Not the best, just my faves (21 titles)
85% from 4 members
2001 - A Space Odyssey
Quite simply, my favourite film ever. It just hits the spot for me. Not to everyone's taste, I know, but I love it.
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2001 - A Space Odyssey
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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A four-million-year-old black monolith is discovered on the moon, and the government sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission while hiding the truth from the public. Later, another team is sent to Jupiter in a ship controlled by the perfect HAL 9000 computer to further investigate the ..read more »
68%
from 28,803 members
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Possibly the most mindblowing film I have ever seen. When I first watched this at an arthouse cinema in Central London I had to walk around for half an hour afterwards to clear my head. Unfortunately not available on DVD over here, but worth getting a multi-region player and buying a US import copy. See it, whatever you do.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
(1985)
Starring: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya
Director: Paul Schrader
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A fictionalised account in four segments of the life of Japan's celebrated 20th century author Yukio Mishima...
73%
from 50 members
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Stunning, and the best thing Jack Nicholson has ever done - by a country mile.
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield
Director: Milos Forman
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In one of the most memorable indictments of mental institutions, and a subtle examination of male anger, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (based on the novel by Ken Kesey) presents a biting, and ultimately tragic, satire. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson, in a role it would seem he was born to play), a ..read more »
80%
from 57,213 members
Kwaidan
This is the kind of film the Japanese do SOOO WELL. A series of adaptations of ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a Japanophile writer who really gets into the Japanese psyche. 'Yuki no Onna' is the standout one, but it's phenomenal from start to finish.
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Kwaidan
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
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This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her.
67%
from 1,041 member
One From The Heart
I stumbled across this gem in my local video store, and it has been one of my absolute favourites ever since. The performances are tremendous, and the songs by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle will tear you apart, if you have any soul.
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One From The Heart
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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After completing Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola initially planned for his next picture to be an intimate romantic musical shot on a low budget in Las Vegas. Three years later, One from the Heart had mushroomed into a big-budget spectacular, shot on strikingly stylized sets at his newly opened ..read more »
56%
from 515 members
Diva
Saw this in Paris on release. Another excellent example of the French mastery of the silver screen. This time a classic 'flic' story, full of moody cops and creepy villains - and some ruddy good singing!
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Diva
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Richard Bohringer, Dominique Pinon, Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
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Jean-Jacques Beineix's debut film is a stylish, hilarious, and audacious thriller that had many critics comparing Beineix's innovative technique to that of Orson Welles at the time of the film's release. DIVA stars Frederic Andrei as Jules, a young Parisian messenger who is obsessed with a ..read more »
67%
from 2,115 members
Betty Blue
You'll never send a pizza back again! So typical of French cinema - a thoroughly enthralling tale of doomed love in the inimitable French style.
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Betty Blue
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
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Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) is a handyman working in France, maintaining and looking after a collection of beach bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. One day Betty (Béatrice Dalle) walks into his life, a young woman who is as beautiful as ..read more »
70%
from 5,814 members
Regeneration
Wow, I was just blown away by this film from the very beginning. Gut wrenching drama from the first frame. An absolute must - see.
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Regeneration
(1997)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Jonathan Pryce stars as Dr. William Rivers, an army psychologist who treats mentally disturbed patients so that they can return to the front, in this adaptation of Pat Barker's moving World War I novel. Dr. Rivers begins to doubt the morality of his occupation when he begins treating a bizarre trio ..read more »
Not currently released
66%
from 1,052 member
Insignificance
This is a film for which the phrase 'weird and wonderful' could have been coined. I mean, how can someone come up with a fictional meeting between Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe Di Maggio and Senator McCarthy?
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Insignificance
(1985)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Gary Busey, Michael Emil
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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One night in 1953 in a new York hotel bedroom an incredible meeting took place between a blonde bombshell, a psychotic senator, a has-been baseball player and a crazy scientist.
Not available for rental
61%
from 44 members
Night Of The Demon
Damn scary, a superb adaptation of MR James' story 'Casting the Runes' (Plus, there's a brief appearance by 'Foggy' Dewhurst from 'Last of the Summer Wine')
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Night Of The Demon
(1957)
Starring: Peggy Cummins, Reginald Beckwith, Richard Leech
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Dr. Holden (Dana Andrew), a psychologist knowledgeable about the occult, is dismayed by a friend's strange death, leading him to investigate a demon-worshipping cult in England. But the leader of that sect, Prof. Karswell (Niall MacGuinness), resists Holden's inquiries by calling up an actual demon ..read more »
78%
from 249 members
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