Dark Habits (Entre tinieblas) (1983)
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Pedro Almodovar's third film is an offbeat and provocative black comedy. A cabaret singer finds...
Hudson Hawk (1991)
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Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell and Sandra Bernhard star in the funniest...
Sister Act (1992)
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When lively lounge singer Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) sees her mobster beau, Vince LaRocca...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with...
Blade Runner (1982)
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In a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, an ex-Blade Runner named Rick Deckard is called back on the...
Cyberpunk Tech noir Neo-noir
High and Low (1963)
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An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped...
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1982)
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After avenging the death of his wife and young son at the hands of a vicious gang leader, Max (Mel...
Taxi Driver (1976)
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An unstable Vietnam veteran named Travis Bickle works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City....
Neo-noir Psychological thriller Vigilante
Barcelona Plates
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A septuagenarian contract killer, a chronic hypochondriac, two zombie-creating comedians, a good...
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Middlemarch
Rosemary Ashton and George Eliot
Book
George Eliot's masterpiece, groundbreaking in its psychological insight into powerful clashes of...
Play It As It Lays
Book
Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some chips to play for me and went to the...
Swann's Way
Book
Marcel Proust's seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu),...
Midnight's Children
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Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s...
Fiction social issues
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
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Ellen Burstyn won the "Best Actress" Oscar for her performance in this memorable comedy-drama about...
Badlands (1973)
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An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a...
Coming Home (1978)
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The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to volunteer at a local...
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
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Stanley Kubrick's famous black cold-war satire. U.S. Air Force general Jack D Ripper launches an...
Cold War Political satire
Сталкер [Stalker] (1979)
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1979 science fiction art film by Tarkovsky, loosely based on the novel ‘Roadside Picnic’.
Science fiction art film mystery Russian
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My Favorite Thing is Monsters
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Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters...
Graphic novel
The Godfather (1972)
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When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his...
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
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The compelling sequel to "The Godfather," contrasting the life of Corleone father and son. Traces...
Casablanca (1942)
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Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such...
Dan in Real Life (2007)
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A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brother's girlfriend.
North by Northwest (1959)
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This classic suspense film finds New York City ad executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) pursued...