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Desperately Seeking Susan

M104 mins|86%62%
Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) spices up her stale routine by reading personal...

Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) spices up her stale routine by reading personal ads in the newspaper - particularly a fascinating series of them being placed by a mysterious denizen of New York City named Susan (Madonna, in her first major screen role)...

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The NeverEnding Story

G102 mins|84%81%
While hiding from school bullies, young Bastian (Barret Oliver) discovers the land of Fantasia within the...

While hiding from school bullies, young Bastian (Barret Oliver) discovers the land of Fantasia within the pages of a magical book in this family fantasy from director Wolfgang Petersen (his rather surprising follow-up to WWII submarine drama Das Boot). Based on the novel by German author Michael Ende.

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Psycho II

R113 mins|66%62%
Australian director Richard Franklin (Patrick) continues the story of Norman Bates, 23 years after the release of...

Australian director Richard Franklin (Patrick) continues the story of Norman Bates, 23 years after the release of Alfred Hitchcock's groundbreaking Psycho.

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The Thing (1982)

M109 mins|85%92%
Based on both the short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. and the 1951 film produced...

Based on both the short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. and the 1951 film produced by Howard Hawks, The Thing is John Carpenter's sci-fi horror masterpiece.

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Blow Out

R108 mins|88%81%
John Travolta leads this 1981 mystery thriller from Brian De Palma about a sound recordist who suddenly...

John Travolta leads this 1981 mystery thriller from Brian De Palma about a sound recordist who suddenly becomes the holder of evidence that proves a car accident was actually murder.

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The Blues Brothers

MA15+142 mins|71%92%
After the release of Jake Blues (John Belushi) from prison, he and brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd)...

After the release of Jake Blues (John Belushi) from prison, he and brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) go to visit the orphanage where they were raised by nuns…

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Kagemusha

PG162 mins|89%92%
This Cannes Palme d'Or-winning Kurosawa epic unfolds during a period of clan warfare and questions the...

This Cannes Palme d'Or-winning Kurosawa epic unfolds during a period of clan warfare and questions the very nature of power.

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Superman

PG127 mins|93%86%
The original Superman movie, an origin story, directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve as...

The original Superman movie, an origin story, directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel. Traces the world’s most famous superhero from Krypton infancy and Smallville boyhood, to his career as Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent (Chrisopher Reeve) and incarnation as Superman. Margot Kidder is Lois Lane, Gene Hackman is nemesis Lex Luthor and Marlon Brando is Jor-El.

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Looking for Mr. Goodbar

R136 mins|61%73%
A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled...

A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.

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The Duellists

PG100 mins|74%83%
A minor slight turns into a heated duel between two Lieutenants, a conflict that lasts years,...

A minor slight turns into a heated duel between two Lieutenants, a conflict that lasts years, in Ridley Scott's feature debut.

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Nashville

PG159 mins|89%83%
Classic country music drama from director Robert Altman (considered one of his masterpieces), intertwining the stories...

Classic country music drama from director Robert Altman (considered one of his masterpieces), intertwining the stories of different characters each attached to the music scene in Nashville. Stars Keith Carradine, Lily Tomlin and Ned Beatty.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

1883 mins|84%82%
Grisly horror classic about a small group of friends who go out to the country to...

Grisly horror classic about a small group of friends who go out to the country to visit their grandfather's house, only to be confronted by a family of cannibals and a chainsaw-wielding maniac named Leatherface.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

PG106 mins|89%92%
Paul Newman is Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford is the Sundance Kid in this 1969...

Paul Newman is Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford is the Sundance Kid in this 1969 western. Based loosely on fact, it follows the infamous outlaws' final few months as they flee the American law and head to Bolivia in search of a more lucrative criminal career.

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Oliver!

G153 mins|91%81%
Carol Reed's musical, based on the 1960 stage show from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist – the...

Carol Reed's musical, based on the 1960 stage show from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist – the classic tale of an orphan who runs away from a workhouse...

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Vertigo

PG124 mins|93%92%
Alfred Hitchock's masterpiece thriller, voted the best film of all time by Sight & Sound's 2012...

Alfred Hitchock's masterpiece thriller, voted the best film of all time by Sight & Sound's 2012 poll of international critics.

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Written on the Wind

NR99 mins|88%76%
Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall star in Douglas Sirk's 1956 adaptation of Robert Wilder's novel, an...

Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall star in Douglas Sirk's 1956 adaptation of Robert Wilder's novel, an entanglement of empires and secret romances. Co-stars Robert Stack, nominated for an Oscar in this role, and Dorothy Malone, who won an Academy Award for her performance.

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Bus Stop

PG96 mins|79%62%
Fifties-era rom-com about a naive but stubborn cowboy (Don Murray) who falls in love with a...

Fifties-era rom-com about a naive but stubborn cowboy (Don Murray) who falls in love with a singer (Marilyn Monroe) and tries to take her away to get married, against her will.

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All About Eve

PG138 mins|99%94%
Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, an ageing Broadway star with a penchant for Martinis and bon...

Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, an ageing Broadway star with a penchant for Martinis and bon mots. Starlet Anne Baxter is Eve Harrington, a wide-eyed ingénue who insinuates herself into Margo's life and social circle, with an eye to taking her throne. From writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve scooped the major awards at the 1951 Oscars and BAFTAs. 

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Paisan

During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions,...

During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. These tales follow the interactions between American soldiers and Italian civilians as they navigate their way through language barriers and cultural differences.

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The Big Sleep

PG114 mins|96%91%
Humphrey Bogart is private detective Philip Marlowe in this 1946 noir classic based on the hard-boiled...

Humphrey Bogart is private detective Philip Marlowe in this 1946 noir classic based on the hard-boiled novel by Raymond Chandler. Co-starring Lauren Bacall and directed by Howard Hawks.

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The Wizard of Oz

G98 mins|98%89%
Judy Garland is Dorothy in this classic, Technicolour, family musical based on the book by L....

Judy Garland is Dorothy in this classic, Technicolour, family musical based on the book by L. Frank Baum. Critic Roger Ebert says of the film: "It has a wonderful surface of comedy and music, special effects and excitement, but we still watch it six decades later because its underlying story penetrates straight to the deepest insecurities of childhood, stirs them and then reassures them." 

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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

PG93 mins
Universal Pictures silent horror, featuring Lon Chaney's iconic depiction of the deformed Phantom who haunts the...

Universal Pictures silent horror, featuring Lon Chaney's iconic depiction of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House. Directed by Rupert Julian (who was New Zealand's first film actor and director), but recut by the studio before release.

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