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1. Stanley Kubrick directed this 1968 masterpiece about man's cosmic destiny, that featured a super-computer named HAL.
2. This was Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 metaphysical science fiction film based on the Russian novel "Roadside Picnic". A Writer and a Scientist are led through an enigmatic place known as "The Zone" by this title character.
3. In 1965, French director Jean-Luc Godard unleashed this existential road movie upon the world. It's about a family man who, fed up with his bourgeoisie existence runs off with his child's nanny on an ill-fated journey across Europe. The film is sometimes referred to as "Crazy Pete" in America.
4. Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 interpretation of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" filtered through the chaos of the Vietnam War. This film gave us the immortal line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning".
5. Robert Deniro ("You talkin' to me?") stars in this 1976 Martin Scorsese movie about "a man who just wouldn't take it anymore". He falls for a girl, takes her to a porno movie, gets a mohawk, tries to assasinate a state senator, and saves a teenage prostitute who doesn't want to be saved.
6. 1993 brought us Peter Weir's under-appreciated film about a man who miraculously survives a fatal air crash and feels he is now beyond death. He commences to change his entire life along with the lives of those around him, for better or worse.
7. Sharp social satire and sensory overloading visuals make this 1971 Kubrick classic a "real horrorshow". When the leader of the ultraviolent Droogs is subjected to experimental rehabilitation the tables turn and he becomes society's victim.
8. Made in 1967, this film still seems fresh and riotous. Arthur Penn directed Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular anti-heroes who cut a swathe through the depression-era south, robbing banks and running from lawmen.
9. Peter Sellers takes on three roles in this scathingly brilliant, 1964 black comedy. Only Stanley Kubrick could find humor in the threat of impending nuclear annihilation, and transmit that twisted sensibility to the screen.
10. Often described as a romantic comedy about the holocaust, Roberto Benigni's beautiful piece of Italian cinema is about how a man find's enough grace and humor, in the face of tragedy, to save the lives of his beloved wife and son.
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