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| | 100 Greatest Foreign Films from Movieline Magazine |
 | | Gonzo German director Werner Herzog goes to the Amazon with the conquistadors in the early 16th century and returns with an unforgettable hallucination of the New World-rusted armor, deadly whirlpools, dying aristocrats and 10,000 monkeys. |
 | | Josef von Sternberg went to Berlin to do a story of a pompous teacher who is seduced and humiliated by a cabaret singer. |
 | | BuÒuel's riotous late-career masterpiece about a gaggle of self-infatuated Parisians whose attempts at having dinner together are forever frustrated by terrorist attacks, army invasions, sexual liaisons, dream sequences, etc. For a perfect bad-dream double-bill, rent it with BuÒuel's The Exterminating Angel, where the dinner guests never get to leave the dining room. |
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