Cinema on holidays

As promised, here is a list of films that habroops collected in a previous post . Unfortunately, the list is not complete, because Apparently, I still exceeded the volume of one post, so some of the good films remained unmentioned.

Also, if you encounter errors: do not blame me - the volume is large, please indicate them in the comments.


Fantasy

• "Space Odyssey 2001/2001 : A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick - 1968 via lunatik42
  “Space Odyssey of 2001” - an attempt to look into the future, a guide for searching the destiny of mankind, a question for eternity. This dazzling drama about the duel between man and machine won the Academy Award “Oscar” for the best visual special effects. This is a stunning fusion of movement and music. This is one of the best works of director Stanley Kubrick, which will inspire, amaze and conquer more than one generation. The mysterious grand journey begins ...
  www.kubrick2001.com - site for those who do not understand the meaning of the film
• Moon 2112 / Moon by Duncan Jones - 2009 via rustamer
  Sam's contract comes to an end: he spent three years on the moon, watching the automated station for the extraction of rare gas. Three long years all alone, except for the talking robot GURTI, can change anyone. Two weeks before returning to earth, Sam meets his mate, a man like two peas in a pod like him. Maybe it is a hallucination? Or the fruit of his sick imagination?
• Star Trek / Star Trek by JJ Abrams - 2009 via Fr3nzy
  The fate of the galaxy in the hands of irreconcilable rivals belonging to completely different worlds. One of them is James Tiberius Kirk, a bully from Iowa, a born leader, and an adventurer. The second, Spock, grew up on the planet Vulcan and became an outcast because of his semihumanity. Kirk and Spock are complete opposites; Seeking to know their true nature and understand what they can give to the world, young people soon become irreconcilable rivals. One of them is driven by passions, the other is guided by cold logic. They do not want to recognize the virtues of each other and are desperately trying to be among the few chosen ones who will join the team of the most modern starship - the Enterprise.
• Avatar by James Cameron - 2009 via aristoc
  Jake Sully is a former marine locked in a wheelchair. Despite his weak body, Jake is still a warrior in his heart. He is ordered to travel a few light years to the base of earthlings on the planet Pandora, where corporations mine a rare mineral that is of great importance for the Earth’s exit from the energy crisis.
  Since Pandora’s air is toxic, an Avatar program has been created in which the consciousness of people connects to the avatar, a remote-controlled biological body, helping to stay in this disastrous atmosphere. Avatars - created using genetic engineering hybrids, obtained by combining human DNA and DNA of the indigenous inhabitants of the planet Pandora, Na`vi.
• “Kill the Dragon” by Mark Zakharov - 1988 via artleg
  Based on the play "Dragon" by Yevgeny Schwarz. Once a wandering knight Lancelot, a distant descendant of the famous Sir Lancelot on the maternal line, came to the city, which has been ruled by a fierce Dragon for four hundred years. Most of the residents of the city for some reason do not want to be saved from the tyranny of the beast. Lancelot causes the Dragon to fight, and there are people in the underground who help him find a weapon and get ready for an unequal fight. Lancelot wins. In the city, power replaces anarchy.
  Gradually, the old story is becoming a thing of the past, and new order prevails in the city. After the fight with the Dragon, the mayor of the city argues for himself the victory over him, who under the Dragon was a puppet in his hands. Lancelot is forced to return to the city to explain to the inhabitants - the death of the Dragon itself means only that it is time for everyone to kill the dragon in itself.

Action movies

• "District №9 / District 9" by Neill Blomkamp - 2009 via illuzii
  More than 20 years ago, aliens made the first contact with the Earth. People were ready for anything - from a hostile invasion to an incredible technological breakthrough. Neither one nor the other has happened. The aliens turned out to be refugees from their own planet, and while the world community was deciding what to do with them further, a temporary camp was organized for them in South African Region No. 9.
• "The Hurt Locker" by Kathryn Bigelow - 2008 via 0dd_b1t
  Members of the elite demining squad of bombs are sent to one of the Iraqi cities, where almost any object is a mortal danger.
• The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan - 2008 via egor_bulychev
  Batman raises the stakes in the war against crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and Attorney Harvey Dent, he intends to clear the streets of crime that is poisoning the city. Cooperation is effective, but soon they will find themselves in the midst of the chaos unleashed by a rising criminal genius, known to frightened citizens under the name of the Joker.
• “Guardians / Watchmen” by Zack Snyder - 2009 via mr_smile
  The picture is set in a parallel reality, in America in 1985. In this world, superheroes have become part of the daily life of society, and the Doomsday Clock, frozen five minutes from midnight, counts the time until the clash of leading world powers. After the murder of one of his former colleagues, Rorschach - a superhero who never takes off his mask - is determined to execute a Lynch trial.
• Full Metal Jacket / Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick - 1987 via lunatik42
  The famous saga of the Vietnam War and the inhuman process of turning people into trained killers. The heroes of the film - Joker, Homer, Aitboll, Cowboy and many others plunge into the hell of a training camp, where a cruel instructor brings up dogs of war.
  The all-metal shell, from the brutality of training, to the nightmare of fighting in the city of Hugh, this film beats all cinematic records.
• Hostage / Taken by Pierre Morel - 2008 via egor_bulychev
  A former secret agent, and now a lonely loser, Brian is forced to give in to his ex-wife’s pressure and agree to a seventeen-year-old daughter's trip to Europe for the holidays. A naive girl, as well as her friend, are kidnapped by Albanian gangsters and are going to sell the Arabs into slavery. Anxious father immediately goes to France to save his daughter alone ...
• Inglorious Bastards / Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino - 2009 via evkon & mr_smile & fata1ex
  The film is set in occupied France. In front of Suzanne Dreyfus, her family is killed by the hands of German Colonel Hans Landa. The girl miraculously manages to save herself and escape to Paris. There she gets a job at the cinema.
  At the same time, somewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Rain (Brad Pitt) gathers a group of Jewish soldiers calling themselves "Bastards." They are joined by a secret agent Bridget von Hammersmark, posing as an actress. The group is abandoned in France, where it inspires fear in the Nazis, brutally killing and scalping the soldiers. Both storylines intersect when saboteurs meet in the cinema with Suzanne, who dreams of revenge for the wrongdoers.

Drama

• Gran Torino / Gran Torino by Clint Eastwood - 2008 via evkon
  The retired auto mechanic Walt Kowalski spends his days working around the house, drinking beer and going to the hairdresser once a month.
  And although the last wish of his recently deceased wife was to make a confession to him, Walt, a hardened Korean War veteran, always holding his rifle at the ready, had nothing to confess.
  Yes and no one whom he would trust to the full extent in which he trusts his dog Daisy.
  All those people whom he once called his neighbors either moved or went into another world, and they were replaced by the Hmon immigrants whom he openly despises.
  Resisting literally everything that his gaze rests on - crooked cornices, overgrown lawns of houses and the faces of foreigners everywhere; aimlessly reeling gangs of teenagers, consisting of Hmones, Latinos and African-Americans, who believe that the surrounding world is wholly owned by them alone; the fledgling strangers, in whom their own children and grandchildren turned into - Walt just slowly lives the rest of his life.
  Until that very night, when someone tries to steal his Gran Torino ...
• "Heart of a Dog" by Vladimir Bortko - 1988 via bibo
  According to the story of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov. Russia, 1920s. Ruin. St. Petersburg professor Preobrazhensky performs an ingenious operation of transplanting a human pituitary gland to an ordinary cur:
• Strawberry Glade / Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman - 1957 via artleg
  A 78-year-old professor from Stockholm recalls and revises the disappointments of his long life. Together with his son's wife, he travels by car to present an honorary doctoral degree, visiting places where he was young, meeting different people and old acquaintances, recalling dreams and past. Bergman demonstrates the highest art of using retrospection, which, combined with Siostrom's brilliant acting skills, gave birth to this immortal cinema masterpiece. The picture of the highest emotional power gives the viewer the opportunity to think about how, perhaps, he will look back on his life when there is nothing to correct and not to experience again. Filmed in black and white. Anyone who is seriously interested in cinema should watch this movie. Golden Prize at the IFF in West Berlin.
• Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn - 1967 via TuiKiken
  Bonnie and Clyde - very old (he was shot in 1967), but the cult film by Arthur Penn, who at one time initiated the whole direction of the gangster cinema. About this film argued a lot then and continue to argue now. Many critics argue that it was Penn who initiated the beginning of all this romanticization and poetization of the bandits, which, of course, must be condemned. Other critics, on the contrary, say that under the guise of Bonnie and Clyde, Penn brought out the so-called lost generation of the Great Depression era and that, for example, they showed the challenge to modern society, and the shooting of Clyde's gang by the police is actually dispersal of anti-war demonstrations and all that. ..
• “Hachiko: The most loyal friend / Hachiko: A Dog's Story” by Lasse Hallström - 2009 via slik & r3verser
  The film is based on a well-known true story that occurred in Japan in the 20s. The dog accompanied every day and met his master at the station. Then the owner died unexpectedly, but the dog for 9 years EVERY day at 5 pm came to the station to meet the owner and waited for him until the last train. Then the Japanese put a monument to him on the spot where he was constantly waiting for the owner.
• "Life is beautiful / La Vita è bella" by Roberto Benigni - 1997 via azeffin
  During World War II in Italy, Jews, a father and his little son were sent to a concentration camp. The wife, Italian, voluntarily followed them. In the camp, the father told his son that everything that happens around is a very big game for a prize in a real tank, which will go to the boy who can not be caught by the guards. He did everything to make his son believe in the game and stay alive, hiding in the hut.
• “Cashback” by Sean Ellis - 2006 via 0dd_b1t
  Experiencing a painful separation from his beloved, Ben falls into insomnia. At 8 o'clock, he starts working the night shift of the local supermarket, where the main task of the attendants is “time-killing”. Suddenly, Ben discovers an unusual ability to stop time, which gives impetus to his artistic talent.
• "City of God" by Fernando Meirelles - 2002 via vam
  City of God - the poorest and most criminal quarter of Rio de Janeiro. They are born with a joint in one hand and with a gun in the other. While the baby Rocket is slowly growing and dreams of becoming a photographer, his peers and their older brothers are robbing fuel trucks, running from corrupt policemen, sharing spheres of influence in the drug trade, and are firing at each other from stolen pistols on long summer evenings.
• "Slumdog Millionaire / Slumdog Millionaire" by Danny Boyle - 2008 via illuzii
  The film begins with a scene at the Mumbai police station, where Jamal Malik, a former resident of Asia’s largest slum area in Dharavi, is interrogated (tortured and beaten). Jamal participates in the Indian version of the TV program Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati). He needed to answer the last question, which would bring him 20 million rupees (about 13 million rubles at the rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for August 2009), but the police arrest him on suspicion of fraud.
• Law Abiding Citizen by F. Gary Gray - 2009 via hannimed
  The film tells about the assistant prosecutor who accidentally found out about his involvement in the case of a mentally unbalanced criminal, embittered, obsessed with revenge for the death of his wife and daughter, whose murderers were released because of legal loopholes. The prisoner offers an ultimatum: either they let him go, or innocent people will die in the city, and in terrible ways. The assistant prosecutor, the lawyer, realizes that by his decisions he created this terrifying villain, and only he can stop him.
• Mind Games / A Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard - 2001 via fata1ex
  From world fame to the sinful depths - John Forbes Nash Jr. has learned it all on his own skin. A mathematical genius, at the dawn of his career, he made a titanic work in the field of game theory, which practically turned this section of mathematics and practically brought him international fame.
  However, literally at the same time arrogant and successful in women, Nash receives a blow that turns his own life upside down - doctors diagnose him with "paranoid schizophrenia." Only after many years of struggle, he manages to defeat his illness and finally get a well-deserved Nobel Prize.
• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / The Curious Case of the Benjamin Button" by David Fincher - 2008 via amon
  A film about a man who was born at the age of 80, and then ... began to look younger. This man, like each of us, could not stop time. His path to the twenty-first century, originating in New Orleans in 1918 at the very end of the First World War, will be so unusual that it could hardly have taken place in the life of anyone else. The film tells about the fate of a unique person, about people and events that await him ahead, about the love he will gain and lose, about the joys of life and the sadness of loss and what remains with us out of time.
• “Bury me behind a plinth” by Sergey Snezhkin - 2009 via amon
  The film is about an 8-year-old boy Sasha Saveliev. He lives with his grandmother because she does not trust raising a child to her daughter, who has a new husband and who, according to her grandmother, is dissolute. Granny, a real tyrant, and a mother tearing a child apart.
• "The Mood for Love / In The Mood For Love" by Kar Wai Wong - 2000 via Trimingham
  The film takes place in Hong Kong in 1962. Journalist Chow Mowan (Toni Leung) and Su Liuzhen (Maggie Cheung) on ​​the same day drive into two adjacent rooms in an apartment building. Both have spouses who often stay at work after work. Despite the good-natured housewives and neighbors, Chow and Soo are often bored alone in their rooms. Soon, a friendship begins between them. Chow and Soo are sharing with each other doubts about the loyalty of their spouses. Chow suggests Su to restore in the faces what is happening between their spouses and their lovers, and gradually the boundary between the game and the real novel begins to melt.
  Chow offers Su to help him with a series of martial arts articles for the newspaper. At the same time, as Chow and Soo are getting closer and closer to each other, people begin to notice that they are trying to convince each other that everything will not end as well as their spouses.
• «August Rush / August Rush» by Kirsten Sheridan - 2007 via al1k
  A young, charismatic Irish guitarist and an American cellist from a prestigious family fell in love with each other. After the magic meeting in New York, the circumstances are stronger than them and they are forced to leave. A born child, Augustus Rush, by an equally unfortunate coincidence, finds himself in one of the New York orphanages. Twelve years later, Augustus Rush, an unusually talented musician for his age, is desperately seeking his parents. The only possibility for this is that he considers his music - a young musician believes that if he plays his parents will be able to find out and find him by music. Now, being guarded by a mysterious stranger, he plays on the streets of New York and is trying to find parents whom he has never seen, with the help of his exceptional musical gift ...
• “Dolls / Dolls” by Takeshi Kitano - 2002 via alves
  The intricate mosaic of three tragic stories about the impossibility of love, filmed in the aesthetics of the traditional Japanese puppet theater "Bunraku"

Thriller

• A Clockwork Orange / A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick - 1971 via ProstoTyoma
  The ruthless leader of a gang of teenagers committing murder and rape, goes to prison and undergo special treatment to suppress the subconscious desire for violence. But life outside the prison gates is such that the measures taken to “rectify the cruelty of character” cannot change anything.
• The Departed / The Departed by Martin Scorsese - 2006 via Trimingham
  The two best graduates of the police academy found themselves on opposite sides of the barricades: one of them was a mafia agent in the ranks of law enforcement agencies, the other was a “mole” introduced into the mafia. Everyone considers it his duty to detect and destroy the enemy, but a constant life in distorted realities changes the inner world of the heroes.
• Case 39 / Case 39 by Christian Alvart - 2009 via Antipod
  Social worker Emily Jenkins, with idealistic twists in her head, saves the ten-year-old girl, Lilith Sullivan, tortured by her parents. After some time, it turns out that the situation in the family was diametrically opposite ...

Historical

• “Barry Lyndon / Barry Lyndon” by Stanley Kubrick - 1975 via ProstoTyoma
  Screen version of the novel by William Thackeray. The Adventures of the Irishman Barry Lyndon against the background of the historical events of the XVIII century. The film amazes with the beauty of interiors and field shooting (cameraman John Alcott). The film received four Oscars: for music, camera work, the work of artists and costumes. Nominations for best film, director, adapted script.

Mystic

• The Shining by Stanley Kubrick - 1980 via lunatik42
  Jack Torrens, came to an elegant secluded hotel to work as a caretaker during the off-season with his wife and son. Torrens has never been here before. Or is it not quite like that? The answer lies in the darkness woven from a criminal nightmare.
• "Hostage of Death / Afterwards" by Gilles Bourdos - 2008 via Fr3nzy
  Nathan, an influential New York lawyer, is experiencing hard parting with his beloved Claire. The case takes a strange turn when the mysterious Dr. Kay appears in Nathan’s life. According to Kay, he is able to see the future, and especially he feels the future death.

Comedy

• "Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned not to worry and fell in love with the atomic bomb / Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb "by Stanley Kubrick - 1964 via 0dd_b1t
  According to Peter George's novel "The Red Alarm".
  Black comedy about the approaching nuclear war between the USSR and the USA and about the desperate attempts of the peace-loving American president to save the situation after a mad American general sent airplanes with nuclear weapons to bomb the USSR.
• “Kin-Dza-Dza!” By Georgiy Daneliya - 1986 via bibo
  In the center of Moscow, despite the cold weather, there was a barefoot man in a torn coat who introduced himself as a resident of the planet Uzm, number 247 in Tentura, Beta Galaxy in Spiral, and asked passers-by a strange question: “Tell your planet number in Tentura or at least the Galaxy number in Spirals? I mixed up contacts and now I can’t go back home. ” Random passersby, who turned out to be a foreman Vladimir Nikolaevich Mashkov (“Uncle Vova”) and the Georgian student Gedevan (“Violinist”), are trying to help. Trying to convince the stranger that he is sick, the foreman extends his hand to the “typewriter of movement” and, despite the stranger’s assurances that it is impossible to handle an unfamiliar technique without special training, he presses an arbitrary button on the words “yes you can.” The machine works and moves Uncle Vova and Fiddler to the planet Plyuk in the galaxy Kin-dza-dza.
• Groundhog Day / Groundhog Day by Harold Ramis - 1993 via DmitryM
  TV commentator Phil Connors arrives every year in a small town in Pennsylvania to celebrate Groundhog Day. But this time the fun runs the risk of going too far. Time played a cruel joke with him: it took and stopped.
  Now the same date is blackening on Phil's calendar - February 2, from which he cannot get out. A resilient presenter is trying to capitalize on his comical position: he has plenty of time ahead and a serene, predictable future.
  From now on, nothing bad will happen to him ... and nothing good. Phil had one cherished dream, simple and straightforward - February 3 ...
• "Tiger and Snow / Tigre e la Neve, La" by Roberto Benigni - 2005 via azeffin & dmitriyts
  Attillo de Giovanni is a talented poet in love with his art. He worships his muse, the beautiful Vittoria, which comes to him every night in dreams. Then one day he meets Vittoria in real life. Attillo is happy!
  He does literally everything to win the heart of a beautiful woman, but to no avail. The muse in the flesh is proud and impregnable. But unexpectedly, during the American military campaign in Iraq, Vittoria falls under the bombing and ends up dying. Attillo, as befits a real man, is decided by all means to save his idol.
  He goes to Iraq, not knowing a word in Arabic, not knowing how to handle weapons. Moreover, never in his life had he ever seen a real camel, except in a circus. But for the sake of the beloved's salvation, he is ready to go through any trials, armed with his poetry, wit and ... love.
• "Offer / The Proposal" by Anne Fletcher - 2009 via slik
  The main character of the film is the responsible boss, who is facing expulsion to Canada. In order to avoid reference to the land of the lakes, the heroine is ready for anything - even fictitiously jump out to marry her young assistant ...
• Election Day by Oleg Fomin - 2007 via TuiKiken
  The head of one of the country's top-rated radio stations receives an order from a mysterious client. It is necessary to “promote” a candidate in the regional elections, to take votes from competitors and thereby influence the election of a new governor. For the implementation of the task of national importance are taken the best minds of the radio station.
• Radio Day by Dmitry Dyachenko - 2008 via TuiKiken & lunatik42
  One day in the life of a fashionable Moscow radio station. Not the best day - all plans are crumbling, everything falls out of the hands ... And it is at that moment that the live marathon is about to start live on the station, and popular Russian rock bands will come on the air to support ... by the way , it does not matter anymore, because the topic of the marathon is intercepted by competitors and is actively discussed on the air of the “enemy” radio station. But the marathon can not be canceled!
• "(500) Days of Summer" by Marc Webb - 2009 via vam
  Hopelessly in love, the protagonist is trying to melt the heart of a girl who does not believe in love at all and is totally in no mood for romantic relationships.

Animation

• Ponyo Fish on the Cliff by Hayao Miyazaki - 2008 via nesesser
  The curious little fish Ponyo, the daughter of a sorcerer and a beautiful sea goddess, swims out of her house to watch the life of people. Ponyo gets stuck in the bank and is stranded. She is picked up by the five-year-old Sooske. Kids are tied to each other. And now Ponyo has only one desire - to become a man!
• "Spirited Away" by Hayao Miyazaki - 2001 via nesesser
• “Navskaya from the Valley of the Winds” by Hayao Miyazaki - 1984 via enotramone
• "Princess Mononoke" by Hayao Miyazaki - 1997 via enotramone
• “Laputa: Sky Castle” by Hayao Miyazaki - 1986 via msapiens
• "Up / Up" by Pete Dokter, Bob Peterson - 2009 via JuliaTem
  78-year-old grumbler Karl Fredriksen believes that life bypasses him. To keep the promise made to his late wife, he decides to fulfill his dream of a great adventure by tying thousands of balloons to his home and - flying into the wilds of South America. Without flying half a mile, the traveler discovers that he inadvertently grabbed with him an extremely talkative and incorrigibly cheerful 8-year-old boy named Russell ...