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55 LA Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson)
A beautiful period piece adapted from James Ellroy's novel and the most accomplished West Coast noir since Chinatown. Plus a calling card for Russell Crowe.

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57. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978, Fred Schepisi)
A harrowing and brilliant adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel about a half-caste Aborigine traduced by his white masters in early 20th-century Australia.

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56. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell go head-to-head as a tough news editor and his ex-wife crime reporter, trading gags and dialogue at breakneck pace.

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59. Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970, Vittorio de Sica)
De Sica's haunting, and subtly horrifying, account of an aristocratic Jewish family trying to outpace the long reach of the Holocaust. Dominique Sanda is sensational as the spoilt daughter