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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...

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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...

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    The Wicker Man (1974)

    A police sergeant (Edward Woodward) comes to a Scottish isle where a local lord (Christopher Lee)...

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    Orpheus (1950)

    A Left Bank poet (Jean Marais) loves a princess (María Casares) who rides with motorcycle messengers...

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    Dante's Inferno (1924)

    Bearing only a tenuous connection to Dante Alighieri's epic poem, the 1924 Dante's Inferno bears...

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    Diabel

    Though presumably dealing with the Prussian army's invasion of Poland in 1793, this ambitious and...

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    Manna From Heaven (2002)

    A nun organizes her relatives and friends to repay God for the money they all found 30 years ago.

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    Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen

    Dwarves take overa correctional institution and try to break free of a society that mocks them.

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    The Flying Dutchman

    Set in the 16th century, a surreal tale of gold, betrayal and a foundling boy's quest for his...

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    Crimes of the Future (1984)

    Set in the future, when women have been extinguished and the remaining men must absorb the...

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    Beau Travail (2000)

    This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading...

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    White Man's Burden (1995)

    A black factory owner (Harry Belafonte) spends the weekend with a white ex-employee (John Travolta)...

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    Barocco (1976)

    A crook murders his double and takes his place and his girlfriend. Together, they blackmail a...

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    Angel Face (1952)

    A socialite (Jean Simmons) and her chauffeur (Robert Mitchum) are accused of killing her father and...

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    Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

    The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was...

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    A Midnight Clear (1992)

    A young GI (Ethan Hawke) and his squad have a strange encounter with Germans in the Ardennes forest,...

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    Massacre at Central High (1976)

    A high school transfer student, pushed to the edge by a trio of brutal bullies, resorts to murder to...

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    The Shooting

    A woman (Millie Perkins), two bounty hunters and a gunman (Jack Nicholson) ride into a desert and...

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    The Children of Heaven (1999)

    Two fearful children (Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Sediqi) look for a pair of missing shoes, then...

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    The Second Coming

    A suicidal widower falls for an escapee from a mental institution. Based on a novel by Walker Percy.

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    The Bet Collector (2008)

    Revolves around 'jueteng', the game of numbers dating back to the Philippines' Spanish colonial...

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    The Thief of Paris (1967)

    When a young boy is bilked of his inheritance by a crooked uncle/guardian, he grows up to become a...