movies that changed my life in some way
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Hour of the Star
Suzana Amaral · 1985
Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
The Parent Trap
Nancy Meyers · 1998
Hallie y Annie, dos gemelas que se parecen como dos gotas de agua, fueron separadas poco después de nacer, a causa del divorcio de sus padres. Hallie vive en Napa Valley con su padre, que es viticultor. Por su parte, Annie vive en Londres con su madre, una famosa diseñadora de trajes de novia. Ninguna de las dos conoce la existencia de la otra, pero el destino hace que se encuentren por casualidad en Maine, en un campamento de verano. Antes de volver a casa, las niñas urden un plan para conseguir reunir a sus padres, pero hay un inconveniente con el que no contaban: su padre proyecta casarse con otra mujer.
The DUFF
Ari Sandel · 2015
Bianca's universe turns upside down when she learns that her high school refers to her as a ‘DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend). Hoping to erase that label, she enlists the help of a charming jock and her favorite teacher. Together they'll face the school's mean girl and remind everyone that we are all someone's DUFF… and that's totally fine.
Superman
James Gunn · 2025
Superman doit trouver l’équilibre entre ses racines kryptoniennes et son identité humaine, sous les traits de Clark Kent, originaire de Smallville, dans le Kansas. Il est l’incarnation de la vérité, de la justice et des valeurs américaines et il est animé par une véritable bienveillance dans un monde qui considère cette qualité comme obsolète.
Barbie
Greta Gerwig · 2023
Parallèlement au réel, il existe La Land, un monde parfait où les poupées Barbie vivent joyeusement, persuadées d'avoir rendu les filles humaines heureuses. Mais un jour, une Barbie commence à se poser des questions et à devenir humaine. Sur les conseils d'une Barbie étrange, elle part pour le monde réel afin de retrouver la fille à laquelle elle appartenait afin de pouvoir retrouver sa perfection. Dans sa quête, elle est accompagnée par un Ken fou amoureux d'elle qui va également trouver un sens à sa vie dans le monde réel…
Coraline
Henry Selick · 2009
Película de animación en la que se nos cuenta la historia de Coraline, una jovencita que descubre en su nueva casa una puerta secreta y decide abrirla. Al hacerlo, descubre una segunda versión de su vida, una vida paralela a la que ella tiene. A primera vista, la realidad paralela es curiosamente parecida a su vida de verdad, aunque mucho mejor. Pero cuando su increíble y maravillosa aventura empieza a tomar un cariz peligroso, su otra madre intenta mantenerla a su lado para siempre. Coraline deberá recurrir a su determinación y coraje, a la ayuda de los vecinos y a un gato negro con el don del habla para salvar a sus auténticos padres, a unos niños fantasmas y regresar a casa.
I'm Still Here
Walter Salles · 2024
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
The Conjuring
James Wan · 2013
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Little Women
Greta Gerwig · 2019
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Uptown Girls
Boaz Yakin · 2003
Molly Gunn är dotter till en avliden rockstjärna och lever ett bekymmerslöst på de pengar hennes far lämnat efter sig. Hennes ansvarslösa och egoistiska livsstil får dock ett abrupt slut när hon blir bestulen på sina tillgångar och tvingas ta jobb som nanny åt en lillgammal 8-årig flicka. Molly får nu lära sig vad som verkligen menas med att vara vuxen.
Priscilla
Sofia Coppola · 2023
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
The Avengers
Joss Whedon · 2012
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
The Half of It
Alice Wu · 2020
Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
Enchanted
Kevin Lima · 2007
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Bryan Singer · 2014
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
Corpse Bride
Tim Burton · 2005
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
Secretary
Steven Shainberg · 2002
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Ammonite
Francis Lee · 2020
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
The Handmaiden
Park Chan-wook · 2016
Coreia do Sul, anos 1930. Durante a ocupação japonesa, a jovem Sookee é contratada para trabalhar para uma herdeira nipônica, Hideko, que leva uma vida isolada ao lado do tio autoritário. Só que Sookee guarda um segredo: ela e um vigarista planejam desposar a herdeira, roubar sua fortuna e trancafiá-la em um sanatório. Tudo corre bem com o plano, até que Sookee aos poucos começa a compreender as motivações de Hideko.
Me Before You
Thea Sharrock · 2016
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
Challengers
Luca Guadagnino · 2024
Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.
Wicked
Jon M. Chu · 2024
Ambientada en la Tierra de Oz, mucho antes de la llegada de Dorothy Gale desde Kansas. Elphaba es una joven incomprendida por su inusual color verde que aún no ha descubierto su verdadero poder. Glinda es una popular joven marcada por sus privilegios y su ambición que aún no ha descubierto su verdadera pasión. Las dos se conocen como estudiantes de la Universidad Shiz, en la fantástica Tierra de Oz, y forjan una insólita pero profunda amistad. La trama abarca los acontecimientos del primer acto del musical de Broadway.
Girl, Interrupted
James Mangold · 1999
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
The Crush
Alan Shapiro · 1993
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
Nosferatu
Robert Eggers · 2024
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Gone Girl
David Fincher · 2014
Amy Dunne desaparece no dia do seu aniversário de casamento, deixando o marido Nick em apuros. Ele começa a agir descontroladamente, abusando das mentiras, e se torna o suspeito número um da polícia. Com o apoio da sua irmã gêmea, Margo, Nick tenta provar a sua inocência e, ao mesmo tempo, procura descobrir o que aconteceu com Amy.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (and 2)
Quentin Tarantino · 2003
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
Carrie
Brian De Palma · 1976
Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers.
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky · 2010
The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice.
But I'm a Cheerleader
Jamie Babbit · 2000
Confiante e com opinião, Megan, de 17 anos, é muito obstinada para seus pais não-armados, que começam a se preocupar com o fato de ela ser lésbica. Sua solução é enviar Megan para 'True Directions', um 'campo de reabilitação' dirigido pela conselheira homofóbica Mary Brown. Logo Megan encontra o igualmente desafiador Graham, e os dois formam uma amizade rápida. Ironicamente, quanto mais tempo Megan passa no acampamento, mais ela começa a questionar o quanto a sexualidade dela é realmente fixa.
Jennifer's Body
Karyn Kusama · 2009
Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her best friend to stop Jennifer's reign of terror before it's too late.
Buffalo 66
Vincent Gallo · 1998
Depois de ser libertado da prisão, a primeira coisa que Billy faz é procurar um banheiro, mas acaba conhecendo a dançarina Layla. Ele sequestra Layla e a leva para casa de seus pais, fingindo que é sua esposa. Para sua surpresa, ela concorda e desempenha seu papel de forma convincente.
The Virgin Suicides
Sofia Coppola · 2000
Cinco irmãs sonhadoras, as Lisbon, moram em uma casa simples de subúrbio em uma rua cheia de árvores, em meados dos anos 70 nos Estados Unidos. Seus destinos são marcados visivelmente pela vizinhança cheia de meninos, que ainda hoje continuam obcecados por elas. A vida das irmãs é marcada de amor e repressão, fantasia e terror, sexo e morte, memória e desejo. Esta é, na sua essência, uma história de mistério, que muda a vida de segredos dos adolescentes americanos.
