Recommendable movies

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Any English/American movie lovers around? I have a sort of recommended list of movies that I watched over the past few years.

The list include only those of my favorite movies that I think people might have missed (Yeah, you don’t really need my recommendation to watch Godfather or Pulp Fiction, right?) The list does not come in any particular order. The year represents when the movies was made.

Here goes the list:

1- The Year of Living Dangerously, 1983
2- The Accidental Tourist, 1988
3- The Big Chill, 1983
4- Swingers, 1996
5- Beautiful Girls, 1996
6- Planes, Traines, and Automobiles, 1987
7- Nothing in Common, 1986 (I had to watch every single movie starring Tom Hanks after I watched this one)
8- The Spanish Prisoner, 1997
9- Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992
10- Scent of a woman, 1992
11- Zero Effect, 1998
12- Suicide Kings, 1997
13- Of Mice and Men, 1992 ( This is the remake by Gary Sinise)
14- A River Runs Through It, 1992
15- Nightwatch, 1998
16- Dog day afternoon, 1975
17- Go, 1999

Any English/American movies you want to recommend?

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  1. The Usual Suspects

kevin spacey is awesome.

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Yep, that was a good movie, MTNutt. Wasn't that the same movie Kevin Spacy got his oscar for?

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Not bad.I liked A river runs through it and definately Beautiful Girls. I'd put in

The Rock somewhere on top
Primary Colors in the upper middle
and Jerry Mcguire in the bottom.

Fear of death is a delusion
Harbored in the breast of sages;
He who lives a single springtime;
Is like one who lives for ages.
----Khalil Jibran.

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Sleepers
The Client
The Rain Maker
As Good as it Gets
Good Will Hunting

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hey u didn't mention patch adams i loved that movie.

dead poet society
austin powers
she's all that
enemy of the states
gettin' even with dad
blast from the past
duddley do-right
rocketman
good burger
step mom
waterboy
ever after
scream
i know what u did last summer
i still know what u did last summer
metro

etc etc etc etc etc
and alot more

bye

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i) Godzilla :)
ii) The LionKing. :)(part I highly recommended)

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See, Ghalib, my rule of thumb is that when I watch a movie with either of Arnorld Schwazigger, Bruce Willis, or Sylvaster Stallon etc, I don't expecting acting. I just watch such movies for the sheer entertainment of their plot, storyline, or 'masalah'. However, if I were to watch Jack Nicholson or Tom Hanks movie then I am keen on their performance as well.

Dead poets' society is definitely missing in my list 'O captain, 'O my captain!

Same as Sleepers. Really good movie. Shpooki, if you liked The Rain Maker then also watch 'Midnight at the Garden of Evil and Good' directed by Clint Eastwood. Both have dissimiliar plot and storyline but the element of dramatization somehow feels same to me. There is sort of resemblance from that aspect.

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  1. last of the mohicans
  2. English Patient
  3. legends of the fall
  4. Indina Jone (all of them)
  5. LA confidential there are heaps more to that i just can n't think of any

One Day I want to grow up, but not today please.............
For I am the Keeper of the Keys to the Lost

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Here are a few you probably haven't seen.

In no particular order:

1) The Deceiver

It stars Tim Roth.

As a rule of thumb Tim Roth doesn't make bad movies.

  • The Metamorphosis
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Pulp Fiction

The same goes for Gary Oldman, though Lost in Space was a glaring exception.

  • Immortal Beloved
  • The Professional

By the way, if you haven't already watch Tim and Gary in

Rosencrantz & Gildenstern Are Dead.

2) Return to Paradise
starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche

inspired no doubt by the Michael Fay
caning incident in Singapore

3) Gattaca
starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman

Trust me.
I wasn't an Ethan Hawke fan either before this film.

First class dialogue full of dramatic irony and double entendres.
Stunning visuals.

4) The Proposition
starring William Hurt and Madeleine Stowe.

Madeleine is one of my favorite actresses

(Last of the Mohicans,
Blink,
Twelve Monkeys)

and she gives an excellent performance.

5) The Big Hit
starring Mark Wahlberg and Lou Diamond Phillips

What can I say?
I'm a shameless MarkyMark fan!

Sometimes you've got to take a break from all that serious drama and unwind with a good ole action flick and they don't get any better than this.

Serious action but great comedy as well.

There's no reason why these fantastic films should have fared so poorly at the box office. It just goes to show how capricious moviegoers really are!

The Shawshank Redemption
was much better than Forest Gump and yet didn't win a single award.

Go figure.

And Roman, don't be so hard on Bruce Willis and Sly Stallone.

Twelve Monkeys and Rocky were classic.

[This message has been edited by Suhail (edited September 17, 1999).]

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Roman, seems like you are into some of the not so mainstream blockbusters. If you like Kevin Spacey, watch "Swimming with Sharks", a very good movie. I really liked Suicide Kings as well. You should see "The Last Supper" that's also pretty damn good.

What else, some of the classics. "Papillion" and "The real great train robbery" are really good too, the latter is a true story based on a non fiction book by Michael Crichton.

Enjoy

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I agree with Suhail, Gary Oldman is brilliant, other than in Immortal Beloved and The Professional, he had a short but sweet role in True Romance. True Romance is an awesome film with quite a cast, Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis hopper, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Chris Penn, Michael Madsen, Michael Rappaport, and Val Kilmer.

Also, you should check out Faithful, starring Chazz Palminteri and Cher. Also a good movie.

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Here are some of the ones that I liked:

Sid and Nancy – a movie about the life of Sid Viscous

Chocolotte

Indo-Chine

Speed

Trainspotting

For Queen and Country

Rust Never Sleeps

And,

All of Haneef Kureshi’s (my beautiful Launderette, Sammie and Rosie got laid, my son the phonetic)

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aahmed,

it's unlikely that the creators of
The Professional watch Hindi cinema,
but Gary Oldman's character seems to
borrow from the Shakti Kapoor villian
in Hero (starring Jackie Schroff and Menakshi), which was made a decade earlier.

Anyone who has only seen the American
version of The Professional must get
their hands on a European copy.

There is something edited from the Yank
cut that completely changes the message
of the film.

I can't tell you what it is.
It has to be a surprise to be fully appreciated.

[This message has been edited by Suhail (edited September 17, 1999).]

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Suhail, I watched Deciever when it came out solely because of Tim Roth, but the way it was made did not impress me. Storyline was good though. If you like Tim Roth then also watch his 'Captive' with Julia Ormondo.

Reservoir Dogs is definitely one of the classics. If I would to pick my most favorite 10 movies of all time (whether they are well know or not) Pulp Fiction would be somewhere at the top of the list.

I liked Madeleine's Last of the.. more than the other two mentioned.

If you like Mark Wahlberg (he's good) then also watch his 'Travelers' with Bill Paxton. Another of his recommendable movie is 'Fear'.

On The Shawshank Redemption, the only reason I don't personally approve of American Film Institute's (AFI) top 100 movies of all time list is that this movie is not included in that list. Although of all the other movies I have seen from the list were actually worthwhile to make it to the list.

I do like Sly, Bruce, and Arnold's movies.. don't miss any for entertainment... but as far as performances are concerned, they don't stand anywhere close to Jack or Dustin Hoffman. Sly's relatively recent Assassins and Daylights were really enjoyable. Bruce's Color of the Night and Die Hard 3 are some of my favorite with regards to action/suspense category.

aahmed,
No, I am also into mainstream blockbusters, but the reason as I mentioned in the first post was to recommend those movies which I thought were really good but but probably are not that very well known (Well, The Big Chill, Dog day afternoon, and Of mice and men are sort of exception to this). Like I said before, I don't really need to recommend Godfather to anybody since it's already a great hit from any perspective.

I liked Swimming with the Sharks only because of Kevin. He's pretty good in it. Watch his Glengarry Glen Ross as well, although Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino have better roles in that movie.
By the way, there are two movies with "The Last Supper" (1994/1995) which one did you mean? One is with Cameron Diaz and other one with Jack Nicholson. Will definitely check out. Oh, man, Papillion was great! Real classic. It's also based on a true story. Can you believe that? When they made the movie, they had the guy (the actual Papillion) as consultant for its production.

If you guys like Gary, then do definitely watch his "State of Grace" with Sean Penn and "Romeo Is Bleeding". True Romance was truely a great movie! My most favorite scene in it is when Christopher Walken comes and see Dennis Hopper to interogate about his son (Christian Slater). Excellent performance there by both. Faithful was good but if you want to watch better Chazz Palminteri flicks then watch A Bronx Tale (definitely missing in my list above), Hulry Burly, and Bullets over Broadway. Good movies.

NYAhmadi,
I was watching Trainspotting while eating and then the that scene in the beginning of the movie came up where this guy goes in to the bathroom... that was it for me. Never watched the whole thing! I am gonna have to re-rent it sometime.