my watchlist
my watchlist classified by mood and genre ⭐️
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Cuban cinema I MUST watch
Death of a Bureaucrat
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea · 1966
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019.
Bitter Sugar
Leon Ichaso · 1996
A patriot (René Lavan) with a rebellious brother falls in love with a dissident's daughter (Mayte Vilán) in Castro's Cuba.
Last Days in Havana
Fernando Pérez · 2016
The story of a friendship in a city on the verge of substantial change. Miguel dreams of settling in New York while he waits for a visa that never seems to arrive, and Diego, a HIV-positive homosexual man, puts his dreams and cheerfulness to good use in his struggle to carry on enjoying every single day of his life from a rickety old bed in his small bedroom.
Suite Habana
Fernando Pérez · 2003
Dawn breaks in La Habana, and as the day advances we follow the simple lives of ten ordinary Cubans, with only sounds and images accompanied by music.
Return to Ithaca
Laurent Cantet · 2014
Sun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid.
Fallen Gods
Ernesto Daranas · 2008
In the manner of a well run Greek tragedy, leaving aside one of its components, dragging in its passing narrative certainty by the viewer that violent death is the hallmark of so much misfortune purifier, Los Dioses Rotos crowns the very successful arrival of Ernesto Daranas to the feature domains and with it, the team that accompanied him, including the actors.
self discovery
Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach · 2013
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
A Beautiful Mind
Ron Howard · 2001
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, he made a groundbreaking discovery early in his career and stands on the brink of international acclaim. But as the handsome and arrogant Nash accepts secret work in cryptography, he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. His life takes a nightmarish turn and he soon finds himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery.
life/reflection
Aftersun
Charlotte Wells · 2022
Sophie reflexiona sobre la alegría compartida y la melancolía privada de unas vacaciones que hizo con su padre veinte años atrás. Los recuerdos reales e imaginarios llenan los espacios entre las imágenes mientras intenta reconciliar al padre que conoció con el hombre que no conoció.
Sidewalls
Gustavo Taretto · 2011
Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?
The World According to Garp
George Roy Hill · 1982
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
A Bronx Tale
Robert De Niro · 1993
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.
romcoms / love
Emma
Douglas McGrath · 1996
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
No Reservations
Scott Hicks · 2007
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.
The Bridges of Madison County
Clint Eastwood · 1995
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
A Lot Like Love
Nigel Cole · 2005
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?
The Time Traveler's Wife
Robert Schwentke · 2009
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
drama
Julie & Julia
Nora Ephron · 2009
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Lasse Hallström · 2014
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Reality Bites
Ben Stiller · 1994
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee · 1989
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
The Place Beyond the Pines
Derek Cianfrance · 2013
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Y Tu Mamá También
Alfonso Cuarón · 2001
Las vidas de Julio y Tenoch, dos jóvenes mexicanos de 17 años, están regidas por su apetito sexual, su amistad, y por su deseo de alcanzar la madurez. Durante una festiva tarde de boda con sus familias, conocen a Luisa, una española de 28 años.
Wild Tales
Damián Szifron · 2014
La desigualdad, la injusticia y la exigencia del mundo en que vivimos producen que muchas personas se estresen o se depriman. Algunas explotan. Esta es una película sobre ellos. Vulnerables ante una realidad que súbitamente se altera y se torna impredecible, los protagonistas cruzan la delgada frontera que divide a la civilización de la barbarie. Una traición amorosa, el retorno de un pasado reprimido, o la violencia contenida en un detalle cotidiano, se presentan para impulsarlos al vértigo de perder los estribos, al innegable placer de perder el control.
Viridiana
Luis Buñuel · 1962
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
motivational
The Blind Side
John Lee Hancock · 2009
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.
Billy Elliot
Stephen Daldry · 2000
Billy ha undici anni, è orfano di madre e vive con il padre e il fratello, entrambi minatori. Costretto dal padre a fare pugilato, scopre in realtà una grande passione per la danza, scontrandosi con i pregiudizi dell'epoca (gli anni '80) che vedono nella danza maschile una pratica omosessuale, e nell'essere omosessuali una colpa.
Cuba related
The Lost City
Andy García · 2005
In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York.
thriller
Flightplan
Robert Schwentke · 2005
Kyle Pratt es una americana que, tras perder a su marido, decide regresar a casa con su hija de seis años. Pero, cuando la niña desaparece misteriosamente durante el vuelo, nadie de la tripulación o del pasaje recuerda haberla visto a bordo. A 12.000 metros de altura, Kyle se enfrentará a la peor pesadilla de su vida: su hija Julia ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro en medio de un vuelo Berlín-Nueva York. Kyle, que todavía no se ha recuperado de la inesperada muerte de su marido, intentará por todos los medios demostrar su cordura a la incrédula tripulación y a los pasajeros, pero también deberá afrontar la posibilidad de haber perdido la razón. A pesar de que tanto Rich, el capitán, como Gene Carson, el policía oficial de a bordo, querrían creer a la afligida viuda, todo parece indicar que su hija nunca subió al avión. Desesperadamente sola, Kyle sólo podrá contar con sus convicciones para resolver este misterio
The Prestige
Christopher Nolan · 2006
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
figures / biographies
Yuli
Icíar Bollaín · 2018
Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His father, however, has other ideas, and knowing that his son has a natural talent for dance, sends him to the National Ballet School of Cuba. Despite his repeated escapes and initial poor behaviour, the boy is inevitably drawn to the world of dance, and begins to shape his legendary career from a young age, becoming the first black dancer to be cast in some of the most prestigious ballet roles, originally written for white dancers, in companies such as the Houston Ballet or the Royal Ballet in London.
Che: Part One
Steven Soderbergh · 2008
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
adaptations / classics
Dorian Gray
Oliver Parker · 2009
Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) es un joven aristócrata muy atractivo que, después de haber pasado una solitaria adolescencia en el campo, regresa a Londres, donde ha heredado una mansión. Atraído por la vida nocturna, se sumerge en ella de la mano de Lord Henry Wottom (Colin Firth), que lo conduce a los antros más recónditos y sórdidos de la ciudad. Al joven le fascina el estilo de vida decadente y amoral de Wotton. Por otra parte, su obsesión por alcanzar la eterna juventud lo impulsa a hacer un pacto diabólico: él se mantendrá siempre joven, pero las huellas del paso del tiempo y de sus terribles delitos, es decir, su degradación física y moral se reflejarán en un retrato que le ha hecho su amigo el pintor Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin).
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mick Jackson · 1999
A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society.
quiet cinema
The Green Ray
Éric Rohmer · 1986
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
when I want my mind blown
Inception
Christopher Nolan · 2010
Beim Versuch in das Unterbewusstsein des Industriellen Saito einzudringen, stoßen Cobb und seine Mitstreiter auf unerwartete Schwierigkeiten. Saito hatte Verteidigungsstrategien gegen den Gedankendiebstahl trainiert und baut nun einen Abwehrriegel auf, doch erst der Verrat eines Kollegen lässt den Versuch scheitern, dem Schlafenden Geheimnisse zu entlocken. Da seine Auftraggeber unbedingten Erfolg gefordert hatten, muss Cobb, der auf Grund einer drohenden Verurteilung nicht mehr in die USA zurück kann, fliehen, doch Saito kommt ihm zuvor. Allerdings nicht um ihn zu bestrafen, sondern um ihm einen Deal vorzuschlagen.
to feel deeply
Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan · 2016
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
