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Year: 1972
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dianne Keaton, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire
This is the best story about a mafia family ever done. This one needs no
justification. Brando. Pacino. Coppola. Mafia. Brilliance.
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Year: 1985
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez
This film is the film for teenage self-discovery. It shows
the ability to learn about yourself and others in one not-so-short Saturday
afternoon. Forced to stay together in
detention, these five youths learn that the outer (as well as the inner) can
fool you. Timeless.
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Year: 1959
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
A not-so-nice man must go to Paris to retrieve the money that is owed to him. On the way he commits all sorts of crimes,
from theft to murder. But once in
Paris, he meets up with an old acquaintance who knows how to put him in his
place. A true French masterpiece. In French with English subtitles.
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Year: 1995
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Frye, Ian McKellen, Eileen Atkins, Rufus Sewell
After the death of her
parents, Flora Post wants to become a novelist, but she has no life
experience. She decides to live with distant
relatives and to try to fix their lives while she writes her first novel. What happens when she gets there is some of
the best comedy I have ever had the pleasure of watching. Very funny in a off-beat British kind of
way!
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Year: 1990
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco
With its edgier mood,
harsher language, and vintage mob leather, this films brings the mafia to life
again. While it tries not to glorify
the lifestyle that it portrays, when you see Bob and Ray Liotta having their way and disposing of those who won’t
obey them, chances are you aren’t going to be afraid of them, you’re going to
want to be them. If they’ll let you, maybe one day you can even do them a favor!
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Year: 1998
Director: Francis Veber
Cast: Thierry Lhermitte,
Jacques Villeret, Alexandra Vandernoot, Daniel Prevost, Francis Huster
Pierre Brochant is in a
bit of a bind. He has a dinner to go
to, but he has no one to bring. This
dinner requires that you come with the biggest idiot or bore you can find. The person with the biggest idiot or bore
wins. What shall he do? Find one, of course! François Pignon is his idiot for the
evening. He messes up everything from
making a simple call to Pierre’s doctor to inviting a tax collector over to
Pierre’s house and then showing him the stash of art in the “bathroom”. He does, however, manage to help Pierre
realize that he is the real idiot. Very
entertaining. In French with English
subtitles.
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Year: 1998
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu
Lola’s boyfriend, Manni,
is not really good at being a criminal. The problem is that he desperately wants to be. He gets caught up in an operation which he
botches because Lola is late for the first time ever. Lola, who he’s always depended on to be on time, must find a way
to save him before time is up. In German with English subtitles.
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Year: 1974
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Robert De Niro, AL Pacino, Dianne Keaton, Robert Duvall, Talia
Shire
This one is just as great as the first one. The bonus: a striking Robert De Niro looking ever so smashing and speaking Italian, as
well. Bellissimo.
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Year: 1999
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Brendan Fraser, John Hannah, Rachel Weisz, Oded Fehr, Arnold Vosloo
A great remake of a horrible original! This movie has it all: special effects, a love story, comedy, and it doesn't hurt that Brendan Fraser , Oded Fehr, and
Arnold Vosloo are attractive, either. After a 3,000 year-old mummy is unleashed, an ex-convict, a librarian, and her bumbling brother must stop it, with the help of some other key characters, before it destroys the world and turns one of them into his long-dead companion.
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Year: 1946
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed
I used to be one of those people who would always
complain about It’s a Wonderful Life being on all day, everyday, every
channel. But then something changed. The networks actually started
listening to the people and It’s a Wonderful Life fell off of the face
of the Earth. So what did I do? I ended up buying
it. After all, a holiday season just isn’t the same without it!