Number 1: Life as a house
I obviously don't want to give away too much information but I can tell you this much: An older man, George, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. So he decides to takes custody of his teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high and avoiding his father. George makes his son spend the summer at his place to turn his shabby home into a wonderful house.
Number 2: Inside I'm dancing
Two young men are stuck in wheelchairs and at residential care for disabled people. Although they are both so different, they become friends and form the plan to get a flat together and start an independent life. Very inspiring movie with lots of moments to laugh out loud as well as to shed a little tear.
Number 3: 50/50
A 27-year old man is diagnosed with cancer. His life is determined by a selfish and unsuccessfull artist/girlfriend living off his money and a very emotional mother, not to forget his best friend, who uses the cancer story to score chicks. During his stuggle a lot things get better and some things get worse. Not very deep movie but nicely told, based on a true story and you just got to like Joseph Gordon-Levitt!
Number 4: Sarahs key
The story is about a woman who finds out that the flat she is about to move in with her husband once belonged to a jewish family that got deported in 1942. She learns about the girl Sarah and her little brother that gew up in this flat. In flashbacks the story of Sarah and her jewish family is told. When the police came to take the family away, Sarah locked her little brother in the secret wall closet and promised to come and get him later.
Number 5: The Dreamers
A little weird movie playing in the late 1960s about brother and sister who make friends with an exchange students from the US, Matthew. Being full of enthusiasm and optimism to change the world and fighting for their own view on politics, they engange in heated discussions and take part in student riots. The relationship between brother and sister as well as their relation to Matthew starts to seem a little weird when they all live together in the parents house of the two siblings while their parents are away. Wonderful weird, arty movie.
Number 6: Jeux d'enfants
Starting in elementary school, Sophie and Julien challenge each other with bets. The one who fulfills the challenge set by the other gets a nice tin can that both of them love so much! As time passes the challenges get more and more serious and cause a lot of consequences to their courses of life. Some scenes are even uncomfortable to watch when the child games turns almost into addiction but I think that makes it such a good movie.
Well, I seem to have a prefernce for sad, french, weird movies based on true stories. What does that say about me? I don't even want to know...
And for those who still don't have enough, I propose some obvious all time favourites, some classics as well as some chick flicks:
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Ondine
- Reservoir dogs
- Once
- The kings speech
- As it is in heaven
- Babies
- Rabbit proof fence
- Shelter
- To kill a mocking bird
- A roman holiday
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