hi ains, here are some films that i hope you haven't seen, and hope you will. i've looked through most of what i could find in my watch history, and foraged deep into my memory, and these are the films that have stood out to me the most. i am not very good with words, and i continue to suck at them as i try to explain why i've rewatched these films many times, but i want to share the feelings i get when i do. i hope you enjoy them!
In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their tribal lands.
After the death of their youngest brother following an alleged police altercation, three brothers are torn apart as their housing estate becomes a fortress under siege.
Four friends, all teachers stuck in a rut, embark on an experiment to keep a constant level of alcohol in their blood and see if it makes them freer.
A troubled janitor must return, permanently, to a town that holds painful memories for him in order to raise his nephew when his brother dies unexpectedly.
i have never cried so hard during a film.
On his final assignment, a time-travelling Temporal Agent must stop the one criminal who has eluded him throughout time.
this is the first movie that ever blew my mind.
A thriller following the key players at an investment firm through one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
A loyal Hong Kong inspector teams up with a reckless, loudmouthed LAPD detective to rescue the Chinese consul's kidnapped daughter, and keeps getting dragged back in for two more rounds.
A former Shaolin monk reunites his five brothers, years after their master's death, to apply their superhuman kung fu to soccer.
this is a childhood film that my dad and i watched together. watching this with him is one of my core memories.
Two sisters reunite with their estranged father, a once-renowned director, who offers one of them a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film.
Two longtime LAPD partners and friends patrol one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in Los Angeles, and are marked for death after a routine traffic stop.
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elite government task force to aid the escalating war against drugs on the border between the US and Mexico.
i know you've already seen this but man...
A dramatisation of the 1986 nuclear accident, one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, and of the sacrifices made to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
not a film, but extremely worthy of this list. i mean it's basically just a really long movie.
A heavy metal drummer's life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing, and he takes refuge in a community of deaf people.
A young German soldier and his comrades find the initial euphoria of the First World War turning to desperation and fear as they fight for their lives in the trenches.
A boy who watched his parents murdered in front of him becomes the thing Gotham's criminals are afraid of, and is tested in turn by the mob, by a killer with a warped sense of humour who calls himself the Joker, and finally by Bane.
A big-hearted adventure about an exhausted Chinese-American laundromat owner who can't seem to finish her taxes, and who alone can save the world by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
In 2035, a technophobic detective investigates a crime that may have been committed by a robot, which leads him to a far larger threat to humanity.
Two Victorian stage magicians, friends until a trick goes terribly wrong, become the bitterest of enemies and risk everything to learn each other's secrets.
When infertility threatens mankind with extinction and the last child born has perished, a disillusioned bureaucrat becomes the unlikely protector of the planet's last remaining hope.