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I like to link this blog with Film buffs through out the world. We shall share reviews , cast and crew details and download links of world cult films which should be a must watch for every film lovers.
First I'm listing out the worlds best films which should be a must watch to all , who are interested in cinema and film making. Later this list would be upgraded with synopsis, reviews, cast and crew and their download links. I would invite all persons who are known about these films for the up gradation process.
100 Best movies in the world
Sorted alphabetically.
8½
Federico Fellinis ultimate film -about making film. A semi-autobiographical story starring Marcello Mastroianni as the director who has lost his inspiration. Incredible told by Fellini at a time when he himself was frustrated with lack of inspiration! This is the favourite film of many filmdirectors and photographers. If possible get your hands on the Criterion Collection DVD with a great digital transfer and loads of extra material.
12 Monkeys
Terry Gilliam sends Bruce Willis on a fantastic voyage through time. Gilliam truly has his own style in picture and storytelling. The story is inspired by a short film by Chris Marker: La Jetée. This same story inspired The Terminator, a very different kind of science fiction fantasy.
The 400 Blows (Les quatre-cents coups)
The debut film for Francois truffaut also marked the beginning of the french New Wave. An important film historic milestone starring the young Jean-Pierre Léaud.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dave played by Keir Dullea.
Another milestone. With this film Stanley Kubrick reached the moon a year before the rest of mankind. An epic and a technical masterpiece with stunning photography and several unforgettable moments. Science Fiction was never the same after this odyssey.
The African Queen
UK/USA (1951)
Master of storytelling, John Huston, takes us on a great adventure navigating a small boat through
Amélie (Le Fabouleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain)
The charming and funny story of Amélie is a story filled with fantasy and visual imagination, as always with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet who also directed Delicatessen and City of
Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól I Diament)
It has been long time since I saw this rare and special treat, but I am ready to see it again at any given ocasion. It is a classic masterpiece about the moral question of killing somebody for the right cause. A resistance fighter (Zbigniew Cybulski) has to follow his orders on the last day of World War 2. The director is Andrzej Wajda and this name should be known to all true filmfans.
Apocalypse Now (Redux)
Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now
Maybe the greatest
Barton Fink
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.
Battle Algiers
The Algerian civil war viewed from both grim sides. The Algerians sought independence as all other African countries in the sixties - and as most other places the French govenment hit back very hard. The shocking and dramatic story is historically correct and brutal. The film has changed many peoples opinions about what was going on in the colonies and it was also easy to draw parallels to the war in
Belle de Jour - Beauty of the Day
France/Italy (1967)
Surrealistic masterpiece directed by Luis Buñuel. Starring Catherine Deneuve as the young high class woman who dreams(?) about working as a daytime prostitute.
The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette)
A neo-realistic classic by Vittorio De Sica. A man and his son is searching desperately to find a stolen bicycle which is vital for the poor family.
The Big
Director Howard Hawks made this classic film noir detective story with Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe. The detective is hired by a rich family with more than a few dark secrets. Lauren Bacall is the ultimate femme fatale. Great entertainment and the Bogart/Bacall scenes are electric.
Black Orpheus - Orfeu Negro
The greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice acted out in the favela of
Blade Runner
Science fiction classic directed by Ridley Scott with a script based on a book by Philip K. Dick. Brilliant atmosphere, ideas and production design which has later been copied in many other sci-fi films. Harrison Ford stars as the Policeman (Blade Runner) tasked with hunting down and exterminating Replicants - artificial humans.
Blue Velvet
Directed by David Lynch
Returning home to visit his father who is in intensive care at the hospital, Jeffrey Beaumont stumbles upon a human ear he finds in a field. With local police detective Williams and the local police department unable to investigate, Jeffrey and Sandy, Detective Williams's daughter decide to do their own investigation. But what Jeffrey and Sandy's investigation leads them to discover that a dark underworld exists in their hometown. Jeffrey becomes suspicious of nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens, who is involved with Frank Booth, a violent and evil man.
Bonnie and Clyde
Directed by Arthur Penn
A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck Mid-West in this take on the legendary crime spree of these archetypal lovers on the run
Das Boot
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. "Das Boot" is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.
Brazil
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.
Breathless - À Bout De Souffle
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.
Casablanca
Directed by Michael Curtiz(1942)In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan...
Chinatown
Directed by Roman Polanski
JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ensuing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply.
Citizen Kane
Directed by Orson Welles
A group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world."
A Clockwork Orange
Directed by
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Directed by Steven Spielberg
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & her Lover
Directed by Peter Greenaway
The Conversation
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
The Crying Game
Day for Night
Directed by Francois Truffaut
The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
Directed by Luis Bunuel
Diva
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Don't Look Now
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
The Double Life of Veronique
Directed by Kieslowski
Dr. Strangelove
Directed by
The Element of Crime
Directed by Lars Von Trier
The Elephant Man
Directed by David Lynch
The Empire Strikes Back
E.T.
Directed by Steven Spielberg
The Exorcist
The Family
Directed by Ettore Scola
Fellini - Amarcord
Directed by Federico Fellini
From Russia
Godfather
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
The Graduate
The Great Dictator
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
The Green Room
Directed by Francois truffaut
L.A.
La Dolce Vita
Directed by Federico fellini
Lawrence Arabia
Like Water For Chocolate
Last Tango in Paris
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
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Directed by Fritz Lang
Magic Flute
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Magnolia
The Maltese Falcon
The Man Who Loved Women
Directed by Francois Truffaut
The Man Who Would Be King
Directed by John Huston
May Fools
Directed by Louis Malle
My Life to live
Directed by Godard
Mystery Train
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Naked Lunch
Directed by David Cronenberg
North By NorthWest
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht
Directed by Werner Herzog
Notorius
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
That Obscure Object of Desire
Directed by Bunuel
Once Upon A Time in the west
Directed by Sergio Leone
Pierrot Le Fou
Directed by Godard
Potemkin (Battleship Potemkin/Bronenosets Potyomkin
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
Paris , Texas
Directed by Wim Wenders
Passion of Joan of Arc
Directed by Dreyer
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Directed by Alan Parker
The Player
Directed by Robert Altman
Raiders Of the Lost Ark
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Raise the Red Lantern
Rebecca
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Rebel Without a Cause
Red Sorghum
Rome
Directed by Roberto Rosselini
Rosemarys Baby
Directed by Roman Polanski
Rumblefish
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Seven Samurai
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
The Seventh Seal
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Sex, lies, and videotape
Short Cuts
Directed by Robert Altman
Some Like It Hot
The Third Man
Time Bandits
Directed by Terry Gilliam
The Tin Drum
The Trial
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vertigo
Directed by Alfred hitchcock
Wild At Heart
Directed by David Lynch
Wings Of Desire
Directed by Wim Wenders
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The World According to Garp
Die Zweiter Heimat - chronik eineR jugend
The 26 hours film is something really special. The13 chapter film portraits a group of young students in München during the 60's. "Die Zweiter Heimat" is a giant production by German director Edgar Reitz. According to the book about the production it had: a script of 2,143 pages written over a six years period. 372 kilometer film was recorded during the 557 shooting days.
