IMDb: Favourite - a list by kristina-g-nikolova

1.

Anna Karenina (2012)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X

Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. (129 mins.)

Director: Joe Wright

Stars: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen

2.

American Psycho (2000)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies. (102 mins.)

Director: Mary Harron

Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage

3.

Cloud Atlas (2012)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. (172 mins.)

Director: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski

Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving

4.

Case 39 (2009)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.1/10 X

A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected. (109 mins.)

Director: Christian Alvart

Stars: Renée Zellweger, Ian McShane, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper

5.

The Notebook (2004)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X

A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences. (123 mins.)

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Stars: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling

6.

A Walk to Remember (2002)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X

The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service. (101 mins.)

Director: Adam Shankman

Stars: Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah

7.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.7/10 X

Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war. (183 mins.)

Director: Michael Bay

Stars: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott

8.

Face/Off (1997)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X

A revolutionary medical technique allows an undercover agent to take the physical appearance of a major criminal and infiltrate his organization. (138 mins.)

Director: John Woo

Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola

9.

Memento (2000)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.6/10 X

A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife. (113 mins.)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior

10.

Inception (2010)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.8/10 X

A skilled extractor is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible. (148 mins.)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe

11.

Shutter Island (2010)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X

Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby. (138 mins.)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley

12.

The Reader (2008)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. (124 mins.)

Director: Stephen Daldry

Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain