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The 400 blows
The film caused a revolution in cinema’s around the world with the story of a young Parisian who tries to survive an unfair and judgemental society. Directed by François Truffaut. Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud.
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8½
A semi-autobiographical story about a worshipped filmmaker who has lost his inspiration. He fends off the inquiries of his actors, reporters, and screenwriter
Directed by Federico Fellini. Starring Marcello Mastroianni.
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The African Queen
War in Africa and war between a disreputable captain of a steamboat and a prim and disapproving Christian lady.
Directed by John Huston. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
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All about Eve
Eve schemes to gain both the affection of Margo Channing’s friends and a starring role originally written for Margo.
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter.
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The bicycle thief
Ladri di biciclette. The story of a long-unemployed bill sticker becomes a bitter cry against poverty and the establishment.
Directed by Vittorio de Sica. Starring Lamberto Maggiorani.
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Big business
Stan and Ollie are trying to sell Christmas trees in sunny California. But their prospects are not willing to buy a tree.
Directed by James W. Horne. Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and James Finlayson.
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Breathless
A bout de Souffle. A revolution in cinema, going back to the basics. Locations, natural lightning, jump cuts and hand-held camera’s.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.
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Brief encounter
A proper British housewife gets a piece of grit in her eye and falls desperately in love with the kind stranger who removes it.
Directed by David Lean. Starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.
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Casablanca
The most classic of them all. Former lovers Rick and Ilsa collide once again in the fraught atmosphere of war-torn Casablanca.
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
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Citizen Kane
A newsman embarks on a quest to discover the meaning of Charles Foster Kane’s dying word “Rosebud”
Directed by Orson Welles. Starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten.
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Dr. Strangelove
A deranged general orders a nuclear attack on Russia because of his belief that the Communists are polluting his bodily fluids.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden.
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The goldrush
A lone prospector heads North in order to find his fortune. Unfortunately, he is forced to face poverty and his menacing cabin mates before he has a chance to achieve his goal.
Directed by and starring Charles Chaplin.
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Gone with the wind
The largest grossing movie in history. The love between the selfish Scarlett O’Hara and the macho Rhett Butler during the civil war.
Directed by Victor Fleming. Starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.
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The guns of Navarone
A group of British soldiers who work together to take over the Greek Island of Navarone, which is controlled by German soldiers helming heavy guns.
Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn.
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High Noon
Will Kane is a small town marshal who lays life and wife on the line to confront a fierce killer who’s about to arrive and take vengeance against Will for sending him to prison years earlier.
Directed by Fred Zinneman. Starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly and Lee van Cleef.
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It’s a wonderful life
George Bailey is a man who sacrificed his dreams to help his hometown. Faced with a financial and legal crisis, he is contemplating suicide. But then an angel comes to the rescue.
Directed by Frank Capra. Starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Legendary British scholar and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, united Arab tribes in battle against the Ottoman Turks during WWI.
Directed by David Lean. Starring Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif.
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The longest day
The Allied landing at Normandy on June 6, 1944. The movie shows the grand-scale drama and personal stories of D-Day.
Starring Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum and John Wayne.
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The Maltese falcon
The hard-boiled detective Spade searches for a missing statue of a bird, but a number of criminal characters try to put him off the trail.
Directed by John Huston. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor.
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The man who shot Liberty Valance
Years ago Ransom Stoddard came face to face with Liberty Valance, the greatest gunfighter known to the town. Ransom is then thrust into a political career, representing a new civilization.
Directed by John Ford. Starring John Wayne and James Stewart.
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Modern times
After cracking under the strain, a young man finds himself unemployed on the streets of depression era America.
Directed by Charles Chaplin. Starring Charles Chaplin and Paulette Goddard.
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The music box
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy decided to reorganize and resupervise their entire financial structure- so they took the $3.80 and went into business. It became Laurel and Hardy’s fight against gravity.
Directed by James Parrott. Starring Laurel and Hardy.
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My fair lady
The big screen adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, which is in itself a reworking of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
Directed by George Cukor. Starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
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North by northwest
Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy named Kaplan. It becomes an identity which Thornhill cannot shake and one that drags him across the country in the face of death.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint.
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On the waterfront
Terry Malloy, a retired prize-fighter who has started running errands for the Dockers Union finds himself involved a the murder. He becomes involved with the dead man’s sister.
Directed by Elia Kazan. Starring Marlon Brando and Karl Malden.
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Paths of Glory
During WWI, a French general orders his men on a suicidal charge; when they fail, he picks three soldiers to be tried and executed for cowardice.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Kirk Douglas.
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Psycho
A woman, on the run with $40,000 stolen from the company for whom she works ends up staying the night at a motel run by Norman Bates and his mother.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh.
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Rear window
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly.
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The road
Gelsomina is sold by her mother to the cruel Zampano, a strongman in a traveling circus. The two travel together, with her beating the drum, playing a trumpet, and serving as his slave.
Directed by Federico Fellini. Starring Anthony Quinn.
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Roman Holiday
Princess Anne is on a European diplomatic tour. During the stop in Rome, she sneaks out of the embassy, meets reporter Joe Bradley and together they go on a holiday.
Directed by William Wyler. Starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory peck.
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The rules of the game
La regle du jeu. The rules of the love game in pre-war France ordered by ideas of appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
Directed by Jean Renoir. Starring Nora Gregor.
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The searchers
After a short excursion, Ethan finds that the family home has been destroyed by Comanche's. He embarks on an epic quest to retrieve his surviving niece Debbie.
Directed by John Ford. Starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood
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The seven samurai
In the 1600s the residents of a small Japanese village are seeking protection against repeated attacks by a band of marauding thieves.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Starring Takashi Shimura.
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Singing in the rain
Hollywood’s changeover from silents to talkies is the backdrop for this musical. Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love.
Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds
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Some like it hot
Joe and Jerry, two out-of-work musicians, get into drag in order to land jobs with an all girls band and avoid the gangsters who are after them.
Directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
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Sunrise
A farmer is tempted by a vamp from the city to murder his wife. Will he do this and run off with the Woman from the City?
Directed by F.W. Murnau. Starring George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor.
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Sunset boulevard
Joe Gillis is a bankrupt screenwriter caught up in the sticky web of sleaze and insanity spun by a faded star.
Directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Gloria Swanson, William Holden and Buster Keaton.
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The sweet life
La dolce vita. The adventures of a disillusioned journalist in the Rome party circuit. Including the famous showering in the Trevi fountain.
Directed by Federico Fellini. Starring Marcello Mastroianni.
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Tokyo story
Tokyo monogatari. The changing life in postwar Japan is portrayed in this tale of an elderly couple visiting their grown-up children in Tokyo.
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Starring Chishu Ryu.
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Vertigo
An acrophobia detective is hired to trail a friend's suicidal wife, but after rescuing her from a leap into the San Francisco Bay, he finds himself obsessed.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.
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Wild strawberries
Smultronstället. Professor Isak Borg’s is going on a journey to receive an honorary degree. This evokes dreams and recollections.
Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Starring Victor Sjöström.
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The wizard of Oz
Dorothy is told to follow the yellow brick road by the Munchkins, she meets the Lion, Tin Man and the Scarecrow... and finally, the Wizard himself.
Directed by Victor Fleming. Starring Judy Garland.
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Spotlight
Greta Garbo
Remarkable:
Greta’s personal favourite movie of her own was Camille (1937)
Born:
September 18, 1905
Born as:
Greta Lovisa Gustafsson
Died:
April 15, 1990
Greta grew up in the poverty of Stockholm's poorest districts. She found employment as a salesgirl in a department store. The store used her in a short publicity film (1921). This led to another short film when a comedy director gave her a small part in Luffarpetter / Peter the tramp (1922). Mauritz Stiller cast Greta in Gösta Berlings saga / The Atonement of Gosta Berling (1923) which made her a minor star. The director became Greta's mentor and lover, glamorizing her image and changing her professional name to Garbo.
In 1924 she went to Hollywood with Stiller and they worked together on The Torrent (1926). Stiller was not successful and returned to Sweden while she stayed on to become known as “The Swedish Sphinx”.
The release of Flesh and the Devil (1927) saw Garbo a full-fledged superstar. Greta continued her superstar status with Anna Karenina (1935) where she played a woman torn between two lovers and her son and with Ninotchka (1939) which showcased her comedic side. Greta retired abruptly in 1941 and would work for the rest of her life to perpetuate the Garbo mystique.
Academy awards:
1955 - Honorary Award
1940 Nominated Best Actress for: Ninotchka (1939)
1938 Nominated Best Actress for: Camille (1936)
1930 Nominated Best Actress for: Anna Christie (1930)
1930 Nominated Best Actress for: Romance (1930)
Selected Movies:
- Ninotchka (1939)
- Queen Christina (1933)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- Flesh and the Devil (1926)
- Camille (1936)
- Anna Karenina (1935)