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30 Movies That Are Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen Before

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As listed and described by Atlantic writer and Letterboxd user David Sims www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/05/30-singular-films-watch-quarantine/611956/

  • 1917
  • True History of the Kelly Gang

Movies that are period pieces in which George MacKay discovers a crying baby in a drawer and spends a significant amount of the movie's runtime fleeing for his life

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A list by @davechensky. Thx for the inspiration, @patalo! letterboxd.com/patalo/list/movies-in-which-george-mackay-finds-a-crying/

  • Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Movies that are conclusions of Star Wars trilogies in which Sheev Palpatine gets electrocuted

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A list by @davechensky

  • Bad Education
  • The Front Runner

Movies in which Hugh Jackman plays an American in a position of power who self-destructively asks a journalist to investigate him, only for that investigation to lead to his undoing

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A list by @davechensky

  • 21 Bridges
  • Extraction

Movies produced by the Russo Bros in which it’s a major plot point that bridges are closed off to people trying to flee the city while the protagonist, played by an AVENGERS actor, uses his mission to deal with his grief from a family member’s death

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A list by @davechensky

  • Aquaman
  • Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Movies in which the protagonist(s) flees from a war while a non-human king declares and enforces an anti-human discrimination policy. Also, at some point in the film an octopus plays the drums.

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A list by Dave Chen (twitter.com/@davechensky)

  • Marriage Story
  • Lost in Translation
  • Her

Movies in which a highly respected auteur filmmaker processed their own real-life divorce by depicting Scarlett Johansson in a deteriorating relationship with a man who is a content creator of some kind

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  • Mission: Impossible - Fallout
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Movies based on franchises that had a popular TV show on air during the 1960s, in which Henry Cavill plays a major character who gets in an intense fight in a public restroom

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  • Parasite
  • Prisoners
  • Enemy
  • Arrival
  • Joker

Movies where the theme of the movie is best expressed by asking the question, "But who is/are the REAL [TITLE OF THE MOVIE]?"

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  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Dangerous Minds
  • Tammy
  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Movies whose trailers use Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise"

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  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Movies starring Ewan McGregor in which all the action abruptly halts so that people on screen can perform an elaborate dance number set to a cover of “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend”

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  • Men in Black: International
  • Independence Day: Resurgence

Sequels to Movies Starring Will Smith That Reference Will Smith's Character Using an Oil Painting on the Wall

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