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A List of the films that I need to watch in order to be film literate. In no particular order…

  1. 1.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini

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    Rocco and His Brothers
    by Luchino Visconti

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    Floating Weeds
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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    Rio Bravo
    by Howard Hawks

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    Hiroshima Mon Amour - Criterion Collection
    by Alain Resnais

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  6. 6.
    Last Tango in Paris
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

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    Cabaret
    by Bob Fosse

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    The French Connection
    by William Friedkin

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  9. 10.
    Walkabout - Criterion Collection
    by Nicolas Roeg

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    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    by Robert Altman

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  11. 12.
    The Sorrow and the Pity

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    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick

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    The Garden Of The Finzi Continis
    by Vittorio De Sica

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    The Young Girls of Rochefort
    by Jacques Demy

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  15. 17.
    Belle de Jour

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  16. 18.
    Playtime - Criterion Collection

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  17. 19.
    Bananas

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  18. 20.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

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  19. 21.
    Masculin Feminin - Criterion Collection
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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  20. 22.
    Persona
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  21. 23.
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    by Mike Nichols

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  22. 24.
    8 1/2 - Criterion Collection

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  23. 25.
    My Life to Live

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  24. 26.
    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
    by John Ford

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  25. 27.
    Watership Down
    by Martin Rosen

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  27. 29.
    L'Eclisse - Criterion Collection
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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  28. 31.
    Cleo From 5 to 7 - Criterion Collection
    by Agnès Varda

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  29. 32.
    Through a Glass Darkly - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  30. 33.
    Viridiana - Criterion Collection
    by Luis Buñuel

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  31. 34.
    Pickpocket - Criterion Collection

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  32. 35.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler

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  33. 36.
    The World of Apu
    by Satyajit Ray

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  35. 38.
    Five Easy Pieces
    by Bob Rafelson

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  36. 39.
    Kes
    by Ken Loach

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  37. 40.
    The Color of Pomegranates
    by Sergei Parajanov

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  38. 41.
    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  39. 42.
    Le Boucher
    by Claude Chabrol

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  40. 43.
    The Conformist (Extended Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

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  41. 44.
    Z
    by Costa-Gavras

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  42. 45.
    Fellini - Satyricon
    by Federico Fellini

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  43. 46.
    Midnight Cowboy
    by John Schlesinger

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  44. 47.
    Touch of Zen (Ws Sub Dol)
    by King Hu

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  45. 48.
    Blow Up
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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  46. 49.
    Pierrot Le Fou [1965, Jean-Luc Godard
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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    October
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  48. 51.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  49. 52.
    My Darling Clementine
    by John Ford

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  50. 54.
    Vagabond - Criterion Collection
    by Agnès Varda

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  51. 55.
    Juliet Of The Spirits - Criterion Collection
    by Federico Fellini

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  52. 56.
    Repulsion

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  53. 57.
    Falstaff Chimes At Midnight [Import]
    by Orson Welles

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  54. 58.
    Alphaville - Criterion Collection
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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  55. 59.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    by Richard Brooks

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  56. 60.
    The Saragossa Manuscript
    by Wojciech Has

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  57. 61.
    The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

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  58. 62.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by David Lean

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  59. 63.
    Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
    by François Truffaut

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  60. 64.
    Lola - Criterion Collection
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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  61. 65.
    Last Year at Marienbad
    by Alain Resnais

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  63. 67.
    Black Sunday (aka The Mask of Satan)
    by Mario Bava

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  64. 68.
    L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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  65. 69.
    Shoot the Piano Player - Criterion Collection
    by François Truffaut

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  66. 70.
    Splendor in the Grass
    by Elia Kazan

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  67. 71.
    The Crime of Monsieur Lange
    by Jean Renoir

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  68. 72.
    Saturday Night And Sunday Morning
    by Karel Reisz

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  69. 73.
    Wings (1927)
    by William A. Wellman

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  70. 74.
    Ulysses' Gaze
    by Theodoros Angelopoulos

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  71. 75.
    Pyaasa

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  72. 76.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  73. 77.
    Mouchette - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Bresson

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  74. 78.
    Mon Oncle d'Amerique
    by Alain Resnais

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  75. 79.
    Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  76. 80.
    The Tree of Wooden Clogs
    by Ermanno Olmi

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  78. 82.
    The Kid
    by Charlie Chaplin

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  79. 83.
    Shoeshine [1946] (Region 2 Import)
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  80. 84.
    Loves of a Blonde - Criterion Collection
    by Milos Forman

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  81. 85.
    Harold and Maude

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  82. 86.
    A Canterbury Tale - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  83. 87.
    The Age of Innocence

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  84. 88.
    The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection
    by Martin Scorsese

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  85. 89.
    The Thing from Another World
    by Christian Nyby

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  86. 90.
    Paisa (Roberto Rossellini)
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  87. 92.
    The Wind Will Carry Us
    by Abbas Kiarostami

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  88. 93.
    Landscape in the Mist
    by Theodoros Angelopoulos

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  89. 94.
    The Lion in Winter
    by Anthony Harvey (II)

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  90. 95.
    A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  91. 96.
    Daisies
    by Vera Chytilová

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  92. 97.
    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    by Alan Rudolph

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  93. 98.
    My Dinner with Andre
    by Louis Malle

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  94. 99.
    The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut
    by Sam Peckinpah

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  95. 100.
    The Decalogue (Complete Set)

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  96. 101.
    Yellow Submarine
    by George Harrison

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  97. 102.
    Late Spring - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  98. 103.
    Close-Up

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  99. 104.
    Rashomon - Criterion Collection

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  100. 105.
    Death in Venice [Non-US Format, PAL, Region 2, Import]
    by Luchino Visconti

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  101. 106.
    The Life of Oharu
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  102. 107.
    The Cameraman (1928)
    by Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick

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  103. 108.
    My Life as a Dog - Criterion Collection
    by Lasse Hallström

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  104. 109.
    Accatone
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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  105. 110.
    Early Summer - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  106. 111.
    Auntie Mame

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  107. 112.
    Atlantic City
    by Louis Malle

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  108. 113.
    Grey Gardens - Criterion Collection
    by Albert Maysles

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  109. 114.
    The Women (Keepcase)
    by George Cukor

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  110. 115.
    Irma Vep
    by Olivier Assayas

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  111. 116.
    Longtime Companion
    by Norman René

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  112. 118.
    Leave Her to Heaven
    by John M. Stahl

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  113. 119.
    The Adventures of Prince Achmed
    by Carl Koch

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  114. 120.
    Boudu Saved from Drowning - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  115. 121.
    Scenes From a Marriage - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  116. 122.
    Leaving Las Vegas

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  117. 123.
    Barton Fink
    by Ethan Coen

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  118. 124.
    Blood Simple (Director's Cut)
    by Joel Coen

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  119. 125.
    Safety Last!
    by Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor

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  120. 126.
    Suddenly, Last Summer
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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  121. 127.
    I Was Born, But...
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  122. 128.
    They Live by Night (1949)
    by Nicholas Ray

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  123. 129.
    The Grifters
    by Stephen Frears

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  125. 131.
    The Barefoot Contessa
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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    Tarnished Angels (1958)
    by Douglas Sirk

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  127. 133.
    Broadway Danny Rose

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  128. 134.
    Rififi - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

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  129. 135.
    Henry & June
    by Philip Kaufman

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  130. 136.
    Fat City
    by John Huston

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  131. 137.
    East of Eden (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

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  132. 138.
    Orlando
    by Sally Potter

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  133. 139.
    Holiday
    by George Cukor

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  134. 140.
    Morocco
    by Josef von Sternberg

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  135. 141.
    Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice

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  136. 142.
    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    by Preston Sturges

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  137. 143.
    The Idiots (Original Danish Version With English Subtitles)
    by Lars Von Trier

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  138. 144.
    Wild Reeds
    by André Téchiné

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  139. 145.
    Baby Face
    by Alfred E. Green

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    Berlin Alexanderplatz
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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  142. 149.
    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

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  143. 150.
    Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
    by Leo McCarey

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  144. 151.
    Stella Dallas
    by King Vidor

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  145. 152.
    Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  146. 153.
    Captains Courageous
    by Victor Fleming

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  147. 154.
    Dodsworth

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  148. 155.
    Camille
    by George Cukor

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  149. 156.
    My Man Godfrey
    by Gregory Lacava

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  150. 157.
    Swing Time
    by George Stevens

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  151. 158.
    Frankenstein
    by James Whale

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  152. 159.
    Le Million - Criterion Collection
    by René Clair

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  153. 160.
    A Nous La Liberte - Criterion Collection
    by René Clair

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  154. 161.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Delbert Mann

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  155. 162.
    Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or

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  156. 163.
    Earth (1930)
    by Aleksandr Dovzhenko

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  157. 164.
    Pandora's Box [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
    by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

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  158. 165.
    The Blue Angel
    by Josef von Sternberg

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  159. 166.
    The Crowd (1928)
    by King Vidor

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  160. 167.
    The Birth of a Nation

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  161. 168.
    Yojimbo - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  162. 169.
    El Angel Exterminador
    by Luis Bunuel

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  163. 170.
    Nostalghia
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  164. 171.
    That Obscure Object of Desire - Criterion Collection
    by Luis Buñuel

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  165. 172.
    The Hidden Fortress - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  166. 173.
    Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)

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  167. 175.
    The Piano Teacher (Unrated Edition)
    by Michael Haneke

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  168. 176.
    Yi Yi - Criterion Collection
    by Edward Yang

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  169. 177.
    Beau Travail (Sub)
    by Claire Denis

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  170. 178.
    The Thin Red Line
    by Terrence Malick

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  171. 179.
    The Celebration

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  172. 180.
    The English Patient
    by Anthony Minghella

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  173. 181.
    Underground

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    Satatango
    by Bela Tarr

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  175. 183.
    Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
    by Pedro Almodóvar

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  176. 185.
    Moonstruck
    by Norman Jewison

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  177. 186.
    Broadcast News
    by James L. Brooks

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  178. 187.
    Au revoir les enfants - criterion collection
    by Louis Malle

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  179. 188.
    Withnail & I

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  180. 189.
    A Room with a View (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by James Ivory

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  181. 191.
    Kiss of the Spider Woman
    by Hector Babenco

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  182. 192.
    Diva
    by Jean-Jacques Beineix

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  184. 194.
    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    by Sidney Lumet

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  185. 195.
    The Rapture
    by Michael Tolkin

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  186. 196.
    Enemies, A Love Story

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  187. 197.
    Chloe in the Afternoon
    by Eric Rohmer

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  188. 198.
    The Ruling Class - Criterion Collection
    by Peter Medak

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  189. 199.
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    Out of Africa
    by Sydney Pollack

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  190. 200.
    Apocalypse Now

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  191. 201.
    Being There

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  192. 202.
    3 Women - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Altman

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  193. 203.
    Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  194. 204.
    My Brilliant Career
    by Gillian Armstrong

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  195. 205.
    The Marriage of Maria Braun
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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  196. 206.
    Suspiria

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  197. 207.
    Days of Heaven
    by Terrence Malick

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  198. 208.
    Eraserhead
    by David Lynch

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  199. 209.
    Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
    by Chantal Akerman

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  200. 210.
    The Conversation

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  201. 211.
    Dersu Uzala
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  202. 212.
    Fantastic Planet
    by René Laloux

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  203. 213.
    Spirit of the Beehive - Criterion Collection
    by Víctor Erice

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  204. 214.
    Chungking Express
    by Kar Wai Wong

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  205. 215.
    Trois Couleurs: Rouge

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  206. 216.
    Trois Couleurs: Bleu
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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  207. 217.
    The Puppetmaster
    by Hsiao-hsien Hou

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  208. 218.
    The Remains of the Day
    by James Ivory

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  209. 219.
    Unforgiven
    by Clint Eastwood

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  210. 220.
    Ponette
    by Jacques Doillon

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  211. 221.
    Queen Margot (La Reine Margot)
    by Patrice Chéreau

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  212. 222.
    The Double Life of Veronique - Criterion Collection
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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  213. 223.
    Ran - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  214. 224.
    Stranger Than Paradise - Criterion Collection
    by Jim Jarmusch

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  215. 225.
    A Passage to India
    by David Lean

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  216. 227.
    Paris, Texas
    by Wim Wenders

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  217. 228.
    Amadeus
    by Milos Forman

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  218. 229.
    The King of Comedy

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  219. 230.
    Ironweed [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Sweden ]
    by Hector Babenco

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  220. 231.
    Czlowiek z marmuru (Man of Marble)
    by Andrzej Wajda

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  221. 232.
    Annie Hall

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  222. 233.
    The Man Who Fell to Earth - Criterion Collection
    by Nicolas Roeg

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  223. 234.
    1900
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

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  224. 235.
    The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
    by John Cassavetes

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  225. 236.
    The Travelling Players/O Thiassos
    by Theo Angelopoulos

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  226. 237.
    Gilda
    by Charles Vidor

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  227. 238.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

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  228. 239.
    Stairway To Heaven (A Matter Of Life And Death)
    by Michael Powell

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  229. 240.
    The Big Sleep
    by Michael Winner

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  230. 241.
    The Ox-Bow Incident
    by William A. Wellman

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  231. 242.
    I Walked with a Zombie
    by Jacques Tourneur

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  232. 243.
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  233. 244.
    The Magnificent Ambersons

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  234. 245.
    Cat People (1942)
    by Jacques Tourneur

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  235. 246.
    Smiles Of A Summer Night - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  236. 247.
    Kiss Me Deadly
    by Robert Aldrich

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  238. 249.
    Ordet - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  239. 250.
    Bad Day at Black Rock
    by John Sturges

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  240. 251.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

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  241. 253.
    Senso
    by Luchino Visconti

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  242. 254.
    Carmen Jones
    by Otto Preminger

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  243. 255.
    Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  244. 256.
    Ikiru - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  245. 257.
    Forbidden Games - Criterion Collection
    by René Clément

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  246. 258.
    Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Bresson

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  247. 259.
    Lancelot of the Lake
    by Robert Bresson

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  248. 260.
    The Lavender Hill Mob
    by Charles Crichton

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  249. 261.
    The African Queen [IMPORT]

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  250. 264.
    Brief Encounter - Criterion Collection
    by David Lean

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  251. 265.
    Detour (B&W)
    by Edgar G. Ulmer

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  252. 266.
    Open City
    by Roberto Rossellini

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