Favorite movies

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by: Joseph Stefano
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Running time: 109 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Screenplay by: Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Running time: 154 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Directed by: Peter Jackson
Screenplay by: Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Running time: 201 minutes (theatrical)/251 minutes (extended)
Country: USA, New Zealand

Plot:
The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.

Directed by: Sam Mendes
Screenplay by: Alan Ball
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari
Genre: Drama
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend.

Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Screenplay by: Ted Tally
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay by: Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb
Starring: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary & Murray Hamilton
Genre: Thriller
Running time: 124 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay by: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Godfrey Quigley, Anthony Sharp, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Running time: 137 minutes
Country: UK

Plot:
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan.

Directed by: Irvin Kershner
Screenplay by: Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Running time: 128 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.

Directed by: Victor Fleming
Screenplay by: Sidney Howard
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia De Havilland, Hattie McDaniel
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Running time: 224 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Directed by: Frank Capra
Screenplay by: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Jo Swerling & Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed,
Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Running time: 130 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

Directed by: Mike Nichols
Screenplay by: Ernest Lehman
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Genre: Drama
Running time: 131 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A bitter aging couple with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.

Directed by: Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
Screenplay by: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts & Linda Woolverton
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Running time: 89 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay by: Steven Zaillian
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Embeth Davidtz, Caroline Goodall
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Running time: 195 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Screenplay by: Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Gerardo Guerrieri, Oreste Biancoli, Adolfo Franci
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci
Genre: Crime, Drama
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: Italy

Plot:
A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by: John Michael Hayes
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Running time: 112 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Directed by: David Lynch
Screenplay by: Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren & David Lynch
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller
Genre: Biography, Drama
Running time: 124 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay by: Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rains
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Running time: 141 minutes
Country: USA, UK

Plot:
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay by: Paul Schrader
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks, Leonard Harris
Genre: Crime, Drama
Running time: 113 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A mentally unstable Viet Nam war veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a pre-adolescent prostitute in the process.

Directed by: Billy Wilder
Screenplay by: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett & D.M. Marshman Jr.
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Running time: 110 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Directed by: James Cameron
Screenplay by: James Cameron
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Running time: 137 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
The planet from Alien has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

Directed by: Charles Crichton
Screenplay by: John Cleese & Charles Crichton
Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria Aitken
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Running time: 108 minutes
Country: UK, USA

Plot:
In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.

Directed by: F.W. Marnau
Screenplay by: Henrik Galeen
Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Running time: 84 minutes
Country: Germany

Plot:
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Silent classic based on the story "Dracula."

Directed by: Peter Jackson
Screenplay by: Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Running time: 178 minutes (theatrical) / 208 minutes (extended)
Country: USA, New Zealand

Plot:
In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Ring. Now he must embark on an Epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Screenplay by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth
Genre: Drama, War
Running time: 153 minutes
Country: USA, Germany

Plot:
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.

Directed by: Milos Forman
Screenplay by: Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, William Redfield, Will Sampson
Genre: Drama
Running time: 133 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse.

Directed by: Billy Wilder
Screenplay by: Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown
Genre: Comedy
Running time: 120 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay by: William Monahan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Running time: 151 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities.

Directed by: Spike Jonze
Screenplay by: Spike Jonze
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Olivia Wilde, Matt Letscher
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Running time: 126 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need.

Directed by: Roman Palonski
Screenplay by: Ronald Harwood
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox, Michael Zebrowski
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Running time: 150 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Directed by: John Lasseter
Screenplay by: Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton,
Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Running time: 81 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.

Directed by: Peter Jackson
Screenplay by: Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens, Steven Sinclair & Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Running time: 179 minutes (theatrical)/223 minutes (extended)
Country: USA, New Zealand

Plot:
Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring. Whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Screenplay by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Running time: 111 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of.

Directed by: Frank Darabont
Screenplay by: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Running time: 188 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
The story about the lives of guards on death row leading up to the execution of black man accused of child murder & rape, who has the power of faith healing.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay by: Robert Rodat
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Jeremy Davies
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Running time: 170 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Directed by: Richard Marquand
Screenplay by: Lawrence Kasdan & George Lucas
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Running time: 131 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the Second Death Star, while Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father back to the Light Side of the Force.

Directed by: James Cameron
Screenplay by: James Cameron
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Gloria Stuart, Frances Fisher
Genre: Drama, Romance
Running time: 194 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A boy and girl from differing social backgrounds meet during the ill-fated maiden voyage of RMS Titanic.

Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Screenplay by: Julius J. Epstein, Phillip G. Epstein & Howard Koch
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Genre: Drama, Romance
Running time: 98 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Directed by: William Wyler
Screenplay by: Ian McLellan Hunter & John Dighton
Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Harley Power, Harcourt Williams
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

Directed by: Robert Wise
Screenplay by: Ernest Lehman
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical
Running time: 174 minutes
Country: USA


Plot:
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Directed by: Charles Laughton
Screenplay by: James Agee & Charles Laughton
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Sally Jane Bruce
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: USA


Plot:
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Screenplay by: Charlie Chaplin & Paulette Goddard
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford, Chester Conklin
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Running time: 87 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by: Phillip MacDonald & Michael Hogan
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Nigel Bruce
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Running time: 130 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants.

Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro
Screenplay by: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Running time: 112 minutes
Country: Mexico, Spain

Plot:
In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay by: Eric Roth
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, Mykelti Williamson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Running time: 142 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him.

Directed by: Michael Cimino
Screenplay by: Deric Washburn
Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Cazale, John Savage
Genre: Drama, War
Running time: 183 minutes
Country: USA, UK

Plot:
An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.

Directed by: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Screenplay by: Betty Comden & Adolph Green
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Running time: 103 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Directed by: Eliza Kazan
Screenplay by: Tennessee Williams & Oscar Saul
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond
Genre: Drama
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay by: Stanley Kubrick & Diane Johnson
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: USA, UK

Plot:
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Directed by: Danny Boyle
Screenplay by: John Hodge
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle
Genre: Crime, Drama
Running time: 94 minutes
Country: UK

Plot:
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay by: Melissa Mathison
Starring: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Running time: 115 minutes
Country: USA

Plot:
A group of Earth children help a stranded alien botanist return home.