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Annie Hall

IMDB Rating: 8.20
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Storyline
After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples' stories, and even using animation.
Actors
Alvy SingerWoody Allen
Annie HallDiane Keaton
RobTony Roberts

Vertigo

IMDB Rating: 8.60
70622 votes

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Storyline
John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.
Actors
Det. John 'Scottie' FergusonJames Stewart
Madeleine ElsterKim Novak
Judy BartonKim Novak

The Shining

IMDB Rating: 8.50
130887 votes

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Storyline
A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as "The Shining" that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - "the little boy who lives in Danny's mouth". Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this "Shining" and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.
Actors
Jack TorranceJack Nicholson
Wendy TorranceShelley Duvall
Danny TorranceDanny Lloyd

The Meaning of Life

IMDB Rating: 7.40
26211 votes

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Storyline
The Monty Python group examines the meaning and purpose of life in a series of sketches from conception to death and beyond. In typical Monty Python fashion they satirizes and humourizes almost everyone.
Actors
Fish #1Graham Chapman
DoctorGraham Chapman
Harry BlackittGraham Chapman

1776

IMDB Rating: 6.90
3370 votes

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Storyline
The film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single "nay" vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants.
Actors
John AdamsWilliam Daniels
Dr. Benjamin FranklinHoward Da Silva
Thomas JeffersonKen Howard

Being John Malkovich

IMDB Rating: 7.90
94607 votes

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Storyline
A puppeteer discovers a hidden doorway in his office, which turns out to be a portal into John Malkovitch (the famous actor)'s mind. Upon entering the portal, one gets to be inside Malkovitch's mind for 15 odd minutes. As with any great discovery of this century, the ultimate question immediately arises : 'How can we make money out of this?' He and his co-worker promptly set out to exploit this discovery. It doesn't take long for things to go haywire
Actors
Craig SchwartzJohn Cusack
Lotte SchwartzCameron Diaz
Derek MantiniNed Bellamy

Dust Devil

IMDB Rating: 6.40
1097 votes

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Storyline
A shape shifter (Burke) comes from the desert in search of victims, a spirit the locals call "The Dust Devil". He prays on the lonely and the unloved, those that have already lost everything but life itself. Wendy (Field) has broken up with her husband and wanders aimlessly in her car. She picks up a stranger and begins having misgivings about picking him up when strange things begin to occur. Meanwhile a local police officer (Mokae) tracks the killer. Aided by a shaman's admonishments about witchcraft he sets off to try and stop the beast before it can complete its grisly task.
Actors
Dust DevilRobert John Burke
Wendy RobinsonChelsea Field
Ben MukurobZakes Mokae
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