Starring: Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, Ed Harris, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin Director: James Foley A team of real estate sales people are told that only the top two sales people will keep their jobs, and they have about 24 hours to make a sale. But some of them feel that they can't make a sale without decent… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Category: 105 Must See Films
105 Must See Films: Terms Of Endearment (1983)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels Director: James L Brooks It's all about the mother-daughter relationship in this delightfully funny tear jerker. Aurora (MacLaine) is the most picky, difficult person. When her adult daughter Emma (Winger) gets married, she finds it hard to let go, but over time she finds herself starting… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Terms Of Endearment (1983)
105 Must See Films: Cat People (1942)
Starring: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith Director: Jacques Tourneur A beautiful young Serbian woman is wooed by a man, but must resist, because she fears that when aroused by her emotions she will turn into a killer panther... Well, that's the idea anyway. What actually happens in this film is a lot sadder. Opening… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Cat People (1942)
105 Must See Films: The Fly (1986)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz Director: David Cronenberg A scientist meets a cute journalist at a party, (Goldblum and Davis) and takes her home to impress her with his matter transportation device. Whilst she documents his research, a romance developes, but one night, while drunk and in a jealous pique, the scientist puts himself into… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: The Fly (1986)
105 Must See Films: Days Of Heaven (1978)
Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepherd Director: Terrence Malick Terrence Malick doesn't make a lot of films, but this one, much like his previous film Badlands, feels so iconically 70's to me, with it's golden colours, imagery of America and it's young female voice over. More like a visual poem than a film, it… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Days Of Heaven (1978)
105 Must See Films: Kiss Of The Spiderwoman (1985)
Starring: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga Director: Hector Babenco Two men in a South American prison survive their desperate days together by sharing the story from an old film seen before they were captured. Molina is a kind hearted gay man with a secret, and Valentin is a idealistic, uptight political prisoner, tortured for… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Kiss Of The Spiderwoman (1985)
105 Must See Films: Rabbit Proof Fence (2002)
Starring: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh, Jason Clarke, David Gulpilil Director: Phillip Noyce Perhaps better known for action and thriller pics, like Clear and Present Danger for example, Noyce here turned his attention to Australian history and something that for a long time was a bit of a dirty secret: the stolen… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Rabbit Proof Fence (2002)
105 Must See Films: Secrets & Lies (1996)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall Director: Mike Leigh A movie about class and race relations in Britain, this film is from acclaimed director Mike Leigh. It follows the story of two women, a successful black woman who is in search of her biological mother, and the woman who gave birth to her, a lower class… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Secrets & Lies (1996)
105 Must See Films: Grave Of The Fireflies (1988)
Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi Director: Isao Takahata Although I loved this film, after it finished I needed a drink! It's very sweet and very sad. The film is about a boy Setsuko and his little sister Seita, at the end of WW2 in Japan. During an air raid their mother is badly injured and… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Grave Of The Fireflies (1988)
105 Must See Films: Eyes Without A Face
Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob Director: Georges Franju This film really blew me out of the water! Made in 1960, the same year as Hitchcock's Psycho, it's a black and white French horror film about a scientist who has pioneered organ and skin transplants, and is attempting to give his daughter back the… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Eyes Without A Face
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