It also saw great movies from veteran filmmakers still pushing their craft, includingMartin ScorseseandSteven Spielberg.
The following movies accomplish that, and arguably better than the rest.
Bill will later go on to have a long and mysterious evening throughout New York City.
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Tom Cruise does some of his most interesting work as a man who is constantly tempted to cheat.
They do, and it’s captivating.
Even the characters who don’t shoot up are very memorable.
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All in all, this movie more than earned its cult following.
He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane (Kelly Macdonald), along for the ride.
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A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife’s admission of unfulfilled longing.
That’s a huge task for the actor who plays him, but he more than meets the challenge.
The film travels decades into the past, and Yongho’s transformation over time becomes more and more understandable.
Pulp Fictiondemonstrates the pinnacle of what can be done with an ensemble cast.
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Without his speech about the word “rehabilitated,” the film wouldn’t be the same.
The two men at its centermakeShawshankremarkably quotable, but there are other great characters who bring everything together.
This includesBob Gunton’s Warden Norton,Clancy Brown’s Byron Hadley, and especiallyJames Whitmore’s Brooks Hatlen.
Heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends – Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Tommy (Kevin McKidd). He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane (Kelly Macdonald), along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can’t escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows
Brooks is usually so gentle and calm, but that changes drastically when he’s finally let out.
His speech at the end about how he could have done more is famous for a reason.
He steals every scene he’s in, embodying a man who seems otherworldly in his intelligence.
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He combines a formal demeanor, a computer-like level of calculation, and a surprising sense of humor.
This is the perfect match forJodie Foster’s phenomenal performance as FBI trainee Clarice Starling.
Their dynamic throughout the movie is riveting, and they both won Oscars for their roles.
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Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard’s inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen’s bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
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The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
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Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
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A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
