The Seventh Seal (1957)

Director: Ingmar Bergman (Jungfrukallan, stuff you've never heard of)
Stars: Max Von Sydow (The Exorcist, Judge Dredd)
Some other Swedish actors
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This movie is not for everyone. As the tag says, its existential, which roughly translates to arty. If you can tolerate leaving a movie with more questions than answers and enjoy the challenge of figuring out meaning in obscure references, than you will find this movie an unparalleled work of art. Von Sydow is a knight returning from the Crusades to his plague ravaged homeland only to find Death waiting for him. In order to delay his death and see his wife one more time after 10 years away he challanges Death to a chess match. The film's exploration of the ideas of religion, athiesm and death are still fascinating and relevant today.
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