1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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Whisky Galore! (1949)
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亚历山大·麦肯德里克
actor:
巴西尔·拉德福德
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凯瑟琳·拉塞
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other title:
荒岛酒池
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处境困难的小岛
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Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
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Cyclo (1995)
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other title:
三轮车夫
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Xich lo
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Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
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Cheech and Chong: Up in Smoke (1978)
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Tommy Chong
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洛乌·阿德勒
actor:
Tommy Chong
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Cheech Marin
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other title:
随烟而飞
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Up in Smoke
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1978 film by Tommy Chong, Lou Adler
Movie
Actress (1991)
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other title:
阮玲玉
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Center Stage
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Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s. Nicknamed the 'Chinese Garbo', Ruan Lingyu began her career at 16 and committed suicide at 24.
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Funny Games (1997)
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Michael Haneke
actor:
苏珊娜·洛塔尔
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Ulrich Mühe
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other title:
趣味游戏
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大快人心
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Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
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The Ladykillers (1955)
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亚历山大·麦肯德里克
actor:
亚历克·吉尼斯
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西塞尔·帕克
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other title:
贼博士
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贵妇杀手
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1955 crime comedy film directed by Alexander Mackendrick
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Adaptation. (2002)
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other title:
Il ladro di orchidee
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Orkidé-tyven
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Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
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other title:
沙漠妖姬
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风尘三绝
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Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and exploring new horizons.
Movie
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)
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萨沙·杰瓦西
actor:
Steve 'Lips' Kudlow
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Robb Reiner
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other title:
金属精神
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金属大叔要成名
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At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal" influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.
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Apocalypto (2006)
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梅尔·吉布森
actor:
鲁迪·杨布拉德
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达利娅·埃尔南德斯
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other title:
启示
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启示录
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Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
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The Aviator (2004)
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马丁·斯科塞斯
actor:
莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥
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凯特·布兰切特
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other title:
飞行家
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娱乐大亨(港)
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A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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The Best of Youth (2003)
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马可·图利奥·吉奥达纳
actor:
路易吉·洛·卡肖
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阿莱西奥·博尼
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other title:
灿烂人生
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La meglio gioventù
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2003 film by Marco Tullio Giordana
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
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other title:
위대한 레보스키
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ビッグ・リボウスキ
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Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
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Black Swan (2010)
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other title:
黑天鹅
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夺命黑天鹅
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The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice.
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
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Larry Charles
actor:
萨莎·拜伦·科恩
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肯·戴维蒂安
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other title:
Borat
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芭樂特：哈薩克青年必修美國文化
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Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.