Movie Recommendations

Parent Cafe
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<p>I thought I’d start up a thread recommending movies to people… and maybe everyone else would like to make some recommendations as well… I’m sure you’ve heard of most of these, but maybe there will be a few that people will want to look into, because I’d highly recommend them. I’ll try to put things in different categories… and since i’m such a dork i’ll add the IMDB ratings so you can see what other people thought of them as well (i actaully have my movies all done out in a spreadsheet… so these ratings are about a week or so old… haha )…</p>

<p>Cartoon</p>

<p>Robots 6.5
Shrek 8.0
The Incredibles 8.3
Wallace & Gromit (The movie or their shorts) 8.0</p>

<p>Foreign (subtitled)</p>

<p>Amelie 8.7
Run Lola Run 8.1
The Returner
Ping Pong </p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>This is Spinal Tap 7.9
The Mighty Wind 7.3
Best in Show 7.4
Love Actually 7.8
Better Off Dead 7.1
Fletch 6.6
Major League 6.7
10 Things I Hate About You 6.6
High Fidelity 7.6
Say Anything 7.5
The Terminal 7.1
Empire Records 6.1
Buffalo 66 7.2
Clerks 7.9
The Royal Tenenbaums 7.5
A Clockwork Orange 8.4
Mind the Gap 7.2
Crash 8.4
The Graduate 8.1
Forrest Gump 8.3
Donnie Darko 8.3
Ghostbusters 7.5
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory 7.4
About Schmidt 7.3
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory 7.7
40 Year Old Virgin 7.4
Zoolander 6.1
Wedding Crashers 7.2
Swingers 7.6
Memento 8.6
Magnolia 8.0
The Virgin Suicides 7.2
Happy Gilmore 6.8</p>

<p>and of course Batman, Batman Begins, Spiderman 1 & 2, and X-Men 1 & 2</p>

<p>Please feel free to add movies or make comments or suggestions… :)</p>

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<p>Wow, are tastes in movies are SO similar! I just V for Vendetta and it was pretty good. </p>

<p>PS. not a parent</p>

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<p>Life is Beautiful (it’s an Italian movie)</p>

<p>You need to see some of the old classics. Consider: King of Hearts, Children of Paradise, Seven Samurai, anything with Katherine Hepburn or Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall…</p>

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<p>Casablanca!</p>

<p>Some foreign films:
The Great Illusion
Rules of the Game
Forbidden Games
The 400 Blows
Night for Day
Breathless
Ran
The Hidden Fortress (the inspiration for Star Wars)</p>

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<p>Monty Python and the Holy Grail.</p>

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<p>foreign: goodbye lenin
the city of lost dreams</p>

<p>(Cocacola ist ein sozialistisches Getraenk “cocacola is a socialist drink”) good movie, I promise</p>

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<p>Man… how could I forget to put monty python and the holy grail on my list. Thanks coureur!</p>

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<p>Loved Ran, marite.</p>

<p>Huozhe (To Live) Chinese 1994</p>

<p>Mozart 2005</p>

<p>Unbearable Lightness of Being</p>

<p>L’Auberge Espanol</p>

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<p>Here some you forgot:</p>

<p>Garden State (how did you forget this?)
Heavenly Creatures
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Being Julia
Donnie Brasco
Dead Man Walking
Carlito’s Way (Penn’s best work)
My Blue Heaven (so funny!)</p>

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<p>This was a great thread last year (“Favorite Movies and Recommendations”):
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=108472[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=108472&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I like the American Film Institute’s various lists:
<a href=“http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/100yearslist.aspx[/url]”>http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/100yearslist.aspx&lt;/a&gt; (top quotes, laughs, stars, villains. etc.)</p>

<p>Every time I try to list my favorite films, I just can’t stop. I don’t see many current movies, though - I’d rather use my downtime for classic films, and there are so many great ones! </p>

<p>On the spur of the moment, I’d name All about Eve, Singin’ in the Rain, The Maltese Falcon, Bringing up Baby, Adam’s Rib, The Letter, Godfather II, and Groundhog Day as among my very favorites, but I’ll be remembering movies I’ve left out all day long.</p>

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<p>i don’t know how i forgot garden state either… but the soundtrack to that movie is one of the best soundtracks i’ve ever heard.</p>

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<p>Cartoon:</p>

<p>Chicken Run</p>

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<p>Proof–just say this movie last week and was pleasantly surprised. I didn’t think a movie about math and mathematicians could be so interesting. And NO violence!</p>

<p>Good Night and Good Luck–just saw this recently, as well</p>

<p>Lord of the Rings
Remember the Titans
Seabiscuit
The Hurricane</p>

<p>just a few family favorites I spotted on the DVD shelf…</p>

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<p>a few watch-once-a-year favorites…
Dances with Wolves
Moulin Rouge
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre</p>

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<p>classic comedy
Some like it hot
Classic mystery
The lady vanishes
cinematography
Days of heaven
True adventure/tragedy
The Perfect Storm</p>

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<p>“Downfall,” about Hitler’s last days, was awesome. Did anyone see that? It was in the theatres in 2004.</p>

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<p>I forgot about two of my favorite love stories: Before Sunrise and Before Sunset - am hoping for a third movie! I saw them at the Princeton Univ. Adult film session last year - if you haven’t seen them go rent them now.</p>

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<p>Ah yes, saw those in reverse order but it didn’t matter. They were great!</p>

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<p>OH CHEFMOM! I loved before sunrise and before sunset! how could i forget to put them on my list! duh!</p>

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<p>I tend to love character driven stories with a good cast. Some of my favorites are:</p>

<p>Paradise (the one with Don Johnson and Melanie Griffiths and the VERY young Thora Birch and Elijah Wood)</p>

<p>Home for the Holidays (Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Charles Durning)</p>

<p>Wonder Boys (Michael Douglas, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., Philip Bosco, Rip Torn, Katie Holmes)</p>

<p>The Hours (Meryl Streep, Ed Harris, Nicole Kidman, Miranda Richardson, Toni Collette, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Jeff Daniels)</p>

<p>Flawless (Robert DeNiro, Philip Seymour Hoffman)</p>

<p>Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Balaban, Bruce Greenwood, Catharine Keener, Chris Cooper)</p>

<p>Almost Famous (Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Patrick Fugit, Anna Pacquin, Philip Seymour Hoffman (again!))</p>

<p>Ladies in Lavendar (Judi Dench, Maggie Smith)</p>

<p>Chocolat (Judi Dench, Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Alfred Molina)</p>

<p>Gosford Park (Clive Owen, Kristin Scott Thomas, Alan Bates, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Kelly Macdonald, Bob Balaban, Ryan Phillipe)</p>

<p>Four Weddings and a Funeral (Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Andie MacDowell, John Hannah, Simon Callow)</p>

<p>Love Actually (Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson)</p>

<p>Angels in America (mini-series rather than movie but excellent)</p>

<p>The Laramie Project (Peter Fonda, Laura Linney, Janeana Garofalo, Frances Sternhagen, Steve Buscemi, Bill Irwin, Amy Madigan)</p>

<p>You Can Count on Me (Mark Ruffalo, Laura Linney, Matthew Broderick)</p>

<p>Finding Neverland (Kate Winslet, Johnny Depp, Julie Christie, Dustin Hoffman)</p>

<p>My favorites usually include actors who are excellent onstage as well as on film.</p>