Description: 1900-2021. Modern, neo-retro, film noir, comedy, classic Hollywood, early horror, experimental, navel gazing, New Wave, and art movies and shows - where the lack of color is a statement and cinematography is king.
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Movie:
The Lighthouse
( 2019 )
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
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Nebraska
( 2014 )
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
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Eraserhead
( 1978 )
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.
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Passing
( 2021 )
"Passing" follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.
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Metropolis
( 1927 )
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
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Sin City
( 2005 )
An exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption.
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The Hustler
( 1961 )
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
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Roma
( 2018 )
A year in the life of a upper-middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
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Mank
( 2020 )
1940. Film studio RKO hires 24-year-old wunderkind Orson Welles under a contract that gives him full creative control of his movies. For his first film, he calls in washed-up alcoholic Herman J Mankiewicz to write the screenplay. That film is "Citizen Kane," and this is the story of how it was written.
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The Artist
( 2012 )
When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.
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Modern Times
( 1936 )
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
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Embrace of the Serpent
( 2015 )
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
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Schindler's List
( 1994 )
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
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M
( 1931 )
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
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Wings of Desire
( 1988 )
An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
( 2004 )
A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
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Pi
( 1998 )
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
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The Elephant Man
( 1980 )
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily-disfigured and mistreated young man working as a sideshow freak, who gradually reveals his capacity for kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
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Clerks
( 1994 )
A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.
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The Seventh Seal
( 1958 )
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
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Raging Bull
( 1980 )
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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Annie Hall
( 1977 )
Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
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She's Gotta Have It
( 2017 )
She's Gotta Have It centers on Nola Darling, a Brooklyn-based artist in her late twenties struggling to define herself and divide her time amongst her Friends, her Job and her Three Lovers: The Cultured Model, Greer Childs, The Protective Investment Banker, Jamie Overstreet and Da Original B-Boy Sneakerhead, Mars Blackmon.
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Blancanieves
( 2012 )
A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
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Citizen Kane
( 1941 )
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
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Seven Samurai
( 1956 )
Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.
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The Third Man
( 1950 )
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
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Polytechnique
( 2009 )
A dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
( 1928 )
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy, and the ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force her to recant her claims of holy visions.
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The Night of the Hunter
( 1955 )
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
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The Man Who Wasn't There
( 2001 )
A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
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Ordet
( 1955 )
Follows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.
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Control
( 2007 )
A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to die by suicide at the age of 23.
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Sunrise
( 1927 )
A married farmer falls under the spell of a sophisticated woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Lumière!
( 2017 )
A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.
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12 Angry Men
( 1957 )
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
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Sweet Smell of Success
( 1957 )
A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
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My Twentieth Century
( 1989 )
Two twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of the luxurious Orient-Express.
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Hour of the Wolf
( 1968 )
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
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The Turin Horse
( 2011 )
A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.
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Satantango
( 1994 )
On the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.
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Vampyr
( 1934 )
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
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Missing People
( 2015 )
Missing People is a nonfiction mystery about a enigmatic woman investigating her brother's long unsolved murder, while obsessively collecting and researching the violent work and life of an outsider artist. As these parallel narratives intertwine, shocking events unfold.
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The White Ribbon
( 2010 )
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
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Battleship Potemkin
( 1925 )
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
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A Photographic Contortion (Short 1901)
( 1902 )
A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
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A Fantasy (Short 1908)
( 1908 )
The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
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Much Ado About Nothing
( 2013 )
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
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Winter Light
( 1963 )
A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
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Following
( 1999 )
A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.
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The Train
( 1965 )
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
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Ida
( 2013 )
A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.
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A Page of Madness
( 1926 )
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
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The Innocents
( 1961 )
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
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Persepolis
( 2007 )
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
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A Field in England
( 2013 )
Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.
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Strangers on a Train
( 1951 )
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
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Doodlebug (Short 1997)
In his squalid apartment, a man tries to squash with his shoe an insect of some kind that is moving around the room.
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8½
( 1963 )
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
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Some Like It Hot
( 1959 )
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
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Tabu
( 2012 )
A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.
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Jules and Jim
( 1962 )
Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
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Killer of Sheep
( 1978 )
Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
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Cold War
( 2018 )
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
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Brand Upon the Brain!
( 2008 )
Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
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My Winnipeg
( 2008 )
Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this portrait of film-maker Guy Maddin's home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Melancholia
( 2014 )
Three people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.
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From What Is Before
( 2015 )
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.
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Movie:
The Wild One
( 1953 )
Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.
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Pictures of the Old World
( 1972 )
An elegiac journey through Slovakia's Carpathian Mountain villages, with interviews of old peasants about the happiness and hardships in their lives.
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On the Waterfront
( 1954 )
An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
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Devils on the Doorstep
( 2001 )
Villagers in World War II China are unsure what to do with the two enemy prisoners who have been left in their care.
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Rumble Fish
( 1983 )
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
( 1956 )
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
( 1982 )
Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from classic noir films appear as scenes from various movies interjected into the story.
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
( 2015 )
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
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Dementia
( 1955 )
This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
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Casablanca
( 1943 )
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
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Last Year at Marienbad
( 1962 )
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
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The Manchurian Candidate
( 1962 )
An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
( 1966 )
A middle-aged New England associate professor and his wife, with the help of alcohol, use their young guests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
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Häxan
( 1929 )
Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
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Zelig
( 1983 )
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
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Freaks
( 1932 )
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.
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In the Soup
( 1992 )
New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown flophouse he calls home.
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Frances Ha
( 2013 )
A New York woman apprentices for a dance company and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as the possibility of realizing them dwindles.
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Sword of Vengeance
( 2015 )
Vengeance is the driving force behind a shadow walker's return to Norman conquered Saxon lands after the Battle of Hastings and a brutal repression of it's people by a cruel lord.
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Steamboat Willie (Short 1928)
( 1929 )
Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.
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The Golem
( 1921 )
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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TV Show:
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
( 1962 )
Previously Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the series expanded to an hour. Master of the macabre Alfred Hitchcock introduces and concludes tales of suspense and crime. Hitchcock's speeches are filled with black humor and jabs at his network sponsors.
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
( 2022 )
A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
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Frankenweenie
( 2012 )
When a boy's beloved dog passes away suddenly, he attempts to bring the animal back to life through a powerful science experiment.
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Ed Wood
( 1994 )
Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.
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Pleasantville
( 1998 )
Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves transported to a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that colorless, complacent world.
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