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The Great Beauty

Sorrentino's visual feast follows an aging writer through Rome's decadent high society. Through beauty, aging, art, and the search for meaning, it explores the emptiness beneath beauty and the quest …

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Certified Copy

Kiarostami's meta-romance follows a couple (or are they strangers?) touring Tuscany discussing art and authenticity. Through performance, identity, authenticity, and the nature of copies, it explores what is real in …

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Taste of Cherry

Kiarostami's minimalist meditation follows a man seeking help to complete his suicide. Through life, death, conversations, and the taste of cherries, it explores reasons to live and die. The film …

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The Lighthouse

Eggers's psychological horror traps two lighthouse keepers descending into madness. Through isolation, madness, mythology, and homoerotic tension, it explores masculinity and psychological breakdown. The film is a claustrophobic nightmare of …

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Amour

Haneke's austere love story follows an elderly couple as the wife deteriorates from stroke. Through love, aging, dignity, and euthanasia, it explores devotion in the face of decline. The film …

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Mother!

Aronofsky's biblical allegory depicts creation, destruction, and rebirth through a couple's disturbed home. Through allegory, creation, violence, and environmental destruction, it explores humanity's relationship with nature and the divine. The …

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The Turin Horse

Tarr's final film follows a farmer and daughter in their final days as the world ends. Through repetition, apocalypse, silence, and the death of God, it creates a meditation on …

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Fire Walk with Me

Lynch's Twin Peaks prequel follows Laura Palmer's final week before her murder. Through darkness, abuse, supernatural evil, and the loss of innocence, it explores trauma and the horror beneath suburban …

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The Double

Ayoade's Kafkaesque comedy follows a timid man whose confident double takes over his life. Through doubles, identity, alienation, and Dostoevsky, it explores the shadow self and modern alienation. The film …

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Cemetery of Splendour

Weerasethakul's dreamlike film follows soldiers with sleeping sickness in a hospital built on ancient graves. Through sleep, dreams, spirits, and the blurred line between waking and dreaming, it creates a …

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Enemy

Villeneuve's psychological thriller follows a man discovering his exact double. Through doubles, identity, subconscious, and Jungian shadow, it explores the fractured self and repressed desires. The film is a nightmare …

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Nostalghia

Tarkovsky's meditation on exile follows a Russian poet researching in Italy, longing for home. Through nostalgia, exile, spirituality, and the yearning for homeland, it explores the pain of displacement. The …

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Melancholia

Von Trier's apocalyptic depression film follows two sisters as a planet approaches Earth. Through depression, apocalypse, acceptance, and the end of the world, it explores finding peace in annihilation. The …

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Contempt

Godard's meta-cinematic tragedy follows a marriage's dissolution during a film production of The Odyssey. Through cinema, marriage, contempt, and the death of love, it explores art versus commerce and relationship …

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Crimes and Misdemeanors

Allen's moral drama interweaves stories exploring guilt, morality, and whether the universe has moral order. Through murder, conscience, God's silence, and moral luck, it examines whether we can escape consequences. …

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The Exterminating Angel

Buñuel's surreal satire traps bourgeois dinner guests unable to leave a room. Through social critique, ritual, irrationality, and collective delusion, it explores the thin veneer of civilization. The film is …

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Possession

Żuławski's psychosexual horror follows a marriage's violent dissolution involving a monstrous presence. Through obsession, madness, transformation, and the body, it explores the violence of relationships and inner demons made flesh. …

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Schnabel's biopic depicts a man with locked-in syndrome communicating through blinking. Through consciousness, imprisonment, imagination, and the power of mind, it explores the inner life when the body is trapped. …

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Incendies

Villeneuve's tragic mystery follows twins uncovering their mother's past in war-torn Lebanon. Through war, identity, trauma, and the cycle of violence, it explores how the past haunts the present. The …

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Children of Men

Cuarón's dystopian masterpiece depicts a world where humans can no longer reproduce. Through hope, despair, immigration, and the value of life, it explores what gives existence meaning. The film is …

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Ex Machina

Garland's AI chamber piece follows a programmer testing an android's consciousness. Through the Turing test, consciousness, manipulation, and gender, it explores what defines sentience and personhood. The film examines power …

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Werckmeister Harmonies

Tarr's apocalyptic fable follows a small town's descent into chaos with the arrival of a circus. Through order, chaos, mob violence, and the collapse of reason, it explores the fragility …

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The Man Who Sleeps

Queysanne's adaptation of Perec's novel follows a student withdrawing from life into isolation. Through alienation, refusal, existence, and the rejection of society, it explores dropping out and the search for …

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The Color of Pomegranates

Parajanov's visual poem depicts Armenian poet Sayat-Nova's life through tableaux vivants. Through symbolism, poetry, imagery, and cultural memory, it creates cinema as pure visual art. The film is a meditation …

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