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My Favourite / Best Films
The Lives of Others (Best Foreign Film)
The Long Good Friday (Best Gangster Film)
The Artist (Original, Clever & Amusing)
Taxi Driver (Best Scorcese / De Niro Film)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Best Spy Film)
The Crying Game (Original & Unusual)
The Seventh Seal (Shakespearian Quality)
Bicycle Thieves (Best Father & Son Bonding Film)
Apocalypse Now (Best War Film)
Schindler's List (Best Film on the Holocaust)
Psycho (Best Horror Film)
Waltz With Bashir (Best Animation)
Sons of The Desert (Best Comedy)
Memento (Original & Clever Script)
A Moment of Innocent (Amusing)
The Reader (Emotional)
The Passion of The Christ (Best Film about Christ)
Don't Look Now (Excellent Horror)
Some Like It Hot (Great Comedy)
Downfall (Best Film about Hitler)
Chinatown (Best Detective Film)
At Five In The Afternoon (Excellent Film set in Afghanistan)
The Godfather 1 (Top Gangster Film)
The Godfather 2 (Top Gangster Film)
Brief Encounter (British Romantic Classic)
Scarface (Al Pacino's Best Role)
North By Northwest (Hitchcock Classic)
It's Winter (Poetic Persian Film)
The Third Man (British Classic)
We Need To Talk About Kevin (Excellent Performances)
There Will Be Blood (Best Day-Lewis Role)
Black Christmas (Superior Slasher Movie)
The Deer Hunter (Excellent Vietnam War Film)
Sleuth (Great Roles for Olivier / Caine)
Broken Embraces (Excellent Romantic Film)
Midnight Cowboy (Dustin Hoffman's Best Film)
Lawrence of Arabia (Great Leading Actor Role)
The Haunting (Best Haunted House Film)
It's A Wonderful Life (Best Christmas Film)
The Good The Bad & The Ugly (Best Western)
Close Encounters of The Third Kind (Best Escapism Film)
Omen (Superior Horror Film)
All The President's Men (Best Film about Investigative Journalism)
The Secret In Their Eyes (Excellent Ending)
Raging Bull (Best Sports Film)
Silence of The Lambs (Excellent Horror Film)
Eraserhead (Unusual Lynch Horror Film)
Midnight Run (Best Buddy Film)
White Heat (Gangster Classic)
Wolf Creek (Excellent Horror Film)
Rear Window (Hitchcock Classic)
Saw (Excellent Horror Film)
White Noise (Best Film about the Afterlife)
Halloween (Excellent Horror)
Once Upon A Time In America (Under-rated De Niro Film)
Deliverance (Creepy Film)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Entertaining Film set in Mental Home)
My Name Is Khan (Excellent Film about Religious Intolerance)
Paranormal Activity 2 (Paranormal Superior Sequel)
The Shining (Best Film based on Steven King Novel)
A Taste of Cherry (Unusual Script with a twist at the end)
Creep (Under-rated British Horror Film)
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Excellent British Crime Film)
The Cook The Thief The Wife Her Lover (Excellent Performance by Gambon)
Hellraiser (Original Horror)
Snatch (Excellent British Crime Film)
Cinema Paradiso (Nice Italian Film about the Love of Cinema)
The Usual Suspects (Thought-provoking Ending)
Close-Up (Favourite Abbas Kiarostami Film)
The Cow (Best Film about an Animal)
Pulp Fiction (Excellent Script)
The Shuttered Room (Excellent British Horror)
The Pianist (Polanski's Best Film)
Shane (Sentimental Western)
Drive (Taxi Driver Meets Shane)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles Classic)
Saving Private Ryan (Most Realistic War Film)
Rosemary's Baby (Polanski Horror Classic)
Spinal Tap (Very funny Heavy Metal Spoof)
Vertigo (Hitchcock Classic)
Wuthering Heights (Romantic Classic)
Casablanca (Romantic Classic)
The Firm (Best Film about Football Hooliganism)
Rise of The Footsoldier (Top British Crime Film)
King of Comedy (Early De Niro)
Ryan's Daughter (Lean Classic)
The English Patient (Top Romantic Film)
One Hour Photo (Creepy Lead Performance)
Charade (Excellent Suspense)
Niagara (Monroe Classic)
The Devil Rides Again (Excellent Horror)
Nosferatu (Best Vampire Film)
Les Miserables (Charles Laughton at his best)
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Nice Film based on a great novel)
3 Women (Unusual)
Manhunter (Excellent Prequel to Silence of The Lambs)
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
Trading Places (Great Comedy)
Way Out West (Laurel & Hardy Classic Short)
The Music Box (Laurel & Hardy Classic Short)
Borat (Very Funny Comedy)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen Classic)
Manhattan (Woody Allen Classic)
Clerks (Funny Juvenile Humour)
Westworld (Best Film about Robots)
Everybody's Fine (Nice De Niro Family Film)
A Clockwork Orange (Infamous Banned British Film)
Coma (Excellent Thriller)
25th Hour (Excellent Last Day of Freedom Film)
Devdas (Bollywood at its best)
Other Recommended Films
The Kite Runner
Room At The Top
Theatre of Blood
Gangs of New York
Sunset Boulevard
Double Indemnity
Cool Hand Luke
Malcolm X
Witness
Serpico
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang
Women Without Men
The Chase
Magnum Force
Marathon Man
Kramer v Kramer
Touch Of Evil
Dirty Harry
The Magnificent Seven
The Fly
Doubt
Singing In The Rain
For A Few Dollars More
A Fistful Of Dollars
Dangerous Liaisons
The Sweeney 1 & 2
Soylent Green
Essex Boys
Get Carter
Broken Embraces
The Skin I Live In
Senna
Favourite 12 Foreign Films
1. The Lives of Others
2. The Seventh Seal
3. Bicycle Thieves
4. The Artist
5. Devdas
6. A Moment of Innocence
7. At Five In the Afternoon
8. It's Winter
9. Taste of Cherry
10. Broken Embraces
11.A Separation
12.Close-up
13.The Secret in Their Eyes
14.Cinema Paradiso
Favourite Iranian (Persian) Films
Modern Iranian films are almost all made on very low budgets. This does not detract from their quality, in fact, the quality of the scripts and direction of the new wave of Iranian film-making stand out as some of the finest films in contemporary cinema. The films often have a message or a poetic style to them and are therefore more thought-provoking.
1. A Moment of Innocence
- amusing, especially the vanity of the man who wants to play his younger self in the film and the
ending which is particularly amusing.
2. At Five In The Afternoon
- excellent film set in contemporary Afghanistan. In my view, the best film of its type.
3. Close-Up
- a man's obsession with a famous film-maker. Reminds me of the film `King of Comedy' but with
a more serious edge.
4. A Separation
- award winning Iranian film. It is about morality and the search for the truth.
5. Taste of Cherry
- Original script and interesting ending.
6. It's Winter
- Nicely made. A poetic film which using poetry from a Persian poem called `Winter'.
7. Women Without Men
- Nicely made with historical account of Iran in the 1950s.
8. Offside
- Amusing film about young Iranian woman's love of football.
9. The Cow
- Older Iranian film about a man's love for his cow. Original and amusing.
10. The Wind Will Carry Us
- Thought-provoking. Nicely shot.
20 Favourite Horror / Scary Films
Don't Look Now
Psycho
The Omen
Creep
Halloween
White Noise
Saw
Wolf Creek
Hellraiser
Eraserhead
Black Christmas
Paranormal Activity 2
The Silence of the Lambs
Manhunter
The Haunting
Rosemary's Baby
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Black Swan
The Shuttered Room
The Cook The Thief The Wife Her Lover
10 Favourite Romantic Films
The English Patient
The Reader
Brief Encounter
Betty Blue
The Crying Game
Broken Embraces
Wuthering Heights
Ryan's Daughter
Vertigo
Casablanca
10 Favourite Crime / Gangster / Violent Films
1. The Long Good Friday
2. The Godfather 1
3. The Godfather 2
4. Scarface (Al Pacino)
5. The Cook The Thief The Wife Her Lover
6. White Heat
7. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
8. Rise of the Footsolder
9. The Firm (2009)
10. Snatch
10 Best War / Holocaust Films
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Schindler's List
3. The Deer Hunter
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Downfall
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Bridge Over The River Kwai
8. The Killing Fields
9. The Pianist
10. War Horse
New Films Watched (Released 2011 - Current)
1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (My rating 10/10)
2. The Artist (My rating 10/10)
3. A Separation (My rating 9/10)
4. We Need To Talk About Kevin (My rating 9/10)
5. The Debt (My rating 8/10)
6. War Horse (My rating 8/10)
7. Drive (My rating 8/10)
8. The Skin I Live In (My rating 8/10)
9. Senna (My rating 8/10)
10 Favourite British Films
1. The Long Good Friday
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. The Crying Game
5. The Reader
6. The Third Man
7. Brief Encounter
8. We Need To Talk About Kevin
9. Sleuth
10. The English Patient
11. The Haunting
12. The Cook The Thief The Wife Her Lover
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