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It’s no secret that most of us have not lived with stereotypes for a long time and know that ideal men are found exclusively in fairy tales and melodramas.
In real life, the representatives of the stronger sex are full of shortcomings – they can be both stubborn and irritable, too dreamy or too mercantile. However, this does not prevent women from loving them as they are.
In world cinema, more than once, directors undertook in their films to reveal the deep inner world of men, along with all their contradictions, virtues and aspirations.
We present 10 films about real male characters.
10 Peaceful warrior | 2006
To Dan Millman, everything in this life comes too easy. Everyone predicts a successful sports career for him: he is a very talented gymnast who has every chance to go to the Olympic Games.
But instead of exhausting workouts, Dan is having fun with his friends. He hangs out at parties and drives at high speed through the city at night. But everything changes in an instant: the guy is seriously injured, and now all his dreams seem blurred to him.
Together with his new friend, the mysterious Socrates, Millman will have to start all over again, but this time I will no longer waste time on stupid entertainment, but realistically assessing the surrounding reality and my place in it …
9. Knocking on the sky | 1997
Cool car, a million in the trunk and only one week for everything about everything … Martin and Rudy find out that they are dying and they have only a few days to live.
Finding out that Rudy has never seen the sea in his life, Martin decides to fulfill his dream in any way. Under the intoxicating effect of tequila, new friends, right in hospital gowns, steal a collection car belonging to a well-known mafia in the district, in the glove compartment of which there is a gun, and in the trunk – 1 million dollars.
Having raided a gas station and a bank along the way, two desperate men, pursued by both bandits and law enforcement officers, go towards their cherished dream…
8. City of God | 2002
The picture covers the events that took place within thirty years in the so-called “City of God” – a slum in Rio de Janeiro.
In the center of the plot are two heroes – a guy nicknamed “Rocket”, balancing between his conscience and a penchant for petty offenses, and his friend Dadinho, who has been on the path of crime since childhood …
7. Schindler’s List | 1993
The film is based on the true story of a man named Oskar Schindler. He was a member of the Nazi Party and a rather successful manufacturer who saved thousands of Jewish lives during the Second World War, doomed by the Nazis to death.
This is a hymn to the victory of good over evil, a man over the system, who did not want to become a cog in the terrible Nazi death machine…
6. Brother | 1997
Danila Bagrov recently retired from the army after serving in Chechnya. The guy returns to his provincial town, where he grew up. Here the atmosphere is typical for the gloomy 90s: dirt, despondency and hopelessness. One day, not far from his house, he meets a group of TV people filming a video for the popular group Nautilus Pompilius.
An accidental oversight provokes a fight, due to which Danila ends up in the local police station. The mother, upset by such events, asks her son to go to St. Petersburg to his older brother, Victor, who, as they say, succeeded in business there …
5. Reservoir Dogs | 1992
This venture could be the perfect crime. Deciding to rob a jewelry store, mafia Joe Cabot brought together six seasoned and completely unfamiliar gangsters. But from the start, everything did not go as planned, because of this, an ordinary robbery turned into a bloody meat grinder …
4. Good, bad, evil | 1966
The film is set during the American Civil War. Three adventurers – Good, Evil and Bad – go in search of a valuable treasure. This cache is located on the territory of an abandoned cemetery in one of the graves.
However, each of the participants in this adventurous enterprise has only a part of the information that can help them become the owner of fabulous wealth. Therefore, they will have to pursue their goal together. Well, then – a matter of luck …
3. Cards, money, two barrels | 1998
A picture about the illegal business of gangsters of all stripes on British soil. Everyone in this system takes its place in the hierarchy: someone plays cards for large sums, someone is engaged in fraud, someone is engaged in robbery, and others are ready to put on all of the above …
2. Fight Club | 1999
Tormented by chronic insomnia and trying with all his might to escape from a deadly boring reality, the clerk meets a certain Tyler Durden, a charismatic and self-confident soap salesman with a twisted philosophy of life. Tyler believes that the creation of his personality is the lot of the weak, and self-destruction is the meaning of life for real men.
It won’t be long before these two guys are furiously hitting each other in the parking lot in front of the bar, and this cleansing fight is a real pleasure for them.
By introducing other males to the simple joys of physical cruelty, they organize a secret Fight Club, which in a short time becomes widely popular.
But at the end of the film, all the characters are waiting for an incredible discovery that can lead to the most unexpected consequences…
1. Die Hard | 1988
This film opened the world to a new star, who was destined to forever enter the history of world cinema and break millions of women’s hearts. Of course, we are talking about Bruce Willis.
John McClain lives in a New York City filled with a variety of criminal elements. He worked half his life at the local police station.
From early childhood, John stood up for justice and defended those who needed it. He had all the makings to be a model cop. And he succeeded! After all, only McLane can defeat the hordes of villains and save dozens of lives.