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Your #1 was The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (#1).
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Dir. Sergio Leone · Clint Eastwood · Eli Wallach · Lee Van Cleef · Aldo Giuffrè
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
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Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Bibi Andersson · Liv Ullmann · Margaretha Krook · Gunnar Björnstrand
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.
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Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo · Brahim Hadjadj · Mohamed Ben Kassen · Yacef Saâdi · Fouzia El Kader
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
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Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky · Anatoliy Solonitsyn · Ivan Lapikov · Mykola Hrynko · Nikolai Sergeyev
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
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Dir. Mike Nichols · Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · George Segal · Sandy Dennis
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
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Dir. Gérard Oury · Bourvil · Louis de Funès · Terry-Thomas · Claudio Brook
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
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Dir. Fred Zinnemann · Paul Scofield · Wendy Hiller · Leo McKern · Robert Shaw
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
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Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · David Hemmings · Vanessa Redgrave · Sarah Miles · John Castle
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
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Dir. Robert Bresson · Anne Wiazemsky · Walter Green · François Lafarge · Jean-Claude Guilbert
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
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Dir. William Wyler · Audrey Hepburn · Peter O'Toole · Eli Wallach · Hugh Griffith
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
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Dir. Howard Hawks · John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · James Caan · Charlene Holt
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
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Dir. Kihachi Okamoto · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yūzō Kayama · Michiyo Aratama · Yōko Naitō
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.
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Dir. John Frankenheimer · Rock Hudson · Salome Jens · John Randolph · Will Geer
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.
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Dir. François Truffaut · Julie Christie · Oskar Werner · Cyril Cusack · Anton Diffring
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
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Dir. Sergio Corbucci · Franco Nero · José Bódalo · Loredana Nusciak · Ángel Álvarez
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a merciless masked clan and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.
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Dir. Robert Wise · Steve McQueen · Richard Attenborough · Richard Crenna · Candice Bergen
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
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Dir. John Frankenheimer · James Garner · Eva Marie Saint · Yves Montand · Toshirō Mifune
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.
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Dir. John Huston · Michael Parks · Ulla Bergryd · Richard Harris · John Huston
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
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Dir. Lewis Gilbert · Michael Caine · Shelley Winters · Millicent Martin · Julia Foster
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Paul Newman · Julie Andrews · Lila Kedrova · Hansjörg Felmy
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
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Dir. Norman Jewison · Carl Reiner · Eva Marie Saint · Alan Arkin · Brian Keith
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
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Dir. Norman Tokar · Dean Jones · Suzanne Pleshette · Charles Ruggles · Kelly Thordsen
The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself as a dainty dachsie. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles - and viewers to howls of laughter!
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Dir. Bernard Borderie · Michèle Mercier · Robert Hossein · Jean Rochefort · Jacques Toja
Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.
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Dir. Burt Kennedy · Yul Brynner · Robert Fuller · Julián Mateos · Warren Oates
Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.
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