Movies
This is a non-exhaustive list of films my wife and I have watched and genuinely enjoyed.
All the films listed here are ones we personally consider “good movies”: titles we find particularly strong, memorable, or meaningful in their own way, and that we would readily recommend or be happy to watch again.
The selection is deliberately personal rather than academic. It reflects our tastes, moods, and the kinds of films that tend to stay with us over time, without any claim to objectivity or completeness.
3 Women - 1987
Two co-workers, one a veteran nurse and the other a new trainee, form a close bond and gradually take on each other's personalities.
12 Angry Men - 1957
12 Angry Men is a 1957 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet in his feature directorial debut, adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay. A critique of the American jury system during the McCarthy era, the film tells the story of a jury of twelve men as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of a teenager charged with murder on the basis of reasonable doubt; disagreement and conflict among the jurors forces them to question their morals and values.
A Clockwork Orange - 1971
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel. The film employs disturbing and violent themes to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and broader social, political, and economic issues in a dystopian near-future Great Britain.
A Few Good Men - 1992
Military lawyer Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder. They contend they were acting under orders.
A Woman Under The Influence (A Woman Under the Influence) - 1974
A Woman Under the Influence is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes, and starring his wife Gena Rowlands and close friend Peter Falk. Rowlands plays a housewife whose unusual behavior leads to conflict with her blue-collar husband (Falk) and family.
Ace in the Hole - 1951
Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American satirical drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder. The film stars Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who creates a media circus surrounding a man trapped in a cave in rural New Mexico to try to regain a job on a major newspaper. The film co-stars Jan Sterling and features Robert Arthur and Porter Hall.
Ali - Fear Eats the Soul - 1974
All About Eve - 1950
All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It is based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, although Orr does not receive a screen credit.
All The President's Men (All the President's Men) - 1976
All the President's Men is a 1976 American biographical political thriller film about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, with a screenplay by William Goldman, it is based on the 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists investigating the scandal for The Washington Post.
An Affair to Remember - 1957
An Affair to Remember is a 1957 American romance film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Filmed in CinemaScope, it was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is considered among the most romantic films ever according to the American Film Institute. The film was a remake of McCarey's 1939 film Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer.
Anatomy of a Murder - 1959
Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American legal drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Wendell Mayes was based on the 1958 novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name of Robert Traver. Voelker based the novel on a 1952 murder case in which he was the defense attorney.
Annie Hall - 1977
Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.
Arizona Dream - 1993
A young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.
Arrival - 2016
A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
Artificial Intelligence (A.I. Artificial Intelligence) - 2001
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
Bachelor Mother - 1939
Bachelor Mother (1939) is an American romantic comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna from an Academy Award-nominated story by Felix Jackson written for the 1935 Austrian-Hungarian film Little Mother. With a plot full of mistaken identities, Bachelor Mother is a light-hearted treatment of the otherwise serious issues of child abandonment.
Baisers volés - 1968
Stolen Kisses is a 1968 French New Wave romantic comedy film directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, and Claude Jade. It continues the story of the character Antoine Doinel, whom Truffaut had previously depicted in The 400 Blows (1959) and the short film Antoine and Colette (1962). In this film, Antoine begins his relationship with Christine Darbon, which is depicted further in the last two films in the series, Bed & Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979).
Beau Is Afraid - 2023
A deeply anxious man sets out on a surreal odyssey to get home to his mother.
Beetlejuice - 1988
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Benny and Joon (Benny & Joon) - 1993
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Big Fish - 2003
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
Blue Valentine - 2010
The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
Boyhood - 2014
The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.
Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1961
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards from a screenplay by George Axelrod and based on the 1958 novella by Truman Capote. It stars Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney. In the film, Holly Golightly (Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric socialite, meets Paul Varjak (Peppard), a struggling writer who moves into her apartment building.
Brief Encounter - 1945
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in lead roles, alongside Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg and Margaret Barton.
Bullitt - 1968
Bullitt is a 1968 American action thriller film directed by Peter Yates from a screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner and based on the 1963 crime novel Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish. It stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, and Norman Fell. In the film, detective Frank Bullitt (McQueen) investigates the murder of a witness he was assigned to protect.
But I'm a Cheerleader - 1999
A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.
Butterflies Are Free - 1972
Butterflies Are Free is a 1972 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Milton Katselas from a screenplay by Leonard Gershe, based on Gershe's 1969 play. The film stars Goldie Hawn, Eileen Heckart, and Edward Albert. It follows Jill Tanner (Hawn), a free-spirited young woman who becomes romantically involved with her new next-door neighbor, a blind man named Don Baker (Albert), who has recently moved out to live on his own.
Cactus Flower - 1969
Cactus Flower is a 1969 American screwball comedy film directed by Gene Saks, and starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn, who won an Academy Award for her performance.
Charade - 1963
Charade is a 1963 American romantic screwball comedy mystery film produced and directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The cast also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass and Jacques Marin. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance and comedy.
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) - 1988
A filmmaker recalls his childhood friendship with a projectionist and his love of cinema in a Sicilian village.
Closer - 2004
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
Comment c'est loin - 2015
The humorous story of two rap artists trying to make it in the music business while dealing with everyday problems.
Cool Hand Luke - 1967
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. Set in the early 1950s, it is based on Donn Pearce's 1965 novel Cool Hand Luke.
Detachment - 2011
A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.
Dial M for Murder - 1954
Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams. Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott. The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed on stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New York's Broadway in October.
District 9 - 2009
Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent.
Divorce Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana) - 1961
Divorce Italian Style is a 1961 Italian black comedy film directed by Pietro Germi. The screenplay is by Germi, Ennio De Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, and Agenore Incrocci, based on Giovanni Arpino's novel Un delitto d'onore. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Lando Buzzanca, and Leopoldo Trieste.
Django Unchained - 2012
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Double Indemnity - 1944
Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay from James M. Cain's novel of the same name, which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine in 1936.
Drive - 2011
A mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic moonlights as a getaway driver and finds himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbour.
Dunkirk - 2017
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Edge of Tomorrow - 2014
A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.
Edward Scissorhands - 1990
An artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands, leads a solitary life. Then one day, a suburban lady meets him and introduces him to her world.
Eyes Wide Shut - 1999
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
Frost/Nixon - 2008
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
Funny Face - 1957
Funny Face is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical Funny Face by the Gershwin brothers, and featuring the same male star, the plot is completely different and only four of the songs from the stage musical are included. Alongside Astaire, the film stars Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson.
Fury (The Fury) - 2014
A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.
Get Out - 2017
A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
Girl, Interrupted - 1999
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.
Gone with the Wind - 1939
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming.
Good Bye, Lenin! - 2003
In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
Groundhog Day - 1993
A cynical weatherman is trapped reliving the same day, forcing him to change himself before time moves on.
Hail, Caesar! - 2016
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
Happy-Go-Lucky - 2008
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colourful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
Happythankyoumoreplease - 2010
Captures a generational moment: a time when everyone is in their thirties, trying to figure out the next move in their lives.
Hard Candy - 2006
A teenage girl raids a man's home to expose him under suspicion that he is a sex offender with paedophilic tendencies.
Harold and Maude - 1971
Harold and Maude is a 1971 American romantic black comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama. The plot follows the exploits of Harold Chasen, a young man who is intrigued with death, and who rejects the life his detached mother prescribes for him. Harold develops a friendship, and eventual romantic relationship, with 79-year-old Maude who teaches Harold about the importance of living life to its fullest.
Heathers - 1989
At Westerburg High where cliques rule, jocks dominate and all the popular girls are named Heather, it's going to take a Veronica and a mysterious new kid to give teen angst a body count.
Her - 2013
In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
His Girl Friday - 1940
His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man.
Hitler, connais pas - 1963
Howl - 2010
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
Husbands - 1970
Husbands is a 1970 American comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It stars Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, and Cassavetes as three middle class men in the throes of a midlife crisis following the death of a close friend.
I Heart Huckabees - 2004
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues.
In the Mood for Love (花樣年華) - 2000
Two neighbours form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
Inglourious Basterds - 2009
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Inside Man - 2006
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens - 2022
An animated, personal family saga following an Italian family’s emigration and hardships across generations.
Into the Wild - 2007
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
It Happened One Night - 1934
It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film, produced and directed by Frank Capra. Claudette Colbert stars as a pampered socialite who tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter, played by Clark Gable.
James Dean - 2002
The man behind the legend and a behind-the-scenes look at the actor James Dean during his rise to fame.
Judgment at Nuremberg - 1961
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann. It features Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift.
Jules et Jim - 1961
Jules and Jim is a 1962 French New Wave romantic drama film directed, produced and co-written by François Truffaut. Set before, during, and after World War I, it follows a love triangle involving French bohemian Jim, his shy Austrian friend Jules, and Jules' girlfriend and later wife Catherine. Hailed as a definitive example of French New Wave cinema, the film is still regarded as a classic. It won the 1962 Étoile de Cristal, with Moreau winning that year's prize for best actress.
Juno - 2007
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
Kind Hearts And Coronets (Kind Hearts and Coronets) - 1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film directed by Robert Hamer. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays eight characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) by Roy Horniman. It concerns Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class.
Kûki ningyô (空気人形) - 2009
A Japanese actor revisits the memories of his past.
Kynodontas (Κυνόδοντας) - 2009
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary.
L'Armée des ombres - 1969
Army of Shadows is a 1969 Franco-Italian World War II suspense-drama film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Simone Signoret. It is an adaptation of Joseph Kessel's 1943 book of the same name, which mixes Kessel's experiences as a member of the French Resistance with fictional versions of other Resistance members.
L'enfant sauvage (L'Enfant sauvage) - 1970
The Wild Child is a 1970 French historical drama film co-written, directed by, and starring François Truffaut. It is based on the true events regarding Victor of Aveyron, a late 18th-century French child who spent the first eleven or twelve years of his life with little or no human contact.
La Fille du puisatier - 1940
The Well-Digger's Daughter is a 1940 French romantic comedy drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol.
La Maman et la Putain - 1973
The Mother and the Whore is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun. An examination of the relationships between three characters in a love triangle, it was Eustache's first feature film and is considered his masterpiece. Eustache wrote the screenplay drawing inspiration from his own relationships, and shot the film from May to July 1972.
La meglio gioventù - 2003
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.
La Tête Haute - 2015
A juvenile judge and a special educator are convinced that they can save the young delinquent Malony from himself and his violent ways.
Lars and the Real Girl - 2007
A delusional young man strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.
Le Ballon rouge - 1956
The Red Balloon is a 1956 French fantasy comedy-drama featurette written, produced, and directed by Albert Lamorisse. The thirty-four-minute short, which follows the adventures of a young boy who one day finds a sentient, mute, red balloon, was filmed in the Ménilmontant neighborhood of Paris.
Le Havre - 2011
When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an ageing shoeshiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
Le Samouraï - 1967
Le Samouraï is a 1967 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier. A Franco-Italian production, it depicts the intersecting paths of a professional hitman (Delon) trying to find out who hired him for a job and then tried to have him killed, and the Parisian commissaire (Périer) trying to catch him.
Léon Morin, Prêtre (Léon Morin, prêtre) - 1961
Léon Morin, Priest is a 1961 French drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It was adapted by Melville from Béatrix Beck's novel The Passionate Heart, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1952. Set during WWII in Occupied France, the film stars Emmanuelle Riva as a jaded, lapsed Catholic mother and widow of a Jewish husband, who finds herself falling in love with a young, altruistic priest, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Les Mis érables (Les Misérables) - 2019
In Montfermeil, tensions between police and residents explode after a violent incident is captured on drone footage.
Les Quatre Cents Coups - 1959
The 400 Blows is a 1959 French coming-of-age drama film, and the directorial debut of François Truffaut, who also co-wrote the film. Shot in the anamorphic format DyaliScope, the film stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement.
Les Valseuses - 1974
Going Places is a 1974 French comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Bertrand Blier, and based on his own novel with the same title. Its original title is Les Valseuses, which translates into English as "the waltzers", a vulgar French slang term for "the testicles". It stars Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere, who all had their breakthrough roles with this film.
Leviathan (Левиафан) - 2014
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished.
Lincoln - 2012
As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
Little Children - 2006
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.
Little Miss Sunshine - 2006
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
Lola Rennt (Lola rennt) - 1998
After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.
Lost in Translation - 2003
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Lucky Number Slevin - 2006
A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses.
Lulu The Tool - 1971
Marie-Antoinette - 2006
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and eventually the fall of Versailles.
Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all'italiana) - 1964
Marriage Italian Style is a 1964 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
Martha Marcy May Marlene - 2011
Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.
Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) - 2003
In a small Korean province in 1986, three detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.
Mermaids - 1990
An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963.
Mesrine: Part 1 - L'instinct de mort - 2008
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with a focus on his criminal career, often brutal and daring, and his ability to elude capture time and again.
Mesrine: Part 2 - L'ennemi public n°1 - 2008
A chronicle of the infamous French criminal Jacques Mesrine’s life as he is declared public enemy number one in France.
Mid90s - 2018
Follows Stevie, a 13-year-old in 1990s Los Angeles, who spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.
Midnight Cowboy - 1969
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy. The film stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, with supporting roles played by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt and Barnard Hughes. Set in New York City, Midnight Cowboy depicts the unlikely friendship between two lost and lonely hustlers: naïve prostitute Joe Buck (Voight) and ailing con man Rico Rizzo (Hoffman), referred to as "Ratso".
Mon Oncle (Mon oncle) - 1958
Mon Oncle is a 1958 comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. The first of Tati's films to be released in colour, Mon Oncle won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Special Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film, receiving more honours than any of Tati's other cinematic works.
Mon Roi (Mon roi) - 2015
A woman recently released from a hospital stay for a mental breakdown reflects upon a tumultuous relationship with her lover.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 1975
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film based on the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group and directed by Gilliam and Jones in their feature directorial debuts. It was conceived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their BBC Television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Moonrise Kingdom - 2012
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
Mother! - 2017
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
My Name Is Nobody (Il mio nome è Nessuno) - 1973
My Name Is Nobody is a 1973 Italian/French/German international co-production comedy spaghetti Western starring Terence Hill and Henry Fonda. The film was directed by Tonino Valerii and based on an idea by Sergio Leone. The film follows the story of Nobody, who attempts to get his idol Jack Beauregard to take on the Wild Bunch gang of outlaws.
Napoleon Dynamite - 2004
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small Western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Narco - 2004
A narcoleptic dreams that he is a superhero and, when he wakes up, realises he has the talents to make his dream come true.
Nashville - 1975
Nashville is a 1975 American satirical musical comedy drama film directed and produced by Robert Altman. The film follows various people involved in the country and gospel music industry in Nashville, Tennessee, over the five-day period leading up to a gala concert for a populist outsider running for president on the Replacement Party ticket.
Network - 1976
Network is a 1976 American satirical comedy drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky. It depicts a television network struggling with poor ratings until the nightly live broadcast of its longtime news anchor Howard Beale inadvertently showcases his breakdown into increasingly psychotic behaviour, which makes his show a surprise hit. Alongside Finch, the film stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, and Beatrice Straight.
No Country for Old Men - 2007
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Nowhere Boy - 2009
A chronicle of John Lennon's teenage years and his journey to find his place in the world.
Okja - 2017
A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.
Once Upon a Time in the West - 1968
Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sergio Donati. It stars Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Woody Strode, Jack Elam, Lionel Stander, Paolo Stoppa, Frank Wolff, and Keenan Wynn. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli and the film score was composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological comedy-drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution and Louise Fletcher as the abusive head nurse. Will Sampson, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield, Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif play supporting roles, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.
One Hour Photo - 2002
A mentally unstable photo developer targets a middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more disturbing.
Paper Moon - 1973
Paper Moon is a 1973 American road comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the 1971 novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown. The film, shot in black-and-white, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression. It stars the real-life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as protagonists Moze and Addie.
Paris, Texas - 1984
A drifter reunited with his brother tries to reconnect with the wife and son he abandoned years earlier.
Past Lives - 2023
Two childhood friends reconnect decades later, confronting love, fate, and the lives they might have lived.
Playtime - 1967
Playtime is a 1967 satirical comedy film directed and co-written by Jacques Tati. Tati also stars in the film, reprising the role of Monsieur Hulot from his earlier films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and Mon Oncle (1958). However, Tati grew ambivalent towards playing Hulot as a recurring central role during production, and he appears intermittently in Playtime, alternating between central and supporting roles.
Psycho - 1960
Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh), shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and his disturbed mother.
Rabbit Hole - 2010
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Rear Window - 1954
Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival in competition for the Golden Lion.
Roma - 2018
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Rushmore - 1998
A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. The two soon become bitter rivals for her affection.
Saltburn - 2023
An Oxford student is drawn into an aristocratic friend’s world, culminating in a darkly comic summer at a grand estate.
Saturday Night Fever - 1977
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood. It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local disco while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn. The story is based on "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", a mostly fictional 1976 New York article by music writer Nik Cohn.
Saving Mr. Banks - 2013
Author P.L. Travers reflects on her difficult childhood while meeting with filmmaker Walt Disney during production for the adaptation of her novel, Mary Poppins.
Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls) - 2004
Two girls, from different social backgrounds, are brought together by their love of fashion.
Silver Linings Playbook - 2012
After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Singin' in the Rain - 1952
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, in addition to Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Rita Moreno and Cyd Charisse in supporting roles. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to "talkies".
Snowpiercer (雪國列車) - 2013
In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors on the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, a new class system emerges.
Some Like It Hot - 1959
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film produced, co-written and directed by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love.
Steel Magnolias - 1989
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
Stoker - 2013
After India's father dies, her uncle, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Submarine - 2010
15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: to lose his virginity before his next birthday and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 2007
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
Take Shelter - 2011
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm or from himself.
Taking Off - 1971
Taking Off is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Miloš Forman. It tells of an average couple in New York City, who, when their teenage daughter runs away from home, connect with other parents of vanished children and learn something of youth culture.
Taxi Driver - 1976
Taxi Driver is a 1977 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P. N. Menon. The film stars Raghavan, M.G Prakash, S. P. Pillai and Sharada in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Joshi.Ashok Kumar received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Cinematography.
Thank You for Smoking - 2005
Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his 12-year-old son.
The Americanization of Emily - 1964
The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American black-and-white black comedy anti-war film directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Paddy Chayefsky, and starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell, and Keenan Wynn. Set during World War II, the film follows a United States Navy adjutant who is roped into a reckless interservice rivalry-fueled stunt by his superiors, becoming a war hero by being the first American sailor killed on D-Day.
The Apartment (Ungkarlslyan) - 1960
The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon stars as an insurance clerk who, in hopes of climbing the corporate ladder, allows his superiors to use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct their extramarital affairs. He becomes attracted to an elevator operator in his office building, unaware that she is having an affair with the head of personnel. Ray Walston and Edie Adams feature in supporting roles.
The Banshees of Inisherin - 2022
On a remote Irish island, a friendship abruptly ends, sparking escalating consequences for both men.
The Believer - 2001
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy and joins a neo-Nazi group.
The Best Years of Our Lives - 1946
The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell. The film is credited for its portrayal of the hardships of the post-war era and reincorporation of men into society after their traumatic terms in the US Military,
The Book of Eli - 2010
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
The Bridge on the River Kwai - 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai, written by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel and the film's screenplay are almost entirely fictional but use the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943 as its historical setting. It stars William Holden, Alec Guinness, and Jack Hawkins, with Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, and Geoffrey Horne in supporting roles.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 2008
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.
The Darjeeling Limited - 2007
A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other.
The Deer Hunter - 1978
The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended by fighting in the Vietnam War. The soldiers are played by Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage, with John Cazale, Meryl Streep and George Dzundza in supporting roles. The story takes place in Clairton, Pennsylvania and in Vietnam.
The Dirty Dozen - 1967
The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker and Robert Webber. Set in 1944 during World War II, the film follows a penal military unit of twelve convicts as they are trained as commandos by the Allies for a suicide mission ahead of the Normandy landings.
The General - 1926
The General is a 1926 American silent comedy film released by United Artists. It was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War. The story was adapted from the 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger. The film stars Buster Keaton, who also co-directed it along with Clyde Bruckman.
The Godfather - 1972
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
The Godfather Part II - 1974
The 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.
The Graduate - 1967
The Graduate is a 1967 American independent romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novella by Charles Webb. It stars Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate who is seduced by an older married woman, Mrs. Robinson, but falls for her daughter, Elaine. The soundtrack was recorded by Simon & Garfunkel, and featured the hit single "Mrs. Robinson".
The History Boys - 2006
An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, while a headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - 2012
A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home - and the gold within it - from the dragon Smaug.
The Innocents - 1961
The Innocents is a 1961 gothic psychological horror film directed and produced by Jack Clayton, and starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, and Megs Jenkins. Based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by the novelist Henry James, the screenplay was adapted by William Archibald and Truman Capote, who used Archibald's own 1950 stage play—also titled The Innocents—as a primary source text.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - 1943
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 British romantic-war film written, produced and directed by the British film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low, but the story is original. Although the film is strongly pro-British, it is a satire on the British Army, especially its leadership.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - 2004
With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.
The Lives Of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) - 2006
An East German Stasi officer surveilling a writer and his lover becomes increasingly changed by their lives.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - 2001
A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
The Martian - 2015
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and he must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
The Matrix - 1999
A hacker learns reality is a simulation and joins a rebellion against its machine overlords.
The Notebook - 2004
A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.
The Philadelphia Story - 1940
The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey. Directed by George Cukor, the film is based on the 1939 Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist.
The Reader - 2008
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, a law student re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
The Royal Tenenbaums - 2001
The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
The Shining - 1980
A 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.
The Shop Around the Corner - 1940
The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, and Joseph Schildkraut. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László. The film is about two employees at a leather goods shop in pre-war Budapest who can barely stand each other, not realizing they are falling in love as anonymous correspondents through their letters.
The Sound Of Music (The Sound of Music) - 1965
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse, itself based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. It stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker.
The Sting - 1973
The Sting is a 1992 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Nico Wong and starring Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Simon Lui and Bowie Lam.
The Substance - 2024
A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug that creates a younger version of herself, with grotesque consequences.
The Sugarland Express - 1974
The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film follows a woman and her husband as they take a police officer hostage and flee across Texas while they try to get to their child before he is placed in foster care. The film was based on true events, some of which occurred in Sugar Land, Texas, where parts of the film were shot. Other scenes were filmed in San Antonio, Live Oak, Floresville, Pleasanton, Converse and Del Rio, Texas.
The Swimming Pool - 1969
The Swimming Pool is a 1977 Bulgarian drama film directed by Binka Zhelyazkova. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Prize.
The Talented Mr. Ripley - 1999
A con man sent to retrieve a rich playboy in Italy becomes dangerously entangled in his life.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American neo-western film written and directed by John Huston, and starring Humphrey Bogart, with Walter Huston, Tim Holt, and Bruce Bennett in support. Based on B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, the film follows two downtrodden men who join forces with a grizzled old prospector in searching for gold in Mexico.
The Tree of Life - 2011
The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.
The Truman Show - 1998
An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) - 1988
After his girlfriend disappears at a motorway stop, a man’s obsessive search draws him into the mind of her abductor.
The Wizard of Oz - 1939
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind. The screenplay is credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, but includes contributions from other writers.
There Will Be Blood - 2007
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
Three Days Of The Condor (Three Days of the Condor) - 1975
Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 American spy thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. The screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel was based on the 1974 novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady.
Top Hat - 1935
Top Hat is a 1935 American musical comedy film, in which Fred Astaire plays an American tap dancer named Jerry Travers, who arrives in London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick. He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont to win her affection. The film also features Eric Blore as Hardwick's valet Bates, Erik Rhodes as Alberto Beddini, a fashion designer and rival for Dale's affections, and Helen Broderick as Hardwick's long-suffering wife Madge.
True Grit - 2010
A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.
Valley of the Dolls - 1967
Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 American drama film directed by Mark Robson and produced by David Weisbart, based on Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel. The film stars Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate as three young women who become friends as they struggle to forge careers in the entertainment industry. As their careers take different paths, all three descend into barbiturate addiction. Susan Hayward, Paul Burke, and Lee Grant co-star.
Vanilla Sky - 2001
A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 2008
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamoured with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Walk the Line - 2005
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.
What a Way to Go! - 1964
What a Way to Go! is a 1964 American black comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological horror thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and featuring Victor Buono in his major film debut. The screenplay, adapted by Lukas Heller from the novel of the same name by Henry Farrell, follows an aging former child star tormenting her paraplegic sister, also a former film star, in a dilapidated Hollywood mansion.
Yes Man - 2008
A man challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year.
Yi Yi (一一, Yi yi) - 2000
Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.