Movies I Love
I often like to talk about movies with people and, it's inevitable, to talk about great movies of recent years. Also, some people say that they're great connoisseurs of top movies and, when I begin to mention some titles, they say they never saw that movie!
So, I would like to point out that, if you haven't seen the movies on the list below, you really don't know what you're talking about!
To help you, and me, I put them in alphabetic order so, maybe, you can print the list and, one at a time, try to see them.
One last thought about movies: in my opinion, any movie of any genre - Thriller, Science fiction, Historical, Musical or Comic - after having seen it, should make us a BETTER PERSON after having seen it.
Below you can find the list of movies I love, their public ratings (which can often be misleading!) and plots.
Amélie
2001
⭐ 8.3/10 IMDB
Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.
A Little Chaos
2014
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
Famed builder Le Notre is tasked with building an ethereal palace for King Louis XIV that transcends beauty. Le Notre hires Sabine de Barra to design and construct the outdoor ballroom, and is soon captivated by her beauty.
A Civil Action
1998
⭐ 6.6/10 IMDB
At the risk of bankrupting his firm and career, lawyer Jan Schlichtman takes on a case involving two companies responsible for causing children to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's contaminated water supply.
As Good as It Gets
1997
⭐ 7.7/10 IMDB
A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009
⭐ 8.1/10 IMDB
Professor Wilson discovers a lost Akita puppy on his way home. Despite objections from his wife, Hachi endears himself to the family and grows to be Parker's loyal companion. As their bond grows deeper, a beautiful relationship un...
Begin Again
2013
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
A chance encounter between a down-and-out music business executive, and a young singer songwriter new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.
Bicentennial Man
1999
⭐ 6.9/10 IMDB
The life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinar...
Billy Elliot
2000
⭐ 7.7/10 IMDB
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Boiler Room
2000
⭐ 7.0/10 IMDB
A college dropout, attempting to live up to his father's high standards, 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 first appeare...
Cast Away
2000
⭐ 7.8/10 IMDB
A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island.
Chain Reaction
1996
⭐ 5.7/10 IMDB
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
Changing Lanes
2002
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
A young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.
Chariots of Fire
1981
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
An Indiana electric lineman finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
Dave
1993
⭐ 6.9/10 IMDB
An uncanny Presidential lookalike named Dave is recruited by the Secret Service to become a momentary stand-in for the President of the United States.
Dead Poets Society
1989
⭐ 8.1/10 IMDB
Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Dolphin Tale
2011
⭐ 6.8/10 IMDB
A boy finds a dolphin that was injured in a trap. They become friends, but the dolphin needs to have its tail amputated to survive. With the help of a biologist and a prosthetics specialist, the boy tries to save the animal.
Double Jeopardy
1999
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
Jailed for her Husband's murder, a woman learns he lives.
Finding Forrester
2000
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
Forrester, the author of a famous book, decides to help Jamal, a 16-year-old student, discover his writing prowess by mentoring him and enrolling him into a prestigious private school.
Finding Neverland
2004
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
First Man
2018
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
A look back at the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Fly Away Home
1996
⭐ 6.9/10 IMDB
Amy moves to Ontario to live with her father after the death of her mother. Her father, an aviation expert, helps Amy lead a flock of orphaned geese south for the winters.
Groundhog Day
1993
⭐ 8.0/10 IMDB
A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.
Ice Age
2002
⭐ 7.5/10 IMDB
Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.
Inception
2010
⭐ 8.8/10 IMDB
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO, but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
You've Got Mail
1998
⭐ 6.7/10 IMDB
Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet, both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
La Vie En Rose
2007
⭐ 7.5/10 IMDB
Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
Love Actually
2003
⭐ 7.5/10 IMDB
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Kinky Boots
2005
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
Malena
2000
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
As Italy enters WWII, a teenage boy in a small, narrow-minded Sicilian town becomes obsessed with a young woman.
Mediterraneo
1991
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
⭐ 6.6/10 IMDB
Katherine Watson teaches art history in 1953 at the respectable all-female Wellesley College. She encourages her conservative students to question and disregard the outdated societal mores for women.
Moneyball
2011
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
The Monuments Men
2014
⭐ 6.1/10 IMDB
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.
Notting Hill
1999
⭐ 7.2/10 IMDB
A set of circumstances makes Anna Scott, a famous actress, fall in love with William Thacker, owner of a bookstore in Notting Hill. But the paparazzi's fascination with her complicates their bond.
October Sky
1999
⭐ 7.8/10 IMDB
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
On the Basis of Sex
2018
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Operation Mincemeat
2021
⭐ 6.6/10 IMDB
During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.
Pay It Forward
2000
⭐ 7.2/10 IMDB
A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
Passengers
2016
⭐ 7.0/10 IMDB
A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.
Pawn Sacrifice
2014
⭐ 7.0/10 IMDB
Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Phenomenon
1996
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
A small-town Everyman becomes a telekinetic genius.
Renaissance Man
1994
⭐ 6.2/10 IMDB
A failed businessman is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving recruits in order to help them pass basic training.
School Ties
1992
⭐ 6.9/10 IMDB
In 1955, a star quarterback from a working-class family is given an opportunity to attend an elite New England preparatory school, but he is conflicted about whether or not to tell his Protestant classmates that he is Jewish.
Seabiscuit
2003
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Searching
2018
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
After his teenage daughter goes missing, a desperate father tries to find clues on her laptop.
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
A prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Secretariat
2010
⭐ 7.2/10 IMDB
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
Seven Years in Tibet
1997
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian climber and Nazi supporter, breaks out of a British POW camp in India and treks to the holy city of Lhasa where he's employed as an instructor to the young 14th Dalai Lama and soon becomes his close co...
Shall We Dance?
2004
⭐ 6.2/10 IMDB
A romantic comedy where a bored, overworked Estate Lawyer, upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.
Shattered Glass
2003
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
Sister Act
1992
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her ide...
Sleepless in Seattle
1993
⭐ 6.8/10 IMDB
A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.
Spy Game
2001
⭐ 7.1/10 IMDB
A CIA agent tries to rescue his one-time protege who awaits execution in a Chinese prison.
The American President
1995
⭐ 6.8/10 IMDB
A widowered U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception," and sparks fly anyway.
The Arrival
1996
⭐ 6.2/10 IMDB
Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it.
The Black Stallion
1979
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
The Family Man
2000
⭐ 6.9/10 IMDB
Offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, a fast-lane investment broker, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and a wife.
The Greatest Game Ever Played
2005
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
In the 1913 U.S. Open, twenty-year-old Francis Ouimet played golf against his idol, 1900 U.S. Open champion, Englishman Harry Vardon.
The Hunt for Red October
1990
⭐ 7.5/10 IMDB
Moscow, Washington D.C. and a CIA Analyst track a rogue Soviet Captain and his new submarine.
The Illusionist
2006
⭐ 7.5/10 IMDB
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.
The Legend of 1900
1998
⭐ 8.0/10 IMDB
A baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
The Life List
2025
⭐ 6.8/10 IMDB
A woman revisits her childhood aspirations, endeavoring to achieve her old goals, only to discover that pursuing these lifelong dreams takes her on an unforeseen and surprising journey.
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011
⭐ 7.3/10 IMDB
Defence lawyer Mick Haller lands a case defending a wealthy realtor's son who is accused of raping a prostitute. Believing his client to be innocent, Haller soon finds evidence that proves otherwise.
The Painted Veil
2006
⭐ 7.4/10 IMDB
Dr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him. Battling his way through problems, he heads to China to fight a dreaded disease spread in a small village.
The Prestige
2006
⭐ 8.5/10 IMDB
Two friends and fellow magicians become bitter enemies after a sudden tragedy. As they devote themselves to this rivalry, they make sacrifices that bring them fame but, with terrible consequences.
The Reader
2008
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
The Red Violin
1998
⭐ 7.6/10 IMDB
A red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
The Sixth Sense
1999
⭐ 8.2/10 IMDB
After being shot by a resentful former patient whom he failed to help, a Philadelphia child psychologist seeks redemption by treating a young boy with a disturbing secret.
The Soloist
2009
⭐ 6.7/10 IMDB
A newspaper journalist discovers a homeless musical genius and tries to improve his situation.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
2022
⭐ 6.7/10 IMDB
A.J. Fikry's wife has died, his bookstore is in trouble, and now his prized rare edition of Poe poems has been stolen. However, when a mysterious package appears, its arrival gives him the chance to start his life over and see thi...
The Sum of All Fears
2002
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to incite a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
Uncle Nino
2003
⭐ 6.5/10 IMDB
A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Victory
1981
⭐ 6.6/10 IMDB
As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.
When Harry Met Sally
2018
⭐ N/A/10 IMDB
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OK, I'll stop here but I could go on much longer. If you've already seen all of these movies, then we can definitely have an informed discussion about cinema because you know your stuff!
Also, there's no need to thank me. I mainly created this list for myself so I could print it out and keep it next to my remote control!
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