Movies I Love
I often like to talk about movies with people and, it's inevitable, to talk about great movies of recent years. Also, some people say that they're great connoisseurs of top movies and, when I begin to mention some titles, they say they never saw that movie!
So, I would like to point out that, if you haven't seen the movies on the list below, you really don't know what you're talking about!
To help you, and me, I put them in alphabetic order so, maybe, you can print the list and, one at a time, try to see them.
One last thought about movies: in my opinion, any movie of any genre - Thriller, Science fiction, Historical, Musical or Comic - after having seen it, should make us a BETTER PERSON after having seen it.
Below you can find the list of movies I love, their public ratings (which can often be misleading!) and plots.
Amélie
2001
⭐ 8.3/10 IMDB
Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.
A Little Chaos
2014
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
Famed builder Le Notre is tasked with building an ethereal palace for King Louis XIV that transcends beauty. Le Notre hires Sabine de Barra to design and construct the outdoor ballroom, and is soon captivated by her beauty.
A Star Is Born
1937
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
Young Esther Victoria Blodgett comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and achieves them only with the help of alcoholic leading man Norman Maine, whose best days are behind him.
A Civil Action
1998
⭐ 6.6/10 IMDB
At the risk of bankrupting his firm and career, lawyer Jan Schlichtman takes on a case involving two companies responsible for causing children to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's contaminated water supply.
As Good as It Gets
1997
⭐ 7.7/10 IMDB
A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009
⭐ 8.1/10 IMDB
Professor Wilson discovers a lost Akita puppy on his way home. Despite objections from his wife, Hachi endears himself to the family and grows to be Parker's loyal companion. As their bond grows deeper, a beautiful relationship un...
Begin Again
2013
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
A chance encounter between a down-and-out music business executive, and a young singer songwriter new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.
Bicentennial Man
1999
⭐ 6.9/10 IMDB
The life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinar...
Billy Elliot
2000
⭐ 7.7/10 IMDB
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Boiler Room
2000
⭐ 7.0/10 IMDB
A college dropout, attempting to live up to his father's high standards, gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm which puts him on the fast track to success. But the job might not be as legitimate as it first appeare...
Cast Away
2000
⭐ 7.8/10 IMDB
A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island.
Chain Reaction
1996
⭐ 5.7/10 IMDB
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
Changing Lanes
2002
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
A young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.
Chariots of Fire
1981
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
Collateral Beauty
2016
⭐ 6.8/10 IMDB
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time, and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and ...
Dave
1993
⭐ 6.9/10 IMDB
An uncanny Presidential lookalike named Dave is recruited by the Secret Service to become a momentary stand-in for the President of the United States.
Dead Poets Society
1989
⭐ 8.1/10 IMDB
Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.
Dolphin Tale
2011
⭐ 6.8/10 IMDB
A boy finds a dolphin that was injured in a trap. They become friends, but the dolphin needs to have its tail amputated to survive. With the help of a biologist and a prosthetics specialist, the boy tries to save the animal.
Double Jeopardy
1999
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.
Eight Below
2006
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
Brutal cold forces two Antarctic explorers to leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival.
Finding Forrester
2000
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
Forrester, 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.
Finding Neverland
2004
⭐ 7.7/10 IMDB
The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
First Man
2018
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Fly Away Home
1996
⭐ 6.9/10 IMDB
Amy moves to Ontario to live with her father after the death of her mother. Her father, an aviation expert, helps Amy lead a flock of orphaned geese south for the winters.
Groundhog Day
1993
⭐ 8.0/10 IMDB
A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.
Eight Below
2006
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
Brutal cold forces two Antarctic explorers to leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival.
Ice Age
2002
⭐ 7.5/10 IMDB
Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.
Inception
2010
⭐ 8.8/10 IMDB
A 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.
You've Got Mail
1998
⭐ 6.7/10 IMDB
Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet, both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
La Vie En Rose
2007
⭐ 7.5/10 IMDB
Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
Lean on Me
1989
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school he is determined to improve by any and all means.
Leave No Trace
2018
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
A father and his seventeen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.
Little Miss Sunshine
2006
⭐ 7.8/10 IMDB
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
Love Actually
2003
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Kinky Boots
2005
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
Malena
2000
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
As Italy enters WWII, a teenage boy in a small, narrow-minded Sicilian town becomes obsessed with a young woman.
Mary Poppins
1964
⭐ 7.8/10 IMDB
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Mediterraneo
1991
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.
Million Dollar Arm
2014
⭐ 7.0/10 IMDB
A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
⭐ 6.6/10 IMDB
Katherine Watson teaches art history in 1953 at the respectable all-female Wellesley College. She encourages her conservative students to question and disregard the outdated societal mores for women.
Moneyball
2011
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
Notting Hill
1999
⭐ 7.2/10 IMDB
A set of circumstances makes Anna Scott, a famous actress, fall in love with William Thacker, owner of a bookstore in Notting Hill. But the paparazzi's fascination with her complicates their bond.
October Sky
1999
⭐ 7.8/10 IMDB
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
Pay It Forward
2000
⭐ 7.2/10 IMDB
A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
Passengers
2016
⭐ 7.0/10 IMDB
A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.
Pawn Sacrifice
2014
⭐ 7.0/10 IMDB
Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Phenomenon
1996
⭐ 6.4/10 IMDB
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
Renaissance Man
1994
⭐ 6.2/10 IMDB
A failed businessman is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving recruits in order to help them pass basic training.
School Ties
1992
⭐ 6.9/10 IMDB
In 1959, a star quarterback from a working-class family is given an opportunity to attend an elite New England preparatory school, but he is conflicted about whether or not to tell his Evangelical classmates that he is Jewish.
Seabiscuit
2003
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Searching
2018
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
After his teenage daughter goes missing, a desperate father tries to find clues on her laptop.
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
A prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Secretariat
2010
⭐ 7.2/10 IMDB
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
Seven Years in Tibet
1997
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian climber, breaks out of prison and travels to the holy city of Lhasa. He is employed as an instructor to the 14th Dalai Lama and soon becomes his close confidante.
Shall We Dance
1937
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.
Shattered Glass
2003
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
Sing Street
2016
⭐ 7.9/10 IMDB
A young lad notices a beautiful girl who begins to occupy his thoughts. While struggling with poverty, personal relationships and life's woes, he starts a band, hoping to catch her attention.
Sister Act
1992
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her ide...
Sleepless in Seattle
1993
⭐ 6.8/10 IMDB
A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.
Smoke
1995
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
The American President
1995
⭐ 6.8/10 IMDB
A widowed U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception," and sparks fly anyway.
The Arrival
1996
⭐ 6.2/10 IMDB
Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it.
The Black Stallion
1979
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.
The Cup
1999
⭐ 6.9/10 IMDB
In northern India, in 1998. Palden and Nyima, two young Tibetans in exile, find refuge in Chokling Monastery, where they will soon receive their ordination.
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
The Family Man
2000
⭐ 6.8/10 IMDB
Offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, a fast-lane investment broker, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and a wife.
The Greatest Game Ever Played
2005
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
In the 1913 U.S. Open, twenty-year-old Francis Ouimet played golf against his idol, 1900 U.S. Open champion, Englishman Harry Vardon.
The Legend of 1900
1998
⭐ 8.0/10 IMDB
A baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
The Lost City of Z
2016
⭐ 6.6/10 IMDB
A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
The Perfect Storm
2000
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.
The Reader
2008
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
The Sixth Sense
1999
⭐ 8.2/10 IMDB
After being shot by a resentful former patient whom he failed to help, a Philadelphia child psychologist seeks redemption by treating a young boy with a disturbing secret.
The Soloist
2009
⭐ 6.7/10 IMDB
A newspaper journalist discovers a homeless musical genius and tries to improve his situation.
The Sum of All Fears
2002
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Mary...
Uncle Nino
2003
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Victory
1981
⭐ 6.6/10 IMDB
As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.
OK, I'll stop here but I could go on much longer. If you've already seen all of these movies, then we can definitely have an informed discussion about cinema because you know your stuff!
Also, there's no need to thank me. I mainly created this list for myself so I could print it out and keep it next to my remote control!
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