Hannah and Dan's Movie List (68 titles)
Films to see before you realise you haven't lived!
72% from 5 members
Capote
Phillip Seymour Hoffman is amazing in this, if you watch real Truman Capote footage you'll see how amazingly good Hoffman is at capturing a character
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Capote
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr.
Director: Bennett Miller
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In November 1959, the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family captures the imagination of Truman CApote, famed author of Breakfast at Tiffany's. With his childhood friend Harper Lee, writer of soon-to-be published To Kill a Mockingbird, Capote sets out to investigate, winning over the locals ..read more »
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from 36,836 members
Boys Don't Cry
Hilary Swank is a brilliant actress, this film is very harrowing!!
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Boys Don't Cry
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Kimberly Peirce
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Peirce's directorial debut tells the gut-wrenching true story of Teena Brandon, a Midwestern female who disguised herself as a man. Relocating to Falls City, Nebraska, from Lincoln, she managed to convince her newfound group of friends that she was Brandon Teena. The film treats these events with a ..read more »
68%
from 11,093 members
Million Dollar Baby
This film had me in tears! I don't normally cry at film but Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank really pull at the old tear jerkers in this one!
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Million Dollar Baby
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Released a little over a year after the grand success of his Oscar-winning feature 'Mystic River', Clint Eastwood returns to the director's chair for 'Million Dollar Baby'. Eastwood also stars in the role of Frankie Dunn, a down-on-his-luck former boxing manager who spends the twilight years of his ..read more »
71%
from 95,823 members
Green Street
Much better and much more brutal than Football Factory
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Green Street
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani
Director: Lexi Alexander
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When the whistle blows, the blood flows... Rival football firms go head to head in this story of violence, adrenaline, loyalty and back-street warfare. Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) moves to London after being kicked out of Harvard University for alleged drug dealing. Before long he gets sucked into ..read more »
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from 28,621 members
Pan's Labyrinth
We thought this was a kids film... we were soooo wrong! It is mental! Its really brutal and crazy!
please, pleae, please don't be put off by the fact that it is subtitled! You WILL miss out!
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Pan's Labyrinth
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Accompanied by her parents, Ofelia moves from a large Spanish city to a more rural area in the North of the country. Faced with the upheaval of moving home, an abusive stepfather and the general unpleasantness surrounding Franco's victory in 1944, Ofelia enters an imaginary world of creatures and ..read more »
77%
from 79,861 members
The Life Of David Gale
Excellent film! Kate Winslet is truely amazing in this. very thought provoking, should the death sentence really be brought back? You might have a different opinion after watching this
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The Life Of David Gale
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney
Director: Alan Parker
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David Gale (Kevin Spacey) is a Texas professor and anti-death penalty activist who, ironically enough, winds up on death row for the rape and murder of a colleague. Kate Winslet plays Bitsey Bloom, the brave journalist who sets out to tell to his story. In the days leading up to his execution, Gale ..read more »
70%
from 20,526 members
Little Children
This didn't have very good reviews when we watched it but it is an amazingly moving story, and kate winslet is brilliant!
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Little Children
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly
Director: Todd Field
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Little Children centers on a group of young marrieds, whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools and streets of their small community in surprising and potentially dangerous ways.
62%
from 31,431 members
Sin City
Amazingly well shot, brilliant editted to give the real of a comic book strip. Plot is gripping and fast moving, never a dull moment. some brilliant acting too
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Sin City
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarant
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Comic artist genius Frank Miller and Desperado director Robert Rodriguez combine to bring Miller's searing, stylised vision of a torn, twisted city - and the people within it. Told in three chapters and definitely not for the faint of heart...
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from 101,171 members
American History X
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American History X
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo
Director: Tony Kaye
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Edward Norton gives an impassioned performance as Derek Vinyard, a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he sees the error of his ways. Upon reentering the real world, he must now turn his attentions to his younger brother ..read more »
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from 40,750 members
The Matrix
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The Matrix
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Director: The Wachowski Brothers
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In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is "farmed" to fuel the Matrix's campaign of domination in the "real" ..read more »
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