The films to watch in streaming that have marked history and that in 2023 will be 50, 20 and 10 years old. We have to go back to 1973, but it still scares us today The exorcist by William Friendkin. It’s the best horror of all time. And what about Amarcord by Fellini and American Graffiti by George Lucas? They are worth seeing again. And they are no less recent titles, but equally cult ones, such as Kill Bill – Volume 1 Of Quentin Tarantino (of 2003), Big Fish Of Tim Burton (also from 2003) e The great beauty by Paolo Sorrentino, Oscar winner in 2013.
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2003 cult film turning 20 years old
Finding Nemo (2003)
It is one of the best animated films Pixar with Monster & Co., Wall-E, Toy Story And Ratatouille. The story of the clown fish Nemo and the father who, together with the forgetful Dory, crosses the perils of the Australian ocean to recover his captured son, has moved the whole world. There is a 2017 sequel: Finding Dory.
US release: May 30, 2003 | Italian release: 3 December 2003
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The curse of the first moon
Johnny Depp to scream. His pirate Jack Sparrow revolutionized pirate stories on the big screen and immediately captured the hearts of audiences. The critics were also on his side, together with the Academy which gives Depp his third Oscar nomination. From that moment Sparrow’s adventures take off and turn into a kind of pirate saga. Then the stop, after the allegations of harassment of her ex-husband by Amber Heard. The trial ended with the acquittal of the actor who is ready to take back the scene and make a new film about Sparrow.
US release: July 9, 2003 | Italian release: 5 September 2003
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Kill Bill – Volume 1
Quentin Tarantino And Uma Thurman, a powerful union that gave birth to one of the most iconic and badass female characters in the history of cinema: the bride. The look, the scenes with the katana, the music, the resilience of a woman ready to do anything to complete her mission. The film is a cult, loved so much that many would like a third adventure. Tarantino, however, is silent.
US release: October 10, 2003 | Italian release: 24 October 2003
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The lord of the rings – the return of the king
Last majestic chapter of the trilogy of Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson. Eleven Academy Awards for the film adaptation of the giant Tolkien’s masterpiece. It is the most awarded film at the Oscars along with Ben Hur And Titanic. Doesn’t that seem a bit exaggerated to you? And it was the first fantasy to win the statuette for best picture. Perhaps the Academy wanted to make up for the few awards given to the first chapter of the trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ringmuch better.
US release: December 3, 2003 | Italian release: 18 January 2004
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Big Fish – Stories from an Incredible Life
Surreal, Fellinian, fantastic, magical. All this is Big Fish, one of Tim Burton’s best films. An incredible story that mixes two spheres, the dream and the story of the extraordinary life of the protagonist Edward Bloom (Albert Finney and Ewan McGregor). Big Fish and the summa of the “Burtian” universe, he is the spokesman of how much the power of the story can make a normal life better.
US release: December 10, 2003 | Italian release: 27 February 2004
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Masterpieces from 1973 that are 50 years old
American Graffiti (1973)
It’s the movie of George Lucas before being overwhelmed by the success of Star Wars. Summer 1962, four friends spend their last evening among girls and beautiful cars, before going their separate ways and starting to live as adults. A furrow that separates the boys played by very young Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard. There is also Harrison Ford before boarding the Millennium Falcon. A timeless classic.
US Release: August 11, 1973 | Italian release: 24 April 1974
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Serpico (1973)
With Serpico Al Pacino wins the second Oscar nomination after The Godfather. The story of the Italian-American policeman who denounced a case of corruption among his colleagues needs to be reviewed. A true story that exports the image of Italian-Americans to the world. An important role for the actor who has a little Sicilian blood in his veins.
US release: December 5, 1973 | Italian release: 24 February 1974
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Amarcord (1973)
One masterpiece of Federico Fellini that’s history. There is his dreamlike and real language, the childhood of the thirties and country life, the Romagna dialect, the dreams and hopes of the country, the attack on fascism, dreams and nostalgia, shame, the love and memories. A choral tale, a political film about an Italian woman dazzled by the superman.
Italian release: 18 December 1973
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The sting (1973)
George Roy Hill, after Butch Cassidy of 1969, recalls Robert Redford and Paul Newman, the hottest pair of actors of the seventies. The film becomes a cult thanks to the legendary duo (like Cassidy and Billy the Kid) and the soundtrack. The main song of the film resumes The Entertainer of 1902, a ragtime that returned to vogue thanks to Hill’s film.
US Release: December 25, 1973 | Italian release: 21 March 1974
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The exorcist
AND the horror scariest ever. William Friedkins signed his masterpiece. 12-year-old Regan (Linda Blair), possessed by the devil, continues to terrorize: even in the 1920s, it leaves no way out. They may churn out sequels and prequels, but the 1973 film, which was censored at the time, is unrivaled in the field of exorcism. Friedkin’s masterpiece earned ten nominations for the Oscars.
US release: December 26, 1973 | Italian release: 20 September 1974
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Iconic films of 2013 that make 10 years
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese And Leonardo Dicaprio they are a couple more than established in the cinema. Since that meeting on the set of Gangs of New York the director of Taxi Driver has never left one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. For the interpretation of Jordan Belford, DiCaprio deserved the Oscar, but once again the Academy snubbed him (it made up for it three years later with Revenants). The Wolf of Wall Street is one of the duo’s best films. Now we wait Killer of Flower Moonout of competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
US release: December 23, 2013 | Italian release: 23 January 2014
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The great beauty
The movie of Paolo Sorrentino which won the Oscar for best foreign film 14 years after Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni. An historic milestone that has forever marked the career of the Neapolitan director and of Toni Servillo, in the role of the protagonist Jep Gambardella. In 2022 Sorrentino returned to Hollywood with It was the hand of God, his most personal film. In this case, however, she did not take the statuette home.
Italian release: 21 May 2013
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Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón’s science fiction film with George Clooney, lost in space, and Sandra Bullock, in a desperate attempt to return alive to Earth, opened the Venice Film Festival just ten years ago. It is one of the best 3D films ever made: on the big screen, the viewer gets lost in space together with Clooney.
US release: October 4, 2013 | Italian release: 3 October 2013
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Adele ‘s life
Kechiche’s film wowed the ten-year Cannes Film Festival where it won the Palme d’Or. The tale of the love story between two women (played by Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exachopoulos) had never been so intense, engaging, passionate, real, romantic and cynical. An intimate journey in the life of two girls who love each other and leave each other.
Italian release: 24 October 2013
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Dallas Buyers Club
Precisely with the role of the AIDS-sick cowboy in Dallas Buyers Club Matthew McConaughey wins the well-deserved Oscar. It was from that moment that the most glorious period of the Texan actor begins – Christopher Nolan calls him for InterstellarFukunaga in the first season (the best) of the cult series True Detective and Martin Scorsese at The Wolf of Wall Street by Martin Scorsese. McConaughey gets his star on the Walk of Fame.
US release: November 1, 2013 | Italian release: 30 January 2014
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