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[Title Character] (Welles) utters the word 'Rosebud' with his dying breath... | |
Charting one man's desperate battle with alcoholism, [Title] is probably the most honest and pragmatic study of this often misinterpreted and misunderstood disease ever produced. | |
In this now much lauded movie, Frank Capra explores the value and virtue of an 'ordinary' life of decency and integrity to the wider society of which it is a part. | |
A slice of life in poverty-stricken, post-war Rome, [Title] is a simple tale that offers far more than its linear structure and uncomplicated characterizations suggest. | |
A rollercoaster ride through the glitzy world of 1950s American theatre, this classic film with its record-breaking haul of Oscars was always destined to remain a favourite. | |
Still regarded as the greatest film ever made on the subject of Hollywood, [Title] charts the ill-fated meeting of faded star Norma and screenwriter on the make, Joe. | |
Sacked from his job at a big newspaper, reporter Chuck Tatum (Douglas) resorts to taking a job on a small New Mexican paper. | |
Loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Elia Kazan, [Title] was essentially a justification for his actions in the 1950s to cleanse America of its communist elements | |
Our first encounter with Jim Stark (Dean) is as he lies in the gutter, drunk. | |
Twelve jury members are sent out to deliberate over the verdict of a murder trial. | |
When his fear of heights starts to impinge on his effectiveness as a police officer, John Ferguson (Stewart) is compelled to leave the force. | |
Set in the American deep south in the 1930s, when racial intolerance was still the norm, [Title] is the adaptation of Harper Lee's outstanding novel of the same name. | |
When the premise of a film is a girl bringing her fiancé home to meet her parents, it doesn't sound like much of a story. | |
With songs galore throughout the entire film, we are thrown headfirst into America's country music capital, whilst witnessing the machinations of the presidential candidate. | |
When petty criminal R.P. McMurphy (Nicholson) opts for a stint in a psychiatric hospital over a prison sentence, he believes he's getting off lightly. | |
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When local boxer [Title Character] gets a once in a lifetime stab at the heavyweight championship, it's almost a given that he'll lose. | |
Martin Scorsese's finest hour came about thanks to the real-life boxer Jake LaMotta (De Niro). | |
Some people will do just about anything to get their fifteen minutes of fame and Rupert Pupkin (De Niro) is one of them. | |
If you want to see the best example of an actor who is absolutely convincing and practically born to play a certain role, watch John Malkovich in [Title]. | |
When Charlie Babbit's (Cruise) father dies, he is left with more than he bargained for. | |
Sal's Pizzeria has been trading for twenty years and now represents one of just a couple of white businesses in a black area. | |
Estate agents are often at the receiving end of ranting tirades about time wasting, money-grabbing and superficiality. | |
[Title Character] (Hanks) is a bit slow, the conventional and anti-hero going nowhere and destined to melt into life's background. | |
When Andy Dufresne's wife and her lover are found murderered, having been shot in bed, her husband (Robbins) is the prime suspect. | |
When a film begins with the voice-over of a middle-aged man telling us that in a year from now he'll be dead, we know we are in for something different. | |
Two narcotics cops intercept a huge drug delivery on the borders of Mexico, only to have the haul and glory taken from them by a General Salazar. | |
In the early 1980's the GDR, East Germany's brutal communist government, oversees a police state rife with secret cameras, bugs, informants and misery. | |
Raimunda (Cruz) travels from Madrid to the peculiar village of Alcanfor in order to tend the grave of her mother Irene and visit Paula (Cobo), the beloved Aunt who raised her. | |
Robbie (McAvoy), a servant's son, begins a relationship with Cecilia (Knightley). | |
In post World War II Germany, teenager Michael (Kross) begins a secretive affair with Hanna (Winslet), a woman twice his age. | |
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