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by ihrtfilms | created - 23 Aug 2014 | updated - 05 Sep 2014 | PublicFilms I've seen with numbers for titles.
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1. 10 (1979)
R | 122 min | Comedy, Romance
A Hollywood composer goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber
Votes: 19,285 | Gross: $74.87M
Not as funny as Arthur...
2. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Votes: 741,122 | Gross: $56.67M
Compelling, but brutal to watch. I was devastated by the end.
3. 100 Bloody Acres (2012)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror
Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.
Directors: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes | Stars: Oliver Ackland, Paul Blackwell, Ward Everaardt, Iain Herridge
Votes: 4,578 | Gross: $0.01M
Not bad stuff. Doesn't over stay it's welcome.
4. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
Director: Felix Herngren | Stars: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg, Mia Skäringer
Votes: 42,635 | Gross: $1.08M
While too long, this is a often funny and clever film.
5. 101 Reykjavík (2000)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Victoria Abril, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Þrúður Vilhjálmsdóttir
Votes: 9,937 | Gross: $0.01M
6. 127 Hours (2010)
R | 94 min | Biography, Drama
A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Sean Bott
Votes: 401,268 | Gross: $18.34M
Aron Ralston was a keen adventurer who loved to venture out on hikes, go biking or mountaineering. 127 Hours tells the story of when Ralston did exactly this one day with his rucksack packed with some water and snacks, rope and camera and little else he ventured into Canyonlands National Park for a day out. It's here he encounters two female trekkers who are lost so he helps them showing them to an underground lake.
Departing ways Ralston delves deeper into the park, canyoning off the beaten track and then his day becomes a nightmare, when a loose boulder gives way and he falls down a narrow gap trapping his arm under a rock. With no obvious means of escape, Ralston tries to keep calm and remembering a cheap penknife uses it to try and chip away at the rock. Hours turn into days, water and food become scarce and the outlook isn't bright and everything begins to take it's toll on him and he starts remembering his life, family and loves as death, his only outcome draws nearer.
Of course, Ralston didn't die, insted from somewhere he found the strength, mental and physical to cut his trapped arm off, freeing him from his death and allowing him to escape and find help. Director Danny Boyle does a fine job bringing us into this world, which moves fast to begin with, as Ralston moves the the National Park crashing of his bike and encouraging his new female friends to drop into a unseen lake between two canyon walls. Boyle wastes little time in getting us to where the film's story ultimately lies and it's there that the film really starts.
James Franco plays Ralston and does so well, he seems to be quite a larakin, care free and unaware that the world has it's dangers. Even when first trapped he seems to be quite fine with it all, taking it in his (halted) stride. But as the days pass he changes becoming ever mindful that there appears to be only one outcome, the situation made worse that no one knows where he is. He begins to record farewell messages on his video cam aswell as log about what has happened and as the days pass, the toll becomes ever more visible on his face.
Despite it's frenetic pace to start with and split screen editing to highlight different timelines, once Ralston is trapped we the audience are too, aware of the confines of the space and limitation of movement Ralston is faced with with. Close up camera shots of the face bring a very personal and real perspective to it all. Of course most that see this film will know the outcome and most will also know that Boyle shows us the outcome and that it has caused some major reactions. I refer of course to the arm cutting scene. Earlier on in the situation, we get a tiny glimpse of the horror of the situation as Ralston tries to cut his arm, it's enough to make you squirm but when you realise that it's not the part of the film, the anticipation builds. When we do arrive at the crunch point, it is as squirm inducing as you can imagine with one particular part where he has to cut the nerve line making me recoil in horror even when I think of it today. It's not perhaps as bad as it sounds, as the scene is over and done with quickly and it's not as warts 'n' all as it could be, but certainly enough to make you realise quite what a remarkable thing Ralston put himself through.
The film is a very human story one that shows the determination of survival aswell as the way one handles a near death experience with the idea that memories play a big factor. We get to see Ralston''s life away from his predicament in snippets aswell as see into his mind as it struggles to cope with the situation by playing with fantasy of escape. All of this adds to a remarkable true story that plays out well that borders almost on documentary style and that is enhanced by a fine performance by James Franco, but that is let down by the fact that some techniques often confuse more than aid the story.
7. Two Days in New York (2012)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Manhattan couple Marion and Mingus, who each have children from prior relationships, find their comfortable family dynamic jostled by a visit from Marion's relatives.
Directors: Julie Delpy, Marie Pillet | Stars: Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Albert Delpy, Alexia Landeau
Votes: 15,015 | Gross: $0.63M
terrible.
8. Two Days in Paris (2007)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents -- and several of her ex-boyfriends.
Director: Julie Delpy | Stars: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Daniel Brühl, Marie Pillet
Votes: 32,063 | Gross: $4.43M
Much better than it's sequel.
9. Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013)
PG-13 | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.
Director: Morgan Neville | Stars: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill
Votes: 13,950 | Gross: $4.95M
Fantastic film, uplifting with great performances.
10. 21 Jump Street (2012)
R | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.
Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller | Stars: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Brie Larson
Votes: 598,314 | Gross: $138.45M
Vaguely funny. Really dislike Tatum.
11. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
R | 117 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Steve Coogan, Lennie James, John Thomson, Paul Popplewell
Votes: 39,682 | Gross: $1.13M
12. The 24th Day (2004)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tom (Speedman) and Dan's (Marsden) one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.
Director: Tony Piccirillo | Stars: James Marsden, Scott Speedman, Sofía Vergara, Barry Papick
Votes: 3,725 | Gross: $0.01M
Interesting thriller and good to see straight actors play darker and gay roles
13. 27 Dresses (2008)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Romance
After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.
Director: Anne Fletcher | Stars: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Brian Kerwin
Votes: 175,070 | Gross: $76.81M
Who cares about Heigl? Not me!
14. 28 Days Later (2002)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Alex Palmer
Votes: 445,470 | Gross: $45.06M
Effective thriller.
15. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
R | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Robert Carlyle, Harold Perrineau
Votes: 293,703 | Gross: $28.64M
Good, but not as good as the original.
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 719,237 | Gross: $56.95M
Just stunning. Never fails to amaze me and give me goosebumps.
17. 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban
Votes: 57,208 | Gross: $40.20M
A sub par film compared to it's predecessor.
18. 2046 (2004)
R | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Gong Li
Votes: 61,757 | Gross: $1.44M
Good thriller. Loved the use of multiple languages. Great futuristic views.
19. 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, Drama, Music
Writer and musician Nick Cave marks his 20,000th day on the planet Earth.
Directors: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard | Stars: Nick Cave, Susie Bick, Warren Ellis, Darian Leader
Votes: 11,969 | Gross: $0.28M
interesting film about the creative mind of Nick Cave. Loved the chats in the car.
20. 3-Iron (2004)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Lee Seung-yun, Jae Hee, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Joo Jin-mo
Votes: 58,252 | Gross: $0.24M
Lack of dialogue really effects the film, badly.
21. 13 Assassins (2010)
R | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Ikki Sawamura
Votes: 68,584 | Gross: $0.80M
22. The 39 Steps (1935)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 61,523
Classic Hitchcock.
23. 300 (2006)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama
In the ancient battle of Thermopylae, King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fight against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. They face insurmountable odds when they are betrayed by a Spartan reject.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West
Votes: 864,003 | Gross: $210.61M
Much better than expected.
24. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean
Votes: 63,283 | Gross: $1.19M
This is a bleak outlook from 1984 Romania, where abortions are not only illegal, but VERY illegal. Gabita is pregnant and with her friend Otilia, they plan an abortion, in the process encountering massive bureaucracy and horrible situations. These women endure alot, being forced to sleep with the man performing the termination, lying to loved ones and borrowing money in a time when life was obviously very tough. The actor playing Otilia is wonderful as she helps her friend but is left feeling used and betrayed. Director Mungiu plays with his audience, by suggesting that something terrible has happened, and then we see Gabita sitting in the restaurant seemingly as nothing has happened, all whilst Otilia has run around for her friend. One aspect that really impressed me was the recreation of 1984 Romania. It is vividly brought to life and is given a horrifically gloomy and miserable setting. Hopefully Romania has moved on from that.
25. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Romance
Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother.
Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco
Votes: 466,834 | Gross: $109.45M
Funny, but not that funny.
26. The 400 Blows (1959)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble
Votes: 128,044
Stunning and moving.
27. Five Times Two (2004)
R | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Five stages in the romance between a woman and a man.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Stéphane Freiss, Françoise Fabian, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 10,444 | Gross: $0.13M
Annoying and confusing.
28. 50/50 (2011)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard
Votes: 342,871 | Gross: $35.01M
Couldn't really get invested in the characters.
29. 52 Tuesdays (2013)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.
Director: Sophie Hyde | Stars: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Imogen Archer, Del Herbert-Jane
Votes: 1,539
I wanted to like this but the daughter was so obnoxious. I wish they had focused on the transition of the mum.
30. 500 Days of Summer (2009)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Marc Webb | Stars: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz
Votes: 557,669 | Gross: $32.39M
I didn't know what to expect from this, but I like Joseph Gordon-Levitt and it got some good reviews, so what the hell...
Well, I was pleasently surprised. It's not the best thing, but it does try and that's a good thing. JGL is very good in this, he makes a good leading man, but I struggled with Zooey Deschanel's character, she seemed just a little too kookie and perhaps the romantic in me wanted them to work out. The film looks good aswell, Los Angeles has never looked better, infact I thought it was perhaps Seattle. There are also some various techniques employed to make the film a little different: There is the drawing of the park with has the number counter, although the clacking noise used really grated my nerves. I liked the 'fantasy' sequences, the one where Tom dances his way to work was great. Also the scene where the picture changes to a drawing. Another technique used was a split screen to portray the real and fantasy events of when Tom sees Summer at a party after they have broken up. Potentially distracting, it worked well, but I did begin to think at that point that maybe the film makers were trying a little to hard to be 'indie'.
The ending for me was a particular let down, it just seemed too contrived and convenient, the fact that the woman's name was Autumn made me cringe. But in all this is a good Sunday sofa DVD, which has alot to enjoy, including some great music such as The Smiths.
31. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent
Votes: 8,717
Some scenes work, but it blurs lines and becomes confusing.
32. 8 Women (2002)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
A man is murdered in an isolated chalet, and the eight female residents are all suspects; their secrets are revealed as they try to determine who is guilty.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve
Votes: 34,330 | Gross: $3.08M
Likable Francois Ozon film.
33. 8½ (1963)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo
Votes: 125,160 | Gross: $0.05M
Brilliant imagery.
34. 9 (I) (2009)
PG-13 | 79 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A rag doll that awakens in a postapocalyptic future holds the key to humanity's salvation.
Director: Shane Acker | Stars: Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 147,630 | Gross: $31.74M
Stunning animated film.
35. Nine to Five (1980)
PG | 109 min | Comedy
Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
Director: Colin Higgins | Stars: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 39,408 | Gross: $103.29M
How I have never seen this? As it started and I questioned Dolly Parton's acting skills, I thought oh dear..but by the time the woman have the fantasies of how to get back the boss I was laughing heartily. Dolly Parton cannot act, but hell, she looks incredible, but if anything, it's Lily Tomlin, who is just superb, that was the highlight of this film.
36. 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
Unrated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
A local talk show host organizes an alcoholic professor and a pensioner known for playing Santa Claus to decide whether there was ever a revolution in their town Vaslui.
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu | Stars: Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru, Mirela Cioaba
Votes: 8,120 | Gross: $0.09M
Really highlighted the bleakness of post communist Romania - is it really like that? Great cast and some very funny moments, most of which take place during the tv interview. The old man was wonderful: making his paper boats on live tv and getting the kids back with firecrackers. A sense of desperation and bleakness seems apparent still so long after the change of power. Highlight was the band playing at the tv studio. Loved the first song they did with the boy singing the latino song and they way it was shot and then the contrast with the camera behind whilst they played the traditional number with the tv host looking on approvingly. Great stuff.
37. 2:37 (2006)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.
Director: Murali K. Thalluri | Stars: Teresa Palmer, Frank Sweet, Sam Harris, Charles Baird
Votes: 7,361
Very effective Aussie thriller with some good performances.
38. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Logan Lerman
Votes: 330,988 | Gross: $53.61M
Good Western. Nicely shot.
39. September 11 (2002)
Unrated | 134 min | Drama
The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Shôhei Imamura, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic | Stars: Maryam Karimi, Mohamad Dolati, Agelem Habibi, Esmat Vahedi
Votes: 5,924
Some segments work better than others, the French and US ones being my favourites. I love the format of the film and the fact that short film can convey so much. It also interesting to see the perspective of 9/11 events from different cultures, people and viewpoints.
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