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Shutter Island (2010)
Summary: Two U.S. Marshalls are sent to a federal institution for the criminally insane to capture a violent female escapee.
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Shine a Light (2008)
Summary: Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look at The Rolling Stones." Scorcese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at the intimate Beacon Theater in New York City in fall 2006. Cinematographers capture the raw energy of the legendary band. (imdb)
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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)
Summary: Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios. (imdb)
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Key to Reserva, The (2007)
Summary: The Key to Reserva: Scorcese films a "lost" Hitchcock script. A briliant advertisement and a complex homage to Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Hermmann. (YouTube)
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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)
Summary: Documentary about the career of legendary insult comic, Don Rickles. (supergloo)
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)
Summary: As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before... (imdb)
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Departed, The (2006)
Summary: The lives of two cops: Colin Sullivan, smart and ambitious, appears to be on the fast track in the Massachusetts State Police Department, whose prime target is powerful Irish mob boss Frank Costello. Billy Costigan, street-smart and tough, is purported to have a violent temper that costs him his badge...
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
Summary: A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star. (imdb)
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Refuge (2005)
Summary: Since the beginning of the 20th Century, Westerners have been traveling to the East in search of spiritual wisdom. By the 1950's Eastern meditation masters were coming to the West and establishing meditation centers here. This film is the story of those journeys, East and West, towards refuge. The story of Refuge is told by a series of first time interviews with renowned filmmakers who have made major motion pictures about Buddhism and by accomplished Tibetan masters who have established themselves here, in the West. (Refuge Film)
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Aviator, The (2004)
Summary: A biographical chronicle which charts the early years of famous tycoon, Howard Hughes, whose eclectic career spanned across everything from oil, to film, casinos, and aviation.
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Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing, The (2004)
Summary: A look into the evolution, importance and current role of film editors. (doctor7)
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100 Scariest Movie Moments, The (2004)
Summary: Film-makers, performers, genre authorities and selected high-profile fans count down the most chilling moments in cinematic history. (imdb)
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Scorsese on Scorsese (2004)
Summary: Director Martin Scorsese discusses his life growing up in Manhattan and his filmmaking career. (imdb)
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Shark Tale (2004)
Summary: Oscar is a fast-talking little fish whose big dreams have a habit of landing him in hot water. Lenny is a great white shark with a sensitive side and a secret - he's a vegetarian. When a great white lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and the truth about Lenny makes him an outcast, the two become the most unlikely of friends.
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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
Summary: Narrated by Sydney Pollack, film critic Richard Schickel's dazzling two-hour plus documentary to one of the towering figures in film: Charles Chaplin.
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Decade Under the Influence, A (2003)
Summary: For American cinema, the 1970s was an era during which a new generation of filmmakers created work for a new kind of audience. In this documentary, pioneering writers, directors and actors talk about the times, their films and their colleagues. (IFC Films)
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Summary: Having seen his father killed in a major gang fight in New York, young Amsterdam Vallon is spirited away for his own safety. Some years later, he returns to the scene of his father's death, the notorious Five Points district in New York. It's 1863 and lower Manhattan is run by gangs, the most powerful of which is the Natives, headed by Bill "The Butcher" Cutting. He believes that America should belong to native-born Americans and opposes the waves of immigrants, mostly Irish, entering the city. (imdb)
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
Summary: The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise. (imdb)
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My Voyage to Italy (1999)
Summary: "I saw these movies. They had a powerful effect on me. You should see them." That's Martin Scorsese's message for this doc.
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Conversation with Gregory Peck, A (1999)
Summary: Gregory Peck tells stories and answers questions about his career in the Barter Theatre. Interspersed are clips from Peck's films and from interviews recorded over the years and vérité contemporary footage of visiting with his daughter Cecilia before and after the birth of her son, receiving the National Medal of Arts, chatting with Lauren Bacall and with Martin Scorsese, etc. Throughout, Peck is informal, candid, and wry. (imdb)
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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Summary: Surrounded by the injured and the dying, EMS paramedic Frank is dwelling in an urban night-world, crumbling under the accumulated weight of too many years of saving and losing lives. The film follows Frank over the course of fifty-six hours in his life as he reaches the very brink of spiritual collapse and redemption.
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Kundun (1997)
Summary: The incredible true story of one of the world's most fascinating leaders -- Tibet's Dali Lama and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history.
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Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera, The (1996)
Summary: In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director... (imdb)
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Search and Destroy (1995)
Summary: A would-be movie producer (Griffin Dunne) strives to convince a self-help guru (Dennis Hopper) to let him film his book. As the guru is only interested in money, the producer solicits the help of a shady businessman (Christopher Walken) and the guru's own secretary (Ileana Douglas), who wants to write movie scripts (a horror story about brain-scraping monsters). (imdb)
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Casino (1995)
Summary: This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed... (imdb)
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Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, A (1995)
Summary: Despite its nearly four-hour running time, this is a uniquely personal look at movies from one of the late 20th century's great directors and film historians... (imdb)
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Quiz Show (1994)
Summary: An idealistic young lawyer (Rob Morrow) working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focusses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story. (imdb)
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Making of 'My Fair Lady', The (1994)
Summary: This 30th anniversary documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of My Fair Lady... (imdb)
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Age of Innocence, The (1993)
Summary: Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer star in a ravishing romance about three wealthy 1870s New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle. (Sony)
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Cape Fear (1991)
Summary: A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a 14 year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
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Goodfellas (1990)
Summary: Henry Hill is a small time gangster, who takes part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, is badly affected by his partners success, but will he stoop low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy ? (imdb)
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Summary: A collection of tales based upon the dreams of Kurosawa.
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Grifters, The (1990)
Summary: When small-time cheat Roy Dillon (Cusack) winds up in the hospital following an unsuccessful scam, it sets up a confrontation between his estranged mother Lilly (Huston) and sexy girlfriend Myra (Bening). Both Lilly and Myra are ruthless confidence artists playing the con game in a league far above Roy ... and always looking for their next victim. The question soon becomes who's conning who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust. (Miramax)
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New York Stories (1989)
Summary: Three stories happening in New York. The first, by Scorsese, is about a painter who creates his works helped by high volume music and an attractive assistant (imdb)
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Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Summary: At his execution, Jesus is tempted by an alluring image of a peaceful and pleasant life with Mary Magdelene to try to get him to refuse the sacrifice he must make (imdb)
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Bad (1987)
Summary: The musical video to one of Michael Jackson's biggest hits
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Color of Money, The (1986)
Summary: A former pool player returns to the game and takes on a young protege. (imdb)
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After Hours (1985)
Summary: Paul meets Marcy at a coffee shop after work, and gets her phone number. He calls her, she asks him to come over (imdb)
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King of Comedy, The (1983)
Summary: Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin wants to achieve success in showbiz, by resorting to stalking his idol, a late night talk show host who craves his own privacy.
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Raging Bull (1980)
Summary: When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter portrayed in this Martin Scorsese film by Robert De Niro. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone... (imdb)
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American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978)
Summary: American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince is a 1978 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. Its subject is Scorsese's friend Steven Prince, best known for his small role as Easy Andy, the gun salesman in Taxi Driver. Prince is a raconteur telling wild stories about his life as an ex-drug addict and a road manager for Neil Diamond. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family.
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Last Waltz, The (1978)
Summary: A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band. (imdb)
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New York, New York (1977)
Summary: The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love as they struggle with their careers and aim for the top (imdb)
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Taxi Driver (1976)
Summary: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out. (IMDB.com)
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Italianamerican (1974)
Summary: The film consists of Martin Scorsese and a small film crew literally talking over dinner at his parents' New York apartment... (imdb)
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Summary: A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer. (imdb)
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Mean Streets (1973)
Summary: A small-time hood struggles to succeed on the "mean streets" of Little Italy. (imdb)
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Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block (1973)
Summary: Director Martin Scorsese revisits his hometown, Lower East Side (Little Italy), New York City with old friends Joseph Morale and Robert Uricola. The town and people on which Mean Streets was based.
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Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Summary: During the depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.
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Directed by John Ford (1971)
Summary: Interviewing some of Ford's most frequent collaborators, Bogdanovich examines the life and films of one of America's greatest directors.
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Street Scenes (1970)
Summary: In the late Spring of 1970, nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C... (imdb)
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Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967)
Summary: J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. (imdb)
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Big Shave, The (1967)
Summary: A young man starts shaving and finds himself unable to stop.
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It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964)
Summary: Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it he talks about how much of his success and happiness is due to the support of his "friend" Joe. Unfortunately the only one who blindly believes Joe is anything close to a friend is Murray, because it's obvious to everyone that Joe back-stabs him at every chance and is sleeping with his wife. (imdb)
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What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963)
Summary: A writer named Algernon (but called Harry by his friends) buys a picture of a boat on a lake, and his obsession with it renders normal life impossible. He attempts to function again by consulting an analyst and becoming married, but eventually succumbs to his strange anxiety by disappearing into the picture. (imdb)
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Vesuvius VI (1959)
Summary: A miniature epic set in Ancient Rome and "inspired" by the then popular television series "77 Sunset Strip." (imdb)