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- DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.Beautiful movie, despite the gruesome hairstyle of the main actress.
It was nominated for five main Academy Awards and deservedly won all five. The only two films that have repeated this success are "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Silence of the Lambs".
9/10 - DirectorErnst LubitschStarsGreta GarboMelvyn DouglasIna ClaireA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.Screwball romantic comedy
If you want just to relax and enjoy charms of true stars of old in dignified comedy, this is a perfect choice for you.
7,5/10 - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames StewartAfter a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.Sophisticated romantic screwball
Part screwball, part romantic comedy from the forties. Love triangle starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart. It simply can not fail. One of my all-time favorites.
9/10 - DirectorPreston SturgesStarsBarbara StanwyckHenry FondaCharles CoburnA trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.Deception
The snake in this movie isn't a snake at all. It's just a legless lizard. Otherwise, I have no objections. Preston Sturges assembled a great cast and turned this well-written story into a true masterpiece of romantic comedy. Intelligent, witty and heartwarming.
9/10 - DirectorMax OphülsStarsJoan FontaineLouis JourdanMady ChristiansA pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.Painfully bittersweet
"Oh, if only you could've recognized what was always yours, you could've found what was never lost."
9/10 - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneMaureen O'HaraBarry FitzgeraldA retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.Lovely :D
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsWilliam HoldenDavid NivenMaggie McNamaraTwo aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections."The three things I live for are steak, liquor, and sex."
Adaptation of the eponymous Broadway show from 1951, which came to close to a thousand performances, is the film debut and the only Oscar nomination for Maggie McNamara. This is the first Hollywood mainstream movie to use the words "virgin," "seduce," and "mistress," which has led to censorship battles, and it was even banned in some places, but it ended up with three Academy Award nominations. This romantic comedy was scandalous at the time. It is interesting to see what was considered unacceptable and vulgar behavior in the middle of the last century. I'd love to see the faces of the cans of that time when flipping through today's tabloids.
7/10 - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckAudrey HepburnEddie AlbertA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.Bitter-sweet romance nominated for 10 Oscars. It won 3, including Oscar for leading female role that went to hands of heavenly Audrey Hepburn, in her first American movie.
- DirectorJerome RobbinsRobert WiseStarsNatalie WoodGeorge ChakirisRichard BeymerTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.Love-hated it...
This movie drove me crazy. I barely forced myself to see it through because it is extremely annoyingly done and I rate such movies 2/10 (1/10 is for those I gave up on), but when it finally ended I was under such an amazing impression that I wanted to rate it 10/10.
The story is inspired by "Romeo and Juliet", but placed in NY in the mid-20th century, where two members of opponent teenage gangs fall in love. Acting, directing and music are great. The movie is extremely emotional and possesses strength and atmosphere of a theater. It has all prerequisites for excellence. And it won 10 Oscars. But...- Everything in this movie is overemphasized and I hate that. However, if I observe it as a theatrical play on canvas, I can get over it.
- The movie starts with an instrumental intro with a frozen screen. It lasts around five minutes. At first, I thought my movie player was stuck, then I tried to find another version online and I almost gave up on watching this movie, when I finally realized it is supposed to be that way. Why would anyone do such thing I really have no idea, and that's the first minus.
- It's a damn musical. And one of those needlessly stretched to two and a half hours by completely redundant musical numbers. The first half of the movie is almost unwatchable and I was at the edge of giving up several times. But curiosity about how the story will go kept me going on. The story is great and some musical numbers tell parts of the story, but a good part of them just have no purpose in the movie. They are just for enjoying the music (which I did not) and to double the length of the film. That's the second minus.
- Just when I decided to stick it out or simply fast forward redundant parts and watch this movie till the end, the ultimate deal breaker happened that left me shocked. The scene where two gangs are closing to "battlefield" and mass brawl/rumble itself are shown in the form of ballet. BALLET?! Even if I didn't hate ballet, which I really do, I mean, really?! Teenage mass fight as a ballet... wtf?! The ultimately stupidest thing I saw on a big screen. Instant embarrassment transfer. Huge minus, I mean really really big.
- And then, in the middle of the movie, there's one more musical intermezzo with a frozen screen. That was too much for my nerves and I turned it off.
But, later it bothered me how the story ends and I decided to see another half too, the very next day. The second half had more story and action and less redundancy, and musical numbers are a structural part of the plot. And the ending made me cry. And how should I rate it now...
8/10
Natalie Wood is so beautiful in this movie. Like an angel. - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJames MasonShelley WintersSue LyonA middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.I prefer the 1997 remake, but still a great movie
"Lolita" (1997) was always one of my very favorites, and rare example of the movie better than the book. When I saw this one for the first time I was a kid and I could not stand black and white movies, but I still decided to watch it because of my love towards the book and movie from '90s. Unfortunately, 160 minutes of black and white was too much for me. Two decades later I finally watched the whole thing and I definitely recommend it to everyone who didn't see it yet. And newer one too. And the book. How could I even think that Kubrick could fail... I'm ashamed.
7/10 - DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsMarlon BrandoMaria SchneiderMaria MichiA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.Go, get the butter
It took me days to come to my senses after watching this movie. Wow! Marlon Brando was nominated for an Oscar for this part. His competition were Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Robert Redford, and the Oscar went to Jack Lemon. Definitely tough competition. I could not decide which one of them is more awesome.
Fun fact - Bernardo Bertolucci was sentenced to four months in prison in Italy for making this movie, while in America he was nominated for an Academy Award.
8/10 - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages."After that, it got pretty late and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I realized what a terrific person she was and how much fun it was just knowing her. And I thought of that old joke: this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, 'Doc, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken.' And the doctor says, 'Well, why don't you turn him in?' The guy says, 'I would, but I need the eggs.' Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships: they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, I guess, we keep goin' through it because most of us... need the eggs."
7/10 - DirectorJovan AcinStarsGala VidenovicRelja BasicNebojsa BakocevicIn 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
- DirectorDavid ZuckerStarsLeslie NielsenPriscilla PresleyGeorge KennedyLieutenant Frank Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.In my opinion better than the first one. Lots of stupid and even more fun. And full of references to cult movies. I really laughed out loud. :D
7,5/10 - DirectorJeremiah S. ChechikStarsJohnny DeppMary Stuart MastersonAidan QuinnA mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.Beautiful story
Mary Stuart Masterson plays a mentally ill girl who lives with her brother. His life is reduced to work and taking care of the ill sister, without any privacy or dedication to himself and his own life and future. And then in their lives enter Johnny Depp in the role of a weird semi-literate boy, a fan of Chaplin and Keaton, and Oscar-winning Julianne Moore in the role of a local waitress. Nothing pretentious, pretty much predictable, but sincere, strong, romantic and most of all fun.
8/10 - DirectorAdrian LyneStarsRobert RedfordDemi MooreWoody HarrelsonA billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife."If you want something very badly, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with."
Terribly underrated movie. Although the basic premise is somewhat unrealistic, consequences are something many couples, if not the majority of them, can relate to. Almost everyone at least once had essentially similar situation, regardless of the fact that specific circumstances were different. If nothing else, Woody, Demi, and Robert are enough reason to see this film.
8/10 - DirectorJeremy LevenStarsJohnny DeppMarlon BrandoFaye DunawayA psychiatrist must cure a young patient who presents himself as Don Juan, the world's greatest lover.Why not...
If I do not count when parents was taking me as a child, this film is my first going to the movies, my first encounter with Johnny Depp and forever one of my favorites. The main character is based on Lord Byron's Don Juan, the movie is produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Kamen was in charge of music, the main track is one of the most beautiful love songs I've ever heard, and when you add to it that the main roles are interpreted by geniuses, such as Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway and, one of the greatest actors of all time, Marlon Brando, you get the ultimate love movie. In my opinion, the essence of this film, and also the essence of life itself, is contained in one of the last sentences: "Why not..."
9/10
The most beautiful quotes:- There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.
- By seeing beyond what is visible to the eye. Now there are those, of course, who do not share my perceptions, it's true. When I say that all my woman are dazzling beauties, they object. The nose of this one is too large; the hips of another, they are too wide; perhaps the breasts of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are... glorious, radiant, spectacular, and perfect, because, I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me the way that they do, Don Octavio, because they sense that I search out the beauty that dwells within until it overwhelms everything else. And then they cannot avoid their desire, to release that beauty and envelope me in it.
- Have you never met a woman who inspires you to love? Until your every sense is filled with her? You inhale her. You taste her. You see your unborn children in her eyes and know that your heart has at last found a home. Your life begins with her, and without her it must surely end.
- You want Don Juan DeMarco, the world's greatest lover, to talk to you? What do you know of great love? Have you ever loved a woman until milk leaked from her as though she had just given birth to love itself, and now must feed it or burst? Have you ever tasted a woman until she believed that she could be satisfied only by consuming the tongue that had devoured her? Have you ever loved a woman so completely that the sound of your voice in her ear could cause her body to shudder and explode with such intense pleasure that only weeping could bring her full release?
- Every true lover knows that the moment of greatest satisfaction comes when ecstasy is long over and he beholds before him the flower which has blossomed beneath his touch.
- Every woman is a mystery to be solved.
- Doña Ana: Very well, my love. I will accept that I'm not the first if you will tell me, with the same... honesty, how many others there have been. Don Juan: [voice-over: This would have been a very good time for me to lie. But truth is a terrible habit.] Including you... there have been... exactly... one... thousand, five hundred and two.
- Sadly, I must report that the last patient I ever treated, the great lover Don Juan DeMarco, suffered from a romanticism which was completely incurable, and even worse, highly contagious.
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsJeremy IronsDominique SwainMelanie GriffithAn English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.Ignore description on IMDb
"A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter." - The worst description of this movie possible, lie that gives a completely wrong picture of what you can expect to see in this film.
Disturbed, but at the same time very romantic and sad love/life story, much much better than the original novel by Nabokov. One of my favorite movies of all time.
10/10
"She was Lo, plain Lo in the morning, standing 4'10 in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. In my arms, she was always Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul, Lolita."
"I was a daisy-fresh girl and look what you've done to me. I should call the police and tell them that you raped me, you dirty old man."
"Despite all the danger and hopelessness of it all, I was in paradise, paradise whose skies were the color of hell flames, but a paradise still." - DirectorBrad SilberlingStarsNicolas CageMeg RyanAndre BraugherAn angel on Earth, a doctor unable to believe, a patient with a secret, a love story made in Heaven."I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One."
An angel, who leads souls of the deceased to the other side, comes to a hospital to pick up a patient, but falls in love with patient's young doctor. For her, he sacrifices eternity and becomes mortal, and with her he discovers the true meaning of being human.
Although tragic, this drama is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful and most powerful love stories ever filmed. Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan are excellent in leading roles and they have fantastic chemistry together. To me, this movie is the perfection of its genre.
10/10 - DirectorZdravko SotraStarsDragan MicanovicNatasa TapuskovicNikola SimicComedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.Maybe it's not one of the best, but it surely is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsTony PeersSteve HuisonDavid TennantA British writer pursues a young actress to Hollywood and needs all the help he can get to win her love.Doctor Who got tired of England and platonic relationships with English girls, so he flies to America and marries L.A. actress wannabe.
7/10 - DirectorMartin BrestStarsBrad PittAnthony HopkinsClaire ForlaniDeath, who takes the form of a young man killed in an accident, asks a media mogul to act as his guide to teach him about life on Earth and, in the process, he falls in love with the mogul's daughter.Beautiful
This movie had no luck with critics, but it is near the top of my all-time favorites. One of the most beautiful love stories, with deep thoughts about life, and with Pitt and Hopkins in leading roles you can't ask for much more.
9/10 - DirectorAndy TennantStarsJodie FosterChow Yun-FatBai LingThe story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.Masterpiece
Based on the true story of an English teacher who comes in Siam in mid of 19th century to teach the king's children. Clash of two cultures causes many troubles, but also causes many changes in the king's way of thinking and understanding, and mostly influences the king's oldest son who, when he inherits the throne, reforms the country, abolish slavery and reforms judiciary.
Great acting, very emotional story and just enough of action make two hours of the movie simply whiz through you and leave you with tears in your eyes.
10/10 - DirectorLasse HallströmStarsJuliette BinocheJohnny DeppJudi DenchSingle mother Vianne Rocher and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town in the winter of 1959, and open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.Bitter-sweet as dark chocolate
Beautiful story, beautifully done. There's not much to say about this movie. Just make yourself comfortable in front of the screen and enjoy some chocolate dessert.
8/10 - DirectorSally PotterStarsChristina RicciCate BlanchettOleg YankovskiyA young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.I cried too <3
7,5/10