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Friends, like I’ve mentioned earlier about the importance of movies & how they impact /  influence a society (in Why Talk about Movies ?). I finally could take some time & list a few favorites. Shall keep updating the list, so don’t forget to bookmark this page.

NOTE U.S Residents : Most of the movies mentioned here are available in your Local Libraries & Video Libraries so check with them before you buy a DVD. Another good option would be to search in Google Videos / YouTube we never know whats out there for Free !

P.S : Please, Don’t judge a movie by its Title or a Name associated with it.

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Friends! I’m only updating the list of movies from now on., as I find it hard to update all the links. Please bear with me !

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(Last Updated April 20, 2009)

Aamir
Bandit Queen
Body of Lies
Bodysong
Burn After Reading
Cinema Paradiso
Dead Presidents
Dial M for Murder
Drowned Out
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Flow: For Love of Water
Full Frontal
Gaza Strip
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
I Heart Huckabees
I’m Not There
Into the Wild
Johnny Gaddaar
Juno
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Lolita
Mackenna’s Gold
Main Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara
Man on the Moon
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mumbai Meri Jaan
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Parinda
Raising Arizona
Salaam-E-Ishq
Six Degrees of Separation
Stranger than Fiction
Suraj Ka Satwan Ghoda
Swimming with Sharks
Taxi to the Dark Side
The Abyss
The Blair Witch Project
The Making of the Mahatma
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Traffic
Wall Street
WALL-E

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(Last Updated September 12, 2008)

About a Boy
All the President’s Men
Amandla
American Dream
Before Sunset
Blame It on Fidel‎
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Charlie Wilson’s War
Che Guevara: Where You’d Never Imagine Him
Children of Heaven
Cinema Paradiso‎
Citizen Kane
Entourage: HBO TV Series
Gone Baby Gone
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
Il Postino
Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution‎
Kurosawa: A Documentary on the Acclaimed Director
L.A. Confidential‎
* Life and Debt
Love in the Time of Cholera
Memento
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan‎
Rhapsody in August
Roots
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
The Great Debaters
There Will Be Blood‎
Tsotsi

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(Last Updated February 12, 2007)

• Frida : (Special Interest , Foreign , 2002) imdb , wiki – Directed by Julie Taymor ; Salma Hayek
• Whale rider : (Special Interest , Foreign , 2002) imdb , wiki – Directed by Niki Caro
• Bowling for Columbine : (Political 2002) imdb , wiki – Michael Moore
• Corporation, The : (Political , Activism , 2003) imdb , wiki Homepage – written by Joel Bakan, Harold Crooks and Mark Achbar ; directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
• Cult of the suicide bomber, The : (Political 2005) imdbHomepage – produced and directed by David Batty, Kevin Toolis (Robert Baer)
• Downsize this : (Political ) , wiki – Michael Moore
• Fahrenheit 9/11 : (Political , Directors Special , 2004) imdb , wiki – Michael Moore
• I am Cuba : (Political 1964) imdb , wiki – directed by Mikhail Kalatozov; Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba
• Dead poets society : (Hollywoods Cream 1989) imdb , wiki – Matt Damon
• Good Night, and Good Luck : (Hollywoods Cream , Directors Special , 2005) imdb , wiki – Directed by George Clooney
• Good Will Hunting : (Hollywoods Cream , Directors Special , 1997) imdb , wiki – Directed by: Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams
• Syriana : (Hollywoods Cream , Directors Special , 2005) imdb , wiki – Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
• Traffic : (Hollywoods Cream , Directors Special , 2000) imdb , wiki – Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
• Battle of Algiers, The : (Historic , Directors Special , 1966) imdb , wiki – Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, (Battaglia di Algeri, La)
• Motorcycle Diaries, The : (Historic , Foreign , 2004) imdb , wiki Homepage – Directed by Walter Salles
• Hotel Rwanda : (Historic , Foreign , 2004) imdb , wiki – Directed by Terry George, Don Cheadle
• 8½ : (Foreign , Directors Special , 1963) imdb , wiki – Directed by Federico Fellini
• Ali Fear eats the love : (Foreign 1974) imdb – Angst essen Seele auf ; Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Ankur : (Foreign 1974) imdb , wiki – Shyam Benegal
• Baran : (Foreign 2001) imdb , wiki Homepage – Majid Majidi
• Children of heaven : (Foreign , Directors Special , 1997) imdbHomepage – Majid Majidi ; Bacheha-Ye aseman
• Color of paradise, The : (Foreign 1999) imdbHomepage – Majid Majidi ; Rang-e khoda
• La dolce vita : (Foreign , Directors Special , 1960) imdb , wiki – Directed by Federico Fellini
• Nishaant : (Foreign 1975) imdb – Shyam Benegal
• Amandla : (Documentary 2002) imdb , wiki Homepage -
• Born into brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids : (Documentary 2004) imdb , wiki Homepage – a film by Ross Kauffman & Zana Briski
• Execution of Wanda Jean, The : (Documentary 2002) imdb – Directed by Liz Garbus
• Noam Chomsky : (Rebel without a pause : (Documentary ) imdb – Directed & edited by Will Pascoe
• When the Mountains Tremble : (Documentary , Foreign , 1983) imdb – Directed by Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates
• Super size me : (Activism 2004) imdb , wiki Homepage – writen & directed by Morgan Spurlock (30 days fame)
• World Vday : (until the violence stops : (Activism 2003) imdb , wiki Homepage – Directed by Abby Epstein (a must watch by each & every woman)
• WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price : (Activism , Documentary , 2005) imdb , wiki Homepage – Directed by Robert Greenwald