Beautiful Movies to Watch

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Beautiful movies to watch are not a frequent experience: sometimes to find a beautiful and unforgettable movies we have to first watch dozens and dozens of disappointing movies that leave us feeling like we’ve wasted our time. It is true that the perception of a good movies is something totally subjective. But when a movies resists the oblivion of the passage of time and brings together millions of viewers and the whole world of movies criticism, it can be said that it is objectively a must see movie. A beautiful movies is not necessarily a masterpiece but it can be beautiful in its specific genre and for different reasons. In this list we have included the beautiful movies to be seen absolutely for any cinephile worthy of this definition, leaving aside our opinion and relying on data and on those movies that have totally won their challenge over the years. They are movies that even though they polarized critics at the time of their release but have become timeless classics that have everyone agreeing on their artistic value. 

MOVIES TO WATCH

Nosferatu (1922)

Thomas Hutter is sent to Transylvania by his company, real estate agent Herr Knock, to check out a new client called Count Orlok who intends to buy a house identical to the Hutter’s house. As his journey begins, Hutter goes to an inn where the owners are shocked at merely mentioning Orlok’s name.

Haunted Land and the Call of the Deathbird: One of the earliest (albeit unapproved) adaptations of Dracula is still among the most shocking, a masterpiece of the expressionist cinema. Max Schreck’s bug-like effectiveness as the savage Count Orlok is just as creepy as it was a century earlier. The haunting images of a twilight world by the German expressionist director FW Murnau actually influenced generations of future horror movies.

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

This must-see drama was set amidst the heat of Soviet propaganda and used by the Communist federal government to commemorate an event 20 years earlier. It tells about the sailors’ uprising that takes place in the city of Odessa; the movies is most popular for an incredible scene of a baby carriage falling down the steps of the Odessa staircase. Battleship Potemkin is full of stunning images, and the director Sergei Eisenstein is truly considered among the inventors of cinematic language, with his huge impact over the years.

MOVIES TO WATCH

The General (1926)

To please Annabelle, Johnnie fasts to be the first to enlist in the American Civil War, however he is rejected because he is a much more valuable engineer . When he leaves, he meets Annabelle’s father and brother, who invite him to join them in line to enlist, but he leaves, leaving them with the impression that he does not want to participate in the war.

Johnnie catches the train, misses the train, chases pressure from the union who took the train, gets the train back and ends up with directives to the contrary as well. It might not sound like your typical romantic love, but that’s just what’s fun about it. Among the most famous artists in the history of cinema, Buster Keaton uses cinematography, rhythm and comic timing, all supported by enormous talent. 

M (1931)

A woman sets the table for lunch, waiting for her little girl to come home from school. A poster warns of a serial killer who captures children while a mother and father wait outside a school. Little Elsie Beckmann drops out of college. The killer buys her a football from a blind street vendor. Elsie’s seat at the table remains empty and her balloon is lost in the sky.

Among those beautiful movies that straddle the borderline between the silent cinema and the sound era, yet make use of the virtues of both, the serial killer movies burns with exceptionally deep visual darkness. The theme of the movies is vigilance: we must keep our children safe, but who can protect society from itself? Must-see work of art by the celebrated director Fritz Lang.

Vampyr (1932)

Among the beautiful movies of horror cinema. Late at night, Allan Gray goes to an inn near the Courtempierre district and takes a room to rest. Gray is suddenly interrupted by an old man, who creeps into the room and leaves a square box on the table: on the cover it says “To be opened at my death”. Gray reaches an old castle where he sees an old man and an old lady. Looking out the windows of the house, Gray sees the owner of the castle, the same man who offered him the bundle. The man is killed immediately after by a gunshot.

Vampyr by Carl Theodor Dreyer is made in the years of transition between sound and silent cinema, using the visual language of the former to bring the horror movies in the new period. In Vampyr reigns a consistent feeling of stress and anxiety and imperceptible metaphysical presences that hide in every corner. Rudolph Maté’s photography movies every shade of dark and light in an astonishing dance. Pictorial images that have entered the history of cinema, such as that of a man with a scythe ringing a bell or the sign of an inn that stretches out against a gloomy sky. Cult scenes such as the one in which Allan is placed in a coffin by the vampire’s henchmen, in which Dreyer uses a claustrophobic subjective point of view. A beautiful movie.

MOVIES TO WATCH

Modern Times (1936)

The Tramp works an assembly line, where he suffers greatly from stress and anxiety due to the speed of work. He ends up in prison where he unwittingly consumes smuggled drugs. When informed that he will soon be infamous for his daring deeds, he states that he is choosing life in prison. Among the beautiful movies of the comedy genre, non-stop creative never catches a break. The gags come quick with Chaplin’s style spurred here by situations that seem purpose-built to end in disaster.

His Girl Friday (1940)

Walter Burns is the editor of The Morning Post newspaper who discovers that his ex-wife and prominent reporter, Hildegard ” Hildy” Johnson, will marry her new boyfriend, boring insurance broker Bruce Baldwin, to make a quiet life as a wife and mother in Albany, New York. Walter chooses to prevent this from happening and lures a hesitant Hildy to tell one last news story: the impending execution of Earl Williams, an accountant convicted of murdering an African-American law enforcement officer. Hildy forcefully insists that she and Bruce will take an overnight train to Albany to be married the next day, Walter tries to motivate her by stating that she is the only one who can make up a story to save Williams, who has been wrongfully found guilty.

Among the many beautiful movies directed by the director Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday is the comedy more captivating and dialogued. The laconic Hawks would create his lifelong proto-feminism with this movies: strong women who work far better than male reporters were simply what he wanted to movies and report. A beautiful and funny movies that you can enjoy if you like the dialogues.

Rashomon (1950)

The story begins in the Heian period in Kyoto. A priest and a woodcutter are sitting under the city gate of Rashōmon to stay dry during a rainstorm when a man (Kichijiro Ueda) joins them and they begin to tell an incredibly disturbing story relating to a rape and murder. Each of them gives very different accounts of the same story.

It is no exaggeration to state the samurai movies Rashomon has effectively redefined cinematic storytelling and it is among the beautiful movies in the history of cinema. With its shifting and unreliable narrative structure – in which four people give various accounts of a murder – the movies is exceptionally vibrant and also serves as a reminder of how we can all be deceived. Almost 70 years after its release, moviesmakers are still trying to match the results of this masterpiece.

Ugetsu (1953)

In the farming town of Nakanogō on the coast of Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province for the duration of Sengoku, Genjūrō, a potter, brings his wares to nearby Ōmizo. He is accompanied by his brother-in-law Tobei, who wishes to become a samurai. A revered sage informs Genjūrō’s partner Miyagi to warn him of the riots and attacks on the city. Returning with the earnings, Miyagi asks him to stop going to town to sell the pots, however Genjūrō ​​works to complete his pottery. That night, Shibata Katsuie’s army destroys Nakanogō.

Genjūrō ​​chooses to bring his pots to a different market. As the couples cross Lake Biwa, a boat appears from the thick haze. The one tourist tells them that he was actually attacked by pirates, alerts them and dies. The men choose to take their women back to the coast, but Ohama refuses to return.

Greed, respect for family members, self respect are some of the themes of this beautiful movies of the Japanese cinema. The movies won the Silver Lion at the 1953 Venice movies Festival along with other awards. Ugetsu is one of the most popular movies of Mizoguchi, regarded by critics as a work of art, credited with helping to promote Japanese cinema in the West and influencing subsequent Japanese cinema. Likewise is a esoteric movies that can be interpreted on various levels.

Tokyo Story (1953)

Retired couple Shūkichi and Tomi Hirayama live in Onomichi, western Japan, with their daughter Kyōko, an elementary school teacher. The couple travel to Tokyo to see their widowed son, daughter and daughter-in-law. Their eldest son, Kōichi, is a doctor who runs a small town in rural Tokyo. Their eldest son, Shige, who runs a hair salon. Kōichi and Shige are both extremely hectic with work and don’t have much time for themselves. Only their widowed daughter-in-law, Noriko, their son Shōji’s wife, finds time to be with them.

A beautiful movies about a family drama made with rigor and perfection. Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama are touching and dignified as parents who visit their children and grandchildren, only to be ignored. Always shot with the camera a couple of centimeters from the ground, the masterpiece of Yasujiro Ozu is a beautiful, grand and intimate movies. 

MOVIES TO WATCH

A Man Escaped (1956)

En route to prison, Fontaine, a member of the French Resistance, attempts to escape from German soldiers when the car carrying him stops, however he is imprisoned, beaten for his escape attempt, handcuffed and sentenced to prison. At first he is placed in a prison cell where he can talk to 3 young French boys in the courtyard. The men obtain a safety pin for Fontaine, which gives him the ability to open the handcuffs.

This beautiful movies is based on the memoirs of André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance arrested in Montluc prison by the Germans during World War II. The main character of the movies is called Fontaine.himself Robert Bresson was put behind bars by the Germans in the French Resistance. The second part of the title comes from the Bible. Must-see arthouse movies: practically all shot in a cell, with only one actor, no sets. Real rigor, real cinema. The best of Bresson together with Au hasard Balthasar.

The Seventh Seal (1957)

Knight Antonius Block and his squire Jöns return from the crusades to find their country destroyed by the plague. The knight meets Death, whom he challenges to chess, thinking he can hold on as long as the game goes on. The game they start continues throughout the tale. The knight and his squire pass in front of a caravan of actors: Jof and his companion Mia, with their son Mikael and actor-manager Jonas Skat. Beautiful and dramatic movies about the death of Ingmar Bergman is among the essential movies in the history of cinema.

The 400 Blows (1959)

The first of an autobiographical collection of 5 movies, The 400 Blows of Francois Truffaut is the story of Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), stuck in an unpleasant adolescence with his parents. Antoine finds solace in wandering around, smoking cigarettes and seeing friends. Beautiful movies about a little boy struggling to accept the corrupt world of poetic and genuine adults as rarely happens. The artwork that gave birth to the Nouvelle Vague.

Vertigo (1958)

After a rooftop chase, in which another cop is killed, San Francisco investigator John “Scottie” Ferguson retreats for fear of heights. Scottie struggles to cope with her stress and anxiety, but her ex-girlfriend, underwear designer Marjorie “Midge” Wood, says one more extreme psychological shock may be the only cure.

Gavin Elster, a college associate, asks Scottie to follow his wife, Madeleine, specifying that she has been acting strange and her habits are unusual. Scottie reluctantly agrees and follows Madeleine to a florist where she buys a flower arrangement, to the Mission San Francisco de Asís and the burial site of Carlotta Valdes and the Legion of Honor art gallery where she checks out the Portrait of Carlotta . He sees her enter the McKittrick Hotel. 

Beautiful movies and psychological thriller considered the work of art by Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo is full of suspense and existential themes. Alternating Edith Head’s clothes, Kim Novak plays 2 roles: Madeleine Elster and Judy Barton, both loved by James Stewart’s ex-cop. To conclude this thriller masterpiece there is the music of Bernard Herrmann, which develops into an imperious finale.

La Dolce Vita (1960)

Beautiful movies made in the middle of the Italian boom years, Federico Fellini’s success tells the story of the aristocracy and its decline. The movies made Marcello Mastroianni a star with the role of a journalist involved in the crazy world of Roman nightlife. Paradoxically, the movies’s portrayal of this milieu as a soul-destroying hedonism is startling. Due to the fact that Fellini movies everything with such cinematic vigor and wit that it is often hard not to get caught up in the frenzied events on screen. Much of how we see celebrity still goes back to this movie that even created the word paparazzi. He is among those movies that change your life.

The Adventure (1960)

While Claudia waits downstairs, Anna and Sandro have sex in her house. The following morning, with a luxury yacht, they reach the Aeolian Islands in the north of Sicily. Having passed Basiluzzo, Anna dives into the water for a swim and Sandro leaps after her. Sandro tries to save her when Anna screams that she saw a shark.

Anna confesses to Claudia that the shark was a lie to arouse Sandro’s interest. On one of the smaller islands, Lisca Bianca, Anna and Sandro discuss their problematic relationship. Anna is dissatisfied with her long business trips. Sandro neglects his problems and sleeps on the rocks.

This beautiful movies was born from a story by Antonioni written with Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra, a story about the disappearance of a woman (Lea Massari) during a boat trip in the Mediterranean, and the subsequent betrayal of her lover (Gabriele Ferzetti) with his friend (Monica Vitti) It was moviesed in Rome, the Aeolian Islands and Sicily in 1959 in difficult economic and physical conditions. A work of art to see to understand the essence of Antonioni’s cinema and its effect on all other moviesmakers.

Accattone (1961)

Vittorio (Franco Citti), nicknamed “Accattone”, leads a life of slacker until his street woman, Maddalena, is exploited by competitors and convicted. Without a stable income, he initially tries to exploit his child’s mother, but is rejected by his parents; after which he meets Stella and tries to make her a woman of the street. She wants to try, but when her first client starts hitting her, she cries and runs away. Accattone attempts to support her, but after having an unusual vision of his own death, he leaves with his friends.

Regardless of whether it was moviesed from a movies script, Accattone is a movies adaptation of Pasolini’s early stories, especially Ragazzi di vita and Una vita violenta. It was Pasolini’s first movies as a director, and uses exceptional direction which later became Pasolini’s trademark Shot with non-professional actors from the place where the movies is set, it is among the most beautiful movies in cinema history to see absolutely.

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

During an official dinner in the elegant castle of Señor Edmundo Nóbile and his wife Lucía, the servants inexplicably leave their duties until only the butler remains. After dinner, guests meet in the lounge where a woman is playing a piano. Later, when they are due to return home, visitors bizarrely take off their coats, loosen up their clothes, and choose to sleep on couches, chairs, and the floor.

Visitors consume what little food and drink they have left over from the previous night. Only Dr. Carlos Conde remains calm and leads the fearful group. Elder Sergio Russell dies and his body is placed in a large closet. Beautiful movies not to be missed, among the peaks of surrealist cinema.

MOVIES TO WATCH

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Carnival of Souls is a beautiful and artistically authentic movies by a first-time director, but mostly forgotten in its preliminary release until its rediscovery years later have turned it into a real one cult movies. It’s a little one movies about demons, mourning and restless spirits. The plot tells of a girl (Candace Hilligoss) on the run from her past who is haunted by visions of a pale, demonic man, played by director Herk Harvey. Carnival of Souls is a ghost movies made on a low budget, and has even been described as a cult movies by directors such as David Lynch.

8 1/2 (1963)

Guido Anselmi, a popular Italian director, is facing “director’s block”. Stuck in his new sci-fi movies which consists of veiled autobiographical references, he doesn’t like the life he leads, between creative and marital worries. While trying to recover from the stress and anxieties at the thermal baths of Chianciano, Guido contacts a famous movies critic to evaluate his movies’s screenplay, but the critic tears it to pieces.

Guido has repeated visions of an angelic woman dressed in white vital to his story. His lover Carla prepares to visit him, but Guido puts her in another hotel so as not to be discovered. The movies’s production team moves into Guido’s hotel in an attempt to get him to take over the movies. Guido admits to his wife’s friend, Rosella, that he wanted to make a movies that was pure and genuine: he’s championing something sincere to say.

After the success of La dolce vita, Federico Fellini creates this autobiographical work of art about a director experiencing a creative block. Taking its title from the number of movies Fellini had effectively finished up to that point, Half past eight shows Guido besieged by sycophants, journalists, actresses and producers as he struggles to get a science fiction movies started. Cult movie of the most famous directors from around the world, Fellini’s movies was imitated in several subsequent movies. A beautiful and unattainable movies to understand the greatest peaks of cinema.

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

In the French countryside near the Pyrenees, a donkey is embraced by children: Jacques and his sister, who live on a farm. When one of Jacques’ sisters dies, his family leaves the farm and Marie’s family takes ownership of the donkey. Marie’s father gets involved in lawsuits over the farm with Jacques’ father and the donkey is relegated to a bakery for shipping work.

Influenced by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot from 1868-69, this beautiful movies tells of a donkey that goes through several owners, some of whom treat it violently. Robert Bresson’s formidable direction makes it one of the best movies of all time.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

In an ancient era, apelike individuals are pushed from their waterhole by a competing tribe. The next day, they find an alien monolith has appeared among them; it helps them understand exactly how to use a bone as a weapon and fend off their enemies. Countless years later, Dr. Heywood Floyd, president of the US National Astronautics Council, travels to Clavius ​​Base, a US lunar station. His goal is to examine a monolith buried 4 million years ago near the lunar crater Tycho. He and others take a trip on a Moonbus to the monolith.

2001: A Space Odyssey is a masterpiece of science fiction cinema, a story of technological progress and human catastrophe with multiple meanings. A stripped-down, jaw-dropping sci-fi movies, with psychedelic visuals, one of the best movies ever made. The frightening vision of the future of Stanley Kubrick – AI and all – still looks prophetic after more than 50 years. A beautiful movies that you absolutely must see if you like the art of moving images: sonic and visual ecstasy.

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The 4 protagonist criminals of the movies enter a house, beat up an old writer and also rape his wife, who then dies. When an attempted theft fails and Alex kills an elderly lady with a large marble phallus, he is sentenced to 14 years in prison. Nestled in an England from dystopian movies, is the first-person account of a young offender who goes through state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation. A work of cinematic art, a beautiful movies to watch and watch again, it is an extraordinary satire on political power and manipulation.

The Godfather (1972)

From the essays of Goodfellas to The Sopranos, all the criminal empires that followed The Godfather are Corleones boys: Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus is among the influential works of art of the mafia movie. A sizable opening line (“I Believe in America”) sets Mario Puzo’s drama in motion, before the epic movies becomes a chilling tale that shatters the American dream.

The story steeped in corruption tells of an immigrant family facing the paradoxical values ​​of power and faith; those ethical oppositions take shape in a legendary series of baptisms, perfectly curated in parallel with the killing of 4 characters of power between the clans. With many famous scenes – the severed head of a horse, the breathy voice of Marlon Brando, the waltz of Nino Rota – this beautiful movies stands the test of time.

Fellini Roma (1972)

Federico Fellini recounts his youth in Rome. The movies opens with a boisterous and astounding crowd beckoning the boy as he gets off a train at Termini station. Fellini (Gonzales) moves into a large Roman apartment populated by grotesque individuals (with a Benito Mussolini impersonator) and managed by an overweight woman. The young man visits 2 brothels – one tiny and overcrowded and the other larger and more elegant – and has sex with a prostitute who works in the latter. There is a cheap vaudeville theater, roads, tunnels and an ancient catacomb with frescoes that get damaged by the fresh air soon after the excavators find it.

Among the best-known scenes are an elderly noblewoman holding an extravagant church-style parade for a cardinal and several other visitors with nuns and priests parading in all kinds of unusual outfits. It is a homage to the city, shown in a series of loosely connected self-contained sequences, set in both present and past Rome. The plot is extremely small, and the only “character” to assert itself significantly is Rome itself. Peter Gonzales plays the young Fellini and the movies is made up of numerous non-professional actors. Beautiful movies, visionary, psychedelic, delusional. Each scene is a work of art, a movies within a movies. Every shot, even those that last just 2 seconds, is a painting worthy of a prestigious art gallery. Among the most fantastic visual journeys of the ‘900.

Amarcord (1973)

In Borgo San Giuliano, a town near Rimini, the arrival of poplar seeds carried by the wind heralds the arrival of spring. As night falls, the townspeople make their way to the town square for a bonfire in which the Old Winter Witch is burned. People play tricks on each other, they set off fireworks.

School under fascism is a bore of grotesque instructors and cold days. Titta does not reveal Don Balosa in his confession of his masturbatory activities, thinking of Gradisca, a seductive lady. The fascist authorities arrive in the city and the schoolchildren are contacted to carry out athletic training. Titta’s good friend Ciccio has visions of being married to Aldina, with the huge face of Mussolini celebrating the wedding. 

The title of the movies is a word created from the Romagna expression am ‘arcôrd (“I remember”) The character of Titta is inspired by Fellini’s youth companion, Luigi Titta Benzi, from Rimini. Benzi ended up being a lawyer and continued to keep in close contact with Fellini throughout his life. A work of art filled with humanity and poetry, it is a beautiful movies and a must-see for all, even those who don’t quite understand Fellini’s more intricate movies.

MOVIES TO WATCH

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels (1975)

This is not simply a arthouse movies, but a window into a universal condition, depicted in a structuralist design. Bringing us into the normality of everyday life, Chantal Akerman and actress Delphine Seyrig develop an incredible sense of compassion rarely matched by other movies. Jeanne Dielman represents total dedication to a woman’s life, hour by hour, minute by minute.

Taxi Driver (1976)

Travis Bickle is a 26-year-old Vietnam War veteran struggling with mental problems. He lives alone in New York City. Travis gets a job as a cab driver at night to manage his sleep disturbances and loneliness. He often goes to the pornographic theaters on 42nd Street and keeps a journal in which he attempts to write down his ideas. He rebels against the crime and degeneration of the city he witnesses, and is obsessed with the thought of clearing the streets of criminals.

A journey to a lost New York and a portrait of a troubled boy, Taxi Driver is a beautiful movies that influenced the New Hollywood of the 70s. The vision of Martin Scorsese is suspended between drama and noir, and the screenplay of Paul Schrader’s movies also probes the depths of the human soul provided by Robert De Niro’s remarkable performance.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

During the Vietnam War, US Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz has gone insane and is waging a violent guerrilla war against local groups without the approval of his bosses. At a station in Cambodia, he commands American soldiers who see him as a demigod. Captain Benjamin L. Willard is sent to I Field Force headquarters in Nha Trang. His goal is to end Kurtz’s command. The Vietnam War rages on as Martin Sheen tries to find lost Colonel Marlon Brando. Along the way, there are searches, a wonderful helicopter raid, the smell of napalm, tigers and Playboy bunnies, until Sheen leaves the boat on the river. 

Beautiful movies and perhaps the most important war movies ever made. Director Francis Ford Coppola had to go through months of rough production in the Philippine jungle. But the war in this movies is not a spectacular staging as an end in itself but has various metaphorical implications. It is a slow and inexorable descent into hell, a journey into the heart of darkness of planet Earth. 

Alien (1979)

The Nostromo spaceship is returning to Earth with a group of 7: Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, Marshal Ripley, Navigator Lambert, Science Officer Ash, Technicians Parker and even Brett. By identifying a transmission from a nearby moon, the ship’s computer system, the Mother, alerts the astronauts. Ripley finds the contents of the transmission, identifying it as a call for help, but cannot communicate the information to those on the deserted island.

Beautiful sci-fi movies by Ridley Scott is an unprecedented claustrophobic horror adventure starring actress Sigourney Weaver. Special effects and HR Giger’s double jawed monster is a terrible sight, it is among the most remarkable pieces of pure terror in sci-fi cinema. Among the movies to see absolutely. 

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone is as legendary as Goodfellas and wise as Mean Streets. A real work of art, classic like The Godfather, but included in an epic reflection on life that passes and on the mythical dimension of narration. 

Leone’s movies is 4 hours long and the producers themselves believed it was too long for the audience. Leone’s initial version was 2 movies of 180 minutes that would be shown back to back. After the initial release, the director prepares to edit the two parts into a single 4-hour, 29-minute version. A must-see movies on manly friendship and the passage of time, where the genre of gangster movies is just an excuse to make great existential cinema, to enter the dimension of the myth of Sergio Leone’s movies.

Stand by Me (1986)

Author Gordie Lachance reads a news article about a fatal stabbing. He recalls a youth event when he, his friend, Chris Chambers, and 2 other friends, Teddy Duchamp and Vern Tessio, made a road trip to find the body of a missing boy near the Castle Rock, Oregon neighborhood during a weekend in September 1959.

For many born in the 70s or 60s Stand By Me is the cult movies of the 80s that united cinephiles and ordinary viewers. The movies has a charm and depth that seems to resonate with every generation. A captivating and extreme feeling of vibrant fond memories that ends up being a broad reflection on the meaning of human life. Stand by Me is a movies about adolescence with a following of fans who commemorate it every year, a milestone for the initiatory transition between the years of youth and adulthood, an unusual movies that constantly improves with the passage of time .

They Live (1988)

They Live is a 80s horror movies John Carpenter’sNada (Roddy Piper), an aimless drifter, discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see alien intruders hiding among humanity’s upper classes. Nada’s quest to expose these skull-faced monsters fuels both intense political insight and some of the funniest Carpenter jokes ever written. It is a chilling political and social reflection from a dystopian movies, in which Carpenter reaches the hearts of the spectators with extreme and effective simplicity. Beautiful alien horror movie absolutely not to be missed.

Goodfellas (1990)

In 1955, young Henry Hill ends up being seduced by the life of crime and mobsters in his working-class Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn. Henry starts out as Jimmy’s assistant, gradually rising into much more prominent criminal businesses. Henry begins dating Karen Friedman, a Jewish woman initially disturbed by Henry’s criminal activities.

A beautiful ageless movies that is still pure cinematic adrenaline: the gangster movies by Italian-American director Martin Scorsese is a masterful work about heroes who have feet of clay and dirty hands of blood. It’s popular for many things: the famous Copacabana, the scenes of violence, the death of Billy Batts, the collars of Joe Pesci’s shirts. But if there’s a main reason, it’s the misadventure of Ray Liotta’s anti-hero, Henry Hill.

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Betty is amazed to find in her home a woman struggling with amnesia who calls herself “Rita” after seeing a poster for the movies Gilda starring Rita Hayworth. To help Rita remember her identity, Betty checks Rita’s purse, where she finds a large amount of cash as well as a strange blue key.

You may see Mulholland Drive, undoubtedly among the best psychological thrillers and among the most important movies of the new century, a hundred times and still perceive something different with each viewing. David Lynch’s complex movies set in Los Angeles is a movies of mystery and disturbing sensuality, themes that are always present in the author’s work, but which reached their apotheosis right here.

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