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1. Amélie (2001), France, Germany, romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love. |
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2. Sin City (2005), American crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. It is a neo-noir based on Miller's graphic novel series of the same name. A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption. |
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3. MirrorMask (2005), UK, USA, fantasy film directed by Dave McKean, written by Neil Geiman. In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home. |
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4. Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) (2006), Mexican Spanish-language dark-fantasy film, written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. |
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5. Delicatessen (1991), French black comedy film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants. |
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6. Tideland (2005), British-Canadian fantasy thriller film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, an adaptation of Mitch Cullin's novel of the same name. A lonely girl gets trapped in an eerie fantasy world after her irresponsible parents die. |
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7. The Fall (2006), adventure fantasy film directed by Tarsem Singh. It is based on the screenplay of the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho by Valeri Petrov. In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances. |
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8. Baraka (1992), USA, non-narrative film directed by Ron Fricke. A movie with no conventional plot: merely a collection of expertly photographed scenes. Subject matter has a highly environmental theme. |
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9. The Matrix (1999), American science fiction action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski. A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. |
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10. Night Watch (Nochnoy dozor) (2004), Russian supernatural thriller film directed by Timur Bekmambetov. It is loosely based on the novel The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle. Day Watch (Dnevnoy dozor) (2006), Russian dark fantasy action film directed by Timur Bekmambetov. A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event. |
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