We asked Shaumbra to share their favorite movies and ended up with nearly 350 movie titles! Obviously we haven’t seen all of them, but every single movie listed below (and online) has been watched and loved by Shaumbra somewhere in the world.
We hope you enjoy this great combination of comedy, action, inspiration and more!
Below is just a sampling. See the full list of Shaumbra recommended movies here.
Note: Titles are linked to movie trailers or more info where possible. If a title is not linked, that means
there are multiple versions or editions, and you’ll have to explore them for yourself.
Movies Recommend by Shaumbra
3001 The Final
Odyssey
9
The 13th Floor
(A)Sexual
The Adventures
of Mark Twain (claymation)
Æon Flux
About
Time
After Earth
After.Life
The Age of Adeline
Agora
Alice in Wonderland
A Little Chaos
Amadeus
Amélie ("Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" -
French)
American Beauty
Among
Us (Anglavakt - Sweden)
Angel-A (French)
Animal House
Another
Earth
The Answer Man (Arlen Faber - French)
The
Appeared (Aparecidos - Argentine)
Apocalypto
Artesanos -
Ein Film über das Leben (2012)
As it is in Heaven (Så som i himmelen - Sweden)
Astral City:
A Spiritual Journey (Nosso Lar - Brasil)
August Rush
Awake In The Dream (2013 - aka "Awake - Ein Reiseführer ins
Erwachen")
The Awakening
Avatar
Babe
Babies
(aka "Bébé(s)" - 2010 documentary)
Battlestar Galactica (movie 1978, TV series 1978, 2003, 2004)
Beautiful
Creatures (2000, 2013)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Before Sunrise (part 1) / Before Sunset (part 2) / Before Midnight (part 3)
Being John Malkovich
Being
There
La belle verte (1996 - French) - aka The Green
Beautiful (EN) / Turista Espacial (BR) / Besuch vom andern Stern (DE) / Der grüne Planet - Besuch aus dem All (DE) /
Planeta libre (ES) / Il pianeta verde (IT) / Zielona pieknosc (PL) / Прекрасная зеленая (RU)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Best of
Youth ("La meglio gioventù" - Italian)
Beyond the Heavens (2013 - aka Jenseits des
Himmels)
Bicentennial Man
Big
Big Fish (2003)
Black
Mirror (documentary series)
Black Swan (2010)
Bless Me, Ultima
Border
Café (aka Café Transit - 2005 - Iranian)
Box of Moonlight
Branded (2012)
Bridge to Terabithia
Brother Sun,
Sister Moon ("Fratello sole, sorella luna" - Italian)
The Bucket List
Burn After Reading
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Café de
Flore (French- Canadian)
The Castle (1968, 1997, 1997)
Celestine Prophecy
Chappie
(2015)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chef
(2014)
Childhood’s End (TV mini series)
Chocolat
City of Angels
Circle of
Iron (1978 - aka "The Silent Flute")
Cloud Atlas
Cocoon
The
Color of Paradise (Rang-e khoda - Iran)
The Compass (2009 documentary)
The
Concert ("Le concert" - French)
Contact
Conversations with God
The Croods
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Dances with Wolves
The Danish Girl
The Darjeeling Limited
The Dark Crystal
Dave (1993)
Da Vinci's
Demons (2013 TV series)
Defending Your Life
Divergent
Doctor Who
(TV series 1963 - now)
Dogma
Dragonfly
(2002)
DreamWorks Pictures films
Drop Dead
Diva (2009 - 2014 TV series)
Dune (1984)
E a Vida
Continua... (2012 - Brasilian)
Edge of Tomorrow
Edward Scissorhands
Elizabethtown
Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Eve (2015+
TV series)
Fanny
and Alexander (1982 - Fanny och Alexander - Sweden)
Faraway, So Close!
Fatima (Turkey)
The Favour, The Watch, and a Very Big Fish
The
Fifth Element
Fight Club
Finding
Neverland
Der Film deines Lebens (2011 - German)
The
Fisher King
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (TV movie)
Flatliners (1990)
Der
Flügelschlag Gottes (German only)
Forrest Gump
The
Fountain (2006)
Frequency (2000)
The Gamer (2013, The Game 1997, or Gamer 2009)
Gattaca
Ghost
(1990)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947 movie, 1968 TV Series)
Ghost in the Shell (anime, movies, TV series and video game -
Japan)
The
Gods Must Be Crazy
The Golden Compass
The
Goonies
Grand Canyon (1991)
The
Green Mile
The Green Planet ("Das grüne Wunder - Unser Wald" / 2012
German documentary)
Groundhog Day
Harry
Potter (film series)
Hector and the Search For Happiness
Hereafter
(2010)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Her
(2013)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
The Hobbit Trilogy
The
Holiday (2006)
The Host (aka "Seelen")
The
House of the Spirits (1993)
Howl's Moving Castle ("Hauru no ugoku shiro" -
Japanese)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
How to Train
Your Dragon 2 (2014)
How to Write a Screenplay (That Rocks!) (2013)
Hugo
The
Hundred-Foot Journey (aka "Les recettes du bonheur")
I Am (2010
documentary)
I Heart Huckabees
The Imitation
Game
Inception
The Inhabited
Island Prt 1 (2009 - Russian) aka Обитаемый остров (RU), Prisioneiros do poder (BR), Dark Planet - Prisoners
of Power (DE), Prisoners of Power (FR), Dark Planet (UK), Lakott sziget (HU), Przenicowany swiat (PL), Naseljeno
ostrvo 1 (RS)
The Inhabited
Island Prt 2 (2009 - Russian) aka Обитаемый остров. Схватка (RU), Dark Planet - Rebellion (DE), Prisoners of
Power: Battlestar Rebellion (FR), Lakott sziget 2. - Az összecsapás (HU), Przenicowany swiat: Starcie (PL),
Naseljeno ostrvo 2: Odmazda (RS)
Ink (2009)
Inside Out
(2015)
Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002)
Interstellar
Into
the Wild
Into the Woods (2014)
The
Intouchables ("Intouchables" - French)
Invention of Lying
I Origins
(2014)
I Robot
Jonathan
Livingston Seagull
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988 TV
mini-series)
Joshua (2002)
Juliet of the
Spirits (1965 - Giulietta degli spiriti / Italian)
Jupiter
Ascending
Kahlil
Gibran's The Prophet (2014)
Kate & Leopold
The Kid
(2000)
The King’s Speech
Knockin' on
Heaven's Door (1997 - German)
K-Pax
Kumaré
(2011 documentary)
Kung Fu Panda (2008) / Kung Fu Panda
2 (2011) / Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Lady
in the Water
Larry Crowne
The Last
Airbender (2010)
The Last Mimzy
The
Last Unicorn (1982)
Learning to Drive
The Leftovers
(2014+ / TV series)
The Legend of Bagger Vance
The
Legend of Korra (2012-'14 TV series)
Legend of the Seeker (2008 TV series)
The
Librarians (2014 TV series)
Life Is Beautiful ("La vita è bella" - Italian)
Life of
Brian (1979)
Life of Pi
Life or
Something Like It
Like Water for Chocolate ("Como agua para chocolate" -
Mexican)
Limitless (2011)
Limitless
(2015+ TV series)
Little Buddha (1993)
The Little
Prince (2015)
Looper
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Lost Horizon
(1937)
Lost in Austin
Love Actually
The Lovely
Bones (2009)
Lucy (2014)
Madagascar
(2005)
Made in Dagenham
The Magic of
Belle Isle
Maleficent (2014)
Mamma Mia
(2008)
Marco Polo (TV series)
Mary and
Max
Mary Poppins (1964)
Masters of
Peace (documentary)
The Matrix Trilogy
McFarland,
USA
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Meet Joe
Black
Men in Black
Merlin
(2008–2012 / TV series)
Michael (1996)
Midnight in
Paris (2011)
Miss Potter (2006)
Мой парень –
ангел (aka "Prietenul meu, îngerul") (2012 - Russian)
The Moses
Code
Mozart in the Jungle (2014+ TV series)
Mr.
Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Mr. Miracle (2014 TV movie)
Mr. Nobody
(2009)
Mr. Robot (2015 TV series)
The
Mists of Avalon (2001 TV mini-series)
Mumford
Mustang
(2015 - Turkey)
My Dinner With Andre
My Name is
Khan (2010)
Nanny
McPhee
The Chronicles of Narnia
The
NeverEnding Story (1984 - "Die unendliche Geschichte")
No
Reservations
The Notebook (2004)
No Way Out
Now You See Me
(2013)
OMG:
Oh My God (2012 - India/Hindi)
Once Upon a Time (2011+ TV series)
Once Were
Warriors
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
On the Town
Outlander
(2014+ TV series)
Out on a Limb (1987 - TV mini-series)
Pan's
Labyrinth ("El laberinto del fauno" - Spanish)
Pay it
Forward
Peaceful Warrior
Perfect
Sense
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Phantom
of the Opera (2004)
Pixar films
PK
(peekay - India/Hindi)
PleasanTVille
Powder
(1995)
Predestination (2014)
The
Prestige
Pride
Princess Bride
Princess
Mononoke ("Mononoke-hime" - Japanese)
Print the Legend (2014 documentary)
The Prophet (2011 documentary)
The Prophet
(2014)
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rashomon
(1950 - Japanese)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
The Razor’s
Edge (1984)
Resurrection
(R)evolution (2001 animated short)
Revolver
Rise of the
Guardians
River
Salmon Fishing
in the Yemen
Samsara (2011 documentary)
Secondhand Lions
A
Separation (aka "Jodaeiye Nader az Simin" - Iran 2011)
Sense8
(2015+ TV series)
The Shadow Effect (2009 documentary)
The Shannara
Chronicles (2016 TV series)
The Shawshank Redemption
Sick Birds Die
Easy (2013 documentary)
The Shift (2009 - aka "Ambition to Meaning: Finding Your
Life's Purpose")
The Signal (2014)
The Singing
Detective (1986 - TV mini-series)
Simply Irresistible
The
Sixth Sense
Sliding Doors
Snow in
August (2001 TV movie)
Solaris (2002)
The Soloist
(2009)
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Spirited Away ("Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi" -
Japanese)
Stardust (2007)
Stargate
Atlantis (2004 TV series)
Starman
Star
Trek
Star Wars
The Straight
Story (1999)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Surrogates
(2009)
Tales from
Earthsea ("Gedo senki" - Japanese. Also known as Приказки от Землемория (BG), Contos de Terramar (BR/PT),
Die Chroniken von Erdsee (DE), Legenden om Jordhavet (DK), Cuentos de Terramar (ES/MX), Maameren tarinoita (FI), Les
contes de Terremer (FR), Földtenger varázslója (HU), I racconti di Terramare (IT), Opowiesci z ziemiomorza (PL),
Сказания Земноморья (RU), Legender från Övärlden (SE), Yerdeniz öyküleri (TR)
Temple
Grandin (2010 TV movie)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Thomas Crown
Affair
Three Idiots (US/India)
Thrive
(2011 documentary)
Tideland
Tomorrowland (A World Beyond)
Torch
Song Trilogy
Touch (2012-'13 TV series)
Transcendence
Transformers:
Age of Extinction (2014)
Tron (1982)
Truly Madly
Deeply (1990 TV episode)
The Truman Show
Tuesdays with
Morrie (1999 TV movie)
Tuning In (2008 documentary)
Under the
Tuscan Sun
United States of Tara (2009-11 TV series)
Upside Down
(2012)
Vanilla
Sky
Victor Victoria
Waking Life
Walt Disney Pictures
Wings of
Desire (aka "Der Himmel über Berlin")
Witches of East End (2013 TV series)
Waking
Ned Devine
The Way
Whale
Rider
What Dreams May Come
What the
Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (2006 documentary)
Where the Heart Is
Wide
Awake (1998)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Willow
The
Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Wreck-It
Ralph
The
X-Files (1993-2002 TV series)
Yes
Man
You Can’t Take it With You
The Zohar
Secret (2015) - aka The Scroll, Das Geheimnis des Sohar (DE), El Secreto del Zohar (ES), Le Secret du Zohar
(FR), Секрет Зоар (RU) (Russian)