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#400: Vagabond

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l9skre5j3pdpvhrooeaclzttwui#400 – Vagabond, (Sans toit ni loi), 1985, Agnès Varda
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Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

#402: La Strada

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1aremoe1sxlfiyogjzsnurakmv4#402 – La Strada, 1954, Federico Fellini
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When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband’s coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.

#404: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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1i03jsr2lh2a14tlpy0pb19nz9n#404 – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948, John Huston
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Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

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#406: Jurassic Park

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57jsouoskmn2108vtz2qb4kwr3n#406 – Jurassic Park, 1993, Steven Spielberg
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A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.