#365DaysOfWriting – Day Thirty-Six
No long-winded talk. No explanations. Just a simple list.
1 min readJun 13, 2016
This may be my shortest post yet. A friend of mine on Facebook shared a list of films he’d show the aliens if they ever visited our planet, just to give them an idea of the way we live, think etc. Here is my list of 50, in no particular order.
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Solyaris
- The Apu Trilogy – Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apur Sansar
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Sarfarosh
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare trilogy – Maqbool, Omkara, Haider
- Sandesham
- Primer
- The Prestige
- Oldboy
- The Godfather – Parts 1 and 2
- Udaan
- Manichitratazhu
- Stalker
- The Sacrifice
- My Neighbour Totoro
- The Dark Knight
- Spotlight
- Lootera
- Interstellar
- What We Do In The Shadows
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Seven Samurai
- Bharatham
- The Devil’s Backbone
- High and Low
- Moneyball
- Pulp Fiction
- Ivan’s Childhood
- Moon
- Gangs of Wasseypur – Parts 1 and 2
- Terminator 2 – Judgement Day
- Mother (Korean film)
- Contact
- Kaagaz Ke Phool
- Enter The Dragon
- Pyaasa
- Bombay
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Throne of Blood
- Maachis
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Goodfellas
- Nayagan
- Kill Bill – Vol. 1 and 2
- Memento
- Yojimbo
- Spotlight