Sky’s Ultimate Movie List

Just me trying to remember the movies I watched and what I learned or was inspired from them.I started listing these since 2021.

Inspiring

• My Octopus Teacher
  • A nature filmmaker forms a remarkable bond with a wild octopus in a South African kelp forest.
     It’s a deeply moving, meditative story about rediscovering wonder through an unexpected friendship.
• Notes for my son
  • Bertuccelli plays the terminal cancer mother who keeps a notebook of advice for her young son.
• Thirty-Nine
  • Three best friends navigate love, death, and life as they approach 40.
• CODA (2021)
  • Child Of Deaf Adult – A hearing teenage girl in a Deaf family discovers her gift for singing.
    Uplifting and award-winning, it celebrates finding your voice—literally and metaphorically.
    Featuring a cast with real Deaf actors, the film’s authenticity and emotional depth are powerfully enhanced.
• Frieren Beyond Journey’s End
  • An elf mage reflects on the meaning of life after her hero’s party completes their quest.
    A fantasy unlike any other—subtle, poetic, and emotionally profound.
• The Last Dance(2024)
  • The Last Dance is a Hong Kong film that unexpectedly delivers emotional and cultural depth. It follows Dominic, a struggling wedding planner who inherits a funeral parlour and, through clashes with a traditional Taoist priest, discovers that funerals aren’t just for the dead — they’re for the living. As he navigates grief, tradition, and personal growth, the film reminds us: knowing death is certain doesn’t lessen life — it makes it more meaningful.
• Cloud (Disney+)
  • Based on the real-life story of Zach Sobiech, a teen whose music went viral while battling cancer.
• Violet evergarden (anime)
  •  After the war, a former child soldier becomes a ghostwriter, helping others put their deepest feelings into words. Healing takes time, especially when you’ve never been taught how to feel. As Violet writes letters for others, she gradually uncovers her own humanity and learns to understand and express her emotions.
• Hospital+ playlist
  • Five doctor friends balance the demands of hospital life with friendship and their shared love for music. Slice-of-life at its best—gentle, funny, emotional, and incredibly human.

Tear Jerk

• I am Sam
• When life gives you Tangerines
• The Blind side
• Okja

Religion journey

• We were soldiers – this phrase in the movie started it all (” I don’t care in what name you call god”)
• Book of Eli (religion can be misused to control people)
• The Good Place – What is good?
• Lucifer – An interesting look at god and its angels
• Arrival
  • language – messages can be lost in translation – like the Quran which are a more poetic language than a precise language, Some words have different meaning in different context like the word weapon or tool in the movie and words can also have different meaning in different times

Talk about death openly

(blog post)
Won’t you be my neighbour(Mr.rogers )

KPOP Must watch

• Extraordinary Attorney Woo
• Record of youth
• Descendants of the sun
• Vinzenzo
• Hometown cha-cha-cha
• Itaewon class
• All Playlist series – Start with Hospital Playlist

++Anime1
Ingenuity of the househusband( 1 short anime – unique )

++ENGLISH

• The Diplomat
• Madam secretary
• The Newsroom 2012

++Visual stunning

• Altered carbon
• Tenki no kono
• Your name (kimi no nawa)
• Godzilla king of monsters 2019
• Godzilla planet of the monsters
• Love Death Robots ( unique short)
• Black Mirror
• Queens gambit

GHIBLI & Disney

I love all ghibil and disney works

Top 10

1. Princess Monoke
2. Howl’s Moving Castle
3. Totoro
4. Castle in the Sky
5. The Cat Returns
6. Spirited Away
7. Wind Rises
8. Arriety
9. Kiki
10. When Marnie was there

except grave of butterflies only animated by them – too dark for my taste

Thai

• Friend Zone
• Fast & Feel Love
• How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
• Love Destiny
• Diary tootsie
• Ghost Lab
• Low season
• Brother of the year
• A Gift
• Shutter
• Ong bak
• SuckSeed

Anime Chinese (CN/HK/TW)

• Over the Moon
• NeZha
• Begonia
• Green Snake

Movie Chinese

• Her story (好东西)
• YOLO
• The Last Dance

Worth remembering

• Her
• Dr.stone
• Taken
• The cat returns
• A whisker away
• The garden of words
• 5 centimeters per second
• Train to busan
• Peaky blinders
• La casa de papel (money heist)
• The good doctor
• Wish dragon (China alladin)
• The movies that made us
• Marvel
• Matrix
• Man on fire
• Salt
• Mr and Mrs Smith
• My girl
• Home alone
• Back to the future
• Ghost busters
• Forest of piano
• Witch at court
• W
• A korean odyssey
• Guardian
• Kono oto Tomare( Japanese instrument)
• Jurassic Park
• Forest Gump
• Waterworld
• Ultraman
• Chappie
• Transformers
• Shutter
• Van helping
• Dracula untold
• In time
• Edge of tomorrow
• I am mother
• I am legend
• Elysium
• Death note
• Demon slayer
• over the moon
• Erin Brockovich