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Year
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Description
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Movie
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1966
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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.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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1960
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A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
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Psycho
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1962
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When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
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Harakiri
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1968
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A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
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Once Upon a Time in the West
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1964
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A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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1963
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An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
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High and Low
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1968
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When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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1960
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A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.
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The Apartment
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1962
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The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
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Lawrence of Arabia
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1962
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A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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1965
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Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to track down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.
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For a Few Dollars More
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1961
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Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of twelve trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
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Judgment at Nuremberg
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1961
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A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
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Yojimbo
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1963
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Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II making a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of their men, hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.
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The Great Escape
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1965
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A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
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The Sound of Music
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1966
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In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
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The Battle of Algiers
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