Movies I'll never forget
These are not the greatest films I have seen, even though some of them are. This is a list of films that have haunted my memories, inspired me as a film maker and kind of shaped who Iam today. This list is not in any order, just as I remeber them I add them. Some I haven't seen since I was a kid.
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1.
A Simple Plan
(1998)
When three blue collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash they make a plan to keep their find from the authorities but find complications and mistrust weaving its way into their plan. (121 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
2.
Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile
(1974)
Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother whom he keeps her corpse, among others, as his companions in his decaying farmhouse (82 mins.)
Director: Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby
3.
The Exorcist
(1973)
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. (122 mins.)
Director: William Friedkin
4.
Infra-Man
(1975)
Princess Dragon Mom and her mutant army have arisen, and only Inframan can stop them! (88 mins.)
Director: Shan Hua
5.
Equinox
(1970)
Four friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic, due to possession of a tome of mystic information. Told in flashbacks by the sole survivor. (80 mins.)
Director: Jack Woods
6.
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
(1965)
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards... (98 mins.)
Director: Freddie Francis
7.
Burial of the Rats
(1995 TV Movie)
In 19th Century France, a young Bram Stoker is captured by a man-hating, all-female cult of thong bikini wearers... (78 mins.)
Director: Dan Golden
8.
The Uncanny
(1977)
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror. (89 mins.)
Director: Denis Héroux
9.
Poltergeist
(1982)
A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts. (114 mins.)
Director: Tobe Hooper
10.
Jurassic Park
(1993)
During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok. (127 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
11.
The Matrix
(1999)
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. (136 mins.)
Director: The Wachowski Brothers, The Wachowski Brothers
12.
Fragile
(2005)
At her new job in a rundown children's hospital, a nurse desperately tries to keep her patients safe from a plague of random, mysterious attacks. (101 mins.)
Director: Jaume Balagueró
13.
Sling Blade
(1996)
Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town. (135 mins.)
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
14.
The Passion of the Christ
(2004)
A film detailing the final hours and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. (127 mins.)
Director: Mel Gibson
15.
Short Eyes
(1977)
A child molester sent to prison finds that criminals exact harsher justice than society. (100 mins.)
Director: Robert M. Young
16.
American Me
(1992)
A Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle. (125 mins.)
Director: Edward James Olmos
17.
Scarface
(1983)
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel while succumbing to greed. (170 mins.)
Director: Brian De Palma
18.
Angels with Dirty Faces
(1938)
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids. (97 mins.)
Director: Michael Curtiz
19.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1939)
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Director: William Dieterle
20.
Dead Alive
(1992)
A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors. (104 mins.)
Director: Peter Jackson
21.
Psycho
(1960)
A thirty-something secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. (109 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
22.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(1962)
A former child star torments her crippled sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion. (134 mins.)
Director: Robert Aldrich
23.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(1978)
In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. (115 mins.)
Director: Philip Kaufman
24.
Evil Dead II
(1987)
The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack. (84 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
25.
Phantasm II
(1988)
Mike, now released from a psychiatric hospital, continues his journey to stop the evil Tall Man from his grim work. (97 mins.)
Director: Don Coscarelli
26.
Starship Troopers
(1997)
Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival. (129 mins.)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
27.
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
(2004 Video)
In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait. (88 mins.)
Director: Phil Tippett
28.
Private School
(1983)
Christine (Phoebe Cates), a student at an exclusive all-girls private school, is in love with Jim, who attends an academy for boys nearby... (89 mins.)
Director: Noel Black
29.
Taps
(1981)
Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers. (126 mins.)
Director: Harold Becker
30.
Bad Boys
(1983)
Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing Paco Moreno's kid brother. (104 mins.)
Director: Rick Rosenthal
31.
Full Metal Jacket
(1987)
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam. (116 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
32.
A Clockwork Orange
(1971)
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan. (136 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
33.
The Birds
(1963)
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. (119 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
34.
Requiem for a Dream
(2000)
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island individuals are shattered when their addictions become stronger. (102 mins.)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
35.
Terminator Salvation
(2009)
After Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, a group of survivors led by John Connor struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job. (115 mins.)
Director: McG
36.
An American Werewolf in London
(1981)
Two American tourists in Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. (97 mins.)
Director: John Landis
“ This was to much for my pre digital cgi mind. I watched this film; on laser disc until I knew every line through and through. I had now what's known as a man crush on David Noughton: Aka The Dr. Pepper guy. But this movie had special fx on a par with todays digital landscape. But most of all it had a zombie. Zombie were hard to come by back then. Oh yeah and the hot British nurse. ” - cwilliamjay
37.
They Live
(1988)
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth. (93 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
“ It was The eighties, it was Roddy Piper and has to date the baddest fight scene ever. ” - cwilliamjay
38.
Life Stinks
(1991)
A filthy rich businessman bets a corporate rival that he can live on the streets of L.A. without the comforts of home or money, which proves to be tougher than he thought. (92 mins.)
Director: Mel Brooks
39.
The Towering Inferno
(1974)
At the opening party of a collosal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. (165 mins.)
Director: John Guillermin
“ Barely remember this film. I was around five years old. But I remember some guy falling from the building and everone applauding. I couldn't figure why they would applaud a man falling to his death. Maybe I'll check it out now that I'm older. One of those scenes that has stayed in my psycy. ” - cwilliamjay
40.
The Food of the Gods
(1976)
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps... (88 mins.)
Director: Bert I. Gordon
41.
Equilibrium
(2002)
In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system. (107 mins.)
Director: Kurt Wimmer
42.
Night of the Living Dead
(1968)
A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse. (96 mins.)
Director: George A. Romero
43.
Dawn of the Dead
(2004)
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall. (101 mins.)
Director: Zack Snyder
44.
The Night of the Iguana
(1964)
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life. (125 mins.)
Director: John Huston
45.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
(1974)
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist. (115 mins.)
Director: Michael Cimino
46.
Dirty Harry
(1971)
When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. (102 mins.)
Director: Don Siegel
47.
Ben-Hur
(1959)
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. (212 mins.)
Director: William Wyler
48.
2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968)
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. (141 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
49.
Cruising
(1980)
A police detective goes undercover in the sleazy and underground gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is murdering numerous gay men with S&M tactics. (102 mins.)
Director: William Friedkin
“ Pacino almost get's bunned. ” - cwilliamjay
50.
Purple Rain
(1984)
A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer... (111 mins.)
Director: Albert Magnoli
“ I was 15, I wore a jerry curl and a Micheal Jackson Beat It jacket. I went to see Ghostbusters. It was a double feature the other movie was Purple Rain. When I left the theater. The Beat It jacket was in the garbage. It was His Royal Badness forever since. Long live Prince. ” - cwilliamjay
51.
Finian's Rainbow
(1968)
A mysterious Irishman, Finian, and his beautiful daughter Sharon, arrive one day in Rainbow Valley,... (141 mins.)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
52.
Escape to Witch Mountain
(1975)
Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home? (97 mins.)
Director: John Hough
53.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
(1971)
An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defense of Britain. (117 mins.)
Director: Robert Stevenson
54.
Rosemary's Baby
(1968)
A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life. (136 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
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