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

    • steeznson@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • steeznson@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s definitely underrated due to a Seinfeld Effect like phenomenon where everyone feels like they’ve seen it - even when they haven’t.

  • Malta Soron@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 months 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
  • andrewkfb@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months 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
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      2 months 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.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
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    2 months 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
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    2 months 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.