It is no secret that most of us have not lived in stereotypes for a long time and know that ideal men are found exclusively in fairy tales and melodramas.
In real life, representatives of the stronger sex can be full of shortcomings - they can be stubborn and irritable, too dreamy or too mercantile. However, this does not prevent women from loving them for who they are.
In world cinema, more than once the directors undertook to reveal in their paintings the deep inner world of men, together with all their contradictions, virtues and aspirations.
Introducing 10 films about real male characters.
10. Peaceful warrior | 2006
To Dan Millman, everything in this life is too easy. Everyone predicts him a successful sports career: 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 friends. He comes off at parties and drives at high speed through the night city. But everything changes in an instant: the guy gets a serious injury, and all his dreams now seem blurry to him.
Together with his new friend, the mysterious Socrates, Millman will have to start all over again, but this time I will not waste time on silly entertainments, but really appreciating the surrounding reality and his place in it ...
9. Knocking on Heaven | 1997
A cool car, a million in the trunk and just one week for everything about everything ... Martin and Rudy find out that they are dying and they only have a few days left to live.
Having found out that Rudy had never seen the sea in his life, Martin decides to fulfill his dream in any way. Under the heat of tequila, new friends hijack a collection car belonging to a well-known mafioso in a hospital dressing room in a glove compartment of which there is a gun in the glove compartment and $ 1 million in the trunk.
Having made a raid on a gas station and a bank on the road, two desperate men, pursued by both bandits and law enforcement officers, go to meet their cherished dream ...
8. City of God | 2002
The picture covers the events that took place for 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 criminal path since childhood ...
7. Schindler's List | 1993
The film is based on the real story of a man named Oscar Schindler. He was a member of the Nazi party and a rather successful manufacturer who saved thousands of Jews during the Second World War, who were doomed by the Nazis to death.
This is the anthem of 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 left the army after serving in Chechnya. The guy returns to his provincial city in which he grew up. Here the situation is typical for the gloomy 90s: dirt, despondency and hopelessness. One day, not far from his house, he meets a group of TV people making a video for the popular group Nautilus Pompilius.
A random oversight provokes a fight, because of which Danila finds himself in a local police station. Afflicted by such events, the mother asks her son to go to St. Petersburg to visit his elder brother, Victor, who, as they say, succeeded there ...
5. Mad Dogs | 1992
This venture could be the perfect crime. Having decided to rob a jewelry store, mafiosi Joe Cabot brought together six seasoned and completely unfamiliar gangsters. But from the start everything went wrong as planned, because of this, ordinary robbery grew into a bloody meat grinder ...
4. Good, bad, evil | 1966
The action takes place during the American Civil War. Three adventurers - Good, Evil and Bad - set off in search of a valuable treasure. This cache is located in an abandoned cemetery in one of the graves.
However, each of the participants in this adventurous enterprise has only a piece of information that can help to 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 trunks | 1998
A picture about the illegal business of gansters 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 struggling to break out of a deadly boring reality, the clerk meets a certain Tyler Darden, a charismatic and confident soap seller with a perverted philosophy of life. Tyler believes that building up your personality is the destiny of wimps, and self-destruction is the meaning of the life of real men.
A little time will pass, and now these two guys are frantically beating each other in the parking lot in front of the bar, and this cleansing fight gives them real pleasure.
By introducing other males to the simple joys of physical cruelty, they organize a secret Fight Club, which is rapidly gaining popularity.
But in the final of the film, all the heroes are waiting for an incredible discovery, which can lead to the most unexpected consequences ...
1. Die Hard | 1988
This film opened the world to a new star, which was destined to go down in the history of world cinema forever and beat millions of women's hearts. Of course, we are talking about Bruce Willis.
John McClain lives in New York full of various criminal elements. He worked half his life at the local police station.
John from early childhood defended justice and defended those who needed it. He had all the makings to become an exemplary cop. And he succeeded! After all, only McLain can defeat the hordes of villains and save dozens of lives.