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Rise, Reign, and Ruin

Watch these together for the full arc of the self-made man — the hunger, the empire built on violence, and the rot that comes for whoever built it.

All widely-seen and endlessly quoted, from untouchable film-school canon to lurid crowd cult objects; accessible on the surface but genuinely brutal, so cue up the two later titles when you're ready for the darkness.