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#1: Miller's Crossing
In this Coen Brothers' prohibition-era gangster flick, Gabriel Byrne plays Tom Reagan, chief advisor to a mob boss. That's him, with his back to the camera in the screenshot, aiming to gun down Bernie Bernbaum, (played by John Turturro).
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#2: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Blake Edwards directed this 1961 classic, which was based on a Truman Capote novella. It tells the story of a flighty Manhattan party girl, Holly Golightly, who becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building. He is a struggling writer who is fascinated by her quirkiness, and can see her hidden vulnerability.
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#3: The Fly
This is a 1986 remake of a creepy, 1958 sci-fi classic in which a scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device. The scientist in this 1986 version is played by Jeff Goldblum.
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#4: I Heart Huckabees
Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe. If it helps, left to right in the screenshot we have: Lily Tomlin, Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, and Mark Wahlberg.
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#5: Being John Malkovich
In this bizarre Spike Jonze film, John Cusack plays a puppeteer who takes a filing job in a low-ceilinged office in Manhattan. Behind one of the filing cabinets in his work area, he finds a hidden door which is literally a portal into the mind of the actor pictured in the foreground of the screenshot.
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#6: It Follows
The girl pictured is nineteen-year-old Jay, who has casual sex in the back seat of a car while on a date. Her date then abducts her, and tells her that he has passed a curse to her through the intercourse, and that she will now be pursued by unknown supernatural force that can take the shape of any person. He warns that she must pass the curse to somebody else through the same means, otherwise she will be hunted down and killed by the stalker.
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#7: Frequency
An accidental, cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years via an old HAM radio. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.
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#8: Point of No Return
This movie is the 1993 American remake of Luc Besson's 1990 film La Femme Nikita. It tells the story of a strung out, murderous, female drug addict, (played by Bridget Fonda), who must succeed in being trained to become an assassin or face death as the consequence for her crimes.
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