Autumn Spring (2002), The Fairy (2011), Italian for Beginners (2000), Anbe Sivam (2003), The Intouchables (2011), The Life of Reilly (2006), The Straight Story (1999), Still Walking (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Life Philosophy movies.
Storyline: An aimless English writer finds he has a small inheritance on a Greek island. His joyless existence is disturbed when he meets Zorba, a middle aged Greek with a real lust for life. As he discovers the earthy pleasures of Greece, the Englishman finds his view on life changing.
Plot Keywords: drama, adventure, literary adaptation, 1960s, black and white, cultural clash, free spirit ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war, Albert comes in contact with Gabriel, a young man prone to heavy bouts with the bottle. Gabriel is conflicted over visiting his young daughter in a nearby school and in a moment of nostalgia, Albert takes off with him on one major binge -- and havoc results.—EuropaCorp
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, french film, black and white, 1960s, novel adaptation, alcohol ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A quirky comedy about the relationship between a daughter and her aging father, whose eccentricities drive everyone crazy.
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, drama, indian cinema, parent-child relationship, generation gap, road movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Francois Truffaut's tales of Antoine Doinel continue, as now-married Antoine has an affair with a Japanese woman.
Plot Keywords: romance, marriage, everyday life, french cinema, comedy, drama, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Domenico, a successfull businessman, with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is 17 years old. She becomes a prostitute, but also becomes the mistress of Domenico. He eventually sets her up in an apartment, and she works for him in his various businesses. She secretly bears three children, who are raised by nannys. Domenico starts planning to marry a young employee. Filumena tricks him into marriage by pretending to be dying. Domenico annuls the marriage. Filumena then tells him of the three children. She says that one of the children belongs to Domenico, but will not say which one is his. You start to believe that all of the children could be his, and Domenico then marries Filumena again, this time willingly.—Steve Jordan <jordan@warwick.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, italian cinema, classic, marriage, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Francois (Daniel Auteuil), a Parisian antique dealer, has little time or desire for personal relationships. When his business partner (Julie Gayet) challenges him to prove that he has a friend, the buddy-less Francois tries to find one. When his pathetic attempts fail, he hires a cab driver (Dany Boon) to teach him how to make and keep a real pal.
Plot Keywords: comedy, friendship, french film, humor, human relationships, social satire, midlife crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shenzhen businessman, Da Ming, goes home to Beijing when he thinks his father has died. He finds his father hard at work at the family's bathhouse (the false message was a ruse of Da's mentally-handicapped, exuberant brother, Er Ming, to get Da home). Da stays a couple days, observing his father being social director, marriage counselor, and dispute mediator for his customers and a boon companion to Er. Da is caught between worlds: the decaying district of his childhood and the booming south where he now lives with a wife who's not met his family. When Da realizes his father's health is failing and the district is slated for razing, he must take stock of family and future.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: family, father-son relationship, traditional culture, nostalgia, warmth, humor, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dattatraya Vakharia is a 102 year old man living like a youngster.While is 75 year old son Babulal has accepted his old age and lost all excitement in life.Dattatraya wants to break the world record of oldest person living on earth held by Chinese man. But feels that it won't be possible to break the record by living with a boring Babulal.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, indian cinema, bollywood, father-son relationship, aging ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A waitress (Cécile De France) observes the lives of a classical pianist (Albert Dupontel), an art collector, an actress (Valérie Lemercier) and other famous clientele.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, french film, music, paris, art, pianist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at the life and work of writer/filmmaker Nora Ephron.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, writer, humor, female director, new york, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Beautiful and corrupt, sociable and sensitive, Ilya, an independent, happy-go-lucky streetwalker in the bustling Port of Piraeus, is the talk of the town. Intrigued by her character, the love-smitten American intellectual and amateur philosopher, Homer Thrace, sets his sights on becoming Ilya's Pygmalion, and in the process, attempt to explain the decline of the great Ancient Greek civilisation. Of course--as Ilya belongs to no one, and the handsome Greek-Italian dockhand, Tonio, is bent on winning her heart--this is a challenging task, especially when proud Ilya swears that she leads a full and exciting life. Now, the romantic philhellene has two short weeks to accomplish his task. Will he learn a thing or two about life, and maybe, just maybe, find the secret of happiness?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: greece, comedy, drama, romance, independent film, black and white, music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The plot of this movie, like smoke itself, drifts and swirls ethereally. Characters and subplots are deftly woven into a tapestry of stories and pictures which only slowly emerges to our view. This film tries to convince us that reality doesn't matter so much as aesthetic satisfaction. In Auggie's New York smoke shop, day by day passes, seemingly unchanging until he teaches us to notice the little details of life. Paul Benjamin, a disheartened and broken writer, has a brush with death that is pivotal and sets up an unlikely series of events that afford him a novel glimpse into the life on the street which he saw, but did not truly perceive, every day. Finally, it's Auggie's turn to spin a tale....
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, new york, human relationships, everyday life, healing, writer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long-forgotten son and his family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, heartwarming, small-town life, father-son relationship, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a street called Blue in a very poor neighborhood in Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim is an old Muslim Turkish owner of a small market. He becomes friend of the teenager Jewish Moises, tenderly nicknamed Momo, who lives with his father in a small apartment on the other side of the street. Monsieur Ibrahim gives paternal love and teaches the knowledge of the Qur'an to the boy, receiving in return love and respect.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: french film, drama, coming of age, islam, paris, 1960s, single-parent family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the details of a mission to save his neighbors from their troubles.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, family, independent film, american film, 2000s ...
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