Movie Genres:
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Action Movies:
Fight Club
Fight Club is a 1999 feature film adaptation of the 1996 novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, adapted by Jim Uhls and directed by David Fincher.Fight Club explores themes of psychological emasculation in modern white-collar society, with Edward Norton playing a disillusioned everyman who meets a woman similar to him (Helena Bonham Carter) and a soap salesman (Brad Pitt) who embodies his repressed masculinity.The two men establish a club for men to engage in fist fights, and later, radical revolutionary/terrorist acts. The movie has achieved cult film status.Fight Club
Apocalypto
Apocalypto is an Academy Award nominated 2006 epic film directed by Mel Gibson. Set in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, it depicts one man's experience during the decline of the ancient Maya civilization. The film is brilliant. The cinematography, costumes and the set up manages to recapture the real Mayan civilization. The use of Yucatec language, which necessitated the use of subtitles, worked perfectly within the confines of the film. However, the violence and few scenes can get disgusting and gross.I quite liked the end when the Mayan couple had an option to embrace modern civilization, they turned their backs and chose to stay close to their roots. This is summed up in a famous quote from historian Will Durant about the fall of Rome showed in the opening of the story : "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."Apocalypto
Gladiator
Gladiator is a 2000 historical action film. It is directed by Ridley Scott and stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Djimon Hounsou and Richard Harris.Crowe portrays General Maximus Decimus Meridius, friend of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who is betrayed by the Emperor's ambitious son, Commodus (Phoenix), who murders his own father and seizes the throne. Captured and enslaved along the outer fringes of the Roman empire, Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family and his Emperor.The film's epic scope and intense battle scenes, as well as the emotional core of its performances, received much praise. In fact the film's success might have helped to revive the historical epic genre, with subsequent films such as Troy, Alexander and 300. Gladiator
Crank
Crank is a 2006 action/thriller film, written and directed by both Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) is a professional assassin working for the West Coast crime syndicate. Chev's girlfriend Eve (Amy Smart) doesn't know what Chev does and Chev is planning to quit the crime syndicate so he can spend more time with her. But for Chev, things about to get very bad, when he learns he has been injected with a poison called "The Beijing Cocktail" by his rival Verona (Jose Pablo Cantillo), which will kill him as his heart rate drops.Trying to stay alive and seeking help from friend, Kaylo (Efren Ramirez) and Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam), to keep his heart pumping. Chev sets out to find answers as well as protecting Eve, and get his revenge on those who have betrayed him before the poison kills him. Crank
The Ghost and the Darkness
The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 Oscar-winning film about the Tsavo maneaters, two lions who attacked the builders of the Uganda-Mombassa Railway in 1898, and the subsequent hunt to kill them. The attacks, which took place in Tsavo, Kenya, were recounted by Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson in his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo.William Goldman's script introduces Michael Douglas as the big game hunter Charles Remington - but in reality, Remington did not exist and Patterson killed both lions. Many Maasai characters in the film were actually portrayed by South African actors, although the Maasai depicted during the hunt are real Maasai warriors who helped for the movie. The Ghost and the Darkness
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy comprises three live action fantasy epic films: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).Set in the fictional world of Middle-earth, the three films follow the young Hobbit Frodo Baggins as he and a Fellowship embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring, and thus ensure the destruction of the Dark Lord Sauron. However, the Fellowship breaks and Frodo continues the quest together with his loyal companion Sam and the treacherous Gollum. Meanwhile, the wizard Gandalf and Aragorn, heir in exile to the throne of Gondor, unite and rally the Free Peoples of Middle-earth in several battles culminating in the War of the Ring. The wizard Saruman is defeated, The Ring is destroyed, and Sauron and his forces are vanquished.
The films were written, produced and directed by Peter Jackson. It is considered to be one of the biggest movie projects ever undertaken, with the filming for all three films done simultaneously and entirely in Jackson's native New Zealand.
The films were critically acclaimed, winning 17 Academy Awards in total, as well as wide praise for the cast and for the innovative practical and digital special effects. The Lord of the Rings - Trilogy
The Guns of Navarone
One of the best WWII action-adventures, this spectacular epic portrays the heroics and bravery soldiers faced when tasked with impossible missions during the War. The film boasts a stellar cast, headed by Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Stanley Baker, and Irene Papas. Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible.Air attacks are useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too? The Guns of Navarone
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach in the title roles. The plot centers around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in buried Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of gunfights, hangings, Civil War battles, and prison camps.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has been described as European cinema's best representative of the Western genre film, and Quentin Tarantino has called it "the best-directed film of all time."The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Magnificent Seven
A remake of 'The Seven Samurai', this American version starrer Yul Brenner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, and Robert Vaughn, just to name a few. They are picked to guard a Mexican village from Bandits that come every now and then to take whatever the town has grown since their last visit. When they are hired, they go to town and teach the villagers how to defend themselves.When the leader of the bandits come, they fight him and his men off. The second time he comes the villagers give the seven to them, due to a heated argument. The seven decide that they aren't going to run away, and head back to the village for a final showdown. The movie is not only ludicrously enjoyable entertainment but also a superior and thoughtful character study.The Magnificent Seven
Where Eagles Dare
Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 war adventure film directed by Brian G. Hutton, featuring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Mary Ure. In 1944, an American General is shot down over a heavily defended German fortress and imprisoned within. A rescue attempt is at once launched by British Intellegence, since the General must be liberated before being made to reveal Allied plans for an invasion of France.As the mission unfolds, however, double and triple agents begin to appear in the ranks of the rescue team with the added mystery of an American Lieutenant assigned to the mission for reasons unknown. Where Eagles Dare
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Adventure Movies:
Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet is a true adventure story written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the onset of the Second World War and the Chinese People's Liberation Army Invasion.Seven Years in Tibet tells the story of how Austrians Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) and Peter Aufschnaiter were imprisoned by the British while mountaineering in the north of India at the beginning of World War II in 1939.
They eventually escaped across the border into Tibet in 1944 and crossed the treacherous high plateau. Shortly after arriving in Tibet, they were ordered to return to India. They were able to disguise themselves, and make their way to Lhasa, where they were warmly received. Harrer was introduced to the Dalai Lama, who was still a boy, and became a tutor and then close friend to the young spiritual leader. Harrer and Aufschnaiter remained in the country until the Communist Chinese invasion in 1950. Seven Years in Tibet
The Beach
The Beach is a 2000 film by the Trainspotting team of writer John Hodge, producer Andrew Macdonald and director Danny Boyle based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland. The movie centers on a young nicotine-addicted traveler named Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), an avid pop-culture buff with a particular love for video games and Vietnam War movies. While at a hotel in Bangkok, he finds a map left by his strange, whacked-out neighbor, who just committed suicide. The map supposedly leads to a legendary island paradise where some other wayward souls have settled. Richard and his companions try to locate the spot, which, after a dangerous and taxing journey, takes them to a beach as beautiful as Duck said it would be. Richard and his friends settle in, but they soon discover that they are not alone; a large group of fellow travelers has already dug themselves in, and they have established a community with the same social evils that Richard was hoping to leave behind. Just as important, there is an army of natives who grow marijuana in the nearby hills and do not appreciate the presence of these visitors. The Beach
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Animation Movies:
Waking Life
Made in 2001, Waking Life is a digitally rotoscoped and animated film, directed by Richard Linklater. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. This technique is similar in some respects to the rotoscope style of 1970s filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, which was invented in the 1920s.The title is a reference to George Santayana's maxim that "sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled." The story is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. He encounters people from various walks of life.
He has indepth and not to mention mind-blowing conversations that question various aspects of the way we as a functional human race interact with each other and what has become of the world as we know it. A must watch for everyone! But you can't watch it at one go, as the dialogues can get heavy, but a great film nonetheless. Waking Life
The Yellow Submarine
Yellow Submarine is a 1968 animated feature film based on the music of The Beatles. It is also the title for the soundtrack album to the feature film, released as part of The Beatles' music catalogue. The film was directed by Canadian-born animation producer George Dunning, and produced by United Artists and King Features Syndicate. The singing group, The Beatles, at the height of their popularity, made this cartoon of a land that is taken over by the Blue Meanies. They are recruited by an escapee to come and bring joy (and music) back to the land. The techniques are quite psychedelic in the cartoons and much care was taken to have the walks and mannerisms of the individual Beatles cartoons match the originals. The Beatles themselves appear only in the closing scene of the film.
The Yellow Submarine
A Fantastic Planet
Fantastic Planet an animated 1973 science fiction film directed by René Laloux. It won the special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. The story is based on the novel, Oms en Série, by the French writer Stefan Wul. It is an excellent serious science fiction tale. On one level, it can be interpreted as an allegory of the struggle of one culture against another—at the time it was conceived in the late 60s, Russia was in the process of invading Czechoslovakia — a concept that is still very relevant today as mass media threatens to homogenize the entire world. On another level, it is simply an exciting and surreal adventure story. Fantastic Planet
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is an Academy Award-nominated animated satirical comedy/musical film released in 1999 and based on the animated television series South Park. The film parodies animated Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast as well the Broadway musical Les Misérables. In the sleepy town of South Park, four children cause an total disturbance when they see an 'R' rated Canadian film, the 'Terrance and Phillip Movie'. Watching this, the bad language 'warps their fragile little minds'. Soon all the children watch it and the bad language gets out of hand.
When their mothers finally form a union to kill Terrance and Phillip, it is up to Carl, Cartman, Stan and Kenny to prevent the killing of Terrance and Phillip to prevent Satan and Sadam Hussein ruling the world. South Park
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Comedy Movies:
Trainspotting
Trainspotting is a 1996 Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA-winning cult classic film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. The movie starring Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton, Ewen Bremner as Spud, Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy, Kevin McKidd as Tommy, Robert Carlyle as Begbie and Kelly Macdonald as Dianne is about a group of disaffected Scottish youths who turn to heroin to escape the banalities of modern-day existence. Then, they begin to suffer the consequences and discover that there are no easy solutions to the inherent loneliness and pain of life. Author Irvine Welsh also has a brief appearance as hapless drug dealer Mikey Forrester. Trainspotting
Borat
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (often shortened to Borat) is a 2006 Academy Award-nominated mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles. It starred the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in the title role of a fictitious Kazakh journalist, traveling through the United States recording real-life interactions with Americans.The film achieved critical and commercial success, despite an initially limited release in the United States. Cohen won the 2007 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor: Musical or Comedy as Borat while the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture in the same category. Controversy surrounded the film even before its release. It has been criticised for having a protagonist who is sexist and antisemitic (although Cohen is Jewish himself), and some who have appeared in the film have criticised and even sued its creators.
All Arab countries, except for Lebanon, banned it, and the Russian government successfully discouraged cinemas there from showing it. Borat
Spun
Spun is a 2002 independent movie directed by Jonas Åkerlund and written by Creighton Vero and Will de los Santos.Three days of epic drug binging become a meth-induced odyssey for college dropout Ross when he becomes the local crystal meth cook's personal driver in exchange for free drugs. Bouncing from one bizarre situation to another, Ross slowly slips deeper and deeper into the crazy anonymous world of speed freaks in which there exists no boundaries or morality.With an all star cast including Brittany Murphy, Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Patrick Fugit, Mena Suvari, and an unfortunate green dog, get ready to see the city through eyes that can't sleep. It's SPUN. Spun
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. The film, directed by Terry Gilliam, stars Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke and Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo. It has since become a cult classic.The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazy lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out in the Red Shark. Encountering police, reporters, gamblers, racers, and hitchhikers; they search for some undefinable thing known as the "American Dream" and find fear, loathing and hilarious adventures into the dementia of the modern American West. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
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Drama Movies:
The Shawshank Redemption
A 1994 drama film, The Shawshank Redemption is based on the Stephen King novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Written and directed by Frank Darabont, the film stars Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding.The film portrays Andy's twenty years in the cruelty of Shawshank State Prison, a fictional penitentiary in Maine, and his friendship with Red, a fellow inmate. This movie exemplifies the gap between box office success and popularity.
Despite a poor box office reception, The Shawshank Redemption received favorable reviews from critics and has enjoyed a remarkable life on cable television, home video, and DVD, and continues to be noticed by popular culture. It is frequently ranked amongst the greatest movies of all time. Shaw Shank Redemption
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
It is a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman and starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and William Redfield. The film is an adaptation of the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.The movie was filmed at Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon. It depicts life in a mental institution.The patients who there are almost completely cut off from the rest of the world. They have created their own world, with its own laws and social circles. In our own society, the mentally ill are sadly seen as outcasts, so different from what they should be like. But in the institution, all their quirks, shortcomings, and handicaps don’t seem out of the norm when they compare themselves to each other.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 film directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starred Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans. The film depicts different forms of addiction, leading to the characters' imprisonment in a dream world of delusion and reckless desperation, which is then overtaken and devastated by reality.The final fifteen minutes of the movie shows the increasingly dire circumstances of the four characters and allowing those to escalate to a brutal climax. This is easily the most startling and memorable extended sequence, and, for raw power, it exceeds any scene I can recall from other films about addiction. Don't be fooled by the passively poetic title; there's nothing serene or restful about this motion picture. Requiem for a Dream gets under your skin and stays there. Requiem for a Dream
The Basketball Diaries
A 1995 film based on the book of the same name by Jim Carroll, is a true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist. Jim Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a high school basketball player. His life centers around the basketball, and his dream is to be a basketball star. Once in a while he gets stoned with his friends, and step by step, he falls into the dark world of crime and drugs.Once his mother expelled him out of the house, he goes into the streets of New York, and together with his friends takes drugs for which they steal, rob and even kill. As time passes, Jim's situation becomes worse. It looked as if he would never get out of his drug addiction, but with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend, Jim "picked up a game" now and then, and that marked the beginning of his long journey back to sanity.
The film features original music by Red Hot Chili Peppers's bass player, Flea. The Basketball Diaries
Lord of War
Lord of War is a 2005 film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. The film, based on fact, follows arms trafficker Yuri Orlov's (Nicholas Cage) meteoric rise to the top of his profession. Yuri, played perfectly by Nicholas Cage, is the ambitious son of Ukranian immigrants whose desire to escape the banality of New York's Little Odessa leads him to the hyper-violent war zones of post-Cold War West Africa - "the edge of Hell," quips Yuri. There, he dodges bullets and Interpol agents while delivering planeloads of weapons to a sociopathic dictator. After each sale, Yuri returns to his multimillion dollar Manhattan condo, his fashion model wife, and their young son. Yuri's transition between the two worlds is seamless, as is the ethical compartmentalization that allows him to exist in both.Through some of the deadliest war zones, Yuri struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke), his business rivals, even some of his customers who include many of the world’s most notorious dictators. Finally, Yuri must also face his own conscience. The film was officially endorsed by the human rights group Amnesty International for highlighting the trafficking of weapons by the international arms industry. Lord of War
Philadelphia
Philadelphia is an Academy Award-winning 1993 film revolving around the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer who is infected with AIDS. He is fired from his conservative law firm in fear that they might contract AIDS from him. In desperation, he sues his former law firm with the help of a homophobic lawyer, Joe Miller (Denzel Washington).During the court battle, Miller sees that Beckett is no different than anyone else on the gritty streets of the city of brotherly love, sheds his homophobia and helps Beckett with his case before AIDS overcomes himIt is a touching movie with phenomenal performance by Hanks.
In fact it was the first movie which made me cry. Philadelphia definitely succeeds as a deeply affecting humanist drama.Philadelphia
A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind is a touching, emotionally charged film detailing the life of a brilliant academic who suffers from schizophrenia. This 2001 biographical film about John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Laureate (Economics) mathematician, played by Russel Crowe is an Oscar winning film. The story begins in the early years of Nash's life at Princeton University as he develops his "original idea" that will revolutionize the world of mathematics. Later, Nash develops schizophrenia and endures paranoid and delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife (Jennifer Connelly) and friends.
The movie was well-received by the critics. A Beautiful Mind was a stirring film and condition of Nash has been illustrated in a very effective manner. A Beautiful Mind
Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who both star in the film. Set in Boston, Massachusetts, it tells the story of Will Hunting (Damon), a troubled prodigy who works as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, despite the fact that his knowledge of and facility with higher mathematics far outstrips that of anyone in the university.Will must learn to overcome his deep fear of abandonment in order to learn how to trust and love the people who care about him. Good Will Hunting is the story of a young man and his struggle with both himself and personal relationships, trying to work through his problems so that he can open up to others, and begin putting his immeasurable intellectual potential to work.
It is an endearing film with touching moments, well-written verbal exchanges, and outstanding performances from Williams and Damon.Good Will Hunting
Almost Famous
Almost Famous is a 2000 American film written and directed by Cameron Crowe. It tells a fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines while covering the rock band Stillwater, and his efforts to get his first cover story published. The film is semi-autobiographical, as Crowe himself was a teenage writer for Rolling Stone.The film is based on Crowe's experiences touring with rock bands The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. In a Rolling Stone article, he talks about how he lost his virginity, fell in love, and met his heroes, experiences that are shared by William, the main character in the film.
The film is engaging, entertaining and authentic that it has become a rock-era classic. We enjoyed watching this movie! "I am a Golden God"!!!Almost Famous
Thirteen
Thirteen is a 2003 film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Nikki Reed. It is a autobiographical film based on Reed's experiences as a thirteen-year-old and those around her in the same age group. Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) is a normal 13-year-old girl trying to make it in school. After befriending a new girl at school, Evie (Nikki Reed); Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces Tracy to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before Tracy's new world and attitude finally takes a toll on her, her family, and old friends.The film caused controversy upon its release, dealing with topics such as underage sexual behavior (the teenagers involved in it are as young as 13) and drug and alcohol use, and because of this, was compared to similar films such as Kids and The Basketball Diaries. Thirteen
21 Grams
21 Grams is a 2003 drama starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro. It was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga.21 Grams is a movie which interweaves several plot lines, this time around the consequences of a tragic automobile accident. Penn plays a critically ill academic mathematician, Watts plays a grief stricken mother, and del Toro plays an ex-convict whose newly discovered Christianity is sorely tested in the aftermath of an accident.
The movie was shot in chronological order, but is edited in a non-linear arrangement where the lives of the characters are depicted before and after the accident. The three main characters each have 'past' 'present' and 'future' story threads, which are shown as non-linear fragments that punctuate elements of the overall story, all imminently coming toward each other and coalescing as the story progresses. Although you never learn its meaning until the film’s last scene, "21 Grams" refers to the amount of weight a body is supposed to lose when it dies.
For a good part of the time, however, you might guess that it’s simply the amount of cocaine Sean Penn’s character shoves up his nose. What makes the movie fascinating is the way its told and when everything sort falls in to place towards the end.21 Grams
Blow
Blow is a 2001 drama film about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung (Johnny Depp), directed by Ted Demme (who later died of a cocaine related heart attack). It is based on the real life stories of George Jung, Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, and the Medellín Cartel. The film's title comes from a slang term for cocaine.He starts off selling weed for a few bucks. He is soon jailed and meets Diego who offers him alot of money by selling... cocaine. He eventually becomes known and infamous for his cocaine selling. Then he must come to terms with his wife leaving him and trying to keep promises to his daughter he cannot keep. Blow has some terrific performances (particularly Johnny Depp), a well-written script, and a well-oiled production. While you may not agree with the things Jung did in his life, particularly his pivotal role in turning the United States into the world's single largest market for cocaine, you can at least appreciate the cautionary message embodied by the photograph of the real George Jung that appears at the end of the film - the image of a desolate existence fashioned by the misguided priorities of youth. Blow
Munich
Munich is a stunningly well-made film. Starring Eric Bana, and directed by Steven Spielberg, Munich depicts the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September gunmen and the Israeli government's secret retaliation assassinations.The film shows how a squad of assassins, led by former Mossad agent Avner (Eric Bana) tracks down and kills a list of Black September members thought to be responsible for the 11 Israeli athletes' murders. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards.The first part of the film, which depicts the hostage taking, corresponds well with historical accounts.
The second part of the movie Spielberg refers to as 'historical fiction', saying it is inspired by the actual Israeli operations which are now known as Operation Wrath of God. Munich
American History X
American History X is a 1998 film directed by Tony Kaye.Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) returns from prison to find his younger brother, Danny (Edward Furlong), caught in the same web of racism and hatred that landed him in prison.
After Derek's father is killed in the line of duty by a minority, Derek's view of mankind is altered, but while in prison, he discovers that there is good and bad in every race. The task before him now is to convince Danny of his newfound enlightenment.
Kaye and McKenna have crafted a very thought-provoking film, full of powerful scenes and dialogue. American History X
Schindler's List
Schindler's List is a 1993 biographical film was a masterpiece by Steven Spielberg. The movie tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten-German Catholic businessman who saved the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during the Final Solution.
It was based on the book Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, and starred Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as the SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's secretary Itzhak Stern.
The film was a box office success, and won several Academy Awards, and is our all time favourite movie.Schindler's List
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Musical Movies:
Hair
Based on the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name, Hair (1979) is about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center.The hippies introduce him to their counter cultural lifestyle of marijuana, LSD, "be-ins", and protests. The film was directed by Miloš Forman, who was nominated for a César Award for his work on the film.
Cast members include Treat Williams, John Savage, Beverly D'Angelo, Don Dacus of the rock band Chicago, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Nell Carter, Ellen Foley as well as Johnny Maestro, Jim Rosica and Fred Ferrara of the rock group The Brooklyn Bridge. Hair
My Fair Lady
Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical 'My Fair Lady' about Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) into a lady, and fool everyone into thinking she really is one, too! He does, and thus young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy, and suddenly Higgins realizes he's grown accustomed to her face and can't really live without it.
It was followed by a hit London production, a popular film version, and numerous revivals. It has been called "the perfect musical."My Fair Lady
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Romantic Movies:
Before Sunrise
Before Sunrise is a 1995 film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Linklater and Kim Krizan. The movie follows Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a young American on his way to Vienna to catch a flight back home after a traumatic break-up, and Celine (Julie Delpy), a young French woman traveling back to Paris to attend school at La Sorbonne after having visited her grandmother in Budapest.They meet on a train and after talking for a while, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him at Vienna so they can spend more time together. The plot is minimalist with some amazing conversations. The two characters' ideas, perspectives on life, love, reincarnation, etc. are detailed and thought out. Jesse is a romantic disguised as a cynic, and Celine seemingly a romantic though with some doubts.
Taking place over the course of one night, their limited time together is always on their minds, and leads to their revealing more about themselves than they normally would, since both believe they will never see each other again. Of note these characters appear again in another film by the same director, Waking Life. Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
In 2004 a long awaited sequel titled Before Sunset was released from the same director and cast, and reprising the original concept. In fact the sequel was also released nine years after Before Sunrise, the same amount of time that had lapsed in the plot since the events of the first movie.Jesse, a writer from the US, and Celine, a Frenchwoman working for an environment protection organization, acquainted nine years ago on the train from Budapest to Vienna, meet again when Jesse arrives in Paris for a reading of his new book.
As they have only a few hours until his plane leaves, they stroll through Paris, talking about their experiences, views and whether they still love each other, although Jesse is already married with a kid.
The movie was filmed in just 15 days, on a budget of about USD $2 million. The movie is simply fantastic, it feels like you've been dropped into these peoples' actual lives. A movie which is close to our heart. Although we would recommend Before Sunrise more than this one.Before Sunset
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Vibrant, warm and deliriously inventive, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is romantic comedy snogging science fiction in another genuine original from writer Charlie Kaufman. Playing smartly against type, Jim Carrey gives perhaps his best performance as the timid Joel, who discovers his sparky ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has undergone a medical procedure to erase him from her memory.
Miffed, he decides to do the same, but changes his mind while watching his memories erased, and must race though his own brain trying to stop the process.
The movie really touched our hearts, some of the scenes are so stirring emotionally, that they feel real.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Sci-Fi Movies:
Cube
Cube is a 1997 Canadian movie directed by Vincenzo Natali. Six different people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms.
Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they've been imprisoned.
The film has acquired something of a cult status as a niche science-fiction title. Cube
Cube 2: Hypercube
Cube 2: Hypercube is the sequel of the science fiction/horror movie Cube. Eight strangers find themselves waking up in a strange cube-shaped room with no recollection of how they landed there. Soon discovering that they're in a strange fourth dimension where our laws of physics don't apply, they have to unravel the secrets of the "hypercube" in order to survive.
The industrial-style rooms of the first movie are replaced with high-tech, brightly-lit chambers; the plausible technology of the traps — flamethrowers and extending spikes — are replaced with floating objects with razor-sharp blades and translucent walls that disintegrate matter. The cubes now do not move with lumbering slowness, but instantaneously. Cube 2
Cube Zero
Cube Zero is a 2004 Canadian horror movie directed by Ernie Barbarash. It is the third film in the Cube series, and its plot builds on the previous two in the sense that it is primarily about people who are trapped within a maze of cube-shaped rooms, with some of the rooms containing deadly traps.
Whereas the first two movies take place almost entirely within the maze, Cube Zero takes place within and outside the maze. Cube Zero
The Time Machine
The Time Machine is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Simon Wells as a remake of The Time Machine (1960), and starred Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, and Samantha Mumba. Alexander Hartdegen (Pearce) is a scientist and a inventor, who is determined to prove that time travel is possible. When the girl he loves is tragically killed, Alexander is determined to go back in time and change the path.
Testing his theories, the time machine is hurtled 800,000 years into the future. He he discovers a terrifying new world. Instead of mankind being the hunter, they are now the hunted, with him stuck in the middle. The Time Machine
Dark City
Dark City is a 1998 science fiction directed by Proyas. It stars Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, and Jennifer Connelly.The story concerns a man waking in a hotel room with no memory, which soon proves to be but one of many troubles. He is sought by police, who believe him to be a serial killer, and also by a group of mysterious men with psychokinetic powers.
Furthermore, something appears to be wrong with the world at large: time, memory, and identity behave in unusual ways.Dark City
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Thriller Movies:
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 movie starring Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz, and others. The title is a reference to the butterfly effect, which theorises that a change in something seemingly innocuous, such as a flap of a butterfly's wings, may cause unexpected larger changes in the future, such as a tornado. The Butterfly Effect is directed and written by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber.A college student (Ashton Kutcher) discovers a way to travel back in time to his troubled childhood as himself at that age. His goal is to change his life by changing painful events from his childhood. He finds that a very small change from his childhood will dramatically change his life today.
He is not pleased with the results of his first trip back, so he makes another trip to change another bad event, hoping for a better life. Unfortunately, he must return to his childhood many times, because his alternate future gets worse with each trip. Where his life ends up is anybody's guess. The Butterfly Effect
Zodiac
Zodiac is a 2007 suspense film directed by David Fincher and based on Robert Graysmith's non-fiction books Zodiac and Zodiac Unmasked. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr.A notorious serial killer known as "Zodiac" haunted the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s, leaving several victims in his wake and taunting police with his letters and ciphers mailed to newspapers.
Zodiac tells the story of the men and women who were involved in the hunt for the notorious killer, a case which remains today as one of San Francisco's most famous unsolved crimes. The movie is thrilling and some of the scenes can catch you off guard.Zodiac
The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener is a 2005 Academy Award-winning film based on the John le Carré novel of the same name. Directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God), The Constant Gardener is a dramatic thriller about a man who only grows to truly understand his wife after she's dead.Rachel Weisz excels as the late Tessa, a passionate, sometimes overbearing activist in Kenya whose motivations unspool in flashback as her other half, shy diplomat Justin (Ralph Fiennes), investigates her fate.
The film was shot largely in Kenya and benefits hugely from an authentic sense of place and people. Director Fernando Meirelles blends high tension with social conscience, giving a human face to the West's exploitation of the Third World. The situation affected the cast and crew to the extent that they set up the Constant Gardener Trust in order to provide basic education around these villages. The Constant Gardener
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of a 1962 novel of the same name, by Anthony Burgess. The adaptation was produced, written and directed by Stanley Kubrick.It stars Malcolm McDowell as the charismatic and psychopathic delinquent Alex de Large. He is a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political prisoners.
"Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure. A pivotal moment is when he and his gang break into an author's home: the book he is writing (called "A Clockwork Orange") is a plea against the use of aversion therapy.A Clockwork Orange
Mullholland Drive
Mulholland Drive is a 2001 Academy Award-nominated genre-defying film written and directed by David Lynch. It stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux.The plot is structured around an aspiring actress named Betty Elms (Watts), who befriends an amnesiac (Harring) whom she finds hiding in her aunt's apartment when she arrives in Los Angeles, California.
The film includes several other seemingly unrelated vignettes, which eventually connect in various ways, as well as other surreal scenes and images which are all involved in the cryptic narrative.
Strongly acclaimed by many critics, the film has achieved the status of a cult classic. Mulholland Drive
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