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25 MOVIE SCENES You Must See Before You Die!
Cinema Paradiso (4 Disc Deluxe Edition Box Set)  [1989] [DVD]Cinema Paradiso (4 Disc Deluxe Edition Box Set) [1989] [DVD]
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At the end of the movie, the grown-up Toto finally views Alfredo's lost clippings in a montage of old movie scenes that would make a concrete block blub like a big girl's blouse...
Secrets & Lies [DVD] [1996]Secrets & Lies [DVD] [1996]
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In a Holborn cafe, the black Jean-Baptiste is sat with a shocked and in-denial white Blethyn. Out comes a birth cert with BB's signature; Blethyn's face as she slowly realises who this woman is...
Amelie [2001] [DVD]Amelie [2001] [DVD]
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A frenchman answers a ringing phone in a booth only to find a small tin put there for him to find by Amelie; his look of tearful wonder as he realises it's his childhood toy box...
Saving Private Ryan [DVD] [1998]Saving Private Ryan [DVD] [1998]
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Following D-Day, a mother of 4 moves to the door of her farmstead as an Army car approaches; we see "three" US Brass solemnly get out; we don't need to see her face as her knees buckle...
Shine [DVD] [1997]Shine [DVD] [1997]
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Lynn Redgrave is standing by the ocean thinking about the physically and mentally challenging David Helfgott; she has a decision to make about this man; she pulls in her blouse, smiles & heads back...
There's Something About Mary [1998] [DVD]There's Something About Mary [1998] [DVD]
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Ben Stiller has been in the bathroom dampening his ardour with a dirty magazine; loses it; he answers the bell to Cameron Diaz who notices a substance hanging from his earlobe...
The Usual Suspects (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1995]The Usual Suspects (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1995]
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Having smugly let Verbal Kint go (Spacey), Chazz Palminteri is sat on his 'cop' desk. Realises something. His mug falls & breaks on the floor revealing "Kobayashi" on its base, a name Verbal used...
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels: Directors Cut [DVD] [1998]Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels: Directors Cut [DVD] [1998]
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Vinnie Jones leaves an auction catalogue with the hapless boys; it shows two antique shotguns worth £350,000 that they'e just told their friend to ditch in the river. They reach for their mobiles...
Moonstruck [DVD] [1987]Moonstruck [DVD] [1987]
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A tearful Danny Aiello calls from Naples to Manhattan from the deathbed of his Italian mother, who on hearing of Danny's impending nuptuals to lust-bucket Cher, has made a miraculous recovery...
Bram Stoker's Dracula [DVD] [1993]Bram Stoker's Dracula [DVD] [1993]
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Gary Oldman takes a razor from Jonathan Hawker's throat and licks the speck of his blood on it; his lips shudder and quiver at this delicious morsel...
Out Of Sight [DVD] [1998]Out Of Sight [DVD] [1998]
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Convict George Clooney is holed up tight in the boot of a getaway car with kidnapped law enforcement officer Jennifer Lopez; their fidgeting and loaded words literally ooze sexual chemistry...
Raising Arizona [1987] [DVD]Raising Arizona [1987] [DVD]
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Flames roaring out of the exhausts of his Harley, the manhunting 'Warthog From Hell' grenades a bunny rabbit - camera goes to dangling baby shoes and an arm tattoo "My mother didn't love me"!
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition) [DVD] [1977]Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition) [DVD] [1977]
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As it comes over the mountain, the full glory of the "mothership" is revealed. You leave the cinema with John Williams score ringing in your ears and an automatic urge to look up at the stars...
The Name Of The Rose [1987] [DVD]The Name Of The Rose [1987] [DVD]
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Man of logic, science, education - a good man - Brother William of Baskerville makes his way through the Abbey's 14th Century Labyrinth and stumbles on "the greatest library in all of Christendom!"
Cool Hand Luke [1967] [DVD]Cool Hand Luke [1967] [DVD]
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Non-conformist Newman is on the chain-gang and doing Southern hard time for a non-crime; typically he bucks the system by starting an egg-eating contest - he downs ten, then twenty, then....
Love Actually [DVD] [2003]Love Actually [DVD] [2003]
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Emma Thompson quietly breaks down in her bedroom as she feels the disintegration of her marriage to Alan Rickman while Joni's gorgeous & lyrically relevant "Both Sides Now" plays in the background...
Sexy Beast [DVD] [2001] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]Sexy Beast [DVD] [2001] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
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Kingsley's monstrous, foul-mouthed, racist horror of a character is finally done in; but still as hard as nails in his coffin, the devil kicks in the side and he shouts up obscenity at old Nick!
Show Me Love [DVD] [2000] [US Import] [NTSC]Show Me Love [DVD] [2000] [US Import] [NTSC]
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With her Swedish school torturers banging on the lavvy door thinking she's inside with yet another boy, the two female leads emerge to stunned silence, one takes the other's hand and come out proudly.
Jaws 30th Anniversary 2dvd Special Edition [1975]Jaws 30th Anniversary 2dvd Special Edition [1975]
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Scheider is sinking on his raft, down to his last bullets, he aims at the oncoming Great White and hits the oxgene tank lodged in Bruce's man-munching boat-guzzling teeth - BOOM!!!!
Airplane! [DVD] [1980]Airplane! [DVD] [1980]
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Saw this in Dublin when it came out; a guy in front of me laughed so hard that he literally rolled into the aisles; the reason; Lloyd Bridges, "the s**t will hit the fan now!" - and it did!
Jerry Maguire [DVD] [1997]Jerry Maguire [DVD] [1997]
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Cuba Gooding Jr's American football player has been floored in what looks like a back-breaking tackle; he awakes and then starts dancing to the joy of the crowd, commentators and watching family...
The Ladykillers [DVD] [1955] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]The Ladykillers [DVD] [1955] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
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The dotty but loveable Mrs. Wilberforce has sideways killed Alec Guinness's entire gang; honest to the end she comes into a Copshop with their loot; they refuse; "He did say you wouldn't want it!"
Pride & Prejudice - 2005 [DVD]Pride & Prejudice - 2005 [DVD]
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Soppy moment supreme as MacFayden finally walks across the misty moor towards Elizabeth Bennett - while Dario Marianelli's stunning piano score goes from a plinker to a crescendo...
Nil By Mouth [1997] [DVD]Nil By Mouth [1997] [DVD]
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Charles Creed-Miles has suffered more knuckles from his violent alcoholic Dad Winstone; he stands on the cold estate and your heart aches; you know he's going to score again to dull the pain...
The Shawshank Redemption (3 Disc Special Edition Box Set) [1995] [DVD]The Shawshank Redemption (3 Disc Special Edition Box Set) [1995] [DVD]
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Red is on the Trailways bus to the Pacific Ocean; he's smiling inside, on his way to meet his friend Andy, as Thomas Newman's beautiful music soars - "only a free man could know..."