Movie Suggestions 2
Recommendations by
Koda
This is Page Two of the list of my favorite movies of all time. You may also want to look at Page One. Check to see if your streaming service has the films you are interested in. If not, the affiliate links will take you to the lowest prices I could find on Amazon for the Blu-ray versions, and from there you can rent or buy digital versions for instant streaming. (Prices may change.)
(*) indicates Oscar for Best Picture. Director names are in (parentheses).
Saving Private Ryan: (1998) Drama. A platoon of soldiers in WW II are sent to retrieve private Ryan after all his brothers had been killed. Tom Hanks, Matt Damon. (Steven Spielberg)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: (1977) Drama. After an up close encounter with a UFO a family man becomes obsessed with learning the truth. Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut. (Steven Spielberg)
*The Godfather Parts 1 and 2: (1972 – 1974) Drama. The sinister workings of mafia families as they try to control more and more illicit business interests. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro. (Francis Ford Coppola)
*One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: (1975) Drama. A prankster pretends to be crazy to avoid jail and ends up regretting that decision. Jack Nicholson. (Milos Forman)
Gladiator: (2000) Drama. A roman general is sold into slavery by a political rival. Russel Crowe. (Ridley Scott)
*The Silence of the Lambs: (1991) Dark drama: A young FBI agent is tasked with speaking to a remorseless serial killer in an effort to stop another. Anthony Hopkins, Jody Foster. (Johnathan Demme)
The Hobbit: (2012 – 2013) Fantasy. The 3-part prequel to the Lord of the Rings. The One Ring is found as a group of dwarfs journey to take back their home from the dragon under the mountain. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen. (Peter Jackson)
A. I. Artificial Intelligence: (2001) Sci-fi. An android child is left to fend for himself in a world where androids are killed for sport. Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law. (Steven Spielberg)
Dune (1984): Sci-fi/Drama. Tensions develop when the control of a desert planet, which is the only source of a valuable commodity, is fought over by conflicting families. Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen. (David Lynch)
Jurassic Park: (1993) Sci-fi. Dinosaurs are cloned from DNA to create a park, only things get dicey when the dinosaurs escape. Sam Neill, Laura Dern. (Steven Spielberg)
War of the Worlds: (2005) Sci-fi/Drama. The Earth is invaded by a fleet of alien spaceships. Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning. (Steven Spielberg)
The Fifth Element: (1997) Sci-fi. Bruce Willis is recruited to retrieve the only weapon that can save the Earth from pending disaster, which turns out to be a woman. Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich. (Luc Besson)
Enemy at the Gates: (2001) Drama. A pair of Russian and German snipers try to kill each other at the battle of Leningrad during WW II. Jude Law, Ed Harris. (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
*Dances with Wolves: (1990) Drama. A Civil War army soldier sent to an outpost alone in Indian country learns to understand his enemy. Kevin Costner. (Kevin Costner)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: (1966) Civil war drama that launched a series of “spaghetti westerns” in the 1960s. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach. (Sergio Leone)
Oblivion: Sci-fi. (2013) Set after the aliens have conquered Earth. Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman. (Joseph Kosinski)
Pride and Prejudice: (2005) Romance. A wealthy bachelor falls for a stubborn girl from a poor family of all girls but she is convince he is a bad person. Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen. (Joe Wright)
Princess Bride: (1987) Comedy. A must see cult classic about true love. Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Andre the Giant. (Rob Reiner)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: (2000) Drama. Set in China 100s of years ago, love, honor and martial arts are the main themes. Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh. (Ang Le
The Revenant: (2015) Drama. After being attacked by a bear a man is left to die in the winter wilderness of the 1820s. Leonardo DiCaprio. (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
*A Beautiful Mind: (2001) Drama. A brilliant mathematician begins to lose his grip on reality. Russel Crowe. (Ron Howard)
No Country For Old Men: (2007) Dark Drama. A rancher stumbles across a drug deal gone wrong and leaves with a bag of cash the bad guys are determined to get back. Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem. (Ethan Coen)
12 Monkeys: (1995) Sci-fi/Drama. A convict is sent back in time to discover the source of an outbreak which killed nearly every human on Earth. Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe. (Terry Gilliam)
*The Sting: (1973) Drama/Comedy. Two scam artists set up an elaborate ruse to cheat some gangsters out of a lot of money. Paul Newman, Robert Redford. (George Roy Hill)
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