I’m not a huge movie fan, but I want to broaden my horizons a bit. I’ll offer my list (that I’ve rewatched so many times I’m a bit tired of them):
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Young Poisoner’s Handbook
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Full Metal Jacket
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Life of Brian
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Holy Grail
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Sunset Boulevard
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Curse of the Golden Flower
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The Nightingale
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Downfall
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Amadeus
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Once Were Warriors
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Dusk to Dawn
- Wild tales
- Black mirror
Funny, for me there are more items in Must read List than Must watch.
Goodfellas
- Castle in the Sky (for the beautiful hand-drawn art) (also known as Laputa: Castle in the Sky)
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (for the memes)
- Lost Highway
- Session 9
- Blade Runner: The Final Cut
- Speed Racer
- Constantine
- Total Recall (1990)
- Sin City
- Atomic Blonde
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- The Blair Witch Project
- Paranormal Activity
- Strange Darling
- Postal (I know it sucks, but I love it)
- Superbad
I checked that no one has posted these yet:
- Dallas Buyers Club
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
- The Prestige
The last unicorn
Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite is a masterful film in every aspect. See also:
The Lighthouse Pulp Fiction
-Boondock saints
- Joe vs the Volcano
- The Princess Bride
- Monty Python and the holy grail
- Inception
- the matrix
- UHF
- Knives Out
- Groundhog Day
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Various Studio Ghibli movies (spirited away, Howl’s Moving Castle, etc.)
(I’m definitely forgetting some)
UHF is underrated as hell. I really liked Knives Out as well. Groundhog Day is a fucking classic.
Lawrence of Arabia
12 Angry Men
To Kill A Mocking Bird
The Thin Man or any of the sequels
Some Like It Hot
The Fifth Element
Grosse Pointe Blank
Life Boat
2001 Space Odyssey
Singing In The Rain
On The Town
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Stangelove
Young Frankenstein
Kubo and the Two Strings
Apocalypse Now
Guess it depends on what kind of vibe I’m looking for. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is high up on the list. It’s funny and it’s got that noir detective vibe, but a bit more modernized. Considering the movie was released in the early 2000s, I guess it isn’t that modern. Speaking of another movie that isn’t that modern, twelve angry men. I don’t care how often this thing is posted on lists. It’s posted on lists, because it is good. And to follow up something else that is not posted on lists, but is also good. The man from Earth. Do not confuse it with its sequel. The sequel is dog shit. But the man from Earth might be one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. One set films are probably my favorite movies, because it relies heavily on acting and dialogue, not just visuals and special effects. That being said, I do love visuals and special effects, which is why Star Trek First Contact is also high up on that list. But the last movie I’ll reference is also a one set film. The sunset limited. It is a movie directed by Tommy Lee Jones, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Tommy Lee Jones’s character tries to kill himself by jumping in front of a train called the sunset limited. Samuel Jones saves him and brings him back to his apartment to try and talk him out of suicide. The entire movie takes place in this very, very, very small apartment. And is exceptional considering it is two powerhouses of acting, acting opposite one another with an amazing script
I found a few missing!
I personally loved Sunshine. if you are into Scifi; it’s not Interstellar, but it’s great in it’s own right.
Then there are movies that are so bad that they come out on top, the Sharknado series fill that spot for me.
I’m also a big fan of The Machinist, seeing what actors do to their bodies opened my eyes to the dedication they show.
A movie that was so full of suspense for me that I couldn’t watch it to the end in one sitting was The Hunt (2012), a Danish film about Mass Hysteria in a small village after someone gets falsely accused of child molestation.
All other movies that I can recommend are already mentioned in the other lists, and I’ve saved this whole thread for the huge amount of movies I’m still missing.
I second Sunshine, it is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
China Town
Young Guns 1&2
Naked Gun 1,2& 33 1/3
Repo Men
Everything Terry Gilliam ever made.
Ferris Buellers day off
Legend
Kung Pao Enter the Fist
Kung Fu Hustle
Tucker & Dale VS Evil
Evil Dead 1&2
Army of Darkness
American Werewolf in London
Spaceballs
Plains Trains and Automobiles
The Jerk
Beverly Hills Cop 1&2
Lucky Number Sleven
Snatch
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Event Horizon
Shane
Ghost in the Shell - everything
Akira
Vampire Hinter D
Spirited Away
The Irishman
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Real Genius
Tombstone
My Cousin Vinny
High Plains Drifter
Outlaw Josey Wales
Big
LA Story
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Burbs
True Romance
Pump Up the Volume
Heathers
Beetlejuice
Multiplicity
This is a remarkably good list. I know you’re getting a ton of recommendations OP, but this is really a very comprehensive one with an absolutely excellent balance of “real good quality” combined with “easy and rewarding to watch.”
Thanks for the complement!
As much as I love Kung Pao, I would replace it with Airplane because Kung Pao is just so dumb and divisive. I know people who love that movie and I know people who absolutely hated it. You have to be a certain age (under 12 imo) to really appreciate it.
Airplane however, is timeless regardless of how old you are when you first watch it.
Airplane didn’t make my list only because I forgot/didn’t think about it but defiantly should be there.
Really this list is only a small selection of movies I love and could think of right off the bat. I missed a huge portion of great recommendations. Ill leave them for others to fill in as there are a ton of great comments filled with great movies already and im sure there are more to come.
Im bookmarking this thread so I can get some ideas of things I haven’t seen yet or things I must have in my collection.
defiantly
I decided not to comment on “complement”, but now I think you’re doing this on purpose.
One of us only tells lies and the other only truths… Truth be told I’m a shit speller for sure and my unmedicated adhd defiantly doesn’t play nice with dyslexia nor proofreading. If it is something important like legal docs or code documentation i send that shit off to a family member or friend so they can have a good laugh at my expense before they tell me to fuck off and figure it out on my own.
my unmedicated adhd defiantly doesn’t play nice with dyslexia nor proofreading
You know what, I’m going to say that’s the right word in this context.
A diverse list of my some films I like, in no particular order:
- Memento.
- The Anchorman.
- LOTR extended editions.
- Terminator 1, 2, and Salvation (Yeah, those are my guilty pleasures. You can skip the 3rd and ignore the ones after Salvation, imho).
- The Usual Suspects.
- Zoolander.
- Inglorious Basterds.
- The Matrix.
- The Abyss (1989).
- Parasite
Memento is shockingly left off most lists. Idk why it isn’t remembered as one of the best films of its decade.
You see, most movie critics have this condition…
Big Trouble in Little China
Tank Girl
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Princess Bride
Labyrinth
Time Bandits
I scrolled way too far to find this.
Plus Fifth Element, Buckaroo Banzai, Hackers, Blazing Saddles, …
