The A.V. Club's Turning on a dime: 15 great gearshift movies

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’"Gearshift movies," a term coined by P.T. Anderson, are films that head in one direction, stop on a dime, and veer off into radically different territory.’

  1. 1.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)

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  2. 2.
    Audition (Uncut Special Edition)
    by Takashi Miike

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  3. 3.
    Grindhouse Presents Death Proof

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  4. 4.
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

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  5. 5.
    Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series)
    by Paul Thomas Anderson

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  6. 6.
    Something Wild
    by Jonathan Demme

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  7. 7.
    Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

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  8. 8.
    Full Metal Jacket
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  9. 9.
    Lost Highway (Widescreen)

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  10. 10.
    In the Bedroom
    by Todd Field

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  11. 11.
    Wild Things (Unrated Edition)
    by John McNaughton

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  12. 12.
    The Ninth Configuration

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  14. 14.
    Adaptation (Superbit Collection)

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  15. 15.
    The Crying Game (Collector's Edition)
    by Neil Jordan

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Created by blurgess on Feb 01, 2009.
 

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