The listing below is an effort to share my experience and expose friends from non-film backgrounds to variety of ideas and thoughts via films. Some films are already popular and mainstream but there are others that deserve more attention than they get. A link is included for films whose short review is complete.
Feature films:
10 out of 10:
- Blame it on Fidel (French)
- Out of Africa
- Bicycle Thief (Italian)
- A Peck on the Cheek (Tamil)
- All the King's Men (1949 version)
- Citizen Kane
- Life is Beautiful (Italian)
- To Kill a Mocking Bird
- In the Name of Father
- Dead Poets Society
- No Man's Land (Bosnian)
- Gandhi
- The Lives of Others (German)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Turkish)
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Before Sunset
- American Beauty
- Casablanca
- Gone with the Wind
- LA Confidential
- Titanic
- The Lord of the Rings
- A Beautiful Mind
- Che - The Argentine Part 1 (Spanish)
- 12 Angry Men (USA)
- Pinjra (Marathi)
- Machucha (Chilean)
- Selma (USA)
- Winter Sleep (Turkish)
- Children of Heaven (Iranian)
9 out of 10
- North Face (German)
- Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish)
- Killing Fields
- Welcome to Sajjanpur (Hindi)
- The Secret in their Eyes (Argentine)
- The Deer Hunter
- Scent of a Woman
- Born on the 4th of July
- JFK
- Nixon
- Shwas (Marathi)
- Good Night and Good Luck
- Chicago
- Network
- All the President's Men
- In the Heat of the Night
- One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Schindler's List
- Thirteen Days
- The Insider
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish)
- Path To War (HBO film)
- The Sixth Sense
- Apocalypse Now
- The Gladiator
- Malcolm X
- Khamosh Paani - Silent Waters (Punjabi)
- Battle for Algiers (French)
- Casino
- The Usual Suspects
- Paan Singh Tomar (Hindi)
- Les Misérables - 2008
- Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ireland-English)
- Omar (Palestinian)
- Shatranj Ke Khiladi (Hindi)
- Legends of the Fall
- Court (Marathi)
- OTTAAL (Malayalam)
- Unforgiven
- Sairat (Marathi)
- Innocent Voices (Salvadorian Spanish)
- The English Patient
- Natsamrat (Marathi)
- Amadeus
- Rain Man
- Even the Rain (Spanish)
- Mississippi Burning
- Heat
- A River Runs Through It
- Chaplin
- Mystic river
- Bridge on River Kwai
- In Brudges (Belgian)
- Into the wild
- Annie Hall
- Harishchandrachi Factory (Marathi)
- Uttarayan (Marathi)
- Taryanche Bait (Marathi)
- The Social Network
- Westside Story
- El Violin (Mexican-Spanish)
- A Separation(Iran-Persian)
- Kolya (Czech)
- Unstoppable
- American Gangster
- Any Given Sunday
- Million Dollar Baby
- Revolutionary Road
- A Single Man
- Hotel Rwanda
- Black Hawk Down
- Fargo
- Kings Speech
- Traffic
- Bloody Sunday
- Shaala (Marathi)
- Special 26 (Hindi)
- Tell No One
- Syriana
- No (Chile-Spanish)
- Frost Nixon
- What Maisey Wants
- Before Midnight
- Journey of Hope (Turkish)
- The Hunt (Danish)
- Z(French)
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Nowhere in Africa (German)
- The Edge of Heaven (German-Turkish)
- Fandry (Marathi)
- Mongol
- Bas Vakit (Turkish)
- Flame and Citron
- Bullhead (Dutch)
- Salvador
- Whats eating Gilbert Grape?
- The Great Beauty
- Butterfly (Spanish)
- Downfall
- Revanche
- Two Lives (German)
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Showgirls
- Pelican Brief
- People Vs Larry Flynt
- Primal Fear
- Road to Perdition
- Last of the Mohicans
- Me Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi)
- Shahid
- Kon-Tiki
- Match Point
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Monsieur Lazhar (French)
- A Hijacking (Danish/Somali)
- The Grey
- Viva Cuba (Cuban-Spanish)
- Departures
- Force Majeur
- Flame and Citron
- Sling Blade
10 on 10
- Planet Earth Series
- The Untold History of United States of America
- Inside Job
- Virunga
- CitizenFour
- The War on Democracy
9 on 10
- Inequality For All
- End of Poverty?
- Too Big to Fail
- Senna (Brazilian)
- Life and Debt (on Jamaica)
- Blackfish
- Year Zero
- Close Encounters at the end of the world
- Meru
- Bhutto
8 on 10
- Wild China Series
- Fidel
- South of Border
- Frontline: Ten Trillion and Counting
- Zeitgeist Series
- Katiyabaaz (Powerless)
- Dirty Wars
- Who killed the electric car?
- The Summit
Worth watch due to unique value
