Great films I've seen (8 titles)

Jesus Of Montreal

Perhaps my favourite film of all. An unknown actor Daniel (Lothaire Bluteau) is asked by the local Church to revive and revitalise a version of the Passion Play that they've presented annually. He really looks into the truth about Jesus' live and the result is a critical and commercial success. However, the religious leaders take exception to his radical account of Christ's life and he finds himself treated as Jesus was by the religious leaders in his time. In fact, much of the film finds the actor's life paralleling that of Jesus, it's very clever and great fun. Filmed in Canadian French with English subtitles, but don't be put off.

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• Jesus Of Montreal on DVD (1989)
  Starring: Lothaire Bluteau,  Catherine Wilkening,  Johanne-Marie Tremblay
  Director: Denys Arcand
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  When attendance at a church's annual Passion Play flags, a troupe of young actors is hired to stage a newer interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. While their newer, more modern version brings the house down, it also brings down the condemnation of church hierarchy, creating a strange parallel ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 66% from 965 members

Outnumbered - Series 1

This TV series really makes me laugh out loud. It's very understated, no background laughter. They let the child actors improvise which means that it's very believable. Sometimes they don't tell the adult actors what the children are going to say and they have to react to whatever comes. They didn't find the child actors from stage school, in fact one of them just saw the girl at a wedding they attended. My life is very much like this. The DVD includes interviews with the cast, writers and directors. Series two was better, but series one was still good.

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• Outnumbered - Series 1 on DVD (2007)
  Starring: Hugh Dennis,  Claire Skinner,  Samantha Bond
  Director: Andy Hamilton,  Guy Jenkin
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  Outnumbered follows the daily chaos of family life with two parents and three young children locked in an unequal contest. Containing strong elements of improvisation, this comedy is an honest portrayal of the well meaning parental incompetence that happens in most homes, as Mum and Dad attempt to ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 83% from 3,558 members

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

A favourite film. Fantastic songs. Just a great film. I have the DVD, CD and songbook. I've seen the stage version twice, but the film is better. 'Hushabye Mountain' was the song I sung to my first child to calm her as a baby.

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• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on DVD (1968)
  Starring: Dick Van Dyke,  Sally Ann Howes,  Lionel Jeffries
  Director: Ken Hughes
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  Jolly musical comedy about an unsuccessful inventor who rescues an old car which acquires magical properties. Screenplay written by Roald Dahl with music by the Sherman Brothers.
  
  Rate this: 68% from 7,989 members

Notting Hill

Just an all-round great film, makes me cry every time.

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• Notting Hill on DVD (1999)
  Starring: Julia Roberts,  Hugh Grant,  Hugh Bonneville
  Director: Roger Michell
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  Two features 'About A Boy' Will Freeman, a shallow thirty-something bachelor, lives a carefree life courtesy of his deceased father's fortune. Will is terrified of commitment and so decides that single mothers will make the easiest romantic targets... His world is turned around when he meets Marcus,..read more »
  
  Rate this: 68% from 42,236 members

Danny, The Champion Of The World

Looks a little dated, but a really nice story put to film.

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• Danny, The Champion Of The World on DVD (1989)
  Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Robbie Coltrane,  Samuel Irons
  Director: Gavin Millar
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  Nine year-old Danny lives in a gypsy caravan with his father William. Lord of the manor Victor Hazell is determined to own the land on which their caravan stands anyway he can. When William is snared by a man-trap Danny devises a plot that will see the obnoxious Victor Hazell off. Based on the ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 66% from 1,068 member

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

I much prefer this to the darker old film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'. Faithful to the excellent book but with some nice touches at the end.

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• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory on DVD (2005)
  Starring: Johnny Depp,  Freddie Highmore,  Helena Bonham-Carter
  Director: Tim Burton
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  Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (HELENA BONHAM CARTER) and father (NOAH TAYLOR) and both pairs of grandparents. Theirs is a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house but it is filled with love. Every night, ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 62% from 84,847 members

The Chronicles Of Narnia - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

A great telling of a great book. Aslan, the Lion, makes you think of God.

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• The Chronicles Of Narnia - The Lion, The... on DVD (2005)
  Starring: Tilda Swinton,  Jim Broadbent,  Ray Winstone
  Director: Andrew Adamson
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  Director Andrew Adamson gives a new dimension to C.S. Lewis's enchanting story with this long-awaited Disney adaptation. As the story begins, Mrs. Pevensie in order to keep her children safe during World War II sends Lucy (Georgie Henley), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Susan (Anna Popplewell), and Peter ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 68% from 75,463 members

The Passion Of The Christ

Really moving indication of how much God thought you were worth to enable you to know him personally.

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• The Passion Of The Christ on DVD (2004)
  Starring: Jim Caviezel,  Maja Morgenstern,  Monica Bellucci
  Director: Mel Gibson
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  THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST depicts the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus of Nazareth (Jim Caviezel), beginning with his betrayal by Judas Iscariot (Luca Lionello) and ending with his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection. Directed by Mel Gibson (BRAVEHEART)--who funded the film himself and co-..read more »
  
  Rate this: 58% from 29,814 members

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