Movies That Have Made Me Laugh, Made Me Cry, Made Me Think, Made Me Angry, Made Me Want To Change Things For The Better! (40 titles)
Varied tastes from the Sopranos to The Simpsons, Cry Freedom to Hot Fuzz, Casino and Goodfellas to Will Hay and the Ealing Comedies, documentaries, Babe Ruth to Auschwitz, American Civil War to Spike Milligan! In no particular order these are quite possibly my favourite movies/tv shows/documentaries in the world, possibly............
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The Shawshank Redemption
I doubt that I can add anything that hasn't already been written, definitely in my box of must have DVD's!
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The Shawshank Redemption
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Robert Gunton
Director: Frank Darabont
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City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying. The bonus features stretch over two ..read more »
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Cry Freedom
What annoys me is the fact that I was going in and out of South Africa at the time that all this was taking place! I always knew that S Africa had a terrible regime, even the cabbies in those days went about in pairs! I still loathe the country and more particularly the Afrikaans! During the late 80's my eyes were really opened to the abuses going on and have been told that this film, though close does not nearly tell the whole truth! Still a great movie.
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Cry Freedom
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton
Director: Richard Attenborough
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This is the retelling of the life of South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko as seen through the eyes of his friend, liberal white newspaper editor Donald Woods. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Supporting Actor--Denzel Washington.
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The Green Mile
Nothing I can write would even come close to describing this movie. Not a great Tom Hanks fan but nobody else could play the lead role. A great, great movie.
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The Green Mile
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell
Director: Frank Darabont
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A DVD collection of three dramatic American films: THE GREEN MILE (1999, 18), PAY IT FORWARD (2000, 13), and PROOF OF LIFE (2000, 15).THE GREEN MILE: Director Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison tale (the first being 1994's nearly flawless THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION) is a ..read more »
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Mississippi Burning
Another of those movies that make me so angry and yet helpless at the same time. The real Mississippi Burning is a little different but the results were the same.
At least the American justice system is at last catching up with some of the perpetrators of these henous crimes, though it doesn't help that they are goaling these guys now that they are in their 70's, 80's when they themselves cut lives shorter than that.
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Mississippi Burning
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Brad Dourif
Director: Alan Parker
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In 1964, when three civil-rights workers, two white and one black, mysteriously disappear while driving through Mississippi, two FBI agents, Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Anderson (Gene Hackman), are sent in to investigate. While Ward is young and by the book, Anderson is a seasoned southerner ..read more »
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A Dry White Season
A South African version of Mississippi Burning almost. This vile regime shown in its true colours! My abiding memory of S Africa is grabbing a Boer customs official by the throat and trying to drag him through the wire grill that seperated us! Spose I was lucky not to have been arrested, but then he was lucky that I didn't get him on my side of the grill!
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A Dry White Season
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae
Director: Euzhan Palcy
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Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardeners son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realise his society is built on a pillar of ..read more »
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Das Boot
Watch this with the subtitles switched on as it loses something in being dubbed, a great movie, WWII submarine warfare was dirty, smelly, sweaty, nasty and downright terrifying.
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Das Boot
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
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In the midst of World War II, a German U-boat crew is sent out to patrol the Atlantic and fire at Allied ships bringing supplies to England. The submarine also carries a press correspondent, there to report from the front lines of nautical warfare. Meanwhile, the crew's captain (Jurgen Prochnow &#..read more »
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Das Boot - The Mini Series
See coments above.
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Das Boot - The Mini Series
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1985)
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Regarded as one of the most accurate representations of Germany's U-Boat crew during World War II, this DVD consists of a digitally remastered version of the original classic.
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A Time To Kill
Having read the book first I thought Matthew McConaghy was wrong for the Jake Brigance role, but for me he just about pulls it off. A definite for my DVD box. Samuel L Jackson also excellent
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A Time To Kill
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Joel Schumacher
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In a small southern town in the 1960s, a black man awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. ..read more »
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The Hunt For Red October
Even Sean Connery's hopeless Rusky accent doesn't destroy this movie, love it!
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The Hunt For Red October
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill
Director: John McTiernan
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It is the pre-Glasnost era, and the captain of a Soviet sub intends to betray his brutal government and defect, but as the deadly Red October approaches the eastern seaboard of the United States, only special agent Jack Ryan might be able to head off a nuclear confrontation. Based on Tom Clancy's ..read more »
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Crimson Tide
Frightening to think this could have actually happened!
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Crimson Tide
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza
Director: Tony Scott
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When Russian rebels gain control of nuclear weapons in the USSR, the United States retaliates by deploying the USS Alabama, a nuclear submarine commanded by Captain Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman). Veteran soldier and Naval legend Ramsey selects Lt. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)--a Harvard ..read more »
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