Movie Suggestions 3
Recommendations by
Koda
This is Page Three of my list of favorite movies of all time. Page One • Page Two
*American Beauty: (1999) Drama. Difficulties arise when an older man is seduced by a high school girl. Kevin Spacey. (Sam Mendes)
Die Hard: (1988) Action. A cop comes to LA to visit his estranged wife and encounters a gang of foreign thieves planning to kill his wife and others to cover up their escape. Alan Rickman, Bruce Willis. (John McTiernan)
Blade Runner: (1982) Sci-fi/Drama. A bounty hunter is tasked with killing human-like androids who just want to live like everyone else. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer. (Ridley Scott) Blade Runner 2049
Apocalypse Now: (1979) War/Drama. A soldier is sent to kill an army officer who has gone rouge in the Viet Nam jungle. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando. (Francis Ford Coppola)
Top Gun: (1986) Drama. A school for elite fighter pilots produces rivalries where the stakes become real. Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis. (Tony Scott) Top Gun Maverick
Ocean’s Eleven: (2001) Crime/Drama. 11 specialists devise a complex plot to steal millions in cash from a Las Vegas casino. George Clooney, Brad Pitt. (Steven Soderbergh) Ocean’s Twelve
The Terminator: (1984) Sci-fi. A future society ran by machines sends an android back in time to kill the mother of the resistance leader so he can never be born. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton. (James Cameron) Terminator 2
The Shining: (1980) Suspense. A family of 3 spends the winter as caretakers of a grand hotel closed for the winter, but the husband has difficulty adapting. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall. (Stanley Kubrick)
What Dreams May Come: (1998) Drama. After his wife commits suicide, the husband decides to enter hell to bring her back. Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr. (Vincent Ward)
The Bourne Identity: Action. A man wakes up in a fishing boat with bullet wounds in his back and no memory of who he is. Lots of great action scenes. Link is to 4-film collection. Matt Damon. (Doug Liman)
Gravity: (2013) Sci-fi. The destruction of a satellite sends debris toward the International Space Station during a space walk and all hell breaks loose. George Clooney, Sandra Bullock. (Alfonso Cuarón)
Cold Mountain: (2003) Romance/Drama. When the men of the village go off to fight for the south in the Civil War the women are left to fend for themselves. Jude Law, Nicole Kidman. (Anthony Minghella)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: (1969) Drama. Two likable bank robbers at the turn of the 20th century can’t seem to escape from those chasing them. Robert Redford, Paul Newman. (George Roy Hill)
The Sixth Sense: (1999) Drama. A child psychiatrist tries to help a young boy who claims to see dead people. Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment. (M. Night Shyamalan)
Logan’s Run: (1976) Sci-fi: In the future everyone lives inside a domed city where everything one could want is provided, but there is a dark side. Michael York, Jenny Agutter. (Michael Anderson)
Tron: Legacy (1982) Sci-fi. A programer is accidentally sucked inside the computer where he interacts with programs in life or death situations. Way ahead of its time. Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner. (Steven Lisberger)
The Aviator: (2004) Drama. The story of eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes, movie producer and developer of the Spruce Goose in WW II. Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett. (Martin Scorsese)
*The Bridge on the River Kwai: (1957) Drama. British WW II soldiers in the Philippines are forced to construct a railroad bridge for the enemy. William Holden, Alec Guinness. (David Lean)
*On The Waterfront: (1957) Drama. An x-prizefighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to corrupt union bosses. Marlon Brando. (Elia Kazan)
Mutiny on the Bounty: (1962) Drama. The first mate leads a revolt against his sadistic captain. Marlon Brando, Richard Harris. (Lewis Milestone)
Master and Commander: (2003) Drama. 1800s British sailors lose respect for their captain and the first mate is forced to make a choice. Russel Crowe. (Peter Weir)
Inception: (2010) Sci-fi/Drama. A team of specialists can enter the dreams of others, but the subconscious mind plays tricks of its own. Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (Christopher Nolan)
V for Vendetta: (2005) Drama. A secretive, highly sophisticate man in a mask plans revenge against a corrupt government and inspires the masses to join him. Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman. (James McTeigue)
Dead Poets Society: (1989) Drama. A high school teacher inspires a group of students to think independently, only to have the consequences of being different become too real. Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke. (Peter Weir)
Fight Club: (1999) Drama. A charismatic Brad Pitt slowly convinces the timid Edward Norton to step out of his comfort zone by organizing fist fights, but the plots has twists. (David Fincher)
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