Genre

Top 3 Films

Scent of a woman

Genre – Drama

Summary – Frank (Al Pacino) is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the US army. He's blind and very stubborn making it a daunting task for others to get along with him. Charlie (Chris O’Donnell) is at school and hopes going to university. He is hired to look after Frank over thanksgiving. Frank's niece says this will be easy money, but she was not aware of Frank’s plan for spending his thanksgiving in New York. The trip takes the two across all kinds of experiences.


Gladiator

Genre – Action, adventure, drama, history

Summary – Maximus (Russell Crowe) is Roman general. He name is sung and honored by the people and the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/)


Whatever Works

Genre – Comedy, romantic

Summary – An aged eccentric physicist, who received nomination for Nobel Prize abandons his upper class life to live like a bohemian. He is an arrogant iconoclast and rejects almost everything and unfathomably cynical. The man meets a young girl from the south and later with the arrival of her parents, the situation gets more weird and complex and actually funny.



Top 3 Novels

A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)

Genre – Historical fiction

Deception Point (Dan Brown)

Genre – Sci-fi thriller, adventure

Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)

Genre – Mystery-thriller

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