My Favorite Movies

I prefer movies that are set in the real world with stories that do not depend on magic and that rely more on acting than on special effects. I tend to like independent films and dislike blockbusters. I also feel that that there is a lack of movies that portray strong, complex, or multi-dimensional female characters and so I prefer movies that do. I do not mind depictions of sex or violence.

A Clockwork Orange A Few Good Men Amelie * American Beauty Apocalypse Now Bend It Like Beckham * Birthday Girl Blood Simple The Big Lebowski The Bridge On The River Kwai Bullitt Chinatown Crimson Tide Dead Man Walking Dolores Claiborne Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Easy Rider Fargo Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Fight Club Full Metal Jacket Go The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Gossford Park The Graduate Hard Eight [Sydney] Love and a .45 The Godfather The Godfather 2 Jackie Brown Killing Zoe Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels The Magnificent Seven Magnolia The Man Who Wasn't There Miller's Crossing Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life North By Northwest One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Out Of Sight Permanent Midnight Psycho Pulp Fiction Requiem For A Dream Reservoir Dogs The Royal Tenenbaums * Lola Rennt [Run Lola Run] Scarface Scent Of A Woman The Secret of Roan Inish * Secrets And Lies Se7en Shichinin No Samurai [The Seven Samurai] The Silence Of The Lambs The Shawshank Redemption Swimming Pool This Is Spinal Tap Trainspotting True Romance 12 Monkeys The Usual Suspects U-Turn Whale Rider * among others. * Suitable for children.