Music is an essential part of our lives. We all have idolised a musician or rockstar at some point in our lives. The fame, glamour and riches has always been fascinating. These movies explore the lives of musicians and the music industry, and give us a sneak peak into a whole different world. Numerous movies, especially the biographies reveal the ugly side of the music world along with all the glitz and glamour. So enjoy these movies and grove to their awesome soundtracks.
Everybody enjoys a good disaster flick. Usually diaster flicks are seen as guilty pleasure because they might not be great cinematic masterpieces but the visual spectacle of the mayhem that ensues is a treat to watch. But at times even disaster flicks can be thought provoking like Melancholia and Deep Impact. These movies crank the destruction upto 11 and revels in the cinematic chaos that follows.
A slasher flick is one of the best ways to spend an evening with your friends. A good slasher film doles out copious amounts of blood and gore, while still maintaining a constant feeling of dread. The slasher genre has gifted us with some of cinema's most dreaded and scariest villains, the mere thought of whom makes your skin crawl like Jason Vorhees and Freddy Krueger.
Parody used to be a genre where uproariously funny and at times, sharply satirical, films entertained us. Movies like Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles and Airplane! are still some of the funniest movies ever made. But the current trend of parody genre churning out one unfunny stupid movie after another has seriously degraded the genre in itself. These movies aresome of the worst movies ever made, they are dead on arrival, and are hardly worth a chuckle.
Animals on screen are either one of the most adorable things to watch on screen or the most terrifying things to behold. They either melt your heart with cuteness like in Hachi and Babe, or else they make your skin crawl with dread. These are the movies where humans play second fiddle to the real stars of the movie - the animals!
A city sometimes becomes a character in the movie. People in the course of the movie unravel the beauty and secrets of the city. The movie becomes intertwined with the city it is set in. Various facets of the city are explored in such movies.
In this present age of heavily CGI infused movies, making a stop motion movie is a statement in itself. It takes a lot more effort, time and craft to produce a good stop motion movie. These movies have a charm and magic that is unique to them. They talk about all sorts of subjects from old fables to slice of life takes to even mental health issues, all while retaining the visual magic.
Mumblecore is a genre of low budget indie movies that uses non-professional actors, realistic dialogues and natural performances to tell their stories. Most of these movies are about personal stories from everyday life. So if mainstream cinema bores you, do give these movies a chance.
There are movies which leaves a void in you when you finish watching them. They take you on an emotional roller coaster and end with a tragic ending. These movies bring out the best in tragedy.
We all love a good twist in a movie that completely throws us off. When a movie is successful in hoodwinking even the most vigilant watchers, it becomes so satisfying. These movies provide some of the best twists of cinema. Some movies in this list are really old but their twists still pack a punch.
Some movies leave us befuddled when we first watch them, we might understand a bit here and there, but the overall meaning escapes us. It is only with repeated viewings that we slowly unravel the layers of meaning hidden in the movie. These movies improve with repeated viewing, things that seem puzzling or just plain nonsense start assuming meanings when we slowly start realising the meanings hidden underneath every word, every image in the movie. These artful gems are not to be missed at all.
While much of today's blockbusters are set across various countries in various continents showcasing a large sprawling setting, these movies are restricted in their location to mostly a house or a room. And that leads to some riveting drama, intrigue and explosive drama. These movies build upon interesting premises. Even if the movie doesn’t veer far away from a particular location, the story that unfolds still remains genuinely interesting and in some cases claustrophobia-inducing
Long shots and tracking shots are some of the most difficult and ambitious movie techniques to execute. While many fail to do it, leading to an incoherent mess of images. But in the hands of a genius, these shots stand out for their exquisite craft and timing. Some ambitious films like Russian Ark have shot the entire film in a 90 minutes long single take. That is no less than a miracle. This list includes movies from masters like Tarkovsky and Martin Scorcese to other ones from Asia.
In an industry dominated by men, women have time and again proven that they are perfectly capable of delivering honest, sensitive and soulful masterpieces on their own. They have excelled both in front of the camera and behind the camera. Women from various backgrounds have been represented in these movies like young Black women, women living in poverty, single mothers, etc. These movies discover the true essence of being a strong, independent woman and, depict their day to day struggles.
Cinema is an audio-visual medium. But sometimes the visuals are so breathtakingly captured that they weave exquisite magic on screen. Cinematography is an aspect of film-making that can elevate a movie into a moving piece of art. Some movies are so visually striking, whether be it vast stretches of desert, lush green rainforests or alien planets, that they leave the viewers stunned. Some use cutting-edge effects and computer graphics, while others capture the natural world in all its glory.