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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 film by Peter Jackson
Citizen Kane
1941 American drama film directed by Orson Welles
All About Eve
1950 film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Spartacus
1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick
Babel
2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Room
2015 film by Lenny Abrahamson
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 film directed by Elia Kazan
Grand Hotel
1932 film directed by Edmund Goulding
The Lost Weekend
1945 film by Billy Wilder
The Ring
2002 film directed by Gore Verbinski
Magnolia
1999 film by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Ten Commandments
1956 American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Billy Elliot
2000 film directed by Stephen Daldry
Bridge to Terabithia
2007 film directed by Gábor Csupó
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks
Cavalcade
1933 film by Frank Lloyd
The Cat Returns
2002 anime film directed by Hiroyuki Morita
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 film by Martin Scorsese
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952 film by Cecil B. DeMille
Ordinary People
1980 film by Robert Redford
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009 film directed by Lasse Hallström
Manchester by the Sea
2016 film by Kenneth Lonergan
Hamlet
1948 film directed by Laurence Olivier
Anatomy of a Fall
2023 film directed by Justine Triet
Intolerance
1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith
The Power of the Dog
2021 film directed by Jane Campion
Doubt
2008 film by John Patrick Shanley
Gentleman's Agreement
1947 film by Elia Kazan
Giant
1956 American epic Western drama film
East of Eden
1955 film directed by Elia Kazan
I Am Sam
2001 film directed by Jessie Nelson
The Whale
2022 film directed by Darren Aronofsky
Marvin's Room
1996 film by Jerry Zaks
Z
1969 French-Algerian film by Costa-Gavras
Boogie Nights
1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson
Paris, Texas
1984 film directed by Wim Wenders
The Nun's Story
1959 film by Fred Zinnemann
The Edge
1997 film by Lee Tamahori
On Golden Pond
1981 film by Mark Rydell
Awakenings
Awakenings is a 1990 American biographical drama film written by Steven Zaillian, directed by Penny Marshall, and starring Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Stormare and Max von Sydow. It is based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 nonfiction memoir Awakenings. The film tells the story of the fictional neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Williams), whose character is based on Sacks.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack
North Country
2005 film by Niki Caro
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
1989 film directed by Steven Soderbergh
Breaking the Waves
1996 film by Lars von Trier
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011 film by Lynne Ramsay
Fences
2016 film by Denzel Washington
Zabriskie Point
1970 film by Michelangelo Antonioni
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 film directed by James Foley
Ace in the Hole
1951 film directed by Billy Wilder
25th Hour
2002 film by Spike Lee
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 film
The Little Foxes
1941 film by William Wyler
Great Expectations
1946 film by David Lean
Free Willy
1993 film directed by Simon Wincer
Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 film directed by Héctor Babenco
The Horse Whisperer
1998 film by Robert Redford
Sweet Smell of Success
1957 film by Alexander Mackendrick
Greed
1924 film by Erich von Stroheim
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 film by Orson Welles
The Damned
1969 film by Luchino Visconti