frankie's - 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die List
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A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Lantna is an intriguing psychological thriller about love, infidelity and mistrust. It's about the mistakes we make, the consequences we suffer and the attempts we make to fix things up. Detective Leon Zat (Anthony La Paglia) moves through a dark labyrinth of human relationships on his journey to sove the mystery of a woman's disappearance. - Director:
- Ray Lawrence
- Cast:
- Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, Barbara Hershey
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Fat Girl (2001)A Ma Soeur!
Anais is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her body is both a fortress and the citadel for her pain. Huddled safely alone, and forgotten by others, she has long been an observer. It's summertime. Anais and her family holiday by the sea. In this atmosphere, Anais yearns for the experience of first love. However, she experiences it by proxy when her beautiful older sister, Elena - whom Anais both loves and hates - gets involved with an older boy. Soon Elena's naive hopes of romance will be shattered. Not realising that she has merely become an object of desire, she sets a chain of events in motion that will shatter her family forever... - Director:
- Catherine Breillat
- Cast:
- Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo
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Mulholland Drive (2001)Mulholland Dr.
Los Angeles, city of angels. Amnesiac and wounded, a mysterious femme fatale wanders on the sinuous road of Mulholland Drive. She finds a shelter at Betty's house (Naomi Watts). an aspiring actress just arrived from her hometown and in search of stardom in Hollywood. First of all intrigued by the stranger who calls herself Rita (Laura Elena Harring), Betty discovers that her handbag is dull of dollar bundles. The two women get to know each other better and decide to investigate in order to discover Rita's true identity.... - Director:
- David Lynch
- Cast:
- Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux
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Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Angelica Huston), had three children - Chas, Margot, and Richie - and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal., failure, and disaster. - Director:
- Wes Anderson
- Cast:
- Gene Hackman, Wes Anderson, Gwyneth Paltrow
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With the help of a courageous fellowship of friends and allies, Frodo (Elijah Wood) embarks on a perilous mission to destroy the legendary One Ring. Hunting Frodo are servants of the Dark Lord, Sauron (Sala Baker), the Ring's evil creator. If Sauron reclaims the Ring, Middle-earth is doomed. Winner of four Academy Awards, this epic tale of good versus evil, friendship and sacrifice will transport you to a world beyond imagination. - Director:
- Peter Jackson
- Cast:
- Elijah Wood, Alan Howard, Ian McKellen
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Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece. Based on a true story from the acclaimed Bafta and Academy Award winning director Roman Polanski. They were degraded, they were hoarded up and they were sent to die. A brave few fought back, but one man would not be beaten, would not be taken and would stay and hide. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a brilliant Polish pianist, a Jew, escapes deportation. Forced to live in the heart of the Warsaw ghetto, he shares the suffering, the humiliation and the struggles, and manages to escape and hide in the ruins of the capital. - Director:
- Roman Polanski
- Cast:
- Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
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Martin Scorsese’s Gangs Of New York introduces today’s world to the Five Points, a dark corner of the city known to New Yorkers of long ago as the centre of vice and chaos. Into this frontier of extreme lawlessness arrives the young Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio). Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson) – once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits gang that rallied the Irish immigrants of the Five Points. Amsterdam has returned to the Five Points to hunt down his father’s killer. His target is William cutting AKA "Bill the Butcher" (Daniel Day-Lewis), who has since become the merciless new leader of the neighbourhood, a Nativist who detests the newly arrived immigrants and is determined to fend off all so-called "foreign invaders." Amsterdam works his way deep into the Butcher’s inner circle, a world of alternating honour and cruelty from which he can only hope to escape. - Director:
- Martin Scorsese
- Cast:
- Leo Burmester, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz
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City of God (2002)Cidade de Deus
Welcome to the world's most notorious slum: Rio de Janeiro's 'City of God'. A place where combat photographers fear to tread, where police rarely go, and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20. This is the true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and ultimately may be his only way out. - Director:
- Fernando Meirelles
- Cast:
- Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele
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Hero (2002)Ying xiong
Master filmmaker Quentin Tarantino presents 'Hero' - starring martial arts legend Jet Li in a visually stunning martial arts epic where a fearless warrior rises up to defy an empire and unite a nation! With supernatural skill...and no fear... a nameless soldier (Jet Li) embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat! - Director:
- Yimou Zhang
- Cast:
- James Hong, Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
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Talk to Her (2002)Hable Con Ella
In this ravishing tale of romantic obsession, loneliness and friendship, Director Pedro Almodovar crafts a life affirming story of two tragic women and the men who love them. After a chance encounter at a theatre, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been injured and is gravely ill. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in the clinic, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, urging them towards an unexpected destiny. - Director:
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Cast:
- Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti
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Russian Ark (2002)Russkiy kovcheg
A groundbreaking feat of filmmaking, Alexander Sokurov's amazing journey through 300 years of Russian art and history is the first ever feature to be shot in a single, unedited take - the ultimate director's cut. Magically transported to St Petersburg's Hermitage museum in the early 1700s, a contemporary filmmaker and a cynical 19th Century French diplomat become accomplices in an extraordinary voyage through Russia's turbulent past to the present day. As they explore the splendid corridors and salons of the Palace, the two men witness prominent historical figures enacting startling scenes from the Tsarist Empire. Digitally shot with a state-orf-the-art high definition steadicam and featuring a masterfully orchestrated cast of 2,000, 'Russian Ark' is destined to stand as a defining moment in cinema history. - Director:
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast:
- Sergey Dreyden, Aleksandr Sokurov, Mariya Kuznetsova
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The Fellowship has broken, but the quest to destroy the One Ring continues. Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) must entrust their lives to Gollum if they are to find their way to Mordor. As Saruman's (Christopher Lee)'s army approaches, the surviving members of The Fellowship, along with people and creatures from Middle-earth, prepare for battle. The War of the Ring has begun. - Director:
- Peter Jackson
- Cast:
- Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
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The Barbarian Invasions (2003)Les Invasions Barbares
Denys Arcand's Oscar winning comedy drama is a life-affirming tale of love, family and friendship that features many of the cast and characters from his breakthrough film 'The Decline of the American Empire'. After years of indulging his hedonistic lust for life and women, Remy (Remy Girard) is taken ill, an event that prompts a reunion with his ex-wife (Dorothee Berryman) and estranged son Sebastien (Stephane Rousseau). As father and son learn to set aside their differences, Sebastien moves heaven and earth to make his father's life more comfortable, calling upon the unorthodox help of his old childhood friend Nathalie (Marie-Josee Croze) and Remy's close friends and past mistresses. A brilliantly written and engagingly acted exploration of personal, political and sexual moves, Arcand's acclaimed film is witty, moving and hugely entertaining. - Director:
- Denys Arcand
- Cast:
- Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau
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Oldboy (2003)Oldeuboi
Based on the Japanese manga of the same name, the film tells the horrific tale of Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), a businessman who is inexplicably kidnapped and imprisoned in a grim hotel room-like cell for 15 years, without knowing his captor or the reason for his incarceration. Eventually released, he learns of his wife's murder and embarks on a quest for revenge whilst also striking up a romance with a young, attractive sushi chef, Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung). He eventually finds his tormentor, but their final encounter will yield yet more unimaginable horrors... - Director:
- Chan-wook Park
- Cast:
- Min-sik Choi, Joe Cappelletti, Mari Devon
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The acclaimed fourth film from groundbreaking writer and director Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill: Volume 1 stars Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu and Vivica A. Fox in an astonishing. action-packed thriller about brutal betrayal and an epic vendetta! Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride (Thurman) emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback ... with a vengeance. Having been gunned down by her former boss (David Carradine) and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start but is determined to finish! Loaded with explosive action and outrageous humour, it's a must-see motion picture event that had critics everywhere raving! - Director:
- Quentin Tarantino
- Cast:
- Uma Thurman, Ai Maeda, David Carradine
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