Movie Recommendations
I only add a movie to this list if I think I’d like to watch it more than once.
If the movie has five stars (listed in bold), then I probably own the DVD and enjoy watching it once a year or so.
RECENT UPDATES:
May 15, 2010 – Added The Time Traveler’s Wife (and bought a copy from Amazon so I can watch it many more times!)
24: Season One ***
Across the Universe ****
American Beauty ***
As Good as It Gets ***
August Rush *****
Awakenings *****
Away from Her ***
Beautiful Country, The ****
Beyond the Sea *****
Bicentennial Man ****
Bourne Identity ****
Collateral *****
Crash *****
Dangerous Beauty *****
Enemy at the Gates ****
Failure to Launch ****
Family Stone, The *****
Flash of Genius ****
Fugitive ****
Garden State *****
Gattaca ***
Good Will Hunting ****
Groundhog Day ****
Hitch ****
House of Sand and Fog ***
Into the Wild *****
King of California ****
Kite Runner, The *****
Lake House, The ****
Lars and the Real Girl *****
Laurel Canyon ***
Lost City, The *****
Lost in Translation ***
Man on Fire ***
Man on Wire ***
Memoirs of a Geisha ***
Moonlight Mile ****
Namesake, The ****
October Sky *****
Off the Map *****
Once ****
Painted Veil, The ****
Phantom of the Opera *****
Ratatouille ****
Reign over Me ****
Remember the Titans ***
Rob Roy *****
Rome (Seasons 1 & 2) ****
Saving Face ****
Seabiscuit ***
Shawshank Redemption *****
Sideways ***
Spiderman ***
Sweet Home Alabama ****
Tears of the Sun ***
3:10 to Yuma ****
Time Traveler’s Wife, The *****
Tombstone ****
True Romance ****
Truman Show ***
Tucker: The Man and His Dream *****
U2: Rattle & Hum *****
Upside of Anger, The ****
Vanilla Sky *****
Waking the Dead *****
Walk on Water ***
When a Man Loves a Woman ****
Woodsman, The ****
Anyone have additional movie recommendations, based on this outpouring of my soul?
Perhaps The Shop Around The Corner.
Someday you should try The Razor’s Edge (with Tyrone Power), Babette’s Feast, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kundun, The Last Emperor, Vertigo, and maybe Lust for Life and To Catch a Thief.
Shakespeare In Love
Billy Elliot
Love’s Labour’s Lost
V for Vendetta
Real Genius
Life is Beautiful
A Fish Called Wanda
The Pianist
The Princess Bride
Well, Kirez beat me to several, including Shakespeare in Love…
His Girl Friday (original version)
Dead Poet’s Society
The Lion in Winter (first version)
Robin and Marian
Witness
The African Queen
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fame
The Commitments
You like morally redeeming/inquisitive films. You might like Big Fish, or Harold and Maude.
http://www.movielens.org is a neat little site run by a research group at University of Minnesota. You feed in your movie rankings, and it spits out recommendations based on that data compared to all other users’ rankings.
The Saint
Also – There Will Be Blood
I am fascinated with M. Night. Much of his stuff is very altruistic, just realized that actually. The Village was amazing. Unbreakable. Curious to see what the new one will be like.
“What the Bleep Do We Know!?”
Seriously, everyone should watch this movie. A very compelling and unique attempt at developing a perspective on the human mind’s influence on reality and the infinite interconnectivity of everything, which is a key thing to understand in order to have motivation for Mudita because it allows one to realize that goodness for another IS goodness for oneself.
Going along with the theme here, I would add these two
faves of mine…Don Juan DeMarco (GREAT flick with Marlon
Brando, Faye Dunaway, and Johny Depp) and another,
maybe harder to find, called “Lily in Love” with Christopher
Plummer and Maggie Smith. Great messages for mankind
in both of these, in my humble opinion, of course.
That’s a pretty comprehensive list of movies. Since you have 24: Season 1 which is a movie series I’d recommend these two
1) Dexter(all seasons are good)
http://www.trustedopinion.com/movie-review/dexter
2) Fringe(if you like sci fi, season 2 is next year)
http://www.trustedopinion.com/movie-review/fringe
Hi,
I recommend “Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall), Winter and Spring” a lovely film – very highly recommended………………