Essential films for any DVD collection (50 titles)

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Pulp Fiction

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• Pulp Fiction on DVD (1994)
  Starring: John Travolta,  Christopher Walken,  Bruce Willis
  Director: Quentin Tarantino
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  Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster follow-up to RESERVOIR DOGS is a breathtaking tribute to old dime store novels about small time hoods and dangerous criminals. It features deftly woven plotlines, creating a mythic Los Angeles underworld of drug dealers, molls, affable hitmen, restaurant-robbing ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 81% from 86,921 members

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Goodfellas

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• Goodfellas on DVD (1990)
  Starring: Robert De Niro,  Ray Liotta,  Joe Pesci
  Director: Martin Scorsese
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  Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy", Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is a wry, violent, and exhilarating film about the life of Henry Hill, an aspiring criminal who ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after testifying against his former partners. As a poor Irish-Italian growing up ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 80% from 63,088 members

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Fight Club

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• Fight Club on DVD (1999)
  Starring: Brad Pitt,  Helena Bonham-Carter,  Meat Loaf
  Director: David Fincher
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  FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or tourist, the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 77% from 74,062 members

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Mulholland Drive

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• Mulholland Drive on DVD (2001)
  Starring: Justin Theroux,  Naomi Watts,  Laura Harring
  Director: David Lynch
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  David Lynch strikes again with this literal nightmare of a motion picture--a brilliant, scathing, hysterical, and haunting ode to Hollywood. In the film, a mysterious dark-haired woman (Laura Elena Harring) emerges from an accident with a purse full of cash and a head full of amnesia. Meanwhile, ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 64% from 19,054 members

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JFK

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• JFK (1991)
  Starring: Kevin Costner,  Sissy Spacek,  Tommy Lee Jones
  Director: Oliver Stone
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  Oliver Stone's self-proclaimed 'countermyth', JFK mocks the doubtful veracity of the Warren Commission's findings on the Kennedy assassination and summarizes some of the myriad theories that have been proposed in its stead. Focusing on the investigation by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 69% from 14,102 members
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The Shining

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• The Shining on DVD (1980)
  Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Shelley Duvall,  Danny Lloyd
  Director: Stanley Kubrick
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  Opening with spectacular aerial shots of a beautiful, mountainous landscape, Stanley Kubrick's horror classic THE SHINING, based on Stephen King's best-selling novel, sucks the viewer into his frightening tale with quiet, relaxing visuals - but the ominous soundtrack warns that all is not right at ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 75% from 48,716 members

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Gladiator

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• Gladiator on DVD (2000)
  Starring: Russell Crowe,  Joaquin Phoenix,  Oliver Reed
  Director: Ridley Scott
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  Ridley Scott (BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN) transports Hollywood to second-century Rome in this rousing historical epic that proudly harkens back to such films as BEN-HUR and SPARTACUS. Russell Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who leads the troops in conquering Germania for the empire. When an aging ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 78% from 67,078 members

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Star Wars Trilogy

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• Star Wars Trilogy (4 discs) on DVD (1977)
  Starring: Mark Hamill,  Harrison Ford,  Carrie Fisher
  Director: George Lucas,  Irvin Kershner,  Richard Marquand
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  The complete original STAR WARS trilogy in one set, in their 1997 remastered Special Edition versions, with an extra disc containing a documentary and other amazing extras. STAR WARS - A NEW HOPE, George Lucas's stunning sci-fi masterpiece, is arguably one of the most inventive and entertaining ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 80% from 73,272 members

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Donnie Darko

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• Donnie Darko on DVD (2001)
  Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Drew Barrymore,  Noah Wyle
  Director: Richard Kelly
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  Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-travelling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)...read more »
  
  Rate this: 71% from 60,778 members

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Schindler's List

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• Schindler's List on DVD (1993)
  Starring: Liam Neeson,  Ralph Fiennes,  Caroline Goodall
  Director: Steven Spielberg
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  Based on a true story, SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their saviour. Unrepentant womaniser and war profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labour to produce cookware for the Third Reich. But ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 81% from 69,805 members

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Average rating for this collection:   69.8% from 260 members

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