This is the third time that we have compiled the best ten recommendations for movies. The captivating narratives, unforgettable characters, breathtaking vistas, and profound ideas explored in these motion pictures succeeded in entrancing audiences.
Every one of them has made an indelible mark on me and served as a wellspring of amusement, inspiration, and insight throughout my life.
Top 10 suggested movies to watch
Let’s get right down to business and check out the list to see whether any of your all-time favorite movies made the cut.
Teenager Paul’s enthusiasm is dashed when he arrives on the Western Front of World War I and is confronted with the grim reality of life in the trenches. Image source: Netflix
1. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Edward Berger has adapted Remarque’s anti-war novel into a German film over a century after the film version directed by Luis Milestone and awarded the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Those who survive, whether they were simple lads, cannon fodder, or survivors, emerge as broken men. The emphasis placed on color and light amplifies the impact of the images depicting the ugliness and brutality of battle. The movie emphasizes over and over again that war is the senseless slaughter of innocent people.
2. Close (2022)
The story revolves around the bonds of friendship and the responsibilities that come along with them, as well as the delicate nature of companionship and how its dissolution can result in feelings of regret, betrayal, and loneliness.
The film Close does not shout its slogans at the audience and instead involves them in discussions about how to deal with the death of a close friend.
In the same way as he did in his earlier film, Girl, Lucas Donat concretely depicts the issues and difficulties that young people face through proper knowledge. Eden Duncan-Smith, a young actor who is now relatively unknown, shines in the role of Leo in this movie. He is stunning.
Lukas Dhont returns to the director’s chair for the coming-of-age drama film Close, which he will also co-write with Angelo Tijssens. The pair previously collaborated on Dhont’s debut feature film. Image source: YouTube
3. Weird (2022)
The odd life story of Al Yankovic, a rock musician who rose to fame primarily due to his parodies of popular musicians such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, Julio, Green Day, and many others. Yankovic is credited with writing the screenplay, in which he discusses his ideal life milestones while adding in elements of imagination and twists.
The movie is filled with music, laughter, and, of course, a youthful and aspiring “Madonna” figure that is fascinating to watch on screen.
He portrays a relationship with Madonna that appears to have never existed in fact; yet, in order to make his screenplay more appealing and to portray Madonna as a villain, he didn’t hold back and described the relationship in detail.
4. Compartment No. 6 (2021)
The train is one of the most iconic symbols of transition, travel, and departure in cinema, and it has frequently played a significant role in the plots of traditional Russian tales. Another movie that takes place in Russia and takes place aboard a train is “A Road in Russia.”
And the love that happens, even for someone who has traveled with a poor traveling companion, or for someone who talks to the horns behind the telephone line out of intense loneliness, or for someone who takes a selfie video and wishes for the presence of their loved one, love happens. With “A Hero,” this movie was awarded the top Award for best picture (Farhadi).
A young woman from Finland boards a train to the city of Murmansk in order to get away from a mysterious love affair that is taking place in Moscow. The inhabitants of Compartment No. 6 are forced to confront significant realities about human connection as a result of an unanticipated encounter with a larger-than-life Russian miner who they are forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with. Image source: Letterboxd
5. Lullaby (Spanish: Cinco lobitos) (2022)
This film from Spain explores motherhood, a subject that has, in recent years, become more prevalent in the works of filmmakers than it ever has before.
Even though it doesn’t reach its height, Lullaby is a strong picture because of the narrator’s attention to detail and the natural flow of life, as well as Laia Costa’s brilliant performance. Lullaby is a journey of caring for and protecting others that goes in a circle.
Alauda Ruiz de Aiza’s debut feature film is an introspective and unfiltered look at the unique circumstances in which young parents find themselves and the difficulties this can cause in their relationships.
The film also touches on absent fathers and the intergenerational caregiving role that women play. Cinco lobitos features an outstanding ensemble cast that allows for a raw and personal exploration of the sometimes oppressive and other times painfully absent emotions that exist within families.
6. Licorice Pizza (2021)
The plot of the narrative starts when a lad of 15 years old falls in love with a girl of 25 years old. Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim are in charge of directing the movie, while Bradley Cooper and Sean Penn appear in it as a charming and romantic poem to counteract the film’s heaviness, its brevity, and its transience.
They both deserve to be huge stars, and “Licorice Pizza” will make that happen. The younger Hoffman is the son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose long and fruitful relationship with Anderson resulted in some of the defining work of both actors’ careers, ranging from the heartbreaking (“Boogie Nights”) to the terrifying (“The Master”). Image source: rogerebert.com
These two up-and-coming actors are transformed into stunning stars by the director.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” depicts a golden, shimmering 1970s San Fernando Valley that seems too fantastical to be real. It’s the kind of place where anything could happen as the sun sets, thanks to the long, magical walks people take there and the sense of discovery they feel as they explore every alley and side street.
7. Mother (2009)
There are hints of some of Bong Joon-later ho’s work in his earlier picture, The Mother, which was directed by Bong Joon-ho (who also directed Parasite). The plot of the story is around a woman who, in an emotionally charged manner, investigates potential leads to prevent the murder of her son and finds herself thrust into a world of anarchy and upheaval.
Towards the very end of the movie, Bong presents all of the harrowing moments in an unflappable and uncomplicated manner. The performance given by Kim Hye-ja is one of the reasons the movie is so good.
The Mother, which was directed by Bong Joon-ho (who also directed Parasite). Image source: Reddit
Kim Hye-Ja plays Hye-ja, a long-widowed mother who raises her son Do-jun on her own (Won Bin). Do-jun is 28 years old, but he doesn’t have the mental capacity of someone his age, which may account for his many out-of-the-ordinary traits.
Do-jun stumbles out of a bar late at night and makes his way home. On his way home, he follows a schoolgirl into an alley, where he is eventually driven away by a huge rock. Do-jun, upon returning home, continues his routine of sleeping on the floor next to his mom.
A murdered high school girl and a golf ball with Do-name jun’s engraved on it are found by the police the following day. Do-jun is quickly arrested for the murder based on this scrap of evidence.
Do-only jun’s mother, Hye-ja, refuses to consider a plea bargain that would reduce the sentence against her only son by four years. Since she has no other choice, Hye-ja takes the initiative to defend her son’s innocence.
8. Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2021)
A seashell that only has one eye; using its soft voice, it single-handedly saves and brings to a close a mockumentary comedy that runs for ninety minutes. Marcel takes a number of observations, hypotheses, and inquiries regarding society and weaves them together, tying them together with wit and charisma along the way.
Isabelle Russelini provides the voice of Marcel’s grandmother, Kani, in the film. The relationship that exists between Marcel and his grandmother is one of the film’s strongest points, and Isabelle Russelini’s voice serves to bring this relationship to life. A nomination for an Academy Award in this category has been submitted for the movie.
Charming Marcel, a shell only an inch tall, lives with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. They used to be part of a large community of shells, but now they’re the only ones left after some sort of tragedy.
However, when a documentary filmmaker finds them in the chaos of his Airbnb and posts a short film online, Marcel suddenly finds himself with millions of devoted fans, unprecedented dangers, and renewed hope of reuniting with his long-lost family.
In this funny and touching tale about finding connection in unexpected places, a fan-favorite character makes his big-screen debut.
Learn More: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (2021) Movie Review
9. Petite Maman (2021)
A straightforward tale that is still endearing and enchanted, revolving around moms and their daughters. The film is marked by dual mysteries of past and future recollections, and its style is evocative of famous works of English literature such as “The Midnight Garden” by Philippa Pearce or “The Child in Time” by Ian McEwan.
The filming of Petite Maman took place during a lockdown, the main character is played by a skeleton cast, and the plot seems to have been thought up while Sciamma was waiting for something else to happen. Joséphine and Gabrielle Sanz in Petite Maman. Image source: The Times
The viewer is immediately drawn in by the film’s meticulous attention to detail as it runs for 73 minutes. The audience for “Petite Maman” are people who have experienced a profound and clear separation from the people they love in the world. The plot originates in the author’s head and, at times, is resolved in a single stroke.
In this one, Josephine Sanz plays the role of Nelly, an eight-year-old girl who, while walking through the woods one day by herself, comes face to face with a younger version of her mother, Marion (played by Sanz’s twin sister, Gabrielle), and the two gradually form a bond about life, death, grief, and companionship.
It gives off a fundamentally false impression, the dialogue is terrible (“You didn’t invent my sadness,” a child of eight years old says), and it identifies itself as the kind of movie that a world that has recovered from a pandemic will invariably forget about. Which, all things considered, is probably for the best.
For instance, there is a scene in the movie in which a line of dialogue that is both straightforward and profound is spoken. It goes as follows: “Secrets are not just things we hide from each other, but things we never find anyone to share them with.” It would appear that gradually getting alone and silent opens up a whole new universe of mysteries..
Ruben Ostlund makes his debut as a director of feature films in the English language with the satirical black comedy film Triangle of Sadness, which he also wrote and directed. Image source: IMDb
10. Triangle Of Sadness (2022)
A gloomy satire on the lives of extremely wealthy individuals, who are depicted as living in a world that is fast-paced, fake, and purposefully vulgar slogans.
Exciting moments include the conversation between the girl and the boy about dinner money, the girl’s admission that she played along with the boy knowing that she was doing so, the duel between the captain and the passenger, and the communist and anti-communist slogans that are yelled at each other. At Cannes 2022, the jury awarded the Golden Palm to the film “Triangle of Sorrow.”
Ruben Ostlund is back with his most ambitious project to date, which is a movie that attempts to illustrate the dehumanizing essence of free market capitalism through one-liners, Woody Harrelson, and the kind of gross-out gags that send sensitive Cannes critics fleeing from the auditorium.
Ruben Ostlund is a Swedish firebrand film director. The movie is an entertaining and engaging fable about the lives of the mega-rich, which takes place frequently on a mega-yacht. After all was said and done, it was deserving enough to earn Ostlund a rare second Palme d’Or.
At its most basic level, “Triangle of sadness” is an expertly crude comedy or parody that is proudly absurd and contains a healthy helping of “cringe” in each of its three sections. The answer is that it is funny, and the answer is also that it is rude and over the top; however, how else could it be given that it attempts to criticize our modern society?
If you take the road that Ostlund paves for you, you might notice that underneath the strangely entertaining package, the director is trying to bring to light weakness found in apparent strength. Not only that, but he also implies that no matter how much you try to “strip” people of their social shell, deep down they can never really change.
If you follow the path that Ostlund paves for you, you might notice that beneath the strangely entertaining package, the director is trying to bring to light weakness found in
Highly recommended, and absolutely deserving of the Palme d’Or award that it received this year!
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Author: Cinemato
