My Favourite Movies... Recommended Rentals

These are my movie recommendations, incomplete and in no particular order. Mostly dramas and dramatic comedies. They typically are not suitable for children. Assume a R rating for each one.


THE COMEDIES


THE DRAMAS


CRIME

L.A. Confidential. An elaborately casted and filmed crime thriller about police corruption in Los Angeles in the fifties.

Bound -- a thriller about two women who try to rob a lot of money from organized crime with sex, murder, and smarts.

Jackie Brown -- Tarantino tells a smooth tale about crime, criminals, and money, where a bail-bondsman walks a tightrope with a career criminal and arms dealer (Samuel Jackson).

The Bad Lieutenant -- the descent and suffering of a corrupt, addicted policeman.

The Last Seduction. A beautiful woman with no conscience seeks power and money, using her sex appeal to manipulate men into her con games.

House of Games. David Mamet's complex movie about con-men who scam for a living, told from the perspective of a psychologist who is given a back-door past into the confidence world.

One False Move. A suspenseful crime thriller about three killers driving across southern United States toward a small town where a naive sheriff and two FBI wait for their arrival.

Chinatown. A classic post-noir mystery set in Los Angeles in the fifties. A private investigator (Jack Nicolson) becomes entangled in a murder and money scheme.

A Simple Plan -- three men find millions in a wrecked airplane nobody else knows about.

Silence of the Lambs -- a young FBI woman helps conduct an investigation into a serial killer.

Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer -- an intimate look at the day to day existence of a serial killer.

FOREIGN

Camille Claudel. A french, subtitled movie about a female sculptor in the nineteenth century who was an apprentice to the famous Rodin. Beautifully acted and filmed drama.

Wings of Desire. A German drama about an angel that falls in love with a human woman and wishes he were human in order to love her.

Cyrano de Bergerac. A classic French drama about a robust, poetic soldier with an enormous nose who uses a handsome double to serenade a woman with his poetry.

Ran. A Japanese drama, subtitled, about a medieval shogun whose children betray him for power. Powerful and intense story.

Das Boot -- German, subtitled, a story about German submarine crew in world war two.

Blue -- french, subtitled, about a woman who copes after a tragic car accident. First movie in the trilogy.

White -- french, subtitled, a man rebuilds his life after being robbed. Second in the trilogy.

Red -- french, subtitled, a model returns an injured dog and develops a relationship with its elderly owner. Last of the trilogy.

The Delicatessen -- french, subtitled, a black comedy set in a post apocalyptic world.

ASSORTED

Lord of The Rings Trilogy. JRR Tolkien's wonderous books about the struggle of the good against overpowering evil.

The Exorcist. Horror movie about a child that becomes possessed by a demon and must be exorcised.

The Omen. A horror about a child of a politician that is actually the son of Satan.

Volcano: The Life of Malcolm Lowry. A documentary about the alcoholic writer, narrated in part by Richard Burton.