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You have access to a great movie library. Now and then you get time to watch a movie. But, you are not sure what to watch! There is a website to your rescue. (more…)

Genre: Drama; Country: Iran; Language: Greek, Persian, Turkish; Runtime: 105 min
Also Known As: Border Café in English
Trivia: Selected as Iran’s submission in the Best Foreign Film category for the 2006 Oscars
Directed by: Kambuzia Partovi

Story of an Iranian widow’s struggle to exercise the fundamental right of living with freedom the life of her choice. Reyhan with her two children, how she fights the male dominated society is the heart of the story.

Nasser the brother of her deceased husband wishes to marry Reyhan. Taking Iran’s tradition as the main weapon and with the support of his family, applies pressure on her to be his wife. Reyhan chooses to decline the marriage offer softly but stubbornly without much of a hue and cry. (more…)

Following is a ranked list of the top 50 best English movie I have seen. A huge collection of movie is available at the website http://www.imdb.com/ . It is the largest free online movie database in the world. You can search and view film summary, cast, review and more.

Rank Title Year Director
1 Life Is Beautiful (1997 Roberto Benigni )
2 The Godfather (1972 Francis Ford Coppola )
3 The English Patient (1996 Anthony Minghella )
4 Million Dollar Baby (2004 Clint Eastwood)
5 The Bicycle Thief (1949 Vittorio De Sica )
6 The Sound Of Music (1965 Robert Wise )
7 Schindler’s List (1993 Steven Spielberg
8 Goodfellas (1990 Martin Scorsese )
9 The Godfather: Part II (1974 Francis Ford Coppola )
10 The Shawshank Redemption (1994 Frank Darabont )
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This is not a review about the cinema Hotel Rwanda, it is about Paul Rusesabagina (Oskar Schindler of Rwanda) and also about how a cinema can influence and bring changes.

The world needed a Schindler’s List from Steven Speilberg to know about the german industrialist Oskar Schindler and the way he saved as many as 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust. Similarly, Hotel Rwanda is about one hotel assistant manager Paul Rusesabagina, who later became a hero by sheltering approximately 1200 Tutsis and moderate Hutus from being slaughtered by the Interahamwe militia.
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