- 001- Louie Bluie
Before Terry Zwigoff turned his documentarian’s lens on cartoonist R. Crumb, the ardent jazz and blues fan tracked down and profiled an artist — Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong — who’d caught his ear on a 1930s recording for this, his first featu…
- 002- Slumdog Millionaire
After coming within one question of winning it all on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” 18-year-old Mumbai “slumdog” Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is arrested on suspicion that he cheated his way to the top. While in custody, he re…
- 003- Drag Me to Hell
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she’s been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend (…
- 004- Extract
Encouraged by his friend, Dean (Ben Affleck), factory owner Joel (Jason Bateman) considers escaping his problems — an assembly-line accident, a potential lawsuit and a sexless marriage, for starters — by taking up with the gorgeous new temp, Cin…
- 005- Away We Go
Buoyed by the news that they are expecting their first baby, Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) embark on a journey to locate the perfect place on the planet to raise their child. But their quest inevitably yields many unexpected surp…
- 006- Cold Souls
Paul Giamatti stars as himself, an actor in the throes of anxiety over an upcoming performance — until he gives his soul to a mysterious company that promises to freeze and store it until he wants it again, along with his anxieties. But when his …
- 007- Pandorum
Upon rousing themselves from hyper-sleep, Payton (Dennis Quaid) and Bower (Ben Foster), a pair of crewmen assigned to work on a spacecraft, discover startling gaps in their collective memory — including who they are and what, exactly, their missi…
- 008- 30 Days of Night
When a monthlong period of darkness sets in on the tiny Alaskan town of Barrow, the locals are visited by a flock of bloodthirsty vampires who are eager to take advantage of the no-sun zone, prompting the town sheriff (Josh Hartnett) to act fast t…
- 009- The Machinist
Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale) hasn’t slept in a year, and his physical and mental health have eroded. So when cryptic notes pop up in his apartment and he has visions of a co-worker nobody else can see, is it reality — or just the next level of …
- 010- Mulholland Dr.
Writer-director David Lynch weaves another mysteriously complex tale in this story about an amnesiac woman (Laura Herring) who’s left stranded on Mulholland Drive and gets taken in by a young newcomer (Naomi Watts) who’s moved to Hollywood to purs…
- 011- Hard Candy
Ellen Page (Juno) stars in this suspenseful drama from director David Slade as Hayley, an intelligent teen who’s got her own reasons for spending so much time with Geoff (Patrick Wilson), a much older man she met online. Even though Geoff is a cha…
- 012- The Bicycle Thief
Widely considered a landmark Italian film, Vittorio De Sica’s tale of a man who relies on his bicycle to do his job during Rome’s post-World War II depression earned a special Oscar for its devastating power. The same day Antonio (Lamberto Maggior…
- 013- Pot o’ Gold
To promote their bandleader buddy, Jimmy Haskel (James Stewart) and his sweetheart, Molly McCorkle (Paulette Goddard), devise a can’t-miss gimmick to keep radio listeners tuned in. James Roosevelt, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt, produced this tunef…
- 014- Papillon
Caged for a murder he didn’t commit, petty thief Henri “Papillon” Charriere (Steve McQueen) finds himself trapped within the walls of a French penal colony, determined to escape, in this film adaptation of Charriere’s true story. Joining forces wi…
- 015- Throne of Blood
Director Akira Kurosawa’s magnificent rumination on Shakespeare’s tragic “Macbeth” is a dark samurai drama set in feudal Japan, in which two soldiers — Washizu (Toshirô Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) — find themselves lost in a dense forest du…
