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1. Boyhood

Jul 11, 2014 • Rated R

Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, Boyhood charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before and is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting. [IFC Films]

2. Three Colors: Red

Nov 23, 1994 • Rated R

Krzysztof Kieslowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Irène Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingly unrelated story of jealousy and betrayal unfolds. Red is an intimate look at forged connections and a splendid final statement from a remarkable filmmaker at the height of his powers. [Criterion]

3. Lawrence of Arabia (re-release)

Sep 20, 2002 • Rated Approved

The 40th anniversary re-release of David Lean's 1962 masterpiece, starring Peter O'Toole in one of the most electrifying debuts in film history.

4. Citizen Kane

Sep 4, 1941 • Rated TV-PG

Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

5. The Godfather

Mar 24, 1972 • Rated R

Francis Ford Coppola's epic features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972. [Paramount Pictures]

6. Casablanca

Jan 23, 1943 • Rated Approved

A Casablanca, Morocco casino owner in 1941 shelters his former lover and her husband, a Czechoslovakian freedom fighter, from the Nazis.

7. Tokyo Story

Mar 13, 1972 • Rated Not Rated

Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, postwar Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her. From a simple tale unfolds one of the greatest of all Japanese films. Starring Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, the film reprises one of the director’s favorite themes—that of generational conflict—in a way that is quintessentially Japanese and yet so universal in its appeal that it continues to resonate as one of cinema’s greatest masterpieces. [Janus Films]

8. The Leopard (re-release)

Aug 13, 2004 • Rated PG

Set in Sicily in 1860, Luchino Visconti's spectacular 1963 adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's international bestseller is one of the cinema's greatest evocations of the past, achingly depicting the passing of an ancient order. (Film Forum)

9. Rear Window

Sep 1, 1954 • Rated TV-PG

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

10. Vertigo

May 28, 1958 • Rated TV-PG

Vertigo creates a dizzying web of mistaken identity, passion and murder after an acrophobic detective rescues a mysterious blonde from the bay. [Universal Pictures]

11. Fanny and Alexander (re-release)

May 21, 2004 • Rated R

Set in Sweden in the early 20th century, this film focuses on the young children of a wealthy, theatrical family.

12. Singin' in the Rain

Apr 11, 1952 • Rated Passed

A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

13. Touch of Evil

Feb 1, 1958 • Rated Passed

This film noir portrait of corruption and morally-compromised obsessions stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Charlton Heston plays an honorable Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past. A memorable supporting cast including Janet Leigh as Heston's inquisitive wife, Akim Tamiroff as a seedy underworld leader, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Marlene Dietrich as an enigmatic gypsy complete this fascinating drama engulfed in haunting cinematography and a magnificently eerie score by Henry Mancini.

14. Army of Shadows

Apr 28, 2006 • Rated Not Rated

Making its U.S. debut, Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 Army of Shadows is an intimate epic of the French Resistance in WWII.

15. City Lights

Mar 7, 1931 • Rated G

The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with.

16. Moonlight

Oct 21, 2016 • Rated R

Moonlight is the tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

17. Intolerance

Sep 5, 1916 • Rated Passed

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

18. The Rules of the Game

Apr 8, 1950 • Rated Not Rated

A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

19. The Wild Bunch

Jun 18, 1969 • Rated R

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

20. The Lady Vanishes

Nov 1, 1938 • Rated Approved

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

21. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Jan 24, 1948 • Rated Approved

Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

22. Pan's Labyrinth

Dec 29, 2006 • Rated R

Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. Armed with only her imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who sets her on a path to saving herself and her ailing mother. But soon, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, and before Ofelia can turn back, she finds herself at the center of a ferocious battle between good and evil. [Warner Bros.]

23. Some Like It Hot

Mar 29, 1959 • Rated Approved

When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

24. North by Northwest

Aug 6, 1959 • Rated Approved

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

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