101 Marvellous Movies You May Have Missed

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Are you tired of trawling through movies you don't recognize on Netflix? Sick of reading short film descriptions that sound boring? Don't know what to watch next? Let leading film critic David Stratton introduce you to 101 movies that you probably haven't heard of, and tell you why they are worth seeing. David Stratton's selection of overlooked gems includes movies from such well-known directors as David Lynch, Ang Lee, and Sidney Lumet. They star popular actors such as Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Sean Connery, Cate Blanchett, Clint Eastwood, Reese Witherspoon, Paul Newman, Emma Thompson, and Jake Gyllenhaal. They include comedies, thrillers, westerns, musicals, and romances, and were produced from the 1980s through to the past few years. A perfect gift for anyone who relishes a cozy night at home with a good movie. Cover About the author Also by the author Title page Copyright Contents Introduction Dates and times 1 Affliction 2 After Dark, My Sweet 3 Agora 4 Apartment Zero 5 At Close Range 6 An Awfully Big Adventure 7 Bad Blood 8 Bad Influence 9 Beyond Rangoon 10 Beyond the Sea 11 Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk 12 The Birth of a Nation 13 Blessed 14 Bobby 15 Broken 16 A Bronx Tale 17 Buffalo Soldiers 18 Bullseye 19 Bulworth 20 Burke & Wills 21 Citizen Ruth 22 The Clinic 23 Close My Eyes 24 Cradle Will Rock 25 The Crossing Guard 26 The Custodian 27 Daniel 28 The Deep Blue Sea 29 Devil in the Flesh 30 Enemy 31 Everybody Wins 32 Family Business 33 Father 34 The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish 35 Finders Keepers 36 Following 37 Force of Destiny 38 Garage Days 39 Ginger & Rosa 40 The Glass Shield 41 Goya’s Ghosts 42 Grace is Gone 43 Hero 44 Honkytonk Man 45 Housekeeping 46 How I Live Now 47 Impulse 48 In the Bleak Midwinter 49 In the Electric Mist 50 In the Land of Blood and Honey (U zemlji krvi i meda) 51 In This World 52 The Journey 53 King of the Hill 54 Little Dorrit 55 Love at Large 56 Love’s Labour’s Lost 57 Mad City 58 The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) 59 Mike’s Murder 60 Mississippi Grind 61 Molokai: The story of Father Damien 62 Moonlight Mile 63 The More Things Change . . . 64 Mullet 65 Ned Kelly 66 Nobody’s Fool 67 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories 68 Open Range 69 Out of the Blue 70 Pawno 71 The Pledge 72 Power 73 Queen & Country 74 Rendition 75 Return Home 76 Reunion 77 Ride with the Devil 78 River of Grass 79 Road to Nhill 80 Romance & Cigarettes 81 Running on Empty 82 The Search 83 The Sessions 84 She’s Funny That Way 85 S1m0ne 86 The Straight Story 87 Sunshine on Leith 88 Taking Sides 89 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 90 Timecode 91 Truth 92 25th Hour 93 Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt) 94 Valmont 95 Waiting 96 Walk the Talk 97 The War Zone 98 Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train 99 We Don’t Live Here Anymore 100 The Well 101 Wrong is Right Pic section Note to readers Where you can find the movies Index