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I’d add Saving Private Ryan to the list.

The opening sequence is just abhorrent and showcases the reality of war far better than any other war movie I have seen.

Flow - if you like cats and beautiful animation.

Dave Made A Maze - is a fun watch with good writing.

Death Of Stalin - will be funny to you if you like British comedy.

Prospect - interesting scifi with Pedro Pascal (who I mistook for Nathan Fillion till I looked the cast up, lmao)

Triangle - well done time travel fuckery

Arq - more time travel fuckery

Primer - yet more time travel fuckery

Edit: pretty sure the title of the post has changed, or I somehow just didn't notice it fully before? Idk, none of the movies I've listed are 'must watch' they're just fun watches. I don't think any film is really a must watch.

There are way to few people recommending The Lord of the Rings Extended Editions. I recently rewatched them after not seeing them for a decade and I was surprised by how much growing older allowed me to better recognize the themes in the story. My wife watched them for the first time with me and she said they're the best movies she's ever seen.

I'm more into just about anything animated, so my list is absolutely biased against most any live action film:

• Prince of Egypt ( Pixar's last good film before they started flying off a cliff, in my opinion )

• An American Tail ( Fivek Goes West as well, but the first one is definitely better )

• The Land Before Time ( specifically movies 1 & 5 since they're my favorites of the overdone franchise )

• Secret of NIMH

I can't think of any others off the top of my head that aren't your standard 1970s animated Robin Hood ( the dosney one ) or Zootopia, but I can't say I'd put them up there despite how much I adore those movies.

Ones I haven’t seen mentioned so far:

• Rashomon
• Dr. Strangelove
• Princess Mononoke
• Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
• Ran

Alien, Aliens, Alien 3. Two different movies that are great, then how to make a movie bad.

Casablanca

Adding in some documentaries, I'd highly recommending watching these climbing docs as a trilogy to understand the scope of what's being achieved as well as understanding the different approaches to the sport:

The Dawn Wall: Introduces you to climbing legends such as Tommy Caldwell and the difficulty of the sport, with the main focus being one climb in Yosemite.

Free Solo: Takes the dawn wall and makes it look entry level, focuses on Alex Honnold who climbs 'free solo' meaning without ropes or a partner.

The Alpinist: Difficult to put into words, focuses on an almost completely unknown climber called Marc-André Leclerc who is to climbing as Michael Phelps is to swimming. This guy completes climbs even the greatest in the sport consider far from humanly achievable, with part of the doc being a battle to even find the guy to film as he doesn't care for media attention or fame for his climbs.

The docs all contribute to the understanding of what drives the people pushing the bar of what's considered possible, and in the subsequent docs the previous climbers appear frequently in interviews that adds a kind of continuum which is why I love these 3 together rather than as individual pieces.

A few nobody has mentioned:

• A Mighty Wind
• Best in Show
• Dumb and Dumber
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Moonrise Kingdom

Just taking this opportunity to recommend you tengers

Geez everyone's got a list! I got just one movie I watch over and over.

FIGHT CLUB

Young Frankenstein Labyrinth Last Unicorn Reservoir Dogs The Crow Hard Boiled

• Rubber
• Fantastic Planet
• Willy Wonka
• Heavy Metal

The wicker man (1973)

Shaun of the dead

The Shawshank redemption

The thing