Top Ten Must See English Movies

Starring: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, Hayden Christensen, Aiden Barton and Carrie Fisher among others.

Famous line from the film: “May the Force be with you”.

Plot: Created by George Lucas, Star Wars has six episodes and has become a cult. The story takes place in a fictional galaxy depicting different species of alien creatures who are humanoid, robots and others. The movies take you through the journeys, wars and fight between good versus evil.

 

Starring: Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr among others.

Plot: The movie revolves around playboy Nicky Ferrante and nightclub singer Terry McKay, who have an affair while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, they make a pact to reunite atop the Empire State Building after six months. However, an unfortunate accident keeps Terry from keeping her promise and Nicky fears that she does not love him anymore and has moved on. Whether he discovers the truth behind her absence and reunites with her is what forms the crux of the film.

 

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid

Famous line from the film: “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship".

Plot: Now a classic, the movie is about a bitter and cynical Rick Blaine, who runs a café in Casablanca during World War II and gets two letters of transit into his possession. These letters give the bearer permission to travel across Europe, Portugal and on to the New World making them priceless to stranded refugees in Casablanca. Czech Resistance leader, Victor Laszlo and his wife Ilsa Lund, Rick’s ex-lover, arrive at Casablanca and need the letters to get out of the country. Whether Rick’s bitterness towards Ilsa, for leaving him without an explanation, will get in the way of Victor’s freedom forms the rest of the story.

 

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg and Martin Sheen among others

Plot: Two young officers from Massachusetts State Police Academy pursue opposite sides of the law. William Costigan gets a job to go undercover by his superiors Dignam and Oliver Queenan. His aim is to join the Irish mobster Frank Costello, to get enough evidence in order to arrest him. Meanwhile Colin Sullivan is Costello’s protégé and mole working in the Massachusetts State Police. Both Costigan and Sullivan get caught up in their double lives, becoming obsessed with finding the other mole, as do Costello and Queenan, the heads of each side.

 

Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg and Josh Lucas among others

Plot: A true story about the genius mathematician, John Forbes Nash, who went from a rising career to a painful and harrowing journey with schizophrenia. After many years of struggling, he triumphed and finally received the Nobel Prize.

 

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