Average rating: 4.50   90% from 15 members


Together

Moodyson's best; although "Lilya 4-Ever" comes close, and "Show Me Love" is also brilliant...
  • Together on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Lisa Lindgren,  Michael Nyquist,  Sam Kessel
    Director: Lukas Moodysson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in 1975 Stockholm at a communal living house called "Tillsammans" or "Together," this bittersweet comedy revolves around the members of a radical hippie commune as they fight, fall in love, and struggle to stay together. Director Lukas Moodysson perfectly captures the youthful idealism and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,156 members

Life Is Beautiful

Perhaps its sentimentality will put many people off but it is a heartbreaking film...
  • Life Is Beautiful on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Roberto Benigni,  Nicoletta Braschi
    Director: Roberto Benigni
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An inspired, award-winning story about the power of love and the human spirit, Life Is Beautiful has been called a modern masterpiece! Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 23,543 members

Festen

The best "dogme" film by far...
  • Festen on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ulrich Thomsen,  Henning Moritzen,  Thomas Bo Larsen
    Director: Thomas Vinterberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A man celebrates his sixtieth birthday with friends, relatives, his wife and children. This is a film about love, hate, the icy charm of the bourgeoisie and the loving arms of the chambermaid. Danish dialogue.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 9,027 members

Lemming

Laurent Lucas' performance combined with a fascinating story makes this one the THE best contemporary french films...
  • Lemming on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Laurent Lucas,  Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Dominik Moll
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Alain (Laurent Lucas) seems to have it all - a beautiful wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a perfect home and a prestigious new engeneering job. But the unexpected sexual attentions of his boss' disconcenrtingly glacial wife (Charlotte Rampling) and the discovery of a rodent, unaccountably stuck in the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,251 members

Dead Man's Shoes

Fantastic drama with elements of dark comendy, and a brilliant performance from Paddy Considine...

Love Me If You Dare

Perhaps too similar in style to the better Amelie, this is still a very good film in its own right...
  • Love Me If You Dare on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Guillaume Canet,  Marion Cotillard
    Director: Yann Samuell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoi
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,927 members

Ten

This wouldn't be something I'd usually have chosen and was surprised by how impressive it is...
  • Ten on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Abbas Kiarostami,  Mania Akbari,  Roya Arabshani
    Director: Abbas Kiarostami
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Filmed entirely inside a car, a woman drives through the streets of Tehran, picking up and dropping off passengers--her son, a friend, her sister, a prostitute--as she runs errands and goes about her busy days. The title TEN represents the number of distinct conversations that the woman has with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,691 member

Show Me Love

A worthy addition to Moodyson's body of work...

Control

A very honest account of Ian Curtis' life; in many ways, it displays him in a somewhat negative light...

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Despite not being a fan of Westerns, this is an outstanding film; Pitt and, especially, Affleck are terrific...




Average rating for this collection: Average rating: 4.50   90% from 15 members

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