Good American movies include Forrest Gump, The Great Dictator, and The Shawshank Redemption.
1, Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a movie directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and others, released on July 6, 1994 in the United States. The movie is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by American author Winston Glum, depicting the inspirational story of Forrest Gump, a small-town boy who was born mentally retarded and eventually got the favor of God and created miracles in many fields.
After the film was released, it won six Academy Awards in 1995, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.
On September 5, 2014, on the 20th anniversary of its release, Forrest Gump was released in IMAX across the United States.
2. The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator is a movie that premiered in 1940, with Charlie Chaplin as its director and starring alongside Pauline Gaudet. It was Charlie Chaplin's first sound movie. The movie pretends to be set in World War II and portrays a great dictator who brutally persecutes the Jews and tries to rule the world.
Chaplin's characterization of Hitler, the head of the fascists, is clearly modeled on his own, and his performance is a biting satire of the character, which was classified as "culturally, historically, and artistically significant" by the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1997.
3. The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption was directed by Frank Darabont and starred Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. It was released on September 23, 1994 in theaters. The film is based on the novel of the same name included in Stephen King's A Fantastic Adventure for All Seasons, in which the theme of "hope" covers the entire film, which shows the individual's fear of "the passage of time, the transformation of the environment," through the special context of prison, which is a mandatory deprivation of liberty and places a high emphasis on discipline. The film shows the individual's fear of "the passage of time and the transformation of the environment.
The ending of the movie is a revengeful catharsis in the style of The Count of Monte Cristo. The movie has been selected as the No. 1 film among the top 250 films by more than 1.6 million members of IMDB. It was also named to the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Films of the 20th Century.