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**Gran Torino (2009)** After a Hmong teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a disgruntled, prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem both the boy and himself. Director: Clint Eastwood IMDB: 8.1/10
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**Angel-A (1995)** A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together. Director: Luc Besson IMDB: 7.0/10
**Before Sunset (2001)** Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour. Director: Richard Linklater IMDB: 8.1/10
**Peaceful Warrior (2006)** A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast. Director: Victor Salva IMDB: 7.2/10
**Eyes Wide Shut (1999)** A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing. Director: Stanley Kubrick IMDB: 7.5/10
**Yes Man (2008)** A man challenges himself to say "yes" to everything. Director: Peyton Reed IMDB: 6.8/10
**Mondscheintarif (2001)** To call or not to call? For young Cora it's not a question. In fact, after the first date you may never call the guy, even if it was the best sex of your life. It's him who must beg for a meeting - and not later than 72 hours after. Otherwise - delete it from memory. Director: Ralf Huettner IMDB: 6.8/10 IMHO: Amazing Soundtrack
**Wild (2014)** A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy. Director: Jean-Marc Vallée IMDB: 7.1/10
**The Boat That Rocked (2009)** A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. Director: Richard Curtis IMDB: 7.3/10
**Koyaanisqatsi (1982)** A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on nature, humanity, and the relationship between them. Director: Godfrey Reggio IMDB: 8.2/10
**Mulholland Dr. (2001)** *Mulholland Drive* After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. Director: David Lynch IMDB: 7.9/10
**Leaving Las Vegas (1995)** Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera. Director: Mike Figgis IMDB: 7.5/10
**The Jacket (2005)** A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. Director: John Maybury IMDB: 7.1/10
**Go (1999)** The aftermath of a drug deal as told from three different points of view. Director: Doug Liman IMDB: 7.2/10
**First Day of The Rest of Your Life (2008)** *Le premier jour du reste de ta vie* Five key days in a family's life. Director: Rémi Bezançon IMDB: 7.6/10
**Drive (2011)** A mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver. Director: Nicolas Winding Refn IMDB: 7.8/10
**Donni Darko (2001)** After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes. Director: Richard Kelly IMDB: 8.0/10
**Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)** A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars. Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa IMDB: 7.4/10
**Dazed and Confused (1993)** The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976. Director: Richard Linklater IMDB: 7.6/10
**Almost Famous (2000)** A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour. Director: Cameron Crowe IMDB: 7.9/10 IMHO: Cameron Crow's masterpiece. Must see. AMAZING Soundtrack. "Slooooooooooowride" ;-)
**Boogie Nights (1997)** Back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson IMDB: 7.9/10
**Amadeus (1984)** The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him. Director: Milos Forman IMDB: 8.4/10
**Reservoir Dogs (1992)** When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. Director: Quentin Tarantino IMDB: 8.3/10
"Bubble" scene from the movie "The Big Short" (2015) #bubble #economy #crisis #2008 #recession
**Casino (1995)** A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast-living and fast-loving socialite. IMDB: 8.2/10
**WALL·E (2008)** In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. IMDB: 8.4/10
**1+1 (2011)** After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. IMDB: 8.5/10
Artist (2011) An egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era. IMDB: 7.9/10
**(500) Days of Summer (2009)** After being dumped by the girl he believes to be his soulmate, hopeless romantic Tom Hansen reflects on their relationship to try and figure out where things went wrong and how he can win her back. IMDB: 7.7/10 IMHO: Amazing Soundtrack and good romantic story.
**Cast Away (2000)** A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island. IMDB: 7.8/10 IMHO: Robert Zemeckis's masterpiece takes you to a deserted island. One of Tom Hanks's greatest roles.
**Scent of a Woman (1992)** A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated. IMDB: 8.0/10 IMHO: Al Pacino's acting is amazing!
**The Shawshank Redemption (1994)** Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion. IMDB: 9.0/10 IMHO: Frank Darabont masterpiece. The spirit of freedom is incredibly strongly felt only after its loss.
**The Lives of Others (2006)** *Das Leben der Anderen* In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. IMBD: 8.4/10 IMHO: Relevant even now in some countries with some governments...
**Whiplash (2013)** A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential. IMDB: 8.5/10 IMHO: Drummer's dreams come true? intrigue...
**Fight Club (1999)** An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more. IMDB: 8.8/10 IMHO: One of the greatest film director David Fincher and writer Chuck Palahniuk will keep your mind throughout the movie and even after. “You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight club
**Pulp Fiction (1994)** The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. IMDB: 8.9/10 IMHO: Classic Quentin Tarantino. That's all i need to say ;-)
**The Pianist (2002)** A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. IMDB: 8.5/10 IMHO: Roman Polanski's masterpiece will touch your soul's strings. And of course great soundtrack with some Chopin piano solos.
**Easy Virtue (2008)** A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window. IMDB: 6.6 IMHO: Every character is well developed. The drama is powerful. It looks fresh to the modern eye, although if you show people from 100 years ago, perhaps the main character would be a very different character.
**Match Point (2005)** At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law. IMDB: 7.6 IMHO: Woody Allen's masterpiece. The storyline is very addictive.
**My Night at Maud's (1969)** *Ma nuit chez Maud* A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality. IMDB: 7.8 IMHO: Black-and-White film from Eric Rohmer. Philosophy, religion and life - all-in-one in that old, but good masterpiece.
**A Summer's Tale (1996)** *Conte d'été* A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him. IMDB: 7.6 IMHO: One of the best movies from "Seasons" - Eric Rohmer's 4 films named according to the seasons (summer, autumn, winter, spring).
**Love in the Afternoon (1972)** *L'amour, l'après-midi (1972)* Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women. IMDB: 7.6 IMHO: Eric Rohmer masterpiece.
**The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)** Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. IMDB: 8.2 IMHO: After watching this fascinating film i bought the book. That's tell anyone my opinion about this film ;-)
Into the wild (2007) After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. IMDB: 8.1 IMHO: TOP5. One of my favourite films. Masterpiece.
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