Excellent Films (45 titles)
74.4% from 9 members
2001 - A Space Odyssey
Open the pod bay doors please, HAL.
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2001 - A Space Odyssey
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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A four-million-year-old black monolith is discovered on the moon, and the government sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission while hiding the truth from the public. Later, another team is sent to Jupiter in a ship controlled by the perfect HAL 9000 computer to further investigate the ..read more »
68%
from 28,736 members
Fantasia
Then the music begins to suggest other things to your imagination. They might be just masses of color or they may be cloud forms or great landscapes or vague shadows or geometrical objects floating in space.
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Fantasia
(1940)
Starring: Deems Taylor, deems taylor (pre/narr)
Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Hamilton Luske
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Walt Disney took a big chance with this ambitious anthology of animated fantasies. First, he set them to lengthy classical music pieces, and then he boldly experimented with different forms of animation, sometimes jettisoning any sort of narrative altogether. The result is a sometimes mesmerizing, ..read more »
Not currently released
62%
from 4,734 members
Star Wars Trilogy
Do or do not. There is no try.
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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 »
80%
from 73,166 members
Pan's Labyrinth
Her father, the king, always knew she would return. Perhaps in another body, another place, another time...
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Pan's Labyrinth
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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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 »
77%
from 79,453 members
A Beautiful Mind
The truth is I don't like people much. And they don't much like me.
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A Beautiful Mind
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany
Director: Ron Howard
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Director Ron Howard delivers his finest effort with his extraordinary film, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2001. Based loosely on Sylvia Nasar's acclaimed biography of mathematician John Forbes Nash, the film is a compelling look at one man's genius, his ..read more »
70%
from 33,368 members
Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
Feel, don't think. Use your instincts...
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Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman
Director: George Lucas
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A prequel to Star Wars which introduces the main characters; a young boy with special powers called Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. The galaxy is threatened by war and the Jedi Knights must keep the peace at all costs. Jedi warrior Qui-Gon Jinn sets out to save the planet of Naboo from the ..read more »
63%
from 33,137 members
Monty Python's Life Of Brian
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
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Monty Python's Life Of Brian
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Director: Terry Jones
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Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their second--and tightest--full-length film. The setting is the Holy Land in 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in ..read more »
78%
from 53,546 members
C'Etait un Rendez-Vous
VROOOOOOOOM!
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C'Etait un Rendez-Vous
(1976)
Director: Claude Lelouch
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Filmed in 1976, the revered short film by seminal French director Claude Lelouch is regarded as the ultimate chase scene - the connoisseur's trump card in response to "Bullitt" or "The French Connection". It is uncompromising to an astonishing degree and could only be the product of a man like ..read more »
Not currently released
65%
from 2,311 members
Dumbo
I think I can, I think I can!
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Dumbo
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Verna Felton, Herman Bing, Stirling Holloway
Director: Ben Sharpsteen
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Deceptively simple, beautiful, moving, and hilarious, DUMBO is often overlooked when considering Disney's greatest films because perhaps of its lack of extravagance, its brief running time, and its simple story. Baby elephant Jumbo Jr. is delivered by the stork to his elephant mom with much fanfare ..read more »
72%
from 12,478 members
Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery
Would you like some orange sherrrrberrrt?
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Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York
Director: Jay Roach
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The dastardly doings of Dr. Evil lead to his escape into outer space and the cryogenic freezing of superagent Austin Powers. Thirty years later Dr. Evil returns to earth to bring about terror and mass destruction but finds his ideas and methods a bit out of date. So too does our hero who upon being ..read more »
69%
from 13,282 members
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