Top 10 Favorite Dramas
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- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.Quentin Tarantino's magnum opus, with it's haphazardly action, quotable pop-cultured dialogue, and memorable characters it was like a adrenaline filled needle that jolted hollywood cinema and influences it to this day
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.While the first part is classic because it raises Corleone crime family's saga to an epic-like myth, the second part is a timeless classic because it bring's the story down to the realm of a greek tragedy both humanizing Vitto Coreleone's rise to the top of the criminal underworld, and accentuating his son's moral downward spiral as he tries to keep that empire together.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodEli WallachLee Van CleefA bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.With it's perfect cast, splendid action, precision timing comic relief, beautiful scenery & shots, and it's soaring film score, Serge Leone's picture is not only the greatest 'spaghetti western' but 'francamente' it may just be the greatest western ever made, certainly a timeless classic.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.Martin Scorsese's visceral tour-de-force is jewel of the New Hollywood film period, chronicles the psychotic breakdown of one of film's most enigmatic characters; Travis Bickle, both sincere, endearing, empathic yet deranged, abusive, and dangerous brought to life Robert De Niro in the prime of his career.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.Violent, nihilistic, hedonistic, dark, and masochistic this neo-noiry-psycho-drama may be a bit heavy handed with it's commentary on commercialism, individualism, machismo, and fascism but it's still one hell of a ride, if you can take the punch we couldn't be happier to have met you in a 'very strange time' and I will be talking about fight club!
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.Riding high from his 'Godfather' success, Coppola took Joseph Conrad's novella masterpiece "The Heart of Darkness" and adapted into his film masterpiece, relocating space and time from the dirges of the brutal 19th century imperialistic Africa, to concurrent and divisive conflict in Vietnam the criticism shifted from European imperialism to American Intervention, and demonstrating the horrors of war and casualties the psyche takes in combat.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.Cinema's greatest auteur directs the greatest science fiction film ever. A cinematic experience that's visual astonishing and 'light years' ahead of it's time, and a plot that show cases some of the most existential questions ever asked in human history, but leaves the audience to ponder for the answers after the credits have rolled. Kubrick's creation is a prime example that showcases why film is the superior story telling method compared to all others.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.Combining the greatest film director of all time with it's most charming star of all time in the prime of their careers and we get one of the most exhilarating films ever to be made. Cultivating many of the action, thriller, & spy genre's cliques and setting the stage for the James Bonds, John McClanes, and other summer action blockbusters to come, it still stands the test of time.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroVal KilmerA group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.Michael Mann's cerebal crime thriller pitting two of the biggest stars in Hollywood in a hair raising game of cat & mouse. Setting the stage for some of the greatest heist scene and chases to ever be shot by a camera.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin TherouxAfter a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.Confusing, dreamlike, sensational, emotive, bizarre, and bewildering all and more to be expected (and unexpected) from a paradigm Lynchian film. A sensational poison valentine to the monster that is Hollywood and the film business while exploring the boundaries of human sensation, perception, consciousness, and desire.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.An honorable mention, of all the Ford & Wayne pairings this was there greatest achievement (a huge accomplish when overlooking their work). With Wayne's large then life character exemplifying the mythic loner cowboy character, Ford's exceptional directing, breathe-taking Monument Valley (a staple of Ford's work), and story that exemplifies the American will to triumph.