Must-see by everyone. 7 classic movies
7. "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"
- 1997
- Germany
- Crime, comedy, drama
- Director: Thomas Jahn
- Starring: Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Thierry Van Werveke, Moritz Bleibtreu, Hub Stapel
- IMDb Rating: 7.8
Martin (Til Schweiger) and Rudi (Jan Josef Liefers) are separately examined in a hospital — and both learn that they have only months to live. During a heart-to-heart talk, it is revealed that Rudi has never been to the sea, but has always dreamed of it. The unfortunate friends decide to fulfill their dream before their imminent death, so they steal a car for a long trip, in which there is a suitcase with mafia money. They rush to the sea and are chased by gangsters and police.
"Been planning to see this movie for a long time and only recently watched it. And it's a masterpiece of tragicomedy and how not to look all the same old movies are much better and heartwarming", — xxx_drako_xxx.
"This movie has everything. And wild laughter and desperate tears, and chases, and music and wonderful voice-over.... This movie is for all times", — Fenyks.
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6. "Donnie Darko"
- 2001
- USA
- Fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
- Director: Richard Kelly
- Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Patrick Swayze
- IMDb Rating: 8.0
High school senior Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is visited in the middle of the night by a man in a bunny suit. He tells the guy that the end of the world is less than a month away. Which means that it is necessary to either save mankind, or spend the last days with benefit. The teenager is horrified, but Donnie's family and therapist assure him that the rabbit is just a figment of his imagination.
Richard Kelly struggled for years to finance the movie and only Drew Barrymore's production company Flower Films decided to invest in the film. Barrymore also took part in the movie as an actress: she played the role of English teacher Karen Pomeroy.
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5. "Trainspotting"
- 1996
- UK
- Drama, crime
- Director: Danny Boyle
- Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald
- IMDb Rating: 8.1
British youngster Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his friends are drug addicts. They all have different backgrounds, but the only thing they have in common is addiction. Mark periodically tries to quit drugs and somehow get on with his life. During one of these periods Renton gets off the needle. At a party, he meets Diana (Kelly MacDonald) and spends the night with her. Only in the morning does he find out that Diana is a high school student. His relationship with her threatens to cause serious problems.
The movie was nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. And even years later, numerous polls have shown that "Trainspotting" is called the best British movie of the last 60 years.
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4. "A Clockwork Orange"
- 1971
- UK, USA
- Crime, sci-fi
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive
- IMDb Rating: 8.3
Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the head of a gang of ultraviolent teenagers, becomes a killer after another "adventure" with his friends. Those set him up, and only Alex is sent to prison. To avoid imprisonment, the young man agrees to an experimental treatment, which should dissuade him from addiction to violence. However, the results of the experiment become quite unexpected.
"A Clockwork Orange" was nominated for an Oscar in four categories, including best film and best director.
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3. "The Matrix"
- 1999
- USA, Australia
- Fantasy, action
- Directors: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
- Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster
- IMDb Rating: 8.7
One day, hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) suddenly discovers that the whole world around him is an illusion, or matrix, controlled by machines. And everything points to the fact that Neo is the only one who is able to return freedom to mankind.
"Cult film. The soundtrack, choreography, camerawork still lead to genuine delight. How hard they worked on the movie after all", — Redopera.
"Re-watching the trilogy in 2023 you can't help but marvel that the movie of the time is still top notch!" — VickiS.
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2. "Fight Club"
- 1999
- USA, Germany
- Thriller, drama, crime
- Director: David Fincher
- Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Mit Lowe, Zach Grenier
- IMDb Rating: 8.8
An office worker with no name (Edward Norton) dreams of escaping from the boring life of an average citizen. He spends his weekdays at the office, and in his free time his main entertainment is buying new furniture. When the Narrator learns that his apartment burned down, he takes it as a sign to action. Then the protagonist calls Tyler (Brad Pitt), a guy he met on the airplane. And from that moment his life changes abruptly.
The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, released in 1996. After the premiere of the screen adaptation, the author said that he considers the film an improvement of his own book. "Fight Club" was nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound Editing, and it is still on many best picture lists.
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1. "The Green Mile"
- 1999
- USA
- Fantasy, Drama, Crime
- Director: Frank Darabont
- Starring: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Patricia Clarkson
- IMDb Rating: 8.9
Louisiana, 1935. Huge John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) is brought to Cold Mountain Prison, accused of murdering and raping two little girls. He faces the electric chair. One of the prison employees, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), suffers from cystitis, which John Coffey discovers and cures the warden with one touch. Paul realizes that in front of him is the purest soul of a righteous man, who is incapable of doing evil and slandered for someone else's crime.
The movie was nominated for a number of prestigious awards, including the Oscar and the Golden Globe. "The Green Mile" won three Satellite Awards for Best Adventure Film, Action or Thriller, Best Supporting Actor (Michael Clarke Duncan) and Best Supporting Actress (Patricia Clarkson).
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21Previously, slag was also sometimes removed - in the same years when all these classic films were released, a whole bunch of shitty films were released. This is a cognitive distortion that used to do everything awesome, but now everything is shit, because the classics are units of the same shit, which is full at all times - it's like that in any industry, even movies, even music, even books. It's just that you watch, listen and read from those times only " selected" for you by that generation of people who called it "classics ", and from modern times you see the entire "layer of content that has not been processed by time ".
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one of my favorite movies. I'll review it again, perhaps.
Did you watch the movie "Until you played it in the box"?
And I wouldn't add anything else - otherwise I'd have to write a list of 100+ movies)))