Actors and Actresses who are just pretty much always great:
- Meryl Streep
- Denzel Washington
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Kevin Spacey
- John Goodman
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Irene Jacob
- Sean Penn
- Milla Jovovich
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Movies I've enjoyed a lot:
- Fallen with Denzel Washington, Donald Sutherland, John Goodman and James Gandolfini
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? - from the Cohen brothers
- Raising Arizona - from the Cohen brothers
- The Fifth Element
- The Bridges of Madison County
- Saving Private Ryan
- Thin Red Line
- Fearless - how surviving a jetliner crash affects two people and their families
- A Simple Plan
- A Midnight Clear
- Affliction - Nicke Nolte, James Coburn, Willem DaFoe. Man, that house-
fire-in-the-snow scene still grips my imagination. It's a painful movie to
watch for those of us with alcoholic parents. But damn, damn good.
- Breaker Morant
- The Messenger (The Story of Joan of Arc) - wow. Milla Jovovich John Malkovich, directed by Luc Besson.
- Braveheart
- The Deer Hunter
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Bridges of Madison County
- The Color Purple
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Lone Star
- What Dreams May Come
- Dead Man Walking
- Fargo
- Men With Guns
- Jude - Kate Winslet & Christopher Eccleston
- A Room With A View
- Like Water For Chocolate
- Mississippi Burning
- Gattaca
- Miller's Crossing - which bad guy do you root for when there are no good guys?
- Chicken Run
- Toy Story
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- Until the End of the World
- Do The Right Thing
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Wild At Heart
- Schindler's List
- The Double Life of Veronique - The radiantly beautiful Irene Jacob plays the double role of the title characters
- Titanic
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
- Out of Africa
- The English Patient
- The Big Lebowski - John Goodman!
- American Beauty - Kevin Spacey!
- The Negotiator - Kevin Spacey! Samuel L. Jackson