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Band of Outsiders

Jean-Luc Godard
1964 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #174 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders. In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home.

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The Bank Dick

Edward Cline
1940 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #78 Edition: DVD

W.C. Fields stars as an unemployed, henpecked drunk who spends most of his time at the Black Pussy Cat café. Things take a turn for the absurd when he unwittingly captures a bank robber and lands a job as a security guard.

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The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo
1966 • 121 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #249 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s.

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The Beales of Grey Gardens

Albert Maysles and David Maysles
2006 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #361 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

The filmmakers of Grey Gardens went back to their vaults of footage to create part two, The Beales of Grey Gardens, a tribute both to these indomitable women, Big and Little Edie Beale, and to the landmark documentary’s legions of fans, who have made them counterculture icons.

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Beastie Boys Video Anthology

Various
2000 • minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #100 Edition: DVD

The Beastie Boys are among the most influential groups of the last two decades. As their music has opened hip-hop to a wider audience and changed the parameters of its sound, their ambitious music videos have carried the medium to new levels of artistic expression.

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Le beau Serge

Claude Chabrol
1958 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #580 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

The remarkable and stark Le beau Serge heralded the arrival of a cinematic titan who would go on to craft provocative, entertaining films for five more decades.

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Beauty and the Beast

Jean Cocteau
1946 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #6 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder.

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Bed and Board

François Truffaut
1970 • 97 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #187 Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque, the fourth installment in François Truffaut’s chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel, Bed and Board, is a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between adolescence and adulthood.

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Before the Rain

Milcho Manchevski
1994 • 113 minutes • 1.78:1 • Macedonia
Spine: #436 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain crosscuts the stories of an orthodox Christian monk, a British photo agent, and a native Macedonian war photographer to paint a portrait of simmering ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point.

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Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze
1999 • 113 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #611 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes, before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike?

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Belle de jour

Luis Buñuel
1967 • 100 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #593 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello.

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Bergman Island

Marie Nyreröd
2006 • 83 minutes • 1.77:1 • Sweden
Spine: #477 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

The most breathtakingly candid series of interviews that the famously reclusive director ever took part in, Bergman Island features legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman sitting down just four years before his death with Swedish documentarian Marie Nyreröd in his home on Fårö Island.

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1980 • 940 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Spine: #411 Edition: DVD

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour-plus epic follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) as he attempts to “become an honest soul” amid the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany.

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La bête humaine

Jean Renoir
1938 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #324 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Based on the classic Emile Zola novel, Jean Renoir’s La bête humaine, a suspenseful journey into the tormented psyche of a workingman, was one of the director’s greatest popular successes—and earned star Jean Gabin a permanent place in the hearts of his countrymen.

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Beware of a Holy Whore

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1971 • 104 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In Fassbinder’s brazen depiction of the alternating currents of lethargy and mayhem inherent in moviemaking, a film crew deals with an aloof star (Eddie Constantine), an abusive director (Lou Castel), and a financially troubled production.

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Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica
1948 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy
Spine: #374 Edition: DVD

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema.

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The Big City

Satyajit Ray
1963 • 135 minutes • 1.33:1 • India
Spine: #668 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Big City follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family.

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Big Deal on Madonna Street

Mario Monicelli
1958 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy
Spine: #113 Edition: DVD

An all-star cast and jazzy score highlight this charming comedy, a deft satire of classic caper films like Rififi. Big Deal on Madonna Street hilariously details the plight of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist.

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Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray
1956 • 95 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #507 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

When a suburban teacher and father (James Mason) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family.

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Billy Liar

John Schlesinger
1963 • 93 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #121 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

Tom Courtenay is Billy Fisher, the underachieving undertaker’s assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname “Billy Liar.” Deftly veering from gritty realism to flamboyant fantasy, Billy Liar is a dazzling and uproarious classic.

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Black Moon

Louis Malle
1975 • 100 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #571 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

This Freudian tale of adolescent sexuality set in a postapocalyptic world of shifting identities and talking animals is one of Malle’s most experimental films and a cinematic daydream like no other.

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Black Narcissus

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1947 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #93 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes

This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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Black Orpheus

Marcel Camus
1959 • 107 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #48 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

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Blast of Silence

Allen Baron
1961 • 77 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #428 Edition: DVD

Swift, brutal, and black-hearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise, a low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime.

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Blithe Spirit

David Lean
1945 • 96 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #606 Edition: Collector’s Sets

David Lean’s delightful film version of Noël Coward’s theater sensation stars Rex Harrison as a novelist who cheekily invites a medium to his house to conduct a séance, hoping the experience will inspire a book he’s working on.

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