Camis Gray's Wishlist
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Salò (1975)
Cast: Caterina Boratto, Palolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi …
Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini
This deeply disturbing movie updates a work by the Marquis de Sade and portrays the fate of 18 Italian youths who are kidnapped by Nazis. Held in a remote palace, they must endure endless…
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Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Klaus Kinski
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Klaus Kinski's manic intensity lends itself perfectly to the role of obsessive genius Fitzcarraldo, a rubber baron intent on building an opera house deep within the Peruvian jungle, in…
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Chinatown (1974)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
With a suspicious, porcelain-skinned femme fatale (Faye Dunaway) bankrolling his snooping, private eye J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) uncovers intricate dirty dealings in the Los Angeles…
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Tenebre (1982)
Cast: Anthony Franciosa, Christian Borromeo, Mirella D'Angelo …
Directed by: Dario Argento
Shortly after American mystery novelist Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) lands in Rome on a book tour, a rash of grisly murders -- patterned after the slayings in his new novel -- sweep the…
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Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Peter Berling, Alejandro Repulles …
Directed by: Werner Herzog
In mid-16th century South America, after completely annihilating the illustrious Incan empire, Gonzalo Pizarro leads his army of conquistadors over the Andes in search of the fabled City of…
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The Beautiful Person (2008)
Cast: Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet …
Directed by: Christophe Honoré
After transferring to a new high school, beautiful Junie (Léa Seydoux) starts dating fellow student Otto (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), but she soon finds herself falling for Nemours…
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The White Ribbon (2009)
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Theo Trebs …
Directed by: Michael Haneke
A year before World War I, a series of strange and brutal pranks threaten to shatter a northern German town's orderly existence. But the residents' response may have even more…
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Cast: Deanna Dozier, Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jr. …
Directed by: Shane Black
Petty thief Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) gets caught up in a murder investigation by posing as an actor and heading to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition, where he finds an authentic…
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Cast: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark …
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
David Bowie stars as Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dry, dying world who journeys to Earth to save his planet. But instead, Newton becomes enamored with the ways of human life on Earth…
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Videodrome (1983)
Cast: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry …
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Sleazy TV executive Max Renn (James Woods) is looking for cheap, exciting programming for his fly-by-night channel when he fortuitously stumbles across a fuzzy satellite feed showing torture,…
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Ichi the Killer (2001)
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto …
Directed by: Takashi Miike
When his "mentor in crime" disappears, blond-coiffed Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano) vows to find out who's responsible. But he's also on the lookout for Ichi (Nao Omori), a sadistic…
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Opera (1987)
Cast: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini …
Directed by: Dario Argento
When the leading diva of Verdi's "Macbeth" is run over by a car, her understudy, Betty (Cristina Marsillach), takes over the role. Things go from bad to worse when a madman begins to…
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Palindromes (2005)
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Richard Masur, Matthew Faber …
Directed by: Todd Solondz
In this genre-bending indie from director Todd Solondz, 13-year-old Aviva Victor (played by eight actors of different ages, races and genders) desperately wants to become a mother -- and she…
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Cast: Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Mitsunori Isaki …
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Japanese master director Akira Kurosawa explores the vital relationship between man and his environment with this collection of eight enchanting short stories drawn from his personal memories…
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Amadeus (1984)
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge …
Directed by: Milos Forman
F. Murray Abraham earned a Best Actor Oscar for his imperious performance as Antonio Salieri, a mediocre composer whose churlish young rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), wins…