Movies Collection
Movies I've watched and loved
Troy
Release Year: 2004 Genre: Historical, Drama, War Tags: Epic, Mythology, Battle, Heroic Synopsis: Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, 'Troy' is an epic adventure that explores the legendary battle for the city of Troy. Achilles, played by Brad Pitt, leads his Greek forces against the Trojan army in a tale of honor, love, betrayal, and fate. The film is a dramatic retelling of Homer's ancient epic, 'The Iliad.'
Vanilla Sky
Release Year: 2001 Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance Tags: Psychological, Reality, Dreams Synopsis: A surreal tale of a man living in a lucid dream-like state after a disfiguring accident, exploring themes of reality, love, and identity.
Meet Joe Black
Release Year: 1998 Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance Tags: Death, Love, Life Lessons Synopsis: Death takes on a human form and visits Earth to learn about human life, forming an unexpected bond with a media mogul.
The Butterfly Effect
Release Year: 2004 Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller Tags: Time Travel, Multiverse, Psychological Synopsis: The film follows a young man who discovers he can travel back to key moments in his life, but his attempts to alter the past have unforeseen and tragic consequences.
The Haunting in Connecticut
Release Year: 2009 Genre: Horror, Drama, Supernatural Tags: Haunted House, Paranormal, True Story Synopsis: Directed by Peter Cornwell, 'The Haunting in Connecticut' is a movie based on a true story. It narrates the experiences of the Campbell family, who move into a house tormented by supernatural forces. As the family's son, Matt, battles cancer, they encounter disturbing events linked to the house's mysterious past as a mortuary, leading them to unearth the terrifying history.
The Rules of Attraction
Release Year: 2002 Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Tags: College, Relationships, Dark Synopsis: A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of self-absorbed students at a New England liberal arts college.
Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift
Release Year: 2006 Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller Tags: Cars, Racing, Drifting Synopsis: An American teenager becomes a major competitor in the world of drift racing while living in Tokyo, but finds himself at odds with the Japanese underworld.
The King and
Release Year: 1999 Genre: Animation, Family, Musical Tags: Adventure, Family, Kingdom Synopsis: Directed by Richard Rich, The King and I is an animated musical film based on the 1951 film of the same name. In this animated adaptation, a British schoolteacher and her son embark on a journey to Siam to teach the royal children, finding adventure and music along the way.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Release Year: 2004 Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi Tags: Memory, Love, Surreal Synopsis: When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Release Year: 2003 Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family Tags: Mythology, Adventure, Sea Journey Synopsis: Sinbad must embark on a journey to retrieve the stolen Book of Peace to save his childhood friend, Prince Proteus.
Braveheart
Release Year: 1995 Genre: Biography, Drama, History Tags: Freedom, War, Heroic Synopsis: A historical drama depicting William Wallace rebellion against King Edward I of England, highlighting his struggle for Scotland independence.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Release Year: 2002 Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family Tags: Freedom, Wild West, Adventure Synopsis: An animated story of a wild stallion journey through the untamed American frontier, experiencing freedom and adventure.
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Release Year: 2001 Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure Tags: Exploration, Mystery, Adventure Synopsis: A young adventurer leads an expedition to find the legendary sunken city of Atlantis, uncovering its long-hidden secrets.
The Road to El Dorado
Release Year: 2000 Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy Tags: Treasure, Adventure, Comedy Synopsis: Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado, leading to an adventure-filled journey.
Forrest Gump
Release Year: 1994 Genre: Drama, Romance Tags: Inspirational, Life Story, Historical Synopsis: The story of a slow-witted but kind-hearted man from Alabama who witnesses and unwittingly influences several defining historical events in the 20th century USA.
Inception
Release Year: 2010 Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Tags: Dream, Heist, Psychological Synopsis: A skilled thief uses dream-sharing technology to infiltrate and manipulate the subconscious, leading to a daring heist that blurs the lines between reality and dreams.
The Matrix
Release Year: 1999 Genre: Action, Sci-Fi Tags: Virtual Reality, Dystopia, Revolution Synopsis: A computer hacker learns about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Release Year: 1992 Genre: Horror, Romance Tags: Vampire, Gothic, Romance Synopsis: The centuries-old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Interview with the Vampire
Release Year: 1994 Genre: Drama, Horror Tags: Vampire, Dark, Epic Synopsis: A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
Edward Scissorhands
Release Year: 1990 Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance Tags: Fantasy, Romance, Outsider Synopsis: A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.
Catch Me If You Can
Release Year: 2002 Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama Tags: Con Artist, Chase, True Story Synopsis: A seasoned FBI agent pursues Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully forged millions of dollars worth of checks.
V for Vendetta
Release Year: 2005 Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi Tags: Dystopia, Rebellion, Revolution, Mystery, LGBT Synopsis: In a dystopian UK, a freedom fighter known only as V uses tactics to fight the oppressive society.
A Beautiful Mind
Release Year: 2001 Genre: Biography, Drama Tags: Genius, Schizophrenia, Nobel Prize Synopsis: After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a nightmarish turn.
Shutter Island
Release Year: 2010 Genre: Mystery, Thriller Tags: Psychological, Mystery, Asylum Synopsis: In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
Requiem for a Dream
Release Year: 2000 Genre: Drama Tags: Dark, Psychological Synopsis: The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island individuals are shattered when their addictions become stronger.
Midnight in Paris
Release Year: 2011 Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance Tags: Time Travel, Writers, Romance Synopsis: A nostalgic screenwriter finds himself going back to the 1920s every day at midnight while on a trip to Paris.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Release Year: 2005 Genre: Drama, Romance Tags: Japan, Love, Geisha Synopsis: Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Room in Rome
Release Year: 2010 Genre: Drama, Romance Tags: Romance, Passion, Discovery, LGBT Synopsis: A hotel room in Rome becomes the setting for two young women's physical adventure that touches their very souls.
Aimee & Jaguar
Release Year: 1999 Genre: Drama, Romance, War Tags: WWII, True Story, LGBT Synopsis: In Berlin, during World War II, the romance between a married German woman and a Jewish woman has tragic consequences.
Sin City
Release Year: 2005 Genre: Crime, Thriller Tags: Dark, Crime, Neo-Noir Synopsis: A dark and miserable town, Basin City, tells the story of three different people, all caught up in corruption.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Release Year: 2014 Genre: Crime, Thriller Tags: Neo-Noir, Revenge, Dark Synopsis: Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Carol
Release Year: 2015 Genre: Drama, Romance Tags: Love Story, 1950s, LGBT Synopsis: Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk falls for an older, married woman.
D.E.B.S.
Release Year: 2004 Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance Tags: Spy, Comedy, LGBT Synopsis: A group of schoolgirls are recruited by a secret government agency to become crime-fighting spies, leading to an unexpected romance.
Lost and Delirious
Release Year: 2001 Genre: Drama, Romance Tags: LGBT, Emotional, Romance Synopsis: At a female boarding school, the bond between two teenagers becomes increasingly intense and passionate, leading to heartache and discovery.
My Octopus Teacher
Release Year: 2020 Genre: Documentary Tags: Nature, Emotional, Underwater Synopsis: A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
Gladiator
Release Year: 2000 Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama Tags: Historical, Revenge, Epic Synopsis: A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Release Year: 2018 Genre: Biography, Drama, Music Tags: Queen, Freddie Mercury, Music Legend Synopsis: The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).
Good Will Hunting
Release Year: 1997 Genre: Drama Tags: Genius, Emotional, Self-Discovery Synopsis: Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
Life of Pi
Release Year: 2012 Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy Tags: Survival, Sea, Spiritual Synopsis: A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. He forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Call Me by Your Name
Release Year: 2017 Genre: Drama, Romance Tags: Summer Romance, LGBT Synopsis: In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a 17-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Release Year: 1999 Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller Tags: Identity, Suspense, Psychological Synopsis: In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, but when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Release Year: 2013 Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama Tags: Finance, Corruption, Ambition Synopsis: Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
John Wick
Release Year: 2014 Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller Tags: Revenge, Action Synopsis: An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the people that killed his dog and took everything from him.
Seven Years in Tibet
Release Year: 1997 Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama Tags: True Story, Survival, Exploration Synopsis: The true story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.
The Great Gatsby
Release Year: 2013 Genre: Drama, Romance Tags: Classic, Love, Tragedy Synopsis: A writer and Wall Street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby.
The Great Beauty
Release Year: 2013 Genre: Drama Tags: Italian, Society, Reflection Synopsis: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
8 Mile
Release Year: 2002 Genre: Drama, Music Tags: Hip-Hop, Aspiration, Battling Synopsis: A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make the most of what could be his final opportunity but his problems around give him doubts.
The Notebook
Release Year: 2004 Genre: Drama, Romance Tags: Love Story, Romantic, Emotional Synopsis: A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.
Bird Box
Release Year: 2018 Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi Tags: Survival, Post-Apocalyptic, Mystery Synopsis: Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Who am I
Release Year: 2014 Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery Tags: Cyber Hacking, Thriller, Identity Synopsis: Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Devil at the Crossroads
Release Year: 2019 Genre: Documentary, Music Tags: Blues, Legend, Music History Synopsis: A look at the short, mysterious life of blues legend Robert Johnson, who is said to have made a deal with the Devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi.
Scarface
Release Year: 1983 Genre: Crime, Drama Tags: Rise and Fall, Iconic Synopsis: In Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Blow
Release Year: 2001 Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama Tags: Drug Trade, Rise and Fall, True Story Synopsis: The story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970s.
Fight Club
Release Year: 1999 Genre: Drama Tags: Cult Classic, Psychological, Political Anarchy Synopsis: An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soapmaker form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.
American Psycho
Release Year: 2000 Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller Tags: Psychological, Dark, Satire Synopsis: A wealthy New York City investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his hedonistic fantasies.
I Am Mother
Release Year: 2019 Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Tags: AI, Post-Apocalyptic, Suspense Synopsis: In the wake of humanity's extinction, a teenage girl is raised by a robot designed to repopulate the earth. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
Tau
Release Year: 2018 Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller Tags: AI, Captivity, Escape Synopsis: A woman is held captive in a futuristic smart house and hopes to escape by breaking into the computer programs that control the house.
40 Days and 40 Nights
Release Year: 2002 Genre: Comedy, Romance Tags: Romantic Comedy, Abstinence, Challenge Synopsis: After a brutal breakup, Matt Sullivan vows to abstain from all sexual activity for 40 days and 40 nights. His commitment is tested when he meets Erica.
Split
Release Year: 2016 Genre: Horror, Thriller Tags: Psychological Thriller, Multiple Personalities, Suspense Synopsis: Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man with 23 distinct personalities, abducts three teenage girls, leading to a gripping thriller about the mysteries of his mind.
Don Jon
Release Year: 2013 Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Tags: Addictions, Relationships, Growth Synopsis: A New Jersey guy develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
Snowden
Release Year: 2016 Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller Tags: Espionage, Whistleblower, Political Synopsis: The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden.
Citizenfour
Release Year: 2014 Genre: Documentary, Biography Tags: Surveillance, NSA, Documentary Synopsis: A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
The Fifth Estate
Release Year: 2013 Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller Tags: Journalism, WikiLeaks, Controversy Synopsis: A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.