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Four addicts in Coney Island through one year; Aronofsky's hip-hop montage and Clint Mansell's theme.

Mickey Rourke as a broken-down wrestler on the New Jersey circuit; the comeback of both of them.

Natalie Portman's ballerina cracks under Swan Lake; Aronofsky's backstage horror.

One love story across a conquistador, a scientist and a man in a bubble with a tree.

Brendan Fraser as a 600-pound teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter; his Oscar comeback.

Moses against Ramesses, with the ten plagues staged as natural disasters.

Nolan's emotional voyage through space and time (2014).

Watch Spartacus, the 1960 epic historical drama directed by Stanley Kubrick (the film is often incorrectly attributed to David Lynch; it stars Kirk Douglas as the Thracian gladiator who leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic). The film is famous for its massive battle scenes, the iconic 'I am Spartacus' sequence, and a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (a blacklisted writer who received credit, helping break the Hollywood blacklist).