7TH JANUARY 2022
Every dad’s guilty pleasure list. The movies that can be watched more only on national holidays or randomly on TV than during planned gatherings.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986)
dir. by John Carpenter
dir. by John Carpenter
San Francisco’s Chinatown is covered in mystery as a living legend came to life and aims to be in the flesh so a truck driver Jack, his friend lawyer Gracie have to help Wang Chi rescue his fiance from the hands of the evil master.
ROMANCING THE STONE (1984)
dir. by Robert Zemekis
dir. by Robert Zemekis
A mixture of genres starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as romance novelist Joan Wilder that is brought to Colombia from her flat in New York city to find a dangerous adventure.
CAST AWAY (2000)
dir. by Robert Zemekis
dir. by Robert Zemekis
Again, another film by the brilliant Robert Zemekis, tells a story of a modern Robinson Cruzo played by no less brilliant Tom Hanks.
A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988)
dir. by Charles Crichton
dir. by Charles Crichton
A complicated story of a successful heist’s aftermath that involved brilliant Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and a Monty Python resident John Cleese.
LE MAGNIFIQUE (1973)
dir. by Philippe de Broca
A comedy about a dreaming adventure novel writer that has a writer’s block and his lovely neighbour who helps him to overcome it and finish the book on time, starring Jean Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984)
dir. by Sergio Leone
dir. by Sergio Leone
A classic of gangster movies and movies about New York too. Brought by a legendary Spaghetti-western author Sergio Leone, string Robert de Niro and James Wood.
AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
dir. by John Huston
dir. by John Huston
An old school adventure romcom (do not mix with pure genre of screwball comedy) takes two characters Katherine Hepburn and Hamphrey Bogart on a dangerous journey along a river in East Africa.
TOTAL RECALL (1990)
dir. by Paul Verhoeven
dir. by Paul Verhoeven
The original Sci-Fi classic by great master Paul Verhoeven (to a recent remake with Colin Firth as a lead) where a leisure company that promises new adventures by stimulating your neurons puts a boring life of Doug in a perplexed situation.
GENTLEMEN OF FORTUNE (1971)
dir. by Aleksandr Sery
dir. by Aleksandr Sery
Soviet classics of a courageous nursery director going undercover to get out the information on the golden helmet being stolen by a bunch of bandits, based in the scenery of the Moscow 70s.
MACKENNA’S GOLD (1969)
dir. by J. Lee Thompson
dir. by J. Lee Thompson
A western with Gregory Peck, as Sheriff Mackenna, about Native American gold and American bandits trying to own it (another classic in other words that is sadly still very current).
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