Favorite Movies

I have always loved movies. I was 8 when I first watched ‘The Young Master’ in a movie theater. With the subsequent cable and internet revolution, I was watching more and more good and bad movies. The following is a list of movies which I remember at the top of my head and which have made a deep impression on me in one way or the other (all good ones, in my opinion. I can put out a bad list too, if you want! ). Feel free to add on to this list (am dead sure I’ve missed many good movies – both in this list as well as watching them). I am hoping to make this list a good bookmark to come back to (and hence have added a dedicated page – top right corner tab).

CLASSIC:

1. The Godfather II (The word ‘classic’ can be best described with this movie.)

2. Shawshank Redemption (Nothing beats this one!)

3. One flew over Cuckoo’s nest

4. A Clockwork Orange

HUMOR:

1. Death at a Funeral (The british version)

2. The Big Lebowski (Coens!)

3. Fargo (Coens!)

4. Snatch (Guy Ritchie!)

5. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie!)

6. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick!)

7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

8. Life of Brian (Monty Python – I laughed and laughed till my stomach ached. And then laughed again)

9. Tropic Thunder (Robert Downey Jr.)

SPY/THRILLER:

1. Enemy of the State (I can’t believe how many times I watched this movie!)

2. Italian Job (that one scene of tire measurement was enough to fall in love.)

3. 39 steps (Hitchcock blew me away with this one.)

4. Phonebooth (Can anyone direct a movie with just one set – yes they can!)

5. Bourne Series (All three – first and third were brilliant!)

6. Departed

7. Inside Man (wow!)

8. The Prestige (wow!)

9. The Usual Suspects

10. The Illusionist (Edward Norton is one among the best!)

ROMANCE:

1. Notorious (I could not believe the movie was shot in 1945.)

2. Serendipity (A slow but immensely mushy movie.)

3. When Harry met Sally

4. Hitch

5. A Walk to Remember

6. Pretty Woman

7. You’ve got mail

8. Notting Hill

DRAMA/GENERAL:

1. Blood Diamond (Di Caprio!)

2. Children of Men

3. Wall-E (Pixar’s imagination parallels none!)

4. October Sky (Inspirational.)

5. Devil’s Advocate (Al Pacino’s best work, apart from Godfather)

6. Cidade de Deus

7. Minority Report

8. The Matrix (Too complex to understand at first. Once you understand it, there is no way you’ll not love the thought process behind the movie.)

9. The Great Debaters (The movie’s just bloody awesome!)

10. Remember the Titans (Denzel rules!)

11. Life is Beautiful (wow!)

ACTION:

1. 300 (This is Sparta!)

2. The Dark Knight (Heath Ledger rules!)

3. Lord of the Rings – Return of the King (The only movie which came very close to the beauty of the book)

4. Star Wars (The Entire Series) (One of the first movies to flare my imagination)

5. Fight Club (The dialogues are timeless!)

6. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin’s best work till date!)

7. Kill Bill Vol 1 and Vol 2 (Uma Thurman – need I say more.)

8. Gladiator

9. V for Vendetta

10. Rocky Balboa (loved it!)

11. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr rules!)

12. Man on Fire (Denzel Washington is right up there!)

13. Enter the Dragon (Bruce Lee!)

14. The Seven Samurai (Conceptualisation is brilliant!)

15. Independence Day (never got bored of watching it ‘n’ number of times)

I have not added any regional movies to the list although I’ve enjoyed a multitude of them among various languages including Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil. Hoping to add them in the near future. They are not as top of my head as the English ones. (As stated earlier, feel free to add to the list through your comments.)

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