Daniel Day-Lewis had his first starring role in this low-key 1980s British LGBT romance.
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ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
Audrey Hepburn is a princess slumming it with Gregory Peck’s American reporter in this high-class 1950s version of the same movie that Netflix has made like ten times already.
STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991)
Christopher Plummer’s Shakespeare-quoting Klingon general is one of the many highlights of this final “Original” Star Trek movie.
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)
Cloris Leachman won an Oscar for her performance in this drama about teenagers in what Roger Ebert called “a town that should not exist.”
JALSAGHAR (1958)
In which a king sacrifices basically everything that matters for the sake of his own pride, manifested through giving Indian classical music parties, as you do.
WAITING TO EXHALE (1995)
Some people are perfectly happy to watch movies where a bunch of women get together and complain about men and then get together or do not get together with those men. It’s not my thing.
DUCK SOUP (1933)
The Marx Brothers got the most freedom of their careers and used it to skewer patriotism, fascism, and war as bum deals for suckers.
GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)
A deep philosophical tract about the meaning of life, in which the main character keeps trying to commit suicide. Also a comedy where a groundhog drives a truck.
SOUNDER (1972)
The great actress Cicely Tyson received her only Oscar nomination for her role in this family drama about 1930s Black sharecroppers, and also their dog.
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
A story where three very grizzled dudes find gold in the wilderness and it drives them all nuts. A manly man’s parable about greed.
Movie Valhalla 