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Creator: Norcross
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Movie:
In the Mood for Love
( 2001 )
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
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The Rules of the Game
( 1950 )
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
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Bicycle Thieves
( 1949 )
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
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Vertigo
( 1958 )
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
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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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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
( 1976 )
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet, but something happens that changes her safe routine.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
( 1968 )
When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.
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Tokyo Story
( 1972 )
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
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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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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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8½
( 1963 )
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
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Boyz n the Hood
( 1991 )
Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.
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The Piano
( 1994 )
In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.
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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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Mulholland Drive
( 2001 )
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
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Beau Travail
( 2000 )
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
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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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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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Man with a Movie Camera
( 1929 )
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
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Cléo from 5 to 7
( 1962 )
Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
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The Searchers
( 1956 )
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
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Persona
( 1967 )
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
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Close-Up
( 1991 )
The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
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Meshes of the Afternoon (Short 1943)
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
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Late Spring
( 1972 )
Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.
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Daisies
( 1966 )
After realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?
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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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L'Atalante
( 1947 )
Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
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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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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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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
( 2020 )
In 18th-century France young painter Marianne, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse without her knowing. Therefore, Marianne must observe her model by day to paint her portrait at night. Day by day, the two women become closer as they share Héloïse's last moments of freedom before the impending wedding.
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Mirror
( 1975 )
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
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Psycho
( 1960 )
A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
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Pather Panchali
( 1955 )
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
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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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Rear Window
( 1954 )
A bored photographer recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder.
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The Hurt Locker
( 2009 )
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
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Children of Paradise
( 1946 )
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
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Breathless
( 1961 )
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
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Rashomon
( 1951 )
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
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Toni Erdmann
( 2016 )
A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.
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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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The Earrings of Madame De...
( 1954 )
When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
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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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Stalker
( 1980 )
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
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The Battle of Algiers
( 1967 )
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
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Fish Tank
( 2009 )
Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
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Rio Bravo
( 1959 )
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
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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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Daughters of the Dust
( 1991 )
A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.
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North by Northwest
( 1959 )
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
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Blade Runner
( 1982 )
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
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The Apartment
( 1960 )
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.
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Wanda
( 1971 )
Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.
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The 400 Blows
( 1959 )
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
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The Red Shoes
( 1948 )
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
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Zero Dark Thirty
( 2013 )
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
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Vagabond
( 1986 )
A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
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News from Home
( 1977 )
Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
( 1974 )
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
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The Ascent
( 1977 )
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
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Sherlock Jr.
( 1924 )
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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Sans Soleil
( 1983 )
A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.
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Contempt
( 1964 )
A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.
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Moonlight
( 2016 )
A chronicle of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young, African-American, gay man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
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La Dolce Vita
( 1961 )
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
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Touki Bouki
( 1976 )
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
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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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Goodfellas
( 1990 )
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
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The Swamp
( 2001 )
The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
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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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Orlando
( 1993 )
After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.
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Winter's Bone
( 2010 )
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
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Andrei Rublev
( 1966 )
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
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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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L'Avventura
( 1961 )
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
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The Gleaners & I
( 2000 )
Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.
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Journey to Italy
( 1954 )
An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples.
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La Jetée (Short 1962)
( 1962 )
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
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Sansho the Bailiff
( 1954 )
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
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Imitation of Life
( 1959 )
An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
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The Hitch-Hiker
( 1953 )
Two friends pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
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Sunset Boulevard
( 1950 )
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
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A Matter of Life and Death
( 1946 )
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
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A Separation
( 2011 )
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
( 2011 )
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
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Stories We Tell
( 2013 )
A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
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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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A Brighter Summer Day
( 2011 )
Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
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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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Celine and Julie Go Boating
( 1974 )
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
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Monsoon Wedding
( 2002 )
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
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Fanny and Alexander
( 1982 )
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
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Wild Strawberries
( 1959 )
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
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The Spirit of the Beehive
( 1975 )
In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven-year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
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Pierrot le fou
( 1969 )
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
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Blue Velvet
( 1986 )
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
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Selma
( 2015 )
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
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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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