Movies

  • 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 )
  • Love’s A Bitch/Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, 2000)
  • 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)
  • Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)
  • Behind Enemy Lines (John Moore, 2001)
  • Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
  • Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
  • Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone, 1989)
  • Boys Don’t Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999)
  • Cashback (Sean Ellis, 2006)
  • City of God/Cidade de Deus (Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, 2002)
  • Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
  • Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney, 2002)
  • Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007)
  • Crash (Paul Haggis, 2006)
  • Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990)
  • Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)
  • December Boys (Rod Hardy, 2007)
  • Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
  • 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)
  • Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, 2007)
  • 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)
  • In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008 )
  • 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)
  • Kill Bill - 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
  • LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
  • La Vie En Rose (Olivier Dahan, 2007)
  • 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)
  • Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
  • 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)
  • Paris, je’ taime/ Paris, I Love You (Various, 2006)
  • Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)
  • 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 Cell (Tarshem Singh, 2000)
  • 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 Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
  • 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 Machinist (Brad Anderson, 2004)
  • The Man Who Cried (Sally Potter, 2000)
  • The Mask (Chuck Russell, 1994)
  • The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers, 1999)
  • The Nines (John August, 2007)
  • 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)
  • There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
  • This is England (Shane Meadows, 2007)
  • 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)

The Hindi ones:

  • 1947 Earth (Deepa Mehta, 1998 )
  • Aamir (Rajkumar Gupta, 2008 )
  • 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)

5 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…

  4. 4 eti

    I have a doubt here….How do you remember all those names…Do you really note it down on the paper when you see them ..and have you been doing it since the time you saw your first movie ?

  5. 5 indisch

    @Eti:
    It’s easy when you really like a movie so as not to forget it. I just make an entry here after I watch a movie. No, this list doesn’t contain all the movies I’ve seen till date ‘coz not all of them were noteworthy.

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