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1939 New Rose Hotel 1998 Ferrara, Abel USA Y
1939 Rider on the Rain 1969 Clément, René Italy / France D
1940 Dark Star 1974 Carpenter, John USA D
1941 The Lodger 1926 Hitchcock, Alfred UK D
1943 Kill Bill: Volume 2 2004 Tarantino, Quentin USA YB
1945 He Who Gets Slapped 1924 Sjöström, Victor USA
1948 Owning Mahowny 2003 Kwietniowski, Richard Canada / UK Y
1949 High Plains Drifter 1973 Eastwood, Clint USA DO
1951 The Bad Seed 1956 LeRoy, Mervyn USA D
1951 The Firm 1993 Pollack, Sydney USA DOPS
1951 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 Stahl, John M. USA D
1953 Stage Fright 1950 Hitchcock, Alfred UK DO
1954 12 Monkeys 1995 Gilliam, Terry USA DBS
1955 Images 1972 Altman, Robert UK / Ireland / USA Y
1955 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 Demme, Jonathan USA DBO
1955 The Ninth Configuration 1980 Blatty, William Peter USA Y
1958 Ripley's Game 2002 Cavani, Liliana Italy / UK / USA D
1961 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 Yates, Peter USA O
1962 Batman Begins 2005 Nolan, Christopher USA DBOPS
1974 Spider-Man 2002 Raimi, Sam USA DBOPS
1977 Stormy Monday 1988 Figgis, Mike UK / USA Y
1978 Nine Queens 2000 Bielinsky, Fabián Argentina D
1979 The Game 1997 Fincher, David USA DOS
1980 The Human Stain 2003 Benton, Robert USA / Germany / France DS
1980 The Hunt for Red October 1990 McTiernan, John USA DBOS
1980 In the Line of Fire 1993 Petersen, Wolfgang USA DBO
1982 A Few Good Men 1992 Reiner, Rob USA DB
1989 Akira 1988 Ôtomo, Katsuhiro Japan DS
1990 The Lookout 2007 Frank, Scott USA DB
1994 Nurse Betty 2000 LaBute, Neil Germany / USA DS
1995 The Good Shepherd 2006 De Niro, Robert USA DO
1996 Day of the Dead 1985 Romero, George A. USA DB
1998 Murder 1930 Hitchcock, Alfred UK D
1999 Night Must Fall 1937 Thorpe, Richard USA Y
2000 La Balance 1982 Swaim, Bob France D
2004 Deep Cover 1992 Duke, Bill USA Y
2004 True Lies 1994 Cameron, James USA Y
2005 Casino Royale 2006 Campbell, Martin USA / UK / Czech Republic DBOS
2007 Cairo Station 1958 Chahine, Youssef Egypt
2009 The Reader  New at Films101! 2008 Daldry, Stephen USA / Germany
2010 Matchstick Men 2003 Scott, Ridley USA D
2011 Pursued 1947 Walsh, Raoul USA YS
2012 Leopard Man 1943 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
2013 The Hills Have Eyes 1977 Craven, Wes USA DO
2013 King of New York 1990 Ferrara, Abel Italy / USA / UK DO
2013 The Mask of Dimitrios 1944 Negulesco, Jean USA
2013 Scream 1996 Craven, Wes USA DS
2013 Ucho 1970 Kachyna, Karel Czechoslovakia
2014 Sin City 2005 Rodriguez, Robert / Miller, Frank / Tarantino, Quentin USA DBS
2015 Mad Love 1935 Freund, Karl USA D
2016 The Big Combo  New at Films101! 1955 Lewis, Joseph H. USA DO
2016 The Chase  New at Films101! 1946 Ripley, Arthur USA D
2016 Criss Cross  New at Films101! 1949 Siodmak, Robert USA D
2016 Der Verlorene  New at Films101! 1951 Lorre, Peter West Germany
2016 Hustle  New at Films101! 1975 Aldrich, Robert USA DOP
2016 Illustrious Corpses  New at Films101! 1976 Rosi, Francesco Italy / France
2016 Jet Pilot  New at Films101! 1957 von Sternberg, Josef / Furthman, Jules USA D
2016 London After Midnight  New at Films101! 1927 Browning, Tod USA
2016 M  New at Films101! 1951 Losey, Joseph USA
2016 The Prowler  New at Films101! 1951 Losey, Joseph USA
2016 A Question of Attribution  New at Films101! 1992 Schlesinger, John UK V
2016 Raw Deal  New at Films101! 1948 Mann, Anthony USA D
2016 Sait-on jamais...  New at Films101! 1957 Vadim, Roger Italy / France
2016 The Sopranos  New at Films101! 2003 Van Patten, Timothy / Patterson, John / Coulter, Allen / Taylor, Alan / Bronchtein, Henry / Bender, Jack / Buscemi, Steve / Attias, Daniel / Chase, David USA DS
2016 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy  New at Films101! 1979 Irvin, John UK D
2016 Underworld U.S.A.  New at Films101! 1961 Fuller, Samuel USA VO
2021 The Tenant 1976 Polanski, Roman France / USA Y
2021 V for Vendetta 2005 McTeigue, James USA / Germany DBO
2022 Southern Comfort 1981 Hill, Walter USA / Switzerland / UK D
2027 The Big Clock 1948 Farrow, John USA Y
2027 The Honeymoon Killers 1970 Kastle, Leonard / Volkman, Donald USA Y
2031 Diamonds Are Forever 1971 Hamilton, Guy UK / USA DS
2031 $ 1971 Brooks, Richard USA DS
2031 Emperor of the North 1973 Aldrich, Robert USA D
2031 Le Corbeau 1943 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
2031 Madigan 1968 Siegel, Don USA D
2031 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Gilbert, Lewis UK / USA DS
2038 Blow Out 1981 De Palma, Brian USA D
2051 Wild at Heart 1990 Lynch, David USA DS
2052 Punishment Park 1971 Watkins, Peter USA D
2053 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Lumet, Sidney UK Y
2055 Innocents with Dirty Hands 1975 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy / West Germany D
2056 Dark Passage 1947 Daves, Delmer USA DOPS
2056 Judex 1916 Feuillade, Louis France Y
2056 La Torre de los siete jorobados 1944 Neville, Edgar Spain
2059 After Dark, My Sweet 1990 Foley, James USA YOPS
2059 Mine Own Executioner 1947 Kimmins, Anthony UK
2059 Santa Sangre 1989 Jodorowsky, Alejandro Mexico / Italy Y
2066 Blood Diamond 2006 Zwick, Edward USA DBO
2068 Gran Torino 2008 Eastwood, Clint USA
2070 Carnival of Souls 1962 Harvey, Herk USA DOPS
2074 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 Ritchie, Guy UK DOS
2078 Sombre 1998 Grandrieux, Philippe France
2087 Le Deuxième souffle 1966 Melville, Jean-Pierre France D
2093 Internal Affairs 1990 Figgis, Mike USA YOP
2093 The Warriors 1979 Hill, Walter USA DBO
2094 The Fencing Master 1992 Olea, Pedro Spain
2096 After the Thin Man 1936 Van Dyke, W.S. USA DO
2096 Agnes of God 1985 Jewison, Norman USA DOS
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2096 Countdown 1968 Altman, Robert / Conrad, William USA V
2096 The Counterfeit Traitor 1962 Seaton, George USA D
2096 Defence of the Realm 1985 Drury, David UK D
2096 Demon Seed 1977 Cammell, Donald USA D
2096 The Devil's Backbone 2001 del Toro, Guillermo Spain / Mexico D
2096 Dolores Claiborne 1995 Hackford, Taylor USA DOPS
2096 The General Died at Dawn 1936 Milestone, Lewis USA D
2096 The Hooker Cult Murders 1973 Hart, Harvey Canada D
2096 Iron Man 2008 Favreau, Jon USA DBOPS
2096 Man on the Roof 1976 Widerberg, Bo Sweden
2096 The Mind of Mr. Soames 1970 Cooke, Alan UK
2096 A Night to Remember 1943 Wallace, Richard USA
2096 No Way to Treat a Lady 1968 Smight, Jack USA DOP
2096 Octopussy 1983 Glen, John UK / USA DS
2096 Penthouse 1933 Van Dyke, W.S. USA
2096 Ride the Pink Horse 1947 Montgomery, Robert USA
2096 The Satan Bug 1965 Sturges, John USA
2096 The Scarlet Claw 1944 Neill, Roy William USA D
2096 Sea of Love 1989 Becker, Harold USA DOS
2096 Stir 1980 Wallace, Stephen Australia
2096 The Suspect 1944 Siodmak, Robert USA
2096 To the Ends of the Earth 1948 Stevenson, Robert USA
2096 Tokyo Drifter 1966 Suzuki, Seijun Japan D
2096 Warning Shot 1967 Kulik, Buzz USA D
2096 You Kill Me 2007 Dahl, John USA D
2100 El Mariachi 1992 Rodriguez, Robert Mexico / USA DO
2105 The Fifth Element 1997 Besson, Luc France DBOPS
2111 Cape Fear 1991 Scorsese, Martin USA DS
2113 On the Run 2002 Belvaux, Lucas France / Belgium D
2114 Armageddon 1998 Bay, Michael USA Y
2114 Black Sunday 1977 Frankenheimer, John USA DOP
2114 Con Air 1997 West, Simon USA DB
2114 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Leone, Sergio Italy / Spain / West Germany / Monaco DS
2114 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Lanfield, Sidney USA D
2114 Mission: Impossible 1996 De Palma, Brian USA DBOPS
2114 Murder, He Says 1945 Marshall, George USA
2114 Sorry, Wrong Number 1948 Litvak, Anatole USA D
2114 Twister 1996 de Bont, Jan USA DB
2117 Jubilee 1977 Jarman, Derek UK DS
2118 The Butterfly Murders 1979 Tsui, Hark Hong Kong
2120 The Bedford Incident 1965 Harris, James B. UK / USA DO
2121 Out 1: Spectre 1972 Rivette, Jacques France
2122 The Most Dangerous Game 1932 Pichel, Irving / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DOS
2123 The Prize 1963 Robson, Mark USA V
2124 Alias Nick Beal 1949 Farrow, John USA
2129 The Argyle Secrets 1948 Endfield, Cy USA
2129 Basic Instinct 1992 Verhoeven, Paul USA / France DBOS
2129 I Stand Alone 1998 Noé, Gaspar France Y
2129 It's a Good Life (Twilight Zone: The Movie) 1983 Dante, Joe USA Y
2129 Made in U.S.A. 1966 Godard, Jean-Luc France
2129 Martha 1974 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
2129 Murder by Contract 1958 Lerner, Irving USA
2129 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse 1960 Lang, Fritz France / Italy / West Germany Y
2129 Out 1: Noli Me Tangere 1971 Rivette, Jacques / Schiffman, Suzanne France
2129 Pistol Opera 2001 Suzuki, Seijun Japan Y
2129 6ixtynin9 1999 Ratanaruang, Pen-Ek Thailand
2129 The Tall Target 1951 Mann, Anthony USA
2129 That Night's Wife 1930 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan
2129 Thieves' Highway 1949 Dassin, Jules USA Y
2129 Tough Guys Don't Dance 1987 Mailer, Norman USA Y
2129 What's Up, Tiger Lily? 1966 Allen, Woody / Taniguchi, Senkichi USA / Japan Y
2129 When Strangers Marry 1944 Castle, William USA
2134 The Ghost Breakers 1940 Marshall, George USA D
2135 Fog Over Frisco 1934 Dieterle, William USA
2136 Starship Troopers 1997 Verhoeven, Paul USA DBOS
2137 Gone Baby Gone 2007 Affleck, Ben USA DB
2140 The Confession 1970 Costa-Gavras France / Italy
2143 The Crow 1994 Proyas, Alex USA DS
2143 The Negotiator 1998 Gray, F. Gary Germany / USA VS
2143 The Rundown 2003 Berg, Peter USA D
2145 The Brave One 2007 Jordan, Neil USA / Australia DBOP
2148 Bully 2001 Clark, Larry USA / France Y
2150 The Whisperers 1967 Forbes, Bryan UK YS
2158 Crash 1996 Cronenberg, David Canada / USA Y
2164 The Orphanage 2007 Bayona, Juan Antonio Mexico / Spain DBOP
2169 Cornered 1945 Dmytryk, Edward USA
2169 Cure 1997 Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Japan D
2169 The Dark Mirror 1946 Siodmak, Robert USA
2169 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Reiner, Carl USA DO
2169 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Franklin, Carl USA DOS
2169 Doctor X 1932 Curtiz, Michael USA D
2169 Following 1998 Nolan, Christopher UK D
2169 Frantic 1988 Polanski, Roman USA / France D
2169 He Walked by Night 1948 Werker, Alfred L. / Mann, Anthony USA D
2169 I See a Dark Stranger 1946 Launder, Frank UK D
2169 Knight Without Armor 1937 Feyder, Jacques UK
2169 Lady in White 1988 LaLoggia, Frank USA D
2169 The Lodger 1944 Brahm, John USA DS
2169 The Man on the Eiffel Tower 1950 Meredith, Burgess / Allen, Irving / Laughton, Charles USA / France D
2169 Music Box 1989 Costa-Gavras USA DOS
2169 Orphans 1987 Pakula, Alan J. USA
2169 Stranger on the Third Floor 1940 Ingster, Boris USA
2169 T-Men 1947 Mann, Anthony USA D
2169 The Threat 1949 Feist, Felix E. USA
2169 Winter Kills 1979 Richert, William USA D
2178 Runaway Train 1985 Konchalovsky, Andrei USA / Israel Y
2179 Monster 2003 Jenkins, Patty USA / Germany YO
2181 Silver Streak 1976 Hiller, Arthur USA DO
2182 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007 Lumet, Sidney USA DBO
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2211 Lady Vengeance 2005 Park, Chan-wook South Korea D
2211 The Others 2001 Amenábar, Alejandro Spain / France / USA Y
2212 Pineapple Express 2008 Green, David Gordon USA DBOS
2212 Tell No One 2006 Canet, Guillaume France D
2214 The Matrix Reloaded 2003 Wachowski, Andy / Wachowski, Larry USA DBOPS
2215 The Rainmaker 1997 Coppola, Francis Ford USA YS
2216 Death Proof 2007 Tarantino, Quentin USA DBS
2216 The Matador 2005 Shepard, Richard USA / Germany / Ireland D
2216 Planet Terror 2007 Rodriguez, Robert USA DBS
2219 A Mighty Heart 2007 Winterbottom, Michael USA / UK DOP
2220 Open Water 2003 Kentis, Chris USA DOS
2230 Dangerous Moves 1984 Dembo, Richard France / Switzerland Y
2230 High Anxiety 1977 Brooks, Mel USA DOP
2236 Jackie Brown 1997 Tarantino, Quentin USA Y
2236 With a Friend Like Harry... 2000 Moll, Dominik France D
2239 The Bad Sleep Well 1960 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
2239 Black Dog 1998 Hooks, Kevin USA / UK / France / Germany / Japan DS
2239 Boxcar Bertha 1972 Scorsese, Martin USA DOP
2239 Caprice 1967 Tashlin, Frank USA D
2239 City on Fire 1987 Lam, Ringo Hong Kong D
2239 Enemy of the State 1998 Scott, Tony USA DBS
2239 Falling Down 1993 Schumacher, Joel France / USA DOP
2239 Friday the 13th 1980 Cunningham, Sean S. USA D
2239 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later 1998 Miner, Steve USA D
2239 Hard-Boiled 1992 Woo, John Hong Kong DS
2239 Last Man Standing 1996 Hill, Walter USA DS
2239 Malice 1993 Becker, Harold Canada / USA DS
2239 Mission: Impossible II 2000 Woo, John USA / Germany DBOPS
2239 Mission to Mars 2000 De Palma, Brian USA DS
2239 The Net 1995 Winkler, Irwin USA DOS
2239 Nick of Time 1995 Badham, John USA DS
2239 Night of the Lepus 1972 Claxton, William F. USA D
2239 Outland 1981 Hyams, Peter UK DS
2239 Proof of Life 2000 Hackford, Taylor USA DS
2239 Rush Hour 1998 Ratner, Brett USA DS
2239 2010 1984 Hyams, Peter USA DO
2239 Unbreakable 2000 Shyamalan, M. Night USA DBS
2239 Van Helsing 2004 Sommers, Stephen USA / Czech Republic DOPS
2239 Vanishing Point 1971 Sarafian, Richard C. USA D
2239 Veronica Guerin 2003 Schumacher, Joel USA / Ireland / UK DS
2244 Our Mother's House 1967 Clayton, Jack UK S
2244 Place Vendôme 1998 Garcia, Nicole France D
2248 Any Number Can Win 1963 Verneuil, Henri France / Italy Y
2248 Special Section 1975 Costa-Gavras France / Italy / West Germany
2248 The Thief 1952 Rouse, Russell USA YO
2252 Homicide 1991 Mamet, David USA Y
2257 Exiled 2006 To, Johnny Hong Kong D
2263 The Accused 1988 Kaplan, Jonathan USA / Canada YO
2266 Dick Tracy 1990 Beatty, Warren USA YS
2266 The Pledge 2001 Penn, Sean USA YS
2266 Swimming Pool 2003 Ozon, François France / UK D
2268 The Experiment 2001 Hirschbiegel, Oliver Germany D
2271 The Exploits of Elaine 1914 Gasnier, Louis J. / Seitz, George B. / Wharton, Leopold USA
2275 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Soderbergh, Steven USA DB
2275 The Phantom of the Opera 2004 Schumacher, Joel USA / UK DB
2279 Honeymoon in Vegas 1992 Bergman, Andrew USA Y
2279 State of Siege 1973 Costa-Gavras France / West Germany / Italy
2280 Roman de Gare 2007 Lelouch, Claude France S
2289 Bound 1996 Wachowski, Andy / Wachowski, Larry USA Y
2296 Kontroll 2005 Antal, Nimród Hungary D
2303 Carlito's Way 1993 De Palma, Brian USA DOS
2305 The Contender 2000 Lurie, Rod USA / Germany / UK D
2306 A Perfect World 1993 Eastwood, Clint USA D
2306 Strange Days 1995 Bigelow, Kathryn USA DS
2309 Cloverfield 2008 Reeves, Matt USA DBOP
2311 Blood & Wine 1996 Rafelson, Bob USA / UK DS
2311 Flightplan 2005 Schwentke, Robert USA DB
2311 Ladder 49 2004 Russell, Jay USA DBS
2311 Lord of War 2005 Niccol, Andrew USA DBOP
2312 Signs 2002 Shyamalan, M. Night USA DBS
2319 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 2002 Clooney, George USA / Canada / Germany DS
2319 George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead 2007 Romero, George A. USA D
2319 Red Dragon 2002 Ratner, Brett USA / Germany DOPS
2319 Tiger Bay 1959 Thompson, J. Lee UK DO
2320 Lord of the Flies 1963 Brook, Peter UK D
2320 Outward Bound 1930 Milton, Robert USA
2320 Secret Agent 1936 Hitchcock, Alfred UK Y
2321 The Score 2001 Oz, Frank / De Niro, Robert USA / Germany DOS
2322 I'm Not Scared 2004 Salvatores, Gabriele Italy / Spain / UK D
2322 Transsiberian 2008 Anderson, Brad UK / Germany / Spain / Lithuania DBOP
2323 Layer Cake 2004 Vaughn, Matthew UK DBO
2325 American Me 1992 Olmos, Edward James USA DS
2325 Copycat 1995 Amiel, Jon USA DOPS
2325 The Deep End 2001 Siegel, David / McGehee, Scott USA DO
2325 Die Hard 2: Die Harder 1990 Harlin, Renny USA DBS
2325 Freeway 1996 Bright, Matthew USA D
2325 Gattaca 1997 Niccol, Andrew USA DBOPS
2325 Hard Candy 2005 Slade, David USA DO
2325 Heist 2001 Mamet, David Canada / USA D
2325 Insomnia 1997 Skjoldbjærg, Erik Norway D
2325 Silver City 2004 Sayles, John USA D
2325 Snow Falling on Cedars 1999 Hicks, Scott USA DS
2326 Breach 2007 Ray, Billy USA DO
2326 The Good German 2006 Soderbergh, Steven USA DO
2327 Inside Man