I've watched a lot of movies. But when people ask me for recommendations I struggle to remember all the good ones. This list is to avoid that struggle :) and make good recommendations of movies to see and movies to miss.
I'm more inclined towards Drama and Action, so not too much in terms of Humor and Cartoons.
Let me know if you need detail on any particular movie and why I've classified it so.
This list is 'work in progress', so keep visiting.
Movies seen recently
Fracture Good one (2007 Anthony Hopkins)
Bourne Ultimatum 2007 (must watch)
A Little Trip to Heaven 2005(good)
Peaceful Warrior (2006, Good movie. Inspired from real life)
Donnie Brasco (Johnny Depp, Al Pacino) Good gangster movie
Network (Watch this one. An old movie. I think won an Oscar for Screenplay. Very relevant today. It talks of how a TV network is manipulated for ratings.)
Rabbit Proof Fence (Documentary. Good)
Music And Lyrics (2006 .. bad movie .. Hugh Grant standard)
The Shooter (Mark Wahlberg 2007 Action Watchable)
Miss Potter (2006 .. very nice movie. Not too dramatic .. but well done)
Life as a house (Kevin Kline) Drama, Oscar nominated. Well made
The painted Veil 2006 (Edward Norton, Naomi Watts) Good movie
Venus (2006 Peter O'Toole, Academy Award nominated) Good Movie
Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood 1997. Well made)
Apocalypto (2006, unbelievable movie. Go and watch it)
Central Station(Spanish movie. Pretty good.)
The Secret Life of Words (2005 Fantastic movie. Ending not well done.)
Freedom Writers(2006 .. Excellent movie. Must watch)
Little Children (2006 .. average)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2005, Spanish, Must see)
Deja Vu (2006, action flick. Average.. but seeable)
The Queen (2006 Excellent performance by Helen Mirren. Must watch movie)
The Last King of Scotland (2006 good movie)
Notes on a Scandal (2006 Extremely well made.)
Children of Men (2006, Terrible movie)
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006 , good)
Once upon a time in America (1984 4 hrs long) Good gangster movie
Failure to Launch (2006 chick flick) Okay
Bobby (2006) Excellent movie. Ensemble cast. Well made. Golden Globe Award winner.
The Last kiss (missable)
Ferris Buellers day off (Comedy, old movie 1989.. but very well made)
300 (Good action movie. Based on 300 Spartans who battle the Greeks. Well made)
An Unfinished Life (reasonably good)
DOCUMENTARIES
Winged Migration
The Fog of War
Bowling for Columbine
Who killed the electric car?
The Inconvenient Truth
Why we fight
Enron: the smartest people in the room
March of the penguins
OUTSTANDING
Thank you for Smoking
On Golden Pond
Kinsey
Billy Elliot
Million Dollar Baby
Almost Famous
Hotel Rwanda
Batman Returns
Animals are beautiful people
The gods must be crazy 1 and 2
Lost in translation (not a populat choice)
Sideways
The Shower (Chinese)
Big Fish
Forrest Gump
Ray
The Green Mile
Crash
Blood Diamond
Malena
The Shawshank Redemption
VERY GOOD
The Inside Man
A Few Good Men
A Beautiful Life
The Insider
The Others
Babel
Walk the Line
Munich
Casino Royal
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Crash
Run Lola Run
Trainspotting
Snatch
Syriana
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
25th hour
The Constant Gardener
The Motorcycle Diaries
Traffic
The Prestige
American History X
Hustle & Flow
Eyes Wide Shut
Garden State
True Romance (very violent)
Star Wars (all parts)
Little Miss Sunshine
The 40 year old virgin
Casino Royale
Rainman
Fargo
GOOD
I, Robot
Assault on Precinct 13
The Last Samurai
Paycheck
Minority Report
Vanilla Sky
Jerry Maguire
The Firm
Born on the 4th of July
The Transporter
Babel
Good Night, And Good Luck.
Four Feathers
North Country
All the President's Men
The Aviator
Hollywoodland
Collateral
Mission Impossible 1, 2, 3
The Manchurian Candidate
Sahara
The Interpreter
Brokeback Mountain
Finding Neverland
Magnolia
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Two for the Money
World Trade Center
Guess Who
Freda
Any Given Sunday
Broken Flowers
Girl, Interrupted
Jarhead
Flags of Our Fathers
Memoirs of a Geisha
War of the Worlds
Collateral
PASSABLE
Shall We Dance
Boys Don't cry (dark movie)
The Holiday
The Sentinel
All the King's Men
The color of money
Cocktail
Tristan and Isolde
A Good year
Borat
Flightplan
The Breakup
Rumor has it
Hitch
Lord of War
Ladder 49
Match Point
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
21 grams
The Illusionist
Cinderella Man
TERRIBLE
Harsh Times
The Illusionist
Mr and Mrs Smith
Derailed
Firewall
Closer
Mary Antoinette
Must love dogs
Lucky Number Slevin
A History of Violence
The Terminal
Castaway
After the Sunset
The Notebook
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1 comment:
I agree that 'The Notebook' and Castaway are hugely overrated:).
So also the Termina.
Malena is fantastic :)
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