My Favorite Movies
The Great Dictator (1940)
Charlie Chaplin roasting fascism before it was trendy. Dual roles, clown energy, and one of the boldest speeches ever put on film.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/
Casablanca (1942)
War. Romance. Cigarettes and moral dilemmas. Man runs a bar and pretends he doesn’t care until he absolutely does.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/
The Apartment (1960)
Office politics but sadder and smarter. Guy lends his apartment to cheating executives. Falls in love. Everything gets complicated.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053604/
Alien (1979)
Space truckers answer a distress call. Bad decision. One of them brings home something very unfriendly.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Hitmen, boxers, overdoses, burgers. Nonlinear chaos that somehow makes perfect sense.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
The Green Mile (1999)
Death row. Giant gentle man with a supernatural gift. You will not leave emotionally intact.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/
Donnie Darko (2001)
Depressed teenager meets a giant rabbit who talks about time travel. Suburbia has never felt this unstable.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/
Lost in Translation (2003)
Two lonely people in Tokyo. Soft lighting. Emotional silence. Nothing dramatic happens and somehow everything happens.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/
Children of Men (2006)
Humanity can’t reproduce anymore. World collapses quietly. One miracle pregnancy changes everything.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/
Gran Torino (2008)
Old, angry war vet meets his neighbors and accidentally develops a conscience.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205489/
District 9 (2009)
Aliens land on Earth and get treated like immigrants in a slum. Sci-fi with a punch to the throat.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/
Watchmen (2009)
Superheroes but morally bankrupt. Cold War paranoia and people in costumes making everything worse.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/
A Separation (2011)
Marriage, class tension, moral gray zones. Nobody is fully right. Nobody is fully wrong. Just painfully human.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832382/
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Teens go to a cabin. You think you know the rules. You do not.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/
Nightcrawler (2014)
Ambitious man discovers crime journalism and decides ethics are optional.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872718/
Gone Girl (2014)
Marriage as psychological warfare. Media circus included.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/
The Handmaiden (2016)
Con, romance, betrayal. Nobody is playing the game honestly and that’s the fun part.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4016934/
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Lonely replicant hunts secrets in neon rain. Existential crisis but make it cinematic.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856101/
The Platform (2019)
Vertical prison. Food descends floor by floor. Social commentary hits you with a metal tray.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228288/
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Multiverse chaos, taxes, family trauma. Somehow manages to be absurd and deeply sincere at the same time.