classics that i havent watched
pretty much all of them, however I’m working through it. taking recommendations also
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To Watch
The Birds
Alfred Hitchcock · 1963
Melanie Daniels, uma jovem da cidade de São Francisco, vai até uma pequena cidade isolada da Califórnia, chamada Bodega Bay, atrás de um potencial namorado: Mitch Brenner. Mas na cidade começa de repente a acontecer fatos estranhos: pássaros de todas as espécies passam a atacar a população, em número cada vez maior e com mais violência, deixando todos aterrorizados.
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir · 1989
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Lolita
Stanley Kubrick · 1962
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Airplane!
Jim Abrahams · 1980
Hell's Kitchen was a British cookery reality show aired on ITV which featured prospective chefs competing with each other for a final prize. Four series were aired from 2004 to 2009, three presented by Angus Deayton and the latest by Claudia Winkleman.
Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese · 1976
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.
La Haine
Mathieu Kassovitz · 1995
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
Scarface
Brian De Palma · 1983
Un emigrante cubano frío y sanguinario, Tony Montana, llega de Cuba para instalarse en Miami, donde se propone hacerse con un nombre dentro del crimen organizado de Florida. Junto a su amigo, Manny Rivera, inicia una ascendente carrera delictiva.
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee · 2005
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles · 1941
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater · 1995
Céline (Julie Delpy) es una estudiante francesa que va a visitar a su abuela en Budapest. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) es un joven estadounidense que realiza un viaje a través de Europa luego de ser abandonado por su novia a quien realmente fue a visitar a España. Ambos se encuentran en un tren, en el trayecto entre Budapest y Viena. Llegados a Viena, Jesse debe descender, sin embargo, logra convencer a Céline para que pase una noche con él en la capital austríaca. En el curso de esa noche, se conocen a fondo, discuten y revelan cuestiones diversas como la vida, la muerte, el sexo.
Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg · 1993
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle · 2014
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola · 1979
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola · 2003
Bob Harris, acteur sur le déclin, se rend à Tokyo pour tourner un spot publicitaire. Il a conscience qu'il se trompe - il devrait être chez lui avec sa famille, jouer au théâtre ou encore chercher un rôle dans un film -, mais il a besoin d'argent. Du haut de son hôtel de luxe, il contemple la ville, mais ne voit rien. Il est ailleurs, détaché de tout, incapable de s'intégrer à la réalité qui l'entoure, incapable également de dormir à cause du décalage horaire. Dans ce même établissement, Charlotte, une jeune Américaine fraîchement diplômée, accompagne son mari, photographe de mode. Ce dernier semble s'intéresser davantage à son travail qu'à sa femme. Se sentant délaissée, Charlotte cherche un peu d'attention. Elle va en trouver auprès de Bob...
Requiem for a Dream
Darren Aronofsky · 2000
Uyuşturucu bağımlısı bir genç, televizyon bağımlısı annesi ve aralarında günden güne yükselen bir uçurum... Uyuşturucu batağı içerisindeki Harry’nin hayattaki tek amacı daha fazla uyuşturucuyken; umutsuz annesini hayata bağlayan tek şey en sevdiği yarışma programıdır. Bir gün bu yarışmaya katılmaya hak kazandığında tek derdi, ödül olan kırmızı elbiseye girebilmek olacaktır. Yaşlı ve mutsuz kadın zayıflama hapları kullanmaya başlar...
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick · 1971
Gran Bretaña, en un futuro indeterminado. Alex (Malcolm McDowell) es un joven muy agresivo que tiene dos pasiones: la violencia desaforada y Beethoven. Es el jefe de la banda de los drugos, que dan rienda suelta a sus instintos más salvajes apaleando, violando y aterrorizando a la población. Cuando esa escalada de terror llega hasta el asesinato, Alex es detenido y en prisión, se someterá voluntariamente a una innovadora experiencia de reeducación que pretende anular drásticamente cualquier atisbo de conducta antisocial.
Donnie Darko
Richard Kelly · 2001
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino · 1992
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
American Psycho
Mary Harron · 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.
The Shawshank Redemption
Frank Darabont · 1994
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme · 1991
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho · 2019
Tanto Gi Taek (Song Kang-ho) como su familia están sin trabajo. Cuando su hijo mayor, Gi Woo (Choi Woo-sik), empieza a dar clases particulares en casa de Park (Lee Seon-gyun), las dos familias, que tienen mucho en común pese a pertenecer a dos mundos totalmente distintos, comienzan una interrelación de resultados imprevisibles.
Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick · 1999
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola · 1974
Continuación de la saga de los Corleone con dos historias paralelas: la elección de Michael Corleone como jefe de los negocios familiares y los orígenes del patriarca, el ya fallecido Don Vito, primero en Sicilia y luego en Estados Unidos, donde, empezando desde abajo, llegó a ser un poderosísimo jefe de la mafia de Nueva York.
The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola · 1972
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
GoodFellas
Martin Scorsese · 1990
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Inception
Christopher Nolan · 2010
Dom Cobb es un ladrón hábil, el mejor de todos, especializado en el peligroso arte de extracción: el robo de secretos valiosos desde las profundidades del subconsciente durante el estado de sueño cuando la mente está más vulnerable. Esta habilidad excepcional de Cobb le ha hecho un jugador codiciado en el traicionero nuevo mundo de espionaje corporativo, pero al mismo tiempo, le ha convertido en un fugitivo internacional y ha tenido que sacrificar todo que le importaba. Ahora a Cobb se le ofrece una oportunidad para redimirse. Con un último trabajo podría recuperar su vida anterior, pero solamente si logra lo imposible.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Blake Edwards · 1961
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Casablanca
1955
This was the first attempt by Warner Brothers to make the movie classic into a series. It was part of a revolving group of shows that included Kings Row on a show called Warner Brothers Presents.
12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet · 1957
Un jeune homme d'origine modeste est accusé du meurtre de son père et risque la peine de mort. Le jury composé de douze hommes se retire pour délibérer et procède immédiatement à un vote : onze votent coupable, or la décision doit être prise à l'unanimité. Le juré qui a voté non-coupable, sommé de se justifier, explique qu'il a un doute et que la vie d'un homme mérite quelques heures de discussion. Il s'emploie alors à les convaincre un par un.
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan · 2023
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Memento
Christopher Nolan · 2000
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
Watched
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino · 1994
Jules y Vincent, dos asesinos a sueldo con muy pocas luces, trabajan para Marsellus Wallace. Vincent le confiesa a Jules que Marsellus le ha pedido que cuide de Mia, su mujer. Jules le recomienda prudencia porque es muy peligroso sobrepasarse con la novia del jefe. Cuando llega la hora de trabajar, ambos deben ponerse manos a la obra. Su misión: recuperar un misterioso maletín.
