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