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1	Casablanca 1942, PG)
2	Millennium Actress (Sennen joyû) 2001, PG) One of my all time favorite movies. The way Kon mixes the life story of the title character into the films she's created in her life is awe-inspiring and could only be done in the medium of animation. One of the few movies that always makes my eyes water at the end.
3	Spirited Away 2001, PG)
4	Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters 1985, R) Here is one strange film. It was produced by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and was directed by Paul Schrader (guy who wrote 'The Taxi Driver') and the film is about Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, who on November 25, 1970 seized the headquarters of Japan's Eastern Army with a cadre of self-styled soldiers. And despite having American producers and an American director, the movie is all in Japanese except for some narration by Roy Scheider (which I've read has been replaced on the DVD version so I'm going to keep my VHS of this one.) The movie, itself, is fascinating from beginning to end as they use scenes from his plays along side with events in his life to help show what might be going on in his head. This is one of the best films I have ever seen and one of the most overlooked movies to come out of the 1980's.
5	Léon (The Professional) 1994, R)
6	The Shawshank Redemption 1994, R)