86.6% from 3 members

Amazing. Tragic.
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Betty Blue
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Certificate: 
Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) is a handyman working in France, maintaining and looking after a collection of beach bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. One day Betty (Béatrice Dalle) walks into his life, a young woman who is as beautiful as ..read more »
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70%
from 5,836 members

Excellent movie, great script/storyline. Well acted by all involved. Twists and tricks delight along the way.
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American Beauty
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Sam Roberts, Annette Bening
Director: Sam Mendes
Certificate: 
AMERICAN BEAUTY tells the story of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a suburban father who snaps when he becomes disgusted with his stale, repetitive existence. Burnham lets us know in voice-over from the film's opening that this is the day he dies (using the SUNSET BOULEVARD flashback approach), a ..read more »
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74%
from 63,394 members

The story is very complex and it took me a few viewings to really get into it.
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Dune
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Sian Phillips, Jurgen Prochnow, Jose Ferrer
Director: David Lynch
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and ..read more »
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64%
from 9,921 members

Clever.
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Twelve Monkeys
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Madeline Stowe, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt
Director: Terry Gilliam
Certificate: 
When a man enters a hospital claiming to have journeyed back in time from the year 2025 to stop a killer virus from exterminating mankind, a beautiful psychologist decides he might be more than delusional. Terry Gilliam populates this labyrinthine, apocalyptic film with twisted characters and eerie ..read more »
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72%
from 38,088 members

I think this is one of Woody Allen's best.
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Crimes And Misdemeanors
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Martin Landau, Claire Bloom, Anjelica Huston
Director: Woody Allen
Certificate: 
In CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who is having an affair with Dolores. Dolores threatens to reveal their relationship unless Judah commits to her and leaves his wife. He admits his sin to Ben, a friend, a patient, and a learned rabbi who is losing his ..read more »
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70%
from 5,261 members

I saw it recently, years after it was released. Wow!
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Kill Bill - Vol. 1
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Certificate: 
Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL after a six-year hiatus. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised (and ..read more »
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72%
from 83,764 members

An all time fave. I saw this first time around in the cinema.
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Mad Max
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Steven Bisley
Director: George Miller
Certificate: 
Rebel bikers combat the police in a bleak post-nuclear future where the highways are bloody battlegrounds. When a gang of motorcyclists brutally murder a policeman's family he becomes Mad Max, avenger of the highways. Sequel: "The Road Warrior."
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65%
from 13,251 members

Highly engaging. I've visited China - it was a useful film to see in advance of the visit as it helped me understand the country's history.
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The Last Emperor
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
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The story of Pu Yi, who ascended to the Imperial Throne in China at the age of three and became the country’s last Emperor. Although it is 160 minutes long and shot with breathtaking scope and sumptuousness, Bernardo Bertolucci's film is a story about claustrophobia. Pu Yi is a prisoner in the ..read more »
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68%
from 6,772 members

Brilliant. Ellen Degeneres makes it for me.
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Finding Nemo
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Albert Brooks, Alexander Gould, Ellen DeGeneres
Director: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
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FINDING NEMO, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, follows Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks), an overprotective clown fish father, as he desperately searches the sea for his missing son, Nemo (Alexander Gould). Marlin's journey leads him beyond the Great Barrier Reef into deeper and darker ..read more »
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76%
from 69,423 members

Jack Nicolson at his best. Got to love nurse ratchett.....
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