Monday, January 2, 2012

Must watch Features & Documentaries

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:
  1. Blame it on Fidel (French)
  2. Out of Africa
  3. Bicycle Thief (Italian)
  4. A Peck on the Cheek (Tamil)
  5. All the King's Men (1949 version)
  6. Citizen Kane
  7. Life is Beautiful (Italian)
  8. To Kill a Mocking Bird
  9. In the Name of Father
  10. Dead Poets Society
  11. No Man's Land (Bosnian)
  12. Gandhi
  13. The Lives of Others (German)
  14. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Turkish)
  15. The Shawshank Redemption
  16. Before Sunset 
  17. American Beauty
  18. Casablanca
  19. Gone with the Wind
  20. LA Confidential
  21. Titanic
  22. The Lord of the Rings
  23. A Beautiful Mind
  24. Che - The Argentine Part 1 (Spanish)
  25. 12 Angry Men (USA)
  26. Pinjra (Marathi)
  27. Machucha (Chilean)
  28. Selma (USA)
  29. Winter Sleep (Turkish)
  30. Children of Heaven (Iranian)

9 out of 10
  1. North Face (German)
  2. Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish)
  3. Killing Fields
  4. Welcome to Sajjanpur (Hindi) 
  5. The Secret in their Eyes (Argentine)
  6. The Deer Hunter
  7. Scent of a Woman
  8. Born on the 4th of July
  9. JFK
  10. Nixon
  11. Shwas (Marathi)
  12. Good Night and Good Luck
  13. Chicago
  14. Network
  15. All the President's Men
  16. In the Heat of the Night
  17. One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
  18. Schindler's List
  19. Thirteen Days
  20. The Insider
  21. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish)
  22. Path To War (HBO film)
  23. The Sixth Sense
  24. Apocalypse Now
  25. The Gladiator
  26. Malcolm X
  27. Khamosh Paani - Silent Waters (Punjabi)
  28. Battle for Algiers (French)
  29. Casino
  30. The Usual Suspects
  31. Paan Singh Tomar (Hindi)
  32. Les Misérables - 2008
  33. Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ireland-English)
  34. Omar (Palestinian)
  35. Shatranj Ke Khiladi (Hindi)
  36. Legends of the Fall
  37. Court (Marathi)
  38. OTTAAL (Malayalam)
  39. Unforgiven
  40. Sairat (Marathi)
  41. Innocent Voices (Salvadorian Spanish)
  42. The English Patient
  43. Natsamrat (Marathi)
  44. Amadeus
  45. Rain Man
  46. Even the Rain (Spanish)
  47. Mississippi Burning
  48. Heat
8 out of 10

  1. A River Runs Through It
  2. Chaplin
  3. Mystic river
  4. Bridge on River Kwai
  5. In Brudges (Belgian)
  6. Into the wild
  7. Annie Hall
  8. Harishchandrachi Factory (Marathi)
  9. Uttarayan (Marathi)
  10. Taryanche Bait (Marathi)
  11. The Social Network
  12. Westside Story
  13. El Violin (Mexican-Spanish)
  14. A Separation(Iran-Persian)
  15. Kolya (Czech)
  16. Unstoppable
  17. American Gangster
  18. Any Given Sunday
  19. Million Dollar Baby
  20. Revolutionary Road
  21. A Single Man
  22. Hotel Rwanda
  23. Black Hawk Down
  24. Fargo
  25. Kings Speech
  26. Traffic
  27. Bloody Sunday
  28. Shaala (Marathi)
  29. Special 26 (Hindi)
  30. Tell No One
  31. Syriana
  32. No (Chile-Spanish)
  33. Frost Nixon
  34. What Maisey Wants
  35. Before Midnight
  36. Journey of Hope (Turkish)
  37. The Hunt (Danish)
  38. Z(French)
  39. The Manchurian Candidate 
  40. Nowhere in Africa (German)
  41. The Edge of Heaven (German-Turkish)
  42. Fandry (Marathi)
  43. Mongol
  44. Bas Vakit (Turkish)
  45. Flame and Citron
  46. Bullhead (Dutch)
  47. Salvador
  48. Whats eating Gilbert Grape?
  49. The Great Beauty
  50. Butterfly (Spanish)
  51. Downfall
  52. Revanche
  53. Two Lives (German)
  54. A Streetcar Named Desire
  55. Showgirls
  56. Pelican Brief
  57. People Vs Larry Flynt
  58. Primal Fear
7 out of 10

  1. Road to Perdition
  2. Last of the Mohicans

Special Mention (Features)
  1. Me Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi)
  2. Shahid
  3. Kon-Tiki
  4. Match Point
  5. Driving Miss Daisy
  6. Monsieur Lazhar (French)
  7. A Hijacking (Danish/Somali)
  8. The Grey
  9. Viva Cuba (Cuban-Spanish)
  10. Departures
  11. Force Majeur
  12. Flame and Citron
  13. Sling Blade
    Best Documentaries
    10 on 10
    1. Planet Earth Series
    2. The Untold History of United States of America
    3. Inside Job
    4. Virunga
    5. CitizenFour
    6. The War on Democracy
    9 on 10
    1. Inequality For All
    2. End of Poverty?
    3. Too Big to Fail
    4. Senna (Brazilian)
    5. Life and Debt (on Jamaica)
    6. Blackfish
    7. Year Zero
    8. Close Encounters at the end of the world
    9. Meru
    10. Bhutto
    8 on 10
    1. Wild China Series
    2. Fidel
    3. South of Border
    4. Frontline: Ten Trillion and Counting
    5. Zeitgeist Series
    6. Katiyabaaz (Powerless)
    7. Dirty Wars
    8. Who killed the electric car?
    9. The Summit
    Worth watch due to unique value

    3 comments:

    Anon said...

    City of God - Brazil
    Intouchables - France
    Cinema Paradiso - Italy
    l'auberge espagnole - France
    The Best of Youth - Italy (This movie is 6 1/2 hours long but worth it. Wraps historical and political events in Italy into the narrative)
    - Vishu

    DBora said...

    Wow, quite a list in so many categories! I am a movie buff too, so many good ones came out at the end of 2015 year, too bad, not enough time.

    DBora said...

    Wow, quite a list in so many categories! I am a movie buff too, so many good ones came out at the end of 2015 year, too bad, not enough time.