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Directed by: Joel & Ethan Coen
With: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
Plot: Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
With: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
Plot: During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
With: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita
Plot: An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn.
Directed by: Terrence Malick
With: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte
Plot: Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
With: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
Plot: A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
With: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
Plot: "Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Directed by: Hirokazu Koreeda
With: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, Yoshio Harada
Plot: A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
Nostalghia (1955)
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
With: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Plot: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world.
Kwaidan (1964) (1965)
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
With: Tetsuya Nakadai, Rentarô Mikuni, Katsuo Nakamura
Plot: A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
Seven Samurai (1954)
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
With: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima
Plot: A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
Directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi
With: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa
Plot: In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
Ikiru (1952)
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
With: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori
Plot: A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
With: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko
Plot: The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer.
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
With: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Gô Katô
Plot: The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Directed by: Béla Tarr
With: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos
Plot: A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.
Directed by: Chan-wook Park
With: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang
Plot: After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days.
The Green Mile (1999)
Directed by: Frank Darabont
With: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse
Plot: The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
American Beauty (1999)
Directed by: Sam Mendes
With: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
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: John Carpenter
With: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David
Plot: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
With: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
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: Larisa Shepitko
With: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev
Plot: Two Soviet partisans depart their starving band on a short march to a nearby farm to get supplies. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
With: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Plot: A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Rashomon (1950)
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
With: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori
Plot: A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
With: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson
Plot: An undercover state cop who has infiltrated an Irish gang and a mole in the police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before being exposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat.
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
With: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Plot: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
With: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore
Plot: Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
La Haine (1995)
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
With: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui
Plot: After local youth Abdel is beaten unconscious by police, a riot ensues on his estate during which a policeman loses his gun. The gun is found by Vinz who threatens he will kill a cop if Abdel dies.
Directed by: Béla Tarr
With: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla
Plot: The story takes place in a small provincial town on the Hungarian Plain. The weather is bitterly cold (seventeen degrees Celsius below zero) but no snow has fallen. Despite this, hundreds of bewildered men stand around a circus trailer (or corrugated iron box) in the main square, waiting to see the main attraction.
Ran (1985)
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
With: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Plot: An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him.
The Wailing (2016)
Directed by: Hong-jin Na
With: Jun Kunimura, Jung-min Hwang, Do-won Kwak
Plot: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Donnie Darko (2001)
Directed by: Richard Kelly
With: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell
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.
Directed by: Michel Gondry
With: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson
Plot: A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
Directed by: Chan-wook Park
With: Yeong-ae Lee, Min-sik Choi, Shi-hoo Kim
Plot: After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, she gets closer and closer to her goal. But will her actions lead to the relief she seeks?
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
With: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai
Plot: An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
In Bruges (2008)
Directed by: Martin McDonagh
With: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy
Plot: Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.
A Touch of Sin (2013)
Directed by: Zhangke Jia
With: Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Tao Zhao
Plot: Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Directed by: Ki-duk Kim
With: Ki-duk Kim, Yeong-su Oh, Jong-ho Kim
Plot: On an isolated lake, an old monk lives on a small floating temple. The wise master has also a young boy with him who learns to become a monk. And we watch as seasons and years pass by.
Shame (2011)
Directed by: Steve McQueen
With: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale
Plot: In New York City, Brandon's carefully cultivated private life -- which allows him to indulge his sexual addiction -- is disrupted when his sister arrives unannounced for an indefinite stay.
Directed by: Masahiro Shinoda
With: Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
Plot: Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman who is out seeking thrills, and whose presence adds spice to the staid masculine underworld rituals.
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Directed by: Wes Anderson
With: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd
Plot: Focusing on a trio of friends and their elaborate plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run.
Throne of Blood (1957) (1996)
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
With: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada
Plot: A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
With: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd
Plot: A mentally unstable Vietnam 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 preadolescent prostitute in the process.
The Seventh Seal (1957) (1957)
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
With: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot
Plot: A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
Directed by: Cheh Chang
With: Sheng Chiang, Chien Sun, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok
Plot: The final student of a dying martial arts master is instructed to locate the previous five students and defeat any evil ones among them.
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
With: Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino
Plot: Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
The Promise (1997)
Directed by: Dardenne Brothers
With: Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Assita Ouedraogo
Plot: Igor and his father, Roger, are making a decent living renting apartments to illegal immigrants and sometimes working them illegally.
A Prophet (2009)
Directed by: Jacques Audiard
With: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Plot: A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
With: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall
Plot: At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
With: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender
Plot: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
My Favorite Directors
My Favorite Actors
Honorable Mentions:
- Se7en
- Wild Strawberries
Recurring Directors:
Andrei Tarkovsky: 5 Films
Akira Kurosawa: 5 Films
Masaki Kobayashi: 3 Films
Bela Tarr: 2 Films
Kenji Mizoguchi : 2 Films
Chan-wook Park: 2 Films
Martin Scorsese: 2 Films
Coen Brothers: 2 Films
Decades:
2010s: 4 Films
2000s: 13 Films
1990s: 8 Films
1980s: 4 Films
1970s: 5 Films
1960s: 8 Films
1950s: 6 Films
1940s: 0 Films
1930s: 0 Films
Countries:
USA: 16 Films
Japan: 13 Films
Russia: 6 Films
France: 4 Films
Korea: 4 Films
Hungary: 2 Films
China: 2 Films
UK: 1 Films
Sweden: 1 Films
Brazil: 1 Film
My Favorite Actors
Honorable Mentions:
- Se7en
- Wild Strawberries
Recurring Directors:
Andrei Tarkovsky: 5 Films
Akira Kurosawa: 5 Films
Masaki Kobayashi: 3 Films
Bela Tarr: 2 Films
Kenji Mizoguchi : 2 Films
Chan-wook Park: 2 Films
Martin Scorsese: 2 Films
Coen Brothers: 2 Films
Decades:
2010s: 4 Films
2000s: 13 Films
1990s: 8 Films
1980s: 4 Films
1970s: 5 Films
1960s: 8 Films
1950s: 6 Films
1940s: 0 Films
1930s: 0 Films
Countries:
USA: 16 Films
Japan: 13 Films
Russia: 6 Films
France: 4 Films
Korea: 4 Films
Hungary: 2 Films
China: 2 Films
UK: 1 Films
Sweden: 1 Films
Brazil: 1 Film
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