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):

  • Young Poisoner’s Handbook

  • Full Metal Jacket

  • Life of Brian

  • Holy Grail

  • Sunset Boulevard

  • Curse of the Golden Flower

  • The Nightingale

  • Downfall

  • Amadeus

  • Once Were Warriors

  • Dusk to Dawn

  • Vupware@lemmy.zip
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite is a masterful film in every aspect. See also:

    The Lighthouse Pulp Fiction

  • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    I am not sure if its exactly what you are lookomg for by some random movie recs. Some of these may not be great but are just movies I enjoy for one reason or another.

    • True Lies
    • Varsity Blues
    • Scott Pilgrim vs the World
    • Coraline
    • Shawshang Redemption
    • Jurassic Park
    • The Princess Diaries
    • Speed Racer
    • Das Boot
    • Maverick
    • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    • Lost in Translation
  • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    5 hours ago

    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.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
    8·
    13 hours ago

    I’m saving this thread to make a watch list, but I’ll add a comedy I haven’t seen mentioned: The Blues Brothers

  • andrewkfb@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    13 hours ago

    Here ya go!

    • Ghost in the Shell 1998
    • Hard Boiled
    • Inception
    • Aladdin 1992
    • It’s a Mad Mad Mad World
    • The Raid
    • Coco
    • It’s a Wonderful Life
    • Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
    • Godzilla Minus One
    • The Lord of the Rings trilogy
    • Mask of Zorro
    • Searching 2018
    • Carnival of Souls
    • Casino Royale
    • The Dark Knight
    • The Social Network
    • Angel’s Egg
    • Wicker Man 1975
    • Wild Robot
    • Idiocracy
    • Arrival

    This list is in no particular order. And it’s admittedly all over the place in time and genre. Feel free to use it as a grab bag rather than a checklist.

    • adhocfungus@midwest.social
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Make sure you get the original version of Ghost in the Shell. I recently decided to rewatch and could only find my 2008 remaster DVD, where they replaced some scenes with CGI. It was absolute trash, and my DVD didn’t seem to have the unaltered version available.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    18 hours ago
    • LA Confidential
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
    • Chinatown
    • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    • Alien
    • Wrath of Khan (Director’s Cut)
    • Moulin Rouge
    • Children of Men
    • Gattaca
    • The Usual Suspects
    • Fight Club
    • The Thirteenth Floor

    And probably a thousand more I’m not thinking of off the top of my head.

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    1 day ago
    • There Will be blood.
    • No country for old men
    • Sicario
    • Anora
    • Amadeus
    • The Big Short
    • Children of Men
    • Collateral
    • A Complete Unknown
    • The Departed
    • Djanjo Unchained
    • Dune 1 & 2
    • Ex Machina
    • Fracture
    • Gone Girl
    • Good Time
    • Guardians of the Galaxy
    • Her
    • Heretic
    • Hotel Rwanda
    • The Killer
    • Lord of War
    • The Menu
    • The Pianist
    • Terminator 2
    • Uncut Gems
    • Whiplash

    Anything with Daniel Day-Lewis really. Or nothing by Aaron Sorkin. If bored and wanting to watch something familiar I like the Bourne (Jason) films.

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    Most of Denis Villenueve’s filmography are must watches:

    • Prisoners
    • Arrival
    • Sicario
    • Blade Runner 2049
    • Dune 1 and 2
    • Incendies

    Korean movies:

    • The Handmaiden
    • Parasite
    • Old Boy
    • The Vengence Trilogy
  • steeznson@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 day ago
    • La Haine
    • City of God
    • Alien
    • The Shining
    • 2001 Space Odyssey
    • The Exorcist
    • Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    • Blue Velvet
    • 12 Angry Men

    Edit:

    • The 39 Steps (Hitchcock original)
    • The Third Man
    • Some Like It Hot
    • Royal Tenenbaums

    Edit2:

    • Shaun of the Dead
    • The Act of Killing
    • Nosferatu (1979)
    • Yojimbo
    • Rashomon
    • A Serious Man

    (Will stop making edits)

    • kelpie_is_trying@lemmy.world
      2·
      24 hours ago

      I was hesitant about adding Blue Velvet to my list because it’s so…‘difficult’, let’s say. Lynch knocked it out of the park (as usual), but it’s just so deeply unsettling on so many interesting levels. Thinking about it tho, that might be exactly why I should have added it. Eh. Either way, great picks!

      And please continue making edits lol. You’ve got good taste and I plan on checking this thread over the the next couple days just to compare notes/see what I want to watch next.

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Ooh, my kids are heading deep into teenager territory so this feels like my chosen, specialist subject. Avoiding OP’s picks (the Python stuff would be on my list too), and in no particular order:

    Bladerunner (Directors cut)
    The Blues Brothers
    This is Spinal Tap
    Alien
    Aliens
    Terminator
    Terminator 2
    Seven Samurai
    Yojimbo (+ A Fistful of Dollars)
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Schindler’s List
    12 Angry Men
    Rear Window
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    Memento
    Dune (the Lynch 1980’s one)
    The Princess Bride
    The Cornetto Trilogy (Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End + Baby Driver)
    Die Hard
    Pulp Fiction
    Fight Club
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Se7en
    The Usual Suspects
    2001 A Space Odyssey
    Platoon
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    Trainspotting
    My Neighbour Totoro
    Do The Right Thing
    The Thing (John Carpenter version)

    Some they’ve seen, most they haven’t yet.