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In conjunction with Christian Bale's remarkable new thriller, The Machinist, we've come up with a cracking compilation of movies that insist we mix a little thinking in with our viewing. Tangled tales of political intrigue, sci fi super-concepts to boggle the mind, twisted crime stories, warped, crazy comedies and even the occasional heartbreaking drama. From Chinatown and The Manchurian Candidate to The Matrix, Memento and Being John Malkovich, welcome to our feast of food for thought...
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 | Road To Perdition
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Michael Sullivan commits murder in the name of his boss, John Rooney. Everything is changed when Sullivan's son is witness to a brutal murder at the h...
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 | Saw
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Detective Tapp investigates the whereabouts of the latest victims of the Jigsaw Killer, whose killing method includes chaining his victims to a radiat...
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 | Schindler's List
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The war finds businessman Oskar Schindler joining the Nazi party to make a profit. His dedication to the cause and his generous bribes see him rewarde...
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 | Shawshank Redemption, The
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City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendship...
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 | Sleuth
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The story of a bumbling photographer who gets mixed up in a spy caper.
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 | Usual Suspects, The
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When 27 bodies are recovered from a burned-out ship in Long Beach Harbour there is one dying, terrified witness. An FBI agent sets out to uncover the ...
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 | Vanilla Sky
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David, a womanising publisher finds his life turned upside down when he is injured in a car accident by a suicidal ex lover...
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 | Vertigo(1999)
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Bizarre psychological drama about a detective who is led through a complicated series of frauds. He falls in love with the woman he is assigned to fol...
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 | What Dreams May Come(1998)
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Chris Nielsen is killed suddenly in an accident. In his afterlife he exists within one of his wife's paintings in a paradise world. But his life is un...
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