Films to see before you die (180 titles)

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The Lost Boys

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• The Lost Boys on DVD (1987)
  Starring: Corey Feldman,  Jami Gertz,  Corey Haim
  Director: Joel Schumacher
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  One of the better vampire films about two new-in-town brothers who discover a local gang of motorcycle youths are more undead than alive. Younger brother Sam works hard to eradicate the ghoulies but his older brother falls in love with the bunch's lone female - and is gradually becoming a vampire ..read more »
  
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The Shawshank Redemption

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• The Shawshank Redemption on DVD (1994)
  Starring: Tim Robbins,  Morgan Freeman,  Robert Gunton
  Director: Frank Darabont
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  City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying. The bonus features stretch over two ..read more »
  
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Infernal Affairs

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• Infernal Affairs on DVD (2002)
  Starring: Tony Leung,  Andy Lau,  Anthony Wong
  Director: Siu Fai Mak,  Wai-keung Lau
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  Directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, INFERNAL AFFAIRS is a tense thriller featuring Hong Kong superstars Andy Lau and Tony Leung. The film follows the parallel lives of Ming (Lau), a cop who secretly reports to ruthless Triad crime boss Sam (Eric Tsang); and Yan (Leung), an undercover police ..read more »
  
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The Abyss

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• The Abyss on DVD (1989)
  Starring: Ed Harris,  Michael Biehn,  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  Director: James Cameron
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  A team of civilian divers working on a prototype underwater oil-drilling rig are coerced by the US Navy into helping them look for a lost nuclear submarine. Whilst in deep water the Navy supervisor has paranoid ideas about what they've found in the Abyss.....
  
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Heat

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• Heat on DVD (1995)
  Starring: Al Pacino,  Robert De Niro,  Tom Sizemore
  Director: Michael Mann
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  Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are finally together on screen in this riveting story about an intense rivalry between expert thief Neil McCauley (De Niro) and volatile cop Vincent Hanna (Pacino). McCauley will stop at nothing to do what he does best and neither will Hanna, even though it means ..read more »
  
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The Usual Suspects

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• The Usual Suspects on DVD (1995)
  Starring: Stephen Baldwin,  Gabriel Byrne,  Benicio Del Toro
  Director: Bryan Singer
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  Director Bryan Singer's labyrinthine crime drama centers on five career criminals (played by Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, and Stephen Baldwin) who meet after being rounded up for a standard police line-up. Upon their release, the men band together to pull off an ..read more »
  
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In The Heat Of The Night

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• In The Heat Of The Night on DVD (1967)
  Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Rod Steiger,  Warren Oates
  Director: Norman Jewison
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  A black Philadelphia detective becomes involved in a murder case in a small, bigoted southern town, much to the chagrin of the local, redneck police chief. An excellent production, adapted by Stirling Silliphant from John Ball's novel. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Director. Academy ..read more »
  
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Kes

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• Kes on DVD (1969)
  Starring: Colin Welland,  David Bradley,  Brian Glover
  Director: Ken Loach
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  Rebellious Billy Casper (David Bradley) finds that training a kestrel takes his mind off his troubled home life and the bullies at school. Set in the Northern English town of Barnsley, the film is a gritty slice of working-class life in the �60s. Based on the Barry Hines novel A KESTREL FOR ..read more »
  
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The Last Of The Mohicans

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• The Last Of The Mohicans on DVD (1992)
  Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,  Madeline Stowe,  Jodhi May
  Director: Michael Mann
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  Cora (Madeleine Stowe) and her younger sister, Alice (Jodhi May), both recent arrivals to the colonies, are being escorted to their father, Colonel Munro (Maurice Roeves), by a troop of British soldiers. Along the way they are ambushed by a Huron war party led by Magua (Wes Studi), a sinister ..read more »
  
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Billy Elliot

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• Billy Elliot on DVD (2000)
  Starring: Jamie Bell,  Julie Walters,  Gary Lewis
  Director: Stephen Daldry
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  Features the films BILLY ELLIOT and SIXTY SIX, which both chronicle an adolescent boy's difficulties with his family.In BILLY ELLIOT, the titular character (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy living in north-east England in the mid-1980s. While his gruff father and brother are taking part in a ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 72% from 10,733 members

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