My Top Ten Favourite Movies

Whilst the list does chop and change depending on mood and rewatches, I do have a current top ten movies of all time which is as follows:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Dir: Michel Gondry

Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman

Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson, David Cross

Synopsis: The film follows two individuals who undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories following the dissolution of their relationship

2. Pulp Fiction (1994)

Dir: Quentin Tarantino

Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary

Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis

Synopsis:  It tells four intertwining tales of crime and violence in Los Angeles, California.

3. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Dir: Guillermo del Toro

Screenplay: Guillermo del Toro

Cast: Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil, Alex Angulo

Synopsis: The story takes place in Spain in the summer of 1944, during the early Francoist period, five years after the Spanish Civil War. The narrative intertwines this real world with a mythical world centred on an overgrown, abandoned labyrinth and a mysterious faun creature, with whom the main character, Ofelia, interacts.

4. Boogie Nights (1997)

Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson

Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, Heather Graham, Nicole Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: It is set in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley, and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through his fall during the excesses of the 1980s.

5. Drive (2011)

Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn

Screenplay: Hossein Amini

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac, Albert Brooks

Synopsis: The film stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. He quickly grows fond of his neighbour, Irene (Carey Mulligan), and her young son, Benicio. When her debt-ridden husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac), is released from prison, the two men take part in what turns out to be a botched million-dollar heist that endangers the lives of everyone involved. 

6. City of God (2002)

Dir: Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund

Screenplay: Braulio Mantovani

Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino Da Hora, Jonathan Haagensen, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Daniel Zettel, Seu Jorge

Synopsis: It depicts the growth of organised crime in the City of God suburb of Rio de Janeiro, between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s, with the film’s closure depicting the war between the drug dealer Li’l Zé and vigilante-turned-criminal Knockout Ned.

7. The Truman Show (1998)

Dir: Peter Weir

Screenplay: Andrew Niccol

Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Ed Harris, Paul Giamatti

Synopsis: The film stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, a man who grew up living an ordinary life that—unbeknownst to him—takes place on a large set populated by actors for a television show about him.

8. Memento (2000)

Dir: Christopher Nolan

Screenplay: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan

Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: The film follows Leonard Shelby, a man who suffers from anterograde amnesia, resulting in short-term memory loss and the inability to form new memories.

9. Children of Men (2006)

Dir: Alfonso Cuaron

Screenplay: Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby

Cast: Clive Owen, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, Pam Ferris, Peter Mullan

Synopsis: The film is set in 2027, when two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. Asylum seekers seek sanctuary in the United Kingdom, where they are subjected to detention and refoulment by the government. Clive Owen plays civil servant Theo Faron, who tries to help refugee Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey) escape the chaos.

10. Goodfellas (1990)

Dir: Martin Scorsese

Screenplay: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese

Cast: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

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