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 Daniel'sHighly Recommended Movies List (Pink Highlighted means a very special, meaningful must-see movie) |
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| Highly Recommended Movies: (print out without background and take list to video store or Netflix) |
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| Drama/Message
Movies: |
Sci-Fi
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Foreign: |
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| A Few Good Men | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Pan's Labyrinth | The Abyss | After the Wedding (Danish) |
| A Hard Day's Night | Field of Dreams | Patch Adams | Bladerunner | All About My Mother |
| A Beautiful Mind | Fierce Grace | Pay It Forward | Brainstorm | Amelie |
| About A Boy | Finding Neverland | Philadelphia | Bridge to Tarabithia | Barbarian Invasions |
| Adaptation | Forrest Gump | Phoebe in Wonderland | Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind | Central Station |
| Almost Famous | The Game (intense) | The Piano | Cocoon | The Chorus |
| Amadeus | Gandhi | Playing By Heart | Contact | Cinema Paradiso |
| American Beauty | The Golden Compass | Pleasantville | Dead Zone (not scary) | Departures (Japan) |
| Amistad | Good Night & Good Luck | Powder | Dune | Enchanted April |
| An American President | Good Will Hunting | Pretty Woman | Enemy Mine | Even the Rain |
| Australia | Grand Canyon | Prince of Tides | E.T. | The Full Monty |
| AVATAR My Favorite all-time | The Green Mile | The Rainmaker | The Fellowship of the Ring | Hero (Chinese) |
| Babel | Greystoke, Lord of the Apes | Regarding Henry | The Fifth Element | IL Postino (The Postman) |
| Before Sunrise | Groundhog Day |
Restoration |
Ghost | Jodhaa Akbar |
| Before Sunset | Harry Potter (All of them) | Robin Hood 2010 | Hangar 18 | King of Masks |
| Being John Malkovich | Hearts in Atlantis | Romeo and Juliet | The Help | Kolya |
| Being There | High Fidelity | Room with a View | Highlander (1) | Life Is Beautiful |
| Benny & Joon | Holy Man | The Saint | Inception | Like Water for Chocolate |
| Big Fish | The Horsewhisperer | Scent of a Woman | Lord of the Rings Trilogy | The Lives of Others |
| The Big Kahuna | The House of D | Sea Biscuit | MATRIX Trilogy | Man Facing Southeast |
| Billy Elliot | I Am Sam | Sex, Lies & Videotape | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Monsoon Wedding |
| Braveheart (but violent) | I Heart Huckabees | Shakespeare In Love | Return of the King | Motorcycle Diary |
| The Bucket List | In America | Shawshank Redemption | The Seventh Sign | My Life as a Dog |
| The Breakfast Club | Inception | Sirens | The Sixth Sense | Nowhere in Africa |
| Bridge To Tarabithia | Instinct (Anthony Hopkins) | Six Degrees of Separation | Solaris | RedBeard (1965) |
| Brokeback Mountain | Jerry McGuire | Slingblade (intense) | Star Trek 1,2,3,4,6 & Nemesis | Samsara |
| Buck (documenrary) | Just Between Friends | Smoke Signals | Star Trek 2009 | The Sea Inside |
| Chain Reaction | The King and I | Somewhere in Time | Star Wars Movies (all 6) | Secrets & Lies |
| Changing Lanes | K-PAX | Stand By Me | Stargate | Shall We Dance? (Japan) |
| Chariots of Fire | Last Samurai | Stepmom | Starman | Shirley Valentine |
| Chocolate | Les Miserables (1998) | Syriana | Superman 1 | Shine |
| Citizen Ruth | Letters from Iwo Jima | The Tao Of Steve | Terminator 2 |
Sliding Doors |
| The Color Purple | Life As A House | This is It (Michael Jackson) | Total Recall | Slumdog Millionaire |
| Coraline | Little Miss Sunshine | Thumbsucker | The Two Towers | Story of the Weeping Camel |
| Cider House Rules | LORD OF THE RINGS (all 3) | Thunderheart | V for Vendetta | Strangers in Good Company |
| Crash | Magnolia | Traffic | Wall Street Money Never Sleeps | Talk to Her |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Man from Snowy River | Tuesdays with Morrie | Watchmen | The Way Home |
| Dances With Wolves | Man in the Iron Mask | Vanilla Sky | X-Men 1st Class | Three Seasons |
| Dangerous Beauty | Man on Wire | The Visitor | 2010 Space Odyssey | Tsotsi |
| The DaVinci Code | Man Without a Face | Wall Street | Whale Rider | |
| Day of the Dolphin | Manchurain Candidate (2004) | Weeds | Wings of Desire | |
| Dead Man Walking | Mao's Last Dancer | What Dreams May Come | ||
| Dead Poet's Society | Meet Joe Black | What the Bleep Do We Know? | ||
| The Devil's Advocate | Michael | What About Me? (2008 UK) | ||
| Divine Secrets of Ya-Ya | Miss Potter | White Squall | ||
| The Doctor | Monster's Ball | Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill | ||
| Don Juan DeMarco | My Left Foot | Winged Migration | ||
| Eat Pray Love | My Life | Yellow Submarine | ||
| Edward Scissorhands | Nell | Yes (2004 excellent drama) | ||
| The Emperor's Club | The Notebook | (500) Days of Summer | ||
| Erin Brockovich | On Golden Pond | |||
| Eternal Sunshine | One Giant Leap | |||
| Fairytale: A True Story | Ordinary People | |||
| Horror:
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Watch many great documentaries FREE online here! |
Children (of
all ages): |
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| Babe (animated) | ||||
| Good Movie & Scary: | The 11th Hour | The Money Masters (watch free online!) | Black Stallion | |
| Alien 2 | America, From Freedom to Fascism | The Most Dangerous Man In America | Bolt (animated) | |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula (Gary Oldman) | Bill Moyers - The Secret Government | The Oil Factor | Chicken Run (animated) | |
| Buck | OutFoxed | |||
| The Changeling (1980 George C Scott) | Capitalism - A Love Story | The Power of Nightmares (watch free online!) | Ever After | |
| Jacob's Ladder | Carlyle Group * (watch free online!) | The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (watch free online!) | Fantasia (animated) | |
| Interview with a Vampire | The Century of Self (BBC 4 episodes) | Sicko | Little Lord Fauntleroy | |
| Poltergeist | The Corporation ** | Speaking Freely Vol 1 - John Perkins (must see!!!) | Mary Poppins | |
| The Cove | Speaking Freely Vol 3 - Ray McGovern (must see!!!) | Monsters Inc. (animated) | ||
| Earthlings (watch free online!) | Speaking Freely Vol 4 - Chalmers Johnson (must see!!!) | The Neverending Story | ||
| Enron (watch free online!) | The
Story of Stuff (watch free online - 22 mins) |
Pinocchio (Disney) (animated) | ||
| Fahrenheit 9/11 | Super Size Me | Princess Mononoke (animated) | ||
| FLOW (about water) | Thrive! | Ratatouille (animated) | ||
| Food, Inc. (must see!!!) | Trudell | The Secret Garden | ||
| From Science to God by Peter Russell | The True History of Marijuana | Shrek 1 & 2 (animated) | ||
| Hidden Wars of Desert Storm | The US vs John Lennon | Sound of Music | ||
| Howard Zinn | Walmart | Spirited Away (animated) | ||
| Home | War Made Easy | Up (animated) | ||
| An Inconvenient Truth | Why We Fight | Wizard of OZ | ||
| Inside Job (must see!) | The World According to Monsanto (watch free online!) | |||
| Jesus Camp | The Yes Men | |||
| Kymatica (watch free online!) | Zeitgeist & Addendum (watch free online!) | |||
| Orwell Rolls in His Grave | Zeitgeist Moving Forward (The best one) | |||
* Carlyle Group - Must see documentary documentary online exposing information on the Bush group and the Carlyle Group - the brains and money behind the Military-Industrial complex - those who profit hugely from war. This is important information for all to know about. A good film to tell all your friends to see. ** The Corporation - If you could only see one movie, see this one. It reveals information every human needs to know about our world. Watch this and share it with others. Sames goes for Why We Fight and Food, Inc. and Capitalism A Love Story! - Must see by everyone - tell everyone to see it. Why We Fight - This is a MUST SEE documentary about the Military-Industrial Complex. Information that needs to be known by every American about our country and what is really running things. Just go see it and get the DVD and share it with people. Here is some more details about it: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8484 |
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Honorable Mention - VERY worth seeing: |
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| The Accidental Tourist | Coach Carter | Ever After | The Lion in Winter | Saved! |
| Agatha of God | The Commitments | EXistenZ | The Lost Boys | Silkwood |
| Altered States | Conan, the Barbarian | Fair Game | Mass Appeal | Silver Bullet |
| Always | Conspiracy Theory | Family Man | Men in Black | |
| Andromeda Strain | The Constant Gardener | Fearless | Metropolis (1984 Georgio Moroder) | Sleepless In Seattle |
| Angels in America | The Contender | Firestarter | Million Dollar Baby | Sluth (Michael Caine) |
| A Time to Kill | Crocodile Dundee (1) | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mission to Mars | South Pacific |
| A Trip to Bountiful | The Crying Game | Flatliners | My Fair Lady | St. Elmo's Fire |
| A Walk in the Clouds | Cyber Wars (Australian) | Fried Green Tomatoes | Mystic Pizza | Steel Magnolias |
| Back to the Future | Dad | Fright Night | National Velvet | Terms of Endearment |
| Big | Dark City | Ghost Story | Norma Rae | Thelma & Louise |
| Ghost Writer | Nothing In Common | Thor 2010 | ||
| Das Boot | Gladiator | October Sky | Titanic | |
| The Big Chill | The Day After Tomorrow | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Off the Map | Thank You For Smoking |
| Bliss | Dead Again | The Hurricane | One Flew Over The Cucoo's Nest | Tootsie |
| The Boy Who Could Fly | Deep Impact | Identity | Phantom of the Opera | The Truman Show |
| Bulworth | Defending Your Life | Italian For Beginners | Phenomenon | 12 Monkeys |
| Children of a Lesser God | Dirty Dancing | Karate Kid | Pieces of April | War Games |
| Children of Men | Dragonfly | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Pulp Fiction | What's Eating Gilbert Grape? |
| China Syndrome | Dragonslayer | Lady In The Water | Rainman | Wonder Boys |
| City of Hope | Driving Miss Daisy | Lawnmower Man | Robin and Marion | You Can Count On Me |
| City Slickers 1 | Educating Rita | Last Temptation of Christ | Rocky | Young Sherlock Holmes |
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