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The Movies

A to C | D to H | I to L | M to O | P to R | S to T | U to Z

A to C
3 Godfathers (1948)
7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
8 ½ (1963)
A Shot In The Dark (1964)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
The Abyss (1989)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
After the Thin Man (1936)
The Alec Guinness Collection (1949 – 1955)

All That Jazz (1979)
Along Came Jones (1945)
Amelie (2001)
American Beauty (1999)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
America’s Sweethearts (2001)
Anastasia (1956)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Anger Management (2003)
The Animal (2001)
Another Thin Man (1939)
Anything Else (2003)
The Apartment (1960)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Auntie Mame (1958)
Avanti! (1972)
The Aviator (2004)
The Awful Truth (1937)

Baby Face (1933)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Bad Company (2002)
Bad Santa (2003)
Bandits (2001)
Bandolero! (1968)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)(1991)
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Bounce (2004)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Blood Work (2002)
The Jason Bourne Trilogy (2002 — 2007)

Bowfinger (1999)
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Les Pact des Loups) (2001)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Bull Durham (1988)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Casablanca (1942)
Casanova’s Big Night (1954)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Changing Lanes (2002)
The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
Children of Men (2006)
Chinatown (1974)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
A Christmas Story
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) (1988)
City Lights (1931)
Cleopatra (1963)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Collateral (2004)
Collateral Damage (2002)
Columbo: the Complete First Season (1968-1972)
The Core (2003)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

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D – H

Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Dark Blue (2002)
Dark Passage (1947)
Dave (1993)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Death at a Funeral (2007)
Deep Impact (1998)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Dodsworth (1936)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Don Juan DeMarco (1994)
Donovan’s Reef (1963)
Double Wedding (1937)
Dragonfly (2002)
Dream Wife (1953)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Duel in the Sun (1946)

Easy Living (1937)
Ed Wood – Special Edition (1994)
Elf (2003)
E.T.: the Extra-terrestrial (1982)
Evelyn Prentice (1934)
Executive Suite (1954)

Far From Heaven
Father Goose (1964)
Femme Fatale (2002)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Five Card Stud (1968)
Fog, The (1979)
Force of Arms (1951)

Gaslight (1944)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Ghost World (2001)
Gilda (1946)
The Girl Next Door (2004)
The Golden Compass (2007)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Gosford Park (2001)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Gunga Din (1939)

Hands Across the Table (1936)
Hang ‘Em High
Hart’s War (2002)
Harvey (1950)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
Hellboy (2004)
Hereafter (2010)
Hero (Ying xiong) (2002)
Hidalgo (2004)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
High Crimes (2002)
High Sierra (1941)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Holiday (2006)
Holiday Inn (1942)
Hollywood Ending (2002)
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
Hondo (1953)
The Hot Spot (1990)
The Hours (2002)
Houseboat (1958)
How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
The Human Stain (2003)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Hurricane (1937)

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I – L

Ice Age (2002)
Identity (2003)
Ikiru (1952)
Illegal (1955)
I Love You Again (1940)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Indiana Jones, The Adventures of (1981 – 2008)

Imposter (2002)
I, Robot (2004)
Insomnia (2002)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) (2003)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

Jaws (1975)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Johnny English (2003)
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Just Visiting (2001)

Kagemusha (1980)
Key Largo (1948)
The King and I (1956)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Lady Eve (1941)
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Last Holiday (2006)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Legally Blonde (2001)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Libeled Lady (1936)
The Long Goodbye (1973) — review 2011
The Long Goodbye (1973) — review 2003
Lost in Translation (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (theatrical) (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (extended) (2002)
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Love Crazy (1941)
A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
Lucky Jordan (1942)

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M – O

The Male Animal (1942)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Manchurian Candidate, (1962)
Man Hunt (1941)
Man in the Middle (1963)
Man of La Mancha (1972)
Man on the Train (L’homme du train) (2002)
Man of the World (1931)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World (2003)
The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
Mata Hari (1931)
The Matchmaker (1997)
Matchstick Men (2003)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Matrix Revolutions (2003)
McLintock! (1963)
Men With Brooms (2002)
The Mexican (2001)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Minority Report (2002)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
The Missing (2003)
Mr. Arkadin (1955) — aka, Confidential Report
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Mister Roberts (1955)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (original review)
Mogambo (1953)
Monkey Business (1952)
Monster’s Inc. (2001)
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
Mousehunt (1997)
Mumford (1999)
Murder By Decree (1979)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
The Muse (1999)
Music and Lyrics (2007)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
My Fair Lady (1964)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
My Favorite Year (1981)
My First Mister (2001)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
My Reputation (1946)

The Natural (1984)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
North to Alaska (1960)
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Now Voyager (1942)

Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Office Space (1999)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
On the Beach (1959)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
One Night at McCool’s (2001)
Open Range (2003)
The Others (2001)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Out of the Past (1947)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

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P – R

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
People I Know (2002)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Piddleville’s Top Ten DVDs of 2001
Piddleville’s Top Ten DVDs of 2002
The Pink Panther (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Predator (1987)
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
The Pride of the Yankees
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
The Professionals (1966)
Psycho (1960)

Queen Christina (1933)
The Quiet American (2002)
The Quiet Man (1952)

The Rainmaker (1956)
The Real Glory (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Red River (1948)
Rio Bravo (1959)
River of No Return (1954)
Road House (1948)
The Road Show Series (1940 – 1962)

Robin and Marian (1946)
 Rose Red (Stephen King’s) (2002)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) (1939)
Runaway Jury (2003)
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)

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S – T

Sabrina (1995)
Sahara (1943)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Sayonara (1957)
Seabiscuit (2003)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Searchers (1956)
Separate Tables (1958)
The Seven Year Itch (1956)
Shackleton (2002)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Shane (1953)
The Shining (1980)
The Shootist (1976)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Sideways (2004)
Silverado (1985)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
So Long at the Fair (1950)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Speed (1994)
Spider-man (2002)
Spy Game (2001)
Stagecoach (1939)
Star Trek: the Motion Picture (Director’s Cut) (1979)
Star Trek VI: the Undiscovered Country (1991)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Strange Cargo (1940)
The Stranger (1946)
Stripes – Extended Cut (1981)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Sweetest Thing (2002)

The Talk of the Town (1942)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
The Terminal (2004)
They Were Expendable (1945)
They Won’t Forget (1937)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Thin Man Series (1934 – 1947)
This Gun For Hire (1942)
This is the Night (1932)
Three Colors

Thirteen Days (2002)
The Time Machine (1960)
The Time Machine (2002)
Titanic (1953)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Tombstone (1993)
Topper (1937)
Topper Returns (1941)
Trading Places (1983)
The Train Robbers (1973)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Trouble Along the Way (1953)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Troy (2004)
True Confession (1937)
True Grit (1969)
True Lies (1994)
The Truman Show (1998)
Truth About Cats & Dogs, The (1996)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

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U – Z

Unbreakable (2000)
Ugetsu (1953)
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Underworld (2003)
Unfaithful (2002)

Van Helsing (2004)
Volver (2006)

Wall-E (2008)
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
Water (2005)
The Weather Man (2005)
Week-end in Havana (1941)
We’re Not Dressing (1934)
West Side Story (1961)
Whale Rider (2002)
What About Bob? (1991)
Without Reservations (1946)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The Woman in Black (1989)
The Woman in the Window (1944)

You Can’t Take It With You (1938)

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