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#1: Wayne's World
Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show. In this scene, they're the two characters half cut off in the screenshot, and they're singing along to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."
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#2: The Artist
This 2011 film, which took home 5 Oscars including Best Picture, tells the story of a silent movie star who meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
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#3: Girl Interrupted
In this movie, Wynona Ryder plays the main character, Susanna, who is depressed and directionless after finishing high school in the late 1960's. A suicide attempt lands her in Claymore, a mental institution. There, she befriends the band of troubled women in her ward but falls under the hypnotic sway of Lisa, (Angelina Jolie, in the screenshot), the wildest and most hardened of the bunch.
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#4: Almost Famous
Patrick Fugit (center of the screenshot), plays William Miller, a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This 2000 film is a semi-autobiographical story, written and directed by former Rolling Stone writer Cameron Crowe.
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#5: Blazing Saddles
The town of Rock Ridge is in the way of the railroad. Hedley Lemar, a corrupt political boss played by Harvey Korman, sends in his henchmen ransack the town and drive off the residents. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, who sends them the first Black sheriff in the west, a railroad worker named Bart, (Cleavon Little, in the screenshot with Gene Wilder).
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#6: The Seven Year Itch
A professional book reader for a publishing company must endure the dog days of a New York summer alone while his wife and son find themselves on a oceanside resort without a paddle. To pass the lonely hours, the overly-imaginative book reader fantasizes about a young model, (played by Marilyn Monroe), who is lodging temporarily in the apartment upstairs.
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#7: Hellraiser
A man finds he is given more than he bargains for when he solves the puzzle of the Lament Configuration - a doorway to hell. But his ex-lover has found a way of bringing him back, and his niece, Kirsty Lawrence, finds herself bargaining with the Cenobites, angels to some, demons to others, whose greatest pleasure is the greatest pain.
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#8: Melancholia
On the night of her wedding, Justine is struggling to be happy even though it should be the happiest day of her life. It was an extravagant wedding paid for by her sister and brother-in-law who are trying to keep the bride and all the guests in-line. Meanwhile, a blue planet is hurtling towards the Earth. Claire, Justine's sister, is struggling to maintain composure with fear of the impending disaster.
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