Love Stories, Comedies, Dramas
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We all have our favorite movies in the genre's of comedy, drama, love, action, and more. As for love stories, there are not many non-fiction movies in this area because of the simple fact that more than 50 percent of U.S. marriages/relationships end in some type of breakup. Therefore, we have to settle for mostly fictional accounts about love and happiness; about living "happily ever after." That's ok because this allows us to dream, to fantasize about finding that special mate.
Let's see what your top 10 list of "Best Love Stories" looks like. What makes a good love story? I'm no movie buff or critic, specifically in the Love Story, Melodramatic genre, but many of these movies have a predictable outcome. If it's well directed, with really good actors, sometimes the fact that the audience can see where it's going, is not really a factor because you have believable characters. There performance enhances your fantasy, relieves a little stress, and allows you to escape from the real world for a couple of hours.
The Top 10 Romantic Movies; Top 10 Comedies; Top 10 Horror Flicks, etc., are all listed in the order of the year the movie was released. These are taskeinc's top 10, so once you review, I'd love to see what your top 10 are, I'm sure we will come across movies that peak our interest.
Let's see what your top 10 list of "Best Love Stories" looks like. What makes a good love story? I'm no movie buff or critic, specifically in the Love Story, Melodramatic genre, but many of these movies have a predictable outcome. If it's well directed, with really good actors, sometimes the fact that the audience can see where it's going, is not really a factor because you have believable characters. There performance enhances your fantasy, relieves a little stress, and allows you to escape from the real world for a couple of hours.
The Top 10 Romantic Movies; Top 10 Comedies; Top 10 Horror Flicks, etc., are all listed in the order of the year the movie was released. These are taskeinc's top 10, so once you review, I'd love to see what your top 10 are, I'm sure we will come across movies that peak our interest.
Contents at a Glance
Pay It Forward
Take the things that you don't like in the world and flip it. Do something nice for someone and expect nothing in return. Do it from the goodness of your heart. Pay It Forward, featuring Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, and Kevin Spacey, is about Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment), a kid who attempts to make the world a better place. His teacher, Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey), gives him and assignment based on the opposite of "paying it back." This is a touching, heart-warming story that will make you want to go out and "Pay It Forward."
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Catfish
Online friendship, on Facebook, 9 months of corresponding and it turns out the woman was totally not the person he thought she was. True story that all who utilize online dating need to watch!
IMDb: Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.
IMDb: Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.
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The Shawshank Redemption
Two imprisoned men (Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as 'Red') bond over a number of years. The two find solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy, and his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, bond and develop a lifelong friendship.
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Charlie St. Cloud
Zac Efron, Amanda Crew .. Small-town sailing star Zac Efron must choose between love and a promise he made to his late brother in this poignant drama.This movie actually puts "The Notebook" in second place on my list of love stories. "Charlie St. Cloud" touches on the supernatural and that is why from a personal standpoint it ranks slightly ahead of other love stories.
Without giving away the plot, Zac must perform a serious balancing act between the love of his dearly departed brother and a love interest. This is one of those movies that you must watch from beginning to end, otherwise you'll miss some critical parts.
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Despicable Me..
Three little girls turn an "elite super-villain" into an endearing father. His goal is to steal the moon but the affections of three orphaned girls threaten to undermine his evil machinations.
Funny , touching, a great "single dad" movie with a nice sound track.
Funny , touching, a great "single dad" movie with a nice sound track.
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Top 11 Romantic Movies by taskeinc
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- Pretty Woman (1990): A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.
- Sleepless in Seattle (1993): After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his adolescent son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie's death. Eighteen months later, Sam is still grieving and can't sleep.
- One Fine Day (1996): Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents.
- There's Something About Mary (1998): A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.
- You've Got Mail (1998): Two business rivals hate each other at the office but fall in love over the internet.
- Save the Last Dance (2001): A white mid-western girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.
- The Wedding Planner (2001): Mary Fiore is the wedding planner. She's ambitious, hard-working, extremely organized, and she knows exactly what to do and say to make any wedding a spectacular event. Bt when Mary falls (literally) for a handsome doctor her busy yet uncomplicated life is turned upside down - he's the groom in the biggest wedding of her career!
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003): Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Andie Anderson covers the "How To" beat for "Composure" magazine and is assigned to write an article on "How to Lose a Guy in 10 days." They meet in a bar shortly after the bet is made.
- Something's Gotta Give (2003): A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.
- The Notebook (2004): A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences.
- He's Just Not That Into You (2009): The Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior.
What are a few of your Romantic Movies?
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Terry
Feb 12, 2012 @ 9:22 pm | delete
- Try These:
1. Meet Joe Black
2. City of Angels
3. Message in a Bottle
4. Brown Sugar
5. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
6. Something New
7. Sweet Home Alabama
8. Sleepless in Seatle ( I agree)
9. You've Got Mail
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ellagis
Aug 25, 2011 @ 6:07 am | delete
- Those you mentioned.... plus "One fine day", with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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taskeinc
Aug 25, 2011 @ 9:59 am | delete
- I need to add that one to this list .. Love that movie and I am a big Michelle Pfeiffer fan..
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Aug 6, 2011 @ 12:14 am | delete
- I like all ten!
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itsmuzza2011 Apr 27, 2011 @ 3:44 am | delete
- This is an unusual for you. its "House of flying Daggers" a fantastic story awesome stunts and fight scenes a visual masterpiece, and its a story of love finding a way to draw two doomed lovers together, Fantastc, if you have not seen it please do
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Top 5 Single Dad Flicks
As a single father for the past 12 years and counting, it's very touching to see scenes in movies like "Mrs. Doubtfire." Daniel Hilard (Robin Williams) says this to the judge:
Once I held them, I was hooked. I`m addicted to my children, sir. I love them with all my heart. And the idea of someone telling me I can`t be with them, I can`t see them every day... It`s like someone saying I can`t have air. I can`t live without air, and I can`t live without them. Listen, I would do anything. I just want to be with them. I know I need that, sir. We have a history. And I just... They mean everything to me. And they need me as much as I need them. So, please, don`t take my kids away from me. Thank you.
All loving fathers who have been through a legal situation, fighting for his kids, could relate to what he was saying.
Sean Penn's performance in "I am Sam" is phenomenal. Raquel Castro and Ben Affleck in "Jersey Girl" were outstanding. Will Smith and Jayden were a very good father/son team in "The Pursuit of Happiness," (as they are in real life), and we can't forget the over-protective Dad in "Finding Nemo."
Once I held them, I was hooked. I`m addicted to my children, sir. I love them with all my heart. And the idea of someone telling me I can`t be with them, I can`t see them every day... It`s like someone saying I can`t have air. I can`t live without air, and I can`t live without them. Listen, I would do anything. I just want to be with them. I know I need that, sir. We have a history. And I just... They mean everything to me. And they need me as much as I need them. So, please, don`t take my kids away from me. Thank you.
All loving fathers who have been through a legal situation, fighting for his kids, could relate to what he was saying.
Sean Penn's performance in "I am Sam" is phenomenal. Raquel Castro and Ben Affleck in "Jersey Girl" were outstanding. Will Smith and Jayden were a very good father/son team in "The Pursuit of Happiness," (as they are in real life), and we can't forget the over-protective Dad in "Finding Nemo."
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Armored
Just watched Armored for the first time. It's been running on Cable for awhile and I finally sat down to watch it. Excellent movie! All I'll say is that Matt Damon's plan starts to go awry very quickly after it is executed and all hell breaks loose. Laurence Fishburne, Matt Dillon, and Ty Hackett put on really nice performances in this thriller. You should check it out Evelyn.
Here the IMDb synopsis:
"A newbie guard for an armored truck company is coerced by his veteran coworkers to steal a truck containing $42 million. But a wrinkle in their supposedly foolproof plan divides the group, leading to a potentially deadly resolution."
Here the IMDb synopsis:
"A newbie guard for an armored truck company is coerced by his veteran coworkers to steal a truck containing $42 million. But a wrinkle in their supposedly foolproof plan divides the group, leading to a potentially deadly resolution."
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The Blind Side
"The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family." (IMdb)The Internet Movie Database synopsis of "The Blind Side" (above) simply does not do this true story any justice whatsoever. This is an incredible movie. I realize that Hollywood doctored it up a bit for effect but the bottom line is this: from a spiritual perspective the Touhy family would have to be angels incarnate. This is the true depiction of unconditional love. Many of us feel that because of a devout religious affiliation, be it Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism, we feel our souls are ready for a permanent return to the Source, or ready to "sit on the right hand of God" (or however the religious adage goes) for eternity. Until we learn how to love ourselves and others, unconditionally, our spiritual maturation process is in the infant stages. Translation: you need several lifetimes to master the art of unconditional love.
This family not only welcomed a black kid into their home, but a 300 pound black kid .. 300 lbs at the age of 14! They didn't see any "sports potential" and were certainly not looking for some "payoff" down the road, because they were already well-to-do financially. I'm not saying that we should all go out and adopt a big black kid, or a big white kid, but we should at least try to follow the Touhy's lead on how to love one another unconditionally.
Serendipitous Moment
We've seen enough with the predictable movies, especially the love stories. All you have to do is watch the beginning, find out who the two antagonists are, fast forward to the end of the movie and they're kissing in the middle of a crowded street or in the center of the office. All the co-workers are standing around, the women are crying and the men are giving each other high-fives. Come on writers and directors, you can do better than that. We need to see a little more creativity.If it's a romantic comedy, and it's actually funny that can sometimes makeup for the predictable ending. Like the movie "Fever Pitch" for example, the sports fanatic falling in love was a different twist and it was funny.
The kiss at the end of most love stories is so unrealistic because in the real world, if you're kissing in the middle of traffic in a city like New York or San Francisco, you'll probably be run over. The office kiss at the end, the both of you, unless you are the owner of the company, would possibly face some type of suspension.
One romantic comedy that had somewhat of a different theme was "Serendipity" featuring John Cusack as Jonathan Trager and Kate Beckinsale as Sara Thomas. The end was predictable but the in-between was intriguing enough to keep your attention. Now if the writers wanted to create a Serendipity 2, they could have easily kept Sara from showing up in Central Park and ended the movie there. Instant sequel! But it was a pretty good movie nonetheless.
Love on Amazon (cont)
Tragic Love Stories by taskeinc
These movies can be love stories with a combination of drama and action. The movie Seven Pounds is not necessarily a love story but the melodramatic twist suggest a very unusual love, sacrifice, and tragedy, therefore, it made my list.- Splendor in the Grass (1961): A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man
from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness. - Love Story (1970): Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other.
- Ghost (1990): After being killed during a botched mugging, a man's love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost.
- The Bridges of Madison County (1995): The path of Francesca Johnson's future seems destined when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life.
- Titanic (1997): Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship.
- What Dreams May Come (1998): Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife.
- City of Angels (1998): Inspired by the modern classic, Wings of Desire, City involves an angel (Cage) who is spotted by a doctor in an operating room. Franz plays Cage's buddy who somehow knows a lot about angels.
- A Walk to Remember (2002): The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.
- Brokeback Mountain (2005): Based on the 'E. Annie Proulx' story about a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years.
- Seven Pounds (2008): An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
What Dreams May Come
After life there is more. The end is just the beginning.
After suffering the loss of their two children, Chris and Annie barely survive. When Chris also passes Annie's grief is unbearable. Although Chris is reborn in Heaven, without his Annie there is no Heaven. Annie's attempts to go on fail and she takes her own life. She goes to Hell. Not even death can keep Chris from his soulmate as he goes beyond Heaven and Hell to rescue his immortal love.
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What are some tragic love stories you like?
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Feb 12, 2012 @ 9:27 pm | delete
- Legends of the Fall - If you've never seen it, it's worth a look.
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- Leaving Las Vegas - Very powerful and a great story, Nic Cage is awesome
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- The Men in Black are back, and this time Agent J (Will Smith) must take a trip into the past in order to save both the future and his taciturn partner Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) in the third installment of the hit sci-fi comedy series. After 15 years of working with aliens from all across the cosmos, Agent J is sure he's seen it all. But just when he's getting the hang of the game, he learns that history has inexplicably been rewritten. In this new timeline of events, Agent K has been dead for 40 years, and Earth will soon come under attack from an extraterrestrial force with the power to claim the entire planet. Now, in order to set the past straight and head off an invasion of epic proportions, Agent J must travel back to the year 1969, when Young Agent K (Josh Brolin) was just a fresh new face on the force. But Agent J only has 24 hours to find the source of the coming catastrophe and discern how his longtime partner ties into the situation -- should he fail he'll be stuck in the past forever. Jemaine Clement, Alice Eve, and Emma Thompson co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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- Marvel Studios delivers the ultimate comic-book film, which ties together such characters as Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) for a big-screen franchise team-up like no other. Taking center stage this time is Nick Fury (played once again by the note-perfect Samuel L. Jackson), leader of the peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D. Fury, along with former Russian spy Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), recruits a super team to combat Thor's ever-deceptive brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) after he brainwashes ace archer Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) while stealing a cosmic cube from an underground base. Thus the heroes must learn to work together alongside outlaw scientist Bruce Banner (Ruffalo), who can track down the artifact's gamma signals when he's not hulking out into a giant green monster. Show runner Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) adapted and helmed the script by Zak Penn. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
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Top 10 Chick Flicks by taskeinc
- Meet Joe Black (1998): A media mogul acts as a guide to Death, who takes the form of a young man to learn about life on Earth and in the process, fall in love with his guide's daughter.
- Miss Congeniality (2000): An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.
- Bridget Jones's Diary (2001): A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003): Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days.
- Something's Gotta Give (2003): A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.
- The Devil Wears Prada (2006): A naive young woman comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly.
- 27 Dresses (2008): 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.
- Sex and the City (2008): A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
- The Secret Life of Bees (2008): Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother.
- The Women (2008): A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort.
Your Favorite Chick Flicks
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- this one is not the best list you could have done , youve missed lots of proper chick flicks out like coyote ugly and dirty dancing i know all this and im a geezer... girls like to bop around and still have that feelgood thing at the end ! great lens though
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- Top 10 Chick Flicks by "taskeinc" .. these are movies I have seen .. it's impossible for one person (unless he/she has no life) to see 25% of all the Chick Flicks made .. all the list here are movies that I have watched unless otherwise stated .. feel free to drop your top 10 .. thanks for the comment.
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- Never seen ANY of these! (guess I am not the chick flick type)
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Top Ten Tear-Jerkers by taskeinc
As I was putting this list together I actually had the pleasure of watching a serious "tear jerker." Call it coincidence, call it whatever but Brooke Shields, Cherry Jones, and Whoopi Goldberg put on really nice performances in the movie "What Makes a Family." This movie is based on a true story and it will tear you up, even the toughest guy. If you have a heart, you'll darn near cry all the way through this one, not that I did .. ok, maybe a little. If you haven't seen this movie, do so.
- Brian's Song (1971): Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
- Beaches (1988): A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
- Steel Magnolias (1989): Revolving around Truvy's Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, Steel Magnolias is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there.
- Ghost (1990): After being killed during a botched mugging, a man's love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost.
- Philadelphia (1993): When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.
- One True Thing (1998): A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
- What Makes a Family (2001): A lesbian, artificially inseminated, gives birth, then dies, and her companion must fight to regain custody of the child from the dead woman's grandparents.
- The Laramie Project (2002): The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.
- The Notebook (2004): A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences.
- Everybody's Fine (2009): A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.
A Walk To Remember
Talk about a "Tear Jerker" .. guys and gals, this movie will tear you up. Amidst your tears however, this movie provides some extremely valuable lessons about life. Primarily it's about the quality of your life and knowing how to treat people. To mistreat or look down on anyone based on social status, religious practices, skin color, weight, height, etc., is not a part of anyone's spiritual plans and unbeknownst to the perpetrator, has deleterious consequences. A Walk To Remember is an incredible movie, and one which can teach you a lot about yourself. 
Top 10 Favorites - All Genres - Part 1
- The Deer Hunter (1978): An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
- A Few Good Men (1992): Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.
- Love Field (1992): Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours after she sees him arrive in Dallas. Despite her husband Ray's prohibition, she decides to attend the funeral in Washington, D.C. Forced to travel by bus, she befriends Jonell, the young black daughter of Paul Couter. Sensing something wrong, her good intentioned interference leads the mixed race threesome on an increasingly difficult journey to Washington with both the police and Ray looking for them.
- Malcolm X (1992): Biography of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad.
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994): Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
- Set It Off (1996): Four Black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks.
- Shrek (2001): An ogre, in order to regain his swamp, travels along with an annoying donkey in order to bring a princess to a scheming lord, wishing himself King.
- Finding Nemo (2003): A father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish, stolen from his coral reef home. His timid father must then travel to Sydney and search Sydney Harbour to find Nemo.
- Seven Pounds (2008): An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
- Gran Torino (2008): Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.
Top 10 Favorites - All Genres - Part 2
- Stir Crazy (1980): Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural
talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up. - Malcolm X (1992): Biography of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, there he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim.
- What Dreams May Come (1998): Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife.
- Family Man (2000): A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
- Fever Pitch (2005): Lindsay is stuck in the middle of her relationship with Ben and his passion for the Boston Red Sox
- Gran Torino (2008): Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.
- Seven Pounds (2008): An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
- Shawshank Redemption (1994): Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
- He's Just Not That Into You (2009): The Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior.
- The Proposal (2009): A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.
Schindler's List
People laugh, scoff, and find it rather ludicrous when author David Icke talks and writes about his "reptilian theory." A theory that suggest, among many other things, that the cold-bloodied way that those in power can be inhumane to another human being and certainly a group of human beings on a massive scale, is attributed to the fact that these people are not necessarily human but possess a non-human characteristic that makes them incapable of remorse. The inhumanity of the Holocaust and the Slave Trade makes you think that Mr. Icke may be on to something.Here's the synopsis of "Shindler's List" from Wikipedia.org:
The film begins in 1939 with the German-initiated relocation of Polish Jews from surrounding areas to the Kraków Ghetto shortly after the beginning of World War II. Meanwhile, Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), an ethnic German businessman from Moravia, arrives in the city in hopes of making his fortune as a war profiteer. Schindler, a member of the National Socialist Party, lavishes bribes upon the Wehrmacht and SS officials in charge of procurement. Sponsored by the military, Schindler acquires a factory for the production of army mess kits. Not knowing much about how to properly run such an enterprise, he gains a close collaborator in Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), an official of Krakow's Judenrat (Jewish Council) who has contacts with the Jewish business community and the black marketers inside the Ghetto. They lend him the money for the factory in return for a small share of products produced. Opening the factory, Schindler pleases the Nazis and enjoys his newfound wealth and status as "Herr Direktor", while Stern handles all the administration. Schindler hires Jewish Poles instead of Catholic Poles because they cost less (the workers themselves get nothing; the wages are paid to the SS). Workers in Schindler's factory are allowed outside the ghetto, and Stern falsifies documents to ensure that as many people as possible are deemed "essential" to the German war effort, which saves them from being transported to concentration camps, or being killed.
SS Captain Amon Göth (Ralph Fiennes) arrives in Kraków to initiate construction of the new P%u0142aszów concentration camp. He orders liquidation of part of the ghetto and Operation Reinhard in Kraków begins, with hundreds of troops emptying the cramped rooms and murdering anyone who protests, appears uncooperative, elderly or infirm. In all cases, the killings are shown to be arbitrary, and Schindler, watching the massacre from the hills overlooking the area with his mistress, is profoundly affected. He nevertheless is careful to befriend Göth and, through Stern's attention to bribery, he continues to enjoy SS support and protection. During this time, Schindler bribes Göth into allowing him to build a sub-camp for his workers. Originally, his intentions are to continue making money, but as time passes, he begins ordering Stern to save as many lives as possible. As the war shifts, an order arrives from Berlin commanding Göth to exhume and destroy the remains of every Jew murdered in the Kraków Ghetto, dismantle P%u0142aszów, and to ship the remaining Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
At first, Schindler prepares to leave Kraków with his ill-gotten fortune. He finds himslf unable to do so, however, and he prevails upon Göth to allow him to keep his workers, so that he can move them to a factory in his old home of Zwittau-Brinnlitz, in Moravia, away from the Final Solution, now fully underway in occupied Poland. Göth eventually acquiesces, but charges a massive bribe for each worker. Schindler and Stern assemble a list of workers who are to be kept off the trains to Auschwitz.
"Schindler's List" comprises these "skilled" inmates, and for many of those in Paszów camp, being included means the difference between life and death. Almost all of the people on Schindler's list arrive safely at the new site. The train carrying the Jewish women is accidentally redirected to Auschwitz. The women are taken to what they believe to be the gas chambers; they then weep with joy when water falls from the showers. The day after, the women are shown waiting in line for work. In the meantime, Schindler rushes immediately to Auschwitz. Intending to rescue all the women, he bribes the camp commander, Rudolf Höß, with a cache of diamonds in exchange for releasing the women to Brinnlitz. However, a last minute problem arises just when all the women are boarding the train. Several SS officers attempt to hold back the children and prevent them from leaving. Schindler, however, insists that he needs their hands to polish the narrow insides of artillery shells. As a result, the children are released. Once the women arrive in Zwittau-Brinnlitz, Schindler institutes firm controls on the SS guards assigned to the factory, forbidding them to shoot or torture anyone. He permits the Jews to observe the Sabbath. In order to keep his factory workers alive, he spends much of his fortune bribing Nazi officials. Later, he surprises his wife while she is in the village church during mass, and tells her that she will now be the only woman in his life, a concession he had refused to grant previously. She goes with him to the factory to assist him. He runs out of money just as the Wehrmacht surrenders, ending the war in Europe.
As a Nazi Party member and a self-described "profiteer of slave labor", in 1945, Schindler must flee the advancing Red Army. Although the SS guards have been ordered to liquidate the Jews of Brinnlitz, Schindler persuades them to return to their families as men, not murderers. In the aftermath, he packs a car in the night, and bids farewell to his workers. They give him a letter explaining he is not a criminal to them, together with a ring secretly made from a worker's gold dental bridge and engraved with a Talmudic quotation, "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." Schindler is touched but deeply ashamed, feeling he could have done more to save many more lives. Weeping, he considers how many more lives he could have saved as he leaves with his wife during the night. The Schindler Jews, having slept outside the factory gates through the night, are awakened by sunlight the next morning. A Soviet dragoon arrives and announces to the Jews that they have been liberated by the Red Army. The Jews walk to a nearby town in search of food.
After a few scenes depicting post-war events and locations such as the execution of Amon Göth for war crimes, and a brief summary of what eventually happened to Schindler in his later years, the film returns to the Jews walking to the nearby town. As they walk abreast, the frame changes to one in color of the Schindler Jews in the present day at the grave of Schindler in Jerusalem. The film ends by showing a procession of now-elderly Jews who worked in Schindler's factory, each of whom reverently sets a stone on his grave (a traditional Jewish custom denoting deep gratitude or thanks to the deceased). The actors portraying the major characters walk hand-in-hand with the people they portrayed, placing stones on Schindler's grave as they pass. The audience learns that at the time of the film's release, there were fewer than 4,000 Jews left alive in Poland, while there were more than 6,000 descendants of the Schindler Jews throughout the world. In the final scene, Liam Neeson (though his face is not visible) places a pair of roses on the grave and stands contemplatively over it.
The film concludes with a statement, "In memory of the more than six million Jews murdered"; the closing credits begin with a view of a road paved with headstones culled from Jewish cemeteries during the war (as depicted in the film), before fading to black.
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Top 10 Financial Movies by taskeinc
- Trading Places (1983): A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
- Wall Street (1987): A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken to a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
- Other People's Money (1991): A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamored of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal maneuvering as he tries to win her hear.t
- Barbarians at the Gate (1992): The true story of R.J.R. Nabisco CEO F. Ross Johnson's attempted leveraged buyout of the company. Johnson and Henry Kravis, lbo master, lock horns in this capitalist battle royalle.
- Pi (1998): Max is a genius mathematician who's built a supercomputer at home that provides something that can be understood as a key for understanding all existence. Representatives both from a Hasidic cabalistic sect and high-powered Wall Street firm hear of that secret and attempt to seduce him.
- Rogue Trader (1999): Ambitious, wide-boy Nick Leeson is determined to rise in the world and be more than a simple bank clerk. When his employers, Barings Bank, offer him the opportunity to go to Jakarta to sort out a problem that nobody else wants, he seizes the opportunity with both hands.
- American Psycho (2000): A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
- Boiler Room (2000): A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005): A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
- The Counterfeiters "Die Fälscher" (2007): a true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog (Devid Striesow). Immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills there and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen.
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- Maurice (1987): E.M. Forster started writing Maurice, the novel upon which this movie is based, in 1913. He showed it to friends, but decided not to publish it - he was certain the gay subject matter, and its happy ending, would make it far too controversial.
- Beautiful Thing (1996): Is it possible to watch this 1996 movie and not be moved by its simple story of two working class teenagers, a jock and a dork, who find love amid the bigotry and abusive family lives of South East London.
- Birdcage (1996): A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
- Broken Hearts Club (2000): In the palm-shaded oasis of West Hollywood, we meet Dennis, a promising photographer. As he prepares to celebrate his twenty-eighth birthday.
- All Over the Guy (2001): Quest to find the "one" when "the one" doesn't know he's the "one." It explores the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.
- Angels in America (2003): Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.
- Latter Days (2003): Gay romantic drama set in Los Angeles, California. It portrays the seduction of Aaron Davis, a Mormon missionary, by Christian
Markelli, a party animal who falls in love with him. - Brokeback Mountain (2005): story of ranch hand Ennis del Mar (Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist
(Gyllenhaal), two young men who meet and fall in love on the fictional Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming in 1963. The film documents their complex relationship over the next twenty years. - Milk (2008): The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.
- Prayers for Bobby (2009): True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy
Aarons.
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- FearDotCom (2002): Four bodies are found in New York City. Why, why, why? The coincidence? They all died 48 hours after logging on to a site named
feardotcom.com. - The Ring (2002): A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003): A group of friends passing through are stalked and hunted down by a deformed killer with a chainsaw in order to sustain his poor family who can only afford to eat what they kill.
- Dawn of the Dead (2004): A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
- The Grudge (2004): An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
- Saw (2004): With a dead body laying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw" by the police because of his unusual calling card.
- Secret Window (2004): A writer is accused for plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for "justice."
- Shaun of the Dead (2004): A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
- The Devil's Rejects (2005): In Ruggsville, Texas, the police under the command of Sheriff John Quincy Wydell attack the house of the sadistic serial killers Firefly family.
- The Mist (2007): A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole-up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.
What's the scariest movie you ever watched?
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- I was sooooo scared for weeks after watching the Blair Witch Project. Secret Window is a good film, I wasn't so scared but it was kinda creepy.
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- the first time i watched , nightmare on elm street part one alone in the dark , i pooped myself
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- The Jerk (1979): A complete imbecile struggles to make it through life on his own, until a strange invention makes him unbelievably wealthy.
- Stir Crazy (1980): Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.
- Easy Money (1983): To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living, gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
- Trading Places (1983): Two bored millionaires perform a sociology experiment by switching the lives of a scam artist (Eddie Murphy) and an uptight banker (Dan Aykroyd). The result is hardly scientific, but it does make for splendid fish-out-of-water humor, including "pimps," "bitches," and one great "jive turkey."
- Coming to America (1988): An African prince goes to Queens, New York City to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will.
- Mrs. Doubtfire (1993): After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend secret time with his children held in custody by his Ex.
- Friday (1995): Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do. Encounters with neighbors and other friends over the course of the day and night, and their ensuing antics, make up the rest of the movie.
- The Nutty Professor (1996): Grossly overweight Prof. Sherman Klump, desperate to lose weight takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.
- American Pie (1999): - A bunch of high school seniors make a pact to lose their virginity. By the end of the film it is mission accomplished, but not without some hilarious failures along the way. Seann William Scott turns in one of the iconic performances of the 90s with his turn as Steve Stifler.
- What Happens in Vegas (2008): Set in Sin City, story revolves around two people who discover they've gotten married following a night of debauchery, with one of them winning a huge jackpot after playing the other's quarter.
The Hangover (2009)
This movie is hilarious! Most of us have had a hangover before and unfortunately, many have woke up the next morning and did not remember the previous night. But this movie takes the hangover to a whole new level. Check out the synopsis from Wikipedia:The film begins in medias res in Los Angeles with a bride, Tracy (Sasha Barrese), receiving a phone call from Phil (Bradley Cooper) who tells her that he and the other groomsmen cannot find the groom, Doug (Justin Bartha).
Two days prior to the wedding, Doug and his best friends Phil, Stu (Ed Helms), and soon-to-be brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifianakis) drive down to Las Vegas for Doug's bachelor party. Tracy's father, Sid (Jeffrey Tambor), lends them his car, a silver vintage Mercedes for the trip. The four get a villa at Caesars Palace hotel and casino, then sneak onto the roof and toast.
The next morning, the three groomsmen wake up in the suite with no memory of the previous night, soon realizing that Doug is missing. The suite is in severe disorder: a tiger is in the bathroom, a baby is in the closet, Stu is missing a tooth, one of the suite's mattresses is impaled on a statue outside, Phil is wearing a hospital bracelet, and a valet brings them a police cruiser instead of the Mercedes.
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An attractive and popular teenager who is mean spirited toward others, finds herself in the body of an older man, and must find a way to get back to her original body.
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What's your funniest movie?
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- there are lots i like, the Jerk or man with two brains by steve martin, biodome and i also like stir crazy
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- "Stripes" is my #1 but "Stir Crazy" is a close second. The Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor partnership is classic!
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Top 20 Greatest Silent Movies
- The Birth of a Nation - (1915, D.W. Griffith) (Lillian Gish, Wallace Reid)
- Wings - (1927, William A. Wellman) (Clara Bow, Richard Arlen) (1st Academy Award, Best Picture)
- Modern Times - (1936, Charles Chaplin, partial talkie) (Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard)
- Intolerance - (1916, D.W. Griffith) (Lillian Gish, Constance Talmadge)
- Metropolis - (1927, Germany/Fritz Lang) (Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel)
- The Battleship Potemkin - (1925, USSR/Sergei M. Eisenstein) (Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky)
- City Lights - (1931, Charles Chaplin) (Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill)
- Napoleon - (1927, France/Abel Gance) (Albert Dieudonne, Edmond Van Daële)
- The General - (1927, Clyde Bruckman) (Buster Keaton, Marion Mack)
- The Phantom of the Opera - (1925, Rupert Julian) (Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin)
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - (1921, Rex Ingram) (Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry)
- Nosferatu, the Vampire - (1922, Germany/F.W. Murnau) (Max Schreck, Greta Schröder)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame - (1923, Wallace Worsley) (Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - (1920, Germany/Robert Wiene) (Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt)
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - (1925, Fred Niblo) (Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc - (1928, France/Carl Theodor Dreyer) (Maria Falconetti)
- The Gold Rush - (1925, Charles Chaplin) (Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain)
- The Big Parade - (1925, King Vidor) (Gohn Gilbert, Renée Adorée)
- The Wind - (1928, Victor Sjöström) (Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson)
- Greed - (1924, Erich von Stroheim) (Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland)
The Garbo Silents Collection is one you should definitely have in your DVD collection.
The Birth of a Nation is actually considered one of the classics of Silent Films. In its time, "The Birth of a Nation" was a masterpiece. Its racist undertones and revisionism are quite disturbing, but it is still worth watching for its historical influence. On the list of 100 Greatest Silent Movies, The Birth of a Nation is number one.
A controversial, explicitly racist, but landmark American film masterpiece - these all describe ground-breaking producer/director D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). The domestic melodrama/epic originally premiered with the title The Clansman in February, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, but three months later was retitled with the present title at its world premiere in New York, to emphasize the birthing process of the US. The film was based on former North Carolina Baptist minister Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr.'s anti-black, 1905 bigoted melodramatic staged play, The Clansman, the second volume in a trilogy:
- The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden, 1865-1900
- The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
- The Traitor
Its release set up a major censorship battle over its vicious, extremist depiction of African Americans, although Griffith naively claimed that he wasn't racist at the time. Unbelievably, the film is still used today as a recruitment piece for Klan membership - and in fact, the organization experienced a revival and membership peak in the decade immediately following its initial release. And the film stirred new controversy when it was voted into the National Film Registry in 1993, and when it was voted one of the "Top 100 American Films" by the American Film Institute in 1998.
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