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dedicated to 'Double Indemnity' and 'Dial M for Murder' the most intriguing films i ever saw in my life...
If any of you guys conform with my taste....do recommend me some foreign films like the ones in my list.
dedicated to 'Double Indemnity' and 'Dial M for Murder' the most intriguing films i ever saw in my life...
If any of you guys conform with my taste....do recommend me some foreign films like the ones in my list.
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- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin TherouxAfter 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.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsGuy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe PantolianoA man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.There are times when you feel you missed the golden time when legendary film-noirs like Double Indemnity came into being. And then you are relived by the thought that you witnessed the time when Memento was born.Just when you thought film-noir was dead and buried, along comes the memorably mind-bending Memento.
This film hardly needs introduction.Nolan announced his arrival with this classic neo-noir mystery. Its a puzzle in which you see the finished puzzle right up front and then watch as it disassembles itself.
This will be the first of films with which the master storyteller Nolan would introduce the world with his intricate, diligent and peerless story-telling techniques. The Prestige and Inception are the next two episodes... - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJoseph Gordon-LevittElliot PageA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
- DirectorRichard KellyStarsJake GyllenhaalJena MaloneMary McDonnellAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsTom CruiseNicole KidmanTodd FieldA Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
- DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínSoledad VillamilPablo RagoA retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsAl PacinoRobin WilliamsHilary SwankTwo Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.Its a rare fusion...for me it could never have been better...the legend Sir Al Pacino(I prefer calling him that....dont you? Shame!)...master storyteller Christopher Nolan...and my favorite genre-Psychological Drama(Thriller). I could not have asked for more!
Never before I ever saw such a psycho analysis of a character. Sir Pacino's character is hopeless, volatile, well-meaning, weak, angry, and very, very tired. He's memorable. The very prospect that he plays a haggard man who staggers deeper into moral and physical sleeplessness is so overwhelming, that the film claims you even before you watch it! No film ever traced such a psychological damning of character this beautifully.
Insomnia is an anti-film noir. What else do you expect with a film where the merciless sun never sets. But Nolan along with his cinematographer Wally Pfister shows how a "film bright" can be as dramatic, oppressive and revealing as film noir!
Thats the best I can say about a film which is one of my most favorite films.Its mystery genre at its best...conventional, Nolan and Sir Pacino! - DirectorBryan SingerStarsKevin SpaceyGabriel ByrneChazz PalminteriThe sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsBruce WillisHaley Joel OsmentToni ColletteMalcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHugh JackmanScarlett JohanssonAfter a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsChristian FriedelErnst JacobiLeonie BeneschStrange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsKarolina GruszkaKrzysztof MajchrzakGrace ZabriskieAs an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettTilda SwintonTells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.What a vision man...whenever I sit and think about this masterpiece i always fall short of adjectives... A man aging backwards whose future is mental regression...A girl Daisy whose life is a physical decay (like all human beings)....their trajectories intersect...and the result is The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.....
I've special regard for David Fincher...it all started with The Game and it grew with Fight Club and then Se7en and Zodiac. His vision, his characters his screenplay enthrall me...they get etched to my mind(or heart probably...damn!)...periodically come to their being...asking me to think about them, asking me understand the psyche of Douglas in the game, Pitt in TCCBB, Norton in fight club. I've never felt that...not even with Christopher Nolan.
When I saw this film..I knew that just like Scorsese's films it will take lifetime for me to understand the spritual aspects and the philosophy of the film.No regrets, I'm ready for that.
I also knew i've lost it...the three hours when i got to see the film for the first time. If time flowed backward for me as it does for Brad Pitt in the film I would have been almost three hours younger by the time the end credits rolled around. Alas no such luck on that score! - DirectorMichael HanekeStarsDaniel AuteuilJuliette BinocheMaurice BénichouA married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsNicole KidmanChristopher EcclestonFionnula FlanaganIn 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.A perfect example of bent reality...The plot is extremely intriguing and its secrets and mysteries are unveiled slowly-ideal for mystery lovers.
Kidman, her hair styled into a chaste postwar curl that gives her the aura of a Grace Kelly suffering from repressed hysteria is a real delight.
The Others, like its popular predecessors The Sixth Sense and The Usual Suspects, keeps us (here, literally) in the dark for the entire movie and then, just before everyone packs up to leave, throws a shocking curve our way making us rethink everything we have just seen; and when it is done right, leaves us pleasantly choked by the feeling that "THEY GOT ME!" - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioEmily MortimerMark RuffaloTeddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.You guys have no idea how happy I am to add a Martin Scorsese film in my list...OK its not the masters best film....but Shutter Island being a perfect genre thriller represent the Scorsese at his most unrestrained....A different Scorsese who is experimenting!!
Shutter Island deals better in mood and atmosphere than in narrative coherence-making it a perfect genre mystrey thriller in traditional way. The editing, lighting and subjective camera angles leave the viewer just disoriented enough to keep tangeled.
In the end, Shutter Island rattles your cage and leaves you fumbling for a firm place to stand. It entangles illusion and perception, sanity and madness as only pure cinema can.This is among Scorsese's many gifts: Even when he's not crafting a masterpiece, he reminds you that the movies possess uncanny powers to screw your minds like hell. - DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsEthan HawkeTrevor Jack BrooksLorelei LinklaterA man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsKim Hye-jaWon BinJin GooA mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMichael DouglasDeborah Kara UngerSean PennAfter a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him.David Fincher is one of a kind filmmaker. He has this uncanny ability to make 'Poetic Thrillers'. Apart from an extremly taut screenplay-devoid of any loopholes,his films suceed in portraying the subtle transitions of character's psyche and his way of looking at the life.The Game, a classic shows this ability of Fincher.
The Game is a journey- a transition. The way Douglas disintegrates against the pressure of a constant and unknown threat...is a real delight-something only Michael Douglas can portray.It is an extremely tense, grim and stylish thriller.If you are claustrophobic, like me....it just doubles the experience- ordinary locations turn into frightening backdrops making the atmosphere all more tense.Its a rare gift very few directors have-evoking the claustrophobic feeling in you with frenzy cinematography.
When I said The Game is a transition, I meant it.Douglas' life of comfort and convenience is shattered and his heart opens. And more importantly a claustrophobic psychological thriller becomes a spiritual quest. Watch The Game for these transitions - DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsChoi Min-sikYoo Ji-taeKang Hye-jeongAfter being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsNatalie PortmanMila KunisVincent CasselNina 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.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsNicole KidmanPaul BettanyLauren BacallA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.
- DirectorBrad AndersonStarsChristian BaleJennifer Jason LeighAitana Sánchez-GijónAn industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
- DirectorEric BressJ. Mackye GruberStarsAshton KutcherAmy SmartMelora WaltersEvan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.Loved the film....its one of those mysteries where the storyteller tries to put you in the mind of protagonist. This particular way doubles the film watching experience....as you don't get a true narration....infact its flexible....as it is nothing but something that the protagonist know ...it may be right...it may be wrong...means it will keep your mind tickling till the very end.....
When Evan blacks out...so do you...which makes you feel as anxious as him...and when the end arrives....you are blown away...with the climax....and the metaphorical flutter of butterfly....amazing. - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsSean PennTim RobbinsKevin BaconThe 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.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsJeremy TheobaldAlex HawLucy RussellA young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.
- DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
- DirectorJens LienStarsTrond FausaPetronella BarkerPer SchaanningIn a strange city where every person seems content beyond reason a new man arrives in town and stirs up trouble by asking too many questions.
- DirectorBen AffleckStarsMorgan FreemanEd HarrisCasey AffleckTwo Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsJake GyllenhaalRobert Downey Jr.Mark RuffaloBetween 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.
- DirectorAlex ProyasStarsRufus SewellKiefer SutherlandJennifer ConnellyA man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsRalph FiennesMiranda RichardsonGabriel ByrneA mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesStarsRalph FiennesRachel WeiszDanny HustonA widower's transcontinental quest to find answers about his wife's death leads him to explosive secrets.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyJames McAvoyBrenda BlethynThirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsJohn CusackRay LiottaAmanda PeetStranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsSergey MakovetskiySergey GarmashApti MagamaevTwelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsVincent GalloAlden EhrenreichMaribel VerdúBennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond.
- DirectorGéla BabluaniStarsGeorge BabluaniAurélien RecoingPascal BongardA man takes over a dead man's task without realizing the horror it entails.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsMonica BellucciVincent CasselAlbert DupontelEvents over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsEduardo NoriegaPenélope CruzChete LeraA very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsAngelina JolieColm FeoreAmy RyanAfter Christine's son goes missing, she reaches out to the LAPD to find him. But when they try to pass off an impostor as her son to quieten public protests, she refuses to accept him or give up hope.
- DirectorCameron CroweStarsTom CruisePenélope CruzCameron DiazA self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoKim Sang-kyungKim Roe-haIn 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.
- DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsTakako MatsuYoshino KimuraMasaki OkadaA psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.
- DirectorBéla TarrÁgnes HranitzkyStarsLars RudolphPeter FitzHanna SchygullaA naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
- DirectorRodrigo CortésStarsRyan ReynoldsJosé Luis García-PérezRobert PatersonPaul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.