The Hangover
Sin Nombre
Valkyrie
The Children of Huang Shi
Slumdog Millionaire
I Know I'm Not Alone
I've Loved You So Long
Sunshine Cleaning
Up
Cold Comfort Farm
Guys and Dolls
Hairspray
Missing
Berkeley Square (series)
John Adams (series)
Julie and Julia
The Cat Returns
Nixon
An Ideal Husband
Defiance
The Man Who Never Was
To Sir, With Love
Becoming Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Newsies
The Prestige
The Illusionist
Once
The Man from Snowy River
As You Like It (set in 19th century Japan. Incredible costumes and very talented up and coming actors.)
Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, need I say more?)
Frost Nixon (based on the famed interview. Very interesting.)
Sherlock (series)
the Hound of the Baskervilles (Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce)
All Creatures Great and Small (series)
The Pelican Brief
The International
Empire of the Sun
Jane Eyre (2011 version, Cary Fukunaga. Definitely my favourite adaptation. Horror/romance/mystery. Captures the atmosphere of the book perfectly.)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (This director does not get enough credit in the world, but he's truly amazing.)
Welcome (don't watch if you're in the mood for a happy family comedy. It's educational and heartbreaking at the same time. Gee, what educational movie isn't these days? Hush, self.)
Anna and the King
The Sting
Judgement at Nuremburg
Dirty Dancing (NOT the old one. This one is called Havana Nights and it's so much better.)
Northern Exposure (series)
Leap Year (Just...see it. 39 Steps modern day, brilliant.)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
True Grit
The Brothers Bloom
The Grocer's Son
The King's Speech
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alec Guinness or the new one, which I haven't seen, but Gary Oldman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth....you really can't go wrong there.)
Easy Virtue (funny romp. Based on the Noel Coward play.)
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Never Cry Wolf
Departures
Greenfingers
Frozen River (another gritty documentary style film. Have your hankies ready.)
The Migrants (based on the Tennessee Williams play. see description above. Still, everyone should see movies like these once on a while. Just so they know that not everything is fine and dandy.)
Mostly Martha
Bridget Jones's Diary (top favourite!)
Ghost Writer
Roman Holiday (Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn and an awesome sidekick. Lovely movie.)
Micmacs (don't be alarmed at the beginning, just stay with it. Wonderful and quirky. Same director as Amalie.)
A Very Long Engagement (See above description.)
Seven Days in May
Manchurian Candidate (old version)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Smiley's People
Captains Courageous
The Bucket List
The Young Victoria (costumes! And amazing-ness.)
Nowhere in Africa
You Can't Take It With You
Hamlet
paris 36
Atonement
Is Anybody There? (Have hankies again.)
The Importance of Being Ernest
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
The Invention of Lying
Miral
The Wave
The Ghosts in the Darkness
Bliss
A Very Long Engagement
The Last Detective (series)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (parts of this lag, but it's worth it for the caves in France, which contain wall paintings from over 35,000 years ago!)
Downton Abbey (series)
Blame It on Fidel
Smoke Signals (if you love Northern Exposure you'll love this)
Inherit the Wind (the classic courtroom drama about religion and and evolution, stars Spencer Tracy)
Fair Game
The Man from Snowy River
The International
And, the Alfred Hitchcock List (it deserves it's own)
Under Capricorn
Spellbound
39 Steps
Stage Fright
I Confess
Saboteur
North by Northwest
Notorious
Suspicion
Torn Curtain
Shadow of a Doubt
Psycho
Family Plot
Dial M for Murder
The Trouble With Harry
Rear Window
To Catch a Thief
Vertigo
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Birds
Young and Innocent
Lifeboat
Rebecca
Marnie
