Description: Essential films; highly original, significant, influential or creatively successful movies that continue speak to us, our age and the human condition in a meaningful way. These movies stand up and continue to deliver, even after decades of repeat viewings.
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Bonnie and Clyde
( 1967 )
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
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A Place in the Sun
( 1951 )
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
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Apocalypse Now
( 1979 )
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
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Chinatown
( 1974 )
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
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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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The Misfits
( 1961 )
A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically-independent lifestyle.
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The Godfather Part II
( 1974 )
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
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Taxi Driver
( 1976 )
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
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Heat
( 1995 )
A group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.
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Scarface
( 1983 )
In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.
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The Conversation
( 1974 )
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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Mean Streets
( 1973 )
In New York City's Little Italy, a devoutly Catholic mobster must reconcile his desire for power, his feelings for his epileptic girlfriend, and his devotion to his troublesome friend.
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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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Full Metal Jacket
( 1987 )
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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Lolita
( 1962 )
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
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Barry Lyndon
( 1975 )
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
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Gangs of New York
( 2002 )
In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher; his father's killer.
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The Departed
( 2006 )
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
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The Shining
( 1980 )
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
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The King of Comedy
( 1982 )
Rupert is an aspiring stand-up comedian, who is willing to go the extra mile in his attempt to appear in the late night show hosted by his idol.
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Three Days of the Condor
( 1975 )
A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
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Rocky III
( 1982 )
Rocky faces the ultimate challenge from a powerful new contender, and must turn to a former rival to help regain his throne as the undisputed fighting champion.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
( 1971 )
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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The Last Temptation of Christ
( 1988 )
The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.
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The Long Goodbye
( 1973 )
Private eye Philip Marlowe helps friend Terry Lennox out of a jam and is implicated in his wife Sylvia's murder. He also is hired by Eileen Wade to locate her dipsomaniac husband Roger, who frequently disappears when he wants to dry out.
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