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Great Debut Features (showdown:debut)

Part of the "showdown" series. In alphabetical order. Might add a few more later as they come to mind.

Only counting feature length works; I'm going off of the (somewhat arbitrary) 50+ minutes rubric. The one exception might be "Not Reconciled" at 50-odd minutes, but Straub/Huillet's first "conventional length" feature, "The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach", would also count here.

  • Badlands
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Blood Simple
  • Breathless
  • Citizen Kane
  • Distant Voices, Still Lives
  • Jour de Fête
  • Killer of Sheep
  • Knife in the Water
  • L'Atalante
  • Laura
  • Naked Childhood
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • Not Reconciled
  • Paris Is Burning
  • Pather Panchali
  • Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  • The Producers
  • Say Anything...
  • The Spirit of the Beehive
  • Sweetie
  • They Live by Night
  • Titicut Follies
  • Violent Cop
  • The White Balloon