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True Romance

Dir.: Tony Scott
| 116 minutes

A salesman in a comic store falls in love with a prostitute and is forced to kill her pimp. The couple flees for their lives. Director Tony Scott embraces Quentin Tarantino’s gripping script, with its graphic violence, sharp dialogue, nihilism, and black humor.

Alien

Dir.: Ridley Scott
| 117 minutes

A space shuttle crew member is attacked by a strange creature. Back in the shuttle, it becomes clear that the threat lingers and will only grow more dangerous. Ridley Scott’s film is undoubtedly one of the most influential, enjoyable, and fascinating sci-fi films in cinema history.

The Fifth Element

Dir.: Luc Besson
| 126 minutes

Manhattan, 2259. A red-haired woman with supernatural powers, the fifth element, lands in Bruce Willis’ flying taxi. Together, they must unite the elements to stop evil forces. Luc Besson creates a visually stunning, effects-driven future crafted purely to dazzle and entertain the audience.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Dir.: George Lucas
| 121 minutes

The war between good and evil finds a new hero in the form of Luke Skywalker sent by the Force to rescue Princess Leia, who is leading a rebellion against an evil empire. New Hope is a sweeping and thrilling adventure, a cultural phenomenon that has not lost any of its magic.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Dir.: Ang Lee
| 120 minutes

A famed martial artist retires, entrusting his 400-year-old sword to his partner. On her way to Beijing, it’s stolen by a masked thief, sparking a breathtaking, gravity-defying chase filled with elegance, emotion, and stunning martial arts choreography.

Cinema Paradiso - Director's Cut

Dir.: Giuseppe Tornatore
| 170 minutes

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist. 

Election

Dir.: Alexander Payne
| 103 minutes

An ambitious high school student who has her sights set on the position of student government president spares no means to achieve her goals. One of the teachers, experiencing a life crisis, decides to thwart her plans. Their ongoing rivalry quickly escalates in unexpected directions.

Do the Right Thing

Dir.: Spike Lee
| 120 minutes

Spike Lee's powerful film centers on an Italian pizzeria, which acts as a Caucasian and archaic settlement in the heart of an African-American neighborhood, when racial tensions explode on the hottest day of the year. Lee’s brilliant, enjoyable, and enthralling film seems as relevant as ever. 

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18.06.25
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Pulp Fiction

Dir.: Quentin Tarantino
| 149 minutes

An anthology of stories about L.A. gangsters whose fun and games can be deadly. With deliciously corrupt characters, witty dialogues, the distinctive direction style, the brilliant musical choices, Pulp Fiction is without a doubt a classic that should be enjoyed on the big screen.

Frances Ha

Dir.: Noah Baumbach
| 86 minutes

Having lost her safety net in the city, 27-year-old Frances reels at a dizzying pace from Brooklyn to Sacramento to Paris, and then to upstate New York. Noah Baumbach voices the anxieties and tribulations of a whole generation.

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25.06.25
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Alice

Dir.: Jan Švankmajer
| 85 minutes

This astounding work by Czech surrealist animator Jan Švankmajer is, without doubt, the most spectacular adaptation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland."  The film is abundant with a stunning combination of pure nonsense and careful logic, black humor, and psychological enlightenment, including many outlandish moments.

Airplane!

Dir.: Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
| 90 minutes

A very funny parody on the disaster film genre, with an endless stream of gags, which became the breakthrough film for the team of the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. 

Rocky

Dir.: John G. Avildsen
| 120 minutes

Rocky is a cinematic legend - Stallone wrote the script himself and sold it only to producers who agreed that he would star in the lead role. Even five decades later, Rocky is still a fun sports drama centered on a hero with a big heart.

The Holy Mountain

Dir.: Alejandro Jodorowsky
| 114 minutes

A Jesus-like young man is guided by a strange alchemist and his assistants through a psychedelic night of religious and secular rituals. The Holy Mountain is "a landmark of visionary filmmaking pitched somewhere between magic ritual and surreal burlesque" (Wall Street Journal).

Moonrise Kingdom

Dir.: Wes Anderson
| 94 minutes

Sam and Suzy are both outsiders in the summer camp. Both decide to run away to build their own world. The escape, the journey, and the search for the two will lead the kids and those around them to some realizations. Exceptional aesthetic beauty, a clever narrative structure, and unique characters create this poignant charming comedy. 

A Real Pain

Dir.: Jesse Eisenberg
| 90 minutes

Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their grandmother, but old tensions resurface. Premiering at Sundance, the film earned rave reviews for its humor, emotional depth, and the actors' stellar performances.

Juno

Dir.: Jason Reitman
| 92 minutes

At the age of sixteen, Juno MacGuff decides to have sex with her friend Paulie Bleeker and gets pregnant. From hereon, we follow Juno over the nine months of pregnancy until the birth of the child, we meet the potential adoptive parents, and like her we experience the expected emotional upheavals.

One Hour Photo

Dir.: Mark Romanek
| 95 minutes

Sy, the introverted fellow who runs the one hour photo shop where Nina takes the family photos to be developed, develops an obsession towards the Yorkins. When a roll of film reveals that all may not be perfect in the Yorkins' family life, Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse as well.