1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

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One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
One-Eyed Jacks
★ 7.2 6 ratings
other title: 独眼龙 / 独眼怪杰 …
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.

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Ordinary People (1980)
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★ 7.7 42 ratings
other title: 普通人 / 凡夫俗子 …
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

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Orpheus (1950)
Orphée
★ 8.3 61 ratings
让·科克托 actor: 让·马雷 / 弗朗索瓦·佩里埃 …
other title: 奥菲斯 / Orphée …
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.

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Out of the Past (1947)
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★ 8.0 69 ratings
雅克·特纳 actor: 罗伯特·米彻姆 / 简·格里尔 …
other title: 漩涡之外 / 来自过去 …
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

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Paisan (1946)
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★ 8.1 52 ratings
罗伯托·罗西里尼 actor: 卡米拉萨齐奥 / 罗伯托范隆 …
other title: 战火 / Paisà …
During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. These tales follow the interactions between American soldiers and Italian civilians as they navigate their way through language barriers and cultural differences.

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The Paleface (1948)
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other title: 脂粉双枪侠 / 飞燕金枪 …
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.

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Paris, Texas (1984)
Paris, Texas
★ 8.3 631 ratings
维姆·文德斯 actor: 哈利·戴恩·斯坦通 / 萨姆·贝瑞 …
other title: 파리, 텍사스 / パリ、テキサス …
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

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A Passage to India (1985)
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★ 8.3 21 ratings
大卫·里恩 actor: 朱迪·戴维斯 / 维克多·班纳杰 …
other title: 印度之行 / 印度之旅 …
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

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Passenger (1963)
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★ 7.4 8 ratings
安杰伊·蒙克 / 维托尔德·勒希维彻 actor: Aleksandra Slaska / 安娜·齐皮勒夫斯卡 …
other title: 女旅客 / Pasażerka …
A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.

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Pather Panchali (1955)
পথের পাঁচালী
★ 8.8 150 ratings
other title: 아푸 제1부: 길의 노래 / পথের পাঁচালী …
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1996.
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