What are your "must-watch" movies?
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Shaun of the Dead is so good! I can't believe I missed it from my list. Pretty much anything by Edgar Wright is amazing, I even enjoyed Midnight In Soho, which was his weird Giallo horror tribute.
Yeah I need to get round to watching midnight in Soho lol
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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):
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Young Poisoner's Handbook
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Full Metal Jacket
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Life of Brian
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Holy Grail
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Sunset Boulevard
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Curse of the Golden Flower
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The Nightingale
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Downfall
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Amadeus
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Once Were Warriors
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Dusk to Dawn
Jurassic Park
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- 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.
Gattaca and Children of Men are still my top two. Absolute masterpieces that should be seen by everyone.
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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.
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.
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Jurassic Park
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"How dare he call out my low standards!? Doesn't he realize we're only allowed to approve of people's taste, that way nobody is critical about what they waste their money on!? Now let's watch Frozen!"
You're completely incapable of self reflection, eh?
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Maybe this will help you understand what's going on here https://xkcd.com/566/
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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):
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Young Poisoner's Handbook
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Full Metal Jacket
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Life of Brian
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Holy Grail
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Sunset Boulevard
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Curse of the Golden Flower
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The Nightingale
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Downfall
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Amadeus
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Once Were Warriors
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Dusk to Dawn
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
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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.
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I decided not to comment on "complement", but now I think you're doing this on purpose.
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Why no love for The Phantom Menace.
I saw it when it came out and still remember every scene. I completely forgot episodes 2 and 3 to the point that I thought I never actually saw them. So I watched them and realized, oh yeah, I did see them before. And then forgot them again.
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Time Bandits
I scrolled way too far to find this.
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Or you're younger than the posters, lots of these are quite old.
Some of these, despite being great movies, are a very hard watch for someone seeing them for the first time in 2025 if they're not a hard-core movie buff.
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My unpopular opinion is that Up has an amazing 10/10 opening sequence, and is a 5 (at best) for the rest of the movie. Talking dogs, a weird cartoon bird, standard Disney kidschlock.
I would respectfully disagree. Spoilers ahead for a 16 year old movie.
I think while the rest of the movie has some fantasy elements and requires some suspension of disbelief, it's ultimately about Carl's personal growth and being able to figuratively and literally let go of his wife's death.
Also, when Ellie died, it was like Carl's social life died with her. By the end of the film, Carl becomes a part of the community instead of angry and isolated. In the at way, it's also about a found family with him becoming a father figure to Russell and taking in Dug.
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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
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Dusk to Dawn
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.
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I decided not to comment on "complement", but now I think you're doing this on purpose.
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.
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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
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Amadeus
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Once Were Warriors
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Dusk to Dawn
-Boondock saints
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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.
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.
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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
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Dusk to Dawn
Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite is a masterful film in every aspect. See also:
The Lighthouse
Pulp Fiction -
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Aliens Earth is pretty good so far.
The question was about movies.
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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.
I second Sunshine, it is one of the best movies I've ever seen.
