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Old 02-15-2010, 04:58 AM
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I have fairly eclectic,erratic and sporadic movie tastes so it is hard for me to find something I want to watch.I watch based on my interest in the plot than actors,genre or popularity.I am including a short plot description, so even if you haven't heard of it, the plot should give you something.The below are my **** and ***** movies from netflix.

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Confessions of a Superhero (Documentary) - This follows 4 people who want to become actors; but in the meantime dress as superheros on hollywood boulevard.

God Grew Tired of Us (Social & Cultural Documentary) - 3 Sudanese Refugees aka Lost boys, get chosen to move to America where they experience our culture for the first time.

Good Will Hunting (Romantic Drama) - Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Home Room (Drama) - An unlikely friendship is formed between a victim and a witness as a high school shooting has repercussions on the town and students.

Paper Moon (20th Century Period Pieces) - During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

Rounders (Crime Drama) - A young man (Damon) is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks

Series 7: The Contenders (Thriller) - A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.

Slums of Beverly Hills (Independent) - This semiautobiographical story follows a lower-middle-class teenager (Lyonne) and her neurotic family in 1976 Tinseltown.

Speak (Independent Drama) - After a blurred trauma over the summer, Melinda enters high school a selective mute. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.

Waydowntown (Comedy) - A group of young employees bet a month's salary, winner takes all, on who can last the longest without going outside.

Almost Famous (Showbiz Drama) - A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour.

American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (Children & Family) - A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Social & Cultural Documentary) - Diehard video game fans compete to break World Records on classic arcade games.

Pieces of April (Comedy) - A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.

Saint Ralph (Drama) - Ralph is a fatherless 14-year-old with a seriously ill mother.Desperate to believe a miracle will bring his mother out of a coma, Ralph becomes a convert to the church of running, and determines to win the Boston Marathon.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Teen Drama) - Gilbert has care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.

Word Wars (Documentary) - A look at the obsessive world of competitive Scrabble

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Children & Family) - A poor boy wins the oppurtunity to tour the most eccentric and wonderful candy factory of all.

The Wizard of Oz (Classic Movie Musicals) - Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

Maria Full of Grace (Foreign) - A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
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Good call on Series 7: The Contenders. It offers some nice commentary on reality television.
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I love the movie "I Know Where I'm Going". I just watched it again today on Netflix.

Also I loved "Not One Less" its a great Chinese foreign film. (And no one dies, this is hard to find in a Chinese movie)


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I love the movie "I Know Where I'm Going". I just watched it again today on Netflix.

Also I loved "Not One Less" its a great Chinese foreign film. (And no one dies, this is hard to find in a Chinese movie)


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Good point about those Chinese films. Asian cinema in general seems to bump off characters like crazy. Still, it's better than sitting through Transformers.
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By the way, here are the top 5 films currently in my Netflix queue:

1. Fireworks
2. Branded to Kill
3. Up in the Air
4. Fireball
5. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
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