Ida
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Ida

Fans of Holocaust stories, family dramas, and character studies will be assuredly pleased with this brief but poignant film about finding yourself, discovering your family, and living your own life in the midst of generational horrors and trauma.

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Don’t Look Now
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Don’t Look Now

While not every moviegoer is guaranteed to love the direction that Don’t Look Now travels within the genre of horror, anyone who loves film will be rewarded with a series of excellently directed sequences that continue to impact the medium to this day, which explains its presence among the Greatest Films of All Time.

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Mona Lisa
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Mona Lisa

With Bob Hoskins taking the lead, Mona Lisa offers the best that neo-noir has to offer with a strong femme fatale and an exploration of the darkness of the human condition without ever losing sight of the humans and relationships at its center.

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Reversal of Fortune
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Reversal of Fortune

The leading performances of Reversal of Fortune are what have earned it a place among the all-time greats, but none stand taller than Jeremy Irons’s Oscar-winning portrayal of Claus von Bülow, which keeps the audience guessing and almost rooting against the narrative at every turn while staying fully hooked into how it’ll all play out.

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Monster
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Monster

By framing its story around the nature of relationships and perceptions, Monster invites its audience to better appreciate and accept the “others” in our lives and to seek to consider others’ circumstances before slapping them with labels or accusations, a sentiment more than deserving of a place of greatness.

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Poetry
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Poetry

All of the pieces of this film work together to form this moving poem, examining the struggles of aging, parenting, justice, grief, and beauty that earns Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry a spot among the Greatest Films of All Time.

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Charade
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Charade

Charade is a prime example of taking two things that audiences love – romantic comedies and mystery thrillers – and blending them together to make something even better thanks to some excellent writing and chemistry, earning the film a spot among the greats.

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Promising Young Woman
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Promising Young Woman

Carey Mulligan’s leading performance pairs perfectly with Emerald Fennell’s script and story in Promising Young Woman to give audiences a film that captures the outrage of victims of sexual assault across the world who have been silenced because of the inconveniences of their plights, making this one of the most necessary and greatest films ever made.

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Memento
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Memento

Memento’s uniquely framed story keeps the audience hooked from start to finish, a hallmark of a great mystery/thriller, and offers them just enough of a glimpse at their own flaws to remain embedded in their memories for a good while, earning a place of greatness.

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Gone Girl
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Gone Girl

Gone Girl is one of the best films wholistically of the 2010s, with great editing, score, writing, directing, and performances that play into the film’s themes of gender and the media, all of which solidify its place among the Greatest Films of All Time.

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The 39 Steps
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The 39 Steps

Hitchcock manages to pull off a winning formula for early greatness in The 39 Steps, utilizing a relatively innovative (for the period) style that blends lightness with suspense and a charismatic leading man tying it all together to cement the film’s place in history.

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