Stanley Kubrick

Highlighted works

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  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  Peter Sellers plays three separate roles in Stanley Kubrick’s mordant Cold War comedy in which insanity and political manoeuvrings lead to nuclear meltdown.

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  2001: A Space Odyssey

  Stanley Kubrick took science fiction cinema in a grandly intelligent new direction with this epic story of man’s quest for knowledge.

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  The Shining

  Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of modern horror, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel.

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  A Clockwork Orange

  A dystopian future London is the playground of a teenage gang leader in Stanley Kubrick’s stylish, controversial take on Anthony Burgess’s novel about violence and free will.

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  Barry Lyndon

  Stanley Kubrick’s exquisitely detailed adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel about the picaresque exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer.

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  One-eyed Jacks

  The first and only film directed by Marlon Brando is a captivatingly off-beat, slow-burn revenge western of great beauty and vision.