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  The Long Goodbye (1973): A Philip Marlowe for the 1970s

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  Pretty Crazy (2025): Night and day

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  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): Mythic Redford and Newman

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  Ghostbusters (1984): The ghosts of the ’80s

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  The Silenced (2015): The Gothic Sanitarium

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  Top Hat (1935): White Tie and Tails

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  Green Snake (1993): Mortal desires in high-contrast colours

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  In a Lonely Place (1950): Noir fatalism

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  Finding Nemo (2003): Under the deep blue sea

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  The Third Man (1949): The crooked Vienna

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  They Live (1988): The truth behind Reaganomics

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  Flow (2024): A catstacular journey

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  Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972): Avant-garde revenge

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  Bob Roberts (1992): Political satire of its time

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  How to Steal a Million (1966): Heist, 1960s style

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  The Drug King (2018): 1970s Korean Gangster

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  Sunset Boulevard (1950): The decaying artist

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  M (1931): The Geometry of Paranoia

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  The Running Man (1987): Flamboyant and deadly

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  Cutie Honey (2004): Live-action cartoon

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  Naked Lunch (1991): Weird appetites

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  The Big Sleep (1946): The classic convoluted noir

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  Revolver (2024): A restrained revenge

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  Chinatown (1974): Bleakness under the sun