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Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · Marlon Brando · Al Pacino · James Caan · Robert Duvall
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky · Natalya Bondarchuk · Donatas Banionis · Jüri Järvet · Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
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Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Laurence Olivier · Michael Caine
A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
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Dir. Werner Herzog · Klaus Kinski · Helena Rojo · Del Negro · Ruy Guerra
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
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Dir. Bob Fosse · Liza Minnelli · Michael York · Helmut Griem · Joel Grey
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
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Dir. John Boorman · Jon Voight · Burt Reynolds · Ned Beatty · Ronny Cox
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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Dir. Luis Buñuel · Fernando Rey · Delphine Seyrig · Paul Frankeur · Stéphane Audran
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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Dir. Sydney Pollack · Robert Redford · Will Geer · Delle Bolton · Josh Albee
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.
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Dir. Herbert Ross · Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Tony Roberts · Jerry Lacy
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
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Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · Barbra Streisand · Ryan O'Neal · Madeline Kahn · Kenneth Mars
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Jon Finch · Barry Foster · Barbara Leigh-Hunt · Anna Massey
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
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Dir. Sam Peckinpah · Steve McQueen · Ali MacGraw · Ben Johnson · Sally Struthers
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
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Dir. Lo Wei · Bruce Lee · Nora Miao · Maria Yi · James Tien Chun
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.
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Dir. Ronald Neame · Gene Hackman · Ernest Borgnine · Stella Stevens · Shelley Winters
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
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Dir. Jan Troell · Max von Sydow · Liv Ullmann · Eddie Axberg · Sven-Olof Bern
Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota.
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Dir. Martin Ritt · Cicely Tyson · Paul Winfield · Kevin Hooks · Taj Mahal
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
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Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · Marlon Brando · Maria Schneider · Maria Michi · Giovanna Galletti
A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
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Dir. Ralph Bakshi · Skip Hinnant · Rosetta LeNoire · John McCurry · Phil Seuling
In late 1960s New York City, fed up with monotonous college life and police repression, free-spirited Fritz, an impenitent seducer and unrestrained party-animal, decides to explore the world. And just like that, as he flees NYC, heading to San Francisco, Fritz embarks on an endless adventure of illumination. Immersed in a world surrounded by drugs and sex, Fritz participates in mad orgies, brings about a revolution, incites mass urban riots, and crosses paths with drug-addled Nazi bikers.
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