Below are films that are timeless and good enough to purchase for your library to watch again over the years, and to share with all your friends.

Bill Douglas, World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day Founder

ENLIGHTENMENT GUARANTEED - Two Strangers in a Strange Land

Two brothers from Germany, one a Feng Shui consultant, and his brother a type A non-meditating type . . . embark on an adventure for enlightenment . . .

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Schultze Gets the Blues

You know by now, if you've seen any of the movies I've recommended here that only special magical movies get billing here.

Schulze Gets the Blues, is a quintessential movie of this type. It is a subtle simple Haiku of a film. It reminds us that . . .

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THE GIRL IN THE CAFE - Life Can Bring Us to a Moment When We Can Be GREAT !

This may be the most brilliant film I've ever seen. It works on so many levels. It is hilarious at times, heart breakingly tender at others. It is about our individual struggles to be "true" to life . . .

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MY LIFE - Every Moment Counts

A high powered type A businessman is suddenly stopped in his tracks by a sharp turn of life.

This film is funny, heart breaking, heart warming and profound . . .

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SPRING FORWARD - Nothing in Common. Everything to Gain

You've probably never heard of this movie, and therefore not seen it. You have a real treat ahead of you.

This subtle, gentle movie is about two men discovering . . . .

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RORY O'SHEA WAS HERE

Brilliant! Rory O'Shea opens up a world for you when you watch this film, and then he takes you on a wild adventure to the core of human dignity and . . .

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BUTTERFLY - A Powerful tale of growing up in a country growing apart

An exquisite film from Spain, about a young boy and his grammer school teacher.

This film goes right to the heart of humanity, and is about . . .

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IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN) - A profound evolution of a man and his meantor

A beautiful film from Italy, about a young man unable to communicate his love for a young woman . . . until through his postal delivery route in a gorgeous seaside village in Italy, he meets a world renowned poet . . .

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PHENOMENON

This is one of the most well made and richly developed films I have ever had the pleasure to watch. Not one second is wasted, each seen pours lessons for humanity across the viewer's eyes, ears, and heart.

John Travolta's character suddenly is blessed "or cursed" by an ability to . . .

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GREEN FINGERS - Imagine the "Full Monty" in full bloom.

This is an excellant film based on a true story of prison convicts in England becoming part of an experimental program to make gardeners out of them.

Given that gardening is a national obsession in England this film has a fun and very British quality. However, beyond that . . .

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THE JOY LUCK CLUB - An Oliver Stone Production, from a book by Amy Tan.

One of the most beautiful films ever made, about so many levels of humanity.

Although "The Joy Luck Club" is about four Chinese mothers and their four American Chinese daughters, it is actually about all of us. It explores the disconnect between our . . .

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AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS - A stunning example of cinematic artistry.

God gave a gift to the world, and his name was Akira Kurosawa.

"Dreams" flows across the screen like the rich paint of a Van Gogh painting. Mr. Kurosawa opens his heart on many levels in the panoramic vision . . .

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THE DISH - Based on a true story.

This Australian film has the unusual quality of being hilarious and yet deeply profound.

"The Dish" is a hilarious look at how two English speaking cultures (Australia and America) can fail to communicate so miserably.

Yet, it also touches with a simple vulnerable humanity of . . .

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I AM SAM - Love is all you need.

This American film is a deeply moving experience.

"I am Sam" takes us on a journey between two worlds, the one of the learning disabled, and the one of the heart disabled (most of us moving too fast in an even faster world).

Sam (Sean Penn), the learning disabled star of this film is thrown into the world of a high powered Hollywood lawyer played by Michelle Pfeiffer. Their worlds collide . . .

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THE WAR - What's worth fighting for?

This American film is a heartwarming look at family, and a sobering look at war.

"The War" explores the disconnect between a man who's experienced war and his family back home who can never feel what he has experienced.

Yet, ultimately this film is about a man struggling to . . .

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CALENDAR GIRLS - Inspired by a True Story

A light hearted film out of the UK, based on a true story of some rebellious older women in a proper national women's club who break all the rules.

This film is filled with images of Tai Chi . . .

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ROSEWOOD - In 1923, a black town in Florida was burned to the ground

Based on a true story, this film is a somber look at how mob mentality and deception can destroy human beings.

"Rosewood" has much to tell modern America, and the world . . .

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RABBIT PROOF FENCE - Based on a True Story

This film brings to our modern eyes the inhumanity we can unleash on one another by buying into the delusion that we are "better" than some other race, or nation.

"Rabbit Proof Fence" is a courageous self examination by Australian film makers . . .

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THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

A testament to the human spirit. A line in the film states that freedom is something that exists in our hearts and minds and can never be taken away from us, unless we give it up.

In life too often we give up our freedom even as we walk the streets unshackled . . .

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PHILADELPHIA

A film about love, and ignorance, and compassion, and prejudice.

This movie will tear your heart in two. Yet, . . . this is how the heart grows.

Tom Hank's vulnerable character's determination to be a human being with dignity . . .

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THE GREEN MILE

Steven King who wrote this book has the ability to look into the darkest nightmares . . . and yet, can also find the visionary hope that human beings can do what's right, and strive for goodness.

In The Green Mile we are taken onto death row of a maximum security southern prison in America. Yet, in these dark corriders of hopelessness a miracle occurs . . .

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