Netflix Recommendations


As a filmmaker I must admit that I really appreciate the Netflix service. You can rent from a very large selection. All classics. All those cool hard to find foreign movies which you thought you would never see. You can keep any movie as long as you like. And even then you just throw it in the mailbox downstairs in your house and 2 days later you have the next movie, meanwhile you can watch the other two. You basically never run out, for $18 a month you get to see at least 10 movies. Unless you have a baby and you never have time to watch movies. But then you can rent the Baby Einstein series :-)

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Here are the recent highlights:

    year director country
Lord of Wars 2005 Andrew Niccol USA
I didn't expect much of this movie yet it turned out to be one of the best
and most entertaining film we have seen in a while.
Very intelligient, very cynical, great hummor!
Melinda and Melinda 2004 Woody Allen USA
Woot!!! Woody Allen is back. This was the best Woody Allen in 10 years!!!


Here are my recommendations of must see classsics:

    year director country
1 Bringing out the Dead 1999 Martin Scorsese USA
2 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson USA
3 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino USA
4 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean GB
5 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock USA
6 Matrix 1999 Wachowski Brothers USA
7 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis USA
8 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock USA
9 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock USA
10 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby USA
11 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes USA
12 C'era una volta il West 1968 Sergio Leone Italy
13 The Man Who Would Be King 1975 John Huston USA
14 Nikita 1990 Luc Besson France
15 Once Upon a time in America 1984 Sergio Leone Italy/USA
16 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa Japan
17 Leon 1994 Luc Besson France
18 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese USA
19 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed USA
20 Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Paulain 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet France
21 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola USA
22 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino USA
23 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards USA
24 Koyaanisqatsi 1983 Godfrey Reggio USA
25 Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman USA
26 Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix France
27 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz USA
28 The Devil's Advocat 1997 Taylor Hackford USA
29 Shichinin no samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa Japan
30 Lasky jedne Plavovlasky 1965 Milos Forman Czech
31 Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan USA
32 Cidade de Deus 2002 Fernando Meirelles Brazil
33 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Wells USA
34 Shi mian mai fu 2004 Yimou Zhang China, Hong Kong
35 The Little Mermaid 1989 Ron Clements, John Musker USA
36 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott USA
37 Ostre Sledovane Vlaki 1966 Jiri Menzel Czech
38 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch USA
39 Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner USA
40 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola USA
41 The Player 1992 Robert Altman USA
42 The Appartement 1960 Billy Wilder USA
43 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas USA
44 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven USA
45 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen USA
46 When Harry Met Sally 1989 Rob Reiner USA
47 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick USA
48 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges USA
49 Sinnui yauwan 1987 Siu-Tung Ching Hong Kong
50 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis UK, USA
51 Don't look now 1973 Nicolas Roeg USA
52 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman USA
53 Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor USA
54 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder USA





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