Sixtyg's Top 150: My Personal Favourites
This is not a list of the greatest movies ever made (although some are) but my own personal favourites, some watched many times over the years, others maybe only seen a couple of times but have made an impression (not in any order)
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- DirectorRidley ScottStarsKeith CarradineHarvey KeitelAlbert FinneyFrance, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels spanning several years.Ridley Scott's first feature and second in standing after Blade Runner in his body of work in my opinion, beautifully photographed, fantastic locations and great story from a short by Joseph Conrad.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsRoman PolanskiIsabelle AdjaniMelvyn DouglasA bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.Polanski weirds it up as a Paris tenant who starts to develop the persona of the flats previous occupant, Polanski himself is great in this.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsTatyana SamoylovaAleksey BatalovVasiliy MerkurevVeronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.A movie that really is all about the cinematography, the story is good but you could almost watch this without subtitles, it's all in the visuals, one reason is that Kalatozov used to make silent movies and he puts every camera technique in the book into this, an amazing piece of cinema.
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsJohn DallPeggy CumminsBerry KroegerTwo disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.Best B-noir ever made (that includes Detour) some great early realism where they just stuck a camera man in the back seat of a car and drove around streets filming without telling anyone including the cops and improvised the dialogue, when they're looking for a parking space to rob a bank they really are looking for a parking space.
- DirectorFrank PerrySydney PollackStarsBurt LancasterJanet LandgardJanice RuleA man spends a summer day swimming as many pools as he can all over a quiet suburban town.One of the most overlooked movies of all time, Lancaster in top form and probably the first movie to deal with the death of the American dream.
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.Childhood imagination, no Hollywood sentimentality here just kids doing scary kid stuff.
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsDonald PleasenceGary BondChips RaffertyAfter a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.One of the best Aussie movies ever made and about as brutal and nightmarish a descent into hell as you are ever likely to see, it was essentially lost for years until someone found one surviving original copy and it was re-released in 2009.
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsAnna CanziCarlo CabriniDespite his fiancee's reluctance, a young man moves to Sicily for a better job, but soon starts questioning his decision.An engineer goes to Sicily on a contract, themes of loneliness, detachment and love.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsLee MarvinAngie DickinsonKeenan WynnAfter being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him.Lee Marvin at his menacing best in this 60's thriller, edgy and mystical.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsMonica VittiAlain DelonFrancisco RabalA young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.Everything in this is loaded with with style, modern apartments, modern art, eerie unusual locations, great cinematography, not to mention depth and mystery, my favourite from Antonioni.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiJean-Pierre ZolaAdrienne ServantieMonsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.My favourite Jaques Tati movie where he visits the modernist house with lots of gadgets and the centre piece fish fountain.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsAlain DelonMaurice RonetMarie LaforêtTom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.Forty years before Hollywood made The talented Mr Ripley the French made this original adaptation which has way more style and is superior in just about every way, particularly Alain Delon who's brilliant as the narcissistic Ripley.
- DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsWalter PidgeonAnne FrancisLeslie NielsenA starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.The Citizen Kane of Sci-fi.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsLeon NiemczykJolanta UmeckaZygmunt MalanowiczA couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevitable.Roman Polanski's first feature, one of those movies where not much really happens but there's a lot going on, it's all about mind games and who's in control, beautifully shot with very stylish camera angles.
- DirectorStefan UherStarsMarián BielikJana BelákováOlga SalagováOldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.Early Czech new wave with beautiful cinematography, fantastic little movie.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.True British noir, atmospheric, full of long shadows and not a spirit level in sight. Alida Valli is great as the melancholic detached girlfriend and a young slim Welles before he discovered pies and Emerald Dry, the long walk final scene is one of cinema's greatest closing shots.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsGanjirô NakamuraMachiko KyôHaruko SugimuraThe head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.Ozu's beautiful and charming tale of a traveling theatre troupe spending summer in a small seaside town, stylish, classy and stunning cinematography by the bucket load.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaShigeru TsuyuguchiTamotsu HayakawaA married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.One of the most stylish and visually stunning movies to have come out of Japan.
- DirectorErick ZoncaStarsÉlodie BouchezNatacha RégnierGrégoire ColinThe lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways."The dreamlife of angels" two broke girls try to escape life's daily grind.
- DirectorJacques RozierStarsCaroline CartierDanièle CroisyFrançoise GuéganA patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.A film that totally captures the feel of holidaying young friends, natural, awkward and bittersweet, a real timeless gem.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsShôichi OzawaSumiko SakamotoKeiko SagawaWhile avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.Brilliantly strange and slightly surreal Japanese new wave.
- DirectorJuan Pablo RebellaPablo StollStarsAndrés PazosMirella PascualJorge BolaniWhen his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.Another of those movies where not much seems to happen but lots is going on as two sock factory owning brothers meet up in an off season seaside resort, a little gem of a movie from Uraguay
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsAlec GuinnessPeter SellersCecil ParkerFive oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.Great Ealing comedy, Guinness gives one of his best performances as the professor
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsHoward VernonNicole StéphaneJean-Marie RobainIn occupied France, an elderly man and his niece are forced to give shelter to a German army lieutenant who seemingly loves their country and culture.Jean-Pierre Melville's debut feature set in occupied France where a German officer takes residence in the home of an old man and his niece and they decide not to speak to him, it's really powerful and atmospheric with some great expressionist style lighting. This is a greatly overlooked film probably due to Melville's later "Army of Shadows" although this isn't strictly about the resistance as such, it's still a fantastic movie.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiBarbara DennekRita MaidenMonsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.Jaques Tati's take on modern life, still very relevant.... we're there already.