ecletic mix (33 titles)
A selection of film's that must be seen.
84.6% from 13 members
Dead Man's Shoes
Put quite simply could this be the best British Thriller ever?, deserves multiple viewings and a place in everyone's collection. Don't ever bully a paratrooper's brother!!!. One of my favourite film's ever made.
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Dead Man's Shoes
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell
Director: Shane Meadows
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Two brothers, Richard and Anthony, return to their hometown. Setting up camp in the hills overlooking the town, they reminisce over their past. But Richard has not returned for the memories, he's returned for revenge...
70%
from 34,012 members
Ong Bak
Simply the best martial arts film ever made.
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Ong Bak
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Pumwaree Yodkamol
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
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When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
69%
from 19,926 members
Amelie
I cannot fault this film, enough said.
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Amelie
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Yolande Moreau
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who glides through the streets of Paris as quietly as a mouse. With wide eyes and a tiny grin, she sees the world in a magical light, discovering minor miracles every day. A shy and reserved person whose favorite moments are spent alone skimming ..read more »
77%
from 63,000 members
Zulu
Based on a true story, great battle scenes and a rousing John Barry score.
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Zulu
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
Director: Cyril Endfield
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Narrated by Richard Burton and starring an outstanding Michael Caine in his first starring role, ZULU is a tense and dramatic war film about the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879--which was part of the Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa--where approximately 150 British soldiers held off 4,000 Zulu ..read more »
73%
from 11,303 members
Paths Of Glory
War is hell, great story and acting this film will suck you in, another Kubrick classic.
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Paths Of Glory
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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PATHS OF GLORY is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. The story takes place in 1916 France, as the French command orders an exhausted unit to wrest control of an anthill from the Germans--expecting a casualty rate of 60 percent. The battle--during which the Germans are never seen, ..read more »
72%
from 4,322 members
A Simple Plan
Great book and a brilliant film adaptation, I'd put this in the great films you've never heard of category.
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A Simple Plan
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda
Director: Sam Raimi
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Sam Raimi breaks out of genre films with this tight, effective thriller. When two brothers, Hank (Bill Paxton) and Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton), and their friend Lou (Brent Briscoe), find 4.4 million dollars inside a crashed plane, they believe they've found the financial answer to all their problems...read more »
67%
from 1,808 member
This Is England
Another Shane Meadows classic, young boy growing up in the skinhead era circa England 1983.
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This Is England
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Stephen Graham, Frank Harper, Joseph Gilgun
Director: Shane Meadows
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July, 1983. School's out and 12 year-old Shaun (Turgoose) falls in with an amiable gang of skinheads and mods. Then National Front nut Combo (Graham) arrives on the scene, and being a little skinhead suddenly becomes far more than a fashion statement...
72%
from 48,322 members
A Room For Romeo Brass
Once again Meadow's delivers the goods, starts off innocently enough then takes a distinctly dark turn and topped off by a brilliant performance by Paddy Considine.
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A Room For Romeo Brass
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine
Director: Shane Meadows
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In A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS, two teenage boys, Romeo (Andrew Shrim) and Knocks (Ben Marshall), whose families live in the same housing development in a small town in the Midlands, England, share a unique friendship. Making jokes that nobody else understands, fighting over little things, being ..read more »
74%
from 7,117 members
The Hill
Another film that draw's you right in, great character study.
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The Hill
(1965)
Starring: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen
Director: Sidney Lumet
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THE HILL, a World War II drama directed by Sidney Lumet, focuses on the cruel British soldiers who were based in the desert in Libya, Africa.
73%
from 176 members
Rashomon
Fully deserving of its Oscar, beautifully told, acted and shot, another classic by the master Kurosawa.
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Rashomon
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's highly acclaimed film, set in feudal Japan, presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters--a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), a woman (Machiko Kyo), her husband (Masayuki Mori), and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura). Only two ..read more »
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