| Clue: | Film: | % Correct |
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| Kubrick's Cold-War satire about an insane American general who launches a nuclear bomb into the middle of the USSR | Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 92%
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| Unconventional David Lynch neo-noir about an aspiring actress, an amnesiac, and a mysterious blue box | Mulholland Dr. | 90%
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| Italian neorealist drama about a man and his boy who searches the city of Rome for his lost bike | Bicycle Thieves | 84%
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| Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film that is often considered to be the world's first modern action movie | Seven Samurai | 84%
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| Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman about a vacationing psychologist and her patient who become so intertwined with each other that they start to become the same person | Persona | 83%
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| 1920s silent drama about the court hearing of France's most famous martyr | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 78%
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| Terrence Malick's philosophical war film about American soldiers who recapture Guadalcanal. Sometimes referred to as "the OTHER war movie of 1998" | The Thin Red Line | 76%
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| Wes Anderson film about a family of prodigies | The Royal Tenenbaums | 74%
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| 1966 film that details the uprising that leads to Algeria's independence from France | The Battle of Algiers | 73%
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| "It'd be a lot cooler" if you knew this comedy film that jumpstarted Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, and Milla Jovovich's film career, set in 1976 on the last day of school | Dazed and Confused | 71%
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| This Terry Gilliam film has nothing to do with what the title refers to. In fact, it's a 1984-esque sci-fi comedy starring Robert de Niro | Brazil | 69%
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| French 2013 romance film about two women who fall in love in Paris. Contains a now-famous lengthy sex scene | Blue is the Warmest Color | 66%
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| Errol Morris's documentary with a name similar to the above about a man wrongfully accused of the murder of a small-town Texas cop. The film later proved the man's innocence during the man's later trials | The Thin Blue Line | 59%
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| French-Czech animated feature with a psychedelic-jazz soundtrack and a cast of blue aliens named Draags | Fantastic Planet | 54%
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| Documentary (of sorts) about a man who attempts to impersonate an Iranian filmmaker. WInner of the 1991 Palme d'Or | Close-Up | 48%
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| 1980s dialogue-free cult film about humans and their relationship with Mother Earth. Score by Philip Glass | Koyaanisqatsi or Powaqqatsi | 31%
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| A 1962 absurdist film by Luis Buñuel about a group of wealthy aristocrats who, for some reason, cannot seem to leave a room at a party | The Exterminating Angel | 30%
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| A senator, his crack-addicted daughter, two DOA agents, a Tijuana cop, and others all deal with narcotics use and smuggling, some way or another | Traffic | 30%
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| Often called "the greatest Hitchcock film that never was," this Dutch thriller about a man trying to get in touch with his girlfriend's abductor will shock you with its bleak and dreary ending | The Vanishing | 28%
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| Obscure indie gem by Haskell Wexler about the 1969 Democratic National Convention riots in Chicago. A scene of the movie was filmed in the middle of the ACTUAL riots (!) | Medium Cool | 16%
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