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Band of Outsiders is a 1964 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. A tres' French take on the cops and robbers motif, but told with exceptional style and shot in glorious black and white. The film is an adaptation of the novel Fools' Gold by American author Dolores Hitchens. The film belongs to the French New Wave movement, and Godard himself described it as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka". The Chicago Reader called it, "One of Godard's most appealing and underrated films." The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman, about the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) across a plague-ridden landscape, and a monumental game of chess between himself and the personification of Death. The film is iconic, the chess scene, the silhouettes dancing on a hillside behind the cloaked guy carrying a sickle, we've all seen these images replicated and parodied endlessly in other films. The highest form of flattery to be sure. It's a classic, must-see film. Watch it on a big screen and it just might change your life.