Actor · 1962

Jodie Foster

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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Martin Scorsese · 1974

Martin Scorsese’s 1974 film follows widow Alice Hyatt as she travels with her son from New Mexico to California, detouring through Arizona. Working first as a lounge singer, then a diner waitress, she navigates grief, economic precarity, and tentative new relationships. Ellen Burstyn won an Academy Award for her layered, unsentimental performance. The film avoids easy resolutions, favouring psychological fidelity and quiet observation over plot mechanics or stylistic flourish.

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A Very Long Engagement

Jean-Pierre Jeunet · 2004

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2004 film follows Mathilde, a young Breton woman who refuses to accept her fiancé’s death in the First World War. Using letters, archives, and dogged interviews, she reconstructs the fate of five soldiers condemned to no man’s land. Shot by Bruno Delbonnel and scored by Angelo Badalamenti, it balances tactile realism with poetic restraint, anchoring its wartime narrative in the quiet persistence of civilian life in 1920s France.

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Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese · 1976

Martin Scorsese's 1976 film follows Travis Bickle, an insomniac Vietnam veteran driving a New York taxi through the city's worst hours, as his isolation and contempt for the people around him build toward an act of violence aimed first at a political candidate and then at the pimp controlling a twelve-year-old sex worker he has taken an interest in. Written by Paul Schrader, shot with a jittery, restless camera, and scored by Bernard Herrmann in the days before his death, the film was made for $1.9 million and returned over $117 million, winning the Palme d'Or and later becoming entangled in real-world controversy after inspiring an actual assassination attempt.

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The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme · 1991

Jonathan Demme's 1991 thriller sends FBI trainee Clarice Starling to interview imprisoned psychiatrist and cannibal Hannibal Lecter for insight into a serial killer skinning his victims. Adapted by Ted Tally from Thomas Harris's novel and shot by Tak Fujimoto, it swept the Academy Awards' top five categories, a feat achieved by only three films, and remains the only horror film to win Best Picture.