Clavell)
Death Rides a Horse (dir. Giulio Petroni)
The Jungle Book (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)
The Dirty Dozen (dir. Robert Aldrich)
The Graduate (dir. Mike Nichols)
Accident (dir. Joseph Losey)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (dir. John Huston)
The Taming of the Shrew (dir. Franco Zeffirelli)
You Only Love Twice (dir. Lewis Gilbert)

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MORE MOVIES (31-38)

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The Shooting (dir. Monte Hellman)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone)
La Guerre Est Finie (dir. Alain Resnais)
Au Hasard Balthazar (dir. Robert Bresson)
Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Alfie (dir. Lewis Gilbert)
Here’s Your Life (AKA Here is Your Life) (dir. Jan Troell)
The Nun (dir. Jacques Rivette)
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (The Rise of Louis XIV) (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Mademoiselle (dir. Tony Richardson)

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Blowup (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Face of Another (dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (dir. Chuck Jones)
Hunger (Sult) (dir. Henning Carlsen)
Black Girl (dir. Ousmane Sembène)
Seconds (dir. John Frankenheimer)
Arabesque (dir. Stanley Donen)
Georgy Girl (dir. Silvio Narizzano)
Who Are You, Polly Magoo? (dir. William Klein)
Patriotism (dir. Yukio Mishima)

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Tokyo Drifter (dir. Seijun Suzuki)
Masculin Féminin: 15 Faits Précis / Made in U.S.A (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
A Man and a Woman (dir. Claude Lelouch)
Daisies (dir. Vera Chytilová)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols)
Cul-de-sac (dir. Roman Polanski)
Ride in the Whirlwind (dir. Monte Hellman)
Lord Love a Duck (dir. George Axelrod)

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DUSTBIN

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Le Bonheur (dir. Agnès Varda)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (dir. Martin Ritt)
Repulsion (dir. Roman Polanski)
Red Beard (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
A Patch of Blue (dir. Guy Green)
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (dir. Russ Meyer)
The Naked Prey (dir. Cornel Wilde)
The Collector (dir. William Wyler)
Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni in Tasca) (dir. Marco Bellocchio)
I Knew Her Well (dir. Antonio Pietrangeli)

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Story of a Prostitute (dir. Seijun Suzuki)
The Coward (dir. Satyajit Ray)
Alphaville, Une Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution / Pierrot le Fou
(dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
The Ipcress File (dir. Sidney J. Furie)
Once a Thief (dir. Ralph Nelson)
Mickey One (dir. Arthur Penn)
Loves of a Blonde (dir. Milos Forman)
Juliet of the Spirits (dir. Federico Fellini)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (dir. Bill Melendez)
The Hill (dir. Sidney Lumet)

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The Sound of Music (dir. Robert Wise)
Bunny Lake is Missing (dir. Otto Preminger)
Doctor Zhivago (dir. David Lean)
Gummnaam (dir. Raja Nawathe)
Darling (dir. John Schlesinger)
The Nanny (dir. Seth Holt)
Baby the Rain Must Fall (dir. Robert Mulligan)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (dir. Carol Reed)
Agatha Christie’s Ten little Indians (dir. George Pollock)
The Tenth Victim (dir. Elio Petri)

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(dir. Stanley Kubrick)
My Fair Lady (dir. George Cukor)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (dir. Jacques Demy)
A Hard Day’s Night (dir. Richard Lester)
The Killers (dir. Don Siegel)
Woman in the Dunes (dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Goldfinger (dir. Guy Hamilton)
Nothing But a Man (dir. Michael Roemer)
Lilith (dir. Robert Rossen)
Onibaba (Demon Woman) (dir. Kaneto Shindô)

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Pale Flower (dir. Masahiro Shinoda)
Diary of a Chambermaid (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Mary Poppins (dir. Robert Stevenson)
Becket (dir. Peter Glenville)
I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov)
Band of Outsiders (Bande à Part) (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
The Masque of the Red Death (dir. Roger Corman)
Fail-Safe (dir. Sidney Lumet)
The Pumpkin Eater (dir. Jack Clayton)
A Shot in the Dark (dir. Blake Edwards)

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Topkapi (dir. Jules Dasein)
Nobody Waved Good-bye (dir. Don Owen)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (dir. Bryan Forbes)
Red Desert (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Marriage Italian Style (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Kwaidan (dir. Masaki Kobayashi)
The Train (dir. John Frankenheimer)
A Fistful of Dollars (dir. Sergio Leone)
The Pawnbroker (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Zorba the Greek (dir. Mihalis Kakogiannis)

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MORE MOVIES (31-41)

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Charade (dir. Stanley Donen)
Contempt (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
8 ½ (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
High and Low (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
The Servant (dir. Joseph Losey)
Billy Liar (dir. John Schlesinger)
Bluebeard (dir. Claude Chabrol)
The Leopard (dir. Luchino Visconti)
Ikarie XB 1 (Voyage to the End of The Universe) (dir. Jindřich Polák)

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TRILOGY OF FAITH

The Silence (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
Winter Light (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
Through a Glass Darkly (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1961)

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The Big City (dir. Satyajit Ray)
The Hud (dir. Martin Ritt)
The Fire Within (dir. Louis Malle)
Lilies of the Field (dir. Ralph Nelson)
The Caretakers (dir. Hall Bartlett)
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (Ieri, Oggi, Domani) (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Muriel, or The Time of Return (dir. Alain Resnais)
From Russia with Love (dir. Terence Young)
The Great Escape (dir. John Sturges)
The Sword in the Stone (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)

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The Cassandra Cat (When the Cat Comes) (dir. Vojtech Jasný)
The Child is Waiting (dir. John Cassavetes)
Shock Corridor (dir. Samuel Fuller)
Jason and the Argonauts (dir. Don Chaffey)
Johnny Cool (dir. William Asher)
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (dir. Seijun Suzuki)
Blood Feast (dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis)
Toys in the Attic (dir. George Roy Hill)
The List of Adrian Messenger (dir. John Huston)

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David and Lisa (dir. Frank Perry)
Knife in the Water (Nóz w Wodzie) (dir. Roman Polanski)
Lawrence of Arabia (dir. David Lean)
Ivan’s Childhood (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Manchurian Candidate (dir. John Frankenheimer)
Cape Fear (dir. J. Lee Thompson)
Il Sorpasso (dir. Dino Risi)
Sundays and Cybèle (dir. Serge Bourguignon)
Jules and Jim (dir. François Truffaut)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (dir. Robert Aldrich)

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My Life to Live: Film en Douze Tableaux (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
La Jetée (dir. Chris Marker)
The Miracle Worker (dir. Arthur Penn)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (dir. Agnès Varda)
Obedience (dir. Stanley Milgram)
Lolita (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Music Man (dir. Morton DaCosta)
Two Weeks in Another Town (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
To Kill a Mockingbird (dir. Robert Mulligan)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (dir. John Ford)

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The Sign of Leo (Sign of the Lion) (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Momma Roma (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Dr. No (dir. Terence Young)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (dir. Tony Richardson)
A Kind of Loving (dir. John Schlesinger)
Stark Fear (dir. Ned Hockman and Skip Homeier)
Lonely Are the Brave (dir. David Miller)
Pressure Point (dir. Hubert Cornfield and Stanley Kramer)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (dir. Robert Bresson)
The Days of Wine and Roses (dir. Blake Edwards)

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MORE MOVIES (31-34)

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Something Wild (dir. Jack Garfein)
Last Year at Marienbad (dir. Alain Resnais)
La Dolce Vita (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Servant (dir. Joseph Losey)
Splendor in the Grass (dir. Elia Kazan)
Blast of Silence (dir. Allen Baron)
Yojimbo (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Léon Morin, Priest (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Lover Come Back (dir. Delbert Mann)
The Hustler (dir. Robert Rossen)

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THE HUMAN CONDITION

Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1961)
Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
Human Condition I: No Greater Love (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)

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Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów)
(dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
Lola (dir. Jacques Demy)
Viridiana (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Underworld, USA (dir. Samuel Fuller)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (dir. Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske)
The Innocents (dir. Jack Clayton)
Judgment at Nuremberg (dir. Stanley Kramer)
A Taste of Honey (dir. Tony Richardson)
The Exiles (dir. Kent MacKenzie)
The Mark (dir. Guy Green)

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Zazie dans le Métro (Zazie in the Subway) (dir. Louis Malle)
A Raisin in the Sun (dir. Daniel Petrie)
Chronicle of a Summer (dir. Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch)
Victim (dir. Basil Dearden)
Night Tide (dir. Curtis Harrington)
The Children’s Hour (dir. William Wyler)
The Mask in 3D (dir. Julian Roffman)
The Parent Trap (dir. David Swift)
The Pit and the Pendulum (dir. Roger Corman)
The Young Savages (dir. John Frankenheimer)

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MORE MOVIES (31-32)

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Psycho (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Apartment (dir. Billy Wilder)
Peeping Tom (dir. Michael Powell)
Never Let Go (dir. John Guillermin)
Le Trou (The Hole) (dir. Jacques Becker)
Rocco and His Brothers (dir. Luchino Visconti)
Les Bonnes Femmes (The Good Time Girls) (dir. Claude Chabrol)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (dir. Karel Reisz)
L’avventura (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Eyes Without A Face (dir. Georges Franju)

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House of Usher (dir. Roger Corman)
Wild River (dir. Elia Kazan)
Pollyanna (dir. David Swift)
Two Women (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
The Housemaid (dir. Kim Ki-young)
Purple Noon (dir. René Clément)
Breathless (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Beat Girl (Wild for Kicks) (dir. Edmond T. Gréville)
Village of the Damned (dir. Wolf Rilla)
Elmer Gantry (dir. Richard Brooks)

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Shoot the Piano Player (dir. François Truffaut)
Kapò (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
Black Sunday (dir. Mario Bava)
Sons and Lovers (dir. Jack Cardiff)
The Virgin Spring (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (dir. Mikio Naruse)
The Unforgiven (dir. John Huston)
The Fugitive Kind (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Swiss Family Robinson (dir. Ken Annakin)
Jigoku (AKA The Sinners of Hell) (dir. Nobuo Nakagawa)

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MORE MOVIES (31-32)

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The 400 Blows (dir. François Truffaut)
North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Sleeping Beauty (dir. Clyde Geronimi)
Some Like It Hot (dir. Billy Wilder)
Pickpocket (dir. Robert Bresson)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (dir. Alain Resnais)
Odds Against Tomorrow (dir. Robert Wise)
Pillow Talk (dir. Michael Gordon)
Letters Never Sent (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov)
The Bridge (dir,. Bernhard Wicki)

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Fires on the Plain (dir. Kon Ichikawa)

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THE APU TRILOGY

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1959)
Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1956)
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1955)

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Floating Weeds (dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
Night Train (Pociag) (dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
Day of the Outlaw (dir. André De Toth)
Wild Strawberries (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Rio Bravo (dir. Howard Hawks)
Black Orpheus (dir. Marcel Camus)
Sapphire (dir. Basil Dearden)
Araya (dir. Margot Benacerraf)
Shadows (dir. John Cassavetes)
Imitation of Life (dir. Douglas Sirk)

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Ben-Hur (dir. William Wyler)
Beast From Haunted Cave (dir. Monte Hellman)
The Hanging Tree (dir. Delmer Daves, Karl Malden and Vincent Sherman)
Anatomy of a Murder (dir. Otto Preminger)
House on Haunted Hill (dir. William Castle)
The Nun’s Story (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
Suddenly, Last Summer (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
A Summer Place (dir. Delmer Daves)
Gidget (dir. Paul Wendkos)

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Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i Diament) (dir. Andrzej Wajda)
Mon Oncle (dir. Jacques Tati)
The Hidden Fortress (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Room at the Top (dir. Jack Clayton)
Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles)
Elevator to the Gallows (dir. Louis Malle)
The Lineup (dir. Don Siegel)
Bonjour Tristesse (dir. Otto Preminger)
Terror in a Texas Town (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)

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Murder by Contract (dir. Irving Lerner)
The Ballad of Narayama (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
The Music Room (dir. Satyajit Ray)
A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (dir. Richard Brooks)
Cowboy (dir. Delmer Daves)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein)
Run Silent, Run Deep (dir. Robert Wise)
The Big Country (dir. William Wyler)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (dir. Nathan H. Juran)
The Fly (dir. Kurt Neumann)

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Les Raquetteurs (dir. Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx)
The Long, Hot Summer (dir. Martin Ritt)
The Vikings (dir. Richard Fleischer)
The Defiant Ones (dir. Stanley Kramer)
Gigi (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
The Blob (dir. Irvin Yeaworth and Russell Doughten)

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DUSTBIN

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12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Paths of Glory (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Sweet Smell of Success (dir. Alexander Mackendrick)
The Cranes Are Flying (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov)
The Seventh Seal (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Men in War (dir. Anthony Mann)
Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria) (dir. Federico Fellini)
Witness for the Prosecution (dir. Billy Wilder)
On the Bowery (dir. Lionel Rogosin)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (dir. David Lean)

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Throne of Blood (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
3:10 to Yuma (dir. Delmer Daves)
The Tarnished Angels (dir. Douglas Sirk)
Forty Guns (dir. Samuel Fuller)
The Garment Jungle (dir. Vincent Sherman and Robert Aldrich)
Edge of the City (dir. Martin Ritt)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (dir. Frank Tashlin)
Old Yeller (dir. Robert Stevenson)
The Strange One (dir. Jack Garfein)
Night of the Demon (AKA Curse of the Demon) (95 minutes)
(dir. Jacques Tourneur)

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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (dir. John Huston)
The Burglar (dir. Paul Wendkos)
The Wayward Bus (dir. Victor Vicas)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (dir. John Sturges)

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Attack! (dir. Robert Aldrich)
A Man Escaped (dir. Robert Bresson)
The Killing (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Harder They Fall (dir. Mark Robson)
The Searchers (dir. John Ford)
Bigger Than Life (dir. Nicholas Ray)
The Red Balloon (dir. Albert Lamorisse)
The Mystery of Picasso (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
The Bad Seed (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (dir. Don Siegel)

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (dir. Nunnally Johnson)
Carousel (dir. Henry King)
Jubal (dir. Delmer Daves)
Crime of Passion (dir. Gerd Oswald)
The Girl Can’t Help It (dir. Frank Tashlin)
Nightfall (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Forbidden Planet (dir. Fred M. Wilcox)
Trapeze (dir. Carol Reed)
Storm Center (dir. Daniel Taradash)

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The Kreutzer Sonata (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Lovers and Lollipops (dir. Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin)
And God Created Woman… (dir. Roger Vadim)
Written on the Wind (dir. Douglas Sirk)
Accused of Murder (dir. Joseph Kane)
The Rainmaker (dir. Joseph Anthony)
While the City Sleeps (dir. Fritz Lang)
Baby Doll (dir. Elia Kazan)
Giant (dir. George Stevens)

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Ordet (dir. Carl Dreyer)
Kiss Me Deadly (dir. Robert Aldrich)
Cast a Dark Shadow (dir. Lewis Gilbert)
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (dir. Jacques Tati)
Marty (dir. Delbert Mann)
Diabolique (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Lady and the Tramp (dir. Clyde Geronimi)
The Man from Laramie (dir. Anthony Mann)
Bob le Flambeur (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Ladykillers (dir. Alexander Mackendrick)

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House of Bamboo (dir. Samuel Fuller)
The Big Combo (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
The Man with the Golden Arm (dir. Otto Preminger)
Night and Fog (dir. Alain Resnais)
Rififi (dir. Jules Dassin)
Rebel Without a Cause (dir. Nicholas Ray)
The Tall Men (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Dementia (dir. John Parker)
Oklahoma! (Todd-AO) (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
House of Bamboo (dir. Samuel Fuller)

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The Desperate Hours (dir. William Wyler)
La Pointe-Courte (dir. Agnès Varda)
All That Heaven Allows (dir. Douglas Sirk)
The Court Jester (dir. Melvin Frank and Norman Panama)
The Cobweb (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Le Amiche (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
5 Against the House (dir. Phil Karlson)
The Big Knife (dir. Robert Aldrich)
The Three Faces of Eve (dir. Nunnally Johnson)
Blackboard Jungle (dir. Richard Brooks)

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The Kentuckian (dir. Burt Lancaster)
Picnic (dir. Joshua Logan)
The Seven Year Itch (dir. Billy Wilder)
Not as a Stranger (dir. Stanley Kramer)
Killer’s Kiss (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

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Seven Samurai (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (dir. Jacques Becker)
Sabrina (dir. Billy Wilder)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (dir. Stanley Donen)
Johnny Guitar (dir. Nicholas Ray)
La Strada (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (dir. Jack Arnold)
Brigadoon (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Suddenly! (dir. Lewis Allen)

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On the Waterfront (dir. Elia Kazan)
Hobson’s Choice (dir. David Lean)
Drive a Crooked Road (dir. Richard Quine)
Them! (dir. Gordon Douglas)
Robinson Crusoe (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Bérénice (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Twenty-Four Eyes (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
A Star Is Born (dir. George Cukor)
Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Vera Cruz (dir. Robert Aldrich)

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Godzilla (Gojira) (dir. Ishirô Honda)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (dir. Jack Arnold)
Animal Farm (dir. Joy Batchelor and John Halas)
Apache (dir. Robert Aldrich)
Dial M for Murder (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

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The Earrings of Madame de… (dir. Max Ophuls)
Tokyo Story (dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
The Big Heat (dir. Fritz Lang)
The Wages of Fear (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Ugetsu (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
Roman Holiday (dir. William Wyler)
Pickup on South Street (dir. Samuel Fuller)
Stalag 17 (dir. Billy Wilder)
The Naked Spur (dir. Anthony Mann)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (dir. Howard Hawks)

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Shane (dir. George Stevens)
Peter Pan (dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske)
Beat the Devil (dir. John Huston)
The Brute (El Bruto) (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Summer with Monika (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
I Vitelloni (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Hitch-Hiker (dir. Ida Lupino)
Niagara (dir. Henry Hathaway)
Gate of Hell (dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa)
Little Fugitive (dir. Ray Ashley, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin)

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The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. (dir. Roy Rowland)
The Band Wagon (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
The Wild One (dir. Laslo Benedek)
The Bigamist (dir. Ida Lupino)
From Here to Eternity (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
All I Desire (dir. Douglas Sirk)
Calamity Jane (dir. David Butler)
South Sea Woman (dir. Arthur Lubin)
Anatahan (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
Fear and Desire (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

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Salome (dir. William Dieterle)
How to Marry a Millionaire (dir. Jean Negulesco)

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Singin’ in the Rain (dir. Stanley Donen)
Ikiru (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Umberto D. (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
The Bad and the Beautiful (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Kansas City Confidential (dir. Phil Karlson)
Angel Face (dir. Otto Preminger)
Moulin Rouge (dir. John Huston)
Bellissima (dir. Luchino Visconti)
Forbidden Games (dir. Edward Holzman)
The Life of Oharu (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)

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Macao (dir. Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer and Nicholas Ray)
The Importance of Being Earnest (dir. Anthony Asquith)
Sudden Fear (dir. David Miller)
Clash by Night (dir. Fritz Lang)
The Quiet Man (dir. John Ford)
Come Back, Little Sheba (dir. Daniel Mann)
The Crimson Pirate (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Human Desire (dir. Fritz Lang)
The Member of the Wedding (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
Rancho Notorious (dir. Fritz Lang)

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The Sniper (dir. Edward Dmytryk)
Monkey Business (dir. Howard Hawks)

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Ace in the Hole (dir. Billy Wilder)
The River (dir. Jean Renoir)
The African Queen (dir. John Huston)
The Mob (dir. Robert Parrish)
Olivia (dir. Jacqueline Audry)
A Christmas Carol (dir. Brian Desmond Hurst)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (dir. Albert Lewin)
A Streetcar Named Desire (dir. Elia Kazan)
Strangers on a Train (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (dir. Robert Wise)

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Diary of a Country Priest (dir. Robert Bresson)
He Ran All the Way (dir. John Berry)
A Place in the Sun (dir. George Stevens)
Edward and Caroline (Édouard et Caroline) (dir. Jacques Becker)
On Dangerous Ground (dir. Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino)
Native Son (dir. Pierre Chenal)
You Never Can Tell (dir. Lou Breslow)
His Kind of Woman (dir. John Farrow and Richard Fleischer)
The Tall Target (dir. Anthony Mann)
Thunder on the Hill (dir. Douglas Sirk)

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Alice in Wonderland (dir. Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson)
Neighbours (dir. Norman McLaren)
Ten Tall Men (dir. Willis Goldbeck)
An American in Paris (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
On Moonlight Bay (dir. Roy Del Ruth)

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Les Enfants Terribles (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder)
In a Lonely Place (dir. (dir. Nicholas Ray)
Rashomon (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
All About Eve (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Night and the City (dir. Jules Dassin)
Gun Crazy (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
Harvey (dir. Henry Koster)
Guilty Bystander (dir. Joseph Lerner)
The Breaking Point (dir. Michael Curtiz)

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No Way Out (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Cinderella (dir. Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson)
Where Danger Lives (dir. John Farrow)
The Asphalt Jungle (dir. John Huston)
Harriet Craig (dir. Vincent Sherman)
D.O.A. (dir. Rudolph Maté)
Caged (dir. John Cromwell)
Cheaper by the Dozen (dir. Walter Lang)
The Flame and the Arrow (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
Born Yesterday (dir. George Cukor)

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The Third Man (dir. Carol Reed)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (dir. Robert Hamer)
The Heiress (dir. William Wyler)
Theives’ Highway (dir. Jules Dassin)
Bitter Rice (dir. Giuseppe De Santis)
Too Late for Tears (dir. Byron Haskin)
The Secret Garden (dir. Fred M. Wilcox)
Distant Journey (dir. Alfréd Radok)
The Set-Up (dir. Robert Wise)
Twelve O’Clock High (dir. Henry King)

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Le Silence de la Mer (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Reckless Moment (dir. Max Ophüls)
Thirst (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
A Letter to Three Wives / House of Strangers (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Champion (dir. Mark Robson)
In the Good Old Summertime (dir. Buster Keaton and Robert Z. Leonard)
Not Wanted (dir. Ida Lupino and Elmer Clifton)
Shockproof (dir. Douglas Sirk)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (dir. John Ford)
The Queen of Spades (dir. Thorold Dickinson)

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The Red Shoes (dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Bicycle Thieves (The Bicycle Thief) (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Key Largo / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (dir. John Huston)
Germany Year Zero (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Force of Evil (dir. Abraham Polonsky)
Red River (dir. Arthur Rosson and Howard Hawks)
They Live By Night (dir. Nicholas Ray)
Raw Deal (dir. Anthony Mann)
The Big Clock (dir. John Farrow)
All My Sons (dir. Irving Reis)

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The Snake Pit (dir. Anatole Litvak)
The Lady from Shanghai (dir. Orson Welles)
The Pirate (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Joan of Arc (dir. Victor Fleming)
Duel in the Sun (dir. David O. Selznick)
The Fallen Idol (dir. Carol Reed)
The Boy with Green Hair (dir. Joseph Losey)
Romance in the High Seas (dir. Michael Curtiz)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
(dir. Norman Foster and Robert Siodmak)
Call Northside 777 (dir. Henry Hathaway)

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Blind Alley (dir. Rudolph Maté)
Blood on the Moon (dir. Robert Wise)
Unfaithfully Yours (dir. Preston Sturges)
Sorry, Wrong Number (dir. Anatole Litvak)
Adam’s Rib (dir. George Cukor)
Moonrise (dir. Frank Borzage)

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Out of the Past (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
Ride the Pink Horse (dir. Robert Montgomery)
Black Narcissus (dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
I Walk Alone (dir. Byron Haskin)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Antoine and Antoinette (dir. Jacques Becker)
Monsieur Verdoux (dir. Charles Chaplin)
Dead Reckoning (dir. John Cromwell)
Johnny O’Clock (dir. Robert Rossen)
Crossfire (dir. Edward Dmytryk)

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Quai des Orfèvres (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
The Woman on the Beach (dir. Jean Renoir)
Kiss of Death (dir. Henry Hathaway)
It Always Rains on Sunday (dir. Robert Hamer)
Born to Kill (dir. Robert Wise)
Framed (dir. Richard Wallace)
Nightmare Alley (dir. Edmund Goulding)
Brute Force (dir. Jules Dassin)
Desert Fury (dir. Lewis Allen)
Possessed (dir. Curtis Bernhardt)

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T-Men (dir. Anthony Mann)
Gentlemen’s Agreement (dir. Elia Kazan)
Lured (dir. Douglas Sirk)

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Humoresque (dir. Jean Negulesco)
Beauty and the Beast (dir. Jean Cocteau)
Notorious (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
It’s a Wonderful Life (dir. Frank Capra)
A Matter Of Life And Death (Stairway To Heaven)
(dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
The Big Sleep (dir. Howard Hawks)
The Best Years of Our Lives (dir. William Wyler)
The Yearling (dir. Clarence Brown)
Great Expectations (dir. David Lean)
My Darling Clementine (dir. John Ford)

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Shoeshine (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Gilda (dir. Charles Vidor)
The Other One (La Otra) (dir. Roberto Gavaldón)
So Dark the Night (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
Cluny Brown (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
The Chase (dir. Arthur Ripley)
Bedlam (dir. Mark Robson)
Meshes of the Afternoon (dir. Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (dir. Tay Garnett)
Panique (dir. Julien Duvivier)

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Song of the South (dir. Wilfred Jackson)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (dir. Lewis Milestone)
Black Angel (dir. Roy William Neill)
Decoy (dir. Jack Bernhard)
The Killers (dir. Robert Siodmak)

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Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (dir. Marcel Carné)
Rome, Open City (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Detour (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)
Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz)
My Name Is Julia Ross (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
The Lost Weekend (dir. Billy Wilder)
Scarlet Street (dir. Fritz Lang)
Leave Her to Heaven (dir. John M. Stahl)
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne)
(dir. Robert Bresson)
The Body Snatcher (dir. Robert Wise)

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Hangover Square (dir. John Brahm)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (dir. Roy Rowland)
Fallen Angel (dir. Otto Preminger)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (dir. Elia Kazan)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir. Albert Lewin)
I Know Where I’m Going (dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Death Mills (dir. Billy Wilder)
The Enchanted Cottage (dir. John Cromwell)
Isle of the Dead (dir. Mark Robson)
Dead of Night
(dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton,
Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer)

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The Spiral Staircase (dir. Robert Siodmak)

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Double Indemnity (dir. Billy Wilder)
Meet Me in St. Louis (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
The Children Are Watching Us (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Laura (dir. Otto Preminger)
Phantom Lady (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Hail the Conquering Hero (dir. Preston Sturges)
National Velvet (dir. Clarence Brown)
The Curse of the Cat People (AKA The Unseen Playmate)
(dir. Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise)
The Lodger (dir. John Brahm)
Ali Baba (and the Forty Thieves) (dir. Arthur Lubin)

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Gaslight (dir. George Cukor)
The Uninvited (dir. Lewis Allen)
Ministry of Fear (dir. Fritz Lang)
The Suspect (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Arsenic and Old Lace (dir. Frank Capra)
When Strangers Marry (dir. William Castle)
Since You Went Away (dir. John Cromwell)
Lifeboat (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
(dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Le Corbeau (The Raven) (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Shadow of a Doubt (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (dir. Preston Sturges)
The Leopard Man (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
The Ox-Bow Incident (dir. William A. Wellman)
Day of Wrath (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
I Walked with a Zombie (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
Ghost Ship (dir. Mark Robson)
The Hard Way (dir. Vincent Sherman)

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Meshes of the Afternoon (dir. Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid)
Angels of Sin (Les Anges du Péché) (dir. Robert Bresson)
The Seventh Victim (dir. Mark Robson)

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Casablanca (dir. Michael Curtiz)
The Magnificent Ambersons (dir. Orson Welles)
There Was a Father (dir. Yasujirô Ozu)
Cat People (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
The Glass Key (dir. Stuart Heisler)
Les Visiteurs du Soir (The Devil’s Envoys) (dir. Marcel Carné)
Now, Voyage (dir. Irving Rapper)
Went the Day Well? (dir. Alberto Cavalcanti)
Bambi (dir. James Algar, Sam Armstrong, David D. Hand, and more)
The Palm Beach Story (dir. Preston Sturges)

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This Gun for Hire (dir. Frank Tuttle)

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Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles)
The Lady Eve / Sullivan’s Travels (dir. Preston Sturges)
Out of the Fog (dir. Anatole Litvak)
Man Hunt (dir. Fritz Lang)
Dumbo (dir. Sam Armstrong, Norm Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, and more)
Hold Back the Dawn (dir. Mitchell Leisen)
The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston)
The Wolf Man (dir. George Waggner)
The Little Foxes (dir. William Wyler)
Penny Serenade (dir. George Stevens)

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The Sea Wolf (dir. Michael Curtiz)
How Green Was My Valley (dir. John Ford)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town (dir. Dave Fleischer and Shamus Culhane)

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Pinocchio (dir. Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, and more)
The Thief of Bagdad
(dir. Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Alexander Korda, and more)
The Mark of Zorro (dir. Rouben Mamoulian)
His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks)
The Grapes of Wrath (dir. John Ford)
The Great Dictator (dir. Charlie Chaplin)
The Shop Around the Corner (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
Rebecca (dir, Alfred Hitchcock)
Christmas in July (dir. Preston Sturges)
Fantasia
(dir. Sam Armstrong, Norm Ferguson, James Algar,
Wilfred Jackson, and more)
Pride and Prejudice (dir. Robert Z. Leonard)

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Foreign Correspondent (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Bank Dick (dir. Edward F. Cline)
Night Train to Munich (dir. Carol Reed)
They Drive By Night (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Stranger on the Third Floor (dir. Boris Ingster)
My Little Chickadee (dir. Edward F. Cline)

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Bringing Up Baby (dir. Howard Hawks)
The Wizard of Oz
(dir. Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, and King Vidor)
Stagecoach (dir. John Ford)
Gone with the Wind (dir. Victor Fleming. George Cukor, and Sam Wood)
Wuthering Heights (dir. William Wyler)
Ninotchka (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
The Rules of the Game (dir. Jean Renoir)
Le Jour se Lève (Daybreak) (dir. Marcel Carné)
Dark Victory (dir. Edmund Goulding)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (dir. Frank Capra)

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Only Angels Have Wings (dir. Howard Hawks)
The Women (dir. George Cukor)
The Four Feathers (dir. Zoltan Korda)

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Holiday (dir. George Cukor)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (dir. Michael Curtiz)
La Bête Humaine (dir. Jean Renoir)
Hôtel du Nord (dir. Marcel Carné)
The Lady Vanishes (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Alexander Nevsky (dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev)

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (dir. William Cottrell and David Hand)
Make Way for Tomorrow / The Awful Truth (dir. Leo McCarey)
Stella Dallas (dir. King Vidor)
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (dir. Jean Renoir)
A Day at the Races (dir. Sam Wood)
Mannequin (dir. Frank Borzage)

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The Only Son (dir. Yasujirô Ozu)
A Day in the Country (dir. Jean Renoir)
Modern Times (dir. Charlie Chaplin)
My Man Godfrey (dir. Gregory La Cava)
Libeled Lady (dir. Jack Conway)
Come and Get It (dir. Howard Hawks, William Wyler and Richard Rosson)
The Devil-Doll (dir. Tod Browning)
Swing Time (dir. George Stevens)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
(dir. Dave Fleischer and Willard Bowsky)
Craig’s Wife (dir. Dorothy Arzner)
These Three (dir. William Wyler)

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Things to Come (dir. William Cameron Menzies)
The Petrified Forest (dir. Archie Mayo)

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Bride of Frankenstein (dir. James Whale)
A Night at the Opera (dir. Sam Wood)
Ruggles of Red Gap (dir. Leo McCarey)
Top Hat (dir. Mark Sandrich)
Triumph of the Will (dir. Leni Riefenstahl)
Mad Love (dir. Karl Freund)
The Raven (dir. Lew Landers)
The 39 Steps (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

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Twentieth Century (dir. Howard Hawks)
L’Atalante (dir. Jean Vigo)
The Thin Man (dir. W.S. Van Dyke)
The Count of Monte Cristo (dir. Rowland V. Lee)
It Happened One Night (dir. Frank Capra)
The Black Cat (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)
Imitation of Life (dir. John M. Stahl)
Of Human Bondage (dir. John Cromwell)
Our Daily Bread (dir. King Vidor)
Murder at the Vanities (dir. Mitchell Leisen)

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Duck Soup (dir. Leo McCarey)
Footlight Parade (dir. Lloyd Bacon)
King Kong (dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
La Tête d’un Homme (dir. Julien Duvivier)
The Invisible Man (dir. James Whale)
Murders in the Zoo (dir. A. Edward Sutherland)
Blondie Johnson (dir. Ray Enright and Lucien Hubbard)
Baby Face (dir. Alfred E. Green)
Christopher Strong (dir. Dorothy Arzner)
Little Women (dir. George Cukorz)

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Dinner at Eight (dir. George Cukor)
She Done Him Wrong (dir. Lowell Sherman)

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Island of Lost Souls (dir. Erle C. Kenton)
Freaks (dir. Tod Browning)
Trouble in Paradise (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
The Mummy (dir. Karl Freund)
Scarface (dir. Howard Hawks)
Poil de Carotte (The Red Head) (dir. Julien Duvivier)
Merrily We Go to Hell (dir. Dorothy Arzner)
Vampyr (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Old Dark House (dir. James Whale)

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Me and My Gal (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Doctor X (dir. Michael Curtiz)
Thirteen Women (dir. George Archainbaud)
Back Street (dir. John M. Stahl)
Red Dust (dir. Victor Fleming)
Grand Hotel (dir. Edmund Goulding)

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M (dir. Fritz Lang)
City Lights (dir. Charlie Chaplin)
La Chienne (dir. Jean Renoir)
Dracula: Spanish-Language Version (dir. George Melford)
Dracula (dir. Tod Browning; Music by Philip Glass)
The Champ (dir. King Vidor)
The Public Enemy (dir. William A. Wellman)
Frankenstein (dir. James Whale)
Blonde Crazy (dir. Roy Del Ruth)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (dir. Rouben Mamoulian)

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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (dir. F.W. Murnau)
Svengali (dir. Archie Mayo)
Night Nurse (dir. William A. Wellman)
Working Girls (dir. Dorothy Arzner)

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L’Âge d’Or (dir. Luis Buñuel)
The Blue Angel (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
People on Sunday (dir. Curt Siodmak and Robert Siodmak)
(Preferably with the score by Elena Kats-Chernin)
Morocco (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
Earth (dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
Min and Bill (dir. George Hill)
The Big House (dir. George W. Hill and Ward Wing)

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Man with a Movie Camera (Preferably with the Michael Nyman score)
(My second choice would be the score by Caleb Sampson)
(dir. Dziga Vertov)
Un Chien Andalou (dir. Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali)
Pandora’s Box (dir. G.W. Pabst)

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The Passion of Joan of Arc (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Crowd (dir. King Vidor)
The Man Who Laughs (dir. Paul Leni)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (dir. Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner)
The Wind (dir. Victor Sjöström; Music by Carl Davis)
Lonesome (dir. Pál Fejös)
The Circus (dir. Charles Chaplin)

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Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang)
Sunrise (dir. F.W. Murnau)
Underworld (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
The Unknown (dir. Tod Browning; Music by Caleb Sampson)

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The General (dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton)
Faust (dir. F.W. Murnau)
The Scarlet Letter (dir. Victor Sjöström)

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The Battleship Potemkin (Bronyenosyets Potyomkin) (dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
The Gold Rush (dir. Charlie Chaplin)
The Phantom of the Opera (dir. Rupert Julian)

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Greed (The Four-Hour Version) (dir. Erich von Stroheim)
Sherlock Jr. (dir. Buster Keaton)
The Last Laugh (Die Letzte Mann – The Last Man) (dir. F.W. Murnau)

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Safety Last! (dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
Our Hospitality (dir. John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton)

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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler / Dr. Mabuse: King of Crime (dir. Fritz Lang)
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (dir. F.W. Murnau)
Nanook of the North (dir. Robert J. Flaherty)

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The Kid (dir. Charles Chaplin)
The Phantom Carriage (dir. Victor Sjöström)

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene)

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Broken Blossoms (dir. D.W. Griffith)

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The Birth of a Nation (dir. D.W. Griffith)
The Golam (dir. Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen)

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The Great Train Robbery (dir. Edwin S. Porter)

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(A Work in Progress)

We were spoiled by last year’s Oscar telecast. It didn’t feel that way at the time, but after going through the slough of nominations deemed safe by the Academy of Motion Pictures, a year where No Country For Old Men (2007) took home the big kahuna is looking more lustrous. Amidst the categories is a rigid formula of regularity that just strengthens my conspiracy that the Oscar voters are in cahoots with The Sandman. Some of nominees are deserving, but many of them have been preordained by the death of a thousand cuts that film pundits call Oscar Buzz.

Mind you, I’m writing this with a little tongue in cheek. If the few deserving nominees were absent from the categories, it would be disappointing despite how much news preordained the suspense out like a strangled balloon. Looking at the Best Actor nominees alone, four out of five great choices is not bad. Other categories are not as kind. This is the first out of two think-pieces about the 81st Annual Academy Award Nominations.

Best Picture

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Ceán Chaffin, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
Frost|Nixon (2008): Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Eric Fellner
Milk (2008): Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks (they won for American Beauty in 1999)
The Reader (2008): Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Christian Colson

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Taken as a whole, the best films released in 2008 tasted just as sweet as those in 2007 did. Looking at only the titles There Will Be Blood (dir. P.T. Anderson, 2007) and Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman, 2008), I would be immensely cheered at the state of American cinema. However, there were a number of films scattered and tucked away in corners of the film distribution that saw almost 650 films released in 2008. My impression is that at least twenty to thirty films of a given year should be of great quality. Within those hundreds of films released, it is a pity that so few are wonderful. Still, who can quibble about a year where Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Nolan, Hsiao-hsien Hou, Mike Leigh, Kelly Reichardt, and some triumphant newcomers such as Lucí­a Puenzo and John McDonagh performed so well from either the open or the outset?

I saw a number of films that made their way to Vancouver. There are a few lingering titles that might have been included on this list if I saw them such as Steve McQueen’s Hunger, and Pere Portabella’s The Silence Before Bach. I missed those films shown at the Vancouver International Film Festival that year. My excuse was being bedridden with a cold; I missed out on so much that week. Unfortunately, Portabella refuses to release his film through circuits outside the mercy of unreliable theatrical distributions, which I am taking personally.

Making a list of the best films of the year generally affords the critic an opportunity to collect preferred films as an artist would apply to a collage. Which titles that carry particular visuals and ideas are arranged by the same intellectual deliberation crossed with the finesse of emotional intuition a painter applies a brushstroke. These recommendations could be read as a chef’s deliberate, however liberal feeling, succession of entrées like: starting with Potage à la Tortue, then Quail in Puff Pastry Shell with Foie Gras and Truffle Sauce, following by Cheese and Fresh Fruit, and finally Baba au Rhum avec les Figues — the prize to the movie I am referencing is the prize itself.

The films themselves are so different from one another — not including the given works of formulistic hacks — that measuring a film about a vampire versus a film about a hermaphrodite often appears as a defeatist’s approach. I look at this as a collection of films that made a lasting impression on me, and not as a system of rank. Just because Gus Van Sant’s Milk or Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married didn’t make the top ten does not mean I think any less of them. I love them dearly.

Without further ado, here are the movies that made me sit up a little straighter than usual this year.

1. Synecdoche, New York

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