When by Choice or Consequence, You Spend a Notable Amount of Your Day in a Sewer

• The Third Man (dir. Carol Reed, 1949; UK)

• Them! (dir. Gordon Douglas, 1954; USA)

• The Italian Job (dir. Peter Collinson, 1969; UK)

• C.H.U.D. (dir. Douglas Cheek, 1984; USA)

• The Blob (dir. Chuck Russell, 1988; USA)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (dir. Steve Barron, 1990; USA/Hong Kong)

• It (dir. Tommy Lee Wallace, 1990; USA/Canada)

• The Fugitive (dir. Andrew Davis, 1993; USA)

• Die Hard with a Vengeance (dir. John McTiernan, 1995; USA)

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When You Win a Beauty or Dance Contest

• The Firemen's Ball / Horí, má panenko (dir. Milos Forman, 1967; Czechoslovakia/Italy)
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (dir. Sydney Pollack, 1969; USA)
• Smile (dir. Michael Ritchie, 1975; USA)
• Saturday Night Fever (dir. John Badham, 1977; USA)
• Breakin' (dir. Joel Silberg, 1984; USA)
• Strictly Ballroom (dir. Baz Luhrmann, 1992; Australia)
• Bring it On (dir. Peyton Reed, 2000; USA)
• Little Miss Sunshine (dir. Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 2006; USA)
• Step Up 2: The Streets (dir. John M. Chu, 2008; USA)
• Whip It (dir. Drew Barrymore, 2009; USA)

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When You Need To Feel Hopeful About Your Severe Case Of Amnesia But Anyway You Shouldn't Have To Apologize Because You Can't Even Remember What Kind of Bird It Was

• Spellbound (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1945; USA)
• The Manchurian Candidate (dir. John Frankenheimer, 1962; USA)
• Mirage (dir. Edward Dmytryk, 1965; USA)
• Desperately Seeking Susan (dir. Susan Seidelman, 1985; USA)
• Overboard (dir. Garry Marshall, 1987; USA)
• Total Recall (dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1990; USA)
• The Long Kiss Goodnight (dir. Renny Harlin, 1996; USA)
• Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2000; USA)
• Mulholland Dr. / Mulholland Drive (dir. David Lynch, 2001; France/USA)
• The Man Without a Past / Mies vailla menneisyyttä (dir. Aki Kaurismäki, 2002; Finland/Germany/France)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry; 2004; USA)
• The Lookout (dir. Scott Frank, 2007; USA)
• The Bourne Ultimatum (dir. Paul Greengrass, 2007; USA/Germany/France/Spain)

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When You Have An Appointment With An Angel And You're Afraid You'll Say The Wrong Thing

• The Devil and Daniel Webster / All That Money Can Buy (dir. William Dieterle, 1941; USA)
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan (dir. Alexander Hall, 1941; USA)
• It's a Wonderful Life (dir. Frank Capra, 1944; USA)
• A Matter of Life and Death / Stairway to Heaven (dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946; UK)
• Angels in the Outfield (dir. Clarence Brown, 1951; USA)
• The Seventh Seal / Det sjunde inseglet (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1957; Sweden)
• Bedazzled (dir. Stanley Donen, 1967; UK)
• God Told Me To (dir. Larry Cohen, 1976; USA)
• Heaven Can Wait (dir. Warren Beatty & Buck Henry, 1978; USA)
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (dir. Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam, 1983; UK)
• Wings of Desire / Der Himmel über Berlin (dir. Wim Wenders, 1987; West Germany/France)
• Defending Your Life (dir. Albert Brooks, 1991; USA)
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (dir. Peter Hewitt, 1991; USA)
• Last Action Hero (dir. John McTiernan, 1993; USA)
• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (dir. McG, 2003; USA)

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When You Have a Job Interview to Be a Private Detective

• Sherlock Jr. (dir. Buster Keaton, 1924; USA)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (dir. Sidney Lanfield, 1939; UK)
• The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston, 1941; USA)
• Murder My Sweet (dir. Edward Dmytryk, 1944; USA)
• The Big Sleep (dir. Howard Hawks, 1946; USA)
• Lady in the Lake (dir. Robert Montgomery, 1947; USA)
• Out of the Past (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1947; USA)
• Kiss Me Deadly (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1955; USA)
• Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958; USA)
• Stolen Kisses / Baisers volés (dir. François Truffaut, 1968; France)
• Klute (dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1971; USA)
• The Long Goodbye (dir. Robert Altman, 1973; USA)
• The Conversation (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1974; USA)
• Chinatown (dir. Roman Polanski, 1974; USA)
• Night Moves (dir. Arthur Penn, 1975; USA)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (dir. Carl Reiner, 1982; USA)
• Blood Simple. (dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1984, USA)
• Fletch (dir. Michael Ritchie, 1985; USA)
• Devil in a Blue Dress (dir. Carl Franklin, 1995; USA)
• The Big Lebowski (dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1998; USA/UK)
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (dir. Shane Black, 2005; USA)
• Brick (dir. Rian Johnson, 2005; USA)
• Inherent Vice (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014; USA)
• The Nice Guys (dir. Shane Black, 2016; USA)

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When You Are Braving the Dead of Winter Because Why Do We Live Here

• Nanook of the North (dir. Robert J. Flaherty, 1922; USA)
• The Gold Rush (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1925; USA)
• The Thing From Another World (dir. Christian Nyby & Howard Hawks, 1951; USA)
• Doctor Zhivago (dir. David Lean, 1965; USA/Italy/UK)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (dir. Peter R. Hunt, 1969; UK)
• The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1980; UK/USA)
• The Thing (dir. John Carpenter, 1982; USA)
• Cliffhanger (dir. Renny Harlin, 1993; USA/Italy/France)
• Fargo (dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1996; USA/UK)
• A Simple Plan (dir. Sam Raimi, 1998; USA)
• Encounters at the End of the World (dir. Werner Herzog, 2007; USA)
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (dir. David Fincher, 2011; USA/Sweden/Norway)

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When You Need a Vacation or Need to Get Off the Grid

• It Happened One Night (dir. Frank Capra, 1934; USA)
• Sullivan's Travels (dir. Preston Sturges, 1941; USA)
• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday / Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (dir. Jacques Tati, 1953; France)
• Roman Holiday (dir. William Wyler, 1953; USA)
• Cinerama Holiday (dir. Robert L. Bendic &, Philippe De Lacy, 1955; USA)
• Pierrot Le Fou (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1965; France/Italy)
• Manos: The Hands of Fate (dir. Harrold P. Warren, 1966; USA)
• Easy Rider (dir. Dennis Hopper, 1969; USA)
• Deliverance (dir. John Boorman, 1972; USA)
• The Passenger / Professione: reporter (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975; Italy/Spain/France)
• National Lampoon's Vacation (dir. Harold Ramis, 1983; USA)
• Paris, Texas (dir. Wim Wenders, 1984; West Germany/France/UK/USA)
• Lost in America (dir. Albert Brooks, 1985; USA)
• Troll 2 (dir. Claudio Fragasso, 1990; Italy)
• Thelma & Louise (dir. Ridley Scott, 1991; USA/France)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (dir. Terry Gilliam, 1998; USA)
• Into the Wild (dir. Sean Penn, 2007; USA)
• Lost in Translation (dir. Sofia Coppola, 2003; USA/Japan)
• In Bruges (dir. Martin McDonagh, 2008; UK/USA) 
• It Follows (dir. David Robert Mitchell, 2014; USA)
• Swiss Army Man (dir. Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, 2016; USA/Sweden)

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When You Are in a Heatwave

• Greed (dir. Erich von Stroheim, 1924; USA)
• The Grapes of Wrath (dir. John Ford, 1940; USA)
• The Treasure of Sierra Madre (dir. John Huston, 1948; USA)
• Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954; USA)
• 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1957; USA)
• Lawrence of Arabia (dir. David Lean, 1962; UK/USA)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (dir. Sergio Leone, 1966; Italy/Spain/West Germany)
• Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg, 1967; USA)
• Wake in Fright (dir. Ted Kotcheff, 1971; Australia/USA/UK)
• Dog Day Afternoon (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1975; USA)
• Body Heat (dir. Lawrence Kasdan, 1981; USA)
• Ishtar (dir. Elaine May, 1987; USA)
• Do The Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee, 1989; USA)
• Barton Fink (dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1991; USA/UK)

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When You Buy Your First Car And Need to Know the Possibilities

• The Magnificent Ambersons (dir. Orson Welles, 1942; USA)
• The Hitch-Hiker (dir. Ida Lupino, 1953; USA)
• Weekend / Week End (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1967; France/Italy)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (dir. Ken Hughes, 1968, UK)
• Trafic (dir. Jacques Tati, 1971; France/Italy)
• The Cars That Ate Paris (dir. Peter Weir, 1974, Australia)
• Christine (dir. John Carpenter, 1983; USA)
• Repo Man (dir. Alex Cox, 1984; USA)
• Crash (dir. David Cronenberg, 1996; Canada/USA)
• Taste of Cherry / Ta'm e guilass (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1997; Iran/France)
• Ten (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 2002; Iran/France)
• The Brown Bunny (dir. Vincent Gallo, 2003; USA/Japan)
• Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby - Theatrical Cut (dir. Adam McKay, 2006; USA)
• The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2008; USA/UK)
• Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011; USA)
• Locke (dir. Steven Knight, 2013; UK/USA)
• Holy Motors (dir. Leos Carax, 2013; France/Germany

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When You Are Having a Dinner Party

• The Exterminating Angel / El ángel exterminador (dir. Luis Buñuel, 1962; Mexico)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols, 1966; USA)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (dir. Luis Buñuel, 1972; France)
• The Big Feast / La grande bouffe (dir. Marco Ferrari, 1973; France/Italy)
• Clue (dir. Jonathan Lynn, 1985; USA)
• Beetlejuice (dir. Tim Burton; 1988; USA)
• The Celebration / Festen (dir. Thomas Vintenberg, 1998; Denmark/Sweden)

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When you like Alexander Hamilton, Henry Darger, Frederick Douglass, Moses, Peter Lorre, Ray Charles, Babe Ruth, Batman, Alvin, and the Chipmunks

• Great Expectations (dir. David Lean, 1946; UK)
• Oliver Twist (dir. David Lean, 1948; UK)
• The Young and the Damned / Los Olvidados (dir. Luis Bunuel, 1950; Mexico)
• Peter Pan (dir. Vincent J. Donehue, 1960; USA)
• Ivan's Childhood / Ivanovo detstvo (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962; Soviet Union)
• Paper Moon (dir. Peter Bogdanovich, 1973; USA)
• Cria Cuervos (dir. Carlos Saura, 1976; Spain)
• The Rescuers (dir. John Lounsbery & Wolfgang Reitherman & Art Stevens, 1977; USA)
• The Blues Brothers (dir. John Landis, 1980; USA)
• Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (dir. Hector Babenco, 1981; Brazil)
• Miami Connection (dir. Woo-sang Park & Y.K. Kim, 1987; USA)
• The Bear / L'ours (dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1988; France/USA)
• Salaam Bombay! (dir. Mira Nair, 1988; UK/India/France)
• Free Willy (dir. Simon Wincer, 1993; USA/France)
• The City of Lost Children / La cité des enfants perdus (dir. Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995; France/Germany/Spain/Belgium)
• Jumanji (dir. Joe Johnston, 1995; USA)
• A Little Princess (dir. Alfonso Cuaron, 1995; USA)
• James and the Giant Peach (dir. Henry Selick, 1996; UK/USA)
• The Orphanage / El orfanato (dir. J.A. Bayona, 2007; Spain)
• The Informant! (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2009; USA)
• Hugo (dir. Martin Scorsese, 2011; USA)
• Moonrise Kingdom (dir. Wes Anderson, 2012; USA)

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