My favorite films

Metin Seven

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My all-time favorite films, more or less in order of favorite to least favorite.

The Shining (1980) [Movie] NeoDB Douban NeoDB Test YetiWatch IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Shining
8.4 (45 ratings) director: Stanley Kubrick actor: Jack Nicholson / Shelley Duvall
other title: O Iluminado / Shining
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Seven Samurai (1954) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB Bangumi YetiWatch NeoDB Test WikiData
七人の侍
9.1 (19 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Takashi Shimura
other title: I sette samurai / De syv samuraier
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
The Hairdresser's Husband (1990) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
Le Mari de la coiffeuse
director: Patrice Leconte actor: Jean Rochefort / Anna Galiena
other title: Il marito della parrucchiera / O Marido da Cabeleireira
Antoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume, and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he had always known he would marry one, completing his idealized love fantasy.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
8.4 (39 ratings) director: Céline Sciamma actor: Noémie Merlant / Adèle Haenel
other title: Ritratto della giovane in fiamme / Portræt af en kvinde i flammer
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
November (2017) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
November
8.2 (5 ratings) director: Rainer Sarnet actor: Rea Lest / Jörgen Liik
other title: 魔鬼时光 / 十一月
In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
Das Boot (1981) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Das Boot
8.5 (6 ratings) director: Wolfgang Petersen actor: Jürgen Prochnow / Herbert Grönemeyer
other title: U-Boot 96 / U-båden
1981 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Se7en (1995) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban
Se7en
8.1 (30 ratings) director: David Fincher actor: Morgan Freeman / Brad Pitt
other title: Seven / Seven: Os Sete Crimes Capitais
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
Fight Club (1999) [Movie] Douban NeoDB WikiData o00o garage TMDB IMDb
Fight Club
8.2 (42 ratings) director: David Fincher actor: Edward Norton / Brad Pitt
other title: Clube de Combate / El club de la lucha
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Fantasia (1940) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Fantasia
8.7 (7 ratings) director: Samuel Armstrong / James Algar actor: Deems Taylor / Walt Disney
other title: Fantasía
Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.
A Night on Bald Mountain (1933) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban NeoDB
Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve
director: Claire Parker / Alexandre Alexeieff
other title: Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve / Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve
Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?
Departures (2008) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
おくりびと
8.9 (10 ratings) director: Yojiro Takita actor: Masahiro Motoki / Ryoko Hirosue
other title: Despedidas / Nokan - Die Kunst des Ausklangs
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
AKIRA (1988) [Movie] IMDb Douban NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB
Akira
7.6 (25 ratings) director: Katsuhiro Otomo actor: Mitsuo Iwata / Nozomu Sasaki
other title: Akira / アキラ
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
Taxi Driver (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Taxi Driver
8.4 (34 ratings) director: Martin Scorsese actor: Robert De Niro / Jodie Foster
other title: Taxi Driver: Motorista de Táxi
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.
Antichrist (2009) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Antichrist
7.7 (10 ratings) director: Lars von Trier actor: Willem Dafoe / Charlotte Gainsbourg
other title: Anticristo
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Eraserhead (1977) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Eraserhead
8.1 (16 ratings) director: David Lynch actor: Jack Nance / Charlotte Stewart
other title: Eraserhead - La mente che cancella / No Céu Tudo É Perfeito
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Blue Velvet (1986) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Blue Velvet
8.1 (15 ratings) director: David Lynch actor: Isabella Rossellini / Kyle MacLachlan
other title: Velluto Blu / Veludo Azul
Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.
Christiane F. (1981) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
8.8 (5 ratings) director: Uli Edel actor: Natja Brunckhorst / Thomas Haustein
other title: Christiane F. - Noi i ragazzi dello zoo di Berlino / Christiane F. - i morgen er det slut
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.
Blade Runner (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB DeaDvey's Reviews KevGa-NeoDB YetiWatch WikiData
Blade Runner
8.5 (36 ratings) director: Ridley Scott actor: Harrison Ford / Rutger Hauer
other title: Blade Runner: Perigo Iminente / Der Blade Runner
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
The Quiet Girl (2022) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData NeoDB IMDb
An Cailín Ciúin
8.0 (7 ratings) director: Colm Bairéad actor: Catherine Clinch / Carrie Crowley
other title: The Quiet Girl - A Menina Silenciosa / The quiet girl
A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
Created date: March 6, 2026