The movie freak´s list
I am a movie freak and have been so ever since I was a child, begging the price of a ticket from my grandparents. The movies in this list are in no particular order. I just like them all.
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- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsGregory PeckJohn MegnaFrank OvertonAtticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSpencer TracyRobert RyanAnne FrancisA one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYûzô KayamaTsutomu YamazakiIn 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneEijirô TônoTatsuya NakadaiA crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsThorkild RooseLisbeth MovinSigrid NeiiendamThe young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.
- DirectorJames McTeigueStarsHugo WeavingNatalie PortmanRupert GravesIn a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsOskar WernerJulie ChristieCyril CusackIn an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.Every book lover´s worst nightmare.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsCary GrantPriscilla LaneRaymond MasseyA Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.You got to love those murderous little old ladies.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsMax SchreckAlexander GranachGustav von WangenheimVampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.Did you know that the vampire genre is almost a 100 years old? This is probably the first ever.
- DirectorKen AnnakinAndrew MartonGerd OswaldStarsJohn WayneRobert RyanRichard BurtonThe events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.Actor Peter Lorre later had to leave Germany.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowBirgitta ValbergGunnel LindblomIn 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.Indeed, revenge is eaten cold here.
- CreatorRoy HugginsStarsDavid JanssenWilliam ConradBarry MorseA doctor, wrongly convicted for a murder he didn't commit, escapes custody and must stay ahead of the police to find the real killer.The tv series, not the movie. Said to be based on the Sheppard murder case.
- DirectorPeter CattaneoStarsRobert CarlyleTom WilkinsonMark AddySix unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.Laughed till I cried, when I saw this.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsMatthew BroderickDenzel WashingtonCary ElwesRobert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.Wrote a history project on this years ago. Am a great fan of mr. Freeman
- CreatorPeter HajekPeter MoserStarsGerhard ZemannHeinz WeixelbraunWolf BachofnerA recently divorced cop adopts a police dog who lost his former companion; together they solve crimes in and around Vienna.I know it, I know it. It´s not the best crime show on record, but I have this terrible weakness for German Alsatian dogs.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsWalter MatthauHarry MorganSusan BlakelyIn the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is refused release from a mental institution.Walter Matthau and Harry Morgan in the same movie, can you ask for more?
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."
- DirectorThorold DickinsonStarsAnton WalbrookDiana WynyardFrank PettingellTwenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.Most people don´t know this 1940 original British version of the movie. Apparently it was held back for years because of the better known 1944 movie of the same title.
- StarsGeorge WinterJohn WoodvineJulian FellowesIn the year 2020, Britain is divided into North and South. The Royal Family has been deposed and in its place rule the Knights of God, a harsh militaristic religious order headed by Prior Mordrin. But a rebel movement is growing, in spite of Mordrin's brainwashing "re-education" camps, and joining it are two love-struck teenagers, Gervase and Julia, who escape from one of the camps to join a quest to find the rightful King of England, and thus re-establish democracy and order to the land.Don´t know why I like this, I just do.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.Everybody have seen it. But next time you watch it, note the actor playing major Strasser. He was German, his name was Conrad Veidt, and he was so much an anti-nazi that he had to get out of the country in a hurry.
- DirectorIrving PichelErnest B. SchoedsackStarsJoel McCreaFay WrayLeslie BanksA psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.The theme of that movie made my blood run cold.
- DirectorMichael OblowitzStarsAdrian PaulBokeem WoodbineBai LingWhen a rogue vampire kills his partner, an NSA special agent reluctantly teams with another officer who is a "good" vampire in an attempt to track down the evil vampire killer.Not the usual vampire movie
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.Love this one.
- DirectorBrad TurnerStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Jonathan SilvermanTobias MehlerTwo very unlikely postal inspectors are assigned to find the person who planted a deadly mail bomb.Like this movie and Inspectors 2. Never underestimate a postal inspector!