Year
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Description
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Movie
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1999
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An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
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Fight Club
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When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
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The Matrix
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A tale set on death row, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the lead guard, Paul Edgecombe, recognizes John's gift, he tries to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
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The Green Mile
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A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
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American Beauty
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1998
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Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
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Saving Private Ryan
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Living a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.
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American History X
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1997
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When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
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Life Is Beautiful
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1995
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Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
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Se7en
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The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.
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The Usual Suspects
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A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.
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Toy Story
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Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
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Braveheart
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1994
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Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
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The Shawshank Redemption
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The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
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Pulp Fiction
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The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
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Forrest Gump
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Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.
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The Lion King
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12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
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Léon: The Professional
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1993
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In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
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Schindler's List
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1991
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A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
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The Silence of the Lambs
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A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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1990
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The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
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Goodfellas
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