71% from 68 members

everything I hoped it would be, a wonderfully dark fairytale.
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Pan's Labyrinth
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Certificate: 
Accompanied by her parents, Ofelia moves from a large Spanish city to a more rural area in the North of the country. Faced with the upheaval of moving home, an abusive stepfather and the general unpleasantness surrounding Franco's victory in 1944, Ofelia enters an imaginary world of creatures and ..read more »
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77%
from 79,424 members

I cried, a charming film, the director's cut is the one to watch.
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Cinema Paradiso
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Agnes Nano
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Certificate: 
In this delightful Academy Award-winning film, a young boy (Marco Leonardi) in a small Italian village is overjoyed when the local movie projectionist (Philippe Noiret) reveals to him the mysteries of moviemaking, beginning his lifelong love affair with cinema.
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76%
from 21,512 members

pure genius
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Evil Dead 2
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
Director: Sam Raimi
Certificate: 
In this sequel-remake of the original EVIL DEAD, a group of people are trapped in a cabin while ancient evil lurks outside and threatens a fate worse than death. Can brawny wiseguy Ash save the day, or will his dead girlfriend come back to cause more trouble
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71%
from 9,112 members

nothing has come close since
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Aliens
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
Director: James Cameron
Certificate: 
Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor from the original ALIEN, is awakened after 57 years of drifting through space, her stories disbelieved by Company executives who tell her that the alien's planet is now inhabited and colonized. When contact is suddenly lost with the colonists, Ripley ..read more »
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78%
from 40,069 members

The final scenes are so romantic!
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Fight Club
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf
Director: David Fincher
Certificate: 
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 »
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77%
from 73,886 members

Stylish, well acted, haunting
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The Devil's Backbone
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Frederico Luppi
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Certificate: 
During the Spanish Civil War, newly orphaned Carlos (Fernando Tielve) is taken to a school for the children of those who died fighting against fascism. He is given the bed that formerly belonged to Santi, a boy who recently died during an attack in which a bomb dropped, landing in the school's ..read more »
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71%
from 15,223 members

We have reason to believe it's supercharged!

I just love it!
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Moulin Rouge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Certificate: 
Cross LA BOHEME with CABARET, throw in a little bit of RENT, and you might almost begin to describe Baz Luhrmann's visually opulent, fast-paced, funny, heartrending MOULIN ROUGE. The film, which premiered as the opener to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, is a musical set in 1899 Paris at the ..read more »
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66%
from 28,074 members

makes me laugh every time
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Groundhog Day
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
Director: Harold Ramis
Certificate: 
Once again, for the fifth year in a row, TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is forced to cover the Groundhog Day ceremonies in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, an assignment he truly despises. But this year something truly bizarre happens after he finishes the report: When he wakes up the next ..read more »
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71%
from 49,638 members

great cast and story
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True Romance
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper
Director: Tony Scott
Certificate: 
When inexperienced call girl Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette) is paid to seduce comic-book-nerd and Elvis fanatic Clarence Worley (Christian Slater), she doesn't expect to fall for him. But these two lost souls seem to be made for each other and quickly pledge their love, marrying at Detroit's ..read more »
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