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Essential movies to watch
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The Princess Bride
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- The Big Lebowski
- Inception
Edit: Can't believe I left these out:
- High Fidelity
- Princess Bride
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Because I haven't seen it mentioned:
They Live
I grew up with Duke Nukem and later found a lot of his quotes were from that movie.
- The Fifth Element
- Big Trouble in Little China
- LOtR
- Akira
- Up
Princess Mononoke
- The Thing Carpenter's version
- Shawshank Redemption
- Yojimbo
- The Seventh Seal
- Duck Soup
- No Country For Old Men
- The Naked Gun
- Back to the Future
- The Guest
- Shrek
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Blues Brothers
- Dark City
- The rifftrax version of Jaws
- Double Indemnity
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Hot Fuzz
- The Dead Don't Die
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Free Solo
- In the Loop
- Evil Dead original
- Office Space
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- The Cabin in the Woods
- Clue
- North by Northwest
- Brick
- The Sting
- Return of the Jedi
- Casablanca
- The Third Man
I fucking love In the Loop, but it took me a few viewings to understand what the hell was going on. I should watch it again.
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Most of mine are already listed but here's a couple more.
Army of Darkness
Dogma
The Protector
Clue
Full Metal Jacket
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
Howl's Moving Castle
Four Rooms
Pulp Fiction
- Caddyshack
- Animal House
- Goodfellas
- The Godfather
- Shawshank Redemption
- Schindler’s List
- The Shining
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Big Trouble in Little China
Princess Bride
Romancing the Stone
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Memento
American History X and The Green Mile
No particular order. Also, it’s movies that I watched, can’t speak on essentials that I might be missing.
It’s kinda hard to make a list on essentials tho. Because your personal taste obviously plays a big role. I can’t see my girlfriend liking more than 10 percent of those…
Schindlers List
Gladiator
No country for old men
The grand Budapest hotel
The big Lebowski
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers
Star Wars (the original one)
Requiem for a dream
Pulp fiction
The good, the bad, the ugly
The lives of others
La vita é Bella
All quiet on the western front (1930 version)
The dark knight
The Truman Show
2001: Space odyssey
Alien
7 Samurai
Princess Mononoke
Trainspotting
Boyz N the Hood
Scarface
The Godfather 1, 2
The Matrix
Clockwork Orange
Shutter Island
Kingdom of Heaven
Wolf of Wall Street
Honorable mentions because they are popular and everybody always talks about them (I like a lot of them, too. Don’t consider them essentials tho):
Inception
Interstellar
Fight Club
Harry Potter
Return of the King
Rest of Star Wars (whatever people consider the good ones at last)
Saving Private Ryan
Django Unchained
Toy Story
The Lion King
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- Airplane!
- Ghostbusters
- ~~The Naked Gun~~ (Already mentioned)
- Gremlins + Gremlins 2
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom + Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Great Dictator
- Forrest Gump
- American History X
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Rear Window
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Braveheart
- Highlander
- ~~Resevoir Dogs~~ (Already mentioned)
- ~~Children of Men~~ (Already mentioned)
- ~~My Neighbor Totoro~~ (Already mentioned)
- The Exorcist
- Rambo: First Blood
- Groundhog Day
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
- Scent of a Woman
- Predator
- The Thing ('82)
- Hot Fuzz
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Spirited Away
- Taxi Driver
- The Matrix
- Unforgiven
- Nosferatu
- Suspiria ('77)
- 12 Angry Men
- Psycho
- The Wizard of Oz
Donnie Darko
Office Space
Equilibrium
Amélie
Back to the Future
Big Trouble in Little China
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil
A Clockwork Orange
12 Monkeys
The Abominable Dr.Phibes
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Just off the top of my head: Alien and Aliens are wonderful, Apocalypse Now needs no introduction, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and finally Oppenheimer, which is one of the best movies ever made in my opinion (what can I say, I'm a sucker for an incredibly well-told story).
"Should have seen" is strange, I'll go with titles that, if you are into cinema probably you have heard about?
Citizen Kane
The Seventh Sigil
Apocalypse Now
Vertigo (Any Hitchcock movie really)
Seven Samurai (Any Kurosawa movie really)
Pretty much anything from Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin (I guess Modern Times)
The Godfather part I & II
Taxi Driver
On the Waterfront (Peak Marlon Brando stuff)
Some Truffaut stuff (I guess "Day for Night" would be the most relevant here)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind to get pretty much everything interesting from the Spielberg side of things
Man with a Camera (ok this one is not something I espect any conema lover to know, it's a very early montage wonder from Russia, always good to get back there and get reminded progress doesn't always go forward)
La Dolce Vita
2001: A Space Odyssey
Shining
A Clockwork Orange
Reservoir Dogs
Lost Highway (The better Mulholland Drive)
Blade Runner
The Matrix
Star Wars
There's some good newer stuff but it's much less "popular" so it wouldn't make sense to expect anybody to know them. Very little new stuff looks like has the staying power to be relevant years down the line.
I guess The Lord of the Rings? But I consider it more of a great book that got a quality adaptation than a ground breaking stepping stone of cinema.
No country for old men, probably.
12 Angry Men
My Neighbour Totoro
Memento
Wall-E
The Truman Show
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Alien, Aliens, Alien3.
Rashomon
Man with a Movie Camera
Battleship Potemkin
Metropolis
The Lost Boys
The Matrix
Withnail & I
Requeim for a Dream
Synecdoche, New York
Hero
Let the Bullets Fly
Jackie Brown
Anomalisa
The Skin I Live in
Parrallel Mothers
Martyrs
Amélie
Taxi Driver
Etneral Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Lighthouse
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
A New Hope, Empire, RotJ (despecialised, or original cuts
Bladerunner, Bladerunner 2049.
The Orphanage
Watership Down
Donnie Darko
American Beauty
I'm All Right, Jack
The Great Dictator
Blow-Up
City of God
The Road, so people should know what to expect in a decade or so.
Krull is one that stays in all my libraries. It's so obscure yet has names like Liam Neeson, Robbie Coltrane, and David Battley. It was my dad's favorite movie.
Office Space - the message was ahead of it's time 12 Angry Men – reactionaries vs rationality
- Lord of The rings Trilogy
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Princess Bride
Yeesh, apologies for crappy formatting
Matrix
Alien/Aliens
Spirited Away
The Dark Knight
The Shining
Heat
Wall-E
Memento
Jurassic Park
Apollo 13
Children of Men
Unbreakable
Hereditary
The Witch
Arrival
Thin Red Line
Sixth Sense
Terminator 2
Primer
Finding Nemo
I could keep going
Santa Sangre (1989)
Little Shop of Horrors (Director's Cut) (1986)
Sorcerer (1977)
The General (1926)
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The Truman Show
Secretary (2002)
Think what you want, this movie has layers of depth to it. Every time I watch it I feel like I learn something new about a character and why they are the way they are.
I can't believe no one has said Tucker and Dale vs Evil yet. It's best if you watch it without knowing anything about it beforehand.
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Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Indiana Jones (first 3 movies)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Puss in Boots: the Last Wish turned out to be really good, imo.
Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Colin (2008), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Metropolis (1927), The Last Man on Earth (1964), and The Crow (1994) are all I can come up with.
Just gonna name a few ones that weren't mentioned yet that I find noteworthy, unique and/or just pure fun:
- The Boy and the Heron (2023)
- Parasite (2019)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
- The Man from Earth (2007)
- Ratatouille (2007)
- Catch Me If You Can (2002)
- The Sixth Sense (2001)
- The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
- Playtime (1967)
I haven't seen it posted here yet so I'd like to add one of my favorites, Big Fish.
Unironically: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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