friendship movies

Devil’s Own, The (1997)

Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | George Hearn | Kelly Singer | Ashley Carin | Paul Ronan | Stiles, Julia | Mitchell, Ryan | Blades, Rubén | Colin, Margaret | Atherton, William | Jones, Simon | McElhone, Natascha | Williams, Treat | David Wilmot
Directors: Pakula, Alan J.
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Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt star in this thriller about an IRA gunman who draws an American family into the corssfire of terrorism. Frankie McGuire (Pitt) is one of the IRA’s deadliest assassins. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O’Meara (Ford), a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie’s real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom’s growing suspicions, force Frankie to choose between the promise of peace of a lifetime of murder.

Vertigo (1958)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Novak, Kim | Bel Geddes, Barbara | Helmore, Tom | Jones, Henry | Bailey, Raymond | Corby, Ellen | Shayne, Konstantin | Patrick, Lee | Ano, Jack | Benson, John | Bryar, Paul | Della Santina, Bruno | Dotto, Carlo
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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John “Scottie” Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Skarsgård, Stellan | Driver, Minnie | Affleck, Casey | Hauser, Cole | Mighton, John | Majorowski, Rachel | McCauley, Colleen | Mercier, Matt | St. George, Ralph | Lynds, Rob | Washington, Dan | Folland, Alison
Directors: Van Sant, Gus
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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean’s coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.

Truman Show, The (1998)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Linney, Laura | Emmerich, Noah | McElhone, Natascha | Taylor, Holland | Delate, Brian | Slater, Blair | Krause, Peter | Schanz, Heidi | Taylor, Ron | Taylor, Don | Raymond, Ted | Clayton, Judy
Directors: Weir, Peter
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | Kingsley, Ben | Fiennes, Ralph | Goodall, Caroline | Sagall, Jonathan | Davidtz, Embeth | Gebel, Malgoscha | Levy, Shmuel | Ivanir, Mark | Macola, Béatrice | Seweryn, Andrzej | von Thun, Friedrich | Luft, Krzysztof | Nehring, Harry | Weisser, Norbert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

Time Machine, The (1960)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Taylor, Rod | Young, Alan | Mimieux, Yvette | Cabot, Sebastian | Helmore, Tom | Bissell, Whit | Lloyd, Doris | Barran, Bob | Frees, Paul | Skelly, James | Powell, Josephine
Directors: Pal, George
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Hair (1979)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Savage, John | Williams, Treat | D'Angelo, Beverly | Golden, Annie | Wright, Dorsey | Dacus, Don | Barnes, Cheryl | Bright, Richard | Nicholas, Ray | Rae, Charlotte | Chapin, Miles | Tailer, Fern | Denny, Charles | Meckler, Herman | Breen, Agness
Directors: Forman, Milos
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This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.

Deliverance (1972)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Voight, Jon | Reynolds, Burt | Beatty, Ned | Cox, Ronny | Ramey, Ed | Redden, Billy | Glass, Seamon | Deal, Randall | McKinney, Bill | Coward, Herbert 'Cowboy' | Crone, Lewis | Keener, Ken | Popwell, Johnny | Fowler, John | Rickman, Kathy
Directors: Boorman, John
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Based on James Dickey’s novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful.

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Cumming, Alan | Ventresca, Vincent | Theroux, Justin | Vargas, Jacob | Dickson, Neil | Callahan, E.J. | Phifer, Zack | Goldin, Ricky Paull | Skyler, Robb | D, Deezer | Rogers, Kivi | McGregor, Brian | Wilson, Victor | Keeley, Paul | Pasqualone, Rick
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Romy and Michele are two former schoolmates who have also been roommates for ten years after the time they graduated, and their lives are far from successful, they can’t even get a date. As the 10-year class reunion approaches they try to do something to make an impression on other former schoolmates and finally decide to act as though they are very rich business women who invented Post-Its.

21 (Twenty One, The Movie) (2008)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sturgess, Jim | Spacey, Kevin | Yoo, Aaron | Pitts, Jacob | Fishburne, Laurence | McGee, Jack | Gad, Josh | Golzari, Sam | Gilpin, Jack | Williams, Butch | Ma, Jeffrey | Patton, Frank | Vezina, Steven Richard | Werner, Chaska T. | Morris, Kyle
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.