Apart from being extremely pressurizing on the mental health front, 2020 gave me a lot of time to explore a variety of films. Here is a list of 75 films that I enjoyed watching (for the first time) in 2020 and few TV shows that I enjoyed bingeing.
Hoping this year to be an even better year for films, music and art in general. Wishing you all a Happy 2021!✨
Movies (in no particular order) :
1. The Farewell | 2019 - English/Mandarin | Lulu Wang
2. The lighthouse | 2019 - English | Robert Eggers
3. 1917 | 2019 - English | Sam Mendes
4. Kolaikaaran | 2019 - Tamil | Andrew Louis
5. June | 2019 - Malayalam | Ahammed Khabeer
6. Little women | 2019 - English | Greta Gerwig
7. Ayyappanum Koshiyum | 2020 - Malayalam | Sachy
8. The Handmaiden | 2016 - Korean, Japanese | Park Chan-wook
9. Varane Avashyamund | 2020 - Malayalam | Anoop Sathyan
10. Babel | 2006 - English & many others | Alejandro González Iñárritu
11. Paprika | 2006 - Japanese | Satoshi Kon
12. Trance | 2020 - Malayalam | Anwar Rasheed
13. Locke | 2013 - English | Steven Knight
14. Snowpiercer | 2013 - English | Bong Joon-ho
15. The platform | 2019 - Spanish | Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
16. Capernaum | 2018 - Arabic | Nadine Labaki
17. Jaanu | 2020 - Telugu | C. Prem Kumar
18. Battle of Algiers | 1966 - Arabic,French | Gillo Pontecorvo
19. Raja Vaaru Rani Gaaru | 2019 - Telugu | Ravi Kiran Kola
20. Paris, Texas | 1984 - English | Wim Wenders
21. Sex, lies and videotape | 1989 - English | Steven Soderbergh
22. The circle | 2000 - Persian | Jafar Panahi
23. Amen | 2013 - Malayalam | Lijo Jose Pellissery
24. Blackkansman | 2018 - English | Spike Lee
25. Ozhivu Divasathu Kali | 2015 - Malayalam | Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
26. Where is the friend's home? | 1987 - Persian | Abbas Kiarostami
27. Cold war | 2018 - Polish, French | Paweł Pawlikowski
28. Titli | 2014 - Hindi | Kanu Behl
29. City Lights | 1931 - Silent/English | Charlie Chaplin
30. Magnolia | 1999 - English | Paul Thomas Anderson
31. Modern times | 1936 - Silent/English | Charlie Chaplin
32. Eeb Allay Ooo | 2019 - Hindi | Prateek Vats
33. Battleship Potemkin | 1925 - Silent/Russian | Sergei Eisenstein
34. Nasir | 2020 - Tamil | Arun Karthik
35. Close up | 1990 - Persian | Abbas Kiarostami
36. Children of Heaven | 1997 - Persian | Majid Majidi
37. Malcolm X | 1992 - English | Spike Lee
38. Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu | 2016 - Kannada | Hemanth M Rao
39. About Elly | 2009 - Persian | Asghar Farhadi
40. Ulidavaru Kandanthe | 2014 - Kannada | Rakskhit Shetty
41. Pain and glory | 2019 - Spanish | Pedro Almodóvar
42. Polytechnique | 2009 - French,English | Denis Villeneuve
43. Happy together | 1997 - Cantonese & many more | Wong Kar-wai
44. Blue valentine | 2010 - English | Derek Cianfrance
45. Do the right thing | 1989 - English | Spike Lee
46. Nila | 2016 - Tamil | Selvamani Selvaraj
47. Cinema Paradiso | 1988 - Italian | Giuseppe Tornatore
48. Nathicharami | 2018 - Kannada | Mansore
49. Frances Ha | 2012 - English | Noah Baumbach
50. 2046 | 2004 - Cantonese & many more | Wong Kar-wai
51. Dollars Trilogy | 1964,1965,1966 - Italian | Sergio Leone
52. Punch drunk love | 2002 - English | Paul Thomas Anderson
53. As tears go by | 1988 - Cantonese | Wong Kar-wai
54. Ship of Theseus | 2012 - English, Hindi & many more | Anand Gandhi
55. Uma Mageshwara Ugra Roopasya | 2020 - Telugu | Venkatesh Maha
56. Haevnen (In a better world) | 2010 - Danish | Susanne Bier
57. Peppermint candy | 1999 - Korean | Lee Chang-dong
58. Munnariyippu | 2014 - Malayalam | Venu
59. C u soon | 2020 - Malayalam | Mahesh Narayanan
60. Tumbbad | 2018 - Hindi | Rahi Anil Barve
61. Maqbool | 2004 - Hindi | Vishal Bharadwaj
62. Back to the future Trilogy | 1985,1989,1990 - English | Robert Zemeckis
63. Raiders of the lost Ark | 1981 - English | Steven Spielberg
64. Middle class melodies | 2020 - Telugu | Vinod Anantoju
65. Chaalaang | 2020 - Hindi | Hansal Mehta
66. Tenet | 2020 - English | Christopher Nolan
67. Server Sundaram | 1964 - Tamil | Krishnan–Panju
68. Celluloid man | 2012 - English | Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
69. Revelations | 2016 - Tamil | Vijay Jayapal
70. Unpaused | 2020 - Hindi | Raj & DK, Nikkhil Advani, Avinash Arun & 2 more
71. Incendies | 2010 - French, Arabic | Denis Villeneuve
72. So long, My son | 2019 - Mandarin | Wang Xiaoshuai
73. AK vs AK | 2020 - Hindi | Vikramaditya Motwane
74. Oru Pakka Kadhai | 2020 - Tamil | Balaji Tharaneetharan
75. Soul | 2020 - English | Pete Docter
TV shows:
1. Bojack Horseman | 2014-2020 - English | Raphael Bob-Waksberg
2. Fleabag | 2016-2019 - Engligh | Phoebe Waller-Bridge
3. Paatal lok | 2020 - Hindi | Sudip Sharma
4. The Family Man | 2019-present - Hindi | Raj & D.K.
5. Scam 1992 | 2020 - Hindi | Hansal Mehta, Jai Mehta
Comments