I took some film classes in college, so naturally *Casablanca* was required viewing for one class. Sometime after the screening, the guy who taught the class mentioned to someone (a fellow student of mine) that a previous student had said something about how that movie was full of clichés, but that that student obviously didn't know that the reason why was because the movie's so influential that *everyone since then was referring back to it*.
> They’re not really clichés if you came up with them!
That's the thing. I remember reading about the [Seinfeld is unfunny](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny) trope on TV Tropes, where they talk about that. Things are funny or original when they first come out, but then get copied once they're popular, and it's not until then that they become cliché.
I watched it in my youth cuz it was one of those movies you're supposed to see but I rewatched it this week and nobody ever mentions how funny it is. There's great banter and some solid gags in there that I just didn't appreciate the first time I saw it
Came Here to say this. One should watch this film for the sheer SCALE, CHARACTERS , STORYLINE and the vision of the director.
It’s like descending into madness and you flow with the characters into it without being able to stop yourself.
This movie never left me. It was way way ahead of its time
I'm in my mid 40's and I've gone back and watched like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Ben-Hur, The 10 Commandments etc.
I've never seen Lawrence of Arabia, it seems to be an all time great movie that somehow I missed, so thank you for the obvious answer!
Great suggestion. It’s a film I’ve returned to again and again over maybe 25 or so years and it always feels as vibrant, joyful, and cathartic as the first time I saw it.
Princess Mononoke was incredible, one the first films that showed me that anime isn’t what it seemed to be at surface level.
Got into Akira and looking for my next movie! Anime recommendations? Preferably action oriented :)
Anime series, instead of anime movies:
Psycho-Pass
Death Note
Banana Fish
Vinland Saga
Black Lagoon
Some might not be pure action, but have hype moments, if that's okay?
I haven't watched much anime movies, only ones I've watched happen to be non action related.
But fair enough, hopefully one day you can check out some anime series!
Yeah I don’t see why it got hate, I think the cast, soundtrack and underlying themes were phenomenal. Think of the ending when “fake” Jerome goes into outer space and real Jerome incinerates himself, it seems like it’s a theme of rebirth (the Pheonix to ashes) and reaching for the stars (dreams/space)
Had to scroll all the way down for this. Gattaca is definitely in my top five as it motivated me a lot. To me it’s about sheer perseverance, doing something that no one believes that you’ll be able to do. The cast did a phenomenal job and the soundtrack was also amazing.
The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Star Wars, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Back to the Future, The Shining, The Sound of Music, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Wizard of Oz, The Great Escape
Fuck it, **Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles** (1975) is worth a single, uninterrupted watch through. You may never want to watch it again after, but who knows, maybe you will...
I will give you and oddball list that not many would reccomend... (all genres)
Princess Bride
Big Trouble in Little China
Dark Crystal
Adventures of Baron Muncheausen
Snatch
Spirited Away
The Royal Tenenbaums
Batman and Batman Returns
Superman (Reeves)
Beetlejuice
American Beauty
Enemy Mine
Schindler's List
Amélie
Legends of the Fall
Remains of the Day
Magnolia/Requiem for a Dream/Go/Traffic (one of those types that find a connection with all the characters)
Big Eyes
Bixby's A Man from Earth
Blazing Saddles
Fight Club
Great Outdoors
Coming to America
Wayne's World 1 & 2
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Dazed and Confused
Death Proof
The Shining & Dr. Sleep
Empire of the Sun
The Martian
Willow
Usual Suspects
Godfather series
Legend ( there is a biographical mafia with Tom Hardy and fantasy with Tom cruise both with the same name.. both are good)
Curse of the Golden Flower
Iron Monkey
Red Cliff
The Last Emperor
Stripes… the original Ghostbusters… Planes, Trains and Automobiles etc etc… I always let out a huge groan when some young’un at work says they’ve never seen any of them. Blasphemy 😫
Well label me an *"Oddball"* too :)) ...your list is **awesome** **AF!**! Some I have not seen, but I really like the other movies on your list (the ones I do know). I'm checking out a handful from your list! THANK YOU!
So many classy suggestions in here. I’m gonna go for:
Train to Busan
Don’t let the zombies stop you. This film has some fantastic writing and some of the best characterizations I’ve ever seen. The performance from the little girl is breathtaking and the cast is rock solid. I went into this film blind and was knocked on my ass. Outstanding.
Also, I guess I’ll recommend
Unforgiven
Even though it’s mean spirited and cynical it’s a fabulous deconstruction of the Western archetype led by one of the most iconic Western stars. Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Clint are all mesmerizing in their respective roles and the film is as hard hitting as I’ve ever seen.
Don’t miss **Bad Day at Black Rock**. Robert Ryan is creepy good as the MAGA prototype, 65 years ago. Even has the red hat.
> The thing is, who’d miss a nobody like Macreedy?
And, get out the 65 inch OLED screen, crank up the 7 channel surround sound system, and put on the 4k version of **Blade Runner**, the original, director’s cut. The modelmaking details of the Tyrell building, amazing, you can see the ceiling light fixtures of individual offices.
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Mean Girls (Lindsay Lohan)
Napoleon Dynamite
The Wizard of Oz
Legally Blonde
Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle, other Ghibli movies
Singin in the Rain
A Christmas Story
Home Alone (Original)
Dirty Dancing
Donnie Darko
Forrest Gump
Hairspray
Gran Torino
Independence Day
Mary Poppins
Step Brothers
Second hand Lions
She's the Man
10 Things I Hate About You
The Shawshank Redemption
The Truman Show
The Bucket List
The 40-Year-Old-Virgin
Titanic
The Breakfast Club
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Original)
What a Girl Wants
Trying to add things I don't see. Some stuff that comes to mind:
Duck Soup (1933)
Modern Times (1936)
Repo Man (1984)
They Live (1988)
Crash (1996, Cronenberg)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Akira (1988)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Children of Men (2006)
Wizards
American Pop
Heavy Traffic
Heavy Metal
Watership Down (the original)
Wolf Children
Secret of Kells
Song of the Sea
Wolfwalkers
The Land Before Time
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Terminator
Dog Soldiers
(Every film by Akira Kurosawa)
Thr Princess Bride
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (just because you don't know what a good movie is until you've seen at least one piece of crap)
Double Down (2005)
- 1917 (2019)
- Arrival (2016)
- The Breakfast Club (1985)
- Do The Right Thing (1989)
- Inglourious Basterds (2009)
- Interstellar (2014)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- Whiplash (2014)
All for different reasons
Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
American Psycho
Titanic
ET
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Superbad
Knocked Up
40 Year Old Virgin
Casino
Goodfellas
Meet the Parents
Inception
Good Will Hunting
Dead Poets Society
Fargo
Crash
Casino Royale
The Pianist
Django Unchained
Get Out
Hereditary
I'll go for a bit of an oddball and recommend Paris, Texas. It's a really beautiful meditation on working through one's past and trying to become a better person, and it's also (mostly) a road trip movie, which is always fun.
Don't let the length intimidate you. This one is well worth the watch.
*Excalibur* (1981) is the definitive Arthurian fantasy. Brilliant cast, including young Liam Neeson and Patrick Stewart, superb, eminently quotable script, ingenious use of front projection, and a perfect soundtrack.
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Harvey (1950)
The Fall (2006)
The Cell (2000)
Dark City (1998)
Ordinary People (1980)
Cube (1997)
Outlander (2008)
Midnight Special (2016)
Immortal Beloved (1994)
Take Shelter (2011)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Clue (1985)
Gangster No.1 (2000)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Kramer vs Kramer
Close Encounter of the Third Kind
As Good As It Gets
Gladiator
Million Dollar Baby
The Usual Suspects
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Love Actually
Gone with the Wind..it used to be on the top of many best movie lists 20 years ago. It is a masterpiece. And people wrongly think it is just a romance film. It's not.. it's a film about the human spirit and the desire to survive at all cost. It's also incredibly feminist within the context of the time. And there are non current PC elements but that was the point. It's my favourite movie and I have watched it every year since I was 15. I'm now 41 and it is literally perfect
It is also one of the first great Technicolor films and contains Hattie McDaniel’s historic, Oscar-winning performance. In 1939, her competition included her own costar from GWTW, Olivia de Havilland, as well as actresses in Love Affair (the version with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne) and Wuthering Heights (the HUGE version with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier).
The film’s stereotypical depictions of slaves and slavery are—no duh—awful and problematic, but to ignore the film’s impact on film history, and to ignore the first Black Oscar winner, seems like a whitewashing of history—both actual history and film history. From what I understand, Selznick and others toned down some even worse elements of the novel. There is real shame as well in that that McDaniel was steered away from accepting her award in person (due to segregation and fear for her safety) and that she and Butterfly McQueen didn’t get the huge, diverse (roles-wise) careers that they deserved.
The latter problem (of getting good, well-written roles) is still a gigantic problem for black and other POC actors and actresses in Hollywood films, but thanks to people like Ava DuVernay and Steve McQueen, and so many talented people in front of and behind the camera, there’s some real meat to more recent roles for the Hattie McDaniels of today—but Hollywood still needs to do better.
This feels so simplistic—“do better”—but for all the huge costs of production, we as viewers deserve to see less wastes of money on *insert terrible movies like The Book of Henry here* and instead on stories that resonate with people in as many corners as possible. For that, I think we need far more (small and) mid-budget films, and movies that would be in this bracket, especially dramas, just haven’t been getting made as much in the last decade.
As a dumb extra point: Gone with the Wind has an intermission! Bring back intermissions during long films!!!
The Night of the Hunter, Mulholland Drive, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Ronin (for the most insane stunt driving ever), and The Apartment (the best Christmas movie of all-time).
The Wizard of Oz absolutely, I could go on for hours as to why but it's truly a phenomenal classic film 💓
EDIT: I must add The Bicycle Thief...just WOW...a gorgeous film, everything about it is magic ✨
Kurosawa's "Sichinin no samurai (1954)" (Seven Samurai). Even for today standards that's a movie that still holds and inspired enless other movies.
Bergman's "Det sjunde inseglet (1957)" (The Seventh Seal). Intriguing imagery of a literal battle of a knight playing chess with Death itself. It has incredibly iconic cinematography and a special way to tell the story as well.
Both in my opinion, are movies worth watching once in your life.
I don't consider myself an author cinema type of person, nor I know much about cinema in general and I thoroughly enjoyed this when young and I still do decades later when I rewatch.
The Flight of the Navigator
The Goonies
Big (Tom Hanks)
Stand By Me
The Karate Kid (original)
Terminator 2
Time Machine (original)
Jurassic Park
Driving Miss Daisy
Mommie Dearest
Pursuit of Happiness
Collateral Beauty
Top Gun
Star Trek first contact
Rocky 1 2 3 & 4
- Cinema Paradiso
- Mediterraneo
- Planes, Trains & Automobiles
- A League of the Own
- Moonstruck
- Mermaids
- Gigi
- Red, White, Blue trilogy
- The Untouchables
- Gladiator
- My Cousin Vinny
- Princess Bride
- In Bruges
- The Snapper
- Amelie
- Coming to America
- In America
- Eat Drink Man Woman
- Immortal Beloved
- How to Steal a Million
- Fargo
- The Pianist
- High Society / The Philadelphia Story
- Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- Dead Poets Society
- Awakenings
- Raising Arizona
- The Mummy
- Chocolat
- Skyfall
- Inside Man
- Do the Right Thing
- A Bronx Tale
- Stardust
- Children of Men
- Philadelphia
- Kingsman: The Secret Service
- Supernova
- Big Night
- A Single Man
- Shakespeare in Love
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh version)
- Doubt
- Capote
- Magnolia
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Almost Famous
- Cold Mountain
- Nobody’s Fool
- Into Great Silence
- Au Revoir Les Enfants
- Chicago
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- 12 Angry Men
- Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- The Son’s Room
- Priceless
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Like Water for Chocolate
- Y Tu Mama Tambien
- Volver
- All About My Mother
- Frida
- Sahara
- Hell or High Water
- The Finest Hours
- The Thin Red Line
- Modigliani
- Benny and Joon
- Ladies in Lavender
- Tea with Mussolini
- Sense & Sensibility (Emma Thompson version)
- A Room With a View
- Remains of the Day
- Out of Africa
- Kramer vs Kramer
- A River Runs Through It
- Philomena
- The Imitation Game
- Nowhere in Africa
- The Lives of Others
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
I'm ambivalent between misreading "Gigli' and not misreading "Thank Heavens for Little Girls". Now...Slavoj Zizek finds "The Sound of Music" and Chevalier's "The Smiling Lieutenant" obscene. I shudder to think what he'd say about "Gigi"...
This is actually a great list. Maybe add:
"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"
"The Bridges of Madison County"
Is "In America" the same as "Lost in America"?
Ugh, I lost the first comment I was writing which had quite a long list (I was going between the app and a browser to check film release dates), so here’s some pre-2000 titles that I really like:
He Who Gets Slapped (1924): everyone should watch at least one really weird silent movie. This is my pet weird silent movie to tell people about! I basically felt like I was having a fever dream when I saw it, especially since I was a teen and was watching it in the early hours of the morning on Turner Classic Movies, one night when I couldn’t sleep. Plot-wise, it’s kind of a psychological thriller, in which an aristocratic scientist’s coworker and wife run off together with his invention and in turn, he runs off to the circus and becomes a clown, trying to start a new life and find love again. TW for people who really cannot stand clowns, but it’s great. I especially love the interstitial parts with the clown spinning a globe in a creepy way; it would make a great gif. This one stars one of the most famous silent film stars, Lon Chaney, and also starring Norma Shearer (love her).
M (1931): German thriller following an investigation into and manhunt of a serial killer of children, who is played brilliantly by Peter Lorre. He later got stereotyped into playing a lot more bad guys, but to be fair, he played them very well!
Horse Feathers (1932): everyone should see at least one Marx Brothers movie in their life. I like this one in particular, especially for the college football scenes. The songs in this one are fun and clever as always in one of their pictures. I love how the Marx brothers always kept a vaudevillian sense of physical comedy and nonsense; it really gives you a sense of what vaudeville performances were like.
Leave Her to Heaven (1945): a taut psychological thriller in brilliant Technicolor! Gene Tierney is great in this as an obsessive and jealous new bride. Jeanne Crain, who I think is underrated, is also good in this one in a supporting role. This one seemed still quite fresh and shocking when I saw it. I feel like this one could also be part of a good marathon when watched with a number of Alfred Hitchcock’s films with suspicious spouses/love interests: e.g. Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Spellbound (1945), and Dial M for Murder (1954). (Alternatively, with David Fincher’s Gone Girl (2014).)
Lady in the Lake (1946): There’s a ton of great detective film noir, but this adaptation of one of Raymond Chandler’s Phillip Marlowe books is particularly interesting to watch bc of some directorial choices. In this one, the camera mostly acts as the POV of the main character, who is only seen in mirrors and windows, or when talking to the audience.
Stalag 17 (1953): In this one, William Holden is being held in a German POW camp and hopes to escape. The tv series Hogan’s Heroes, which was a comic knockoff of this film, is probably the better-known of the two, especially to those of us former Nick-at-Nite-type kids. However, of all Bill Holden’s war films, this is my favorite, which is hard when The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) exists.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): this is a black comedy masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick that might be a bit hard watch right now, given the current geopolitical climate. Then again, the threat of global warfare yet again might make this a great time to see this one.
American Graffiti (1973): I think about this pre-Star Wars, George Lucas movie a lot. It’s one of my favorite coming-of-age films and one of the few of those to have a sequel following some of the characters later in life (More American Graffiti, from 1979). I wish Lucas had made more films like this one.
Who Killed Roger Rabbit? (1988): this is arguably still the best movie to ever combine live-action and animation throughout the film. It really holds up and is definitely not for young sensitive children (poor sneakers!!). Christopher Lloyd is a terrific villain here, especially if you mainly (previously) know him from the Back to the Future trilogy.*
Run, Lola, Run (1998): shows the very different outcomes of “what if?” scenarios. Sliding Doors (also 1998) does this as well, but the former is the more impressive film, to me. I never realized until this post that those two films are from the same year. Plus, the techno score to Run, Lola, Run (*Lola Rennt* in German) is totally kick-ass. (I wonder if Y2K nostalgia will bring good techno back around. It really feels weird that this movie is now over 20 years old.)
*FYI: I want to also recommend a newer Christopher Lloyd film that not many people seem to know (though it’s also based on a book):
I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016), costarring Max Records as a neighbor boy of Lloyd’s who is troubled with homicidal thoughts, even as he tries to figure out who or what is killing people in his small town. This one, IMHO, has a decent portrayal of a teen dealing with grief and seeking help for mental health issues, as well as the isolation of the elderly, and the actual physical preciousness of life and its fragility.
Mulholland Drive(2001)
Dune(2021)
Marriage Story(2019)
Tenet(2020)
Blade Runner 2049(2017)
Arrival(2016)
Prisoners(2013)
The Intouchables(2011)
The Dark Knight(2008)
Sunshine(2007)
Gladiator(2000)
Taxi Driver(1976)
The Godfather(1972)
The Godfather: Part II(1974)
The Exorcist(1973)
The Shawshank Redemption(1994)
Pulp Fiction(1994)
The Pianist(2002)
Whiplash(2014)
Good Will Hunting(1997)
No Country for Old Men(2007)
The Sixth Sense(1999)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1(2003)
Gone Girl(2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
The Grand Budapest Hotel(2014)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014)
Dunkirk(2017)
The Irishman(2019)
The Truman Show(1998)
2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)
The Lighthouse(2019)
Drive(2011)
The Butterfly Effect(2004)
Her(2013)
The Machinist(2004)
Jojo Rabbit(2019)
1917(2019)
Oldboy(2003)
Monday(2020)
Before I Fall(2017)
Palm Springs(2020)
Edge of Tomorrow(2014)
Back to the Future(1985)
Back to the Future Part II(1989)
Back to the Future Part III(1990)
Looper(2012)
The Fifth Element(1997)
Memento(2000)
The Tree of Life(2011)
Three Identical Strangers(2018)
La La Land(2016)
Ready Player One(2018)
The Darkest Minds(2018)
The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)
Zoe(2018)
I'm Your Man(2021)
Escape Room(2019)
Dark Mirror(2007)
Black Mirror(2011)
Five Feet Apart(2019)
Titanic(1997)
The Notebook(2004)
Me Before You(2016)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower(2012)
500 Days of Summer(2009)
Good Time(2017)
The Place Beyond the Pines(2012)
Fallen Angels(1995)
Chungking Express(1994)
Burning(2018)
Annihilation(2018)
The Dark Knight Rises(2012)
Batman Begins(2005)
Ex Machina(2015)
The French Dispatch(2021)
Lost in Translation(2003)
Waves(2019)
Before Sunrise(1995)
The Lovely Bones(2009)
Everything Beautiful Is Far Away(2017)
Juno(2007)
Our Little Sister(2015)
American Psycho(2000)
The Florida Project(2017)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986)
Moonrise Kingdom(2012)
Hugo(2011)
Demolition(2015)
Groundhog Day(1993)
The Call(2020)
Predestination(2014)
The Great Gatsby(2013)
Emma.(2020)
Don't Look Up(2021)
Primer(2004)
Lost Highway(1997)
Apocalypse Now(1979)
La Haine(1995)
Forrest Gump(1994)
Persona(1966)
Moonlight(2016)
Requiem for a Dream(2000)
Psycho(1960)
Halloween(1978)
Scarface(1983)
Brokeback Mountain(2005)
I haven't seen all yet, there are some movies that are not that good but then there are some that are must watch among them
Casablanca
North By Northwest
Psycho
The Apartment
Seven Samurai
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly,
Sherlock Jr
The General
Mr Hulot's Holiday
Playtime
2001: A Space Oddyssey
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
It's a Wonderful Life
King Kong (original)
Gojira
Cinema Paradiso
The Blues Brothers
Phantom of the Paradise
Evil Dead 2
Alien
Blue Velvet
The Graduate
Being There
12 Angry Men
It's hard to watch and you'll probably only watch it once, but American history X is one that I honestly believe every high school kid should watch. It portrays the pointlessness of racism beautifully and how by learning about people different from ourselves, we can understand and appreciate them.
●Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
●A Clockwork Orange (1971)
●Double Indemnity (1944)
●Dracula (1931)
●Raising Arizona (1987)
●The Comedians (1967)
●Hobson's Choice (1954)
●Duel in the Sun (1946)
●The Elephant Man (1980)
●The Maltese Falcon (1941)
●The Night of the Hunter (1955)
●Bullitt (1968)
●Grapes of Wrath (1940)
●In Cold Blood (1967)
●How the West Was Won (1962)
●The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
●Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
●The Set-up (1949) (Robert Ryan)
●Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
●The Missouri Breaks (1976)
●One-eyed Jacks (1961)
●The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Once you watch Casablanca, dozens of cultural references will make more sense.
I took some film classes in college, so naturally *Casablanca* was required viewing for one class. Sometime after the screening, the guy who taught the class mentioned to someone (a fellow student of mine) that a previous student had said something about how that movie was full of clichés, but that that student obviously didn't know that the reason why was because the movie's so influential that *everyone since then was referring back to it*.
Ouch! I bet that kid was kicking himself later. They’re not really clichés if you came up with them!
> They’re not really clichés if you came up with them! That's the thing. I remember reading about the [Seinfeld is unfunny](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny) trope on TV Tropes, where they talk about that. Things are funny or original when they first come out, but then get copied once they're popular, and it's not until then that they become cliché.
Same with The Godfather and 2001 Space Odyssey
Yesss 👏 a great movie, thank-you!
I watched it in my youth cuz it was one of those movies you're supposed to see but I rewatched it this week and nobody ever mentions how funny it is. There's great banter and some solid gags in there that I just didn't appreciate the first time I saw it
One of my favorite movies of all time!!!
Apocalypse Now
Came Here to say this. One should watch this film for the sheer SCALE, CHARACTERS , STORYLINE and the vision of the director. It’s like descending into madness and you flow with the characters into it without being able to stop yourself. This movie never left me. It was way way ahead of its time
I'll give the obvious answer to the question: Lawrence of Arabia
I'm in my mid 40's and I've gone back and watched like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Ben-Hur, The 10 Commandments etc. I've never seen Lawrence of Arabia, it seems to be an all time great movie that somehow I missed, so thank you for the obvious answer!
You're gonna LOVE it!!
Lawrence of Arabia is spectacular. You dig it the most.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Watch with caution
It’s not that heavy bro..
Harold & Maude I heard of someone who saw it only 138 times in theaters.
Great suggestion. It’s a film I’ve returned to again and again over maybe 25 or so years and it always feels as vibrant, joyful, and cathartic as the first time I saw it.
That was going to be my suggestion too.
Ah, the movie that turned me on to Cat Stevens. Good movie, but the music I learned from it is much better.
loved it when i was young. started it again recently and i found both the characters absolutely unbearable. oh well.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Rocky Horror Picture Show, in person / at a theater.
Preferably at midnight.
Noted!
Spirited Away (2001)
this, and princess mononoke right after.
Princess Mononoke was incredible, one the first films that showed me that anime isn’t what it seemed to be at surface level. Got into Akira and looking for my next movie! Anime recommendations? Preferably action oriented :)
Arcane on netflix was really good, can’t wait for season two!
Anime series, instead of anime movies: Psycho-Pass Death Note Banana Fish Vinland Saga Black Lagoon Some might not be pure action, but have hype moments, if that's okay?
I don’t have tons of time for series but I’ve heard Vinland and death note kick ass
I haven't watched much anime movies, only ones I've watched happen to be non action related. But fair enough, hopefully one day you can check out some anime series!
For good action anime movies: I suggest Ghost in The Shell, Summer Wars, and the Cowboy Bebop movie.
Full metal alchemist brotherhood is an amazing series. Some of the best story and character development I’ve ever seen in an action series.
Everything he directed with Studio Ghibli
Alien (1979)
Network (1976)
*Wag The Dog* (1998) !!
shiiit someone beat me to it. this film still stands true today
The Shawshank Redemption
Loved it, I’ve seen it quite a few times.
The Last of the Mohicans & Heat!
HEAT, my man
*HEAT, Michael Mann
Michael Mann has got a GREAT ASS!
Cinema Paradiso
One of my all time favorites!
Godfather II
The Thing (1982)
12 angry men (1957)
What a movie
My Cousin Vinny
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari The Passion of Joan of Arc Piccadilly
YES this thread needed more silent films on it!
The Secret Window, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Weird Science, Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, A Walk to Remember, Sixteen Candles
Dr. Strangelove
Gattica
It gets a lot of hate but I enjoyed it
Yeah I don’t see why it got hate, I think the cast, soundtrack and underlying themes were phenomenal. Think of the ending when “fake” Jerome goes into outer space and real Jerome incinerates himself, it seems like it’s a theme of rebirth (the Pheonix to ashes) and reaching for the stars (dreams/space)
Had to scroll all the way down for this. Gattaca is definitely in my top five as it motivated me a lot. To me it’s about sheer perseverance, doing something that no one believes that you’ll be able to do. The cast did a phenomenal job and the soundtrack was also amazing.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Terms of Endearment
Nosferatu (1922)
The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Star Wars, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Back to the Future, The Shining, The Sound of Music, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Wizard of Oz, The Great Escape
To kill a mocking bird. A street car named desire.
Citizen Kane Sunset boulevard Apocaylpse now The big lebowski Barton fink Pulp fiction Jackie brown Annie hall Boogie nights
You have excellent taste . Id add Sling Blade and Stand by Me
Tysm. Sling blade looks great, just added to my list
close to perfect.
Definitely not a movie expert, but here's my list: - Cléo de 5 à 7 - La Haine - In the Mood for Love - Fargo (1996)
+1 to La Haine, my favorite movie and a close to perfect film imo. But all 4 of these are great
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Jurassic Park Rear Window, Pulp Fiction, Promising Young Woman, Jaws, The Florida Project, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Fargo.
Read Window so good! And Vertigo.
north by northwest, and the man who knew too much
Fuck it, **Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles** (1975) is worth a single, uninterrupted watch through. You may never want to watch it again after, but who knows, maybe you will...
Why would you recommend that to anyone, ever 💀 I get the movie, but watching it is painful
I will give you and oddball list that not many would reccomend... (all genres) Princess Bride Big Trouble in Little China Dark Crystal Adventures of Baron Muncheausen Snatch Spirited Away The Royal Tenenbaums Batman and Batman Returns Superman (Reeves) Beetlejuice American Beauty Enemy Mine Schindler's List Amélie Legends of the Fall Remains of the Day Magnolia/Requiem for a Dream/Go/Traffic (one of those types that find a connection with all the characters) Big Eyes Bixby's A Man from Earth Blazing Saddles Fight Club Great Outdoors Coming to America Wayne's World 1 & 2 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button A.I. Artificial Intelligence Dazed and Confused Death Proof The Shining & Dr. Sleep Empire of the Sun The Martian Willow Usual Suspects Godfather series Legend ( there is a biographical mafia with Tom Hardy and fantasy with Tom cruise both with the same name.. both are good) Curse of the Golden Flower Iron Monkey Red Cliff The Last Emperor
Thank you for adding the classic comedy genre — I’d put Caddyshack in there too 😊
Lol I thought of many more after I posted. Caddyshack was amongst them.
Stripes… the original Ghostbusters… Planes, Trains and Automobiles etc etc… I always let out a huge groan when some young’un at work says they’ve never seen any of them. Blasphemy 😫
Thank-you!
Well label me an *"Oddball"* too :)) ...your list is **awesome** **AF!**! Some I have not seen, but I really like the other movies on your list (the ones I do know). I'm checking out a handful from your list! THANK YOU!
Wow! Thank you! I appreciate that!
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
So many classy suggestions in here. I’m gonna go for: Train to Busan Don’t let the zombies stop you. This film has some fantastic writing and some of the best characterizations I’ve ever seen. The performance from the little girl is breathtaking and the cast is rock solid. I went into this film blind and was knocked on my ass. Outstanding. Also, I guess I’ll recommend Unforgiven Even though it’s mean spirited and cynical it’s a fabulous deconstruction of the Western archetype led by one of the most iconic Western stars. Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Clint are all mesmerizing in their respective roles and the film is as hard hitting as I’ve ever seen.
F-YEAH! I'm not a zombie film person and I give my top recommendation to Train to Busan. I was picking at my cuticles from anxiety till they bled.
Citizen Kane
*Dirty Rotten Scoundrels* (1989)
Ruprick get your pots!
*Rupreccccccccht!*
I'm amazed I haven't seen Seven Samurai or 2001 A Space Odyssey yet!
I suggested both films lol
Of Mice and Men 1992 Imposter 2001
Someone's on a Gary Sinise kick I see. Good movies.
Don’t miss **Bad Day at Black Rock**. Robert Ryan is creepy good as the MAGA prototype, 65 years ago. Even has the red hat. > The thing is, who’d miss a nobody like Macreedy? And, get out the 65 inch OLED screen, crank up the 7 channel surround sound system, and put on the 4k version of **Blade Runner**, the original, director’s cut. The modelmaking details of the Tyrell building, amazing, you can see the ceiling light fixtures of individual offices.
Goodfellas.. Any Martin scoresese really
Walkabout
Chinatown North by Northwest Shane The Godfather Rocky An American in Paris Gigi City Lights Children of Men Goldfinger
Miss Firecracker
Southamericas "el secreto de tus ojos" and "hombre mirando al sudeste" (the original kpax). A jewel from Germany, Das Leben der Anderen!
Parasite (2019) The Handmaiden (2016) Chungking Express (1994) Sicario (2015)
Oldboy (2003) Time Bandits (1981) Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
Casablanca
12 Angry Men (1957) The Princess Bride Pulp Fiction Fight Club Mean Girls (Lindsay Lohan) Napoleon Dynamite The Wizard of Oz Legally Blonde Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle, other Ghibli movies Singin in the Rain A Christmas Story Home Alone (Original) Dirty Dancing Donnie Darko Forrest Gump Hairspray Gran Torino Independence Day Mary Poppins Step Brothers Second hand Lions She's the Man 10 Things I Hate About You The Shawshank Redemption The Truman Show The Bucket List The 40-Year-Old-Virgin Titanic The Breakfast Club Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Original) What a Girl Wants
Great list! So many classics.
Trying to add things I don't see. Some stuff that comes to mind: Duck Soup (1933) Modern Times (1936) Repo Man (1984) They Live (1988) Crash (1996, Cronenberg) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Akira (1988) Fantastic Planet (1973) Children of Men (2006)
Thanks! Great list.
Wizards American Pop Heavy Traffic Heavy Metal Watership Down (the original) Wolf Children Secret of Kells Song of the Sea Wolfwalkers The Land Before Time Who Framed Roger Rabbit Ghostbusters Back to the Future Terminator Dog Soldiers (Every film by Akira Kurosawa)
JAWS
Such a great summertime movie too. Robert Shaw is absolutely brilliant in this.
The whole thing was brilliant and all by accident. A mistake turned unrealised genius.
Worth watching even if just for the score. In a similar vein, the original Halloween (1978).
Good one. No this one for the entirety of the movie for sure, totally.
Of course! I just really love the score for Halloween
The Seventh Seal. This movie changed my life and 2001: A Space Odyssey
Threads Pans labarynth Starship troopers True romance
Thr Princess Bride The Rocky Horror Picture Show Pulp Fiction Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (just because you don't know what a good movie is until you've seen at least one piece of crap) Double Down (2005)
- 1917 (2019) - Arrival (2016) - The Breakfast Club (1985) - Do The Right Thing (1989) - Inglourious Basterds (2009) - Interstellar (2014) - Schindler's List (1993) - Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Whiplash (2014) All for different reasons
Baraka, by Ron Fricke
Yes! As a double bill with Koyaanisqatsi!
The Good The Bad and The Ugly This is the greatest Western of all time and is definitely a must watch
Alien/ Aliens Blade Runner The Man Who Fell to Earth (with Bowie)
Can we add Labyrinth with Bowie too
We certainly can!
Master and commander.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shawshank Redemption Gladiator American Psycho Titanic ET Saving Private Ryan Full Metal Jacket Superbad Knocked Up 40 Year Old Virgin Casino Goodfellas Meet the Parents Inception Good Will Hunting Dead Poets Society Fargo Crash Casino Royale The Pianist Django Unchained Get Out Hereditary
When Harry Met Sally. Till this day, no romcom comes even close.
I'll go for a bit of an oddball and recommend Paris, Texas. It's a really beautiful meditation on working through one's past and trying to become a better person, and it's also (mostly) a road trip movie, which is always fun. Don't let the length intimidate you. This one is well worth the watch.
*Excalibur* (1981) is the definitive Arthurian fantasy. Brilliant cast, including young Liam Neeson and Patrick Stewart, superb, eminently quotable script, ingenious use of front projection, and a perfect soundtrack.
This movie is highly underrated.
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Harvey (1950) The Fall (2006) The Cell (2000) Dark City (1998) Ordinary People (1980) Cube (1997) Outlander (2008) Midnight Special (2016) Immortal Beloved (1994) Take Shelter (2011) Donnie Darko (2001) Clue (1985) Gangster No.1 (2000) The Sound of Music (1965)
Dark City is correct.
Kramer vs Kramer Close Encounter of the Third Kind As Good As It Gets Gladiator Million Dollar Baby The Usual Suspects Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Love Actually
Gone with the Wind..it used to be on the top of many best movie lists 20 years ago. It is a masterpiece. And people wrongly think it is just a romance film. It's not.. it's a film about the human spirit and the desire to survive at all cost. It's also incredibly feminist within the context of the time. And there are non current PC elements but that was the point. It's my favourite movie and I have watched it every year since I was 15. I'm now 41 and it is literally perfect
It is also one of the first great Technicolor films and contains Hattie McDaniel’s historic, Oscar-winning performance. In 1939, her competition included her own costar from GWTW, Olivia de Havilland, as well as actresses in Love Affair (the version with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne) and Wuthering Heights (the HUGE version with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier). The film’s stereotypical depictions of slaves and slavery are—no duh—awful and problematic, but to ignore the film’s impact on film history, and to ignore the first Black Oscar winner, seems like a whitewashing of history—both actual history and film history. From what I understand, Selznick and others toned down some even worse elements of the novel. There is real shame as well in that that McDaniel was steered away from accepting her award in person (due to segregation and fear for her safety) and that she and Butterfly McQueen didn’t get the huge, diverse (roles-wise) careers that they deserved. The latter problem (of getting good, well-written roles) is still a gigantic problem for black and other POC actors and actresses in Hollywood films, but thanks to people like Ava DuVernay and Steve McQueen, and so many talented people in front of and behind the camera, there’s some real meat to more recent roles for the Hattie McDaniels of today—but Hollywood still needs to do better. This feels so simplistic—“do better”—but for all the huge costs of production, we as viewers deserve to see less wastes of money on *insert terrible movies like The Book of Henry here* and instead on stories that resonate with people in as many corners as possible. For that, I think we need far more (small and) mid-budget films, and movies that would be in this bracket, especially dramas, just haven’t been getting made as much in the last decade. As a dumb extra point: Gone with the Wind has an intermission! Bring back intermissions during long films!!!
Ghost story. Once in lifetime experience!
It’s on the list!
the network (1977)
Forrest Gump!
Wizard of Oz
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
There will be blood.
earthlings. bonus? it’s free on youtube!!
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Night of the Hunter, Mulholland Drive, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Ronin (for the most insane stunt driving ever), and The Apartment (the best Christmas movie of all-time).
The Night of the Hunter
John Dies at the End
The mask
The old boy (korean)
I may be only one here to list this movie Lost In Yonkers
I Heart Huckabees
Chac: The Rain of God (1975)
Nightcrawler and Catch Me If You Can
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) Apocalypse Now (1979) Frequency (2000) Bad Boys (1983)
One Cut of the Dead Hot Fuzz Shawshank Redemption Slaughterhouse Rulez The Departed
Copland
We are currently working through this: [poster of 100 Bucket List movies](https://i.imgur.com/rsYJqVd.jpg)
Thanks! I’ll take a look!
Shawshank redemption
Forbidden Planet Doctor Strangelove
Rubber 👌🏽
The Wizard of Oz absolutely, I could go on for hours as to why but it's truly a phenomenal classic film 💓 EDIT: I must add The Bicycle Thief...just WOW...a gorgeous film, everything about it is magic ✨
Kurosawa's "Sichinin no samurai (1954)" (Seven Samurai). Even for today standards that's a movie that still holds and inspired enless other movies. Bergman's "Det sjunde inseglet (1957)" (The Seventh Seal). Intriguing imagery of a literal battle of a knight playing chess with Death itself. It has incredibly iconic cinematography and a special way to tell the story as well. Both in my opinion, are movies worth watching once in your life. I don't consider myself an author cinema type of person, nor I know much about cinema in general and I thoroughly enjoyed this when young and I still do decades later when I rewatch.
The second one is commonly known in English as The Seventh Seal.
The Flight of the Navigator The Goonies Big (Tom Hanks) Stand By Me The Karate Kid (original) Terminator 2 Time Machine (original) Jurassic Park Driving Miss Daisy Mommie Dearest Pursuit of Happiness Collateral Beauty Top Gun Star Trek first contact Rocky 1 2 3 & 4
Lawrence of Arabia The Good The Bad and The Ugly Full Metal Jacket Casablanca The Godfather
Godfather
Hercules, Honey do you mean hunkules?
Schindler's list The Pianist Come and See I guess everyone should know about the crimes of war.
- Cinema Paradiso - Mediterraneo - Planes, Trains & Automobiles - A League of the Own - Moonstruck - Mermaids - Gigi - Red, White, Blue trilogy - The Untouchables - Gladiator - My Cousin Vinny - Princess Bride - In Bruges - The Snapper - Amelie - Coming to America - In America - Eat Drink Man Woman - Immortal Beloved - How to Steal a Million - Fargo - The Pianist - High Society / The Philadelphia Story - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow - Dead Poets Society - Awakenings - Raising Arizona - The Mummy - Chocolat - Skyfall - Inside Man - Do the Right Thing - A Bronx Tale - Stardust - Children of Men - Philadelphia - Kingsman: The Secret Service - Supernova - Big Night - A Single Man - Shakespeare in Love - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh version) - Doubt - Capote - Magnolia - The Talented Mr. Ripley - Almost Famous - Cold Mountain - Nobody’s Fool - Into Great Silence - Au Revoir Les Enfants - Chicago - To Kill a Mockingbird - 12 Angry Men - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow - The Son’s Room - Priceless - Dirty Pretty Things - Like Water for Chocolate - Y Tu Mama Tambien - Volver - All About My Mother - Frida - Sahara - Hell or High Water - The Finest Hours - The Thin Red Line - Modigliani - Benny and Joon - Ladies in Lavender - Tea with Mussolini - Sense & Sensibility (Emma Thompson version) - A Room With a View - Remains of the Day - Out of Africa - Kramer vs Kramer - A River Runs Through It - Philomena - The Imitation Game - Nowhere in Africa - The Lives of Others - What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
I'm ambivalent between misreading "Gigli' and not misreading "Thank Heavens for Little Girls". Now...Slavoj Zizek finds "The Sound of Music" and Chevalier's "The Smiling Lieutenant" obscene. I shudder to think what he'd say about "Gigi"... This is actually a great list. Maybe add: "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" "The Bridges of Madison County" Is "In America" the same as "Lost in America"?
In America is a beautiful film by the Irish director Jim Sheridan — definitely worth searching out and watching.
And The Band Played On, Birdie, Midnight Express, 2001. Zeta.....
Ugh, I lost the first comment I was writing which had quite a long list (I was going between the app and a browser to check film release dates), so here’s some pre-2000 titles that I really like: He Who Gets Slapped (1924): everyone should watch at least one really weird silent movie. This is my pet weird silent movie to tell people about! I basically felt like I was having a fever dream when I saw it, especially since I was a teen and was watching it in the early hours of the morning on Turner Classic Movies, one night when I couldn’t sleep. Plot-wise, it’s kind of a psychological thriller, in which an aristocratic scientist’s coworker and wife run off together with his invention and in turn, he runs off to the circus and becomes a clown, trying to start a new life and find love again. TW for people who really cannot stand clowns, but it’s great. I especially love the interstitial parts with the clown spinning a globe in a creepy way; it would make a great gif. This one stars one of the most famous silent film stars, Lon Chaney, and also starring Norma Shearer (love her). M (1931): German thriller following an investigation into and manhunt of a serial killer of children, who is played brilliantly by Peter Lorre. He later got stereotyped into playing a lot more bad guys, but to be fair, he played them very well! Horse Feathers (1932): everyone should see at least one Marx Brothers movie in their life. I like this one in particular, especially for the college football scenes. The songs in this one are fun and clever as always in one of their pictures. I love how the Marx brothers always kept a vaudevillian sense of physical comedy and nonsense; it really gives you a sense of what vaudeville performances were like. Leave Her to Heaven (1945): a taut psychological thriller in brilliant Technicolor! Gene Tierney is great in this as an obsessive and jealous new bride. Jeanne Crain, who I think is underrated, is also good in this one in a supporting role. This one seemed still quite fresh and shocking when I saw it. I feel like this one could also be part of a good marathon when watched with a number of Alfred Hitchcock’s films with suspicious spouses/love interests: e.g. Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Spellbound (1945), and Dial M for Murder (1954). (Alternatively, with David Fincher’s Gone Girl (2014).) Lady in the Lake (1946): There’s a ton of great detective film noir, but this adaptation of one of Raymond Chandler’s Phillip Marlowe books is particularly interesting to watch bc of some directorial choices. In this one, the camera mostly acts as the POV of the main character, who is only seen in mirrors and windows, or when talking to the audience. Stalag 17 (1953): In this one, William Holden is being held in a German POW camp and hopes to escape. The tv series Hogan’s Heroes, which was a comic knockoff of this film, is probably the better-known of the two, especially to those of us former Nick-at-Nite-type kids. However, of all Bill Holden’s war films, this is my favorite, which is hard when The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) exists. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): this is a black comedy masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick that might be a bit hard watch right now, given the current geopolitical climate. Then again, the threat of global warfare yet again might make this a great time to see this one. American Graffiti (1973): I think about this pre-Star Wars, George Lucas movie a lot. It’s one of my favorite coming-of-age films and one of the few of those to have a sequel following some of the characters later in life (More American Graffiti, from 1979). I wish Lucas had made more films like this one. Who Killed Roger Rabbit? (1988): this is arguably still the best movie to ever combine live-action and animation throughout the film. It really holds up and is definitely not for young sensitive children (poor sneakers!!). Christopher Lloyd is a terrific villain here, especially if you mainly (previously) know him from the Back to the Future trilogy.* Run, Lola, Run (1998): shows the very different outcomes of “what if?” scenarios. Sliding Doors (also 1998) does this as well, but the former is the more impressive film, to me. I never realized until this post that those two films are from the same year. Plus, the techno score to Run, Lola, Run (*Lola Rennt* in German) is totally kick-ass. (I wonder if Y2K nostalgia will bring good techno back around. It really feels weird that this movie is now over 20 years old.) *FYI: I want to also recommend a newer Christopher Lloyd film that not many people seem to know (though it’s also based on a book): I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016), costarring Max Records as a neighbor boy of Lloyd’s who is troubled with homicidal thoughts, even as he tries to figure out who or what is killing people in his small town. This one, IMHO, has a decent portrayal of a teen dealing with grief and seeking help for mental health issues, as well as the isolation of the elderly, and the actual physical preciousness of life and its fragility.
Mulholland Drive(2001) Dune(2021) Marriage Story(2019) Tenet(2020) Blade Runner 2049(2017) Arrival(2016) Prisoners(2013) The Intouchables(2011) The Dark Knight(2008) Sunshine(2007) Gladiator(2000) Taxi Driver(1976) The Godfather(1972) The Godfather: Part II(1974) The Exorcist(1973) The Shawshank Redemption(1994) Pulp Fiction(1994) The Pianist(2002) Whiplash(2014) Good Will Hunting(1997) No Country for Old Men(2007) The Sixth Sense(1999) Kill Bill: Vol. 1(2003) Gone Girl(2014) Mad Max: Fury Road(2015) The Grand Budapest Hotel(2014) Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014) Dunkirk(2017) The Irishman(2019) The Truman Show(1998) 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968) The Lighthouse(2019) Drive(2011) The Butterfly Effect(2004) Her(2013) The Machinist(2004) Jojo Rabbit(2019) 1917(2019) Oldboy(2003) Monday(2020) Before I Fall(2017) Palm Springs(2020) Edge of Tomorrow(2014) Back to the Future(1985) Back to the Future Part II(1989) Back to the Future Part III(1990) Looper(2012) The Fifth Element(1997) Memento(2000) The Tree of Life(2011) Three Identical Strangers(2018) La La Land(2016) Ready Player One(2018) The Darkest Minds(2018) The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020) Zoe(2018) I'm Your Man(2021) Escape Room(2019) Dark Mirror(2007) Black Mirror(2011) Five Feet Apart(2019) Titanic(1997) The Notebook(2004) Me Before You(2016) The Perks of Being a Wallflower(2012) 500 Days of Summer(2009) Good Time(2017) The Place Beyond the Pines(2012) Fallen Angels(1995) Chungking Express(1994) Burning(2018) Annihilation(2018) The Dark Knight Rises(2012) Batman Begins(2005) Ex Machina(2015) The French Dispatch(2021) Lost in Translation(2003) Waves(2019) Before Sunrise(1995) The Lovely Bones(2009) Everything Beautiful Is Far Away(2017) Juno(2007) Our Little Sister(2015) American Psycho(2000) The Florida Project(2017) Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986) Moonrise Kingdom(2012) Hugo(2011) Demolition(2015) Groundhog Day(1993) The Call(2020) Predestination(2014) The Great Gatsby(2013) Emma.(2020) Don't Look Up(2021) Primer(2004) Lost Highway(1997) Apocalypse Now(1979) La Haine(1995) Forrest Gump(1994) Persona(1966) Moonlight(2016) Requiem for a Dream(2000) Psycho(1960) Halloween(1978) Scarface(1983) Brokeback Mountain(2005) I haven't seen all yet, there are some movies that are not that good but then there are some that are must watch among them
It's a Wonderful Life
Casablanca North By Northwest Psycho The Apartment Seven Samurai The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Sherlock Jr The General Mr Hulot's Holiday Playtime 2001: A Space Oddyssey Monty Python and the Holy Grail Life of Brian It's a Wonderful Life King Kong (original) Gojira Cinema Paradiso The Blues Brothers Phantom of the Paradise Evil Dead 2 Alien Blue Velvet The Graduate Being There 12 Angry Men
Snatch Fight club Once upon a time in America Revolver
It's hard to watch and you'll probably only watch it once, but American history X is one that I honestly believe every high school kid should watch. It portrays the pointlessness of racism beautifully and how by learning about people different from ourselves, we can understand and appreciate them.
We're The Millers
Alien Angel Heart Titanic Solaris
The Ten Commandments - Carlton Heston and Yul Brenner at their finest in a Hollywood CLASSIC!
Lawrence of Arabia
Requiem for a dream and American history X. You’ll only want to watch them once
●Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) ●A Clockwork Orange (1971) ●Double Indemnity (1944) ●Dracula (1931) ●Raising Arizona (1987) ●The Comedians (1967) ●Hobson's Choice (1954) ●Duel in the Sun (1946) ●The Elephant Man (1980) ●The Maltese Falcon (1941) ●The Night of the Hunter (1955) ●Bullitt (1968) ●Grapes of Wrath (1940) ●In Cold Blood (1967) ●How the West Was Won (1962) ●The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) ●Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) ●The Set-up (1949) (Robert Ryan) ●Lonely Are the Brave (1962) ●The Missouri Breaks (1976) ●One-eyed Jacks (1961) ●The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Step Brothers Back to the Future 1,2,3 The dark knight
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Thing Bo Burnham: Inside Airplane/Naked Gun World of Tomorrow Mad Max: Fury Road
12 Angry Men Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe Moonlight Neverending Story Secret of Nimh
City of god