#480 – Bonnie and Clyde, 1967, Arthur Penn
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
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#481: Cabaret
#481 – Cabaret, 1972, Bob Fosse
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
#482: Stagecoach
#482 – Stagecoach, 1939, John Ford
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
#483: The Lady Vanishes
#483 – The Lady Vanishes, 1938, Alfred Hitchcock
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
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#484: The Exterminating Angel
#484 – The Exterminating Angel, (El ángel exterminador), 1962, Luis Buñuel
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.
#485: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
#485 – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, 2017, Martin McDonagh
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town’s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing’s law enforcement is only exacerbated.
#486: Unforgiven
#486 – Unforgiven, 1992, Clint Eastwood
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
#487: Léon: The Professional
#487 – Léon: The Professional, 1994, Luc Besson
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective “cleaner”. But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda’s thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon’s footsteps.
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#488: Howl’s Moving Castle
#488 – Howl’s Moving Castle, (ハウルの動く城), 2004, Hayao Miyazaki
When Sophie, a shy young woman, is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
#489: Blade Runner 2049
#489 – Blade Runner 2049, 2017, Denis Villeneuve
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
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