Films you will never regret having watched
This is my top recommendation list. Obviously some very good movies are very well known. I won't waste my time recommending you to watch the matrix or the idiots, because you most likely already saw them... Discover some more hidden corners of cinema!
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- StarsArtur BarcisOlgierd LukaszewiczOlaf LubaszenkoTen television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.Arguably some of the best movies ever made. Kieślowski brings us social drama with characters living with though moral choices and manages to deliver 10 films in which you will have a hard time finding even one vulgar character. Some say understanding everything means forgiving everything. I don't agree, but understanding can soften the pill a lot and can help us react in a more inspired way.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.Recently we have seen alot of films (think of Von Trier) which portray a women living heartbreakingly grim lives, but this is the classic from Fellini preceding and surpassing them all. Extremely touching and extremely well acted. Gelsomina will leave an everlasting impression on your heart and memory. The main acting on her part is mime, which is also a now rare and worthwhile artform to discover in this film.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerIldikó BánságiKrystyna JandaIn early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?This historical film takes us back through the eyes of Klaus Mann, who describes, in his 1936 novel, the temptation of a (formerly communist) actor to stay in Germany when the nazi's take power and to become a national star. Can you resist selling your soul to the devil, if he can make your dreams come true? Can you understand or forgive Heinrich Höfgen? This film will get you thinking...
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsAmanda PlummerKathy JamiesonSaskia ReevesEunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It's bad luck for the women at the cash desk not to be Judith, because Eunice is eccentric, angry and extreme dangerous. One day she meets Miriam, hard of hearing and a little ingenuous, who feels sympathy for Eunice and takes her home. Miriam is very impressed by Eunice's fierceness and willfulness and follows her on the search for Judith. Shocked by Eunice's cruelty she tries to make her a better person, but she looses ground herself.If you want to see good acting, check this out. Both Amanda Plummer and Saskia Reeves will blow your head off. This portrait of Eunice, touches in many ways as it intermingles evil indifference with intense love and you try to understand who you are looking at all along.
- DirectorNic BalthazarStarsMarijke PinoyGreg TimmermansCesar De SutterAs an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games.What does it feel like to be autistic? Can you save yourself from the emotional turmoil and social hell by clinging on to an impossible and maybe well imaginary love? This film is one of the most realistic portraits of what it's like to be an alien on earth.
- DirectorStephen DaldryStarsMeryl StreepNicole KidmanJulianne MooreThe story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.This is a brilliant adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway". Touches on many aspects of depression and suicide and will feel familiar to people who have to deal with such feelings.
- DirectorVeit HelmerStarsDenis LavantChulpan KhamatovaPhilippe ClayIn a desolate and colorless landscape stands a dilapidated bathhouse run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife, and their son Anton, who does all the work. He's lonely and unsophisticated, and he falls in love with the beautiful Eva, who comes to bathe with her father. When Eva and her father lose their home, they come to the bathhouse to stay, but bits of the ceiling fall on the old man and he dies. Eva blames Anton, and she seems to seek the arms of the brute Gregor. Can Anton win back her heart, get the bathhouse through a rigorous government inspection, and help keep his parents employed? Waiting out there somewhere is the paradise isle of Tuvalu.Tuvalu is a highly artistic and surreal experience to watch. It's filmed in sepia tones and needs nearly no dialogue to get us hooked up to the characters. Another must see if you like mime, but much more fantastic than La Strada.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.What is a civil war, how does it start? And what the hell do you do when you're in the middle of it? This film is a masterpiece of cinema showing the collision of different cultures in a cyclic plot which leaves you wondering where does it starts and where does it stop?
- DirectorHeddy HonigmannA documentary on Brazil's relationship with the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and to their own sexuality.The Brazil elderly read in this incredible film from the pornographic poetry of Carlos Drummond, making the link with their own sexual lives and why the poems touch them. And that in one of world's most beautiful languages, Portuguese. One of the most impressive homages to sexuality.
- DirectorMarc CaroJean-Pierre JeunetStarsRon PerlmanDaniel EmilforkJudith VittetA scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.This film from the legendary duo Jeunet and Caro is one of the nicer fantastic films out there. Not made for children!
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsBrigitte LinTakeshi KaneshiroTony Leung Chiu-waiTwo melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.Kar Wai Wong impresses here with a film like a living painting. Colors, music and poetry fly by at an incredible pace and the camerawork is amazing. One warning: the story is one of heterosexual cops falling in love and the romantics don't question anything politically. If that kind of stuff does your head in, this might not be the right film for you.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesStarsRalph FiennesRachel WeiszDanny HustonA widower's transcontinental quest to find answers about his wife's death leads him to explosive secrets.Rachel Weisz won numerous well deserved awards for her acting in this film. The african landscapes are beautiful and filled with colors. A touching story, which reminds us of how power works.
- 19641h 35mPG8.3 (525K)97MetascoreDirectorStanley KubrickStarsPeter SellersGeorge C. ScottSterling HaydenAn unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.If you want to have a laugh, this satirical, cynical view of the military and foreign politics is timeless and invaluable.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsSean GulletteMark MargolisBen ShenkmanA paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.This is a mathematical thriller, carried by drum and base by Clint Manswell and black and white filming which give a nice raw edge to it all.
- StarsGérard DepardieuOrnella MutiJean RochefortEdmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.This is a very accessible but excellent picturing of the novel by Dumas, costumes, Dupardieu, adventure, intrigue and comedy. Next time you look for a film which will entertain you without requiring to much thought, try this instead of the next Die Hard. You won't be dissapointed.