Roman Holiday - English - 1953

My Mom was able to understand and appreciate this film and liked it very much.


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Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 1975 - USA

If you are not familiar with the story of King arthur and his Knights of the round table, you can skip this movie.

This movie is a satire on the legend of King Arthur, Holy grail, his Knights of round table.


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The Lost Weekend - 1945 - USA

The Lost weekend is a 1945 film about an alcholic writer. His attempts to turn away from alcholism and his close ones' attempts to cure him
is the story of this film.

Anyone having a habit and trying to kick it off (which makes everyone in the world) will be able to relate to this film.

Lost Weekend in Wikipedia

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The Goonies - English - 1985

If you want to go back to your pre-teen days and wish to have times like what you had after reading Famous five, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew,

The goonies is a nice bet.

The Goonies is a adventure film featuring kids about finding a lost treasure of a pirate hidden in a cliff.

This film was produced by Steven Spielberg, and I believe you cant go wrong with Spielberg.

Zorba The Greek - English - 1964

This movie was suggested by my friend Subbaraman here.

Zorba the greek is the story of a care-free and happy-go-lucky individual played by Anthony quinn.

This movie is set in the island of crete and some scenes were similar to the ones in the recent Italian film, Malena, which was also
set in Create.

Hrishikesh Mukherjees Anand starring Rajesh Khanna also had a overtly optimistic individual as the main character.

Though I liked Anthony quinns acting I did not like the ending and was not convinced of it.


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Before the Rains - India - 2007

Santosh Sivans Only for the festival film, "Before the rains" is a deliciously shot movie in kerala.

I havent seen any other movie which has captured the landscape of Kerala so beautifully.

Can be seen for the good visuals.

The Green Mile - English - 1999

The Green Mile is a fantastic film about an ordinary human with extraordianry powers.

A human who can take the evil things in men and release it back to nature.


A Must watch.



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Where Eagles Dare - English - 1968

Where Eagles dare is a War film set amidst world war 2.

A good war movie.

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V For Vendetta - English - 2005

This movie had screenplay by the Wachowski brothers, the ones who created the Matrix trilogy.

Apart from that, the movie is a story of how in the england of future, an experiment on humans goes wrong and how the totalitarian

government is brought to an end.

The Kite Runner - English - 2007

You will be able to relate to the movie ONLY if you have read the novel earlier.
Hence make sure that you read the book before you see the movie.

The movie doesnt bring anything new but after reading the book I was so fascinated by the book that I was compelled to see the movie.

Kungfu Panda - English - 2008

A good animation movie with a nice story.

Heard that this movie created a furore in china because the chinese have a soft corner for their national animal panda and
they would never try to make a movie with a Panda as a sloppy, lazy, fat character.

Spiderwick Chronicles - English - 2008

A good timepass Fantasy Movie.

Treasure of Sierra Madre - 1948

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 1948



This film is a black and White Adventure story about Gold hunters in Mexico.

A pair of Americans without money and better life decide to try their luck and go on gold digging in the mountains of mexico.


The film tells the story of how they go with treasure search and whether they find their treasure or not and how mans nature changes so easily.


IMDB link : Treasure of Sierra Madre

A slow one but OK.

Its a Wonderful life - 1946 - USA

Its a wonderful life is a feel good family film fit for viewing with kids and family.No wonder it got released in 1946. But dont underestimate for a timepass movie.

Its a well written movie with a good story and nice moments.

The Basic premise of the movies is this " If you are given a chance to see the world where you wont be there, what it will be like?" otherwise stated as "How life would be if you had not met some of the persons in your life".

The book "Five people you meet in heaven" also works on a similar story.

The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

http://imdb.com/title/tt0111161/

The Shawshank redemption is one hell of a movie.
The lead actor is not a well known actor but has done a great job.




The story is simple. A Millionaire banker is accused of killing his wife and is sent
to jail for lifeterm. He goes to shawshank,the jail and spends his time
making friends with the other jailmates and bringing about changes in the jail.




He does not rue over his imprisonment and starts a business from inside the jail in name of a benamy
for the jailwarden who has lot of black money. The banker helps him to convert his black money to white by starting a business
and thereby helps him.



Meanwhile it comes to jailers knowledge that banker is indeed innocent and kills another jailmate who the knowledge that the banker is innocent.
thereby ensuring that banker remains in jail to help him.

But in the meantime the banker digs a tunnel from his room for 20 long years and at the end of it, one fine day
finally escapes from the jail to mexico.



He also tells where he is going to his friend, the role played by Morgon freeman so that he can join him in mexico
when he is set free.

The film is indeed a mustwatch.



The tagline of the movie is "Feat can make you Prisoner. Hope can set you free." which the movie greatly displays by what is possible if one has the hope.

Godfather - 1

Godfather 1

This comes as the top in the IMDB Top 250 films.

A nice movie, I am not sure why most people put this as the best film of all times, but it was good.

The story in short is, A gangster has two sons, one who wants to become the DON like his father, and one who wants to become a good citizen unlike his father.

But circumstances force the second son to become the DON and how he becomes is the story.