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

  • Kizzie@thelemmy.club
    1·
    2 days ago
    1. Wild tales
    2. Black mirror

    Funny, for me there are more items in Must read List than Must watch.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 days 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

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    6 days 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.

  • greenbelt@lemy.lolEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago
    • 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)
  • andrewkfb@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    6 days 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
      4·
      6 days 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.

  • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    6 days 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
    • FritzApollo@lemmy.todayOP
      2·
      5 days ago

      I’d watched Dead Poets Society years and years ago, then watched it again yesterday. Very powerful movie that touched on themes I’d missed the first time around (probably too young). Thanks for the suggestion!

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    7 days 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
    9·
    7 days 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
  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    7 days 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.

  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago
    • 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