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  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe picture
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    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

    Children (Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes) join forces with the lion mystic Aslan to free the land of...

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    Youth Without Youth (2007)

    A professor (Tim Roth) becomes a fugitive after a cataclysmic incident prior to World War II.

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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

    Mental patients follow Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), the social-misfit hero of Ken Kesey's...

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    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    Supercomputer HAL 9000 guides astronauts (Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester) on a trip...

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    Vie Privee (1962)

    A French sex symbol (Brigitte Bardot) and her lover (Marcello Mastroianni) hide from photographers,...

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    Brazil (1985)

    A bureaucrat (Jonathan Pryce) in a future megalopolis notes a fatal error over one man, named Tuttle...

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    Fahrenheit 451 (1967)

    A fireman (Oskar Werner) of the future burns books until he meets a book lover (Julie Christie) and...

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    The Nines (2007)

    An actor is under house arrest, a TV show chronicles a sitcom production, and a video-game designer...

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    Britannia Hospital (1983)

    An illustrious English medical facility is turned upside down when a member of royalty is admitted...

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    Caramel (2008)

    Five women meet regularly in a Beirut salon to talk and confide in one another.

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    Antichrist (2009)

    A grieving couple retreats to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and...

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    Billy Budd (1962)

    Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic...

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    1984 (1984)

    Orwell's Big Brother is watching as Winston Smith (John Hurt) and his lover (Suzanna Hamilton) defy...

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    The Truman Show (1998)

    An unwitting man's (Jim Carrey) life is arranged for him, captured on hidden cameras and broadcast...

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    A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    Young Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his droogs commit barbaric acts in a near-future, dehumanizing...

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    Lord of the Flies (1990)

    American schoolboys (Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly),stranded on an island without...

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    Blindness (2008)

    An epidemic of blindness sweeps through an unnamed contemporary city and pushes society to the brink...

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    Election (1999)

    When a school's goody-two-shoes (Reese Witherspoon) runs for class president, a teacher/adviser...

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    Buta To Gunkan (1986)

    Explores the effect of the American military presence in Japan.

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    The Seventh Seal (1957)

    Returning from a Crusade with his squire (Gunnar Bjornstrand), a weary knight (Max von Sydow) plays...

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    The End of Violence (1997)

    Police investigate the sudden disappearance of a Hollywood producer (Bill Pullman) who specialized...

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    The Iron Giant (1999)

    A malevolent government agent threatens to destroy the friendship between a boy and a huge alien...

  • La Dolce Vita picture
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    La Dolce Vita (1961)

    Federico Fellini's acclaimed account of an angst-ridden tabloid reporter in decadent modern-day...

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    Metropolis (1927)

    An industrialist (Alfred Abel) rules a 21st-century city where the rich play above and slaves toil...

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    Birdy (1984)

    A Vietnam veteran (Nicolas Cage) helps his bird-obsessed boyhood buddy (Matthew Modine) in a...

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    The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

    A golf caddy (Will Smith) shows a disillusioned young war veteran (Matt Damon) how to master...

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    Picnic (2000)

    A heroine's hatred of modern society leads her into a bleak fantasy landscape where madness and...

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    Cria! (1976)

    A young girl's fears and superstitions haunt her as an adult.

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    Walkabout (1971)

    Amidst the vast emptiness of an unending plain, a stressed-out Australian urbanite interrupts his...

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    Ship of Fools (1965)

    Passengers (Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner) on an ocean liner headed from the Americas...