Altered States (20 titles)
A list of films for those who want to (or already have) altered their consciousness
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Pi
Math to find God? Maybe those teachers were right about it having some real world use
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Pi
(1999)
Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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Low-budget film that won Aronofsky "Best Director" at 1998's Sundance Film Festival. Gritty, inventive black-and-white photography drives this story of genius mathematician Max Cohen who is exploring the possible existence of discernible patterns in the stock market. With the aid of Euclid, his ..read more »
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Topkapi
Quite easily one of the best heist movies every made featuring a Greek nymphomaniac, a Turkish oiled up wresting melée, a befuddled patsy and a trip ripped off by Tom Cruise year later
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Topkapi
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov
Director: Jules Dassin
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Five years after directing the heist classic RIFIFI, Jules Dassin returns to robbery with TOPKAPI. Again there is a long and daring break-in, as his heroes attempt to steal the priceless Emerald Dagger from the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, but in contrast to the bleak RIFIFI, the mood in ..read more »
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Altered States
Can't have this category without this film adapted from the novel by one of the greatest screenwriters of all time, Paddy Chayefsky
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Altered States
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown
Director: Ken Russell
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Loosely based on the Paddy Chayefsky novel, this sci-fi spectacle tells the incredible story of a research scientist who experiments with altered states of human consciousness. Great performances and mind-blowing special effects. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound, Best Original Score.
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Swimming To Cambodia
If you think watching a movie of a guy telling a story while seated behind a desk cannot be anything but tedious, this is the film to change your mind forever
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Swimming To Cambodia
(1987)
Starring: Spalding Gray, Sam Waterston
Director: Jonathan Demme
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Spalding Gray tells about his participation in the film, "The Killing Fields" & the background story about the troubles of Cambodia.
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Angel Heart
While known more for the shocking amplitude of a Cosby's nipples, this film is a rollercoaster mindtrip
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Angel Heart
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
Director: Alan Parker
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In Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART, based on the novel FALLING ANGEL by William Hjortsberg, a New York City gumshoe is hired to find an aging blues singer. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) follows clues from the ominous ghettos of Harlem to the witchy backwoods of Louisiana, where he takes up with Epiphany ..read more »
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Brazil
Terry Gilliam's 1984 bureaucratic hell is a great twisted view of life lived under a constant manipulated threat of terrorism (just ignore the "angel" parts, and you will love it)
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Brazil
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
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BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an ..read more »
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Seconds
Rock Hudson proving that behind that pretty face lurks someone devastating and unwanted
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Seconds
(1966)
Starring: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens
Director: John Frankenheimer
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John Frankenheimer's chilling vision of middle-aged malaise concerns 50ish banker, Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph). Bored with his wife and comfortably retired life, Arthur happens to run into Charlie Evans (Murray Hamilton), an old friend he believed to be dead. He gives Arthur a tip on a secret ..read more »
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The Evil Dead
The scariest movie ever made
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The Evil Dead
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker
Director: Sam Raimi
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Director Sam Raimi's first film has achieved legendary status since its 1982 release, and for good reason. Though perhaps not as widely seen as its two sequels, EVIL DEAD 2 and ARMY OF DARKNESS, THE EVIL DEAD is arguably the best of the three. It is the story of five college-age friends who travel ..read more »
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Memento
The less you know about this before seeing it, the better
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Memento
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Christopher Nolan
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MEMENTO, the second feature by writer-director Christopher Nolan (FOLLOWING), is an intricately constructed film noir that masterfully inverts time to comment on the foggy relationship between memory and truth. MEMENTO tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a former insurance investigator ..read more »
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Brainstorm
Christopher Walken always creeps me out, but here it is the possibilities that they discover that get me
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Brainstorm
(1983)
Starring: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher
Director: Douglas Trumbull
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A voyage to the frontiers of human knowledge and beyond. A recording machine has been invented which, when linked with brainwave sensors and computer technology, can record intellectual, emotional and even physical sensations.
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