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·
    10 hours ago
    1. Wild tales
    2. Black mirror

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

  • greenbelt@lemy.lolEnglish
    2·
    3 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)
  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 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·
    4 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.

  • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    4 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
  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 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
  • andrewkfb@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    4 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·
      4 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.

  • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
    321·
    5 days ago

    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

    • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      5 days ago

      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.”

    • impudentmortal@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 days ago

      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.

      • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        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.

        • lunarul@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 days ago

          defiantly

          I decided not to comment on “complement”, but now I think you’re doing this on purpose.

          • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            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.

            • lunarul@lemmy.world
              3·
              4 days ago

              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.

  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
    28·
    5 days ago

    Big Trouble in Little China

    Tank Girl

    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

    Princess Bride

    Labyrinth

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    291·
    5 days ago

    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
    • FritzApollo@lemmy.todayOP
      2·
      3 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!

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    21·
    5 days ago

    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