My favorite movie is Donnie Brasco, a 1997 crime drama film starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. The film is based on the true story of FBI undercover agent Joseph D. Pistone who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in New York in the 1970s under the alias Donnie Brasco. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
2. starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. Michael Ma
dsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, and Anne Hech
e appeared in supporting roles.
The film is based on the true story of Joseph D.
Pistone, an FBI undercover agent who infiltrate
d the Bonanno crime family in New York City dur
ing the 1970s, under the alias Donnie Brasco, ak
a, "The Jewel Man". Brasco maneuvers his way i
nto the confidence of an aging hit-man, Lefty R
uggiero, who vouches for him. As Donnie moves
deeper into the Mafia, he realizes that not only i
s he crossing the line between federal agent and
criminal, but also leading his friend Lefty to an a
lmost certain death.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Bes
t Adapted Screenplay.
3. ï‚¡ The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der And
eren) is a 2006 German drama film, marking the f
eature film debut of filmmaker Florian Henckel v
on Donnersmarck.
ï‚¡ The film involves the monitoring of the cultural s
cene of East Berlin by agents of the Stasi, the G
DR's secret police. It stars Ulrich Mühe as Stasi C
aptain Gerd Wiesler, Ulrich Tukur as his boss Ant
on Grubitz, Sebastian Koch as the playwright Ge
org Dreyman, and Martina Gedeck as Dreyman's
lover, a prominent actress named Christa-Maria
Sieland.
ï‚¡ The film was released in Germany on 23 March 2
006. At the same time, the screenplay was publi
shed by Suhrkamp Verlag. The Lives of Others wo
n the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Lan
guage Film. The movie had earlier won seven De
utscher Filmpreis awards – including those for b
est film, best director, best screenplay, best acto
r, and best supporting actor – after setting a new
record with 11 nominations. It was nominated fo
r Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Golden
Globe Awards. The Lives of Others cost US$2 mill
ion[2] and grossed more than US$ 77 million worl
dwide as of November 2007.
4. ï‚¡ (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso), inte
rnationally released as Cinema
Paradiso, is a 1988 Italian dram
a film written and directed by
Giuseppe Tornatore. The film st
ars Jacques Perrin, Philippe Noi
ret, Leopoldo Trieste, Marco Le
onardi, Agnese Nano and Salva
tore Cascio, and was produced
by Franco Cristaldi and Giovan
na Romagnoli, while the music
score was composed by Ennio
Morricone along with his son, A
ndrea.
5. ï‚¡ Tazza: The High Rollers (a.k.a. The
War of Flower, Korean: 타짜) is a 20
06 South Korean film based on Huh Y
oung-man's manhwa (comics). The s
tory involves a group of grifters invol
ved in the Korean card game called
Hwatu.
Plot
Go-nee has lost his entire savings, save
d over a period of 5 years, at a gambl
ing joint. While Go-nee drinks heavil
y, determined to throw away his life,
he discovers that he was swindled by
professional fraudulent gamblers, so
-called ‘slickers’. To regain his money
, Go-nee begins training to be the be
st slicker under a master of gambling
, Mr. Pyeong. Go-nee becomes famo
us, wandering about different gambl
ing places throughout the country wi
th Pyeong. Moreover, Madam Jung
who has never gotten along with Mr.
Pyeong, begins to show interest in G
o-nee…
6. ï‚¡ Upon release, the film broke all opening box office records in India. I
t was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India and
had the highest opening day collections for a Bollywood film. It also
had the record for highest net collections in the first week for a Boll
ywood film. Within 10 days of its release, the film crossed the 100 cr
ore (US$18.9 million) mark in India and became the first film of 200
9 to do so. The film also created a new box office record for a releas
e in the last quarter of a year (October to December), breaking the p
revious record set by Ghajini. It is also the highest-grossing film to b
e released in the second half of the year (July to December), breakin
g the previous record also held by Ghajini.
ï‚¡ 3 Idiots has become the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time i
n India,breaking the previous record set by Ghajini which also starre
d Aamir Khan. It also became one of the few Indian films to become
a major success in East Asian markets such as China,eventually brin
ging its overseas total to US $23.9 million—the highest-grossing Bol
lywood film of all time in overseas markets. It was expected to be th
e first Indian film to be officially released on YouTube, within 12 wee
ks of releasing in theaters on 25 March 2010, but finally got officially
released on YouTube in May 2012.The film also went on to win man
y awards, winning six Filmfare Awards including best film and best d
irector, ten Star Screen Awards and sixteen IIFA awards.
ï‚¡ The film also uses real inventions by little known people in India's ba
ckyards. The brains behind the innovations were Remya Jose, a stud
ent from Kerala, who created the exercise-bicycle/washing-machin
e, Mohammad Idris, a barber from Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh,
who invented a bicycle-powered horse clipper, and Jahangir Painter,
a painter from Maharashtra, who made the scooter-powered flour
mill. This film was remade in Tamil as Nanban, by S. Shankar, which
was released in January 2012. It has also been announced that there
will be a Chinese remake of the film produced by Stephen Chow and
that there are plans for a Hollywood remake produced in the United
States.