The Most Highly Recommended Movies for Learning English

                              

The Most Highly Recommended Movies for Learning English

1. “Finding Nemo”

“Finding Nemo” is an animated English film about a clownfish called Marlin who loses his son Nemo. It’s a very popular choice for learning English through movies.

On the way, he meets another fish called Dory. Together, they set out on an amazing adventure to find Nemo across the huge ocean! I don’t want to reveal any spoilers, but it’s a great film to watch for all audiences—one of the best animated films of all time!

2. “The Terminator”

“The Terminator” series is a story about a war between artificially intelligent (AI) machines and humans that is going on in the future. When the humans start to win the war, these AI machines send killer machines back to the past.

Their goal is to try and kill the leader of the human resistance, John Connor and his family. It’s a thrilling science fiction film that’s truly one of a kind in this genre.

3. “Titanic”

“Titanic” is one of the most celebrated films in the entire history of filmmaking. Based on a real life story, it retells a love story between Rose DeWitt Bukater (the daughter of a wealthy family) and Jack Dawson (a poor artist who sneaks onto the ship).

It also has some very exciting scenes showing the events on board the RMS Titanic before it sank (one of the grandest passenger liners at that time).

Titanic is also home to the famous song “My Heart Will Go On” by Céline Dion, which you might have heard of. A great all-time classic, and a masterpiece of great technical complexity! You’ll hear it in the movie trailer below.

Practically every English speaker on Earth has seen this film—and knows this song—so you’re getting a great cultural lesson if you watch “Titanic” when you learn English through movies.

FluentU, a video immersion platform, has the song available with interactive subtitles, can help you understand its complex lyrical meanings—which can be challenging to do on your own.

There’s also a review quiz for each video, and each includes multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and speaking exercises. In addition, you can add individual words to a multimedia flashcard deck for further practice.

Other content available on FluentU includes music videos, movie clips and trailers, to name a few. The program can be used on iOS, Android, or the web.

4. “Harry Potter”

If you like magic, you’ll definitely want to learn English with movies from the “Harry Potter” series. These beloved English movies will take you through the mysteries of Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

It’s a seven-part book series (and eight-part film series) about the battle between good and the bad wizards.

The story centers around the main characters Harry Potter and the evil Lord Voldemort. After you watch this, magic will never be the same again.

5. “Star Wars”

“Star Wars” is another epic film series, but it’s rather strange—the series wasn’t filmed in order. If you want to watch it from the beginning of the story to end, follow the list in this article.

Overall, this story follows the end of a long battle between two opposite forces of the universe—the Jedi Order and the Sith Lords.

In the Star Wars series, it is believed that there is a “Force” that holds together the universe. While the Jedi Order believe in compassion and kindness in using this “Force,” the Sith Lords believe in using the Force through hate, anger, jealousy and other negative feelings.

In this thousand-year battle between these two sides, the Jedi knights and the Sith Lords clash in a thrilling sequence throughout the six movies. There are no other movies like Star Wars… definitely a great set of movies to learn English with!

6. “Lord of the Rings”

“Lord of the Rings” is another one of the greatest film series in the magic category. Set in the lands of the Middle Earth, there are three primary races—dwarves, humans, elves as well as other races such as Hobbits, orcs and werewolves.

The series follows the dark plot of a rebellion led by Sauron, the most evil being across all lands at that time. To oppose this evil, a small group of fighters take on a brave mission—to destroy a ring that is said to hold the powers of Sauron himself, which would mean the fall of Sauron with its destruction.

7. “Pirates of the Caribbean”

“Pirates of the Caribbean” is a film series about… pirates! Each film follows the adventures of Jack Sparrow, captain of the Black Pearl (the name of Jack’s ship), and it starts off in the first film following Jack’s attempts to get his ship back, which was stolen from him.

In the next films, Jack goes on to find the Dead Man’s Chest, which contains the heart of Captain Davy Jones, someone he owes a favor to. Finally, Jack is forced to looks for the Fountain of Youth, which is a magical fountain which promises the drinker eternal youth.

Never has there been a film where you can have so much fun with pirates.

These are probably better movies to learn English when you’ve reached the intermediate or advanced stage. Some of the accents and slang can be difficult to understand.

Practice Tips to Really Learn English with Movies

Choose an interesting movie.

This probably sounds obvious, but if you choose a boring movie, you’ll be bored. And if you’re bored, it will be difficult to pay attention for more than one and a half hours!

I remember when I was a child, I had to watch hours and hours of really old movies like “Singing in the Rain” and “Mary Poppins” to learn English. If you don’t know these films—you’re welcome to check them out—they’re really old! I didn’t exactly hate them, but I didn’t feel excited at all when watching these films.

And because of that, I highly recommend you choose movies you like. To do this, you can go to a website called Rotten Tomatoes, which is a website with many great critics and reviews on many tens of thousands of movies. It’s the perfect way to learn English through movies you love and know will be great.

Select a movie that matches your current English level.

For example, for beginners in English, I usually recommend you learn English through animations. The main reason is because the English is usually very friendly, nice and easy to understand.

On the other hand, if you try to watch something like “Romeo and Juliet,” you will be very confused. Shakespearian English (which is English used many centuries ago) is very difficult to understand on screen, even for advanced English learners.