Films I love so much I mistake them for past lives.
by readwritereadwrite | created - 09 Jul 2015 | updated - 09 Jul 2015 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century.
Director: Steven Shainberg | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin
Votes: 16,359 | Gross: $0.22M
It's breaking glass with your teeth blue and I love it.
2. Kiraware Matsuko no isshô (2006)
130 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
When Matsuko is murdered, her nephew, Sho, gets to progressively unveil the many details of her mysterious past, discovering she wasn't just a forgotten outcast and had led an intriguing yet bizarre life.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Miki Nakatani, Eita Nagayama, Yûsuke Iseya, Mikako Ichikawa
Votes: 8,737
Ohh those little animations. Those beautiful moments and all that technicolour saccharine hope.
3. Northfork (2003)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy
Set in 1955, the residents of a small Montana community are forced to move their homes to make way for a new dam.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Duel Farnes, Nick Nolte, Anthony Edwards, James Woods
Votes: 5,598 | Gross: $1.42M
Bits of this occur to me when I am half asleep and I think, for a moment, that the whole world is under water.
4. The Green Planet (1996)
99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
On a distant planet, rural vegans master telepathy and mental power to travel interstellar etc. Mila is sent to Earth to report back. She lands in Paris - quite a cultural shock. Earthlings are strange.
Director: Coline Serreau | Stars: Coline Serreau, Vincent Lindon, James Thierrée, Samuel Tasinaje
Votes: 5,534
A lovely hippy film with all the obvious observations everyone makes as children.
5. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
R | 102 min | Drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Votes: 898,342 | Gross: $3.64M
The way you love and dream your way into an abhorrent situation. Our drives are more about who we are than who we become.
6. Dogville (2003)
R | 178 min | Crime, Drama
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Harriet Andersson
Votes: 158,614 | Gross: $1.53M
The epiphany here about kindness and compassion and justice. It's a hard lesson.
7. The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Approved | 125 min | Drama
An ostracized Episcopal clergyman leads a busload of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon
Votes: 13,099 | Gross: $9.43M
Because... whiskey priests, cabana boys and Ava. The heat of this film has you reaching for something sickly and sweet, water wouldn't cut it.
8. Code 46 (2003)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Togo Igawa
Votes: 21,126 | Gross: $0.20M
Una Cosa for freckles. I have the train dream. I get off a stop or two early and all the other dream people shout at me for muddying the timelines. Since I watched this film, the dream in the film has become part of my train dream and now they are inseparable.
9. Disco Pigs (2001)
TV-MA | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Pig and Runt - born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by blood.
Director: Kirsten Sheridan | Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Sarah Gallagher, Charles Bark
Votes: 5,209
Love is a doing word, but it's hard to get it to do what you want. There is a very old fairytale about a lover having to hold their partner and not let go, no matter how many times a curse changes the person. Sometimes the lover finds themselves with their arms around something impossibly beautiful and other times completely monstrous. I find this theme touches so many lives.
10. The Line, the Cross & the Curve (1993)
44 min | Short, Music
A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woman appears through the mirror and gives ... See full summary »
Director: Kate Bush | Stars: Kate Bush, Miranda Richardson, Lindsay Kemp, Lily
Votes: 466
Shut up. I love this film. x
11. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody
Votes: 886,219 | Gross: $59.10M
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