6. Meet Joe Black
Year: 1998
Genre: fantasy, drama, melodrama
Director: Martin Brest
Length: 178 minutes
History tells us about the rich newspaper tycoon named William Parrish. In his usual luxurious life, there is none other than Death herself. Surprisingly, she decided to spend her vacation in the world of people and appeared to him in the guise of a young man named Joe Black.
Now William put a condition – a kind of arrangement. He must become a guide to Death in the world of the living, and after the holiday she will take it with her.
Joe Black enjoys life, but there is one oversight that no one could foresee – Parrish’s daughter is in love with him.
Cinema Search: 8,035
7. Troy
Year: 2004
Genre: Action, Drama, Melodrama
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Duration: 163 minutes
The screen version of the famous “Iliad” by Gomar. We will plunge into the atmosphere of 1193 BC and find ourselves in Greece – at the feast, which is fixed by the solemn union of Troy and Sparta.
Of course, everyone sees a peaceful life only in dreams. Brother Menelaus – the king of Sparta Agamemnon, sees Troy in flames and waits only for the slightest reason for the outbreak of war. This occasion will give him the prince Paris, who steals the beautiful Helen – the wife of King Sparta.
Now a lot of soldiers are gathered under the same flag and all for the sake of one goal – to destroy Troy. Brave warriors gathered on both sides and everyone has their own motives: someone is looking for fame, and someone just wants to protect their home. We will see what will end the ten-year siege of Troy and which army will be stronger because the battles have already claimed thousands of lives.
Cinema Search: 8,017
8. Legends of autumn
Year: 1994
Genre: drama, melodrama, western
Director: Edward Zwick
Running time: 133 minutes
A certain category of people clearly hears and understands the inner voice. Moreover – they even live in accordance with his recommendations. However, all these people can wait for one outcome – they go crazy. Or not one? Maybe they can become legends?
It is about this story that we will learn. We will discover something about the Ludlow family – their impetuous story of three brothers, a father and a young woman who will change their whole life.
Since childhood, brothers are inseparable, but they can not even imagine what they will have to endure.
Horrors of the First World War further lost post-war years and a lot of emotions.
Cinema Search: 7,992
9. Interview with a Vampire
Year: 1994
Genre: horror, fantasy, drama
Director: Neil Jordan
Length: 123 minutes
History will tell us about a journalist who is very sensitive to the sensation. Today, the instinct did not disappoint him and before him was none other than a real vampire who decided to tell his story.
Step by step, the story sends us to the very origins – in the distant 1791, when, in fact, the young Louis became a vampire. He was an ordinary planter who suffered a terrible grief and lost his family. After the death of his wife and daughter, he wanted to die, but “was born again.”
Cinema Search: 7,967
10. Sleepers
Year: 1996
Genre: thriller, drama, crime
Director: Barry Levinson
Running time: 147 minutes
It’s about one of New York’s quarters, the times of the 60’s. Specifically, the quarter, with the unusual name of “infernal cuisine.” This is the place of the reign of priests and mafia – innocence and unimaginable cruelty. Namely, in this quarter four best friends grew up, whose childhood was completely interrupted by an ordinary prank that grew into a misfortune of unprecedented scale and forced them to enter prematurely into the world of malice and meanness.
More than fifteen years have passed, but memories are still with them and now everything they have learned in the “hellish kitchen” will help them pay off with the fate that was so unfair to them.
