Daniel's Highly Recommended Movies

Daniel's
Highly Recommended Movies List
(Pink Highlighted means a very special, meaningful must-see movie)

Highly Recommended Movies: (print out without background and take list to video store or Netflix)

Drama/Message Movies:

Sci-Fi / Fantasy:

Foreign:

A Few Good Men

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Pan's Labyrinth

The Abyss

A Hard Day's Night

Field of Dreams

Patch Adams

Bladerunner

All About My Mother

A Beautiful Mind

Fierce Grace

Pay It Forward

Brainstorm

Amelie

About A Boy

Finding Neverland

Philadelphia

Bridge to Tarabithia

Barbarian Invasions

Adaptation

Forrest Gump

Phoebe in Wonderland

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

Central Station

Almost Famous

The Game (intense)

The Piano

Cocoon

The Chorus

Amadeus

Gandhi

Playing By Heart

Contact

Cinema Paradiso

American Beauty

The Golden Compass

Pleasantville

Dead Zone (not scary)

Departures (Japan)

Amistad

Good Night & Good Luck

Powder

Dune

Enchanted April

An American President

Good Will Hunting

Pretty Woman

Enemy Mine

The Full Monty

Australia

Grand Canyon

Prince of Tides

E.T.

Hero (Chinese)

AVATAR

The Green Mile

The Rainmaker

The Fellowship of the Ring

IL Postino (The Postman)

Babel

Greystoke, Lord of the Apes

Regarding Henry

The Fifth Element

Jodhaa Akbar

Before Sunrise

Groundhog Day

Restoration

Ghost

King of Masks

Before Sunset

Harry Potter (All of them)

Romeo and Juliet

Hangar 18

Kolya

Being John Malkovich

Hearts in Atlantis

Room with a View

Highlander (1)

Life Is Beautiful

Being There

High Fidelity

The Saint

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Like Water for Chocolate

Benny & Joon

Holy Man

Scent of a Woman

MATRIX Trilogy

Man Facing Southeast

Big Fish

The Horsewhisperer

Sea Biscuit

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Monsoon Wedding

The Big Kahuna

The House of D

Sex, Lies & Videotape

Return of the King

Motorcycle Diary

Billy Elliot

I Am Sam

Shakespeare In Love

The Seventh Sign

My Life as a Dog

Braveheart (but violent)

I Heart Huckabees

Shawshank Redemption

The Sixth Sense

Nowhere in Africa

The Bucket List

In America

Sirens

Solaris

RedBeard (1965)

The Breakfast Club

Instinct (Anthony Hopkins)

Six Degrees of Separation

Star Trek 1,2,3,4,6 & Nemesis

Samsara

Bridge To Tarabithia

Jerry McGuire

Slingblade (intense)

Star Trek 2009

The Sea Inside

Brokeback Mountain

Just Between Friends

Smoke Signals

Star Wars Movies (all 6)

Secrets & Lies

Chain Reaction

The King and I

Somewhere in Time

Stargate

Shall We Dance? (Japan)

Changing Lanes

K-PAX

Stand By Me

Starman

Shirley Valentine

Chariots of Fire

Last Samurai

Stepmom

Superman 1

Shine

Chocolate

Les Miserables (1998)

Syriana

Terminator 2

Sliding Doors

Citizen Ruth

Letters from Iwo Jima

The Tao Of Steve

Total Recall

Slumdog Millionaire

The Color Purple

Life As A House

This is It (Michael Jackson)

The Two Towers

Story of the Weeping Camel

Coraline

Little Miss Sunshine

Thumbsucker

V for Vendetta

Strangers in Good Company

Cider House Rules

LORD OF THE RINGS (all 3)

Thunderheart

Watchmen

Talk to Her

Crash

Magnolia

Traffic

2010

The Way Home

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Man from Snowy River

Tuesdays with Morrie

Three Seasons

Dances With Wolves

Man in the Iron Mask

Vanilla Sky

Tsotsi

Dangerous Beauty

Man on Wire

The Visitor

Whale Rider

The DaVinci Code

Man Without a Face

Wall Street

Wings of Desire

Day of the Dolphin

Manchurain Candidate (2004)

Weeds

Dead Man Walking

Meet Joe Black

What Dreams May Come

Dead Poet's Society

Michael

What the Bleep Do We Know?

The Devil's Advocate

Miss Potter

What About Me? (2008 UK)

Divine Secrets of Ya-Ya

Monster's Ball

White Squall

The Doctor

My Left Foot

Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Don Juan DeMarco

My Life

Winged Migration

Edward Scissorhands

Nell

Yellow Submarine

The Emperor's Club

The Notebook

Yes (2004 excellent drama)

Erin Brockovich

On Golden Pond

(500) Days of Summer

Eternal Sunshine

One Giant Leap

Fairytale: A True Story

Ordinary People

More further below

Horror:

(for those who like it)

Imporant Documentaries
Watch many great documentaries FREE online here!

Children (of all ages):

Everyone should see these and share them with others:

Babe

Good Movie & Scary:

The 11th Hour

The Money Masters (watch free online!)

Black Stallion

Alien 2

America, From Freedom to Fascism

The Oil Factor

Bolt

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Gary Oldman)

Bill Moyers - The Secret Government

OutFoxed

Chicken Run

The Changeling

Capitalism - A Love Story

The Power of Nightmares (watch free online!)

Ever After

Jacob's Ladder

Carlyle Group * (watch free online!)

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (watch free online!)

Fantasia

Interview with a Vampire

The Century of Self (BBC 4 episodes)

Sicko

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Poltergeist

The Corporation **

Speaking Freely Vol 1 - John Perkins (must see!!!)

Mary Poppins

Earthlings (watch free online!)

Speaking Freely Vol 3 - Ray McGovern (must see!!!)

Monsters Inc.

Enron (watch free online!)

Speaking Freely Vol 4 - Chalmers Johnson (must see!!!)

The Neverending Story

Fahrenheit 9/11

The Story of Stuff
(watch free online - 22 mins)

Pinocchio (Disney)

FLOW (about water)

Super Size Me

Princess Mononoke

Food, Inc. (must see!!!)

Trudell

Ratatouille

From Science to God by Peter Russell

The US vs John Lennon

The Secret Garden

Howard Zinn

Walmart

Shrek 1 & 2

Home

Why We Fight

Sound of Music

An Inconvenient Truth

The World According to Monsanto (watch free online!)

Spirited Away

The Yes Men

Up

Jesus Camp

Zeitgeist & Addendum (watch free online!)

Wizard of OZ

Kymatica (watch free online!)

Orwell Rolls in His Grave

* Carlyle Group - Must see documentary documentary online exposing information on the Bush group and the Carlyle Group - the brains and money behind the Military-Industrial complex - those who profit hugely from war. This is important information for all to know about. A good film to tell all your friends to see.

** The Corporation - If you could only see one movie, see this one. It reveals information every human needs to know about our world. Watch this and share it with others. Sames goes for Why We Fight and Food, Inc. and Capitalism A Love Story! - Must see by everyone - tell everyone to see it.

Why We Fight - This is a MUST SEE documentary about the Military-Industrial Complex. Information that needs to be known by every American about our country and what is really running things. Just go see it and get the DVD and share it with people. Here is some more details about it: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8484

Honorable Mention - VERY worth seeing:

The Accidental Tourist

Coach Carter

Ever After

The Lost Boys

Saved!

Agatha of God

The Commitments

EXistenZ

Mass Appeal

Silkwood

Altered States

Conan, the Barbarian

Family Man

Men in Black

Silver Bullet

Always

Conspiracy Theory

Fearless

Metropolis (1984 Georgio Moroder)

Andromeda Strain

The Constant Gardener

Firestarter

Million Dollar Baby

Sleepless In Seattle

Angels in America

The Contender

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mission to Mars

Sluth (Michael Caine)

A Time to Kill

Crocodile Dundee (1)

Flatliners

My Fair Lady

South Pacific

A Trip to Bountiful

The Crying Game

Fried Green Tomatoes

Mystic Pizza

St. Elmo's Fire

A Walk in the Clouds

Cyber Wars (Australian)

Fright Night

National Velvet

Steel Magnolias

Back to the Future

Dad

Ghost Story

Norma Rae

Terms of Endearment

Big

Dark City

Gladiator

Nothing In Common

Thelma & Louise

Das Boot

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

October Sky

Titanic

The Big Chill

The Day After Tomorrow

The Hurricane

Off the Map

Thank You For Smoking

Bliss

Dead Again

Identity

One Flew Over The Cucoo's Nest

Tootsie

The Boy Who Could Fly

Deep Impact

Italian For Beginners

Phantom of the Opera

The Truman Show

Bulworth

Defending Your Life

Karate Kid

Phenomenon

12 Monkeys

Children of a Lesser God

Dirty Dancing

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Pieces of April

War Games

Children of Men

Dragonfly

Lady In The Water

Pulp Fiction

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

China Syndrome

Dragonslayer

Lawnmower Man

Rainman

Wonder Boys

City of Hope

Driving Miss Daisy

Last Temptation of Christ

Robin and Marion

You Can Count On Me

City Slickers 1

Educating Rita

The Lion in Winter

Rocky

Young Sherlock Holmes

Ratings for current or recent movies at theaters or new on DVD:

AVATAR Best Film I have ever seen!
Capitalism - A Love Story documentary MUST SEE!	Vantage Point
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE	Changeling
What About Me? 2009 British Music Documentary	Revolutionary Road
This is It (Michael Jackson)	The Dark Knight
Departures	Kung Fu Panda
The Visitor	Dan in Real Life
Food, Inc. documentary MUST SEE!	Twilight
Australia	Twilight 2 New Moon
Star Trek 2009	Nim's Island
Watchmen (great story but extreme violence)	Spiderwick Chronicles
Man on Wire documentary	Inkheart
Secret Life of Bees	Prince Caspian
Milk	Wall-E
Happy Go Lucky	State of Play
Doubt	Seven Pounds
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Terminator Salvation
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince	Angels & Demons
Bolt	Iron Man
The Love Guru	Yes Man (Jim Carrey)
I Love You Man
2012	Wolverine
Awake	Bruno Way out there, but not as funny as Borat
Mama Mia	Outlander
Tropic Thunder	The Day the Earth Stood Still 2008
Gran Torino	Knowing
The Wrestler	Quantum of Solace
Frost/Nixon	Flightplan
Wendy and Lucy	Hancock Not worth watching
The Reader	Taken Not worth watching
Sita Sings the Blues (Indian Cartoon)	Sex in the City Not worth watching
Frozen River	Echelon Conspiracy Not worth watching
Taking Woodstock	Dragonball Evolution Not worth watching
Curious Case of Benjamin Button	District 9 Not worth watching
	The Hangover Not worth watching

Tell me if you think I missed something worth telling people about. I will check it out first.

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