10 movies you need to see in your lifetime
1-last tango in paris
A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writers: Bernardo Bertolucci (story), Bernardo Bertolucci (screenplay) | 3 more credits »
Stars: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi
2-Maraton man
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
Director: John Schlesinger
Writers: William Goldman (screenplay), William Goldman (from: his novel)
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider | See full cast & crew »
3-one flew over the cuckoo's nest
A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
Director: Milos Forman
Writers: Lawrence Hauben (screenplay), Bo Goldman (screenplay) | 2 more credits »
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson |
4-Endless love
A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident. He burned down her family's house and was committed in a mental hospital.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Writers: Scott Spencer (novel), Judith Rascoe (screenplay)
Stars: Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight |
5-White Nights
An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American, who has married a Russian woman, lives with her. He is ..
Director: Taylor Hackford
Writers: James Goldman (screenplay), Eric Hughes (screenplay) | 1 more credit »
Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski
6-Farinelli
Farinelli is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Handel's time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he becomes a very famous ...
Director: Gérard Corbiau
Writers: Andrée Corbiau (original scenario), Gérard Corbiau (original scenario) | 4 more credits »
Stars: Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein
7-The Crow
A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder.
Director: Alex Proyas
Writers: James O'Barr (comic book series and comic strip), David J. Schow (screenplay) | 1 more credit »
Stars: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis
8-The Big Blue
The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.
Director: Luc Besson
Writers: Luc Besson (story), Luc Besson (screenplay) | 4 more credits »
Stars: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette
9-Patch Adams
The true story of a heroic man, Hunter "Patch" Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.
Director: Tom Shadyac
Writers: Patch Adams (book) (as Hunter Doherty Adams), Maureen Mylander (book) | 1 more credit »
Stars: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter
10-The Wall
A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Director: Alan Parker
Writers: Roger Waters (album "The Wall"), Roger Waters (screenplay)
Stars: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson