Top 7 Classic and Cult Movies

For a while, my main ocupation was being a huge cinephile. That vibe was gone, but the amazing movies I've seen remains on my heart. I'm gonna introduce you to some of them, and belive me, you're gonna love it!!

1. A Clockwork Orange, 1971 (Stanley Kubrick).

It's undeniable: A Clockwork Orange it's one of the most polemic and controversal movies ever. However, it's also undeniable: it's a masterpiece.
In a distopyan future, it shows the story of Alex DeLarge and his three droogies (a word in nadsat dialect, that was created by Anthony Burguess, for the 1962 homonymous book which the film was inspired, that means friend).
Stanley Kubrick made this movie in the most perfect way he could: amazing direction, colors, soundtrack and actors. Though all violence and disturbing scenes, there's a lot of criticism and reflexion about society. My favorite movie.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

2. Taxi Driver, 1976 (Martin Scorcese).

Another film filled of social critics. It tells the story of a Vietnam war veteran, called Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro). Traumatized and suffering from insomnia, he begins workings as a taxi driver in New York.
He starts to see corruption, injustice and wrong things, and gets even more disturbed.

Now I see this clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. There never has been a choice for me.

3. Fight Club, 1999 (David Fincher)

It's SO hard talk about this movie without giving you any spoiler. I'm gonna simplify it the most: It's about one man who suffers of insomnia and has a totally empty life. He doesn't see any sense in his life, until he knows Tyler Sudden and start the Fight Club - and by the way, the fist rule of fight club is: you do not talk about fight club.

You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world..

4. Dead Poets Society, 1989 (Peter Weir)


This is one of the most beautiful movies I've seen. It's about a bunch of boys from a very restricted and conservative school in 50s, that after meeting their new English teacher, who's totally liberal comparing to the rest of the school, fell in love with poetry.
Every class I had after watching this movie was expecting that was going the teacher stand up on the table. I'm still waiting this happens.

Carpe diem, seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

5. If..., 1968 (Lindsay Anderson)


This movie is crazy and hard to explain, but I love its 60s vibe, colours (that varies from black and white to color) and soundtrack. I kinda feel nostalgic for that - and how is it possible to feel nostalgic for a world I never knew? Like in "Dead Poets Society" it also show the story of boys in a conservative school, but now, they're way more critical and rebel against the education system - it's not rare to see one or other Che Guevara poster on the walls during the movie.
It was Malcolm McDowell's - the main actor here and in "A Clockwork Orange" - debut film.

There's no such thing as a wrong war. Violence and revolution are the only pure acts.

6. Sunset Boulevard. 1950 (Billy Wilder)

Oh, gosh. This one is definitely my favourite thriller movie. It's about a failed Hollywood scripter who mets an old mute cinema actress. Since the beginning of the film, we know the end, but not what leads to that - just like in How To Get Away With Murder. It's hard to don't get fascinated about it. The creepy soundtrack makes it even more perfect.

 Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along.

7. The Virgin Suicides. 1999 (Sofia Coppola)




This movie is perfection - it comes perfect from the first to the last second. An amazing photography job, soundtrack, actors, and direction - it was Sophia Coppola's, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather's director) first job!
It's about five sisters with age from 13 to 17. Having everything and being a symbol of perfection - we clearly see this, because the story is told by the boys from the neighbourhood - they are unhappy and empty. But the movie is not all about suicide, and it isn't that heavy - it has some fun good moments. It shows from what is being a teenage to leading with depression.
A great, bright movie about a heavy subject.

So much has been said about the girls over the years. But we have never found an answer. It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls... but only that we had loved them... and that they hadn't heard us calling... still do not hear us calling them from out of those rooms... where they went to be alone for all time... and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.