QT MS's Favorite Movies
by monopolyman114 | created - 16 Oct 2010 | updated - 11 Jan 2012 | PublicMovies that I love.
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1. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
R | 99 min | Crime, Thriller
When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn
Votes: 1,088,971 | Gross: $2.83M
Tarentino brings a great "idea gone wrong" story to an audience with keeping a violent, dark pace throughout the film, yet being able to wrap up the story with something to think about, rather than just pure grittiness.
2. Goodfellas (1990)
R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Votes: 1,258,443 | Gross: $46.84M
Martin Scorsese tells the raw, powerful story of the mobster business, but, going further into then just the violence and betrayal that mobsters cause, and really expressing deeper meaning, that if you you decide to be in the business, then everyone around you is involved in it as well.
3. The King of Comedy (1982)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A passionate yet unsuccessful comedian stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard
Votes: 119,293 | Gross: $2.50M
A movie that tells the story of a man that portrays pure obsession that cannot be stopped, even by the law. This movie shows an example of a social problem too it's highest extent, and it shows it within the claustrophobic mind of the character played by Robert De Niro.
4. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
R | 116 min | Drama, War
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin
Votes: 790,977 | Gross: $46.36M
Stanley Kubrick's portrail of how military training breaks a person down, so much, that it can make people go crazy. To the movie, I would have to say that for some people, sticks and stones could break there bones, and words will always hurt them.
5. Badlands (1973)
PG | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri
Votes: 78,448
Terrance Malick Recreates darkness, in this murderous tale of a loner rebel and his gal. Pre-"Apocalypse Now" Martin Sheen does a wonderful job playing an "I don't care" personality murderer.
6. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,511 | Gross: $27.55M
Spike Lee's story about what race has done to break people apart...a great story with great acting too.
7. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War
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.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 1,585,797 | Gross: $120.54M
A nice gory, satisfying look at how the holocaust should have ended, through the eyes of Tarantino.
8. No Country for Old Men (2007)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson
Votes: 1,061,272 | Gross: $74.28M
The Coen Brothers give life to Cormac McCarthy's book, where they tell the story of the devil himself.
9. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 703,367 | Gross: $37.63M
An Adults fairy tale, that has great visuals and a great story.
10. There Will Be Blood (2007)
R | 158 min | Drama
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer
Votes: 641,619 | Gross: $40.22M
Paul Thomas Anderson's look at the dark, hard working life of an oil business man
11. Fargo (1996)
R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Votes: 727,219 | Gross: $24.61M
A tastefully done, dark comedy, with a classic Coen brothers "straight to the point" style of story telling, about how so much bad can come from one cowardly man...and steve Buscemi.
12. A Simple Plan (1998)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Three blue-collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash and make a plan to keep their find from the authorities, but it isn't long before complications and mistrust weave their way into the plan.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe
Votes: 76,194 | Gross: $16.31M
Sam Ramie takes a break from horror in a movie that shows how money can get people killed.
13. The Godfather (1972)
R | 175 min | Crime, Drama
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
Votes: 2,014,449 | Gross: $134.97M
With the Use of Lighting, acting, and story telling techniques, Coppola has been able to sculpt together a movie that compliments the book better than the book compliments itself.
14. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 710,843 | Gross: $83.47M
Loosely Based on the Joseph Conrads, Heart of Darkness, Coppola brings his audience deep into the depths of hell, in this bizarre war crazed story, of a man sent on a mission that is almost to insane for a special agent.
15. The Killing (1956)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen
Votes: 97,596
The movie that I believe to be be the inspiration of Reservoir Dogs, because of it's "idea gone wrong" Kubrick story.
16. In Bruges (2008)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.
Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Berrington
Votes: 461,792 | Gross: $7.76M
If In Bruges is the only film that director, Martin Mcdonagh makes, he would still be a brilliant director.
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