Django Unchained
Django Unchained summary: Django Unchained is a film about a freed slave who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter, sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries summary: Wild Strawberries is a film about an elderly professor's nostalgic road trip full of introspective and philosophical ponderings, dream sequences, and encounters that force him to confront his past and mortality.
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L.A. Confidential
L.A. Confidential summary: L.A. Confidential is a neo-noir crime film about three very different detectives in 1950s Los Angeles who uncover a sprawling conspiracy while investigating a series of murders.
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Room
Room summary: Room is a harrowing drama about a young woman and her son who gain freedom after being held captive in a confined space for years.
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Downfall
Downfall summary: Downfall is a historical war drama that depicts the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany in 1945 from the perspective of his secretary.
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Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke summary: Cool Hand Luke is a film about a rebellious prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system.
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Pan’s Labyrinth
Pan's Labyrinth summary: Pan's Labyrinth is a dark fantasy film about a young girl who escapes into a mythical labyrinth during the Spanish Civil War, where she encounters strange creatures and is given three tasks to complete by a mystical faun, all while her real world becomes increasingly dangerous.
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Rashomon
Rashomon summary: Rashomon is a film by Akira Kurosawa that explores the subjective nature of truth by presenting four contradicting accounts of the same incident involving a bandit, a samurai, and his wife.
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Rebecca
Rebecca summary: A young woman marries a wealthy widower, only to find herself living in the shadow of his late wife, Rebecca, whose mysterious death still haunts their mansion.
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Come and See
Come and See summary: Come and See is a harrowing depiction of the Nazi occupation of Belarus through the eyes of a young boy who joins the resistance movement.
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