Reservoir Dogs(1992)












Director:Quentin Tarantino
This is the movie that consecrated Quentin Tarantino at the Sundance film festival. His debut film is defining his style and marks a new era in the cinematographic world.
The movie is a thriller, it's like a detective story where you hope to guess who is the perpetrator before the book ends. In this case, a diamond heist goes wrong, and after fleeing from the crime scene, the criminals begin to suspect each other. Who is the informer?
It's a realistic movie about criminal life, brought to life by great acting thanks to Harvey Keitel(as Mr.White), Tim Roth(as Mr.Orange), Michael Madsen(as Mr.Blonde), Steve Buscemi(as Mr.Pink), Edward Bunker(as Mr.Blue), Quentin Tarantino(as Mr.Brown), Chris Penn as Nice Guy Eddie.

The Big Red One(1980)













Director: Samuel Fuller
Considered one of the best war world 2 movies ever made, is, in fact, an anti-war movie. The storyline begins with the first world war, and presents the conditions after which the Division The Big Red One got it's name, and continues with Sergeant's (played by Lee Marvin) squad in it's way to North Africa to fight the Axis, and it ends with the post-war era.
It depicts the cruel reality and the madness of war and human boundaries pushed to the maximum.

The Old Man and the Sea(1999)










The Old Man and the Sea(1999)


Director:Aleksandr Petrov
This movie is a masterpiece, it can be truly named art. Made using special animation techniques as paintings on glass, it is one of the few of his kind, and each scene is a picture.
As the name suggests, the movie is the screening of the novella "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. The character, Santiago, an old fisherman who didn't caught nothing in days finds and battles with the fish with mystical proportions he was searching for all his life.

True Romance(1993)












True Romance(1993)



Director:Tony Scott
Clarence has a boring lonely life and works in a comic books store. His life will be radicaly changed as he meets Alabama Whitman, a prostitute, and falls in love with her.
From this point and a tarantino-esque action type is a small step. Things precipitate in a cascade effect when he kills Alabama's pimp and stoles his cocaine (the pimp stole it from others too).
Great action, mexican standoff, some comic scenes(Bronson Pinchot), great actors(Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken), great writer ( Quentin Tarantino)...and what else? oh...and romance. If you are a Quentin Tarantino fan, this is a must see.

Bumer(2003)











Bumer(2003)


Director: Pyotr Buslov
A realistic movie about the life as a criminal in the post soviet era Russia. Along with realistic facts it contains sapiental scenes also.
If you like to see action, pretty girls, russian gangsters and german cars then this is a movie for you.
Characters: Kostyan 'Kot'(played by Vladimir Vdovichenkov), Dimon 'Oshparennyy' (played by Andrey Merzlikin), Lyokha 'Killa'(played by Maksim Konovalov), Petya 'Rama'(played by Sergey Gorobchenko).

Hour of the Pig(1993)











Hour of the Pig(1993)



Director: Leslie Megahey
Remember the Middle Ages? The Inquisition? The heresy charges? Those where absurd times with absurd institutions and absurd mentalities.
The movie begins with an execution scene, where a man and his donkey(considered collaborator) are waiting their sentence to be put into practice.
This is not the only absurd scene in the movie, being followed by a scene where a pig is brought in the courtroom as culprit, caught after seen leaving a crime scene.
It is advocate's Richard Courtois(played by Colin Firth) duty to bring light in this case and to bring some reasoning in the small french town where the action happens.
It is an interesting film with great english actors like Ian Holm, Donald Pleasence, Nicol Williamson.

Politist Adjectiv(2009)










Politist Adjectiv(2009)



Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
This movie is about the dilemma between duty and conscience. Can you do your duty when you have doubts that you are doing the right thing?
An undercover policeman (played by Dragos Bucur) is working on a drug related case. The movie depicts perfectly the reality of the daily duties, interactions and thought processes of the average policeman.

The English Patient(1996)












The English Patient(1996)


Director: Anthony Minghella
The explorer and cartographer Count Laszlo de Almásy played by Ralph Fiennes, encounters in the magnificent desert Katharine Clifton (played by Kristin Scott Thomas) the wife of one of his fellow exploratores.
A romance sparks between them, leading to a series of events that would demonstrate the impossible and tragic character of their love.
In special conditions, in special times (war world two), in special places, where time and space have other weights, love obtains new dimensions. This movie is a modern Romeo and Juliet play.