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A Quiet Place
A 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski, in which a family lives in silence to avoid blind extraterrestrial creatures that hunt by sound.
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List of Movies That Contain U
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Asylum
A 2005 British-Irish romantic drama directed by David Mackenzie about the wife of a psychiatrist at a 1950s mental hospital who begins a destructive affair with a patient.
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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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Ben-Hur
A 1959 American epic about a Jewish prince in Roman-occupied Judea who is sold into slavery and returns years later to confront the friend who betrayed him.
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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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Crumb
A 1994 American documentary directed by Terry Zwigoff about the underground comix artist Robert Crumb and his troubled brothers Charles and Maxon.
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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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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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Fight Club
A 1999 American drama about an alienated office worker who, with a charismatic soap salesman, founds a secret bare-knuckle club that escalates into something larger.
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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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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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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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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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Jurassic Park
A 1993 American science fiction film about a tropical-island theme park stocked with cloned dinosaurs that escape containment during a preview visit.
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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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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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Quills
A 2000 American historical drama directed by Philip Kaufman about the Marquis de Sade's final years in the Charenton asylum near Paris and his battle to keep writing.
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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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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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Sanctum
A 2011 Australian-American 3D adventure thriller directed by Alister Grierson about a group of cave divers trapped in a vast Papua New Guinea cave system after a tropical storm.
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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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Sleuth
A 1972 British mystery thriller directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz adapting Anthony Shaffer's stage play, in which a successful mystery writer invites his wife's lover to his English country house.
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Step Up
A 2006 American dance romance film directed by Anne Fletcher about a Baltimore street dancer who is paired with a classically trained student at the Maryland School of the Arts.
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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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Tabu
A 1931 American silent docufiction film directed by F. W. Murnau in collaboration with Robert J. Flaherty, set among Polynesians in the Pacific and shot on location in Bora Bora.
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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 Queen
A 2006 British historical drama directed by Stephen Frears about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during the week following the death of Princess Diana in 1997.
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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 Stuff
A 1985 American satirical horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen about a creamy, sugar-free dessert that turns out to be a parasitic organism consuming its consumers.
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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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Up
A 2009 American computer-animated comedy-drama from Pixar about an elderly widower who attaches balloons to his house and travels to South America with a young stowaway scout.
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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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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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