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A List of Movies

In English, Lists of Stuffs
12 months ago
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This is just a list of movies I enjoyed. No particular order. Not comprehensive. Random categories. Sometimes with random thoughts. Added randomly.

Forever Green

  • My dinner with Andre (1981)
  • Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
  • Departures (Okuribito) (2008)
  • Millennium Actress (2001)

For the child inside

  • Amélie (2001)
  • Repo Man (1984)
  • Run Lola Run (1998)
  • Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (2013)
  • Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  • Ikiru (1952)
  • Mr Nobody (2009)

For the wannabe adult inside

  • The Dreamers (2003)
  • Falling Down (1993)
  • Half Nelson (2006)
  • Mysterious Skin (2004)
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • Network (1976)
  • The Great Dictator (1940)
  • The Truman Show (1998)
  • American Beauty (1999)
  • Good Will Hunting (1997)

Pure Fun

  • 9 to 5 (1980)
  • Ruthless People (1986)
  • The First Wives Club (1996)
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
  • Hausu (1977)

Also Pure Fun

  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • Memento (2000)
  • Seven Samurai (1954)
  • Rashomon (1950)
  • Perfect Blue (1997)
  • Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
  • Paprika (2006)
  • The Usual Suspects (1995)
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

For nostalgia’s sake

  • In The Mood for Love (2000)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  • Permanent Residence (2009)
  • Eternal Summer (2006)
  • My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
  • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
  • The Cat Returns (2002)
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
  • Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)

Guilty Pleasures

  • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Somewhere in Time (1980)
  • He’s Just Not That Into You (2009)
  • Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
  • Rear Windows (1954)
  • Coco (2017)
  • Inside Out (2015)
  • If Only (2004)
  • Juno (2007)

There are great Superhero Movies

  • Spider-man 1, 2, and 3 (2002, 2004, 2007)
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
  • Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 and 2 (2012, 2013)
  • Superman: Red Son (2020)
  • The Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen (2018, 2019)
  • Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
  • Justice League: Doom (2012)

It was the music (excluding musical adaptations)

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
  • The Little Mermaid (1989)
  • Moulin Rouge (2001)

Star-crossed Love

  • A Silent Voice (2016)
  • Schindler’s List (1993)
  • Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
  • Sophie’s Choice (1982)
  • Children of Men (2006)
  • Philadelphia (1993)

For lonely nights

  • Noroi: The Curse (2005)
  • The Others (2001)
  • Bedevilled (2010)
  • Eyes without a Face (1960) –> The Skin I Live in (2011)
  • Blind Beast (1969)
  • Se7en (1995)
  • Ichi the Killer (2001)
  • Battle Royale (200)
  • Doubt (2008)
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