Younger than 1985

The age of innocence

Romance in 19th century New York. Newland Archer is going to marry May Welland but is in love with Countess Olenska.
Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Daniel Day Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Aliens

The sequel is as good as the original. Ripley is rescued from deep space, but the invincible alien is still alive and kicking.
Directed by James Cameron. Starring Sigourney Weaver.
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Amelie

Amelie dedicates herself to helping others find love and happiness. But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Starring Audrey Tautou.
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American beauty

The Burnham family is trapped in a suburb life. They try to make things better, but instead their lives start falling apart.
Directed by Sam Mendez. Starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening.
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Basic instinct

The most famous film scene of the nineties. Nick Curran and Catherine Tramell play deadly mind games.
Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.
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The breakfast club

Five teenagers from different social circles get to know each other in a detention at a suburban US high school.
Directed by John Hughes. Starring Emilio Estevez and Molly Ringwald.
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Casino

Ace Rothstein is the front man for a mob Las Vegas casino. Joined by strong man Nicky Santoro, the casino runs smoothly until…
Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert de Niro and Sharon Stone.
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Cinema Paradiso

When Salvatore returns to his village in order to attend the funeral of a friend, he reminisces about their childhood together and how he met the love of his life.
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Starring Jacques Perrin.
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Do the right thing

On the hottest day of the summer tensions are growing in in a ghetto-area of Brooklyn and in Sal’s Pizzeria.
Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Danny Aiello, John Turturro and Samuel L. Jackson.
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Downfall

The story of Hitler’s final days as told through the eyes of his personal secretary and confident Traudl Junge.
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. Starring Bruno Ganz and Alexandra Maria Lara.
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The fellowship of the ring

Frodo, a young Hobbit has been entrusted with an ancient Ring. But the Ring can do evil in the wrong hands, so it must be destroyed.
Directed by Peter Jackson. Starring Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee and Cate Blanchett.
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Four weddings and a funeral

Charles is serial monogamist. He meets an attractive American at a wedding and falls in love with her, but his inability to express his feelings gets in his way of true bliss.
Directed by Mike Newell. Starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell.
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Gladiator

Roman's general Maximus, fights as a gladiator for vengeance. His family was murdered on the order of wicked emperor Commodus.
Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Rusell Crowe, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris.
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The Godfather 3

Aging Don Michael Corleone wants to legitimize his crime family’s interests but is kept back by the young members of the family.
Directed by Francis Coppola. Starring Al Pacino Diane Keaton and Andy Garcia.
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Goodfellas

The career of low-level gangster Henry Hill who became part of the federal witness protection program after testifying against his erstwhile partners in crime.
Directed by Martin Scorsese, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci.
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Groundhog day

Sarcastic weather man Phil finds himself trapped in a time loop on Groundhog day.
Directed by Harold Ramis. Starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell.
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Heat

Neil McCauley is the cautious leader of a gang that specializes in high-stakes heists. Vincent Hanna, a volatile police detective, is charged with bringing McCauley and company to justice
Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Robert de Niro and Al Pacino.
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Indiana Jones and the last crusade

In a quest for the holiest of holy items, Indiana Jones, his father and a host of Nazis embark on a quest through Eurasia to find the Holy Grail.
Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.
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The killer

An eponymous killer is tangled in a web of moral imperatives after accidentally blinding a nightclub singer.
Directed by John Woo. Starring Chow Yun Fat.
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Platoon

Chris Taylor quickly discovers in Vietnam that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself.
Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger.
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Pride and prejudice

The adventures of the five Bennet sisters and their attempts to find husbands an a financially secure future.
Directed by Simon Langton. Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
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The professional

Mathilda’s father runs afoul of a drug kingpin and gets murdered. She turns to neighbor Leon for assistance.
Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman.
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Pulp fiction

The stories of two mob hit men, a boxer and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis.
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Reservoir dogs

A heist goes badly wrong and the men, fleeing separately, roll around their scattered brains who has done the dirty on them.
Directed by Quintin Tarantino. Starring Harvey Keitel and Steve Buscemi.
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Saving private Ryan

Captain Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. But why are 8 men risking their lives to save just one?
Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon.
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Schindlers list

Oskar Schindler is a German businessman who becomes a lifesaver when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews.
Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley.
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Se7en

Two cops, one new and one about to retire, are after a serial killer using the Seven deadly sins as his motive.
Directed by David Fincher. Starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt Kevin Spacey and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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The Shawshank redemption

Adaptation of a Stephen King's novella. Accused of murdering his wife Andy’s facing hard time in a corrupt prison.
Directed by Frank Darabont. Starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
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The silence of the lambs

The serial killer Buffalo Bill has taken another woman. Novice FBI agent Clarice Starling must try to compile a profile from a professional, Hannibal -the Cannibal- Lector.
Directed by Jonathan Demme. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster.
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Thelma and Louise

Louise and Thelma, take off for a few days but they encounter people and situations that put their settled-for lives at risk.
Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis and Harvey Keitel.
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Titanic

The romance of a lowly aspiring artist and a beautiful socialite aboard the unsinkable but doomed ocean liner.
Directed by James Cameron. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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Trainspotting

The days in the lives of Mark Renton and the scabby crew of junkies, deadbeats, thieves, liars and nut jobs he calls friends.
Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle.
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The two towers

In the second chapter in Tolkien's epic trilogy, the Fellowship faces huge armies and deception while also witnessing ancient wonders.
Directed by Peter Jackson. Starring Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee and Cate Blanchett.
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Unforgiven

A retired gunslinger lives on a farm but is offered a job by a group of prostitutes to kill a man who knifed one of them. He calls on a friend and goes on one last job.
Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris.
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The usual suspects

An elite group of thieves under the direction of the mysterious Keyser Söze, plan to steal a massive cocaine shipment.
Directed by Brian Singer. Starring Kevin Spacey and Benicio del Toro.
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Spotlight

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg
I dream for a living

Remarkable:

Steven has his handprints set in cement on Hollywood Boulevard (Hollywood, USA, in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theater).

Born:

December 18, 1946

Born as:

Steven Allan Spielberg

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA), Spielberg began experimenting with 8mm short films when he was only in grade school. After he had directed episodes of TV series Spielberg`s first feature-length TV movie, Duel (1971), earned the filmmaker critical praise and a chance to jump to the big screen.

The nightmarish production problems on the bigbudget Jaws (1975) almost detoured his rise to prominence. But his success could still grow bigger. He hit gold again directing Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) but the highest grossing movie of all time up to that point was the alien story, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).

In the late 1980s, a string of relative disappointments coincided with a period of personal upheaval for Spielberg. He made a major career resurgence in 1993 with the special effect-heavy dinosaur extravaganza Jurassic Park.

Steven produced and directed Schindler's List (1993) a stirring film about the Holocaust and won finally best director at the Oscars. In the mid-nineties Spielberg co-founded the production company Dreamworks, responsible for many box office successes in the nineties and the new century. In 2006 he sold it for $1.6 billion to Viacom, the parent company of Paramount Pictures.

In 2008 Steven will release Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and he also wants to direct an Abraham Lincoln bio-pic.

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