Films I Saw in 2019

For the past three years, I have shared with you a list of all the films I saw throughout 2016, 2017 and 2018, so I thought I would continue the «tradition» and do it again in 2019. This list includes both classic and «modern» films, which make up a total of 104 titles. It is not nearly as many films as I have seen in previous years, but I think it is still a fairly decent amount. As always, films marked with a heart (❤) are my favorites.

Children of Divorce (1927) | Starring Clara Bow, Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper
It (1927) | Starring Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin and Priscilla Bonner
Wings (1927) | Starring Clara Bow, Charles «Buddy» Rogers and Richard Arlen
My Darling Clementine (1946) | Starring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature
Dollars (1971) | Starring Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe and Robert Webber
Mean Streets (1973) | Starring Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro and David Proval
The Lords of Flatbush (1974) | Starring Perry King, Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler
❤ Rocky (1976) | Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire and Burt Young
❤ The Goodbye Girl (1977) | Starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason
F.I.S.T. (1978) | Starring Sylvester Stallone, David Huffman, Rod Steiger and Peter Boyle
Paradise Alley (1978) | Starring Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante and Lee Canalito
❤ Rocky II (1979) | Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire and Burgess Meredith
Brubaker (1980) | Starring Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander and David Keith
On Golden Pond (1981) | Starring Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn and Jane Fonda
Rocky III (1982) | Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire and Burt Young
The Right Stuff (1983) | Starring Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris and Scott Glenn
Rocky IV (1985) | Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Carl Weathers
Platoon (1986) | Starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Keith David
❤ Au revoir les enfants (1987) | Starring Gaspard Manesse and Raphaël Fejtö
Hope and Glory (1987) | Starring Sebastian Rice-Edwards and Sarah Miles
❤ Maurice (1987) | Starring James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves and Denholm Elliot
Bright Lights, Big City (1988) | Starring Michael J. Fox and Kiefer Sutherland
The Accidental Tourist (1988) | Starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis
Europa Europa (1990) | Starring Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy and Hanns Zischler
Rocky V (1990) | Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Sage Stallone
Scent of a Woman (1992) | Starring Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell and James Rebhorn
Bent (1997) | Starring Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen and Brian Webber II
Aimée & Jaguar (1999) | Starring Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler andJohanna Wokalek
Conspiracy (2001) | Starring Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth and Ian McNeice
Dark Blue World [Tmavomodrý svět] (2001) | Starring Ondřej Vetchý and Kryštof Hádek
Strayed [Les égarés] (2003) | Starring Emmanuelle Béart and Gaspard Ulliel
A Woman in Berlin [Anonyma — Eine Frau in Berlin] (2006) | Starring Nina Hoss
Days of Glory [Indigènes] (2006) | Starring Jamel Debbouze and Sami Bouajila
Rocky Balboa (2006) | Starring Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young and Antonio Tarver
This Is England (2006) | Starring Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham and Joseph Gilgun
❤ Lust, Caution [色，戒] (2007) | Starring Tang Wei, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Joan Chen
Flame & Citron [Flammen & Citronen] (2008) | Starring Thure Lindhardt
Max Manus: Man of War (2008) | Starring Aksel Hennie and Agnes Kittelsen
The Army of Crime [L'Armée du crime] (2009) | Starring Simon Abkarian
First Light (2010 | Starring Sam Heughan, Gary Lewis, Ben Aldridge and Alex Robertson
Sarah's Key (2010) | Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance and Frédéric Pierrot
❤ The Round Up [La rafle] (2010) | Starring Mélanie Laurent and Jean Reno
North Sea Texas [Noordzee, Texas] (2011) | Starring Jelle Florizoone
Kon-Tiki (2012) | Starring Pål Sverre Hagen and Anders Baamo Christiansen
Red Tails (2012) | Starring Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Nate Parker
Snowpiercer (2013) | Starring Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Ed Harris and John Hurt
A War [Krigen] (2014) | Starring Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny and Søren Malling
God Help the Girl (2014) | Starring Emily Browning, Olly Alexander and Hannah Murray
Jimmy's Hall (2014) | Starring Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim Norton and Denise Gough
Son of a Gun (2014) | Starring Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites and Alicia Vikander
Walking with the Enemy (2014) | Starring Jonas Armstrong and Ben Kingsley
Warsaw 44 [Miasto 44] (2014) | Starring Józef Pawłowski and Zofia Wichłacz
1944 (2015) | Starring Kaspar Velberg, Kristjan Üksküla and Maiken Schmidt
Silence (2016) | Starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson
❤ The Finest Hours (2016) | Starring Chris Pine, Casey Affleck and Holliday Grainger
The King's Choice [Kongens nei] (2016) | Starring Jesper Christenson
❤ A Moment in the Reeds (2017) | Starring Janne Puustinen and Boodi Kabbani
❤ BPM [120 battements par minute] (2017) | Starring Nahuel Perez Biscayart
Breathe (2017) | Starring Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy and Dean-Charles Chapman
❤ Gifted (2017) | Starring Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace and Lindsay Duncan
Hurricane (2017) | Starring Iwan Rheon, Milo Gibson, Stefanie Martini and Kryštof Hádek
The 12th Man [Den 12. mann] (2017) | Starring Thomas Gullestad
The Captain [Der Hauptmann] (2017) | Starring Max Hubacher and Milan Peschel
The Children Act (2017) | Starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci and Fionn Whitehead
❤ The Chinese Widow [烽火芳菲] (2017) | Starring Liu Yifei, Emile Hirsch & Li Fangcong
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) | Starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman
The Man with the Iron Heart (2017) | Starring Jason Clarke and Rosamund Pike
The Young Karl Marx [Le jeune Karl Marx] (2017) | Starring August Diehl
Ashes in the Snow (2018) | Starring Bel Powley, Lisa Loven Kongsli and Martin Wallstörm
At Eternity's Gate (2018) | Starring Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend and Oscar Isaac
❤ Beautiful Boy (2018) | Starring Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet and Jack Dylan Grazer
BlacKkKlansman (2018) | Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver and Laura Harrier
❤ Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) | Starring Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton and Gwilym Lee
❤ Boy Erased (2018) | Starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) | Starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant
❤ Christopher Robin (2018) | Starring Ewan McGregor and Hayley Atwell
Consequences [Posledice] (2018) | Starring Matej Zemljic and Timon Sturbej
Creed II (2018) | Starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone and Tessa Thompson
First Man (2018) | Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke and Kyle Chandler
❤ Green Book (2018) | Starring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali and Linda Cardellini
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) | Starring KiKi Layne, Stephan James and Regina King
❤ Juliet, Naked (2018) | Starring Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke and Chris O'Dowd
❤ Just Friends [Gewoon Vrienden] (2018) | Starring Josha Stradowski and Majd Mardo
Land of Hope [Oma maa] (2018) | Starring Oona Airola and Konsta Laakso
Mary Queen of Scots (2018) | Starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie and Guy Pearce
❤ Never Look Away [Werk ohne Author] (2018) | Starring Tom Schilling
Operation Finale (2018) | Starring Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Mélanie Laurent and Lior Raz
Roma (2018) | Starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira and Jorge Antonio Guerrero
Sorry to Bother You (2018) | Starring Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson
The Favourite (2018) | Starring Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone & Nicholas Hoult
The Old Man & the Gun (2018) | Starring Robert Redford, Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek
The Wife (2018) | Starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater and Max Irons
Vice (2018) | Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell, Steve Carell & Alison Pill
❤ Where Hands Touch (2018) | Starring Amandla Stenberg and George MacKay
❤ Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Starring Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans
Downton Abbey (2019) | Starring Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery and Allen Leech
Joker (2019) | Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz and Frances Conroy
Lancaster Skies (2019) | Starring Jeffrey Mundell, David Dobson and Kris Saddler
❤ Marriage Story (2019) | Starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver and Laura Dern
❤ Rocketman (2019) | Starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell and Richard Madden
❤ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) | Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt
The Aftermath (2019) | Starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård and Jason Clarke
The Irishman (2019) | Starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Ray Romano
The Messenger [Kurier] (2019) | Starring Philippe Tlokiński and Julie Engelbrech
The King (2019) | Starring Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton and Robert Pattinson

STATISTICS:

Black & White: 6 films | Tinted: 0 films | Color: 98 films

Silent: 3 films | Sound: 101 films

Actors I saw the most films with: Sylvester Stallone (10), Tony Burton (6), Burgess Meredith (5), Stephen Graham (4), Chris Evans (3), Al Pacino (3), Jason Clarke (3), Joe Alwyn (3).

Actresses I saw the most films with: Talia Shire (5), Clara Bow (3).

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