500 Essential Cult Movies: The Ultimate Guide By Jennifer Eiss, a list by BabaBooey25

7.7

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74

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74

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4.0

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100

/39/

87

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86

/16/

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

65

6.0

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62

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61

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3.5

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84

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72

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47

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Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

42

4.6

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52

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47

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2.7

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25

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1.0

A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.

66

63

6.5

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67

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65

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3.3

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77

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59

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/11/

When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan's gang.

51

42

5.3

/2992/

59

/91/

54

/56/

2.9

/4039/

38

/8/

48

/39/

Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men.

65

6.2

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65

/1066/

61

/533/

3.3

/39216/

83

/63/

63

/1421/

58

/14/

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

69

6.9

/4081/

67

/83/

60

/76/

3.7

/4319/

81

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75

/59/

2.5

Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all will be well again. But then Harry has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties and priorities.

70

6.7

/12084/

67

/244/

67

/194/

3.6

/18513/

81

/36/

78

/359/

69

/14/

2.5

In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.

50

46

5.4

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53

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48

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2.8

/8356/

50

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41

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Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.

76

7.7

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77

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74

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3.8

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86

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86

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61

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3.0

age 16+

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

81

7.3

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72

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70

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3.6

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93

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84

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91

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4.0

age 17+

Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.

85

7.7

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74

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75

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4.2

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94

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89

/2050/

88

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4.0

age 16+

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

76

7.5

/20991/

73

/598/

70

/233/

3.7

/21546/

88

/121/

83

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74

/32/

3.0

age 14+

After bassist Jason Newsted quits the band in 2001, heavy metal superstars Metallica realize that they need an intervention. In this revealing documentary, filmmakers follow the three rock stars as they hire a group therapist and grapple with 20 years of repressed anger and aggression. Between searching for a replacement bass player, creating a new album and confronting their personal demons, the band learns to open up in ways they never thought possible.

78

7.6

/13744/

76

/468/

70

/159/

3.8

/12575/

92

/96/

88

/625/

76

/27/

3.0

age 15+

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboarding and shaped the attitude and culture of modern day extreme sports. Featuring old skool skating footage, exclusive interviews and a blistering rock soundtrack, DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS captures the rise of the Zephyr skateboarding team from Venice's Dogtown, a tough "locals only" beach with a legacy of outlaw surfing.

68

65

6.0

/7445/

60

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58

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3.5

/17020/

93

/30/

70

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66

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An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.

69

6.5

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61

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56

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3.5

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100

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61

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3.0

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.

73

7.0

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69

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67

/294/

3.6

/12263/

83

/24/

78

/203/

75

/10/

3.0

On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.

73

7.7

/20917/

74

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75

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4.2

/69306/

71

/34/

88

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49

/11/

Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has amassed a passionate following of nuns and a respected reputation for protecting the city of Loudon from corruption. Grandier’s influence is then undermined following a sexually repressed nun’s accusation of witchcraft.

68

6.9

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70

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67

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3.8

/87080/

74

/31/

77

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66

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2.0

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

74

7.2

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73

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68

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3.6

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87

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88

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61

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age 17+

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

55

50

6.1

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61

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55

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3.0

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56

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51

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46

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Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.

70

61

6.4

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66

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62

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3.5

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88

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64

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78

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Unsure of what to do next, 23-year-old Marnie tries her best to navigate life after college. Still partying like there's no tomorrow, Marnie drags herself out of bed for her miserable temp job and can't decide whether she's wasting her time going after best buddy Alex, who doesn't seem to be interested.

78

7.2

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71

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69

/249/

3.9

/20937/

92

/39/

81

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89

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3.0

A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.

88

8.2

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80

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77

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4.2

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95

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91

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98

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4.0

age 15+

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

90

8.3

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82

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81

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4.3

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100

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95

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99

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4.0

age 6+

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

71

6.8

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70

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67

/100/

3.7

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62

/26/

82

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3.0

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

88

8.1

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80

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79

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4.3

/63121/

100

/43/

93

/288/

4.0

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

59

53

6.1

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61

/128/

60

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3.1

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67

/12/

45

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An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..

71

69

6.6

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67

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65

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3.4

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91

/22/

69

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The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

61

6.0

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60

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59

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3.2

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64

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60

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2.5

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

81

7.2

/11871/

71

/203/

70

/255/

3.8

/16150/

97

/32/

85

/233/

4.0

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

76

6.9

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68

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70

/90/

3.6

/3831/

100

/13/

79

/21/

3.0

A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.

64

6.3

/19637/

64

/627/

60

/308/

3.1

/11975/

78

/32/

46

/300/

63

/10/

3.0

In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.

71

7.0

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72

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67

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3.3

/61211/

81

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In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

84

7.8

/122289/

74

/3080/

76

/2373/

3.8

/388587/

97

/74/

87

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4.0

age 13+

The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.

60

56

5.5

/6297/

59

/181/

51

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3.3

/13426/

73

/30/

47

/253/

71

/10/

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

66

6.9

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70

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67

/2697/

3.5

/101403/

67

/42/

74

/4259/

43

/10/

3.0

age 17+

A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.

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48

6.1

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61

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57

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3.3

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39

/23/

51

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After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

59

23

6.3

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62

/23/

54

/13/

3.4

/758/

50

/8/

A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat.

81

7.7

/19521/

76

/560/

73

/352/

4.2

/56433/

88

/52/

88

/511/

87

/18/

3.0

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

88

8.0

/39219/

77

/697/

76

/557/

4.2

/62025/

98

/62/

91

/532/

100

/5/

4.0

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.

55

6.3

/31444/

65

/981/

62

/581/

3.0

/12126/

29

/34/

45

/440/

2.5

SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.

82

8.0

/137151/

79

/2728/

78

/1793/

4.0

/100495/

94

/68/

95

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75

/19/

3.0

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.

84

7.9

/16298/

79

/487/

78

/332/

4.4

/98678/

79

/72/

90

/267/

84

/15/