Film Fragments

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(1963, Federico Fellini)

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

12 Angry Men
(1957, Sidney Lumet)

A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.

Adaptation

(2002, Spike Jonze)

A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.

Airplane!

(1980, Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker)

An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley.

Amelie

(2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.

American Beauty

(1999, Sam Mendes)

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend.

Annie Hall

(1977, Woody Allen)

Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

The Apartment

(1960, Billy Wilder)

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Apocalypse Now

(1979, Francis Ford Coppola)

During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

(2009, Werner Herzog)

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.

Badlands

(1973, Terrence Malick)

Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

Battleship Potemkin

(1925, Sergei M. Eisenstein)

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre.

Belle de Jour

(1964, Luis Buñuel)

A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.

Bicycle Thieves

(1948, Vittorio De Sica)

A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job.

Blue Velvet

(1986, David Lynch)

After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.

Bonnie and Clyde
(1967, Arthur Penn)

A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.

Brazil

(1985, Terry Gilliam)

A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

The Breakfast Club

(1985, John Hughes)

Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

(1957, David Lean)

A British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

Brief Encounter

(1945, David Lean)

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

Cape Fear

(1962, J. Lee Thompson)

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

Casablanca

(1942, Michael Curtiz)

Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Chinatown

(1974, Roman Polanski)

A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.

Citizen Kane

(1941, Orson Welles)

Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

City of God

(2002, Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund)

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

Come and See

(1985, Elem Klimov)

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet Army and experiences the horrors of World War II.

The Conformist
(1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

The Conversation

(1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Cool Hand Luke

(1967, Stuart Rosenberg)

A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison.

Crimes and Misdemeanors

(1989, Woody Allen)

An opthamologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.

The Dark Knight

(2008, Christopher Nolan)

When Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent launch an assault on the mob, they let the clown out of the box, the Joker, bent on turning Gotham on itself and bringing any heroes down to his level.

The Departed

(2006, Martin Scorsese)

wo men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois

(1972, Luis Buñuel)

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

Do the Right thing

(1989, Spike Lee)

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Dog Day Afternoon

(1975, Sidney Lumet)

A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.

Dr. Strange love

(1964, Stanley Kubrick)

An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

Drive

(2011, Nicolas Winding Refn)

A mysterious Hollywood stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver lands himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbour.

The Elephant Man

(1980, David Lynch)

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Eraserhead

(1977, David Lynch)

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

(2004, Michel Gondry)

A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.

The Exterminating Angel
( 1962, Luis Buñuel )

The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.

Eyes Without a Face

(1960, Georges Franju)

A brilliant surgeon, helped by his assistant, kidnaps young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head of his beloved daughter, whose face has been entirely spoiled in a car crash.

Fargo

(1996, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)

Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Ferris Buellers Day Off

(1986, John Hughes)

A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that.

The French Connection

(1971, William Friedkin)

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

The Godfather

(1972, Francis Ford Coppola)

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

The Godfather: Part II

(1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

(1966, Sergio Leone)

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

GoodFellas

(1990, Martin Scorsese)

Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.

The Graduate

(1967, Mike Nichols)

College graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her daughter.