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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, then I could probably enjoy watching it once a year or so. Some movies include links to their trailers.

Recent Updates

2011 Nov 21 – Added The Last Station. “Enjoy” isn’t the right word, but it made me think about love and our ideals about love — and just how far apart the two can be.

2011 Nov 17 – Added Devil’s Double. Not hugely deep, but hugely compelling. Three stars.

2011 Oct 30 – Added Evening. WOW – great writing, acting, production. Claire Danes alone is amazing. Five stars.

2011 Jun 20 – Added Autumn in New York. Not a huge Richard Gere fan, but this was very, very well done. Five stars.

2011 May 29 – Added an old nearly-forgotten favorite, The Scent of Green Papaya. Five stars.

2010 Dec 14 – Added The Horse Whisperer and The Stepmom. Each four stars.

2010 Nov 30 – Added Chocolat. Five stars.

2010 Nov 20 – Added Meet Joe Black. Brad Pitt is terrific and his co-star Claire Forlani is breathtaking. Five stars.

FULL UPDATED LIST

24: Season One ***
Across the Universe ****
American Beauty ***
As Good as It Gets ***
August Rush *****
Autumn in New York *****
Awakenings *****
Away from Her ***
Beautiful Country, The ****
Beyond the Sea *****
Bicentennial Man ****
Bourne Identity ****
Chocolat ****
Collateral (read my review) *****
Crash *****
Dangerous Beauty *****
Enemy at the Gates ****
Devil’s Double ***
Evening *****
Failure to Launch ****
The Family Stone (favorite Christmas movie) *****
Flash of Genius ****
Fugitive ****
Garden State *****
Gattaca ***
Good Will Hunting ****
Groundhog Day ****
Hitch ****
Horse Whisperer, The ****
House of Sand and Fog ***
Into the Wild *****
King of California ****
The Kite Runner *****
The Lake House ****
Lars and the Real Girl *****
Last Station, The *** – Love vs. our ideas about love.
Laurel Canyon ***
The Lost City *****
Lost in Translation ***
Man on Fire ***
Man on Wire ***
Meet Joe Black *****
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 ****
Scent of Green Papaya *****
Seabiscuit ***
Shawshank Redemption *****
Sideways ***
Spiderman ***
Stepmom, The ****
Sweet Home Alabama ****
Tears of the Sun ***
3:10 to Yuma ****
The Time Traveler’s Wife *****
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?

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  • Walt

    Perhaps The Shop Around The Corner.

  • Don

    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.

  • http://faustin.livejournal.com/profile Kirez

    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

  • http://costumetalk.com Jonna

    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

  • Austen

    You like morally redeeming/inquisitive films. You might like Big Fish, or Harold and Maude.

  • Mark Nau

    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.

  • Madeleine

    The Saint

    Also – There Will Be Blood

  • Pamela

    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.

  • Joshua M. Gunty

    “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.

  • Alison

    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. :-)

  • Nitzan

    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

  • Nick

    Hi,

    I recommend “Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall), Winter and Spring” a lovely film – very highly recommended………………

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