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It's not what you say but how you say it...
 1556  6.6  6.7 Directors:Louis Leterrier,Corey Yuen
The plot:This film is about a man whose job is to deliver packages without asking any questions. Complications arise when he breaks those rules.  My Rating:3/10 Simillar movie: Drive  Director:Nicolas Winding Refn The Plot:A mysterious Hollywood stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver lands himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbour.  My Rating:9/10 
1561 6.4 6.5 Director:Phillip Noyce
The Plot:Quadriplegic forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) and a patrol cop, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), team up to solve a string of murders all connected to a serial killer by his signature: a single shard of bone is removed from each of the victims.  My Rating:3/10 Similar movie: Se7en  Director:David Fincher The Plot:David Mills and William Somerset are police detectives working in a crime-ridden city. The newly-transferred Mills and the about-to-retire Somerset become deeply involved in the case of a sadistic serial killer. Each meticulously-planned murder corresponds to one of the seven deadly sins of Christianity: gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, pride, lust and envy.  My Rating:10/10 
1079 6.5 6.6 Director:Will Gluck
The Plot:Jamie and Dylan,meet in New York City and naively believe adding sex to their relationship will not lead to complications. Over time they begin to develop deep mutual feelings for each other, only to deny it each time they are together.  My Rating:5/10 Similar movie: An Affair of Love  Director:Frédéric Fonteyne The Plot:They recount their impressions to the Interviewer. They met through a magazine ad, She and He. They corresponded through the Internet. He responded to her ad seeking someone to fulfil her fantasy for "a pornographic affair". This is their first meeting in a Paris café. He's a little reticent. She wants to know whether or not he's hairy.They retire to a nearby hotel room. The door of the room closes. Unseen, the affair is consummated... They continue to see one another regularly each week. They find they get along well together. Soon she suggests that they try normal sex the next time...  My Rating:8/10 
3274 5.1 5.2 Director:Catherine Hardwicke
The Plot:This film focuses on the development of the relationship between Bella Swan (a teenage girl) and Edward Cullen (a vampire) and the subsequent efforts of Cullen and his family to keep Swan safe from a coven of evil vampires.  My Rating:1/10 Similar movie: Let the Right One In  Director:Tomas Alfredson The Plot:Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.  My Rating:10/10 
627 5.1 6 Director:Ron Howard
The Plot:A comedy about a video store clerk Ed whose life is thrown into chaos when he agrees to let an executive of a television studio film him for 24 hours.  My Rating:4/10 Similar movie: The Truman Show  Director:Peter Weir The Plot:the life of a man who is initially unaware that he is living in a constructed reality television show, broadcast 24-hours-a-day to billions of people across the globe. Truman becomes suspicious of his perceived reality and embarks on a quest to discover the truth about his life.  My Rating:10/10 
831 7.2 7.3 Director:Nick Cassavetes
The Plot:The story of 13-year-old Anna, who litigates her parents for medical emancipation when she is expected to donate a kidney to her sister Kate, who is dying from leukemia  My Rating:5/10 Similar movie: 50/50  Director:Jonathan Levine The Plot:A comedic account of a 25-year-old guy's cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.  My Rating:9/10 
3891 7.1 7.7 Director:Eric Bress,J. Mackye Gruber
The Plot:A young man blocks out harmful memories of significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life.  My Rating:4/10 Similar movie Donnie Darko  Director:Richard Kelly The Plot: A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.  My Rating:10/10 
2846 7.3 7.9 Director:Paul Haggis
The Plot:Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.  My Rating:3/10 Similar movie: Magnolia  Director:Paul Thomas Anderson The Plot:Three separate stories based on the theme of coincidence.9 characters whose lives are all connected in one way or another.We follow them all over the course of one day and watch their lives change forever.  My Rating:8/10 
598 6.1 6.1 Director:John N. Smith
The Plot:An ex-marine teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city schools.  My Rating:5/10 Similar movie: The Class  Director:Laurent Cantet The Plot:Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.  My Rating:8/10 
304 6.6 6.8 Director:James Wan
The Plot:Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.  My Rating:4/10 Similar movie: Dead Man's Shoes  Director:Shane Meadows The Plot:A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.  My Rating:8/10 
1487 5.5 5.8 Director:Eli Roth
The Plot:Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.  My Rating:1/10 Similar movie: Funny Games  Director:Michael Haneke The Plot:Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.  My Rating:8/10 |
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I'd like to suggest American History X VS. The Believer.
Both movies are carried by one individual struggling with himself, trying to discover his true identity while stuck in the neo-Nazistic society. American History is highly overrated movie, it's a pure mess. Besides Edward Norton's and Edward Furlong's extraordinary preformance, there wasn't much in it.
The believer on the other hand is quite an extraordinary movie. Ryan Gosling and Billy Zane also brought us extraordinary preformances, story is a lot more realistic, characters are way more dinamic (especially Danny Balint) and i just enjoyed it a lot more than AHX.
@Drako Z ty for your suggestion but i like The Matrix and Inception
Anyway, I suggest you to add Black Swan vs The Piano Teacher. I think the latter was more, interesting, intellectual and so much better in general!
You compared a lot of blockbuster movies with author's one and I don't think that's really fair since it's rather obvious that you gotta choose how to say what you're saying also thinking about who you're talking to, what kind of reaction you're searching for etc.
So I don't really think you can actually compare "The Transporter" with "Driver" (I don't really think that whoever enjoyed the first one will enjoy the last one, and I don't think that is fair to simply establish that "they don't understand", this is not a science and that answer is way too easy!) or "Hostel" with "Funny Games" since they're not even "playing the same game"!
"Ed TV" vs "The Truman Show" and "Bone Collector" vs. "Seven" are perfect examples though!