Some of my favourite films. (34 titles)
Rebel Without A Cause
James Dean sets the standard for all those tortured coming of age adolescent flicks.
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Rebel Without A Cause
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
Director: Nicholas Ray
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The age-old theme of teenage violence and delinquency is given distinctive insight by the well-cast Dean-Wood-Mineo trio. Perhaps the best teen-age drama of the 1950s. Academy Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actor--Sal Mineo, Best Supporting Actress--Natalie Wood, Best Motion Picture Story.
66%
from 6,495 members
The Godfather Part 2
In my opinion superior to the first film, excellent final climax to the movie as Michael Corleone cleans house.
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The Godfather Part 2
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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A sequel continuing the saga of two generations of power within the Corleone family. Based on a novel by Mario Puzo.
80%
from 44,007 members
The Reader
Another war film but seen from a German boy encountering the horrors of the war through the crimes committed by his brief affair with a German guard Hannah Schmitz after the war.
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The Reader
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz
Director: Stephen Daldry
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In postwar Germany, a young man’s decades-long obsession with an older woman runs headlong into a war crimes trial, where he learns an awful truth.
75%
from 24,041 members
Schindler's List
Stephen Spielburg makes a nmasterpiece looking at the way Schindler first set about using the Jews as a cheap source of labour and then coming to care about those in his factory enough to pay for them to come and work for him away from the concentration camps. The ending is poignant when they make him a gold ring and thank him at the end for helping them survive.
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Schindler's List
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Based on a true story, SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their saviour. Unrepentant womaniser and war profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labour to produce cookware for the Third Reich. But ..read more »
81%
from 69,805 members
East Of Eden
Certainly on a parr with Rebel without a cause the turbulent relationship of two brothers and their overbearing father.
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East Of Eden
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris
Director: Elia Kazan
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An American youth is driven to desperation trying to win his father's love. Based on the classic Steinbeck novel ... a modern story of Cain and Abel set against the approach of World War One.
70%
from 1,420 member
Downfall
Bruno Gantz is superb in this German movie which paints the final scenes in his claustrophobic bunker.
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Downfall
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
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Not since G.W. Pabst's 1956 effort, 'Letste Akt' (The Last Act) has a German film attempted to tackle the subject of their most famous leader, Adolf Hitler. Breaking a long-standing taboo, the director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, has made a film that has sparked much debate in Germany and the rest of the ..read more »
75%
from 30,767 members
The Wild One
Marlon Brando at his brooding best.
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The Wild One
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith
Director: Laslo Benedek
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The Wild One is the original motorcycle film, starring Marlon Brando as the brooding leader of a biker gang that invades a small town. The film always looked like one of those synthetic Hollywood ideas of subculture life in the 1950s, which means it looks even more artificial today. But it is an ..read more »
64%
from 1,501 member
Un Coeur En Hiver
A beautiful French film superbly crafted.
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Un Coeur En Hiver
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Andre Dussollier
Director: Claude Sautet
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Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) are partners in a respectable violin making and repair business. One day a beautiful violinist named Camille (Gallic beauty Emmanuelle Beart) enters their shoppe and their lives, immediately striking up an affair with the outgoing Maxime. But ..read more »
65%
from 4,817 members
Saving Private Ryan
The opening Beach scene is a phenomenol an assault on the senses in every way. The best film Tom Hanks has made by a long way as he plays the schoolteacher turned soldier seaching for the last surviving Ryan brother.
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Saving Private Ryan
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Director Steven Spielberg's World War II tour de force chronicles the journey of a GI squad on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. Led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), the unit is under orders to track down a soldier, Private Ryan (Matt Damon), so he might return home to his mother in ..read more »
76%
from 56,425 members
The Color Of Money
Hustler Paul Newman finds the Kid Tom Cruise and begins a venture starting from the pool halls to the big competition and big money games.
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The Color Of Money
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's THE COLOR OF MONEY picks up where Robert Rossen's 1961 film THE HUSTLER left off. Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman), now middle-aged, finds the image of his youthful self in a pool hustler named Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise). Trying to relive his past days of glory through the cocky ..read more »
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from 6,126 members
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