Movies I have rated 9 or 10
by nzpedals | created - 25 Mar 2015 | updated - 04 May 2015 | PublicThey have to have a story I can follow, with characters I can recognise easily, have faultless acting, some especially good scenes and examples of memorable dialogue. First, the 10's.
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1. This Year's Love (1999)
108 min | Drama, Romance, Comedy
A group of thirtysomethings flit around Camden Town swapping partners in search of love, lust and life.
Director: David Kane | Stars: Kathy Burke, Jennifer Ehle, Ian Hart, Douglas Henshall
Votes: 1,709
So many good scenes, so many laughs, superb acting.
2. The Land Girls (1998)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three young women from very different walks of life join the women's land army during World War II, and are sent to work together on a farm in Dorset, where the experience changes their lives forever.
Director: David Leland | Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 2,162 | Gross: $0.15M
Good story, lovely characters, good silences where the expression says it all.
3. A Killing Affair (1985)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama
The story of a widow (in West Virginia) who takes in a drifter who she believes killed her husband. She begins to fall for him but cannot be sure if she should trust him.
Director: David Saperstein | Stars: Peter Weller, Kathy Baker, John Glover, Bill Smitrovich
Votes: 316
Suspense all the way.
4. The Elephant Man (1980)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Votes: 258,488
Superb acting all the way through
5. The Queen (2006)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings
Votes: 115,993 | Gross: $56.44M
Great look-a-likes as well ticking all my requirements.
6. WiseGirls (2002)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A new waitress working at an Italian restaurant in New York City finds herself entangled in a mob-run underworld of drug dealing and murder.
Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Mariah Carey, Melora Walters, Arthur J. Nascarella
Votes: 3,147
All the ticks, and the surprise ending.
7. Suddenly Naked (2001)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A famous 'Jackie Collins'-type novelist falls for a quirky twenty-year-old kid.
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Wendy Crewson, Joe Cobden, Peter Coyote, Michael Shanks
Votes: 433
silly title, but all the rest is superb.
8. Dangerous Beauty (1998)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.
Director: Marshall Herskovitz | Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Fred Ward
Votes: 19,637 | Gross: $4.53M
Especially good ending.
9. Under Suspicion (1991)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Disgraced detective Tony fakes evidence in divorce cases, implicates wife in Stasio affair. Stasio and wife shot dead in hotel. Tony's ex-partner Frank investigates, suspects inheritance-seeking mistress Angeline and inconsistent Tony.
Director: Simon Moore | Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, Kenneth Cranham, Maggie O'Neill
Votes: 5,070 | Gross: $0.22M
So dramatic, so much to absorb.
10. The Tribe (1998)
105 min | Drama
Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Joely Richardson, Jeremy Northam, Anna Friel, Trevor Eve
Votes: 658
Great acting, story, scenes, dialogue.
11. A Rumor of Angels (2000)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama
An old woman helps a young boy resolve his feelings over the death of his mother.
Director: Peter O'Fallon | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Ray Liotta, Catherine McCormack, Trevor Morgan
Votes: 1,661 | Gross: $0.03M
12. The Skin Game (1931)
TV-G | 85 min | Drama
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, C.V. France, Helen Haye
Votes: 3,557
Very old, but very good.
13. Sabotage (1936)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Thriller
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder
Votes: 18,742
Now the 9's, another very old, very good'un
14. Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)
R | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.
Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Simon Armstrong
Votes: 5,691 | Gross: $0.02M
Awfully grim, but still very good.
15. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
R | 157 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong
Votes: 318,952 | Gross: $95.72M
Almost a documentary, and sadly, it didn't solve much?
16.
Love in the 21st Century (1999)
Episode:
Reproduction
(1999)
Drama
When Fay turns 30, her mother and sisters keep pressing her to have a baby. She chases some guys, has sex with them, and keeps their sperm in a bottle in the fridge, then selects the most suitable for self-fertilization.
Director: Sheree Folkson | Stars: Catherine McCormack, David Tennant, Rachel Davies, Kenny Doughty
Votes: 33
Hilarious, if rather gross.
17. Clean and Narrow (2000)
R | 82 min | Crime, Drama
An ex-convict tries to make an honest living and take care of his girlfriend and her mentally slow brother.
Director: William Katt | Stars: Jack Noseworthy, Laura Leighton, Jackie Belvin, Wings Hauser
Votes: 178
Well made.
18. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
R | 169 min | Drama, War
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Votes: 1,496,709 | Gross: $216.54M
19. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
R | 122 min | Documentary, Drama, War
Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Ben Affleck, Stevie Wonder
Votes: 132,395 | Gross: $119.19M
20. Dummy (2002)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Director: Greg Pritikin | Stars: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga
Votes: 6,933 | Gross: $0.07M
Funny, funny.
21. Rehearsal for Murder (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Robert Preston, Lynn Redgrave, Patrick Macnee, Lawrence Pressman
Votes: 832
Old, but very good.
22. Born Romantic (2000)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
Three young men pursue three beautiful women across London.
Director: David Kane | Stars: Craig Ferguson, Ian Hart, Jane Horrocks, Adrian Lester
Votes: 1,654 | Gross: $0.01M
So good, but spoiled by a couple of silly scenes.
23. Rogue Male (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1939 when an English hunter takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a rifle, he is captured, tortured and left for dead. He escapes but his captors pursue him to England.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Peter O'Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim, Harold Pinter
Votes: 1,029
24. Winding Roads (1999)
90 min | Drama
Three women encounter the toughest time of their lives.
Director: Theodore Melfi | Stars: Kimberly Quinn, Katrina Holden Bronson, Rachel Hunter, James Marsters
Votes: 149
Almost a 10.
25. Flawless (1999)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama
An ultraconservative security guard suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons with the drag queen next door.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Chris Bauer
Votes: 20,014 | Gross: $4.49M
almost flawless
26. Braveheart (1995)
R | 178 min | Biography, Drama, War
Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen
Votes: 1,091,504 | Gross: $75.60M
So dramatic.
27. Aces High (1976)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, War
In World War I, the high casualty rate amongst the rookie pilots of the Royal Flying Corps puts an enormous strain on the survivors.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth
Votes: 2,987
28. Bulworth (1998)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Kimberly Deauna Adams, Vinny Argiro
Votes: 27,301 | Gross: $26.53M
29. Legends of the Fall (1994)
R | 133 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond
Votes: 183,107 | Gross: $66.64M
So many good scenes
30. The Mind Benders (1963)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
Dedicated British scientist Dr. Henry Laidlaw Longman (Sir Dirk Bogarde) tests the possibility of brainwashing. If the experiment succeeds, he will stop loving his wife Oonagh (Mary Ure).
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant
Votes: 925
Scary, scary, maybe it's real. Superb acting.
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