Films you MUST see before you die (39 titles)

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Forrest Gump

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• Forrest Gump on DVD (1994)
  Starring: John Randell,  Sam Anderson,  Mykelti Williamson
  Director: Robert Zemeckis
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  Robert Zemeckis' award-winning fable about the American dream. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is a good-natured but simple man. As he recounts his home-spun words of wisdom, he reminisces on his life's progress, from crippled child to decorated military hero, illustrating how America has changed over the ..read more »
  
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The Shawshank Redemption

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• The Shawshank Redemption on DVD (1994)
  Starring: James Whitmore,  Morgan Freeman,  Mark Rolston
  Director: Frank Darabont
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  In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis Red Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most ..read more »
  
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The Green Mile

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• The Green Mile on DVD (1999)
  Starring: Patricia Clarkson,  Bonnie Hunt,  Michael Clarke Duncan
  Director: Frank Darabont
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  Screen adaptation of Stephen King's best-seller. In 1935 Louisiana prison guard Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) meets convict John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) and it is an experience which will change his life forever. Coffey, an eight foot giant, is on Death Row convicted of the murder of two ..read more »
  
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Good Will Hunting

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• Good Will Hunting on DVD (1997)
  Starring: Robin Williams,  Matt Damon,  Ben Affleck
  Director: Gus Van Sant
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  Will Hunting (Matt Damon, who also co-scripts) is a teenage tearaway who works as a janitor at America's top university. He writes the solution to a maths problem on a classroom blackboard, so impressing Professor Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) that when Will is arrested for brawling, the professor ..read more »
  
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Sin City

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• Sin City on DVD (2005)
  Starring: Brittany Murphy,  Elijah Wood,  Bruce Willis
  Director: Frank Miller,  Quentin Tarant,  Robert Rodriguez
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  Adaptation of the award-winning comic series created by Frank Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history, the film paints a picture of the ultimate town through the eyes of its roughest characters. There's the street thug Marv (Mickey Rourke), whose desperate quest to find ..read more »
  
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The Notebook

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• The Notebook (2004)
  Starring: James Garner,  Ryan Gosling,  Rachel McAdams
  Director: Nick Cassavetes
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  Sweeping romance directed by Nick Cassavetes, set in a small coastal town in the American South - partly in the 1940s, and partly in the present day. In the present day scenes, an elderly man (James Garner) reads from a faded notebook to an old woman (Gena Rowlands) whom he regularly visits at her ..read more »
  
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Saving Private Ryan

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• Saving Private Ryan on DVD (1998)
  Starring: Ted Danson,  Giovanni Ribisi,  Vin Diese
  Director: Steven Spielberg
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  Steven Spielberg's Oscar winning, epic, World War 2 drama is set against the backdrop of the Normandy landings. A squad of American soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), receive top-level instructions to undertake an unusual mission: to rescue Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), whose ..read more »
  
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The Thin Red Line

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• The Thin Red Line (1998)
  Starring: Sean Penn,  Adrien Brody,  James Caviezel
  Director: Terrence Malick
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  THE THIN RED LINE tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. The story takes place as Army troops are moved in to relieve battle-..read more »
  
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Schindler's List

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• Schindler's List on DVD (1993)
  Starring: Liam Neeson,  Ralph Fiennes,  Ben Kingsley
  Director: Steven Spielberg
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  Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts,..read more »
  
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The Pianist

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• The Pianist on DVD (2002)
  Starring: Jessica Kate M,  Emilia Fox,  Frank Finlay
  Director: Roman Polanski
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  Award-winning drama telling the true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a cafe; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a ..read more »
  
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