Double Features |
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...a
compilation of films that are both good and good together (thematically,
stylistically, have similar plots, etc.) |
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Film #2 |
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Film #3 |
Why |
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Cool Hand Luke |
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I Am A Fugitive From A
Chain Gang |
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great, similar movies about life on the chain gang |
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Hoop Dreams |
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Heart Of The Game |
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documentaries about high school basketball |
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Godfather Part II |
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Casino |
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mob movies that complement each other |
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Following |
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Mr. Brooks |
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Apt Pupil |
films about being infatuated with a criminal |
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Bolivia |
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Do The Right Thing |
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tackling social problems in a café/restaurant |
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Singin' In The Rain |
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Sunset Boulevard |
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Limelight |
different takes on the death of the silent era |
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Aviator |
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Tucker: The Man And His
Dream |
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biopics, same period, intersecting stories |
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Beat Street |
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Style Wars |
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similar graffiti themes |
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Cache |
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S&Man |
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similar theme of audience being complicit |
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Friday Night Lights |
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Go Tigers! |
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both about high school
football taken too seriously |
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Kid Stays In The Picture |
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Raging Bulls, Easy Riders |
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documentaries about filmmaking in the 70s |
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Novocaine |
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Citizen Ruth |
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Election |
stylistically similar and all quite funny |
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Brother's Keeper |
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Deadline |
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Staircase |
films about the justice system |
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Jaundiced Eye |
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Capturing The Friedmans |
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Stevie |
films about alleged child molesters |
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Pather Panchali |
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Tree Of Wooden Clogs |
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similar organic film style |
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Rushmore |
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Napoleon Dynamite |
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offbeat comedies, rushmore's better |
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Bob Roberts |
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Bulworth |
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Man Of The Year |
satires of the political system |
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Open Water |
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Blair Witch Project |
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low budget horror films of similar style |
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Slacker |
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Waking Life |
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linklater films centered around philosophy |
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Grand Illusion |
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Great Escape |
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similar plots |
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Salesman |
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Glengarry Glenross |
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Tin Men |
all are good films about salesmen |
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Grave Of The Fireflies |
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Life Is Beautiful |
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very well done wwii films
told from the ground level |
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General Idi Amin Dada |
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Last King Of Scotland |
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Lumumba |
all are about african dictators |
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Solaris (original) |
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Eternal Sunshine Of The
Spotless Mind |
both are somewhat
surrealistic and mind-bending |
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Hoosiers |
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Go Tigers! |
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both are about high school sports |
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Far Country |
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Treasure Of The Sierra Madre |
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Gold Rush (Chaplin) |
focus on the lust of gold, all are great |
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Fog Of War |
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Naqoyqatsi |
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similar themes of war's
effects, both scored by philip glass |
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Primary |
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War Room |
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inside looks at political
campaigns (jfk and clinton) |
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American Movie |
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Friends Forever |
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documentaries about similar offbeat characters |
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Dersu Uzala |
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Nanook Of The North |
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dersu uzala was probably
inspired by the documentary nanook of the north |
Branded To Kill |
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Ghost Dog: Way Of The
Samurai |
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ghost dog was probably
inspired in part by branded to kill |
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Die Hard |
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Panic Room |
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have some similar elements, both quality films |
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Bonnie And Clyde |
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Natural Born Killers |
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similar themes, both visionary at the time |
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Total Recall |
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Robocop |
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same actor plays the villain, similar themes |
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Rollerball |
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Running Man |
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futuristic games/sports with social commentary |
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Rashomon |
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Capturing The Friedmans |
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Brother's Keeper |
about the importance and
relativity of perspective |
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Zombie |
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Dawn Of The Dead |
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similar plots |
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Throne Of Blood |
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Scotland, PA |
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both based on macbeth |
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Modern Times |
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Gods Must Be Crazy |
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similar themes of modernity's insanity |
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