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1. Rear Window Sep 1, 1954 • Rated TV-PG A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. 100 Metascore
2. Vertigo May 28, 1958 • Rated TV-PG Vertigo creates a dizzying web of mistaken identity, passion and murder after an acrophobic detective rescues a mysterious blonde from the bay. [Universal Pictures] 100 Metascore
3. Notorious Sep 6, 1946 • Rated Approved A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? 100 Metascore
4. Touch of Evil Feb 1, 1958 • Rated Passed This film noir portrait of corruption and morally-compromised obsessions stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Charlton Heston plays an honorable Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past. A memorable supporting cast including Janet Leigh as Heston's inquisitive wife, Akim Tamiroff as a seedy underworld leader, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Marlene Dietrich as an enigmatic gypsy complete this fascinating drama engulfed in haunting cinematography and a magnificently eerie score by Henry Mancini. 99 Metascore
5. The Lady Vanishes Nov 1, 1938 • Rated Approved While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train. 98 Metascore
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. 98 Metascore
7. The Night of the Hunter Jul 27, 1955 • Rated Approved A traveling preacher's (Robert Mitchum) nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow (Shelley Winters) are uncovered by her terrified young children. 97 Metascore
8. 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. 97 Metascore
9. Rififi (re-release) Jul 21, 2000 • Rated Not Rated A reissue of a classic French caper thriller in which Tony, fresh out of prison, teams with three cohorts to pull off a major jewel heist which goes awry. The film's title is slang for "rough stuff," and it's robbery sequence is famous for its exciting, completely silent robbery scene. 97 Metascore
10. Psycho Sep 8, 1960 • Rated TV-14 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. 97 Metascore
11. Parasite Oct 11, 2019 • Rated R Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks. [Neon] 97 Metascore
12. Battleship Potemkin Dec 5, 1926 • Rated Not Rated In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre. 97 Metascore
13. Mean Streets Oct 14, 1973 • Rated R Charlie (Harvey Keitel) is working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Teresa (Amy Robinson) is the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro) is a small-time gambler in big-time debt to loan sharks. This is a story Martin Scorsese lived, a semi-biographical tale of the first-generation sons and daughters of New York's Little Italy. [Warner Bros.] 96 Metascore
14. Gravity Oct 4, 2013 • Rated PG-13 Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth - and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space. 96 Metascore
15. 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. 95 Metascore
16. The Hurt Locker Jun 26, 2009 • Rated R When a new sergeant, James (Jeremy Renner), takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever. [Summit Entertainment] 95 Metascore
17. Zero Dark Thirty Dec 19, 2012 • Rated R For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. [Columbia Pictures] 95 Metascore
18. 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. 95 Metascore
19. Dunkirk Jul 21, 2017 • Rated PG-13 Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in. [Warner Bros.] 94 Metascore
20. The Manchurian Candidate Oct 24, 1962 • Rated PG-13 John Frankenheimer's gripping political thriller about a group of American soldiers who are captured and brainwashed into becoming sleeper agents. (MGM) 94 Metascore
21. Shadow of a Doubt Jan 15, 1943 • Rated Passed A young woman discovers her visiting uncle may not be the man he seems to be. 94 Metascore
22. Trenque Lauquen Parte II Apr 21, 2023 The search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella's playful new feature. The missing woman is Laura (Laura Paredes), a biologist cataloging plant species in and around the Argentinean city of Trenque Lauquen. The men searching for her: Rafael, her boyfriend, and Ezequiel, a coworker who has come to mean more to her in recent days. But in order to uncover the truth of Laura's disappearance, a profusion of mysteries must be explored. There's the question of love letters hidden in books in the local library, the discovery of a new species of flower, and then there's the mysterious being, rumored to be haunting the lake at the center of town. [Cinema Guild] 94 Metascore
23. Trenque Lauquen Parte I Apr 21, 2023 The search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella's playful new feature. The missing woman is Laura (Laura Paredes), a biologist cataloging plant species in and around the Argentinean city of Trenque Lauquen. The men searching for her: Rafael, her boyfriend, and Ezequiel, a coworker who has come to mean more to her in recent days. But in order to uncover the truth of Laura's disappearance, a profusion of mysteries must be explored. There's the question of love letters hidden in books in the local library, the discovery of a new species of flower, and then there's the mysterious being, rumored to be haunting the lake at the center of town. [Cinema Guild] 94 Metascore
24. Carlos Oct 15, 2010 • Rated Not Rated Carlos tells the story of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez who, for two decades, was one of the most wanted terrorists, on the planet. Between 1974 and 1994, he lived several lives under various pseudonyms, weaving his way through the complexities of international politics of the period. [IFC Films] 94 Metascore

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