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Jessy's all time greats (39 titles)

by: Jessica Jones from London

At age ten this film made me realise it's ok to be a wierdo

Harold And Maude on DVD (1971)
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles
Director: Hal Ashby
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Hal Ashby's cult black-comedy. Harold (Bud Cort) is a death-obsessed teenager who hangs around in cemeteries and drives a hearse. When he attends a funeral and meets his polar opposite Maude (Ruth Gordon), a life-loving 79-year-old, a strange love affair ensues. However, the offbeat nature of their ..read more »
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Just the first one..

Star Wars Trilogy (4 discs) (1977)
Starring: Harrison Ford, David Prowse, Kenny Baker
Director: Irvin Kershner, George Lucas, Richard Marquand
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The first three Star Wars films reworked as creator George Lucas had intended. Using state of the art technology, Lucas and his team cleaned up the prints, updated the special effects and added new footage. Originally released before 'Episode I' the films have been renamed to fit in with Lucas's ..read more »
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I went to see it again and again... and learned to speak Russian.

A Clockwork Orange on DVD (1971)
Starring: Patrick Magee, David Prowse, Warren Clarke
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick's controversial film triggered copycat violence on its initial release and as a result the director withdrew the film from circulation in Britain, keeping it suppressed right up to his death in 1999. The film follows sadistic punk Alex (Malcolm McDowell) as he takes his gang on a ..read more »
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Fabulous love story

The African Queen on DVD (1951)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Director: John Huston
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After years of wooing director John Huston via good reviews, film critic James Agee was given a chance to write the screenplay for a Huston picture. Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Allnut, the slovenly, gin-..read more »
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Utterly absorbing epic

Citizen Kane on DVD (1941)
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Director: Orson Welles
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Orson Welles makes his feature-length directorial debut with this classic drama which often tops critics' polls of the best films of all time. In 1940, newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Welles) dies after uttering the word 'Rosebud'. An anonymous reporter (William Alland) is assigned the task ..read more »
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Trainspotting on DVD (1995)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Danny Boyle
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Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life ..read more »
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Mad Max 2 - The Road Warrior on DVD (1981)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Virginia Hey, Bruce Spence
Director: George Miller
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Following the road-side slaughter of his family, ex-cop Max (Mel Gibson) roams the post-apocalyptic landscape alone. Reluctantly taking a pit-stop at a desert-set fortress, Max is gradually persuaded to help protect the people inside it and the commodity that makes it a prime target for marauding ..read more »
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Such a wonderful and heroic story

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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Still breathtaking when it transforms into technicolor

The Wizard Of Oz on DVD (1939)
Starring: Jack Haley, Clara Blandick, Billie Burke
Director: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
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Classic musical adaptation of the L. Frank Baum novel starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley. A tornado whisks Dorothy (Garland) and her house from Kansas to Munchkin City, squashing the Wicked Witch of the East upon landing. The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) ..read more »
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Always makes me cry

The Sixth Sense on DVD (1999)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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In this chilling psychological thriller, eight-year-old Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: He is visited by ghosts. A helpless and reluctant channel, Cole is terrified by threatening visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. Confused by his paranormal powers, ..read more »
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