10 must-see films

The condemned: According to the film database “IMDb” the best film of all time with an average rating of 9.3. This classic from 1994 is about banker Andy Dufresne, who is infamous for the murder of his wife and her lover “Shawshank”-Go to prison. The punishment is life imprisonment. Behind bars, Dufresne tries to come to terms with his new life.

Lion King: The story of Simba searching for his place in the circle of life after the death of his father Mufasa is well known. In terms of box office revenue, it is the world’s most commercially successful classic animated film to date.

The Godfather: The 1972 mafia film by Francis Ford Coppola is about mafia boss Vito Corleone and his family. The film is considered an absolute masterpiece, the sequels The Godfather – Part II and The Godfather III continue to tell the story.

Forrest Gump: Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), who has a low intelligence quotient, clumsily stumbles through the most important events in US history. In his search for great happiness, he invents, among other things, jogging and makes a career as an entrepreneur.

Schinder’s list: The film by Steven Spielberg is a mixture of biography and historical film against the backdrop of the Holocaust and tells how the German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler, a NSDAP member, specifically employed around 1,100 Jews in his factories to protect them from deportation and murder in the extermination camp To preserve Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

The Dark Knight: The second part of Christoper Nolan’s Batman trilogy is in “IMDb”-Ranking at number 3. In this part, Batman, Lieutenant Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent join forces to fight together against the “joker” to proceed. Heath Ledger was posthumously awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2009 for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the Joker.

American Beauty: This classic from 1999 is about the story of a middle-aged man who comes from the afterlife to tell the story of his “stupid little life” told.

American History X: A reformed neo-Nazi tries to protect his younger brother from following the same path as himself. The film is often shown in schools as an educational topic of right-wing extremism and racism.

Life is Beautiful: The tragic-comedy is about a Jewish Italian bookseller who uses his imagination to protect his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

Interstellar: The science fiction film by Christopher Nolan tells the story of farmer Cooper, who flies through a wormhole with astronauts to search for another habitable planet because Earth turns out to be a hostile planet in the future. But to do this, Cooper has to leave his family behind.