User:Chaosdruid/Films

My top films

Some are old and some are new - I studied film production as a hobby for some time, but as it is a hard business to get into I had to resort to simply watching other peoples work. Many are considered classics, some will make you smile, some will make you think, but all of them are worth a watch :¬)

Fav Films
^{A=Must see, will change you}
^{B=Should see, may change you}
^{C=Try and watch it, it might not change you but it will make you feel something}
Film name	Director	Year	Genre	Notes	Grp
12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	1957	Drama		C
16 Blocks	Richard Donner	2006	Drama	Bruce Willis	B
2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	1968	Sci-Fi		A
22 Bullets	Richard Berry	2010	Action Historical^{(Fact based)}	Reno at his most vengeful	B
28 Days Later	Danny Boyle	2002	Apocalyptic		B
28 Weeks Later	Juan Carlos Fresnadillo	2007	Apocalyptic		B
633 Squadron	Walter Grauman	1964	War		C
A Bridge Too Far	Richard Attenborough	1977	War		C
A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	1971	Drama		B
A Fistful of Dollars	Sergio Leone	1964	Western	Clint Eastwood - Dollars trilogy	A
A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	1951	Drama		C
Above us the Waves	Ralph Thomas	1955	War		A
The Adventures of Tartu	Harold S. Bucquet	1943	War Spy		B
A.I.	Steven Spielberg	2001	Sci-Fi	aka A.I. Artificial Intelligence	A
Airborne	James Landis	1962	War		C
Algiers	John Cromwell	1938	Drama	Remake of Pépé le Moko	A
Alien (film)	Ridley Scott	1979	Sci-Fi		A
Aliens (film)	James Cameron	1986	Sci-Fi		C
Alpha Dog	Nick Cassavetes	2007		Bruce Willis	C
American Gangster	Ridley Scott	2007	Drama Historical	Based on real events - Frank Lucas	A
Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger	1959			C
Apocalypse Now Redux	Francis Ford Coppola	1979	War	2001 Redux has 49 extra minutes	B
Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis	1985	Sci-Fi Comedy		C
Beat the devil	John Huston	1953	Mystery Thriller		B
Ben-Hur	William Wyler	1959	Biblical Epic	Won 11 Academy Awards "Oscars"	B
Beverley Hills Cop	Martin Brest	1984	Action		B
Blade Runner-Final Cut	Ridley Scott	1997	Sci-Fi	2007 Final Cut was the only one Scott had control over	A
Bulldog Drummond's Peril	James P. Hogan	1938	Mystery Thriller		C
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	George Roy Hill	1969	Western		C
Casablanca	[[]]	1942	Drama	My No. 05	A
Centurion	[[]]	2010			B
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang	[[]]	1968	Musical		B
Cinema Paradiso	[[]]	1988	Drama		C
Citizen Kane	[[]]	1941	Drama		B
City of God	[[]]	2002			C
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	[[]]		Sci-Fi		A
Convoy	[[]]	1940	War		B
Cool Hand Luke	[[]]	1967	Drama		C
Cottage to Let	Anthony Asquith	1941	Mystery Thriller		C
Countdown to D-Day	Robert Harmon	2004	War	Made for TV but wonderful build up to D-Day form Ike's perspective	C
Dambusters	[[]]		War		B
Das Boot	[[]]		War		C
Die Hard	[[]]	1988	Action		B
Dirty Harry	[[]]	1971	Drama	Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry series	B
District 9	[[]]		Sci-Fi		B
Dodesukaden - Clickety-Clack	Akira Kurosawa	1970	Samurai		A
Dog Day Afternoon	[[]]	1975	Drama Historical	Based on real events	C
Downfall	Oliver Hirschbiegel	2004	War	The last weeks of Hitler
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	[[]]	1964	Comedy Drama		A
The Driller Killer	[[]]		Dark Comedy		C
Dunkirk	[[]]	1958	War		B
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	[[]]	2004			C
Fargo	[[]]	1996	Thriller		B
Fast Food Nation	[[]]		Drama	Bruce Willis	B
Finding Forrester	[[]]		Drama		C
Fixed Bayonets!	[[]]		War		C
Flags of our Fathers	[[]]	2006	War
For a Few Dollars More	[[]]	1965	Western	Clint Eastwood - Dollars trilogy	A
Forrest Gump	[[]]	1994	Drama		C
Fort Apache	[[]]		Western		C
Full Metal Jacket	[[]]		War		B
Gantz	Shinsuke Sato	2011	Sci-Fi Manga	My No. 06	A
Gantz: Perfect Answer	Shinsuke Sato	2011	Sci-Fi Manga		A
Goodfellas	[[]]	1990	Drama		C
Groundhog Day	[[]]	1993	Comedy		C
Gung Ho	[[]]	1943	War		B
Hamburger Hill	[[]]	1987	War		B
Harakiri	Masaki Kobayashi	1956	Samurai		A
Harry Brown	[[]]		Action Thriller		C
Heat	[[]]	1995			C
High and Low	Akira Kurosawa	1963	Drama		B
How The West Was Won	[[]]		Western	My No. 10	A
I Am Legend	[[]]	2007	Apocalyptic		B
I Live In Fear	Akira Kurosawa	1955			C
I, Robot	Alex Proyas	2004	Sci-Fi		A
Ice Cold in Alex	[[]]	1958	War		B
In the year of the pig	[[]]	1968	War		C
In Which We Serve	[[]]	1942	War		A
Incendies	[[]]	2010	Mystery Drama		A
Inception	[[]]	2010	Sci-Fi Action		B
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	[[]]	1989	Drama		C
Infernal Affairs I	[[]]	2002	Drama	My No. 09 - Part 2	A
Infernal Affairs II	[[]]	2003	Drama	My No. 09 - Part 1	B
Infernal Affairs III	[[]]	2003	Drama	My No. 09 - Part 3	B
Inside Man	[[]]		Drama
Into the Wild	[[]]	2007			C
Ip Man	[[]]	2008	Kung-Fu Historical		B
It Happened One Night	[[]]	1934	Comedy Romance		B
It's a Wonderful Life	[[]]	1946	Drama		A
Jamaica Inn	[[]]	1939	Mystery Thriller		B
Jaws	[[]]	1975	Drama		C
Judge Priest	[[]]		Comedy		A
Kagemusha	Akira Kurosawa		Samurai		B
Key Largo	[[]]		Drama		B
Kill Bill Vol. 1	[[]]		Action Thriller	My No. 19 - Part 1	B
Kill Bill Vol. 2	[[]]		Action Thriller	My No. 19 - Part 2	B
Kind Hearts and Coronets	[[]]	1949	Comedy Drama		B
King of New York	[[]]		Action Thriller		A
Kumonosu-jo - Throne of Blood or Spidersweb Castle	Akira Kurosawa	1957	Samurai	My No. 04	A
Kung Fu Hustle	[[]]		Comedy Drama		A
L.A. Confidential	[[]]				B
Lawrence of Arabia	[[]]		War	My No. 20	A
L'Enquete Corse	[[]]		Comedy		B
Leon	[[]]		Action		B
Letters from Iwo Jima	[[]]	2006	War
Life of Brian	[[]]	1979	Comedy Drama		B
Live Free Or Die Hard	[[]]	2007	Action	Bruce Willis	B
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Guy Ritchie	1998	Action Thriller		C
Lucky Number Slevin	[[]]		Mystery Thriller	Bruce Willis	A
M	Fritz Lang	1931	Thriller		C
Magnum Force	[[]]	1973	Drama	Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry series	C
Manda Bala - Send a bullet	[[]]		Action		B
Memento	Christopher Nolan	2000	Mystery Thriller		C
Mercury Rising	[[]]	1998		Bruce Willis	B
Metropolis	[[]]	1927	Sci-Fi		C
Midway	[[]]		War		B
Monty Python and the Holy Grail	[[]]	1975	Comedy Drama		B
Niemandsland - No Mans - Land Hell On Earth	[[]]		War		C
No Country for Old Men	[[]]		Thriller	My No. 08	A
Nora Inu - Stray Dog	Akira Kurosawa	1949	Samurai		B
North by Northwest	[[]]	1959	Mystery Thriller		A
Oldboy	[[]]		Sci-Fi Manga	My No. 18	A
Once Upon A Time In America	Sergio Leone	1984	Historical Western	My No. 07 - Part 2	A
Once Upon a Time in the West	Sergio Leone	1968	Historical Western	My No. 07 - Part 1	A
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	[[]]	1975	Drama		A
Pale Rider	[[]]	1985	Western	Clint Eastwood	A
Paths of Glory	[[]]	1957	War		B
Platoon	[[]]	1986	War		A
A Bout Portant	Fred Cavayé	2010	Action		C
Psycho	[[]]	1960	Mystery Thriller		B
Pulp Fiction	[[]]	1994	Drama		C
Raiders of the Lost Ark	[[]]	1981	Drama		C
Ran - Chaos or Revolt	Akira Kurosawa	1985	Samurai	My No. 17	A
Rear Window	[[]]	1954	Mystery Thriller		B
Rebecca	[[]]	1950	Drama		C
Red	[[]]	2010	Action Comedy	Bruce Willis	B
Reservoir Dogs	[[]]	1992	Drama		B
Ronin	John Frankenheimer	1998	Action		C
Rosemary's Baby	[[]]	1968	Drama		B
Rush Hour	[[]]		Action Comedy
Sanders of the River	[[]]		Adventure		B
Sands of Iwo Jima	[[]]		War		A
Saving Private Ryan	[[]]	1998	War		B
Savior	[[]]		War		B
Scarface	[[]]	1983	Drama		B
Schindler's List	[[]]	1993	War		C
Se7en	[[]]	1995	Action		B
Sea of Sand	[[]]		War	LRDG	C
Secret Agent	[[]]	1936	Thriller		C
Seven Samurai	[[]]	1954	Samurai		A
Shaolin Soccer	[[]]		Comedy Drama		A
Shubun - Scandal	Akira Kurosawa	1950	Samurai		C
Shutter Island	[[]]	2010	Drama		B
Sin City	[[]]	2005			C
Singin' in the Rain	[[]]	1952	Musical		B
Sink the Bismark	[[]]		War	My No. 16	B
Snatch.	[[]]	2000	Action		C
Some Like It Hot	[[]]	1959	Drama		C
Space Cowboys	Clint Eastwood	2000	Sci-Fi Drama		A
Stalag 17	[[]]	1953			C
Stand by Me	[[]]	1986			C
Star Trek	[[]]	2011	Sci-Fi	Star Trek 11	A
Star Trek First Contact	[[]]		Sci-Fi	Star Trek 8	B
Star Trek Generations	[[]]		Sci-Fi	Star Trek 7	C
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan	[[]]		Sci-Fi	Star Trek 2	C
Star Trek III The Search for Spock	[[]]		Sci-Fi	Star Trek 3	C
Star Trek Insurrection	[[]]		Sci-Fi	Star Trek 9	A
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home	[[]]		Sci-Fi	Star Trek 4	C
Star Trek Nemesis	[[]]		Sci-Fi	Star Trek 10	B
Star Trek The Motion Picture	[[]]		Sci-Fi	Star Trek 1	A
Star Trek V The Final Frontier	[[]]		Sci-Fi	Star Trek 5	B
Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country	[[]]		Sci-Fi	Star Trek 6	C
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope	[[]]	1977	Sci-Fi		B
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	[[]]	1980	Sci-Fi		C
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi	[[]]	1983	Sci-Fi		C
Strangers on a Train	[[]]	1951	Mystery Thriller		B
Striking Distance	[[]]	1993		Bruce Willis	B
Subarashiki nichiyobi - One Wonderful Sunday	Akira Kurosawa	1947			C
Sudden Impact	[[]]	1983	Drama	Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry series	B
Sunset	[[]]	1988	Sci-Fi	Bruce Willis	B
Sunshine	[[]]	2007	Sci-Fi		B
Super 8	[[]]	2011	Sci-Fi		C
Tais Tois	[[]]		Comedy		B
Taxi Driver	[[]]	1976	Drama		A
Tears Of The Sun	[[]]	2003	Drama	Bruce Willis	C
Tengoku to Jigoku - High and Low	Akira Kurosawa	1963			B
Terminator 2: Judgment Day	[[]]	1991	Sci-Fi		C
The 39 Steps	Alfred Hitchcock	1935	Mystery Thriller		A
The Big Lebowski	[[]]	1998			C
The Big Red One	[[]]		War		B
The Big Sleep	[[]]	1946			C
The Bourne Ultimatum	[[]]	2007	Action		A
The Boys from Company C	[[]]		War		C
The Bridge at Remagen	[[]]		War		C
The Bridge on the River Kwai	[[]]	1957	War		C
The Day The Earth Stood Still	[[]]	1951	Sci-Fi		B
The Dead Pool	[[]]	1988	Drama	Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry series	C
The Deer Hunter	[[]]	1978	War		B
The Departed	[[]]	2006		Plot messed up Americanised version of Infernal affairs trilogy
The Dogs Of War	[[]]	1980	War		B
The Elephant Man	[[]]	1980	Drama		C
The Enforcer	[[]]	1976	Drama	Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry series	B
The Exorcist	[[]]	1973	Drama		B
The Fifth Element	Luc Besson	1997	Sci-Fi	My No. 01	A
The First of the Few	[[]]		War	Battle of Britain - David Niven	B
The Fly	[[]]	1958	Sci-Fi		C
The Godfather	[[]]	1972	Drama		B
The Godfather: Part II	[[]]	1974	Drama		B
The Good the Bad and the Ugly	[[]]	1966	Western	My No. 02 : Clint Eastwood - Dollars trilogy	A
The Great Escape	[[]]	1963	War		B
The Green Berets	[[]]		War		B
The Green Mile	[[]]	1999	Drama		C
The Hustler	[[]]	1964	Drama		C
The Italian Job	Peter Collinson (film director)	1969	Action	My No. 03 : Not the simpering pile of shit remake	A
The Last Man on Earth	[[]]		Apocalyptic	Remade as I Am Legend	B
The Longest Day	[[]]		War		B
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	[[]]	2001	Fantasy	My No. 15 - Part 1	B
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	[[]]	2003	Fantasy	My No. 15 - Part 3	B
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	[[]]	2002	Fantasy	My No. 15 - Part 2	B
The Lower Depths	Akira Kurosawa				A
The Maltese Falcon	[[]]	1941	Mystery Thriller	Bogart remake	B
The Maltese Falcon	Roy Del Ruth	1931	Mystery Thriller	"This is the first movie, not the Bogart version"	A
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	[[]]	1962	Western		C
The Manchurian Candidate	[[]]	1962	Drama		B
The Matrix	[[]]	1999	Sci-Fi Action		C
The Night of the Hunter	[[]]	1955	Drama		B
The Night of the Iguana	John Huston	1964	Drama	Adapted from a Tennessee Williams play	C
The North Star	[[]]		War	Ukrainian homeland theme	B
The Outlaw Josey Wales	[[]]	1976	Western	Clint Eastwood	A
The Passion of Joan of Arc	[[]]	1928	Drama		C
The Prestige	[[]]	2006
The Searchers	[[]]		Western		A
The Shining	[[]]	1980	Drama		C
The Silence of the Lambs	[[]]	1991	Thriller		A
The Sixth Sense	[[]]	1999	Sc		B
The Sting	[[]]	1973			C
The Sum of All Fears	[[]]		Mystery Thriller		B
The Terminator	[[]]	1984	Sci-Fi		A
The Thief of Bagdad	[[]]	1940	Fantasy		B
The Third Man	[[]]	1949	Mystery Thriller	Annoying Zither unfortunately	B
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	[[]]	1948	Drama		B
The Truman Show	[[]]	1998	Comedy		C
The Usual Suspects	[[]]	1995	Mystery Thriller		A
The Wages of Fear	[[]]	1953			B
The Way Ahead - British army in Africa - David Niven	[[]]		War		B
The Wild Bunch	Sam Peckinpah	1968	Western	"Last of the 50s westerns - Holden, Borgnine, Ryan"	C
The Wizard Of Oz	[[]]	1939	Musical		B
There Will Be Blood	[[]]	2007	War		B
They raid by night	[[]]		War		C
Things to Come	[[]]	1936	Sci-Fi		B
Three Days of the Condor	[[]]		War		C
Throne of Blood	[[]]	1957			B
To Hell and Back	[[]]		War		C
To Kill a Mockingbird	[[]]	1962	Drama		C
Tokyo Story	[[]]	1953	Drama		C
Touch of Evil	[[]]		Mystery Thriller		B
Trainspotting	[[]]	1996	Drama		B
Tropa de Elite - Elite Squad	[[]]	2007	Action		B
Tropa de Elite 2 - Elite Squad 2	[[]]		Action		B
True Grit	[[]]		Western		A
Twelve Monkeys	Terry Gilliam		Sci-Fi Mystery		C
Unbreakable	[[]]	2000	Drama	Bruce Willis	B
Unforgiven	[[]]			Clint Eastwood tale of bad sometimes being good	B
Vertigo	[[]]	1958	Thriller		C
Wasabi	[[]]		Action Comedy		B
We Dive At Dawn	[[]]		War	My No. 12	A
We Were Soldiers	[[]]		War	My No. 11	A
Woman in the moon	[[]]		Sci-Fi		B
Wonder Jet	[[]]		Historical	Whittle and the Jet engine	C
Yojimbo	Akira Kurosawa		Samurai	My No. 14	A
Young and Innocent	Alfred Hitchcock	1937	Thriller		B
Yume - Dreams	Akira Kurosawa	1990			B
Zatoichi	Takeshi Kitano	2003	Samurai		A
Zatoichi: The Last	Junji Sakamoto	2010	Samurai	My No. 13	A