My top 5 Movies

I really like all genres, you´ll can see in this top 5.

5. Forrest Gump
Genres: Comedy—Drama
Review: A boy while not Intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moment, but his true love, Jenny,, eludes him. In
1981, Forrest Gump sits at a bus stop, telling his life story to strangers nearby. His tale starts about the childhood braces he wore
around his legs. At Forrest's home, he meets Elvis Presley and teaches him a dance move, which Elvis later displays at a concert. On
his first day of school, Forrest meets a girl named Jenny Curran, who he immediately falls in love with and whose life is followed
parallel to his. Despite his below average intelligence quotient (IQ), his ability to run very fast gets him into the University of
Alabama on a football scholarship. He ultimately becomes an All American and meets President John F. Kennedy. While attending
college he witnesses George Wallace's attempt to prevent integration at the school.
After graduation, Forrest enlists in the Army. He makes friends with Benjamin Buford Blue, nicknamed Bubba, who convinces him to
be his partner in the shrimping business when the Vietnam War is over. He also meets Jenny again, who is now part of the
counterculture movement and working as a stripper. In 1967, he and Bubba are sent to Vietnam, and after several months of
patrolling with the 9th Infantry Division, their platoon is ambushed. Forrest is shot in the buttocks but rescues many of the men in
his unit, although Bubba is fatally wounded and dies. Lt. Dan Taylor, the platoon's commanding officer, is also seriously wounded
and loses both legs. He chastises Forrest for saving him, insisting that he would rather have died honorably on the battlefield than
become a cripple. For his actions, Forrest is awarded the Medal of Honor by President Lyndon B. Johnson. While in Washington, he
becomes swept up in an anti-war rally where he again meets Jenny. They spend the evening walking around Washington, but when
the morning comes she leaves with her abusive boyfriend.
While in the hospital, Forrest discovered an uncanny ability for ping pong. He begins playing for the U.S. Army team, eventually
competing against Chinese teams on a goodwill tour, sometimes referred to as Ping Pong Diplomacy. He goes to the White House for
a third time to meet President Richard Nixon who provides him a room at the Watergate hotel. While there, Forrest witnesses a
burglary and calls security, inadvertently exposing the Watergate scandal. He also goes on the Dick Cavett Show in New York City and
talks with John Lennon, presumably inspiring him to write the song "Imagine". When leaving, he meets Lt. Dan, now an embittered
drunk living on welfare. When Forrest tells Lt. Dan about his plans for a fishing business, the lieutenant replies jokingly that the day
Forrest becomes a fisherman, he'll be first mate.
Forrest is discharged, and uses money from an endorsement for ping pong paddles to buy a shrimping boat, fulfilling his wartime
promise to Bubba. Lt. Dan joins him as first mate, citing his earlier promise. They initially have little success, but after Hurricane
Carmen hits the Gulf states, their boat is the only one to survive. Business now booms and Forrest buys an entire fleet of shrimping
boats; the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company becomes a household name. As a result, Forrest makes a lot of money, donating much of
this to the local Gospel Church and giving Bubba's family a share of the profits. He leaves the company in the hands of Lt. Dan, who
invests a portion of their wealth in shares from Apple. This provides Forrest with even more money while Lt. Dan, after having had
an epiphany on the boat, forgives Forrest and thanks him for saving his life. Forrest returns home when his mother falls ill, and she
dies soon afterward.
In 1976, Jenny returns to visit Forrest, and he eventually proposes to her. Although she declines she tells him that she does love him.
They sleep together but she leaves the next day. On a whim, Forrest elects to go for a run and simply decides not to stop. Over the
next three years, two months, fourteen days and sixteen hours, he runs coast to coast across the country several times, gathering a
small following. Realizing that he had been running to try to make sense of his feelings for Jenny and the deaths of his mother and
Bubba, he abruptly stops and returns home.
While finishing his story, Forrest reveals that he is waiting at the bus stop because Jenny has contacted him and asked him to visit
her. Once they are reunited, he discovers they have a young son together, also named Forrest. She also tells him that she is dying
from an unknown virus. She proposes to him and he accepts. The three move back to Greenbow where they marry but Jenny dies
soon afterward. While visiting her grave, Forrest sees a flock of birds fly overhead and remembers when he and Jenny were children
and asked God to turn Jenny into a bird so she could "fly far, far away." On his son's first day of school, Forrest Sr. sits with his son at
the bus stop. As the bus picks Forrest Jr. up and drives away, Forrest Sr. sits on the same tree stump that his mother did, watching a
feather float into the air

Release date: July 6, 1994

Gross Revenue: $677,387,716
It’s based in the 1986 novel by Wiston Groom.
Cast: Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump), Robin Writh (Jenny Curran), Gary Sinise (Lieutenant Taylor), Sally Field (Mrs. Gump). Tom Hanks has
acted in other movies like Philadelphia, Apolo 13, Saving Privete Ryan, Cast Away, and he has won two Academy Awards. Robin Writh
has starred in films such as Message in a Bottle, Unbreakable, White Oleander and The Conspirator .
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Awards: This movie won six Academy Awards, including Best Performance by an actor in a Leading Role, Best Director, and Best
Visual Effects.
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4. The House of Spirits

Genres: Drama—Romance
Summary: Chile, second half of the 20th century. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca. When Blanca
grows up, she falls in love with a young revolutionary, Pedro The void between father and daughter seems unbridgeable

Summary: Chile, second half of the 20th century. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca. Esteban works
hard and eventually gets money to buy a hacienda and become a local patriarch. He becomes very conservative and is feared by his
workers. When Blanca grows up, she falls in love with a young revolutionary, Pedro, who urges the workers to fight for socialism. It is
unavoidable that Pedro and Esteban are pitted against each other. Esteban tries to stop the love affair between Pedro and his
daughter by all means possible but soon Blanca becomes pregnant and has a daughter. The void between father and daughter
seems unbridgeable when Blanca moves in with Pedro.
Release date: April 1st., 1994
Gross Revenue: $34,058,248
It’s based in the 1982 novel by Isabel Allende.
Cast: Meryl Streep (Clara), Glenn Close (Ferula) and Jeremy Irons (Esteban Trueba)Meryl Streep has acted in other movies like The
Devil Wears Prada, Mamma mia!,Madison Bridges and she has won two Academy Awards. Glenn Close has starred in films such as
101 dalmatians and Fatal Attraction. Jeremy Irons has acted in movies like Eragon and Casanova an he has won an Acadamy Award.
Director: Bille August
Awards: This movie won so many Internacional awards in some Festivals like Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
en la Habana and German Movie Festival.

3. Green Mile
Summary: In a Louisiana nursing home in 1999, Paul Edgecomb (Dabbs Greer) begins to cry while watching the film Top Hat. His
elderly friend, Elaine, shows concern for him and Paul tells her that the film reminded him of when he was a corrections officer in
charge of Death Row inmates at Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the summer of 1935. The cell block Paul (Tom Hanks) works in is
called the "Green Mile" by the guards because the condemned prisoners walking to their execution are said to be walking "the last
mile" to the electric chair; here, it is a stretch of faded lime-green linoleum.
One day, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant black man convicted of raping and killing two young white girls arrives on
death row. Coffey demonstrates all the characteristics of being a 'gentle giant': keeping to himself, soft-spoken, fearing darkness,
and crying almost constantly for apparently no reason. Soon enough, John reveals extraordinary powers by healing Paul's urinary
tract infection and resurrecting a mouse. Later, he would heal the terminally ill wife of Warden Hal Moores (James Cromwell), who
suffered from a large brain tumor. When John is asked to explain his power, he merely says that he "took it back."
At the same time, Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison), a sadistic and unpopular guard, starts work. He "knows people, big people" (he
is the nephew of the governor's wife), and uses these connections to prevent Paul or anybody else from doing anything significant to
curb his behavior. Percy recognizes that the other officers greatly dislike him and uses this to his advantage. In exchange for
managing the next execution, he promises he will have himself transferred to an administrative post at Briar Ridge Mental Hospital.
The agreement is made, but, in order to punish the inmate for personal reasons, Percy deliberately sabotages the execution. Instead
of wetting the sponge, which is used to conduct electricity directly into the inmate's brain and make executions quick and effective,
he leaves it dry, causing inmate Eduard "Del" Delacroix's (Michael Jeter) execution to be botched and for him to die slowly in great
pain.
Shortly before Del's execution, a violent prisoner named William "Wild Bill" Wharton (Sam Rockwell) arrives, due to be executed for
multiple murders committed during a robbery. At one point he seizes John's arm and John psychically senses that Wharton is the
true killer of the two girls, the crime for which John was convicted and sentenced to death. John "takes back" the sickness in Hal's
wife (Patricia Clarkson) and regurgitates it into Percy, who then shoots Wharton to death and falls into a permanent catatonic state.
Percy is then housed in the Briar Ridge Mental Hospital. In the wake of these events, Paul interrogates John, who says he "punished
them bad men" and offers to show Paul what he saw. John takes Paul's hand stating that he has to give Paul "a part of himself" in
order to see and imparts the visions of what he saw, of what really happened to the girls.
Paul asks John what he should do, if he should open the door and let John walk away. John tells him that he is ready to die because
there is too much pain in the world, which he is aware of and sensitive to, stating that he is "rightly tired of the pain" and is ready to
rest. When John is put in the electric chair, he asks Paul not to put the traditional black hood over his head because he is afraid of
the dark. Paul agrees and after Paul shakes his hand, John is executed.
As Paul finishes his story, he notes that he requested a transfer to a youth detention center, where he spent the remainder of his
career. Elaine questions his statement that he had a fully grown son at the time and Paul explains that he was 44 years old at the
time of John's execution and that he is now 108 and still in excellent health. This is apparently a side effect of John giving a "part of
himself" to Paul. Mr. Jingles, Del's mouse resurrected by John, is also still alive—but Paul believes he's outliving all of his relatives
and friends to be a punishment from God for having John executed. Paul explains he has deep thoughts about how "we each owe a
death; there are no exceptions; but, Oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long." After Elaine's funeral, Paul is left wondering,
if Mr. Jingles has remained alive for all of this time being but a mouse, how long will it be before his own death?

 
2. The Puirsuit of Happyness

In 1981, in San Francisco, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests his family's savings in portable bone-density scanners which he tries to
demonstrate and sell to doctors. The investment proves to be a white elephant which financially breaks the family and as a result,
his wife Linda (Thandie Newton) leaves him with their son Christopher (Jaden Smith) and moves to New York. While downtown
trying to sell one of his scanners, Chris meets a manager for Dean Witter and impresses him by solving a Rubik's Cube during a short
cab ride. Chris does not have enough money for the cab fare and flees the cab driver into a subway station where he barely escapes
the cab driver but loses one of his bone scanners in the process. This new relationship with the Dean Witter manager earns him the
chance to become an intern stockbroker. Despite arriving there unkempt and shabbily dressed due to an emergency, Chris is offered
the internship. Chris is further set back when his bank account is garnished by the IRS for unpaid taxes, and he and his young son are
evicted. As a result they are homeless, and are forced at one point to stay in a bathroom at a subway station. Motivation drives him
to find the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, which has a homeless shelter primarily for single mothers and their children.
Due to demand for the limited rooms, Chris must frantically race from his internship work early each afternoon in order to land a
place in line. Chris finds the bone scanner that he lost in the subway station from a demented man who believes it to be a time
machine and it is now damaged, but Chris finally repairs it. Disadvantaged by his limited work hours, and knowing that maximizing
his client contacts and profits is the only way to earn the one paid position that he and his 19 competitors are fighting for, Chris
develops a number of ways to make phone sales calls more efficiently. He also reaches out to potential high value customers,
defying protocol. One sympathetic prospect takes him and his son to a professional football game. Regardless of Chris's challenges,
he never reveals his lowly circumstances to his co-workers, even going so far as to lend one of his bosses five dollars for a cab, a sum
he can't afford.

Concluding his internship, Chris is called into a meeting with his managers. His work has paid off and he is offered the position.
Fighting back tears, he rushes to his son's daycare, hugging him. They walk down the street, joking with each other and are passed
by a man in a business suit (the real Chris Gardner in a cameo). The epilogue reveals that Chris went on to form his own multi-million
dollar brokerage firm.

1. Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac is a Parisian poet and swashbuckler with a large nose of which he is self-conscious, but pretends to be
proud of. He is madly in love with his "friendly cousin" (they were not actually related as cousins), the beautiful Roxane;
however, he does not believe she will requite his love because he considers himself physically unattractive. Soon he finds
that Roxane has become infatuated with Christian de Neuvillette, a dashing new recruit to the Cadets de Gascogne, the
military unit of which Cyrano is the captain. Christian however, despite his good looks, is tongue-tied when speaking with
women. Seeing an opportunity to vicariously declare his love for Roxane, he decides to aid Christian, who does not know
how to court a woman and gain her love. Cyrano aids Christian, writing love letters and poems describing the very emotions
that Cyrano himself feels for Roxane. Roxane begins to appreciate Christian, not only for his good looks but now his
apparent eloquence. She eventually falls in love with him and they contract a secret marriage. However, right after the
wedding ceremony, Christian has been called off to fight in the war against the Spanish. The war is harsh and brutal: the
Cadets de Gascogne are starving. Cyrano escapes over enemy lines each morning to deliver a love letter written by Cyrano
himself but signed with Christian's name, sent to Roxane. Christian, at this time, is completely unaware of Cyrano's doings
on his behalf. The love letters Cyrano writes eventually draw Roxane out from the city of Paris to the war front. She had
come to visit Christian, the supposed romantic poet. Apparently, she admitted that she would rather love an ugly, but great
poet, than a handsome, dimwitted fellow. Christian, realizing his mistake, tries to find out whether Roxane loves him or
Cyrano, and asks Cyrano to find out. However, during the battle that follows Roxane's visit, Christian is wounded and dies in
battle. As he lays dying, Cyrano tells him that he asked Roxane and it was him she loved, although he did no such thing.
Cyrano fights off the attackers and the French win. Cyrano keeps his love for Roxane a secret for fourteen years, during
which time he becomes unpopular because of his raucous behavior and she goes to live in a convent. However, during this
time, Cyrano faithfully visits Roxane at her convent every week, never late until a fateful attempt on his life leaves him
mortally injured. (He was not wounded by a sword, but suffered a serious head injury when struck by a heavy wooden
beam.) Only then does she discover his feelings towards her. As Cyrano dies, Roxane realizes that it was he, and not
Christian, whom she had really loved all along.