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Director/writer Melvin Van Peebles sparked the blaxploitation genre with thisfilm about a orphan who is groomed to be a sex show performer and framed for murder he didn’t commit. Set to a score by Earth, Wind, and Fire, this film devolves into an increasingly hallucinogenic world of violence and bigotry, where no one can be trusted and the possibility of death lurks at every corner.

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Based on the popular graphic novel Marjane ‘Marji’ Statrapi, Persepolis is the story of a young girl coming of age in a rapidly changing world.  Set to the backdrop of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, this beautifully animated film follows Marjane as she struggles to find her voice and her place in a society corrupted by tyranny and religious fundamentalism. 

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In this critically acclaimed modern sci-fi masterpiece, a coder wins a competition to spend a week with reclusive CEO of his company. But when he arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange experiment and  interact with the world’s first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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This Chilean stop-motion horror film is a dark and wildly original masterpiece. Based on the Nazi stronghold cult Colonia Dignidad run in Chile in the 1970s, the animation is enrapturing and unforgettable.

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This early Coen Brother’s comedy was ahead of its time with its jabs at big business and sharp criticism of capitalism. Sam Raimi co-wrote the script about a  naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

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Widely considered one of the best and most influential films of all time, Fellini’s surrealist comedy-drama follows a creatively blocked director on a restful retreat — ordered by his doctor. He fantasizes about his past life until his wife, mistress, producer, staff, and actors show up.

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One night only! Fellini’s comedy follows newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli as they embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome.

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In gritty, postwar Rome, a prostitute is robbed and left to drown by her lover. Fellini flexes his mastery of neorealism with an odyssey that follows her heartbreak and rescue — which won him a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

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Francis Ford Coppola’s mid-70s thriller follows a privacy-obsessed surveillance expert (Gene Hackman) who is hired to tail a young couple. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, he becomes obsessed with the resulting tape and trying to determine if the couple are in danger. 

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Don’t miss Wes Anderson’s most Wes Anderson film— The Royal Tenenbaums. Gene Hackman plays the deeply flawed patriarch of an eccentric and estranged family of geniuses, made up of an amazing cast of Anderson regulars like Anjelica Huston and Bill Murray, who unexpectedly reunite.

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