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The 10 Best Movies About The Poetry of Everyday Life
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Here’s something most of you have probably figured out already: things don’t always work out like they do in most movies. Sometimes you get the girl, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you get the girl and lose her within a short space of time. It doesn’t matter how much you love her. People have a mind of their own, they don’t follow a conventional movie script. We make plans for this grand future only for something to happen that will forever ruin this future from happening. You ask the Gods why this is happening. You’ve been a good person. You don’t deserve any of this. It’s their silence that hurts the most. Dreams don’t always come true. Movies are full of dreamers who make their dreams come true: Rocky goes the distance, Billy Elliot defies his blue-collar upbringing and becomes a professional ballet dancer, a slumdog can become a millionaire, the short but spirited Rudy can fulfill his dream of playing football for the University of Notre Dame, etc. Sometimes these films can brighten our day and there’s certainly truth to be found in each of these movies. You should chase your dreams. You shouldn’t give up when faced with an obstacle. But sometimes we need to watch something a little closer to life. A little less fluff, a little more human. A film that doesn’t sugarcoat the existential darkness woven into our existence. Something far more relatable. These people on the screen are just like you and me. We are not alone. In this list I have compiled 10 films that celebrate or portray everyday life. Some are more cynical than others, but I thought it was important to not just choose depressing films because even those with daily struggles – though don’t we all have them? – life isn’t constantly depressing. Sometimes it’s perfectly mundane. Sometimes there’s incredible joy to be found in the smallest of things. One film introduces a series of selfish human animals. Another film shows the sadness of a lonely man, the necessity of friendship. There’s redemption in there. There’s the acceptance that things don’t always go as planned. Individuals overcoming bureaucratic entities. There are men on barstools waiting for their lives to start, not realizing that it has already started. There are those who understand that time is running out and begin to make the best of the little time they have. These are films that take their sweet time. They can be slow. They take their time with the environment and the characters. They give us that moment of awareness of the present moment. It’s fleeting, but it’s there. We smile and rejoice. We hope we’ll remember it as life goes on. -
Pitchfork’s 50 Best Movie Scores of All Time (2019)
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. We’re defining scores as original music composed for a film, with recurring motifs and almost always without vocals. This type of work is often the result of a collaboration between a composer and director, and created in tandem with a movie to steadily enhance the narrative onscreen. Put another way: Whereas a soundtrack highlights moments of a movie, a score blankets the entire film. (We’re only looking at narrative films in this list; we are not including documentaries.) -
Badmovies.org - Every Review
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. A website to the detriment of good film The goal of any movie is to entertain. This might sound strange, but who cares if a movie is poorly acted and filled with ridiculous special effects? What matters is if the movie keeps you entertained. The site's whole reason for being is to celebrate the quirky films that I find so enjoyable. Well, most of them are enjoyable. Some of the movies I watch cause me quite a bit of pain, but I love them anyway. Since we always hurt the ones we love, I will assume that the movies are loving me right back. Not on IMDB: The Curse of Count Chocula (2001) MALEORVS (1990) Rock'n With Satan (2002) Tales Til the End (1996) Terror on the Wind (1999) -
The 15 Best Movies About Resilience
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress— such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors. It means “bouncing back” from difficult experiences (American Psychological Association). However, even though resilient people can survive the tragedies they have endured, it does not mean that they do not experience emotional pain, difficulty or distress. As with most things, a combination of factors contribute to resilience – mainly having supportive relationships that encourage love and reassurance, problem solving skills, the capacity to make realistic plans and take steps to carry them out and managing strong feelings and impulses. The listed films provide a wide range of instances in which the characters must endure their pain and trauma, and continue living. An important distinction must be made between resilience and revenge. While there may be fights against injustice and an aim for retribution in these resilient-themed films, the characters do not use harmful means to do so – which is the main component in vengeance films like “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”, The Vengeance Trilogy, and Memento, and hence why these and others are not listed. -
The 15 Best Movies About Teenage Ennui
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. While each stage in our growth and development as human beings has its fair share of conflict and hardship, none is as tempestuous and complicated as adolescence. It is the time of loss of innocence, when we have to leave the cradle in which we so happily romped to take a look at a world that most of the time is cruel and indifferent. It is a time of great transformation and discovery; our bodies change in such amazing ways and so fast that we feel dazzled and mesmerized. Our intellect develops more than ever before, our emotions grow deeper, and our cravings become more complex. It is in adolescence that we define ourselves by our own terms, and when we try to know who we are. We discover sex, love, passion, and our lives are filled with great intensity and energy. But we also come across pain, fear, confusion, and many other negative feelings that make us feel distraught and tired. The death of innocence comes as particularly painful, for we realize that things are and always will be far from ideal; we realize that the world is ugly, love is unsatisfactory, and our search for answers is unfruitful. That’s why philosophers such as Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus are so popular around teenagers; they realized how absurd things are and created a philosophical system around that fact. Such conflictive discoveries can lead those inclined toward melancholy to an utter dissatisfaction with the world, to an unexplainable sense of loss. ‘Ennui’ can be defined as a sort of existential boredom, one that isn’t necessarily a consequence of an eventless environment, but one that spawns from the belief that nothing good is ever going to happen. It’s an emotional tiredness that is often accompanied by depressive states. Here I present a compilation of 15 films in which ennui during the teenage years is explored and portrayed in its wide array of manifestations. -
10 Great Movies That Explore Human Alienation
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Some of the best movies ever made have been inspired by loneliness and isolation. There is still something to be said for the film that shines a light on the theme of alienation. By returning to this timeless concept, and taking a look at all the different lonely characters in film, there are lessons to be learned for our own lives. Here are 10 of the best films that explore human alienation. -
Queerty's 10 beautiful, sexy films that celebrate Black queer love
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. By David Reddish February 14, 2022 at 9:02am Updated on June 16, 2022 We’ve gone back through our cinematic archives to mine some of our favorite depictions of Black, queer love in the movies. These films profiled here explore love in all its forms, from friendship to romance to self-love with probing power. From Oscar winners to indie gems, they offer perspectives on race, gender, sexuality, and relationships that touch our hearts, and that we will not soon forget. Grab the popcorn and someone beautiful, and get ready to stream… -
ICM Forum's Favorite Sequels Top 200
Favs/dislikes: 3:1. Sequels: often looked down upon as inferior to the original. Still there have been many sequels that have been great (also), some even better than the original. These are the 200 favorite sequels of ICMForum.com [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+favorite+sequels+complete+list/lonewolf2003/]Complete List[/url] -
TSZDT: Most votes 2020s
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. The top 170 have 2+ votes. Ranked only based on number of lists each film appears in at the moment. -
ICM Forum's Favorite Sequels Complete List
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Sequels: often looked down upon as inferior to the original. Still there have been many sequels that have been great (also), some even better than the original. These are all movies voted for in the poll for favorite sequels at ICMForum.com [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+favorite+sequels+top+200/lonewolf2003/]Top 200[/url] -
Marie Claire's 53 Vintage Porn Movies That Are Totally Iconic
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Marie Claire's The 21 Best Softcore Porn Movies Ever
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. not on imdb Man of my Dreams I didn't add the entire Emmanuelle series bc of the reported dropoff in quality after II Red Shoe Diaries is a movie and a series -
iCM Forum's Favorite Movies from 1931
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. The Year by Year Poll results for 1931 from iCMForum.com, conducted in February 2023. -
Far Out's Every movie referenced at the end of Babylon
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Going through the final sequence of Babylon, we’ve compiled a list of every movie referenced. Listing every movie in the chronological order in which they appear in the montage, take a rapid tour through film history below. Not found on IMDB: 0-45 (TV Cultura de São Paulo, 1974) -
Empire The 100 Best Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. "It’s a big question: what are the best movies of all time? And it’s one with many answers – there are all kinds of reasons why the greatest films ever made endure in the way they do. They create unforgettable images, conjure overwhelming emotions, craft thrilling stories, and deliver characters who leap off the screen. There’s astonishing technical mastery that brings those stories to life, plots that twist and turn in all kinds of unexpected ways, performances that help us fall head-over-heels for people who don’t exist, and transcendent experiences that change our heads and hearts. The best films – from classic movies that have stood the test of time, to contemporary works that changed the game – offer heartwarming comfort, iconic scares, big laughs, and pulse-pounding suspense, becoming firm audience favourites and garnering critical acclaim. In creating a list of the 100 best movies of all time, Empire asked readers to share their picks – a selection of movies that comfort, challenge, and pioneer. Films that blow your mind, help you see things from a new perspective, and that continue to shape cinema as we know it today. Films that make you feel something. Combining reader votes with critics’ choices from Team Empire, here we have it – read it in full below." --Empire Online -
SensCritique best movies of 2023
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iCheckMovies's Pre-1910s Top 100
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Yardbarker's The 25 Best Prison Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Updated December 28, 2022 | By Matt Sulem It has been over 25 years since the release of “The Shawshank Redemption,” a prison escape film based on the 1982 Stephen King novella “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.” It's arguably one of the best movies ever made. The film is undoubtedly synonymous with the prison genre, but it’s not the only flick about life in the clink. To celebrate more than a quarter-century of "Shawshank," here are the 25 best prison movies of all time. Note: List does not appear to be ranked. -
Looper's 45 Best Prison Movies of All Time Ranked
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. BY BARRY LEVITT / MARCH 24, 2022 12:59 AM EST There's something compelling about a look behind bars –- for many movie fans, prison films are their only experience with the world of incarceration. Prison movies take audiences to places unknown, often bringing us face to face with hardened criminals. Many great prison movies take us deeper, showing us things we didn't expect, whether it's a criminal with surprising kindness, or the brutal conditions faced by inmates the world over. Films about prison can transport us to unique and fascinating worlds, and many successfully hold a mirror up to society, exposing our bizarre desires to see people suffer. Great prison movies go deeper than this, of course, exposing the remarkable humanity that can exist in prisoner-of-war camps, jails, and chain gangs. They provide insight into this unknown society, and while there are certainly heavy connotations to the prison movie, many subvert them with wicked, often clever humor. Exploring the genre of prison movies yields rich results, especially in a surprisingly diverse slate of films that cover every facet of a life behind bars. In honor of this fascinating, frightening, thrilling, challenging, and sometimes heartwarming genre, here are the 45 best prison movies of all time ranked. -
Stuff's 25 Best Prison Movies Ever
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. The greatest caged classics of all time – all boxed into one list Sam Kieldsen 8 August 2013 / 14:45 BST Choky. The pen. The can. The cooler. The clink. The nick. The big house. And, indeed, the slammer. Just some of the many slang terms we have prison, and the concept of a life behind bars has proven a rich seam for filmmakers to mine – whether they’re making a comedy, an action romp, a crusading morality tale, a musical, a sports film (yes, there’s actually quite a few of these) or simply a piece of good old-fashioned entertainment. Since people have made movies, movies have been set in jails, and there’s an absolutely brilliant stack of must-see prison flicks that should be on any self-respecting cineaste’s watch list. In between sips of (surprisingly potent) ‘wine’ lovingly fermented in our toilet cistern, we’ve racked our collective brains and compiled this line-up of our 25 favourite films about life in the joint. All you need to do is bring the popcorn – and the shiv. Note: List does not appear to be ranked. -
IndieWire's Our 15 Favorite Prison Breaks at the Movies
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. The Playlist Staff Oct 15, 2013 2:01 pm “You’ll like it, it’s about a prison break” says Andy Dufresne in “The Shawshank Redemption” about the book they’re shelving, Alexander Dumas’ “The Count of Monte Cristo.” “We oughta file that under ‘educational’ too, oughtn’t we?” quips Red in reply, and indeed, with the sheer number of prison escape books and movies that exist, you’d imagine that all a really dedicated inmate has to do is watch or read enough of them before they’d stumble across a plot that could be adapted for their own situation. (Note: The Playlist does not condone real-life attempts at fleeing prison unless you’re totally innocent, a prisoner of war or you have a really cool plan that involves disguises and dummies and stuff.) This week a movie in a similar vein is released and we highly doubt it will be accused of having any educational content whatsoever: “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/escape+plan/]Escape Plan[/url].” Starring brawny side of aged beef Sylvester Stallone and tanned leather pommel horse Arnold Schwarzenegger, the film puts “the world’s foremost authority on structural security” (that’s a thing?) into the “world’s most top-secret escape-proof prison” (also a thing?) and has him team up with his cellmate to devise an exit strategy while also finding out who framed him and why. While this film (previously titled “The Tomb”) may look dumber than a bucket of hair, and has been strangely un-buzzy despite its starry cast (Jim Caviezel, 50 Cent, Vincent D’Onofrio, Vinnie Jones and Amy Ryan also appear), we’re fully prepared to accept that it’s could be a lot of fun in a brainless, unreconstructed way, mainly because as often-visited as the territory may be, we have kind of a weakness for prison break films, even when they’re ever so silly. Perhaps it’s something metaphorical about anti-authoritarianism and sticking it to the man or perhaps we’ve killed a bunch of people (watch those critical comments guys!) and realize it’s just a matter of time before we’re caught and incarcerated ourselves. Whatever the truth is here’s a jolly good sampler of 15 of our arbitrarily chosen favorite movie prison breaks, and what we might be able to learn from them. Be warned, though, since we’re talking about the success or failure of the schemes, here be *SPOILERS* throughout. There are a gazillion prison break films, of course, ranging from all-out comedies (“[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+parole+officer/]The Parole Officer[/url],” “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/lucky+break/]Lucky Break[/url],” “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/stir+crazy/]Stir Crazy[/url]” “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/o+brother+where+art+thouquestion/]O Brother Where Art Thou?[/url]” among others) to gritty dramas (“[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/papillon/]Papillon[/url],” “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/midnight+express/]Midnight Express[/url],” “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/brute+force/]Brute Force[/url],” “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/runaway+train/]Runaway Train[/url]” “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+defiant+ones/]The Defiant Ones[/url],” “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/lonely+are+the+brave/]Lonely are the Brave[/url]” to name just a few) and hitting all points in between. And no doubt you’ll have your favorites that we missed out so feel free to shout them out in the comments below especially if there’s one that you feel boasts a particularly ingenious and/or foolproof plan. You never know, right? Note: List does not appear to be ranked. See also: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/indiewires+25+essential+prison+movies/fergenaprido/]IndieWire's 25 Essential Prison Movies[/url] -
IndieWire's 25 Essential Prison Movies
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. The Playlist Staff Jul 23, 2015 2:03 pm Kyle Patrick Alvarez‘s “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+stanford+prison+experiment/]The Stanford Prison Experiment[/url],” now playing in limited release, took fourteen years to get made, and finally arrived at Sundance 2015 with a stellar ensemble including Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Olivia Thirlby, Tye Sheridan and Michael Angarano. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the uncompromising nature of the film, the reception was divided (our own rave is here) but even those on the more negative end of the spectrum tended to use words like “compelling,” “vivid” and “effective” in their critiques. And those are adjectives that this film (which scooped the Screenwriting award for Tim Talbott) shares with the best in the wide and variegated genre of the prison movie. The microcosmic possibilities of life on the inside have been mined many times for dramas, comedies, spoofs and thrillers that, while set in penal institutions or situations that resemble them, actually comment on human psychology or on the society outside those walls. And we got to thinking about our own favorite prison movies through the ages. Here are 25 we’d consider a great primer in the genre. Honorable Mentions If you’ve seen all the above, you’re a) really into prison movies and b) probably hankering for more, so here’s another few titles we debated including (out of the many hundreds of films that qualify): [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+green+mile/]The Green Mile[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/cube/]The Cube[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/caged/]Caged[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/caged+heat/]Caged Heat[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/stir+crazy/]Stir Crazy[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+longest+yard-1974/]The Longest Yard[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/carandiru/]Carandiru[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/scum/]Scum[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+escapist/]The Escapist[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/victory/]Escape to Victory[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+rock/]The Rock[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/on+death+row/]Death Row[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/into+the+abyss-2011/]Into the Abyss[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+life+and+mind+of+mark+defriest/]The Life and Mind of Mark deFriest[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/tattooed+tears/]Tattooed Tears[/url] –Jessica Kiang, Erik McClanahan, Oliver Lyttelton, Rodrigo Perez [b]Notes[/b]: - List does not appear to be ranked. - I removed most of the HM text and just included the mentioned films. See also: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/indiewires+our+15+favorite+prison+breaks+at+the+movies/fergenaprido/]IndieWire's Our 15 Favorite Prison Breaks at the Movies[/url] -
Variety's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
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The MUBI Top 1000
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. [Updated weekly: Latest Monday July 17th, 2023] The greatest films ever made, as voted by MUBI’s global community of film lovers. -
SensCritique best movies of 2007
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. 21/12/2022
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