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2001: A Space Odyssey
A 1968 British-American science fiction film tracing humanity's contact with a mysterious black monolith from prehistory through a Jupiter mission gone awry.
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List of Movies That Contain D
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Double Indemnity
A 1944 American film noir about an insurance salesman seduced into murdering a client's husband to collect on a policy he writes for him.
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Drive
A 2011 American neo-noir crime film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn about a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver and is drawn into a violent heist gone wrong.
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Dune
A 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve, adapting the first half of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel about feudal interstellar houses warring over the desert planet Arrakis.
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Dunkirk
A 2017 war film written and directed by Christopher Nolan dramatizing the May and June 1940 evacuation of British and Allied troops from the French coast.
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Edge of Tomorrow
A 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Doug Liman about a public relations officer caught in a time loop during an alien invasion of Europe.
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Gladiator
A 2000 epic historical drama directed by Ridley Scott about a Roman general betrayed by the new emperor Commodus and forced into the arena as a gladiator seeking revenge.
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Gone with the Wind
A 1939 American historical romance about a Southern plantation heiress whose life is upended by the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Goodfellas
A 1990 American crime film tracing the rise and fall of New York mob associate Henry Hill from his 1950s youth to his 1980 turn as a federal witness.
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Heidi
A 1937 American family drama directed by Allan Dwan adapting Johanna Spyri's novel about a Swiss orphan sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps.
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It's a Wonderful Life
A 1946 American Christmas fantasy about a despairing small-town banker shown by a guardian angel what the world would have been without him.
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La La Land
A 2016 American musical romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Damien Chazelle about an aspiring actress and a jazz pianist trying to build careers in Los Angeles.
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Mad Max
A 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller about a near-future Highway Patrol officer who turns vigilante after a violent biker gang murders his family.
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Nomadland
A 2020 American drama written and directed by Chloe Zhao about a woman in her sixties who lives in a van and travels the American West as a modern itinerant worker.
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Oldboy
A 2003 South Korean neo-noir mystery thriller directed by Park Chan-wook about a man imprisoned in a hotel room for fifteen years who, after his release, has only days to find his captor.
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Quo Vadis
A 1951 American epic historical drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy about a Roman general who falls in love with a Christian woman during the reign of Emperor Nero.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
A 1981 American adventure about an archaeologist hired by US intelligence to recover the Ark of the Covenant before Nazi expeditions can find it first.
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Rear Window
A 1954 American thriller about a photographer immobilized by a broken leg who becomes convinced his neighbor across the courtyard has committed murder.
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Sansho Dayu
A 1954 Japanese period drama directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, often released abroad as Sansho the Bailiff, about a Heian-era family torn apart and sold into slavery.
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Schindler's List
A 1993 American historical drama about Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who used his Krakow factories to protect more than a thousand Jewish workers from Nazi extermination.
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Sunset Boulevard
A 1950 American film noir about a failed Hollywood screenwriter who becomes entangled with a forgotten silent-film star living in faded grandeur.
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The Dark Knight
A 2008 American superhero film in which Batman, the Gotham district attorney, and the police commissioner together face a chaos-driven criminal called the Joker.
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The Godfather
A 1972 American crime epic about the Corleone family's struggle to maintain control of a New York organized crime dynasty across the post-war decade.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A 2001 New Zealand-American fantasy epic about a hobbit who inherits a dangerous magical ring and joins a quest to destroy it in the fires of its making.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
A 2003 New Zealand-American fantasy epic concluding the quest as the armies of the West confront Sauron while the ring approaches Mount Doom.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
A 2002 New Zealand-American fantasy epic following the splintered fellowship as armies of Saruman threaten the kingdom of Rohan and the journey east continues.
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The Shawshank Redemption
A 1994 American prison drama about a wrongfully convicted banker who endures two decades inside a Maine penitentiary while quietly engineering an escape.
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The Sound of Music
A 1965 American musical about a young Austrian postulant who becomes governess to a naval officer's seven children on the eve of the Nazi annexation.
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The Wizard of Oz
A 1939 American musical fantasy about a Kansas farm girl transported to a magical land where she must find the way home.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
A 1962 American legal drama set in Depression-era Alabama, where a small-town lawyer defends a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman.
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Underworld
A 2003 action horror film directed by Len Wiseman about a centuries-old war between vampires and werewolves, told through the perspective of a vampire warrior named Selene.
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V for Vendetta
A 2005 dystopian political thriller directed by James McTeigue based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, set in a future Britain ruled by a fascist regime.
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West Side Story
A 1961 American musical updating Romeo and Juliet to 1950s Manhattan, where rival white and Puerto Rican street gangs collide around a love affair.
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X2 X-Men United
A 2003 American superhero film directed by Bryan Singer in which the X-Men ally with their enemy Magneto to stop a paramilitary attack on mutants led by William Stryker.
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Xanadu
A 1980 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Olivia Newton-John as a roller-skating muse who inspires an artist and an aging musician.
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Zodiac
A 2007 American mystery thriller directed by David Fincher about the hunt for the Zodiac killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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