 | Maria Full of Grace
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $2.82 story about a young woman who becomes a drug mule. depressing and great at the same time
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 | Turtles Can Fly
Buy used from: $4.98 set a few days before the U.S invaded Iraq. This is an amazing fictional story about a group of orphans and how they live their life on their own and also how the civil war around them has effected their lives. heartbreaking story
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 | The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $32.99 / Used from: $22.99 movie about the french invading Algieria in the mid to late 1950's and how the Algierian people fought for their independence. the film has a very documentary style that makes it feel real at times.incredible
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 | Red Beard - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $19.00 An underrated Japanese film from 1965 from a highly praised Director-Akira Kurosawa who was most known for the film Seven Samurai. This movie is the last that Kurosawa made with Toshiro Mifune due to the long shooting schedule. It's a simple story about a young doctor who learns from an older doctor about whats truly important in their field of work.
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 | Ikiru - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $17.98 A slightly underrated Japanese film also by Akira Kurosawa that came out in 1952. It's about an old man who is an accountant who finds out that he has 6 months to live because of cancer. A very touching movie
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 | La Haine (Criterion Collection)
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $28.97 A movie that deals and show the effects of Hate in the slums of Paris. amazing movie
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 | Shallow Grave
Buy used from: $8.28 Danny Boyle's first feature film that isn't well known. One of Ewan Mcgregor's first movies. Its a great little dark thriller
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 | Following
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.36 A movie not many people know about. It's the first movie by Christopher Nolan. Every single one of his movies have been good and this is no exception. The movie is about a man who follows people for the fun of it and gets caught up in crime. The structure of the film plays with time much like Memento did.
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 | Memento (Widescreen Two-Disc Limited Edition)
Buy used from: $2.98 Much more known than Following but nontheless great. It's about a man with short term memory loss trying to find who raped and killed his wife. The structure of this movie is amazing starting the film at the end and ending the movie at the beginning of the story.incredible film
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 | The Visitor
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $1.98 great movie starring Richard Jenkins(Six Feet Under) as a College professor that is living a meaningless exsistence. After he finds illegal immigrants in his old apartment he develops a relationship with them that causes him to go through a life transformation. very touching movie.
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 | Sweet Sixteen
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.87 hearthbreaking story about a kid trying to save up money to buy a place to live for his mom who is about to be released from jail only to be tempted to resort to crime as a means of income
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 | Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.34 great Spanish film about 2 men who both have a relationship with someone in a coma. disturbing at times and sad, this definitely deserved the best original screenplay at the oscars
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 | Tape
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.99 Richard Linkletter's underrated movie about 3 old high school friends who meet up in a motel room and old secrets start to come to the surface. based on a play, this film is set entirely in a motel room but the acting from the 3 leads is so good that the movie stretches above and beyond the limited room
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