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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 O
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Back to the Future
A 1985 American science fiction comedy about a teenager accidentally transported from 1985 to 1955 in his eccentric friend's DeLorean time machine.
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Below
A 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by David Twohy about a US Navy submarine in 1943 that picks up British survivors of a hospital ship and is haunted by mysterious events.
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Beowulf
A 2007 American computer-animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis adapting the Old English epic poem about the warrior Beowulf and his fights with Grendel and a dragon.
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Cobb
A 1994 American biographical film directed by Ron Shelton about the final months in the life of the controversial Detroit Tigers baseball star Ty Cobb.
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Coco
A 2017 American computer-animated musical fantasy film from Pixar about a young Mexican boy who travels into the Land of the Dead to discover his family's musical heritage.
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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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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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Fargo
A 1996 American black comedy crime film written and directed by the Coen brothers about a kidnapping plot in Minnesota that escalates into a string of murders.
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Forrest Gump
A 1994 American comedy-drama following a slow-witted but kind-hearted Alabama man whose life intersects with several decades of American historical events.
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Frozen
A 2013 American computer-animated musical fantasy film from Walt Disney Animation Studios, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen.
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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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Hugo
A 2011 American 3D adventure film directed by Martin Scorsese about an orphan living in a Paris train station and his quest to repair a mechanical automaton.
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Inception
A 2010 American science fiction thriller about a corporate-espionage team that infiltrates dreams to plant ideas in a target's subconscious.
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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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Joker
A 2019 American psychological drama directed by Todd Phillips about a struggling stand-up comedian in Gotham City whose life unravels into violence and revolt.
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Juno
A 2007 American coming-of-age comedy directed by Jason Reitman about a sardonic Minnesota teenager who becomes pregnant and chooses an adoptive family for her child.
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King Kong
A 1933 American monster adventure film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack about a giant ape captured on Skull Island and brought to New York City.
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Knives Out
A 2019 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson about a Southern detective investigating the suspicious death of a wealthy crime novelist surrounded by self-interested heirs.
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Lawrence of Arabia
A 1962 British epic drama about T. E. Lawrence, a British army officer whose role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans transformed his identity and reputation.
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Logan
A 2017 American superhero film directed by James Mangold about an aging Wolverine caring for a sick Professor X in a near-future where mutants have nearly vanished.
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Mary Poppins
A 1964 American musical fantasy about a magical English nanny who arrives at a strained Edwardian London household and rearranges its priorities.
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Memento
A 2000 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan about a man with anterograde amnesia hunting the men he believes murdered his wife.
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Moneyball
A 2011 American biographical sports drama directed by Bennett Miller about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his data-driven approach to building a competitive baseball team.
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Network
A 1976 American satirical drama directed by Sidney Lumet about a fading television news anchor who becomes a ranting prophet and is exploited for ratings by his network.
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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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North by Northwest
A 1959 American spy thriller about a Madison Avenue advertising executive mistaken for a government agent and pursued across the country.
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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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On the Waterfront
A 1954 American crime drama about a former boxer turned dockworker who must decide whether to testify against the mob-tied union running his New Jersey waterfront.
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Oppenheimer
A 2023 American biographical thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project.
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Psycho
A 1960 American horror thriller about a secretary on the run who stops at an isolated motel run by a disturbed young man and his mother.
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Pulp Fiction
A 1994 American crime film weaving together the parallel stories of two hitmen, a boxer, and a gangster's wife over a few violent days in Los Angeles.
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Quiz Show
A 1994 American historical drama directed by Robert Redford about the 1950s television quiz show scandals, focusing on the rigged NBC program Twenty-One.
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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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Rebel Without a Cause
A 1955 American drama about a troubled high-school transfer student navigating one volatile night with two equally unmoored classmates in suburban Los Angeles.
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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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Sleepy Hollow
A 1999 American gothic horror film directed by Tim Burton, very loosely adapting Washington Irving's 1820 short story about a New York town haunted by a headless horseman.
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Some Like It Hot
A 1959 American comedy about two Chicago musicians who witness a mob killing and flee disguised as women in a touring all-female band.
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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 Box
A 2009 American psychological science fiction thriller written and directed by Richard Kelly about a 1970s Virginia couple who receive a wooden box that promises a million dollars in exchange for a stranger's death.
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The Crow
A 1994 American supernatural action film directed by Alex Proyas about a musician resurrected from the dead to avenge the murder of his fiancee on Devil's Night in Detroit.
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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 Maltese Falcon
A 1941 American film noir about a San Francisco private detective drawn into a hunt for a jewel-encrusted statuette of legendary value.
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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 Silence of the Lambs
A 1991 American psychological thriller about a young FBI trainee consulting an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist to catch a serial killer on the run.
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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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Topaz
A 1969 American spy thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock adapting Leon Uris's novel about a French intelligence agent who investigates Soviet missile activity in Cuba.
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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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Unforgiven
A 1992 American revisionist Western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as a retired outlaw who takes one last job to track down two cowboys who maimed a prostitute.
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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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Vacation
A 1983 American road comedy directed by Harold Ramis about the Griswold family's disaster-filled cross-country drive to a theme park called Walley World.
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Vertigo
A 1958 American psychological thriller about a retired San Francisco detective hired to follow a friend's wife, and the obsession that follows.
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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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Wolf
A 1994 American horror romance film directed by Mike Nichols about a New York book editor who is bitten by a wolf and gradually transforms.
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Yojimbo
A 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, in which a wandering ronin manipulates two rival gangs into destroying each other in a 19th-century town.
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You Only Live Twice
A 1967 British spy film directed by Lewis Gilbert, the fifth in the James Bond series, in which Bond investigates the hijacking of American and Soviet spacecraft from a Japanese island.
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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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Zootopia
A 2016 American animated buddy cop film from Walt Disney Animation Studios set in a city of anthropomorphic mammals, where a rookie rabbit officer and a con-artist fox uncover a conspiracy.
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Zorba the Greek
A 1964 drama directed by Michael Cacoyannis, in which a young Anglo-Greek writer travels to Crete and is transformed by his friendship with the exuberant peasant Alexis Zorba.
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