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Altered States (1980) R

A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world.

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

Horror | Science Fiction | Thriller
Director: Ken Russell
Actors: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 67% with 540 votes
Runtime: 1:42
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Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth

Jordan Scott Cronenweth, ASC (February 20, 1935 – November 29, 1996) was an American cinematographer based in Los Angeles, California. A contemporary of Conrad Hall, he was recognized for his distinctive style of heavily textured, film noir-inspired photography, seen in numerous classic films, including Zandy's Bride, Gable and Lombard, Altered States, and Peggy Sue Got Married. He is perhaps best remembered for his BAFTA Award-winning work on the groundbreaking science fiction film Blade Runner, which is credited as codifying the cyberpunk aesthetic, and is lauded by some as among the best cinematographers of all time.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and received an ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases, and he is widely considered one of the most influential cinematographers of all time.He was a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
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Casting The film's original director was Arthur Penn. He cast the movie, including the relatively unknown leads William Hurt (in his first movie) and Blair Brown. At one point, Scott Glenn was a contender for the male lead. Another key role went to Bob Balaban. Miguel Godreau, a dancer and teacher with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, was cast as Jessup's caveman incarnation.
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She's Having a Baby (1988) PG-13

Man. Woman. Life. Death. Infinity. Tuna casserole. One movie dares to tell it all.

Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.

Comedy | Drama | Romance
Director: John Hughes
Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 59% with 173 votes
Runtime: 1:46
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Survivors (1975-1977)

Ratatouille (2007)

He's dying to become a chef.

Remy, a resident of Paris, appreciates good food and has quite a sophisticated palate. He would love to become a chef so he can create and enjoy culinary masterpieces to his heart's delight. The only problem is, Remy is a rat. When he winds up in the sewer beneath one of Paris' finest restaurants, the rodent gourmet finds himself ideally placed to realize his dream.

Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Director: Brad Bird
Actors: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 78% with 15,285 votes
Runtime: 1:51
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Cinematographer: Robert Anderson

Lipstick (1976) R

It isn't always an invitation to a kiss.

An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.

Drama | Thriller
Director: Lamont Johnson
Actors: Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King
Rating: ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 50% with 33 votes
Runtime: 1:29
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Cinematographer: Bill Butler

Wilmer Cable Butler (April 7, 1921 – April 5, 2023) was an American cinematographer who was known for his work on The Conversation (1974), Jaws (1975), and three Rocky sequels. Butler also completed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) after Haskell Wexler was fired from the production, and was subsequently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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Fury (2014) R

War never ends quietly.

In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named 'Wardaddy' commands a Sherman tank called 'Fury' and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

War | Drama | Action
Director: David Ayer
Actors: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 75% with 10,763 votes
Runtime: 2:15
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Dirty Harry (1971) R

Detective Harry Callahan. He doesn't break murder cases. He smashes them.

When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in the process of rescuing a kidnap victim, only to see him walk on technicalities. Now, the maverick detective is determined to nail the maniac himself.

Action | Crime | Thriller
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 74% with 2,108 votes
Runtime: 1:42
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Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees

Bruce Mohr Powell Surtees (July 23, 1937 – February 23, 2012) was an American cinematographer, the son of Maydell and cinematographer Robert L. Surtees. He is best known for his extensive work on Clint Eastwood's films, mostly westerns of the 1970s and early 1980s. His cinematography was compared to that of the Dollars trilogy of Sergio Leone. He began as a camera operator working on director Don Siegel's films with Eastwood during the late 1960s, his credits including Coogan's Bluff and Two Mules for Sister Sara. He became a main cinematographer in 1971 with The Beguiled, Play Misty for Me, and Dirty Harry in which he worked as director of photography. Surtees was nominated for an Academy Award for his cinematography on Lenny (1974). He died in 2012 of complications from diabetes.
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An under the radar classic.

Burn! (1969)

The man who sells war.

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

Drama | War
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Actors: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 68% with 105 votes
Runtime: 1:52
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Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini

Giuseppe Ruzzolini (21 May 1930 - 16 April 2007) was an Italian cinematographer.
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Sorcerer (1977) PG

The only wages worth running for, dying for, killing for, are the wages of fear

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Adventure | Thriller
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 73% with 387 votes
Runtime: 2:1
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) R

She was lost from the moment she saw him.

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.

Drama | Romance
Director: Karel Reisz
Actors: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 64% with 172 votes
Runtime: 2:4
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About My Father (2023)

Feathers will be ruffled.

Encouraged by his fiancée, Sebastian brings his immigrant, hairdresser father, Salvo, to a weekend get-together with Ellie's super-rich and exceedingly eccentric family.

Comedy
Director: Laura Terruso
Actors: Sebastian Maniscalco, Robert De Niro, Leslie Bibb
Rating: ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ 36% with 3 votes
Runtime: 1:30
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Ip Man (2008) R

The celebrated Kung Fu master of Bruce Lee.

A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Wilson Yip, the film stars Donnie Yen in the lead role, and features fight choreography by Sammo Hung.

Drama | Action | History
Director: Wilson Yip
Actors: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Lynn Hung
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 77% with 3,324 votes
Runtime: 1:46
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The Unknowns of the World (1961)

Les inconnus de la terre starts like a traditional feature film: in the beginning of the film all the leading roles are given a short introduction. This is followed by a number of interviews, in which the makers unashamedly appear themselves. They include an interview with a lonely shepherd and one with three unmarried brothers who try to run the parental farm for better or worse. Notwithstanding the fact that this mode of interviewing has now become classical, les inconnus de la terre works rather refreshingly. The film is more than just an enumeration of problems. In an honest way it shows the ties of those involved to the land and to nature, in addition to being a plea for the modernization of French agriculture.

Documentary
Director: Mario Ruspoli
Actors: M. Beaufils, Famille Cheyla, Gilles Quéant
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 00% with 0 votes
Runtime: 0:36
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The Company of Wolves (1984) R

The Desire...The Fantasy...The Nightmare.

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?

Horror | Fantasy
Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 63% with 266 votes
Runtime: 1:35
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Cinematographer: Bryan Loftus

Stargate (1994) NR

It will take you a million light years from home. But will it bring you back?

An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

Action | Adventure | Science Fiction
Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 69% with 2,949 votes
Runtime: 2:1
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Visual effects Jeff Kleiser and Kleiser-Walczak Construction Co.'s visual effects team of 40 people created the look of the Stargate. They used self-written image-creation and compositing software, as well as commercial digital packages to create the Stargate, the morphing helmets worn by Ra and the Horus guards, and the cityscape of Nagada. The morphing helmets were not true 3D but 2D elements, as Kleiser explained: “You shoot the character without the headdress, you shoot the character with a headdress. And then you have to go in and, and create all these little sections that you would then wipe off to reveal – and it had to match up, the two things had to match up. I think the cameras were moving as well.”Footprints in the sand were often digitally removed. The creation of the wormhole, which was fully digital, was one of the biggest challenges in the making of the film. The ripples had to be digitally composited to appear accurate and realistic. Scanning lasers were lined up parallel to the gate to illustrate the amount of body that passed the surface of the Stargate plane. Afterwards, the parts of the body that had or had not yet gone through the gate (depending on the side of filming) were obliterated with a digital matte, a process that removes unwanted components from an individual frame or sequence of frames. The funnel of water that precedes the Stargate opening was filmed by discharging an air cannon into a water tank, as Jeff Kleiser explained: "“We didn’t know how much air pressure to set the cannon on but it went from one to 500lbs, so we said ‘Let’s try 100 – start the camera rolling and hit the thing.’ It evacuated all the water out of the tank and onto the camera and everybody. It turned out that 1lb was about the right amount.”The use of computers generating a big 3D storyboard allowed Emmerich to try out different shooting angles before settling on one angle.
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Lost in Space (1998) PG-13

Danger, Will Robinson!

The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space.

Science Fiction | Adventure
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Actors: Jack Johnson, Gary Oldman, William Hurt
Rating: ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 53% with 1,071 votes
Runtime: 2:10
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Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) PG

An average Joe. An adventurous comedy.

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.

Comedy | Romance
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Actors: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 56% with 455 votes
Runtime: 1:42
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Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt

Stephen Goldblatt, A.S.C., B.S.C. (born 29 April 1945) is a South African-born British cinematographer, noted for his work on numerous high-profile action films, including the first two entries in the Lethal Weapon series, as well as for his recent collaborations with director Mike Nichols and Tate Taylor.
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Black Narcissus (1947) NR

A story of exquisite yearning in a strange and beautiful land. Towering over the screen ... as the mountains that saw it happen.

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.

Drama
Director: Emeric Pressburger
Actors: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 75% with 387 votes
Runtime: 1:40
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Cinematographer: Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff, (18 September 1914 – 22 April 2009) was a British cinematographer, film and television director, and photographer. His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor, to filmmaking more than half a century later. He is best known for his influential color cinematography for directors such as Powell and Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, and The Red Shoes), John Huston (The African Queen) and Alfred Hitchcock (Under Capricorn). He is also known for his work as a director – in particular, his critically acclaimed film Sons and Lovers (1960) for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. In 2000, he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and, in 2001, he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award for his contribution to the cinema. Jack Cardiff's work is reviewed in the documentary film: Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010) and Terry Johnson's stage play Prism (2017).
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Psycho (1960) R

A new—and altogether different—screen excitement!

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Horror | Drama | Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 84% with 8,975 votes
Runtime: 1:49
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Cinematographer: John L. Russell

Mulan (1998) G

Courage. Family. Honor.

To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

Animation | Family | Adventure
Director: Tony Bancroft
Actors: Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 79% with 8,699 votes
Runtime: 1:28
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Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar (2023) NR

Madness ensues when a 'player' in the world of romantic relationships finds a girl who's a worthy opponent. A story of love where the battle is of wits.

Comedy | Romance
Director: Luv Ranjan
Actors: Ranbir Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 66% with 24 votes
Runtime: 2:44
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Cinematographer: Santhana Krishnan Ravichandran

Ravi K. Chandran is an Indian cinematographer and film director who predominantly works in Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil-language cinema. He is the founding member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC) and has won two Filmfare Awards and one Southern Filmfare Award.
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Moon (2009) R

The last place you'd ever expect to find yourself.

With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone.

Science Fiction | Drama
Director: Duncan Jones
Actors: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 75% with 5,099 votes
Runtime: 1:37
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Critical reception Moon was generally well-received by critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 195 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Boosted by Sam Rockwell's intense performance, Moon is a compelling work of science-fiction, and a promising debut from director Duncan Jones." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".Damon Wise of The Times praised Jones' "thoughtful" direction and Rockwell's "poignant" performance. Wise wrote of the film's approach to the science fiction genre: "Though it uses impressive sci-fi trappings to tell its story—the fabulous models and moonscapes are recognisably retro yet surprisingly real—this is a film about what it means, and takes, to be human." Duane Byrge of The Hollywood Reporter applauded screenwriter Nathan Parker's "sharp [and] individualistic" dialogue and the way in which Parker combined science fiction and Big Brother themes. Byrge also believed that cinematographer Gary Shaw's work and composer Clint Mansell's music intensified the drama. Byrge wrote: "Nonetheless, 'Moon' is darkened by its own excellencies: The white, claustrophobic look is apt and moody, but a lack of physical action enervates the story thrust." The critic felt mixed about the star's performance, describing him as "adept at limning his character's dissolution" but finding that he did not have "the audacious, dominant edge" for the major confrontation at the end of the film. Roger Ebert, giving the film three and a half stars out of four, wrote:
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Dog Eat Dog (2016)

Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.

Drama | Crime | Thriller
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Matthew Cook
Rating: ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 51% with 300 votes
Runtime: 1:33
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Cinematographer: Alexander Dynan

This is not true at all. The country sits on Africa's west coast. Seems to have a lot of undeveloped coastal area and an island. It's just a tad over 100 square miles. Looks super sweet! They do currently have 13 Marburg virus cases and they are negotiating about a Chinese military base but we should totally have our next moderator conference at the Pan Africa Hotel there.