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Your #1 was The Thing (#1).
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Dir. John Carpenter · Kurt Russell · Wilford Brimley · T.K. Carter · David Clennon
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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Dir. Ridley Scott · Harrison Ford · Rutger Hauer · Sean Young · Edward James Olmos
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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Dir. Richard Attenborough · Ben Kingsley · Candice Bergen · Edward Fox · John Gielgud
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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Dir. Steven Spielberg · Henry Thomas · Drew Barrymore · Robert MacNaughton · Peter Coyote
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home.
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Dir. Alan Parker · Bob Geldof · Christine Hargreaves · James Laurenson · Eleanor David
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Pernilla Allwin · Bertil Guve · Jan Malmsjö · Ewa Fröling
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
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Dir. Martin Scorsese · Robert De Niro · Jerry Lewis · Diahnne Abbott · Sandra Bernhard
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
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Dir. Ted Kotcheff · Sylvester Stallone · Richard Crenna · Brian Dennehy · Bill McKinney
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
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Dir. Nicholas Meyer · William Shatner · Leonard Nimoy · Ricardo Montalban · DeForest Kelley
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
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Dir. Werner Herzog · Klaus Kinski · Claudia Cardinale · José Lewgoy · Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
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Dir. Slobodan Šijan · Bogdan Diklić · Danilo 'Bata' Stojković · Pavle Vuisić · Milosav 'Mija' Aleksić
The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
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Dir. Sidney Lumet · Paul Newman · Charlotte Rampling · Jack Warden · James Mason
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
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Dir. Sydney Pollack · Dustin Hoffman · Jessica Lange · Teri Garr · Dabney Coleman
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
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Dir. Tobe Hooper · JoBeth Williams · Craig T. Nelson · Beatrice Straight · Dominique Dunne
The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.
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Dir. Alan J. Pakula · Meryl Streep · Kevin Kline · Peter MacNicol · Rita Karin
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
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Dir. Costa-Gavras · Jack Lemmon · Sissy Spacek · Melanie Mayron · John Shea
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
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Dir. Taylor Hackford · Richard Gere · Debra Winger · Louis Gossett Jr. · David Keith
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
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Dir. Sylvester Stallone · Sylvester Stallone · Talia Shire · Burt Young · Carl Weathers
Following Rocky Balboa's intense battle with his most powerful adversary yet – the ferocious Clubber Lang – Rocky joins forces with former rival Apollo Creed in an effort to get back his fighting spirit.
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Dir. Walter Hill · Nick Nolte · Eddie Murphy · Annette O'Toole · Frank McRae
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
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Dir. Clint Eastwood · Clint Eastwood · Freddie Jones · David Huffman · Warren Clarke
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
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