Thizombie's Wishlist
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Ed Wood (1994)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker …
Directed by: Tim Burton
In one of his best-ever performances, Johnny Depp plays Ed Wood, a grinning goof with a sunny disposition who was heralded as the "worst director of all time" -- and certainly made the movies…
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Stealing Beauty (1996)
Cast: Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack …
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
After four years, American teenager Lucy Harmon (Liv Tyler) returns to the artist's colony in Tuscany where her recently deceased mother was once the resident poet. Lucy has arrived to…
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Love for Sale: Suely in the Sky (2006)
Cast: Hermila Guedes, Maria Menezes, Zezita Matos …
Directed by: Karim Ainouz
Abandoned by her husband, new mother Hermila (Hermila Guedes) moves back home and raffles herself off for a night of passion to raise much-needed funds, shocking her rural Brazilian neighbors…
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Benny's Video (1992)
Cast: Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe …
Directed by: Michael Haneke
Fourteen-year-old Benny (Arno Frisch) is a video freak whose life consists only of school, videotaping what he sees outside his window and spending hours watching violent action films. Benny…
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal …
Directed by: Blake Edwards
In this Blake Edwards-directed adaptation of Truman Capote's novel, fortune hunter Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak (George…
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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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Faust (1926)
Cast: Gosta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn …
Directed by: F.W. Murnau
German director F.W. Murnau cast the inimitable Emil Jannings as Mephisto, to whom the aging Faust sells his soul for renewed youth, wealth and power. Channeling Goethe, Murnau creates a…
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Mysterious Skin (2004)
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg …
Directed by: Gregg Araki
Gregg Araki's riveting drama, based on a novel by Scott Heim, brings together two unlikely heroes: a young man who works as a prostitute and another who's convinced he was once…
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Elephant (2003)
Cast: Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson …
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Indie writer-director Gus Van Sant helms this unnerving tale about high school violence that unfolds on an ordinary school day, inside a typical American high school filled with the usual…
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The Dreamers (2003)
Cast: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green …
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
In acclaimed director Bernardo Bertolucci's erotically graphic drama, Matthew (Michael Pitt) is an American college student studying abroad in politically turbulent 1960s Paris, where he…
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Party Monster (2003)
Cast: Seth Green, Macaulay Culkin, Diana Scarwid …
Directed by: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Michael Alig leaves the Midwest for the Big Apple and becomes a fixture of the New York City club scene -- until his luck changes. This drama based on true events traces Alig's rise as a…
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Querelle (1982)
Cast: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau …
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
For his final film, acclaimed director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Stationmaster's Wife) adapted a Jean Genet novel about a French sailor named Querelle (Brad Davis) who's…
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Amelie (2001)
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus …
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
When impish gamine Amélie (Audrey Tautou), who lives alone, finds a long-hidden trove of toys behind a baseboard in her apartment, she's inspired to repatriate the items, an impulse…
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho …
Directed by: Rob Marshall
When 9-year-old Chiyo is sold to a Kyoto geisha house, she endures harsh treatment from the owners and the haughty head geisha, Hatsumomo -- who's envious of Chiyo's stunning beauty…
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Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Cast: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Salvador Dalí …
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Artist Salvador Dali and novice (at the time) director Luis Buñuel came together to craft this unique film consisting of a jarring collage of absurd and deplorable images aimed at…