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1.
Snatch.
(2000)
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond. (104 mins.)
Director: Guy Ritchie
2.
Capote
(2005)
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row. (114 mins.)
Director: Bennett Miller
3.
Like Someone in Love
(2012)
In Tokyo, a young prostitute develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days. (109 mins.)
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
4.
Frost/Nixon
(2008)
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. (122 mins.)
Director: Ron Howard
5.
Disconnect
(2012)
A drama centered on a group of people searching for human connections in today's wired world. (115 mins.)
Director: Henry-Alex Rubin
6.
Falling Down
(1993)
An unemployed defense worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them. (113 mins.)
Director: Joel Schumacher
7.
2046
(2004)
The women who enter a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love. (129 mins.)
Director: Kar Wai Wong
8.
Battle Royale
(2000)
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act. (114 mins.)
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
9.
Stalker
(1979)
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes. (163 mins.)
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
10.
Young & Beautiful
(2013)
After losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes. (95 mins.)
Director: François Ozon
11.
JFK
(1991)
A New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. (189 mins.)
Director: Oliver Stone
12.
You've Been Trumped
(2011 Documentary)
In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland's last wilderness areas to build a golf resort. (95 mins.)
Director: Anthony Baxter
13.
King Corn
(2007 Documentary)
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation... (88 mins.)
Director: Aaron Woolf
14.
Moneyball
(2011)
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players. (133 mins.)
Director: Bennett Miller
15.
The Hunt
(2012)
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie. (115 mins.)
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
16.
The Good Shepherd
(2006)
The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life. (167 mins.)
Director: Robert De Niro
17.
Boyhood
(2014)
The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college. (165 mins.)
Director: Richard Linklater
18.
Leviathan
(2014)
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family. (140 mins.)
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
19.
Snowpiercer
(2013)
Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges. (126 mins.)
Director: Bong Joon Ho
20.
Borgman
(2013)
A vagrant enters the lives of an arrogant upper-class family, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process. (113 mins.)
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
21.
Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
(2014)
A washed-up actor, who once played an iconic superhero, battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself in the days leading up to the opening of his Broadway play. (119 mins.)
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
22.
A Touch of Sin
(2013)
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence. (133 mins.)
Director: Zhangke Jia
23.
Citizenfour
(2014 Documentary)
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. (114 mins.)
Director: Laura Poitras
24.
Fargo
(2014 TV Series)
A drifter named Lorne Malvo arrives in small-town Minnesota and influences the population with his malice and violence, including put-upon insurance salesman Lester Nygaard. (53 mins.)
25.
Fargo
(1996)
Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. (98 mins.)
Director: Joel Coen
26.
All Is Lost
(2013)
After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face. (106 mins.)
Director: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Robert Redford
27.
Donnie Brasco
(1997)
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life to the expense of his regular one. (127 mins.)
Director: Mike Newell