20 beautiful retro films, from which it is impossible to break away

1. The Great Gatsby

• Drama, Romance.
• Australia, USA, 2013.
• Duration: 143 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

The dramatic story of love and like the first half of the twentieth century. Nick, a young graduate of Yale University, moved to New York in search of the American dream. There, he met with an extravagant millionaire Gatsby and immersed in a world of wealth, illusions and lies.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

2. maid

• Drama.
• USA, India, UAE, 2011.
• Duration: 146 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Slavery abolished in America for a long time, but the Negro is still considered second-class citizens. Skeeter is always different from their peers, and therefore preferred career marriage. After university, she returns home, where she podvorachivaetsja plot for the book. Faced with hatred towards people with a different skin color, Skeeter decides to write the truth about the maids in wealthy white families.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

3. Inglourious Basterds

• Action, drama, comedy.
• USA, Germany, in 2009.
• Duration: 153 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,3.

The Second World War. In occupied France wielded detachment of Jews, suggestive fear in the German soldiers.

Handwriting Tarantino evident in every scene: long fascinating dialogues, mesmerizing game of actors, oppressive atmosphere and crazy plot twists. So to make a film, he only knows how.

Particularly distinguished Christoph Waltz, who played a German officer. For his role, he received the "Oscar" and praise from critics.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

4. The Notebook

• Drama, Romance.
• United States, 2004.
• Duration: 124 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,9.

He - poor sawmill worker, it is - from a wealthy family. On the way are many obstacles a young couple, but love - a great incentive that helps to overcome everything in the world.

View in Google Play →

5. Magic in the Moonlight

• Romance, comedy.
• US, UK, 2014.
• Duration: 98 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,6.

Popular illusionist Stanley Crawford comes to France to bring to clean water Woman, the ability to speak with the dead. Stanley staunch atheist, so I feel a dirty trick, but it will eventually confidence It begins to melt.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

6. Revolutionary road

• Drama, Romance.
• US, UK, 2008.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

The history of an ordinary family life of the middle class. Frank and April have been married for seven years. They have children and dream to go to Paris. For this pair is ready to stake his marriage.

The film is fascinating and warm atmosphere of the 50s, and a duet Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet. This is the first picture after "Titanic" in which the best of friends again played together.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

7. Majestic

• Drama, Romance.
• United States, 2001.
• Duration: 153 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,9.

Audiences are used to seeing Jim Carrey in a comic role, but sometimes tired laugh actor and starred in such films as "The Majestic."

Hollywood screenwriter Peter Appleton is accused of having links with the Communists. He loses his job, friends and memories. Waking up in a small town, Pete could not remember anything, and the people take him for missing hero World War II.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

8. Mind games

• Drama, Biography, melodrama.
• United States, 2001.
• Duration: 135 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,2.

Genius and madness - two sides of the same coin. John Nash - a talented mathematician who made a significant contribution to the theory of games, and faced with a mental disorder.

And although the director did not accurately shows the life of Nobel Prize winner, the picture is still doing its job: it inspires and helps to look at many things differently. That's the beauty of biographical films: successful people, solving their problems, help us to become better.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

9. Rocked

• Drama, comedy.
• UK, Germany, France, 2009.
• Duration: 129 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,4.

1960. British authorities do not recognize the rock 'n' roll, so that here and there there are pirate radio stations. One of them is in the sea. And arrives at her protagonist - a 17-year-old Karl. Uncertain the young man is slowly changing, and learns a lot from radio DJs. What else to say? "Rock-wave" - ​​a storehouse of great music and British actors.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

10. Trumbo

• Drama, Biography.
• United States, 2015.
• Duration: 124 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

Another film about the era in which the Communists were more afraid of the end of the world. Talented screenwriter Dalton Trumbo went into the black list of Hollywood because of his beliefs. His year was put in prison and banned him from working in the film industry. But Trumbo did not give up. Instead, he wrote a few great scripts under the pseudonym, was for them "Oscar" and entered the history of cinema.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

11. Pleasantville

• Drama, comedy.
• United States, 1998.
• Duration: 124 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

David Wagner lives in 1990sBut dreams about to be utopian in the series 50s, away from his sister's unbearable. Once he is elusive. Strange-looking video technician carries Wagner with his sister straight into your favorite TV series.

Something similar happened in the "Last Action Hero". Only Danny boy could not influence the crazy world of cinema, but David has greatly changed the TV show, adding the colors.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

12. hidden figures

• Drama, Biography.
• United States, 2016.
• Duration: 127 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,8.

It's about three employee of NASA, which is carried out complex mathematical calculations for the launch of the first space mission. Heroine faced not only racial discrimination, but also with gender. They are women, and therefore can not fulfill the important and difficult work, no matter how smart are. Of course, it is not.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

13. An education

• Drama.
• United Kingdom, United States, 2009.
• Duration: 100 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

The beginning of the 60's. Jenny lives in a remote province and wants to quickly go to study at Oxford. But plans change when she meets David. He's older, he drives an expensive car, visiting the best clubs and lives in a big way. Jenny, of course, falls in love and forget about everything in it.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

14. Midnight in Paris

• Romance, comedy.
• USA, Spain, 2011.
• Duration: 94 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,7.

It seems Woody Allen time machine hidden away in the garage. How else to explain such an authentic French atmosphere of the 20s in his film?

Romantic writer every night went to Paris early last century. There he meets with Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and other well-known personalities. Under their influence, the hero understands himself and realizes what he really wants.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

15. Miss Pettigrew

• Romance, comedy.
• United Kingdom, United States, 2008.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,1.

after another dismissal wayward Guinevere Pettigrew does not know where to go. Its recruiters refuses to help with your job search. Then, on this occasion, Guinevere arranged a maid to the eccentric actress. Over time, they become friends, and Miss Pettigrew raised to the Secretary. From that moment on, her life changes for the better.

16. Brooklyn

• Drama, Romance.
• UK, Canada, Ireland, Belgium, 2015.
• Duration: 117 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

The picture about the plight of immigrant from Ireland. Eylish Lacy comes into Brooklyn. Ceasing homesick, she begins to breathe and falls. However, the bad news from home forced her to return to Ireland. There Eylish falls again and faces a difficult selection.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

17. form of water

• Fantasy, Drama.
• United States, 2017.
• Duration: 123 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,6.

Movies Guillermo del Toro like the children's fairy tales: excite the imagination and make a break from the routine. Probably because the director deep down and has remained a child. Oscar-winning "Water Form" tells the touching story of a man-amphibian and dumb cleaners.

Jimmy Kimmel during the award ceremony joked: "The men in this year as a blunder, that the girls began to meet with the fishes." On the background recent scandals, Shocked the whole world, the importance of this can not be overestimated.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

18. Catch Me If You Can

• Drama, Biography.
• USA, Canada, 2002.
• Duration: 141 min.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Talented swindler Frank Ebegneyl ran away from home in search of a better life. He had time to visit and the doctor, and the pilot and lawyer, learned to skillfully forge checks and make a fortune. But sooner or later he will have to answer for everything.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

19. Carol

• Drama, Romance.
• UK, USA, Australia, 2014.
• Duration: 118 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,2.

Two talented actresses in Hollywood will tell the tragic love story in a refined atmosphere of New York '50s. Therese and Carol is a sense that they have to hide from the public.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

20. Water for Elephants!

• Drama, Romance.
• United States, 2011.
• Duration: 116 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,9.

When parents die, Jacob throws the last year of university and joins a traveling circus. Together with all he has to live in difficult conditions, because the circus was not the most popular pastime in those years. These problems arise when a guy falls in love with Marlena rider - Woman show host.

View in Google Play →
View in iTunes →

see also

• 11 books that read heroes of popular movies and TV series →
• 20 documentaries for expanding horizons →
• 10 worthy films that claim to "Oscar", but did not get it →