My list of 5 star (out of 5 star) movies
Just a personal list of movies I've seen the past few years that I thought were exceptional in content and/or story. I rank movies 0-5 and all of these were "5" in my eyes.
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- DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsBarbara StanwyckDennis MorganSydney GreenstreetA food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsAnne ShirleyEdward EllisLee BowmanDoctor John Abbott is a single parent who settles in the town of Westport with his son Dick, trying to eke out a living for them. He also inherits, by way of his doorstep, an unwanted baby girl, Jean Johnson, whom he adopts into his family, rears and loves as his own. Practicing his profession for pigs, I.O.U.s and a lot of empty promises as payment, he is barely able to provide for his family, yet is successful ultimately. Dr. Abbott is dedicated to the welfare of his community and well-being of his patients (mostly lower-class working folks of the rural town), but must battle a group of miserly businessmen at every twist and turn. He encounters resistance by the local bureaucracy for every progressive idea or beneficial proposal made for the betterment of the community, yet his altruistic optimism is not hampered by the penny-pinching bureaucrats interested more in lining their own pockets, rather than helping the town and its struggling population.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDon DeForeAnn HardingCharles RugglesTwo homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsLoretta YoungCeleste HolmHugh MarloweTwo nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
- DirectorMichael MayerStarsNicholas JacobMichael AloniJameel KhouryA drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.Excellent Gay themed foreign film
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsTimothy BottomsJeff BridgesCybill ShepherdIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.I can't believe I hadn't seen this Academy award winning film till this past year! Moving story of small town life.
- DirectorTate TaylorStarsViola DavisEmma StoneOctavia SpencerAn aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
- DirectorBill CondonStarsIan McKellenBrendan FraserLynn RedgraveThe last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored.Story of award winning director Frankenstein, Showboat) James Whale's last few years. Openly Gay at a time when to be so was risky, both professionally and personally. Yet he thrived!
- DirectorJohn WellsStarsMeryl StreepDermot MulroneyJulia RobertsA look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.If the characters from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe" had children and lived in the midwest, this would be their story!! This family makes our families (no matter how dysfunctional) look normal!
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsJudi DenchSteve CooganSophie Kennedy ClarkA world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.I love my Judi Dench
- DirectorWayne BlairStarsChris O'DowdDeborah MailmanJessica MauboyIn 1968, four talented young Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the US troops in Vietnam.Wonderful movie of singing sisters in the outback of Australia in the mid to late '60s during the Vietnam conflict. Great story, great music!
- DirectorOlivier NakacheÉric ToledanoStarsFrançois CluzetOmar SyAnne Le NyAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.FABULOUS French film about a quadraplegic and the West African immigrant he hires to help him and how they change each other's lives! A MUST SEE!!
- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMatthew McConaugheyJennifer GarnerJared LetoIn 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsBarbara StanwyckJoel McCreaLloyd NolanIn his first film, young Dr. Kildare helps a female ex-con find her child.Wonderful 1930' film with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea.
- DirectorChristian FaureStarsJérémie RenierLouise MonotBruno TodeschiniA young Jewish girl looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain while attempting to make their way to England is sheltered by an old friend whose status as a member of the "third" sex soon leads the Gestapo pounding on his door as well. Betrayed by a smuggler who sat idly by as her family was casually slaughtered by the SS, terrified Sara flees into the comforting care of childhood summer-vacation chum Jean and his faithful lover Philippe. Though safe for the moment thanks to Jean's quick-thinking plan to pass her off as a Gallic employee of his family's laundry business, Sara watches in horror as her homosexual protector is forced into a Nazi labor camp as a tragic result of a bad decision made by Jean's troublesome brother Jacques.Foreign film about life (both Gay and Straight) under the regime of the Nazi's in WWII
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsJean-Hugues AngladeJuliet AubreyJenner Del VecchioAmsterdam, 1942: four-year-old Jonah and his parents are deported to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany where the child learns to cope with an incomprehensible world of war, brutality and persecution.The holocaust as seen by a child in Amsterdam.
- DirectorPatrick WangStarsSebastian BanesPatrick WangTrevor St. JohnWhen his partner Cody dies in a car accident, Joey learns that their son, Chip, has been willed to Cody's sister. In his now solitary home life, Joey searches for a solution. The law is not on his side, but friends are.A bit long but very moving story about a Gay man's fight to retain custody of his partner's son after the partner's untimely death.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsGlenn FordGloria GrahameJocelyn BrandoTough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.This really captures the tone and essence of the "film noir".
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaLee J. CobbMartin BalsamThe jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.Another classic I had never seen till 2014.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Yes, yes, yes!! Yet another classic I've just recently seen! Thank goodness for Netflix!
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartEdward G. RobinsonLauren BacallA man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.Bogie and Bacall....need I say more?
- DirectorFrank CapraAllan DwanRoy William NeillStarsWalter HustonPat O'BrienKay JohnsonSocially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all during the same day.Early Frank Capra film with a storyline that could be applicable today.
- DirectorEdward BurnsStarsKerry BishéEdward BurnsHeather BurnsThe adult siblings of the Fitzgerald family prepare for their estranged father to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago.Don't know what it is but I really like Edward Burns movies! Really enjoyed this tho not much happens in it!
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsJulianne MooreDennis QuaidDennis HaysbertIn 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.Beautifully filmed, in a almost surreal 1950's way, captures how different attitudes and actions were back then.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsAdir MillerMaya DaganDror KerenDuring the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.Israeli film, this tells the story of holocaust survivors and their children , having emigrated to Israel, in 1968.