Movies

Here’s a list of movies (in alphabetical order) I’ve watched till date and liked. I might have missed out on a few but the additions will be made as and when they are remembered.

  • 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
  • 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002)
  • A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)
  • A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
  • A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner, 1992)
  • Across the Universe (Julie Taymor, 2007)
  • Amelie/Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
  • American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
  • American Gangster (Ridley Scott, 2007)
  • American History X (Tony Kaye, 1998 )
  • Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
  • Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2007)
  • Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007)
  • A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (James Ivory, 1998 )
  • Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2006)
  • Bee Season (Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2005)
  • Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
  • Behind Enemy Lines (John Moore, 2001)
  • Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
  • Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone, 1989)
  • Cashback (Sean Ellis, 2006)
  • City of God/Cidade de Deus (Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, 2002)
  • Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
  • Crash (Paul Haggis, 2006)
  • Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990)
  • Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)
  • Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997)
  • Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
  • Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
  • Dream for an Insomniac (Tiffanie DeBartolo, 1996)
  • Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007)
  • Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg, 1987)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen, 1972)
  • Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
  • Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996)
  • Fight Club (David Fincher, 1996)
  • Finding Neverland (Marc Forster, 1994)
  • Following (Christopher Nolan, 1999)
  • Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
  • Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
  • Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)
  • Gatacca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
  • Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
  • Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
  • Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997)
  • Gotti (Robert Harmon, 1996)
  • Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle (Danny Leiner, 2003)
  • Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
  • Higher Learning (John Singleton, 1995)
  • High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
  • Hulk (Ang Lee, 2003)
  • Into The Wild (Sean Penn, 2007)
  • It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer, 1963)
  • Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth (Richard Schenkman, 2007)
  • JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
  • Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007)
  • K-Pax (Iain Softley, 2001)
  • Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
  • LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
  • Life is Beautiful/Vita è bella, La (Roberto Benigni, 1997)
  • Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2006)
  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998 )
  • Lolita (Adrian Lyne, 1997)
  • Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola, 2003)
  • Lucky Number Slevin (Paul McGuigan, 2006)
  • Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2001)
  • Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997)
  • Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004)
  • Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
  • Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
  • Mr. Brooks (Bruce A. Evans, 2007)
  • Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
  • Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
  • Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
  • Napolean Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004)
  • No Man’s Land (Danis Tanovic, 2001)
  • Not One Less/Yi ge dou bu neng shao (Zhang Yimou, 1999)
  • Obaba (Montxo Armendariz, 2005)
  • October Sky (Joe Johnston, 1999)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1969)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
  • Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack, 1985)
  • Pan’s Labyrinth/Laberinto del fauno, El (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
  • Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme, 1993)
  • Phonebooth (Joel Schumacher, 2003)
  • Pirates of Silicon Valley (Martyn Burke, 1999)
  • Places in the Heart (Robert Benton, 1984)
  • Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
  • Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
  • Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino, 2006)
  • Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006)
  • Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
  • Rainman (Barry Levinson, 1988 )
  • Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
  • Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
  • Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
  • Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
  • Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, 2002)
  • Ronin (John Frankenheimer, 1998 )
  • Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998 )
  • Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983)
  • Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest, 1992)
  • Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
  • Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
  • Seven Years in Tibet (Jean Jacques Annaud, 1997)
  • Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998 )
  • Signs (Manoj N. Shyamalan, 2002)
  • Sin City (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2005)
  • Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, 1993)
  • Smiles of a Summer Night/Sommarnattens leende (Ingmar Bergman, 1955)
  • Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)
  • Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
  • Stay (Marc Forster, 2005)
  • Swindled/Incautos (Miguel Bardem, 2004)
  • Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
  • Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman, 2006)
  • The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998 )
  • The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
  • The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, 2004)
  • The Cinderella Man (Ron Howard, 2005)
  • The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007)
  • The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
  • The Devil’s Advocate (Taylor Hackford, 1997)
  • The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996)
  • The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)
  • The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
  • The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
  • The History of the World - 1 (Mel Brooks, 1981)
  • The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)
  • The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan, 1990)
  • The Illusionist (Neil Burger, 2006)
  • The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray, 2003)
  • The Last King of Scotland (Kevin MacDonald, 2006)
  • The Life of David Gale (Alan Parker, 2003)
  • The Longest Penalty Shot in the World/Penalti más largo del mundo, El (Roberto Santiago, 2005)
  • The Man Who Cried (Sally Potter, 2000)
  • The Mask (Chuck Russell, 1994)
  • The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers, 1999)
  • The Number 23 (Joel Schumacher, 2007)
  • The Penknife/The Pocketknife/Zakmes, Het (Ben Sombogaart, 1992)
  • The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
  • The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
  • The Village (Manoj N. Shyamalan, 2004)
  • The Weight of Water (Kathryn Bigelow, 2000)
  • Three Colours Blue/Trois couleurs: Bleu (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
  • To Sir With Love (James Clavell, 1967)
  • Under Suspicion (Stephen Hopkins, 2000)
  • Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982)
  • Topgun (Tony Scott, 1986)
  • Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
  • Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
  • Unbreakable (Manoj N. Shyamalan, 2000)
  • Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, 2001)
  • V for Vendetta (James Mc Teigue, 2006)
  • Your Name is Justine/Masz na imie Justine (Franco de Pena, 2005)
  • Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)

And here’s a list of the Hindi ones (not in any order) which needs to be worked on. The complete list would be out soon.

  • 1947 Earth (Deepa Mehta, 1998 )
  • Anand (Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 1971)
  • Black (Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2005)
  • Black Friday (Anurag Kashyap, 2004)
  • Chupke Chupke (Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 1975)
  • Company (Ram Gopal Varma, 2002)
  • Dost (Dulal Guha, 1974)
  • Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (Basu Chatterjee, 1986)
  • Ghar Ho To Aisa (Kalpataru, 1990)
  • Golmaal (Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 1979)
  • Guide (Vijay Anand and Tad Danielewski, 1965)
  • Gumnaam (Raja Nawathe, 1965)
  • Jaagte Raho (Amit Mitra and Sombhu Mitra, 1956)
  • Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (Kundan Shah, 1983)
  • Johnny Gaddar (Sriram Raghavan, 2007)
  • Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (Kundan Shah, 1993)
  • Kisi Se Na Kehna (Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 1983)
  • Main Azad Hoon (Tinnu Anand, 1989)
  • Masoom (Shekhar Kapur, 1983)
  • No Smoking (Anurag Kashyap, 2007)
  • Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (Jahnu Barua, 2005)
  • Mera Naam Joker (Raj KApoor, 1970)
  • Omkara (Vishal Bharadwaj, 2006)
  • Pushpak (Srinivasa Rao Singeetham, 1988 )
  • Raghu Romeo (Rajat Kapoor, 2003)
  • Rang De Basanti (Rakeysh O. Mehra, 2006)
  • Rudaali (Kalpana Lajmi, 1993)
  • Salaam Bombay (Mira Nair, 1988 )
  • Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (Saeed Akhtar Mirza, 1989)
  • Satya (Ram Gopal Varma, 1998 )
  • Shatranj Ke Khiladi (Satyajit Ray, 1977)
  • Sholay (Ramesh Sippy, 1975)
  • Shool (E. Nivas, 1999)
  • Swami Vivekananda (G. V. Iyer, 1994)
  • The NameSake (Mira Nair, 2006)
  • Thoda Sa Roomani Ho Jaaye (Amol Palekar, 1990)
  • Water (Deepa Mehta, 2005)
  • Zakhm (Mahesh Bhatt, 1998 )
  • Zubeidaa (Shyam Benegal, 2001)

3 Responses to “Movies”  

  1. 1 P

    That’s a good list right there. I’m assuming you’re a Tarantino fan like me? I highly recommend Dog Day Afternoon and Harsh Times if you’ve not already seen them.

    One movie that I believe went highly unnoticed was Maine Ghandi Ko Nahi Mara (sp?) which I thought was one that would pull the attention of a niche crowd at least. Have you seen it?

  2. 2 indisch

    @P:
    Ya, I like Tarantino movies. I’ven’t actually seen the two movies. Will check them out.

    I’ve seen MGKNM. It deserves a mention here.

  3. 3 kapsii

    I suggest to watch “Lives of others (2006)” - German movie…

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