The best "buddy" movie ever made. Voight plays the naive rhinestone studded small-town boy who dreams of becoming a big-city gigolo, Hoffman is the frail, sickly hobo he takes under his wing. Stunning performances from both make this an outstandingly powerful and touching film. Very stylish. Won Best Picture at 1969 Academy Awards.
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THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)
Certification15 Our Rating
Sweeping romantic drama of epic proportions. Fiennes's WWII pilot lays badly burned and in the care of an army nurse. As the unnamed, stiff-upper-lipped "English Patient" begins to recover, memories emerge of a past life as an archaeologist/cartographer in the Sahara, and a passionate affair with a married woman, Katharine. Though Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel simplifies, jettisons and changes certain elements of the original story, it remains a rich, complex, entran
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
Certification18 Our Rating
The famous drugs thriller as Gene Hackman plays the cop determined to fix the Marseille based heroin runners once and for all. An action-packed movie full of murders, car chases and everything else a good thriller should have - making it one of the classics and a yardstick for others since. Won Best Picture at 1971 Academy Awards.
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TRAFFIC (MICHAEL DOUGLAS) (2000)
Certification18 Our Rating
The story has four threads all of which revolve around the drug trade between America and Mexico; One involves a Mexican cop, not adverse to the odd crooked deal himself, but overwhelmed and dismayed by the suffocating level of corruption; another has an American drug baron's wife fighting to maintain her lifestyle and marriage when her husband is arrested, while the final two involve a drug csar trying to deal with his own daughters addiction and two American cops fighting a relentlessly loosin
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