7 great movies you won't dare rewatch again
7. "Pay It Forward"
- 2000
- USA
- Drama
- Director: Mimi Leder
- Starring: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr, James Caviezel
- IMDb Rating: 7.2
A new teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) comes to Trevor McKinney's (Haley Joel Osment) classroom. He immediately gives the students an unusual assignment: to think about how they can change the world. He doesn't even realize what idea he has planted in little Trevor: now he's sure that if each person unselfishly helps at least three people, the good in the world will grow exponentially.
After the release of the film and its success at the box office in the U.S. there was a fund for mutual aid, named after the tape "Pay It Forward".
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6. "Hidden" / Caché
- 2005
- France, Austria, Germany, Italy
- Detective, drama, thriller
- Director: Michael Haneke
- Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq
- IMDb Rating: 7.3
Georges (Daniel Auteuil), a literary critic in Paris, receives strange parcels of videotapes. On them are members of his family, who are secretly taken off the street. Soon the videotapes are joined by mysterious drawings, similar to children's ones, with gruesome bloody images. Georges begins to suspect that the stalker is connected to his family's past.
The movie has many prestigious nominations, including the Palme d'Or.
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5. "Irréversible"
- 2002
- France
- Crime, melodrama, drama, thriller, detective
- Director: Gaspar Noé
- Starring: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Jo Prestia, Philippe Nahon
- IMDb Rating: 7.3
The narrative is told in reverse order, following the main characters from the creepy finale to the plot twist. Furious friends Marcus (Vincent Cassel) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel) try to find and kill the rapist who mutilated Alex (Monica Bellucci), Marcus' wife. A horrific finale awaits them, impossible to replay again: for all events in the real world are ruled by an inexorable and merciless irreversibility.
"Sticks in the soul forever. Interesting technique of narration of events", — dust_space.
"The 2002 movie Irreversibility made a very strong impression on me <...> It makes you think about how quickly things can go wrong, but to be honest, this kind of movie is not for everyone", — Alisa125.
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4. "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas"
- 2008
- UK, USA
- War, drama
- Director: Mark Herman
- Starring: Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Rupert Friend, Domonkos Németh, Vera Farmiga
- IMDb Rating: 7.7
Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is an 8-year-old German boy who lives carefree in Berlin during World War II. His father is a high-ranking Nazi official. After his appointment to a new position, the family is forced to move. In the neighborhood of their new home, Bruno discovers a strange farm with unusual people: they walk around in pajamas, play numbers that are sewn onto the pajamas, and for some reason burn old clothes in large ovens, which often causes stinking black smoke to billow from the long stove pipes. Bruno meets a Jewish boy named Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), who wears striped pajamas and can walk and play wherever he wants.
"Tough movie. Gorgeously shot and conveys the atmosphere of the time", — AnastasiaAzazel.
"Watched this movie as a child. I still remember how I cried that time... I never watched this movie again. I don't think I'll ever revisit it again. And especially now", — Kutuyeva.
"What a heavy and gorgeous movie at the same time. I watched it several times and every time I was brought to tears. The movie is beautifully shot. The plot is perfect and the ending, which just got me. I advise you to watch it", — masalovaliza.
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3. "Dancer in the Dark"
- 2000
- Denmark, Sweden, USA, Argentina, Great Britain, Germany, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Netherlands
- Musical, drama, crime
- Director: Lars von Trier
- Starring: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour, Vladica Kostic
- IMDb Rating: 7.9
Migrant Selma Ježková (Björk) loves American musicals, she often sings and attends a theater club. Selma works in a factory where no one realizes that she is losing her sight and will soon go blind. Selma saves all of her small earnings for an operation for her son, who suffers from the same disease.
"A heavy movie. Touching to the core", — Chip_kate.
"I didn't think that after The Green Mile, any movie, could give me as much pain and devastation", — Dori_Grey.
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2. "Hachiko: A Dog's Tale"
- 2009
- USA, UK
- Family, drama, biography
- Director: Lasse Hallström
- Starring: Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Sarah Roemer, Jason Alexander
- IMDb Rating: 8.1
One day, a university professor (Richard Gere) finds a lost puppy at the train station of his hometown. At first he picks him up just to put him in good hands, but quickly realizes that he has become attached to the dog and is not going to give him to anyone. Every day Hachiko meets his master at the train station. One day the professor doesn't appear on the platform. And the dog doesn't want to put up with it and continues to wait for him.
The movie is based on the real story of the Japanese dog Hachiko, who for nine years every day at the same time came to the station every day at the same time to meet his dead master. The dog came to Tokyo's Shibuya station from May 21, 1925 to March 8, 1935. Hachiko is a symbol of loyalty and devotion in Japan.
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1. "12 Years a Slave"
- 2013
- UK, USA
- Drama, biography, history
- Director: Steve McQueen
- Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Benedict Cumberbatch
- IMDb Rating: 8.1
Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) was a married and educated man who was living and working in New York City when two men one day offered him an attractive job in Washington, DC. Upon arrival, he was kidnapped and made a slave, after which he led a miserable life going from one master to another.
"12 Years a Slave" was filmed based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup, which he published in 1853. The film won three Oscars, including for Best Picture, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Film.
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Apparently the name of the collection is mixed up. I decided to never watch Hachiko for myself (I just watched everything from the collection except for him). I'm still over Marley and I'm crying, but he's actually a comedian...
Here's a really cool movie from the category of "Pay someone else" to review someday, the rest is not even close. You would also add "Life is beautiful" or "Dogville.
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But I've watched a lot of shit that I regretted watching, like the human centipede, but the movie about the dog scares the shit out of me.
One was enough for me 😅
I felt sick for a day after watching it
You're lucky, the first one is just a cartoon compared to the second one. I'm even afraid to imagine what's in the third part.
"Pay the Other One" and "Irreversibility" are also good films with their own imprint, but it's easy to watch them again if you're in the right mood.
For me, the most difficult one here is the Boy in striped pajamas. I know almost the whole plot and ending. And every time there's time for a Big movie, I tell myself no, I'm not ready, my mentality won't take out the young Ace with his puppy dog eyes.
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Yes, I won't watch it either.
I agree with the commentators above, there are films that I consciously do not want to watch, because I understand that it will not only hurt, but it will hurt a lot.
But was anyone interested in the movie "Hidden"? Haneke - it must be good
For me, the main film on this list would be Mama - Aronofsky. I was really sorry that I watched it (I was also in a position then). This is something that has stuck in my memory and I dream of seeing it.
, I was most scared of the scenes in which my mother was watching TV
and I also read the book once, I won't do it again, although reading usually doesn't cause me such disturbing and depressing emotions, no matter what kind of mess the book is going on.
Watching it is like voluntarily subjecting myself to emotional torture.
The first time I wiped my tears with towels, it was not enough with a handkerchief.
And from the presented list I added only "Pay another"
Of those that I really won't review for anything, this is the White Beam Black Ear, the hardest movie of my life. I watched it for the first time at a conscious age, crying like a child
I've seen more of these films Haitarma once, I can't handle this flow of emotions again...
I'm not in the habit of crying over movies, but there are sad stories, no more.
I don't watch these movies on purpose, but if I come across them, I'd love to watch them.
"Where dreams lead" I've watched a million times, a very cool movie.
Striped Shirt is not a slow film with a shocking ending, I would like to review it, but not in this depressing time.
"Irreversibility" shocks with its naturalness almost from the very first shots, it's really hard to review.
Hachiko wasn't even going to look - our Beam was enough...
But there are also movies that you wait a long, long time for, you start watching, you realize that this is not at all what you expected and turn it off.
Number one of these is It's hard to be a god, I started five times, but I didn't even get to the middle.
It's the same with Oppenheimer.
But why there is no "Bridge to Terrabitia" is unclear. It can significantly break the child's psyche.
"Hachiko" didn't touch that much, "Dog Life" is harder for me.
I agree that "Requiem for a Dream" deserves to be on this list, and I would also add "And in my soul I Dance," "The Girl Next Door," "American History X," "On the Needle," "Go and See."