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movies and actors I liked the most 
(by year of release and what I liked it for, best liked are in bold)

action/drama

Lucky Number Slevin (2005)
Domino (2005)
Empire Falls (2005 TV mini-series)
Man on Fire
(2004)
Holes (2003)
The Station Agent
(2003, the atmosphere of life in a very small world)
Secondhand Lions (2003)
The Big Empty (2003, strange fabula - you ask questions all time)
War Stories
(2003 TV, very original play, realistic)
Assassination Tango
(2002, excellent performance by Robert Duvall)
Minority Report
(2002, original idea)
The Bourne Identity
(2002, good unusual film shooting)
Band of Brothers (2001, 10 TV miniseries, the BEST movie about the war! )
Training Day (2001, good unusual film shooting and reality)
Dune (2000, 3 TV miniseries by Hallmark, original idea and effects)
Memento (2000, very original idea)
Finding Forrester (2000, the meaning of real things)
Heat of the Sun (1999, TV mini-series, masterpiece of criminale)
The Matrix (1999, very original idea)
Three Kings (1999, surreal and real at the same time, amazing camera)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999, director Stanley Kubrick, mystical and erotic)
Magnolia (1999)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Run Lola Run (1998, original idea and camera)
City of Angels (1998, idea)
Merlin (1998, three TV miniseries by Hallmark, epic)
Great Expectations (1998, with Gwyneth Paltrow, camera and impression)
The Thin Red Line (1998, very realistic war movie, camera, impressions)
The Big Hit (1998, black comedy/action, weird characters)
L.A. Configential (1997)
The English Patient (1996)
Trainspotting (1996, black humor and reality)
Dead Man (1995, so real about the Gold Rush, camera)
Desperado (1995)  
Nick of Time
(1995)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, original idea)
Pulp Fiction (1994, so real and weired)
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993, the way it is told)
Tombstone (1993, heroic and real at the same time)
Flatliners (1990, original idea)
Rain Man (1988, original idea)
Full Metal Jacket (1987, very realistic about the war)
Brazil (1985, director Terry Gilliam, a dream)
Dune (1984 director David Lynch, original idea and impressions)
Hotel New Hampshire (1984, with Jodie Foster, weird)
Star Wars (only New Hopes, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, original idea)
Chinatown (1974, idea and play)
Solyaris (1972, director Andrei Tarkovsky, original idea)
Midnight Cowboy (1969, camera)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, romantic war drama, idealism )
Casblanca (1942)

comedy

Hebrew Hammer (2003, unbelievable parody with everything Jewish!!!)
Amelie
(2001, BEST comedy for years!)
The Whole Nine Yards (2000, the irony)
Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000, with Kevin Spacey)
Road Trip (2000)
Snatch (2000, camera and black humor)
Top of the Food Chain (1999, black humor horror-comedy, hilarious lines)
American Beauty (1999, with Kevin Spacey)
American Pie 1 (1999)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Just Looking (1999, great direction by Jason Alexander, good story)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998, ironic, camera)
As Good as it Gets (1997, Jack Nicholson as amaizing as always!)
Gross Pointe Blank (1997)
The Birdcage (1996)
Canadian Bacon (1995)
Wagons East! (1994, with John Candy)
Sirens (1994, with Hugh Grant, romantic, erotic, humor)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Les Visiteurs (1993, with Jean Reno)
Hot Shots (1991)
Wicked Stepmother (1989, Bette Davis)
Kin-Dza-Dza (1986, most surrealistic and abstract Russian movie ever!)
History of the World (1981, dir. Mel Brooks)
Airplane (1 & 2, 1980 & 1982)
Murder by Death (1976, hilarious black comedy)
Bananas (1971, Woody Allen, a parody of the Cuban revolution)
Brilliantovaya Ruka (1968, Russian)
Dirty Dozen (1967)

 

actors

Johnny Depp
Christopher Walken
Kevin Spacey
Jack Nicholson
Val Kilmer
Jon Voight
Ethan Hawke

 

famous not seen yet

True Romance (1993, dir. Tarantino)

 
supposedly famous seen, but didn't like them

Lost in Translation (2003)
Blade Runner
(1982, usual action, nothing big deal)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Citizen Kane (1941)

 

future check out

Before Night Falls (2000)
One night at McCool's (2001)