Favorite Films

by tcstrou2 | created - 06 Jun 2011 | updated - 03 Aug 2011 | Public

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1. The Lives of Others (2006)

R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

89 Metascore

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 410,334 | Gross: $11.29M

Fantastic film. The grey, bleak atmosphere created in this movie is incredible, it really takes you to 1980's Eastern Germany. The plot drew me in from the first time I saw it and still gripped me tight on later viewings. I can't see this film being knocked off as my favorite anytime soon. Please God don't let them remake this movie, I wouldn't even watch it but it would make me so unhappy to hear the American version get talked about rather than this near perfect gem.

2. Pulp Fiction (1994)

R | 154 min | Crime, Drama

95 Metascore

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis

Votes: 2,218,853 | Gross: $107.93M

Just love this movie. The dialogue is crisp and witty, just love everything about it really. I'm not even a huge Tarantino fan in general, but I really love PF. I didn't really get all the hype behind it the first time I watched it, but it really sank in the next day and I had to re-watch it.

3. The Chaser (2008)

Not Rated | 125 min | Action, Crime, Drama

64 Metascore

A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing.

Director: Na Hong-jin | Stars: Kim Yoon-seok, Ha Jung-woo, Seo Yeong-hie, Kim Yoo-jung

Votes: 72,738

I don't know what to say about this movie. I picked it off of the free Sundance On-Demand channel and wow. I didn't know what to think going into it but after I watched it I was just stunned and didn't move until the credits ended. A fantastically disturbing film.

4. Memories of Murder (2003)

Not Rated | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

82 Metascore

In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roe-ha, Song Jae-ho

Votes: 216,155 | Gross: $0.01M

Another great Korean movie. I know a lot of people have Oldboy as their favorite Korean movie, or even overall favorite, but I just found these two films to be better than Oldboy. I'm sure many will disagree with me but I just loved these two.

5. Revanche (2008)

Not Rated | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

84 Metascore

Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.

Director: Götz Spielmann | Stars: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss

Votes: 15,939

Didn't really know what to expect from this one. Beautiful landscapes throughout the movie. Just a great film that I happened upon.

6. Dumb and Dumber (1994)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy

41 Metascore

After a woman leaves a briefcase at the airport terminal, a dumb limo driver and his dumber friend set out on a hilarious cross-country road trip to Aspen to return it.

Directors: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly | Stars: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr

Votes: 411,815 | Gross: $127.18M

My favorite comedy. Always will be. I saw this movie when I was like 12 and really only got the gags and potty humor. When I watched it later I realized it was actually a smart comedy and got all the subtleties of it, which made it even better.

7. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi

77 Metascore

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke

Votes: 880,986 | Gross: $6.21M

I would almost classify this one as a comedy before Alex gets taken in. The dialogue is just hilarious. I watched this one a little early before I could understand it, and when I watched it later I just loved the dialogue and the way characters talked.

8. Collateral (2004)

R | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

71 Metascore

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo

Votes: 432,952 | Gross: $101.01M

I didn't honestly expect much from this film. I saw Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise and thought it was going to be a mediocre, nothing special mainstream movie, but I really loved it.

9. La haine (1995)

Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili

Votes: 196,293 | Gross: $0.31M

This, like Pulp Fiction, took some time to sink in. I didn't know what to think after it ended but the next day I realized how much I loved the film.

10. In Bruges (2008)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

67 Metascore

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: 461,332 | Gross: $7.76M

Great dark comedy. Bruges is a beautiful city and was depicted as such in the film. Loved it after I saw it.

11. Trainspotting (1996)

R | 93 min | Drama

83 Metascore

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd

Votes: 725,397 | Gross: $16.50M

I kept hearing about this movie on Requiem for a Dream threads, so I went into it expecting another Requiem type film. It was nothing of the sort and I was surprised when it was over how much I liked it.

12. Mulholland Drive (2001)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

86 Metascore

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates

Votes: 383,648 | Gross: $7.22M

My introduction to David Lynch. I loved the mood this film set, it was all so dreamy and surreal.

13. Eastern Promises (2007)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

83 Metascore

A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin

Votes: 261,021 | Gross: $17.11M

I saw A History of Violence before Eastern Promises and was a little let down. I enjoyed it, but thought it was a little overrated. I thought Eastern Promises to be the superior film.

14. City of God (2002)

R | 130 min | Crime, Drama

79 Metascore

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen

Votes: 800,650 | Gross: $7.56M

My first real foreign film that I loved.

15. Fight Club (1999)

R | 139 min | Drama

67 Metascore

An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier

Votes: 2,322,336 | Gross: $37.03M

16. Jellyfish (2007)

Unrated | 78 min | Drama

67 Metascore

Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life... See full summary »

Directors: Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret | Stars: Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Gera Sandler, Noa Raban

Votes: 2,744 | Gross: $0.34M

I saw this on the Sundance channel. Really a nice little movie.

17. The Guitar (2008)

R | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance

The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.

Director: Amy Redford | Stars: Saffron Burrows, Isaach De Bankolé, Paz de la Huerta, Mia Kucan

Votes: 3,165

I don't know why I like this film so much. Maybe since I play the guitar I enjoy a naked woman playing the guitar more than the average person. I can't say for sure, but I sure did like the film.

18. Se7en (1995)

R | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

65 Metascore

Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Andrew Kevin Walker

Votes: 1,798,075 | Gross: $100.13M

This movie has serious rewatchability (is that even a word? haha) for me. I don't know what it is about it but I just love watching it.

19. Zodiac (2007)

R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

79 Metascore

Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards

Votes: 598,035 | Gross: $33.08M

Good film.

20. Black Swan (2010)

R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller

79 Metascore

Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.

Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder

Votes: 824,285 | Gross: $106.95M

Saw this in the theater and it was a great experience.

21. Requiem for a Dream (2000)

R | 102 min | Drama

71 Metascore

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..

Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

Votes: 898,282 | Gross: $3.64M

I finished this film and just sat in silence for a while after it finished. I haven't been in the mood since to watch it again. Haha that may sound like I hate it but it is just a tough film to watch.

22. The Deer Hunter (1978)

R | 183 min | Drama, War

90 Metascore

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage

Votes: 362,043 | Gross: $48.98M

Another movie I watched first when I was too young but viewed again later on and loved.

23. Mystic River (2003)

R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

84 Metascore

The tragic murder of a 19-year-old girl reunites three childhood friends still living in Boston--the victim's gangster father, a detective, and the disturbed man they both suspect of killing her.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Emmy Rossum

Votes: 485,707 | Gross: $90.14M

I heard good and bad things about this one before I saw it. I really enjoyed it.



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