Allan's Favorite Movies
These are special:
Hudsucker Proxy
Super Citizen Ko (Probably only available at movie festivals.)
Saving Private Ryan
Simon Birch
One True Thing
Life Is Beautiful
The Blair Witch Project
AI
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Chung King Express
Cinema Paradiso
Together
In quasi-chronological order:
- The Door in the Floor
- Meet the Fockers
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Closer
- The House of Flying Daggers
- The Incredibles
- The Inheritance (Danish 2003)
- Motorcycle Diaries
- I Heart Huckabees
- Garden State
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Hero
- Open Water
- White Castle
- The Notebook
- Before Sunset
- Spider-Man 2
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Dodgeball
- The Notebook
- Troy
- Jersey Girl
- The Alamo
- The Girl Next Door
- Dawn of the Dead
- 50 First Dates
- Starsky & Hutch
- Lost in Translation
- Big Fish
- Monster
- Cold Mountain
- Lord of the Rings
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Dodgeball
- Thirteen
- American Splendor
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Seabiscuit
- Swimming Pool
- Cuckoo (Russian)
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Bend It Like Beckham
- Terminator 3
- 28 Days Later
- Capturing the Friedmans
- Whale Rider
- Together
(China)
- Italian Job
- Sweet Sixteen
(Scottish)
- Respiro
(Italian)
- The
Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä, Finland)
- Nowhere
in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika, Germany)
- Better Luck Tomorrow
- Daredevil
- Quiet American
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- Shanghi Knights
- Nicholas Nickelby
- The Pianist
- Adaptation
- Catch Me If You Can
- The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
- Solaris
- 8 Mile
- White Oleander
- The Ring
- Tuck Everlasting
- Red Dragon
- Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi - (Spirited Away)
- Bella Martha
- Igby Goes Down
- City by the Sea
- Big Fat Greek Wedding
- L'Ultimo Bacio (The Last Kiss)
- Possession
- XXX
- Apocalypse Now Redux
- Blood Work
- Austin Powers in Gold Member
- Road to Perdition
- Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
- Lilo and Stitch
- Minority Report
- 13 Conversations About One Thing
- About a Boy
- Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones
- Spider-Man
- Chung King
Express (yeah, this movie is already at the bottom of this list...but
I want to list it again)
- Human Nature
- Kissing Jessica Stein
- Quills
- The Tailor of Panama
- Black Hawk Down
- Amelie
- High Noon (1952)
- A Beautiful Mind
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- In the Bedroom
- The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
- Vanilla Sky
- Ocean's 11
- Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
- Odishon
(Audition) (not actually my favorite, but probably the most horrifying movie
I have seen)
- À ma soeur! (aka Fat Girl)
- Mulholland Drive
- Training Day
- Zoolander
- Serendipity
- The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
- The Others
- Rush Hour 2
- Planet of the Apes
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb
- The Graduate
- Moulin Rouge
- Memento
- Amores Perros
- Blow
- Hannibal
- Traffic
- Cast Away
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Yi Yi
- Men of Honor
- Almost Famous
- Woman on Top
- Saving Grace
- What Lies Beneath
- X-Men
- Patriot
- Perfect Storm
- Chicken Run
- The Straight Story
- Being John Malkovich
- The Cider House Rules
- Girl, Interrupted (A man, who I later found out was
Hugh Hefner, sat just in front of me with his twin girlfriends...)
- Man on the Moon
- Three Kings
- American Beauty
- The Sixth Sense
- Eyes Wide Shut
- South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (I plan to study
this movie some more to expand my vocabulary)
- Xiu Xiu
- Tarzan
- Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me
- Three Seasons
- Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace (I saw it
on the day it opened at the famous Mann Chinese Theater, where the original
Star Wars was premiered. What an experience!)
- Joan of Arc (the TV movie)
- Election (very original)
- A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
- Cookie's Fortune
- A Walk on the Moon
- Giant (1956)
- Groundhog Day
- October Sky
- Analyze This
- The Apartment
- Annie Hall
- Not necessarily one of my favorite movies, but probably
the most awkward movie I remember seeing: Celebration (Danish, 1998)
- Godfather (especially I and III)
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Casablanca
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Gone with the Wind
- Next Stop Wonderland
- The Apostle
- X-FIles
- The Truman Show
- Bulworth
- Zero Effect
- Great Expectations
- Titanic
- LA Confidential
- John Grisham's The Rainmaker
- Jackie Brown (marginal)
- The Postman
- Seven Years In Tibet
- The Edge
- U Turn
- Contact
- Forrest Gump
- Shine
- Kieslowski's Blue, White, Red Trilogy
- Leaving
Las Vegas
- Unforgiven
- Like Water For Chocolate
- Braveheart
- Heat
- Bugsy
- Hunt For Red October
- Chung
King Express
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