Here you can see some of movies I watched and I like it.
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Eden is west (2009) |
A drama centered around the illegal immigrants living in the EU.
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Life is beautiful (1997) |
In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy
tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city.
Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the
occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family
together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration
Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand
prize for winning is a tank.
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Waltz with Bashir (2008) |
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring
nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the
same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to
their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early
eighties. Ari is surprised that he can't remember a thing anymore about
that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet
and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to
discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves
deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in
surreal images.
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The boy in the striped pyjamas (2008) |
Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his
mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to
the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison
camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed
in striped pajamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence.
Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new
friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a
prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination.
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Goodbye Lenin (2003) |
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime.
His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack
and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore
and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son
tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has
changed a lot.
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Lincoln (2012) |
In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion,
U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the
landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from
the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace
may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed,
the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law.
Lincoln must, by almost any means possible, obtain enough votes from a
recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the
president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As
the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire
population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or
end the war.
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Valkyrie (2008) |
In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The
Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately
plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a
near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an
Army officer convinced he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to
mastermind a real plan. To do so, he arranges for the internal
emergency measure, Operation: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his
fellows to seize control of Berlin after the assassination of the
Fuhrer. However, even as the plan is put into action, a combination of
bad luck and human failings conspire on their own to create a tragedy
that would prolong the greater one gripping Europe.
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Flight (2012) |
Whip Whitaker is a commuter airline pilot. While on a flight from
Orlando to Atlanta something goes wrong and the plane starts to fly
erratically. With little choice Whip crashes the plane and saves almost
all on board. When he wakes up in the hospital, his friend from the
airline union introduces him to a lawyer who tells him there's a chance
he could face criminal charges because his blood test reveals that he is
intoxicated with alcohol and cocaine. He denies being impaired, so
while an investigation is underway, he is told to keep his act together.
However, letting go of his addiction is not as easy as it seems...
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The terminal (2004) |
Viktor Navorski, a man from an Eastern European country arrives in New
York. However after he left his country war broke out. Suddenly Navorski
is a man without a country - or one that the U.S. cannot recognize,
thus he is denied entrance to the U.S. However, he also can't be
deported so he is told by the Security Manager that he has to remain in
the airport until his status can be fixed. And also Navorski doesn't
speak English very well, so he cannot talk to or understand anyone. But
he somehow adapts and sets up residence in the airport, which makes the
man who placed him there unhappy, as it seems he is in line for a
promotion but Navroski's presence might complicate that. So he tries to
get Navorski to leave but Navorski remains where he is. Navorski makes
friends with some of the people who work in the airport and is attracted
to a flight attendant he runs into whenever she comes in.
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Les Misérables (2012) |
Jean Valjean, known as Prisoner 24601, is released from prison and
breaks parole to create a new life for himself while evading the grip of
the persistent Inspector Javert. Set in post-revolutionary France, the
story reaches resolution against the background of the June Rebellion.
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Argo (2012) | | |
In 1979, the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian
revolutionaries and several Americans were taken hostage. However, six
managed to escape to the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador
and the CIA was eventually ordered to get them out of the country. With
few options, exfiltration expert Tony Mendez devised a daring plan: to
create a phony Canadian film project looking to shoot in Iran and
smuggle the Americans out as its production crew. With the help of some
trusted Hollywood contacts, Mendez created the ruse and proceed to Iran
as its associate producer. However, time was running out with the
Iranian security forces closing in on the truth while both his charges
and the White House had grave doubts about the operation themselves.
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The Pianist (2002) |
A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis
place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the
building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped
off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture
by living in the ruins of Warsaw.
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Schindler's List (1993) |
Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who
becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels
compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true
story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being
gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for the good in
all of us.
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