My favorite good movies, mostly feel good and rare treats.
Yeah OK I do like off beat movies, true stories, kid does well movies, like Blind Side or even Akeelah and the Bee. I do tend to watch good thrillers esp psychological ones, like say Diabolique, the french one not the american remake. So I have shared my list with some close friends and many have just loved them and/or found them 'interesting'. I normally just rent or even borrow from library...but many of this list I have bought because I share them with new friends. A couple are only on VHS or I have to search out and rent from Scarecrow Video with big deposit due to out a print. I am sure a lot of you will say I am too touchy feely..well I guess go back to your Charles Bronson stuff. I did of course love Deja Vu with Denzel Washington. Have fun. perhaps one gets feedback with these lists or perhaps no one at all will read it? Whatever I may not have much time to review or comment so pretty simple list...if you like one you prob will like others I have noted.
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- DirectorFredi M. MurerStarsFabrizio BorsaniBruno GanzTeo GheorghiuA twelve-year-old piano prodigy who suffocates from his parent's big dreams for him decides to make his escape--and with the aid of his grandfather--chase his own dreams instead.a rare beauty. foreign unusual off beat and some interesting triva with the accomplished actors and director from Hungry or somewhere like that. Kid is great.
- DirectorRobert M. YoungStarsTom HulceRay LiottaJamie Lee CurtisDominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due to an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical school. Their relationship becomes strained when Eugene must decide between his devotion to his brother, or his need to go away to complete his training. Things are also not helped by Dominick's co-worker, or Eugene's budding romance.twins or brothers ,, a risky movie to make bc no sex or much action but really really good and powerful. I saw the promo night with Tom Hulse speaking and director., producer. Pretty psych.
- DirectorDoug AtchisonStarsAngela BassettLaurence FishburneKeke PalmerAkeelah, a young gifted girl, comes from a dysfunctional family and is on the verge of quitting school. She discovers that she has a high aptitude for spellings and enters a spelling bee contest.wonderful movie, thank you Starbucks. Not hugely commercial but SO What. Some real characters. Spelling Bee theme.
- DirectorHenri SafranIan GoddardStarsGreg RowePeter CumminsDavid GulpililMike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.I have this somewhere on tape. Great unusual story. Austrailian. A precious movie experience if you like rare simple wonder.
Birds involved ...sort like Fly Away Home or whatever the Whooping Crane trueish story is - DirectorMenno MeyjesStarsJohn CusackAmanda PeetBobby ColemanA science-fiction writer, recently widowed, considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.sweet wonderful story. with a kid, yeah a different kid.
fun to watch the kid actors interaction with big movie business and how his dad helped ..whatever. I bought this one and watch to feel good. Can you say food fight? - DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsJoe MantegnaBen KingsleyMax PomerancA prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.some true story elements and just great story, some hard parenting stuff but just wonderful all around. Sorry again no sex or violence. Just drama and awe. Hmmm Shock and Awe? Wonder and Awe?
- DirectorNadia TassStarsColin FrielsJohn HargreavesLindy DaviesA socially awkward and mechanically gifted man becomes involved in a quirky and unconventional crime.again a funny poignant movie from Australian I think..bit odd about an odd guy..hey maybe that is why I like it/him. Good kid movie if fun kid?
Hard to find probably. - DirectorMick JacksonStarsJeff GoldblumTim Pigott-SmithAlan HowardWatson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.I am not sure which one imdb found to list here. the copy I have is recorded from A&E 20 yrs ago. With wild Jeff Goldblum.
Of course a true story reinactment and just wonderful and Rare. DNA and science with mavericks . Great - DirectorMarshall HerskovitzStarsDanny DeVitoGary SiniseRobert J. Steinmiller Jr.Danny DeVito is John Leary, a professional clown, whose wife's death in a car accident has left him to care for his two young boys.not too sure why I like this, Not That great. but sweet story and Danny Davito is great and weird. Some touching elements. Hard to find, pretty old.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsDaniel Day-LewisMadeleine StoweRussell MeansThree trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.One of my favorites I have watched 20 some times. Good music and actual quite primally romantic. Good Date movie for the right persons.
Tales of somewhat simpler times. When did they eat? - DirectorWes CravenStarsMeryl StreepCloris LeachmanHenry DinhoferAfter Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.True story and True storys are best. Really Really well done and real people participate and support. Kids play music. Well done I thought and one can get a copy of the documentary , which is good too.
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsSean ConneryRob BrownF. Murray AbrahamForrester, the author of a famous book, decides to help Jamal, a 16-year-old student, discover his writing prowess by mentoring him and enrolling him into a prestigious private school.One of my more favorites. feels like some true story elements but prob not? Way different role or character for Sean Connery. Great new actor kid..ok maybe he has had other roles? Whatever. Some fun, pathos and Wonder & Awe.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiNathalie PascaudMicheline RollaMonsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.YOu have really missed something if you have not experienced Jaque Tati. Give it a try ,, prob hard to find, in French mostly although mostly visual experience./ This one, Les Vacance whatever is the more well known one..Gad I hope it is not dubbed or somepin
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsSimone SignoretVéra ClouzotPaul MeurisseThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.hope this one is the French one with Simone Sennoray? The american remake is fun cuz set in San Juan Islands..[i live seattle]
The french version is pretty darn scary. - DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsEverlyn SampiTianna SansburyKenneth BranaghIn 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.Do NOT miss the "how made" doc bonus. Just amazing, just about as important as the movie itself. Really.
- DirectorJean-Jacques BeineixStarsWilhelmenia FernandezFrédéric AndréiRoland BertinTwo tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller.finally got at library. trying to buy a copy but most that you can get are crummy DVD copies.... Opera with twist and butter.
- DirectorKjell-Åke AnderssonStarsKrister HenrikssonJohanna SällströmOla RapaceTracking a sadistic killer, detective Kurt Wallander follows a string of incidents -- attacks on domestic animals, ritualistic murders of humans -- with help from his daughter, Linda, a new member of the Ystad police force.26 of the swedish ones, which are great.
6 or so of BBC ones, ok also
6 I think older swedish ones which I found one at Library or maybe amazon instant. ? anyway you can get region 2 dvd over there... - CreatorAnthony HorowitzStarsMichael KitchenHoneysuckle WeeksAnthony HowellAs WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.exquisitely done. even the bit players are complicated and full. Lots of episodes to see again and again. kinda like UP/Down and DT AB
- DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsAlbert FinneyMatthew ModineKevin AndersonBrothers Treat and Philip have lived alone since they were kids. Interdependent, they dwell in a loft house and live on little thefts, until an aging minor criminal moves in with them and takes over the role of a father.
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsSean ConneryRob BrownF. Murray AbrahamForrester, the author of a famous book, decides to help Jamal, a 16-year-old student, discover his writing prowess by mentoring him and enrolling him into a prestigious private school.
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsSylvie TestudTatjana TriebHowie SeagoSince the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature she becomes interested in music and starts to play clarinet very successfully. However her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes when Lara has to decide between her parents and her own ambitions.
- DirectorTom McCarthyStarsPaul GiamattiAmy RyanJeffrey TamborA struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsGeoffrey RushJim SturgessSylvia HoeksVirgil Oldman, a wealthy art auctioneer, takes the help of a young artificer, Robert, to understand and woo Claire Ibbetson, a young heiress, who hires him to auction off an antique collection.
- DirectorMichael TollinStarsCuba Gooding Jr.Ed HarrisDebra WingerThe story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsEd HarrisMary Elizabeth MastrantonioMichael BiehnA civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.