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FIVE STAR MOVIES
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Ace In The Hole (1951 - Billy Wilder)
The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938 - Michael Curtiz/ William Keighley)
Amarcord (1974 - Federico Fellini)
American Dream (1989 - Barbara Kopple)
An American In Paris (1951 - Vincente Minnelli)
Animal House (1978 - John Landis)
Annie Hall (1977 - Woody Allen)
Aparajito (1956 - Satyajit Ray)
Apocalypse Now (1979 - Francis Ford Coppola)
L'Avventura (1960 - Michelangelo Antonioni)
Badlands (1973 - Terence Malick)
Bambi (1942 - David Hand)
The Band Wagon (1953 - Vincente Minnelli)
The Bicycle Thief (1948 - Vittorio De Sica)
The Big Heat (1953 - Fritz Lang)
Brief Encounter (1946 - David Lean)
The Burmese Harp (1956 - Kon Ichikawa)
The Candidate (1972 - Michael Ritchie)
Carmen (1983 - Carlos Saura)
Casablanca (1943 - Michael Curtiz)
Citizen Kane (1941 - Orson Welles)
City Lights (1931 - Charles Chaplin)
Un Coeur en hiver (1992 - Claude Sautet)
The Commitments (1991 - Alan Parker)
Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt (1989 - Robert Epstein/ Jeffrey Friedman)
The Conversation (1974 - Francis Ford Coppola)
The Court Jester (1956 - Melvin Frank/ Norman Panama)
Cries And Whispers (1972 - Ingmar Bergman)
Crimes And Misdemeanors (1989 - Woody Allen)
A Cry In The Dark (1988 - Fred Schepisi)
Day Of Wrath (1943 - Carl Dreyer)
Decalogue 7: Thou Shalt Not Steal (1988 - Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Decline Of The American Empire (1986 - Denys Arcand)
The Defiant Ones (1958 - Stanley Kramer)
The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972 - Luis Buñuel)
Diva (1981 - Jean-Jacques Beineix)
Double Indemnity (1944 - Billy Wilder)
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964 - Stanley Kubrick)
Duck Soup (1933 - Leo McCarey)
The Edge Of Darkness (1985 - Martin Campbell)
8 1/2 (1963 - Federico Fellini)
Les Enfants du paradis (1945 - Marcel Carné)
The Exterminating Angel (1962 - Luis Buñuel)
Fanny And Alexander (1982 - Ingmar Bergman)
Fantasia (1940 - James Algar/ Samuel Armstrong/ Ford Beebe/ Norman Ferguson/ Jim Handley/ T. Hee/ Wilfred Jackson/Hamilton Luske/ Bill Roberts/ Paul Satterfield/ Ben Sharpsteen)
Fargo (1996 - Joel Coen)
42nd Street (1933 - Lloyd Bacon)
The 400 Blows (1959 - Francois Truffaut)
The Freshman (1925 - Fred C. Newmeyer/ Sam Taylor)
The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis (1971 - Vittorio De Sica)
The General (1927 - Buster Keaton)
Genevieve (1953 - Henry Cornelius)
The Godfather (1972 - Francis Ford Coppola)
The Gold Rush (1925 - Charles Chaplin)
Goodfellas (1990 - Martin Scorsese)
Les Grandes Manoeuvres (1955 - René Clair)
Grand Illusion (1938 - Jean Renoir)
Great Expectations (1946 - David Lean)
Hail The Conquering Hero (1944 - Preston Sturges)
Hamlet (1996 - Kenneth Branagh)
A Hard Day's Night (1964 - Richard Lester)
Henry V (1989 - Kenneth Branagh)
His Girl Friday (1940 - Howard Hawks)
Hobson's Choice (1954 - David Lean)
Horse Feathers (1932 - Norman Z. McLeod)
The House Of Mirth (2000 - Terence Davies)
Husbands And Wives (1992 - Woody Allen)
Ikiru (1952 - Akira Kurosawa)
In The Name Of The Father (1993 - Jim Sheridan)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946 - Frank Capra)
Kanal (1956 - Andrzej Wajda)
The Kid Brother (1927 - Ted Wilde)
The Kids Are Alright (1979 - Jeff Stein)
The Killing Fields (1984 - Roland Joffé)
Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949 - Robert Hamer)
A Kind Of Loving (1962 - John Schlesinger)
King Lear (1983 - Michael Elliott)
Kiss Me Kate (1953 - George Sidney)
The Lady Eve (1941 - Preston Sturges)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951 - Charles Crichton)
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943 - Michael Powell/ Emeric Pressburger)
Life Is Beautiful (1997 - Roberto Benigni)
Little Dorrit (1988 - Christine Edzard)
The Little Foxes (1941 - William Wyler)
The Lonely Wife (1964 - Satyajit Ray)
The Long Voyage Home (1940 - John Ford)
M (1931 - Fritz Lang)
Maborosi (1995 - Hirokazu Kore-eda)
The Maltese Falcon (1941 - John Huston)
A Man For All Seasons (1966 - Fred Zinneman)
Manhattan (1979 - Woody Allen)
M*A*S*H (1970 - Robert Altman)
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944 - Vincente Minnelli)
Men With Guns (1997 - John Sayles)
The Merry Widow (1934 - Ernst Lubitsch)
Metropolitan (1990 - Whit Stillman)
Michael Shayne, Private Detective (1940 - Eugene C. Forde)
The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek (1944 - Preston Sturges)
My Darling Clementine (1946 - John Ford)
My Left Foot (1989 - Jim Sheridan)
Nashville (1975 - Robert Altman)
A Night At The Opera (1935 - Sam Wood)
The Night Of The Hunter (1955 - Charles Laughton)
Nothing But The Best (1964 - Clive Donner)
Nothing Sacred (1937 - William Wellman)
Oliver! (1968 - Carol Reed)
Oliver Twist (1948 - David Lean)
Los Olvidados (1950 - Luis Buñuel)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975 - Milos Forman)
Orphée (1949 - Jean Cocteau)
Our Hospitality (1923 - John G. Blystone/ Buster Keaton)
Outcast Of The Islands (1952 - Carol Reed)
Out Of The Past (1947 - Jacques Tourneur)
The Palm Beach Story (1942 - Preston Sturges)
The Passenger (1975 - Michelangelo Antonioni)
Passport To Pimlico (1949 - Henry Cornelius)
Pather Panchali (1955 - Satyajit Ray)
Persona (1966 - Ingmar Bergman)
The Purple Rose Of Cairo (1985 - Woody Allen)
Quai des brumes (1938 - Marcel Carné)
The Quiet Man (1952 - John Ford)
Raise The Red Lantern (1991 - Zhang Yi-mou)
Raising Arizona (1987 - Joel Coen)
Ran (1985 - Akira Kurosawa)
Le Rayon vert (1986 - Eric Rohmer)
Rear Window (1954 - Alfred Hitchcock)
Ride The High Country (1962 - Sam Peckinpah)
Rosemary's Baby (1968 - Roman Polanski)
Rules Of The Game (1939 - Jean Renoir)
Rushmore (1998 - Wes Anderson)
Salvador (1986 - Oliver Stone)
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960 - Karel Reisz)
Schindler's List (1993 - Steven Spielberg)
Sense And Sensibility (1995 - Ang Lee)
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954 - Stanley Donen)
The Seven Samurai (1954 - Akira Kurosawa)
The Seventh Seal (1957 - Ingmar Bergman)
Shadow Of A Doubt (1943 - Alfred Hitchcock)
Shall We Dance? (1937 - Mark Sandrich)
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949 - John Ford)
Shoah (1985 - Claude Lanzmann)
The Shop Around The Corner (1940 - Ernst Lubitsch)
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991 - Jonathan Demme)
Singin' In The Rain (1952 - Stanley Donen/ Gene Kelly)
Sleeper (1973 - Woody Allen)
Smiles Of A Summer Night (1955 - Ingmar Bergman)
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937 - David Hand)
Solaris (1972 - Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Sorrow And The Pity (1971 - Marcel Ophuls)
Star Wars (1977 - George Lucas)
La Strada (1954 - Federico Fellini)
Sullivan's Travels (1941 - Preston Sturges)
Sunset Boulevard (1950 - Billy Wilder)
Sweet Smell Of Success (1957 - Alexander Mackendrick)
That's Entertainment! (1974 - Jack Haley Jr.)
Thérèse (1986 - Alain Cavalier)
They Live By Night (1949 - Nicholas Ray)
The Third Man (1949 - Carol Reed)
The Three Musketeers (1973 - Richard Lester)
Through A Glass Darkly (1961 - Ingmar Bergman)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953 - Charles Crichton)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942 - Ernst Lubitsch)
Top Hat (1935 - Mark Sandrich)
Trouble In Paradise (1932 - Ernst Lubitsch)
12 Angry Men (1957 - Sidney Lumet)
2 Friends (1986 - Jane Campion)
Les Uns et les autres (1981 - Claude Lelouch)
Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953 - Jacques Tati)
Viridiana (1961 - Luis Buñuel)
The Wages Of Fear (1953 - Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Whisky Galore! (1949 - Alexander Mackendrick)
White Heat (1949 - Raoul Walsh)
Wild Strawberries (1957 - Ingmar Bergman)
Witness (1986 - Peter Weir)
A World Apart (1988 - Chris Menges)
The World Of Apu (1959 - Satyajit Ray)
The World Of Henry Orient (1964 - George Roy Hill)
The Wrong Trousers (1993 - Nick Park)
Yellow Submarine (1968 - George Dunning)

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