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

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

• 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.

I checked that no one has posted these yet:

• Dallas Buyers Club
• The Trial of the Chicago 7
• The Prestige

The last unicorn

Jurassic Park

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.

1. Airplane
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Shrek
4. Secretary
5. Dead Poets Society
6. Bo Burnham: Inside

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

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

Big Trouble in Little China

Tank Girl

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Princess Bride

Labyrinth

Snatch

And watching Napoleon Dynamite with a 10-12 year old is HILARIOUS.

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

The Lighthouse Pulp Fiction

Pacific Rim. They never made any sequels though, so don't bother looking.

• 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)

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

In no particular order, and not an exhaustive list

• The Big Lebowski
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Sin City
• Lord of The Rings Trilogy
• Star wars Original Trilogy & Rogue One
• Casablanca
• Mad Max Fury Road
• Arrival
• Pulp Fiction
• All the Studio Ghibli movies, but Especially Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited away, and Grave of the Fireflies
• Blazing Saddles
• Young Frankenstein
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• Monty Python & the Holy Grail
• Jurassic Park
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Blade Runner
• Blade Runner 2049
• Mary & Max
• Akira
• Rocky
• The Godfather 1 & 2, and at that point I guess you might as well watch 3 as well
• Rashomon
• Chinatown
• Jaws
• All quiet on the western front
• Psycho
• Kill Bill 1&2
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Forest Gump
• Fight Club
• The Matrix (just 1)
• Silence of the Lambs
• Taxi Driver
• Back to the future trilogy
• The Usual Suspects
• Apocalypse Now
• Indiana Jones Trilogy
• Dune parts 1&2
• The Shining
• Dredd
• Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Room
• A Clockwork Orange
• Gone with the Wind
• V for Vendetta
• Trainspotting
• Fargo
• Ben Hur
• Children of Men
• Shoot 'em Up
• Logan *The Princess Bride
• Old Yeller
• John Wick series
• Most Disney/Pixar movies
• Most Don Bluth movies

I'm going to restrict this list to older movies and imports since there's already most of Hollywood's best listed by other people.

• Ran (1985): Japanese take on King Lear. Kurosawa.
• 12 Angry Men (1957): Fonda has doubts about the man charged. Sidney Lumet.
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962): Based on actual WWI British officer T.E. Lawrence, but more story than history. David Lean.
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975): Jack Nicholson leads this Milos Forman movie about what it was like in mental hospitals (based on Ken Kesey's book of same name -- see also Keroac book On the Road for more of that generation).
• The Man Who Would Be King (1975) : Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in John Houston movie based on Ruyard Kipling story. There are more famous names to pack in there, but mostly the story is great (though told from a supremely Colonial POV).
• Grand Illusion (1937): French Jean Renoir film classic about WWI.
• Beauty and the Beast (1946): French Jean Cocteau masterpiece of the fairytalke before it got Disney-fied.
• The Tin Drum (1979): German Volker Schlöndorff film of Günter Grass story about a boy who won't grow up.
• Amarcord (1973): Italian Federico Fellini film about growing up. You could sub in Nights of Cabiria or Satyricon as a starter Fellini pic.
• Kes (1970): British Ken Loach film about a boy and a bird.
• Winter Light (1963): Swedish Ingmar Bergman about a priest struggling with faith. The 7th Seal probably a better place to ease in to Bergman, though.
• A Man for All Seasons (1966): British Fred Zinnemann telling of how Sir Thomas More was stuck between his Church and his King. For an alternate take on same chunk of history, see Wolf Hall.

There's so many more. Rosselini's Open City, Jodorosky's El Topo/Santa Sangre, Errol Morris documentaries (Fog of War, etc.), Les Blank docs (from music to Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe), oh! and Herzog flicks! I should stop.

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

• 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.

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