Good Movie Suggestions

[inky]

I figured SRF needs a thread about good movies to watch. Even better if they're available on Netflix. Try to be selective with the suggestions. You might want to limit it to something like 5 movies per post so it leaves more room for discussion, otherwise it's going to end up being similar to your Facebook "like" page. It would also be great if your picks would be movies that most people might have never heard of or otherwise overlooked. Movies like the recent 007's, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and Fight Club are great but everyone has probably seen them already.

To start:

Oldboy

Spoiler!

An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, Oh Dae-Su soon finds out that his kidnapper has a greater plan for him and is set onto a path of pain and suffering in an attempt to uncover the motive of his mysterious tormentor.

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Okuribito (Departures)

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Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.

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Headhunters

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Roger Brown works as one of the most powerful headhunters in Norway. To support his extravagant lifestyle, he is also an art thief, which he does in cahoots with his friend, the gun toting Ove Kjikerud. They replace the originals with forgeries, which go undetected at least until the trail back to the thieves goes cold. His outward bravado, based primarily on building upon reputation, masks his insecurities, especially in his short physical stature. He feels he needs that confident demeanor and wealth to get what he wants, including his trophy wife, art gallery owner Diana Brown. However, he almost seems to like the thought of what Diana represents more than Diana herself. As such, he has a mistress on the side named Lotte. The issue of having a baby - Diana wants to get pregnant while Roger doesn't want her to - is another bone of contention in their marriage. The two sides of Roger's professional life intersect when Diana introduces him to Clas Greve...

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I Saw The Devil

Spoiler!

Jang Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) is a dangerous psychopath who kills for human meat. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiancé Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun), a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.

[omier]

The Grey

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It is based on the short story Ghost Walker by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Carnahan. The story follows a number of oil-men stranded in Alaska after a plane crash, who are forced to survive using little more than their wits, as a pack of grey wolves stalk them amidst mercilessly cold weather. The film received generally positive reviews.

Not really a fan of survival films, but this one was great. It's not just a survival film.

[Squirt]

YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOVPcS2ZKHE[/YT]

[woutR]

Meet Joe Black

[poehalcho]

Moon
(warning, the trailer is pretty spoilery :<)

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Such an underrated movie. I never heard anything of it after it was released. I was lucky to just stumble across it's trailer once a few months before it launched.

[omier]

^It's because HTTPS. It has to be HTTP.

[poehalcho]

^It's because HTTPS. It has to be HTTP.

derp. how did I not see that. fixed.

[Tasdik]

Jennifer Lawrence. <3

[Skyve]

Memento