My Favourite Movies That i Can Remember!
A Collection of the best movies i have seen and remember!! Some are undeniable classics and many are films that just worked for me, with or without their faults. I have put the first 10-20 or so in some kind of order and after that its sort of a free for all!! Enjoy and please leave comments and ones i missed.
OH and also a couple of TV series for good measure!
OH and also a couple of TV series for good measure!
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- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsPaul ScofieldWendy HillerRobert ShawThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.I have a thousand scenes of acting i will offer as some of the best but Paul Scofield is just unbelievably good!
If you have not seen this film and can forgive some very dated scenary PLEASE watch for Scofields performance alone. Just incredible!! - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Many will go for the second and i can see why but for me the first with Marlon Brando and the young Pacino are just superb!
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.possibly the greatest ending to a film and not bad throughout! The end always leaves me feeling sad
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsHenry FondaCharles BronsonClaudia CardinaleA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.My all time fav! And still can't believe i have a film with Bronson in my top 10 (first in fact) nevermind in my favourite hundred!
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRoy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard DreyfussWhen a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.Watched a million times and still never get bored. Scheider was never better and Shaw is just mesmerising!
Even Scheiders wife and young child are great, especially the scene where the boy mimics his fathers action...just great stuff - DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.For me the directors edition. And the multiple hours on the making of it is also amazing and gives so much more insight into the madness of Scott lol
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.Every scene could be captured and placed on a poster. Visually stunning and for me one of the best films ever. Sinister, funny, epic, operatic even!
Coldest scene for me...the "correcting" scene - DirectorMichael PowellStarsKarlheinz BöhmAnna MasseyMoira ShearerA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.The first modern horror film??
Brilliant stuff. Watch if you have not seen and do not be put off if you don't normally enjoy older movies. Its Class!! - DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsJohn GetzFrances McDormandDan HedayaThe owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.Love the pace, humour, photography and twists! Possibly my best Coen movie and love a lot of them!
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsJulie ChristieDonald SutherlandHilary MasonA married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.One of the very few film that really creeped me out. Won't ruin the ending but wish they made films like this nowadays and i love lots of modern films....but they do not make them like this now! I dont care what anyone says.
A film that doesn't try and tie everything together neatly like most horrors/chillers/thrillers. A film that gives real respect to the audiences intelligence.
Donald sutherland face is so unique and expressive. Only he could have played this part IMO - DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsEllen BurstynMax von SydowLinda BlairWhen a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.For me my favourite horror upto half way point. Then still one of the best but for me the whole beginnings especially the scene with the statue, noise brewing and dogs fighting still gives me shivers!
Wonderful horror - DirectorJames IvoryStarsAnthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonJohn HaycraftA butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.Remarkable!
Two of the best in Hopkins and thompson. Brilliant directed and for me the saddest love story i have seen. - StarsDerek JacobiJohn HurtSiân PhillipsThe personal and governmental affairs of the Julio-Claudian dynasty at the beginning of the Roman Empire, as recalled by one of its rulers.Unbeatable!
Dated stages but who cares. You will never get that many great actors and actresses together again.
Sian phillips steals the show for me along with Jacobi at his finest - DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.Wonderful stuff. If you have not seen, watch it...but only if you like to really watch a film carefully
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJack NicholsonFaye DunawayJohn HustonA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsWilliam PetersenKim GreistJoan AllenFormer FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.The best of all the stories surrounding the DR. And while Hopkins is often sublime i do not think Brain cox could be bettered. He is understated and menacing without being monster like!
NOONAN has to be one of the greatest villains captured on film! Wonderful - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
- StarsMaggie SmithJulie WaltersPatricia RoutledgeSix monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsPeter MullanLouise GoodallGary LewisTwo thirty-somethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, begin a romantic relationship in one of Glasgow''s toughest neighborhoods.
- DirectorPaddy ConsidineStarsPeter MullanArchie LalJag SangheraJoseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroVal KilmerA group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.
- DirectorNicolas Winding RefnStarsRyan GoslingCarey MulliganBryan CranstonA mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver.