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Freaks (1932)
A circus trapeze artist, Cleopatra, takes an interest in Hans, a midget who works in the circus sideshow. Her interest however is in the money Hans will be inheriting and she is actually carrying on an affair with another circus performer, Hercules. Hans's fiancée does her...
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Dressed To Kill (1980)
A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.
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Man Bites Dog (1992)
A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if...
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The Vanishing (1988)
Rex and Saskia are on holiday, a young couple in love. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia disappears. Rex dedicates the next three years trying to find her. Then he receives some postcards from her abductor, who promises to reveal what has happened to Saskia. The...
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Repo Man (1984)
Otto is working at the grocery when he loses his temper and quits. Befriended by a Repo Man, Otto sees vehicle repossession as a kind of modern buccaneering. He is attracted by the adventure and the 'who gives a damn' attitude of the other Repo men. At the same time a...
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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957)
A shiny flying saucer emits a blinding ray of light over Southern California's clear blue skies; moments later it lands on a mournful cemetery where an inconsolable old man has just buried his wife. As the very sight of extraterrestrial activity brings terror to the...
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Godzilla (1954)
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk. At first, the authorities think its either underwater mines or underwater volcanic activity. The authorities soon head to Odo Island, close to where several of the ships were sunk. One night, something...
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Peeping Tom (1960)
As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up, both of his parents dead, Mark works by day as a focus-puller for a London movie studio. He moonlights...
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Hedwig And The Angry Inch (2001)
Hedwig, born male as Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a Gender Reassignment Surgery in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to - years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band...
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Fantastic Planet (1973)
In the distant future, the gargantuan blue humanoid Draags have brought human beings (who are called Oms as a play on the French word for "man", Homme) from Earth to the planet Ygam, where they maintain a technologically and spiritually advanced society. The Draags consider...
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Hotel Chevalier (2007)
Grief? Depression? Ambiguity in a Paris hotel room. Jack Whitman lies on a bed, ordering a grilled cheese sandwich from room service. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. He readies the room, moving without affect, drawing a bath, changing his...
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The Brood (1979)
A man's wife is under the care of an eccentric and unconventional psychologist who uses innovative and theatrical techniques to breach the psychological blocks in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with her mother and is covered with bruises and welts,...
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House (1977)
Oshare is excited about spending summer vacation with her father, until she finds out that his beautiful, freakishly serene girlfriend Ryouko would be going as well. Oshare decides she will be going to her aunt's house in the country instead. She brings with her her friends...
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The Blob (1958)
A mysterious creature from another planet, resembling a giant blob of jelly, lands on earth. The people of a nearby small town refuse to listen to some teenagers who have witnessed the blob's destructive power. In the meantime, the blob just keeps on getting bigger.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
'Doc' Riedenschneider, legendary crime 'brain' just out of prison, has a brilliant plan for a million-dollar burglary. To pull it off, he recruits safecracker Louis, driver Gus, financial backer Emmerich, and strong-arm man Dix Handley. At first the plan goes like clockwork,...
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Carnival Of Souls (1962)
Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around in a car with two friends. When challenged to a drag, the women accept, but are forced off of a bridge. It appears that all are drowned, until Mary, quite some time later, amazingly emerges from the river. After recovering,...
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My Darling Clementine (1946)
1882. The four Earp brothers are driving cattle through Arizona towards California when they stop outside the town of Tombstone. While Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan are in the town their cattle is stolen and James is murdered. Wyatt suspects that the Clanton family were...
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Game Of Death (1978)
Bruce Lee plays Billy Lo, a Hong Kong based movie actor, who is a box office draw. His girlfriend, Ann Morris is a singer who is also climbing to the top. Now it seems the syndicate wants Billy and Ann to join their "management firm". But Billy knows that they will be...
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3:10 To Yuma (1957)
Finally, with the notorious outlaw, Ben Wade, in the hands of the law, the impoverished cattle rancher, Dan Evans, finds a window of opportunity to salvage his dying drought-stricken farm. For $200, the otherwise peaceful Arizona farmer volunteers to escort the captured...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While holidaying in Switzerland, Lawrence and his wife Jill are asked by a dying friend, Louis Bernard, to get information hidden in his room to the British Consulate. They get the information, but when they deny having it, their daughter Betty is kidnapped. It turns out...
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The Criterion Collection
