 | The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
Buy used from: $2.58 The film that defined a genre and re-energized American filmmaking.
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 | Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $5.94 In a sense: the perfect movie. A superb mix of genres and the two most memorable performances ever.
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 | Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $9.00 On top of all the lists for a reason. The most influential and critically acclaimed film in cinema history.
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 | The Wizard of Oz
Buy used from: $6.60 The perennial and timeless favorite of the masses, perhaps the most popular film ever.
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 | Raging Bull
Buy used from: $1.29 A bleak modern day tragedy, with the most visually stunning moments ever captured on film.
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 | Seven Samurai (Criterion Collection Spine #2)
Buy used from: $12.48 A true landmark, what emerged from this film was a new era where foriegn films had impact and influence on the films of Hollywood
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 | The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III)
Buy used from: $18.89 (Part 2) An equal, some say superior, sequal to a masterpiece that is undoubtably a masterpiece in its own right.
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 | Gone with the Wind
Buy used from: $13.58 The most beloved film ever, a true testament to how old-fashioned filmmaking can stay timeless and profound
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 | Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition)
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $5.19 Epic with a capital "E", the gold standard for all movies of it's kind.
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 | 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Buy used from: $3.56 The greatest sience-fiction film of all time. If it were not for this, there would be be no "Star Wars", there would be no "Matrix", none of it would exsist.
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 | Psycho (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $8.50 Perhaps the most ripped-off film in history. Hitchcock created a true milestone of horror and suspense, and the single most memorable scene in all of filmdom.
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 | Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $8.90 The forefather of a trully American genre. Every musical afterward has only dreamt of matching it's brilliance.
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 | City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $47.99 Quintessential Chaplin, a film that embodies all the artistic genius of cinema's first superstar.
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 | Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition with Bonus Disc)
Buy used from: $17.30 "Episode IV: A New Hope" (the original). It changed both pop-culture and cinema forever. Finally coming to DVD on September 21st.
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 | Some Like It Hot
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.75 A historic event in comedy, considered by many to be the funniest film of all time.
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 | 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $14.30 The film that epitimized foreign cinema as true art. Perhaps avant garde at it's best, and definitly Fellini at his best.
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 | Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.31 As relevant today as it was then. Kubrick set the bar high for every black comedy and social satire to come after it. "Mien Fuehrer! I can walk!".
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 | Chinatown
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.99 A stunning portrayl of the dark side of the human condition, and a film noir far superior to the predeccesors of the thirties and forties that inspired it.
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 | Intolerance: A Sun Play of the Ages
Buy used from: $18.59 Cinema's first great epic masterpiece, a film that is far greater in theme, scope, and ideology than the D.W. Griffith film that often takes it's place on these lists: "The Birth of A Nation".
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 | Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.73 The most original and entertaining film to come along in a very long time. A bellyfull of mindblowing dialouge and intense portrayls of violence sex and drugs and a symbol of the future of filmmaking.
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 | On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.24 A firey tour-de-force of political and social commentary that still resonates true today. Worth seeing for Brando's amazing performance alone
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 | Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.19 An endearing and hypnotic masterpiece of cliff-hanging, guessing-until-the-last-shot cinema. "Psycho" cemented Hitchcocks reputation, but this film was his true work of art.
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 | Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $4.95 A masterful, comical, and tragic look at noir and the underbelly of the Hollywood film industry.
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 | E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (2-Disc Widescreen Limited Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $5.44 Spielburg may have grown up in the past decade, but he'll always be most rememberd for his heartwarming and heartbreaking journey into the most tender recesses of the human soul.
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 | Apocalypse Now Redux
Buy used from: $3.03 By no means a conventinal war movie (at least not in the second half), but that doesn't hinder upon the haunting visuals and powerful themes. Note: I put "Redux" here, but i reccomend the original.
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