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#110: Peeping Tom

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cdeajwsxioweangpbdjcdgmszsl#110 – Peeping Tom, 1960, Michael Powell
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Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he’s making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making. She sneaks into Mark’s apartment to watch it and is horrified by what she sees – especially when Mark catches her.

#111: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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jrx1ndua4sb2nekqaukxkbz6pcf#111 – Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975, Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
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King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as “it is a silly place”.

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#133: if….

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kz10fy7rgidd7ebhybrhpusfdlt#133 – if…., 1968, Lindsay Anderson
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Satire about a traditional English boys’ boarding school, where social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three Lower Sixth students, leader Mick Travis, Wallace and Johnny decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.

#137: Inception

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ag5mtlnwp1zdqnxzf6lnk87jknw#137 – Inception, 2010, Christopher Nolan
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Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: “inception”, the implantation of another person’s idea into a target’s subconscious.

#161: Gladiator

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kvxbwun39jgvru1ovrqihmi80ni#161 – Gladiator, 2000, Ridley Scott
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In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army’s most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus’ devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.