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1. Vertigo

May 28, 1958 • Rated Approved

Vertigo creates a dizzying web of mistaken identity, passion and murder after an acrophobic detective rescues a mysterious blonde from the bay. [Universal Pictures]

2. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)

May 4, 2012 • Rated Unrated

This magical tale recounts the adventures of Julie, a librarian, and the flamboyant Celine, a magician of sorts - a kind of White Rabbit who leads Julie right through the Looking Glass into a world of her imagination. With the help of some magic, memory-inducing candy, Celine and Julie get plugged into a bizarre drama in a mysterious, possibly haunted, house. They enter the house in the guise of nurses and encounter two women, who are in love with the same man. The man is a widower who had promised his wife that he would not remarry as long as their invalid daughter was alive. As the competition in the triangle reaches a murderous level, the high spirited heroines plot a daring rescue of the young victim. (New Yorker Films)

3. Three Colors: Red

Nov 23, 1994 • Rated R

Krzysztof Kieslowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Irène Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingly unrelated story of jealousy and betrayal unfolds. Red is an intimate look at forged connections and a splendid final statement from a remarkable filmmaker at the height of his powers. [Criterion]

4. Citizen Kane

Sep 4, 1941 • Rated Approved

Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

5. Rear Window

Sep 1, 1954 • Rated Approved

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

6. North by Northwest

Aug 6, 1959 • Rated Approved

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

7. Rashomon

Dec 26, 1951 • Rated Not Rated

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

8. The Lady Vanishes

Nov 1, 1938 • Rated Not Rated

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

9. The Maltese Falcon

Oct 18, 1941 • Rated Approved

A private detective (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

10. Psycho

Sep 8, 1960 • Rated Approved

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) under the domination of his mother.

11. The Third Man

Sep 3, 1949 • Rated TV-PG

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

12. Spirited Away

Sep 20, 2002 • Rated PG

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world. [Walt Disney Studios]

13. Double Indemnity

Jul 6, 1944 • Rated Approved

An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

14. Don't Look Now

Dec 9, 1973 • Rated R

A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.

15. Anatomy of a Murder

Jul 1, 1959 • Rated Approved

In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

16. Apocalypse Now

Aug 15, 1979 • Rated R

During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

17. Chess of the Wind (1976)

Oct 29, 2021 • Rated Not Rated

The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her inheritance.

18. Solaris (1972)

Oct 6, 1976 • Rated PG

Based on Stanislaw Lem's novel, this 1972 allegory takes place on a space station near a mysterious planet.

19. Reversal of Fortune

Oct 17, 1990 • Rated R

Jeremy Irons plays socialite Claus von Bulow, seeking legal exoneration in the most sensational attempted murder scandal of the 1980s. (Warner Bros.)

20. Brother's Keeper

Sep 9, 1992 • Rated R

This documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky details the murder trial of Delbert Ward. Delbert's of a family of 4 brothers (the other 3 being Roscoe, Lyman and William - Bill, for short), working as semi-literate farmers, and living together in isolation in a ramshackle shack, until William's death. The subsequent police investigation and medical examiner's autopsy suggested Bill may not have died from natural causes, and Delbert was arrested on charges of second-degree murder. Under questioning by police, Delbert appears to have waived his rights and signed a confession, but, it seems he might not have been competent, and was coerced into doing so. The film explores possible motives for the crime, from mercy-killing (Bill was ill at the time), to progressively more outré hypotheses. It also shows how residents of the rural community of Munnsville, NY rallied to the support of one of their own (residents previously considered the Wards as social outcasts), against what they felt were intrusive 'big-city' police and a district attorney involved in an election, who might've used the death to help bolster his candidacy.

21. The 39 Steps

Aug 1, 1935 • Rated Approved

A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.

22. Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

Aug 15, 2019 • Rated R

Francis Ford Coppola's masterful 1979 Vietnam War epic was previously expanded in 2001 into Apocalypse Now Redux by adding back 49 minutes of excised footage. This 2019 version of the film clocks in midway between the two prior releases by including just some of that added footage. In addition, the entire film has been remastered in 4K.

23. Werckmeister Harmonies

Based on László Krasznahorkai's novel "The Melancholy of Resistance," this is an uncanny fable about powerlessness and tyranny. Set in a small Hungarian village at a moment of great crisis, a mysterious circus comes to town with a giant whale and news of an appearance by a Prince known for his strange powers. Soon the locals' emotions are stirred to a fever pitch of anticipation. (Anthology Film Archives)

24. Chinatown

Jun 20, 1974 • Rated R

Jack Nicholson is private-eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extramarital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown. (Paramount)

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