My best films from 1990 to 2011

RATED 9/10

1. SUPER 8
2. THOR
3. THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU
4. SHUTTER ISLAND
5. LOVE & OTHER DRUGS
6. AVATAR
7. STAR TREK
8. MOON
9. I LOVE YOU, PHILIP MORRIS
10. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
11. CELL 211
12. WORLD'S GREATEST DAD
13. THE DARK KNIGHT
14. GRAN TORINO
15. DOOMSDAY
16. FANBOYS
17. BROTHER'S BLOOM
18. THERE WILL BE BLOOD
19. BOURNE (TRILOGY)
20. ZODIAC
21. FRACTURE
22. DISTURBIA

1. MEMENTO
2. GLADIATOR
3. FIGHT CLUB
4. TOY STORY
5. GOOD WILL HUNTING
6. CHASING AMY
7. TRAINSPOTTING
8. THAT THING YOU DO!
9. THESIS
10. BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
11. MURDER IN THE FIRST
12. STRANGE DAYS
13. THE LION KING
14. THE CROW
15. TRUE LIES
16. JURASSIC PARK
17. BRAM STOCKER'S DRACULA
18. TERMINATOR 2
19. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

RATED 10/10

1. BRIDESMAIDS
2. SOURCE CODE
3. INCEPTION
4. TOY STORY 3
5. UP
6. 500 DAYS OF SUMMER
7. ADVENTURELAND
8. NICK & NORA'S INFINITE PLAYLIST
9. WALL-E
10. THE FALL
11. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
12. THE NOTEBOOK
13. FINDING NEVERLAND
14. THE INCREDIBLES
15. BUBBLE BOY
16. DONNIE DARKO
17. WAKING LIFE

1. 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
2. THE MATRIX
3. L.A CONFIDENTIAL
4. OPEN YOUR EYES
5. SE7EN
6. TOY STORY
7. BEFORE SUNRISE
8. MALLRATS
9. SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
10. PULP FICTION
11. LEON
12. CLERKS
13. REALITY BITES
14. SCHINDLER'S LIST
15. POINT BREAK

MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE 3

YEAR:2006
RELEASE DATE:4 May 2006
DIRECTOR:J.J. Abrams
STARS:Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan and Ving Rhames
STUDIO: Paramount Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:imdb link

PLOT:Super-spy Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty to trains new IMF agents. But he is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he's ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team: his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen. They are to rescue one of his very own trainees, Lindsey who was kidnapped while on a surveillance detail of Davian. It soon becomes evident that Davian is well-protected, well-connected, and downright malicious. This forces Hunt to extend his journey back into the field in order to rescue his wife, Julia, and uncover IMF double agents in the process

MY OPINION: As i explained in super 8, I love j.j. Abrams work. If you add Tom Cruise and an exciting and passionate plot to it, the result is an amazing and interesting action film full of good moments

MY RATING:9/10

CHILDREN OF MEN

YEAR:2006
RELEASE DATE:22 September 2006
DIRECTOR:Alfonso Cuaron
STARS:Julianne Moore, Clive Owen and Chiwetel Ejiofor
STUDIO:Universal Pictures

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:imdb link

PLOT:The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate journey to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond those presently on Earth.

THE LOOKOUT

YEAR:2007
RELEASE DATE:2 November 2007
DIRECTOR:Scott Frank
STARS:Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels and Matthew Goode
STUDIO: Miramax Films, Spyglass Entertainment

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:imdb link

PLOT:An admired high school hockey player with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girlfriend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme.

DISTURBIA

YEAR:2007
RELEASE DATE:14 September 2007
DIRECTOR:D.J. Caruso
STARS:Shia LaBeouf, David Morse and Carrie-Anne Moss
STUDIO:DreamWorks SKG

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.disturbia.com/

PLOT:After his father is killed in a car accident, things unravel for Kale Brecht and he is placed under house-arrest for punching his Spanish teacher. Having nothing better to do, Kale occupies himself by spying on his neighbors. But one night, he witnesses what appears to be a murder going on in Mr. Turner's house. Kale becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind these murders but, after a few unsettling run-ins with Mr. Turner, it becomes a matter of life and death. And the ominous question: Who is watching who?

FRACTURE

YEAR:2007
RELEASE DATE:20 April 2007
DIRECTOR:Gregory Hoblit
STARS:Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling and David Strathairn
STUDIO:New Line Cinema, Castle Rock Entertainment

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:imdb link

PLOT:Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts.

ZODIAC

YEAR:2007
RELEASE DATE:18 May 2007
DIRECTOR:David Fincher
STARS: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo
STUDIO:Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.zodiacmovie.com/

PLOT:A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's book, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

YEAR:2007
RELEASE DATE:15 February 2008
DIRECTOR:Paul Thomas Anderson
STARS:Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano and Ciarán Hinds
STUDIO: Paramount Vantage, Miramax Films,

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:imdb link

PLOT:The film follows the rise to power of Daniel Plainview - a charismatic and ruthless oil prospector, driven to succeed by his intense hatred of others and desperate need to see any and all competitors fail. When he learns of oil-rich land in California that can be bought cheaply, he moves his operation there and begins manipulating and exploiting the local landowners into selling him their property. Using his young adopted son H.W. to project the image of a caring family man, Plainview gains the cooperation of almost all the locals with lofty promises to build schools and cultivate the land to make their community flourish. Over time, Plainview's gradual accumulation of wealth and power causes his true self to surface, and he begins to slowly alienate himself from everyone in his life.

THE BROTHERS BLOOM

YEAR:2008
RELEASE DATE:4 June 2010
DIRECTOR:Rian Johnson
STARS:Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo
STUDIO:Endgame Entertainment

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://brothersbloom.tumblr.com/

PLOT:Brothers - older Stephen and three years junior Bloom - have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, for who the intricacy of the story used in the con is as important as the positive outcome of the swindle. Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories, the character he considers the anti-hero. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and who has a penchant for blowing things up. As Bloom hits his mid-thirties, he wants to quit the business as he is losing his own identity to that of the characters he portrays; he doesn't know anymore what is real and what is make-believe. Stephen talks him into one last con, the mark to be the eccentric, lonely but beautiful New Jersey heiress...

FANBOYS

YEAR:2008
RELEASE DATE:13 February 2009
DIRECTOR:Kyle Newman
STARS:Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel and Kristen Bell
STUDIO: Weinstein Company, The

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.fanboys-themovie.com/

PLOT:Star Wars fans travel to Skywalker Ranch to steal an early copy of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST

YEAR:2008
RELEASE DATE:30 January 2009
DIRECTOR:Peter Sollett
STARS:Michael Cera, Kat Dennings and Aaron Yoo
STUDIO:Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/nickandnorah/

PLOT:It's been three weeks, two days, and 23 hours since Tris broke up with Nick. And now here she is at his gig, with a new guy. How could she have moved on so fast? This begins the night of Nick, Norah and Manhattan. The night of stripping nuns, hotel ice rooms, Russian food, psychotic ex-boyfriends and lovingly trashy ex-girlfriends. It's the night of Julio and Salvatore. The night of holding hands and writing songs and singing in the rain. It's a night they'll never forget.

DOOMSDAY

YEAR:2008
RELEASE DATE:9 May 2008
DIRECTOR:Neil Marshall
STARS:Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins and Alexander Siddig
STUDIO:Rogue Pictures

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: imdb link

PLOT:A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair, is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

GRAN TORINO

YEAR:2008
RELEASE DATE:27 February 2009
DIRECTOR:Clint Eastwood
STARS:Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang and Christopher Carley
STUDIO: Matten Productions

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://www.thegrantorino.com/

PLOT:Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy an old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors, a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.

THE DARK KNIGHT

YEAR:2008
RELEASE DATE:24 July 2008
DIRECTOR:Christopher Nolan
STARS:Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart
STUDIO: Warner Bros. Pictures

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://www.citizensforbatman.org/

PLOT:Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker.

WORLD'S GREATEST DAD

YEAR:2009
RELEASE DATE:24 August 2011
DIRECTOR:Bobcat Goldthwait
STARS:Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara and Morgan MurphyJMJM
STUDIO:Magnolia Pictures, Darko Entertainment

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://www.worldsgreatestdadfilm.com/

PLOT:Lance Clayton is a man who has learned to settle. He dreamed of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as a high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle is an insufferable jackass who won't give his father the time of day. Lance is dating Claire, the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't want to get serious -- or even acknowledge publicly that they are dating. Then, in the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of all the fame, fortune and popularity he ever dreamed of, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS

YEAR:2009
RELEASE DATE:18 September 2009
DIRECTOR:Phil Lord, Chris Miller
STARS:Anna Faris, Bill Hader and Bruce Campbell
STUDIO:Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/cloudywithachanceofmeatballs/

PLOT:Flint Lockwood thinks he's a genius. But none of the things he invented are things that make sense or are useful. However, he has the support of his mother but when she dies, he's left alone with his father who thinks he should give it up. When the community that he lives in, is in an economic crisis because their primary source of income a sardine cannery was shut down, Flint decides to try his latest invention, a machine that can turn water into food. But something goes wrong and the machine ends up in the atmosphere. Later it starts raining food. And so the shifty mayor tries to use this as a way to help their community. But when Flint sense something's wrong with the machine, the mayor convinces him to ignore it. But as Flint predict chaos ensues.

ADVENTURELAND

YEAR:2009
RELEASE DATE:11 September 2009
DIRECTOR:Greg Mottola
STARS:Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart and Ryan Reynolds
STUDIO: Miramax Films

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:imdb link

PLOT:In 1987, James Brennan's dreams of a summer European tour before studying at an Ivy League school in New York City are ruined after his parents have a severe career setback. As a result, James must get a summer job to cover his upcoming expenses at the decrepit local amusement park, Adventureland, where he falls in love with a witty co-worker, Emily Lewin. In that bizarrely shady workplace, the young carnies have unforgettable and painful learning experiences about life, love and trust while James discovers what he truly values.

I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS

YEAR:2009
RELEASE DATE:17 March 2010
DIRECTOR:Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
STARS:Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor and Leslie Mann
STUDIO:Europa Corp

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://www.phillipmorrismovie.net/

PLOT:Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven becomes open about his homosexuality and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lifestyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another.

MOON

YEAR:2009
RELEASE DATE:17 July 2009
DIRECTOR:Duncan Jones
STARS:Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey and Dominique McElligott
STUDIO:Liberty Films UK

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://sonyclassics.com/moon/main.html

PLOT:Sam Bell has a three year contract to work for Lunar Industries. For the contract's entire duration, he is the sole employee based at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only direct real-time interaction is with GERTY, the intelligent computer whose function is to attend to his day to day needs. With such little human contact and all of it indirect, he feels that three years is far too long to be so isolated; he knows he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches. All he wants is to return to Earth to be with his wife Tess and their infant daughter Eve, who was born just prior to his leaving for this job. With two weeks to go, he gets into an accident at one of the mechanical harvesters and is rendered unconscious...

500 DAYS OF SUMMER

YEAR:2009
RELEASE DATE:2 September 2009
DIRECTOR:Marc Webb
STARS:Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Geoffrey Arend
STUDIO:Fox Pictures

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://www.foxsearchlight.com/500daysofsummer/

PLOT:After it looks as if she's left his life for good this time, Tom Hansen reflects back on the just over one year that he knew Summer Finn. Despite being physically average in almost every respect, Summer had always attracted the attention of men, Tom included. For Tom, it was love at first sight when she walked into the greeting card company where he worked, she the new administrative assistant. Soon, Tom knew that Summer was the woman with whom he wanted to spend the rest of his life. Although Summer did not believe in relationships or boyfriends - in her assertion, real life will always ultimately get in the way - Tom and Summer became more than just friends. Through the trials and tribulations of Tom and Summer's so-called relationship, Tom could always count on the advice of his two best friends, McKenzie and Paul. However, it is Tom's adolescent sister, Rachel, who is his voice of reason..

STAR TREK

YEAR: 2009
RELEASE DATE: 8 May 2009
DIRECTOR:J.J. Abrams
STARS: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Simon Pegg
STUDIO: Paramount Pictures/Bad Robot

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://www.startrekmovie.com/

PLOT:On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was looking for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan at that time, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet even as he annoys his instructors like young Cmdr. Spock. Suddenly, there is an emergency at Vulcan and the newly commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself thanks to Leonard McCoy's medical trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier where the old legend is altered forever even as the new version of it is just beginning.

AVATAR

YEAR: 2009
RELEASE DATE: 17 December 2009
DIRECTOR: James Cameron
STARS: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver
STUDIO: Twenty Century Fox

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.avatarmovie.com/

PLOT:When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS

YEAR: 2010
RELEASE DATE: 29 December 2010
DIRECTOR: Edward Zwick
STARS: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and Judy Greer
STUDIO:Fox 2000

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: imdb link

PLOT:Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.

SHUTTER ISLAND

YEAR:2010
RELEASE DATE:12 March 2010
DIRECTOR:Martin Scorsese
STARS:Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer and Mark Ruffalo
STUDIO:Paramount Pictures

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.shutterisland.com

PLOT:It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU

YEAR:2011
RELEASE DATE:4 March 2011
DIRECTOR:George Nolfi
STARS:Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Lisa Thoreson
STUDIO:Universal Studios

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:http://www.theadjustmentbureau.com

PLOT:Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York the only woman he's ever loved. On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) - a woman like none he's ever known. But just as he realizes he's falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself - the men of The Adjustment Bureau - who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together. In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path...or risk everything to defy Fate and be with her.

THOR

YEAR:2011
RELEASE DATE: 27 April 2011
DIRECTOR:Kenneth Branagh
STARS:Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman
STUDIO:Paramount Pictures/Marvel Entertainment

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://thor.marvel.com

PLOT:The warrior Thor (Hemsworth) is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard by his father Odin (Hopkins) for his arrogance and sent to Earth to live among humans. Falling in love with scientist Jane Foster (Portman) teaches Thor much-needed lessons, and his new-found strength comes into play as a villain from his homeland sends dark forces toward Earth.

SUPER 8

YEAR: 2011
RELEASED DATE UK:5 August 2011
DIRECTOR: J.J. Abrams
STARS: Elle Fanning, Amanda Michalka and Kyle Chandler
STUDIO:Paramount Pictures/Bad Robot

OFFICIAL WEB SITE: www.super8-movie.com

PLOT: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

MY OPINION: After months of anxiety, I finally watched “Super 8”. I was looking forward to seeing it for many reasons. First of all because I like J.J. Abrams as director or anything he is involved in(fringe, lost, mission impossible) and secondly because after seeing the few seconds of the first trailer i was engaged. I thought it was one of the best trailers i had seen for a long, long time and it felt like i really wanted to see that film, and i don’t often want to go to the cinema , since i don’t have much time to spare now, so instead i just feel like watching new releases from home. After finally watching it, i wasn’t disappointed at all. I thought it was the best film i had seen at the cinema for a long time. I loved everything, apart from the bits where are a few explosions. That was my only complaint, and that is a lot coming from me. So good job

MY RATING: 9/10