Description: If I can remember 50% of them would be great.
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Good Bye Lenin!
( 2004 )
In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
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Once
( 2007 )
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
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The Best Offer
( 2013 )
A lonely art expert working for a mysterious and reclusive heiress finds not only her art worth examining.
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Total Eclipse
( 1995 )
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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Wild Tales
( 2014 )
Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
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The Way of the Gun
( 2000 )
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
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To Catch a Killer
( 1992 )
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
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China Moon
( 1994 )
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle reluctantly agrees to help hide the body, but Kyle's partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.
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The Life of David Gale
( 2003 )
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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Quills
( 2000 )
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
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August Rush
( 2007 )
An orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift to try to find his birth parents.
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The Reader
( 2009 )
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
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The Changeling
( 1980 )
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
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Across the Universe
( 2007 )
The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.
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Juan of the Dead
( 2012 )
A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the government.
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Finding Neverland
( 2004 )
The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
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Biutiful
( 2011 )
A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.
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Life Is Beautiful
( 1997 )
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
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Autumn Sonata
( 1978 )
A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.
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The Sea Inside
( 2005 )
Life story of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramón's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gift of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramón taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others.
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Four Lions
( 2010 )
Four incompetent British terrorists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.
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Pollock
( 2001 )
A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.
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Queensrÿche: Video Mindcrime
( 1989 )
Compilation of music videos for the US heavy metal band Queensrÿche's classic 1988 concept album Operation: Mindcrime about disillusioned Nikki, brainwashed by sinister Dr. X to kill for him. Nikki falls for one of his targets - nun Mary.
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Backbeat
( 1994 )
A dramatization of the Hamburg, Germany phase of The Beatles' early history.
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Turtles Can Fly
( 2005 )
Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
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Othello
( 1996 )
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio, when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
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Harvie Krumpet (Short 2003)
The odd biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck.
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Los ojos de Julia
( 2010 )
The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.
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Wicker Park
( 2004 )
A young Chicago advertising executive believes a woman he sees in a café is his long-lost love. His belief leads to obsession, as he puts his life on hold in order to trail her.
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Persepolis
( 2007 )
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
( 2004 )
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.
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Monsieur Verdoux
( 1947 )
Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad luck.
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The Eddy Duchin Story
( 1956 )
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
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The Majestic
( 2001 )
In 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
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Richard III
( 1995 )
The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.
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Before the Fall
( 2008 )
The world learns that an earth-shattering meteorite will arrive in 72 hours.
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Limelight
( 1952 )
A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find meaning and hope in their lives.
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Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys
( 1990 )
This biopic chronicles the continuing saga of the Beach Boys from 1961 to 1985. Mainly focuses on the Beach Boys resident wildman Dennis Wilson and in a slightly less capacity big brother Brian Wilson.
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A Pure Formality
( 1994 )
Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through interrogatory dialectic, the head of this lonely, isolated, broken-down police station tries to establish what has happened, by delving into the mind of his writer-hero, and clearing up a mysterious killing.
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Collateral Beauty
( 2016 )
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
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Angela's Ashes
( 2000 )
Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the I.R.A., and when he does find money, he spends it on drink.
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The Door
( 2009 )
A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
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Baarìa
( 2009 )
Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
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Crazy
( 2017 )
Inspired by the life of Hank Garland, CRAZY is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950's.
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I Know I'm Not Alone
( 2005 )
Musician and activist Michael Franti's documentary on his mission of peace in the Middle East.
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The Tiger and the Snow
( 2005 )
A love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion.
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Sweet and Lowdown
( 2000 )
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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Goya's Ghosts
( 2006 )
Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
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The Linda McCartney Story
( 2000 )
A dramatization of the life of Linda McCartney. In her early years snapping photos for Rolling Stone magazine and rubbing elbows with much of Hollywood's Elite. The story follows her meeting and falling in love with Paul McCartney, their marriage and what follows.
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Head in the Clouds
( 2004 )
From the roaring 1920s to the ruinous Spanish Civil War and Adolf Hitler's rise into power, the lives of an Irish schoolteacher, a provocative heiress and her Spanish muse are intricately interlaced, sharing the same destiny and passion.
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Death in Granada
( 1997 )
A journalist (Esai Morales) starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca (Andy Garcia), who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
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Prague
( 2006 )
Romantic drama: the story of Christoffer and Maja's trip to the city of Prague - a beautiful, aging city, but also a city choked by a rigid and dated eastern-block mentality. PRAG is the story of a distant, ever-absent father who, even after passing away, traumatizes all who have known him. And PRAG is the story of a marriage on the verge of collapse, in which Christoffer wants one thing and Maja another. A story of an old love, constantly transformed; at once, rooted, fragile, vulnerable, forgotten and rediscovered. A marriage where secrets, one after the other, come bursting out of the closet.
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