9. The Breakfast Club (1985) | John Hughes
On Saturday, 5 Shermer High School students who had never known each other were met in the detention they received as a result of their deeds. Trapped in one full day together, they realize that they are not just criminals, athletes, basket case, princess or brain, they are much more than that.
8. Taxi Driver (1976) | Martin Scorsese
Taxi Driver tells the story of Travis Bickle (Robert de Niro), a lonely 26-year-old and a former war vet, who became a taxi driver in New York.Travis Bickle felt himself alienated from the life around him. Especially since his romance with Betsy who did not run smoothly. Travis also then tried to figure out who he was, a kind of search for purpose and the grip of life. Until he then armed himself with a variety of weapons, making his bedroom into the training ground for him. And later he shaved his hair into a mohawk, a kind of symbol signifying his resistance and rebellion.
7. Vertigo (1958) | Alfred Hitchcock
John "Scottie" Ferguson decides to retire early from his job as a detective. Attributed to acrophobia, a phobia of fear to heights that he suffered a few months ago when he watched his partner fall from a high rise building while trying to help him. But apparently Scottie still can not leave his job he went back to being a working detective for his old friend to investigate his wife who recently behaved strangely and mysteriously.Overall almost in all aspects Vertigo appear very solid. Hitchcock is not only able to create a mystery story that annoys the curiosity but also cleverly puts its audience in the same position not with the Scottie character, until later in the middle of the hitchcock movie gives a shocking answer that will 'slap' the audience.
6. Fight Club (1999) | David Fincher
"Welcome to fight club. The first rule of fight club is: you do not talk about fight club. The second rule of fight club is: you do not talk about fight club!" - Tyler DurdenThe movie fight club starred by famous hollywood actors such as Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter. Fight club itself is a successful drama to bacame a cult movie, although the execution of this film also presents crazy actions of the characters in it. Fight club famous thanks to Tyler Durden character played by Brad Pitt. Tyler Durden's free, wild but charismatic character makes the movie fight club more popular. Many think if Tyler Durden is the most memorable movie character of all time.
5. The Shining (1980) | Stanley Kubrick
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) accepted his new job as a caretaker at a remote hotel called Overlook Hotel in off-season and took his wife Wendy and his son Danny to stay in the hotel for several months. Unfortunately, the hotel turned out to be a mysterious dark secret.As a horror movie, actually the "horror" scene in The Shining itself is very minimal. There are not many bloody scenes here, and the emergence of ghosts is also actually not scary. But where the essence of a horror movie really exists is how the director is able to build a tense and nervous atmosphere,.
4. Pulp Fiction (1994) | Quentin Tarantino
Pulp fiction is the story of two assassins (John Travolta & Samuel L. Jackson), mafia boss (Ving Rhames) and his wife (Uma Thurman), a boxer (Bruce Willis), and 2 small-timers (Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer).If you look for gangster and mafia movies filled with scenes of great bloody gun shots, Pulp Fiction does not offer it. In contrast, pulp fiction is a clever work that shows the world of gangsters with different perspectives. Pulp fiction is not only recognized as the best work of quentin tarantino, but also one of the most influential postmodern films in the world of cinema.
3. Back To The Future (1985) | Robert Zemeckis
Talking about a teenager named Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) who has a girlfriend named Jennifer Parker, is in a confusing and slightly miserable family condition, his father, George McFly has always been the bully material of his boss in work, Biff Tannen. Plus with the condition of Marty's mother, Lorraine who is addicted to alcohol and obesity.One night on 22 October 1985 Marty met his friend, mad-genius scientist, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) to document his new invention of a time machine created with a modified car intermediary for adventure into the past or into the future. But Doc Brown died at the scene, then Marty accidentally activate the time machine in the car, and began an exciting adventure in this movie. Marty meets Doc Brown's youth as well as his mother and father who were still teenagers and not in love, not to mention the enemy of his father, Biff Tannen.
2. A Clockwork Orange (1971) | Stanley Kubrick
Alex (Malcolm McDowell) becomes a rogue gang leader by the name of Droogs who commit a variety of criminal acts he calls ultra-violence, fighting with other gangs, rape, anarchists etc. Until one day he was arrested by the police. In order to get out of prison quickly, Alex was then willing to follow a treatment called Ludovico Technique to turn him into a better man.That is then the core story of the film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film is based on Anthony Burgees's novel with the same title.
1. Eraserhead (1977) | David Lynch
Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) who was on vacation received shocking news from her lover, Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) while Henry was visiting Mary's home for dinner with her parents. Mary had just given birth to a child with Henry. On the compulsion from Mary's mother Henry finally willing to marry Mary and bring his wife and children to live in Henry's cramped apartment."Eraserhead" is a wonderful visual treat of David Lynch. Unlike Michael Bay that entertains audiences with its visualization requires a variety of magnificent visual effects, David Lynch is able to present amazing visuals with unique nan absurd images. Watching this movie is like going into a nightmare world but beautiful. Called a nightmare because of Henry's world conditions are in a state of chaos and the many scenes of disturbing especially featuring "the baby". Beautiful because of Lynch's vision to presents the surreal scenes. Truly the experience of watching a unique movie is unique.
Honorable mentions:
- Psycho (1960) | Alfred Hitchcock
- The Machinist (2004) | Brad Anderson
- The Thing (1982) | John Carpenter
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