My Favourite Movies
(The Top 84)
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- Fictional WW2 film featuring the all-wood De Havilland Mosquito
- Director: Walter Grauman
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2001: A Space Odyssey
- Arthur C Clarke's vision of space travel
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
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All the President's Men
- Watergate from the journalists' point of view
- Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Amadeus
- (Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart versus Salieri
- Director: Milos Forman
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And Then
- Inventive, moving.
- Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
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Annie Hall
Apollo 13
The Battle of Algiers
- French colonialists (temporarily) crush nationalist guerrillas
- Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
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The Battle of the Sexes
- Modern times hit Auld Reekie
- Director: Charles Crichton
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Being There
- Gardener taps into profundity?
- Director: Hal Ashby
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Betty Blue
- French, obsession becomes madness
- Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
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Brazil
- Retro futuristic dystopics
- Director: Terry Gilliam
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Bullitt
The 'burbs
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Cabaret
- "Cabaret" based on "I Am a Camera" based on Isherwood's Berlin stories
- Director: Bob Fosse
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Casablanca
Chimes at Midnight
Citizen Kane
- Media baron - who he?
- Director: Orson Welles
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City Hall
Dances with Wolves
The Day of the Jackal
Days of 36
The Decline of the American Empire
The Dirty Dozen
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Easy Rider
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Farewell My Concubine
- Lifetimes in the Beijing Opera
- Director: Kaige Chen
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From Russia with Love
The German Sisters
- The Red Army Faction fictionalised
- Director: Margarethe von Trotta
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The Graduate
- Relationships, with Simon and Garfunkel music
- Director: Mike Nichols
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The Great Escape
- True story, plus Steve McQueen as obligatory American
- Director: John Sturges
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Great Expectations
- Dickens novel
- Director: David Lean
If...
- British boys' boarding school as metaphor for revolution. Yeah, right.
- Director: Lindsay Anderson
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It's a Wonderful Life
Joe
- Missing daughter throws well-off liberal and blue-collar worker together
- Director: John G. Avildsen
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Kagemusha
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Last Picture Show
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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Long Holidays of 36
The Lords of Flatbush
- Brooklyn kids in a gang (including Sylvester Stallone in an early role).
- Director: Stephen Verona
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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
- Heinrich Böll's short novel about journalistic excesses and state power.
- Director: Volker Schlöndorff
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A Man for All Seasons
- Principles can cost.
- Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Man of Iron
- Lech Walesa plays himself.
- Director: Andrzej Wajda
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Man of Marble
- Poland under Stalin.
- Director: Andrzej Wajda
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Manhattan
M*A*S*H
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Michael Collins
The Mirror
- Surreal autobiographical musings
- Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Mon oncle
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Oh! What a Lovely War
- When this lousy war is over...
- Director: Richard Attenborough
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Madness is in the mind of the perceiver?
- Director: Milos Forman
- Based on novel by Ken Kesey
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Paper Moon
- Little girl lost
- Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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Platoon
The Producers
- If you've got it, flaunt it.
- Director: Mel Brooks
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Psycho
- A motel somewhere near Phoenix...
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Queimada
- Imperialism was a Bad Thing.
- Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
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Raising Arizona
Rear Window
Repo Man
- Auto repossession on the road to hell.
- Director: Alex Cox
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Return of the Secaucus 7
- Post 1970s nostalgia for activism. Predated "The Big Chill".
- Director: John Sayles
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Roger & Me
- What has GM's CEO to say about downsizing?
- Director: Michael Moore (II)
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Running on Empty
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Salt of the Earth
- Filmed in southern New Mexico and Mexico by people on Senator McCarthy's blacklist
- Director: Herbert J. Biberman
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Scenes from a Marriage
- Love ain't easy in Sweden.
- Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Shane
- Gunfighter tries to hang up his gunbelt.
- Director: George Stevens
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Singin' in the Rain
- A talky - with song and dance numbers.
- Directors: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
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Solaris
Stranger Than Paradise
- The cousin from Hungary visits America.
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
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Strangers on a Train
- Based on Patricia Highsmith novel.
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Tampopo
The Tenant
- The lodger in your nightmares.
- Director: Roman Polanski
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The Third Man
- Vienna under Allied occupation after WW2.
- Director: Carol Reed
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The Tin Drum
- The Nazis seen through Gunter Grass's view of the Nazis in Danzig.
- Director: Volker Schlöndorff
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Tin Men
Trouble in Mind
- Moody times in Seattle.
- Director: Alan Rudolph
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Twenty Years of Happiness
- Mesmerising documentary about the Dubcek period in Czechoslovakia
Two Stage Sisters
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The Untouchables
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- Kids are trouble.
- Director: Lasse Hallström
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Whisky Galore!
- High jinks in the Hebrides
- Director: Alexander Mackendrick
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Z
Zorba the Greek
- Timeless Greece - life is for living
- Director: Michael Cacoyannis
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