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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Dir.: Ethan Coen
| 106 minutes

Based on Homer's "Odyssey", this Coen Brothers film is a funny, well crafted comedy which tells the story of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississippi. Having escaped from the chain gang,  they encounter a series of strange characters.

The Graduate

Dir.: Mike Nichols
| 105 minutes

Ben, fresh out of college, finds himself bored with his family’s cocktail party lifestyle. He loses his virginity to Mrs. Robinson, his father’s business partner’s wife, and falling in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, the plot follows the tempestuous romantic triangle. 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Dir.: Sergio Leone
| 179 minutes

Set during the time of the American Civil War, the three men of the film's title search for a hidden treasure. Leone's classic masterpiece western combines action and violence with small and delicate humane stories.

RoboCop

Dir.: Paul Verhoeven
| 103 minutes

The setting: Detroit, in the near future. A cop who dies in the line of duty is transformed into an ultrasophisticated cyborg by the corporation which now runs the police department. Only hitch: this "perfect" cop still seeks revenge on the creeps who killed him. 

Men in Black

Dir.: Barry Sonnenefeld
| 98 minutes

Men in Black is a witty and stylish sci-fi comedy about aliens who live on Earth. The creatures look just like us and live among us; their activities are monitored by MIB - a secret service unit known as Men in Black.

Borat

Dir.: Larry Charles
| 82 minutes

Borat Sagdiev, a Kazakh television reporter, sets out for the USA. With an innocent face and "third-world manners," he unveils what is hidden behind America's shiny exterior. A winning combination of physical humor and absurd documentary-like moments turn Borat into one of the best comedies of the 21st century.

Garden State

Dir.: Zach Braff
| 102 minutes

Andrew has to return home for his mother's funeral. He stops taking the drugs his psychiatrist father prescribes and meets Sam, who has her own collection of personal problems. This tender romantic comedy is a singular work that is a perfect capsule for a lost moment.

Stop Making Sense

Dir.: Jonathan Demme
| 88 minutes

Composed of three Talking Heads concerts in Toronto, the film captures the extra-ordinary personality (and wardrobe) of David Byrne. Jonathan Demme’s intelligent directing, combined with the charismatic performance of the band’s lead singer, create a unique and sweeping extravaganza. 

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The Conversation

Dir.: Francis Ford Coppola
| 113 minutes

A surveillance expert becomes personally interested in a case and finds himself involved with a murder. As always with Coppola, something in his cinematic syntax, pace, and emotional momentum, captures the eye and ear. The result is spellbinding, stimulating, and exhilarating.  

Chicken Run

Dir.: Nick Park, Peter Lord
| 85 minutes

The 1950s. A hen house in the north of England. Its feathered inhabitants are constantly trying to escape the nightmarish Mrs. Tweed, but with little success. Until one day an American bird shows up with some new ideas... Chicken Run is an entertaining parody from the great Aardman Studios.

Dog Day Afternoon

Dir.: Sidney Lumet
| 130 minutes

On a blisteringly warm day, a duo of bank robbers gets stuck with hostages without knowing what to do with them, as the bank is surrounded by the police force, bloodthirsty mobs, and the media. Dog Day Afternoon is considered one of the best films of the 1970s.

50 First Dates

Dir.: Peter Segal
| 99 minutes

Henry is a marine biologist in Hawaii who spends his free time with pretty tourists whom he quickly forgets. When he meets Lucy, however, everything changes. The problem is that Lucy suffers from short-term memory loss following a traumatic car accident. A romantic comedy with elements of Memento and Groundhog Day. 

Spirited Away

Dir.: Hayao Miyazaki
| 125 minutes

On the way to their new home, Chihiro is swept away into an adventure after her parents are turned into pigs. From here on in our young heroine will encounter a series of strange creatures. 

Brazil

Dir.: Terry Gilliam
| 140 minutes

Gilliam’s grotesque, dystopian, sometimes nightmarish film follows the story of a modest clerk in the bureaucratic nerve center of a futuristic technocratic society. 

Wild Tales

Dir.: Damián Szifrón
| 122 minutes

Six vengeance stories come together in this excellent film that successfully blends the humorous and the atrocious. "Wild Tales opens and closes with a bang, and at its best is a riotously funny and cathartic exorcism of the frustrations of contemporary life” (Hollywood Reporter).

La Haine

Dir.: Mathieu Kassovitz
| 97 minutes

Following three malcontent teenagers around Paris while the suburbs are rocked by riots, La Haine is a bullet in the face of French cinema – a direct work, in affective black-and-white cinematography, which quickly moves from the dramatic to the mundane. 

School of Rock

Dir.: Richard Linklater
| 108 minutes

When aging rocker Dewey Finn is kicked out of his own heavy metal band, he finds a job as a substitute teacher in a private school. Soon enough he turns the class of well-mannered teenagers into a band of rock 'n rollers and prepares them for the upcoming young talent competition.

The Breakfast Club

Dir.: John Hughes
| 97 minutes

In this key 1980s movie, five high school students spend one Saturday in detention. They each represent a different type: the rich girl, the jock, the nerd, the freak and the drop-out. By the end ofthe day their differences are much less significant than what theyhave in common. 

Tampopo

Dir.: Juzo Itami
| 114 minutes

Wonderful satire of modern Japanese society – its morals and mores – focusing on food and eating, food and crime, food and sex and much more.... 

The Princess Bride

Dir.: Rob Reiner
| 101 minutes

Swashbuckling adventure-fairytale about a beautiful young woman and her one true love, who must find and rescue her after a long separation.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Dir.: Miloš Forman
| 134 minutes

A man has himself sent to a mental hospital to avoid a jail sentence and soon becomes involved in a violent conflict with authority when he tries to enliven the atmosphere. Jack Nickolson gives an unforgettable performance in this masterful work.

500 Days of Summer

Dir.: Marc Webb
| 96 minutes

Tom and Summer work in the same office. Some flirty looks, a brief encounter by the copy machine, and whoops, something’s going on. Love? Flirtation? Commitment? Where is this going? 

Screening in the presence of director Ari Folman

Saint Clara

Dir.: Uri Sivan, Ari Folman
| 84 minutes

Clara Chanov, a 13-year-old Russian immigrant, is from a family with amazing supernatural powers which only become apparent the first time they fall in love.

Inception

Dir.: Christopher Nolan
| 148 minutes

Cobb, together with his team, has the special ability to enter the human mind, through dream invasion, and extract sensitive information. A new mission will push him and the team to the edge of their abilities.