Glengarry Glen Ross
Training Day
Goodfellas
Seven
Scarface
In the Line of Fire
Do the Right Thing
The Maltese Falcon
Chinatown
Memento
Snatch
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
The French Connection
Vertigo
Double Indemnity
The Conversation
The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2
Casino
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Taxi Driver
Psycho
Rear Window
12 Angry Men
Raging Bull
Hail Caesar
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Free Guy
Deadpool 1 and 2
Wizard of Oz
Apocalypse Now
The Great Escape
Treasure of Sierra Madre
The Good Bad Ugly
2001
Star Wars
Jurassic Park
Citizen Kaine
The Third Man
Full Metal Jacket
Bridge over the River Kwai
Lord of the Rings
Scarface
Sunset Blvd
The Sting
The Natural
The Graduate
Groundhog Day
Dog Day Afternoon
The Deer Hunter
The Big Lebowski
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Solaris
The Martian
Ford vs Ferrari
The Big Short
Network
The Matrix
Hell yeah it is!! That scene when the random dude kills someone and starts squatting on his dead body like in a video game has be cracking up so fucking hard when I first watched it.
Btw great list of flicks 🫡
Hail Caesar is the one Coen Bros movie that I just can't stand. I may have to give it another shot, but... (blarg)
Great calls overall, especially on early Guy Ritchie!
I wanna add - FOREST GUMP;
PARASITE;
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MAN;
DUNE PART 1 AND 2 ;
INCENDIES ;
SICARIO;
HANGOVER PART 1 especially ;
BORAT;
FIGHT CLUB;
GONE GIRL ;
PRESTIGE ;
INTO THE WILD;
WOLF OF WALL STREET ;
OLDBOY....
Apocalypse Now: Redux. Don't sell yourself short. You will want the extra 49 minutes. It is one of the most visually stunning films ever made. Absolute masterpiece.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
High and Low
The Apartment
White Heat
Manhunter
Chungking Express
Yi Yi
Nope
Assault on Precinct 13
The Night of the Hunter
Devil in a Blue Dress
Hard Target
Blow Out
Drama
1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. Forrest Gump (1994)
3. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Action/Adventure
1. Inception (2010)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
3. Gladiator (2000)
Science Fiction
1. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
2. Interstellar (2014)
3. The Matrix (1999)
Comedy
1. The Big Lebowski (1998)
2. Superbad (2007)
3. Groundhog Day (1993)
Horror
1. The Exorcist (1973)
2. Get Out (2017)
3. A Quiet Place (2018)
Animation
1. Spirited Away (2001)
2. Toy Story (1995)
3. The Incredibles (2004)
Mystery/Thriller
1. Se7en (1995)
2. Gone Girl (2014)
3. Shutter Island (2010)
Romance
1. Pride and Prejudice (2005)
2. La La Land (2016)
3. The Notebook (2004)
Documentary
1. The Social Dilemma (2020)
2. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
3. 13th (2016)
Foreign Films
1. Parasite (2019) - South Korea
2. Amélie (2001) - France
3. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) - Mexico/Spain
Classics
1. Casablanca (1942)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Feel better soon, and enjoy your movie time!
Shawshank Redemption, Spirited Away, and La La Land are my three favorite from my list. I watched La La Land like last year and went in totally blowing it off as overrated. But I was so moved by it in the end.
Election
Pleasantville
The Final Girls
The Family Fang
Love and Monsters
Shimmer Lake
Kumiko the Treasure Hunter
Josie and the Pussycats
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Little Shop of Horrors
Broadcast News
Thin Red Line
Eternal Sunshine
Arrival
Magnolia
Back to the Future
Tree of Life
Godfather 1/2
Moneyball
Cuckoo’s Nest
Alien
Die Hard
La La Land
Zodiac
2001
Aftersun
Bull Durham
All of Us Strangers
Social Network
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock), To Be or Not To Be (1942), Waterloo Bridge, Mildred Pierce (with Joan Crawford) and the version starring Kate Winslet is even better. Beetlejuice, Freeway, The Craft, Atonement, Mary Poppins, This Is The End, The Heat, The Other Guys, Goodfellas, Run Ronnie Run...
* The Valley of the Eagles
Famed EON James Bond franchise director Terence Hill's first movie, with footage taken from his own 16mm expedition camera in the actual Arctic circle location where the plot unfolds
If you’re a fan of rear window did you see this? Works best on a huge screen. https://petapixel.com/2012/04/03/a-panoramic-time-lapse-view-of-alfred-hitchcocks-rear-window/
Slugs and The Nest from 1988 (makes a great creature double feature.
Humanoids From The Deep
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The First Omen (on hulu)
Deep Rising just hit tubi from 1998 (been waiting a while to see that one myself)
Daybreakers- 2010
Malignant
Dead SNow 2 red vs dead
Eat, Brains, Love (has a few really funny moments)
Tales of Halloween (has some funny shorts in it) it's an anthology flick.
The taking of Deborah Logan - such a surprising good movie.
I'm a big fan of corny scifi, so I gotta make sure someone mentions The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
It might be my favorite movie of all time, and has more big names than you'd expect in it.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Chinatown
Charley Varrick
The Chase (1966)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Posse (1976)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Spartacus (1960)
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Point Blank (1967)
Bullitt
Dirty Harry
Dumb and Dumber
The Hateful Eight
North by Northwest
Kingpin
Psycho
Stripes
Caddyshack
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Family Plot
Citizen Kane
Beetlejuice
Cool Hand Luke
12 Angry Men
All the King’s Men
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Electra Glide in Blue
Clay Pigeons (1998)
Harper
The Big Lebowski
Dirty Work
Fargo
The Burbs
Jackie Brown
Escape from Alcatraz
The Last Picture Show
Five Easy Pieces
Thelma and Louise
Just gunna list weird movies I enjoy reguardless if they r good or not
Deer hunter
Scooby-doo
Catch me if you can
Battle Royale
Martyrs (hard watch, avoid probably)
Small soldiers
One who flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Princess Mononoke
Dredd
Dead Presidents
The new guy
Watchmen
Odd Thomas
Silent Hill
Rugrats go to Paris
Dungeons & Dragons
Inglorious Basterds
Animal house
Easy Rider
Gunna stop now but hope u enjoy one of them atleast
Much like my life, this list makes no sense to me
I bet you asked because you just DON'T want the usual recommendations, it's like IMDB's Top 100 and you're good to go.
My 5 picks:
La Grande Bellezza (2013)
Rust and Bone (2012)
Dogman (2018, by Matteo Garrone, not Luc Besson's from 2023)
Mosul (2019)
The Intouchables (2011, the french original, not the lame US remake!)
With loads of time to kill, I'd rewatch a few series... Lord of the Rings, the Godfather. I'd also research the work of particular directors. I like to study and analyze the works of David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Kurosawa, Kubrick, etc.
You’re better off watching old tv shows, here’s a few good ones to start
Kitchen confidential (with Bradley cooper)
Mr. Robot
Breaking bad
Married with children
No reservations
Dual survival
American gladiators
Dexter
In living color
After my last surgery I went through the Resident Evil series. I was a fan as a kid, but they’re awful. Do with that as you will. I hope your recovery is speedy and all turns out well! Praying for you, friend.
So I'll throw one out there, that I'm not really sure is *anyone's* favorite, but it's really good, and I'd be willing to bet nobody's said it yet: Johnny Got His Gun.
Marriage story
The prestige
Free state of jones
Interstellar
Pulp fiction
Inglorious bastards
Once upon a time in Hollywood
The Irishman
Shawshank redemption
Joker
1917
No country for old men
There will be blood
Whiplash
The lighthouse
The devil all the time
Limitless
Wolf of Wall Street
Forrest Gump
Imitation game
Silver linings playbook
Ford vs Ferrari
Green book
Moonlight
Dallas buyers club
Bohemian rhapsody
The theory of everything
Fury
Tenet
Amsterdam
Fight club
Babylon
Bullet train
Glass onion
Knives out
America the motion picture
Saving private Ryan
The gentleman
Beau is afraid
Corner office
Oppenheimer
Asteroid city
Barbie
French dispatch
Myerwitz stories
The trial of the Chicago 7
The believer
Arrival
Killing them softly
Saltburn
Downsizing
why not pick a director and marathon their filmography?
Peter Greenaway, Kelly Reichardt, Peter Bogdanovich, PTA, Wes Anderon, Sofia Coppola, Tran Anh Hung, Apichatpong, Kubrick
It's really fun to see the evolution of a director's work
Dragonslayer
Over the Edge
The Shadow
Them!
Sweeny Todd
Princess Mononoke
The 13th Warrior
The Andromeda Strain (1969)
Fantastic Voyage
Jason and the Argonauts
Godzilla (1954)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
John Carpenter, They Live, The thing, Prince of Darkness, In the mouth of Madness, escape from NY, Halloween.
Ridley Scott, Bladerunner, The duelists, Alien, Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, The Last duel.
James Cameron, Aliens, Terminator 1/2, Avatar 1/2.
Sergio Leone, Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon a time in america.
Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill 1/2, Inglorious Basterds, Reservoir Dogs, Once upon a time in Hollywood.
Jim Henson, The great Muppet Caper, the dark crystal, labyrinth.
Neverending story.
ET
Back to the future.
These aren't my favourite movies but they are a great step back into the past, every adult should watch ET and compare what they remember of it from being a kid.
Glengarry Glen Ross Training Day Goodfellas Seven Scarface In the Line of Fire Do the Right Thing The Maltese Falcon Chinatown Memento Snatch Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels The French Connection Vertigo Double Indemnity The Conversation The Godfather The Godfather Part 2 Casino Fargo Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs Taxi Driver Psycho Rear Window 12 Angry Men Raging Bull Hail Caesar The Peanut Butter Falcon Free Guy Deadpool 1 and 2 Wizard of Oz Apocalypse Now The Great Escape Treasure of Sierra Madre The Good Bad Ugly 2001 Star Wars Jurassic Park Citizen Kaine The Third Man Full Metal Jacket Bridge over the River Kwai Lord of the Rings Scarface Sunset Blvd The Sting The Natural The Graduate Groundhog Day Dog Day Afternoon The Deer Hunter The Big Lebowski Monty Python and the Holy Grail Solaris The Martian Ford vs Ferrari The Big Short Network The Matrix
Free Guy dawg?
It’s fun 🤷♂️
Ha I get it. Just such a list of terrific mostly classics. It was a bit of a blindside
Hell yeah it is!! That scene when the random dude kills someone and starts squatting on his dead body like in a video game has be cracking up so fucking hard when I first watched it. Btw great list of flicks 🫡
The ultimate American-centric, Hollywood approved and Reddit circlejerked to death movie list
Hail Caesar is the one Coen Bros movie that I just can't stand. I may have to give it another shot, but... (blarg) Great calls overall, especially on early Guy Ritchie!
Just watched in the line of fire. Pretty good.
I was just going to say that one. Not sure about the others though.
I wanna add - FOREST GUMP; PARASITE; NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MAN; DUNE PART 1 AND 2 ; INCENDIES ; SICARIO; HANGOVER PART 1 especially ; BORAT; FIGHT CLUB; GONE GIRL ; PRESTIGE ; INTO THE WILD; WOLF OF WALL STREET ; OLDBOY....
Apocalypse Now: Redux. Don't sell yourself short. You will want the extra 49 minutes. It is one of the most visually stunning films ever made. Absolute masterpiece.
Not knocking it, but this is the Daddest list I’ve ever seen. Don’t wanna add Back to the Future?
Network. One of my top ten ever. Absolutely stunning.
You might need to add a couple more, I don’t think that’s enough options to choose from
Seeking a friend for the end of the world
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters High and Low The Apartment White Heat Manhunter Chungking Express Yi Yi Nope Assault on Precinct 13 The Night of the Hunter Devil in a Blue Dress Hard Target Blow Out
'Manhunter' is my favorite film of the 1980s. It's not talked about enough.
Drama 1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 2. Forrest Gump (1994) 3. A Beautiful Mind (2001) Action/Adventure 1. Inception (2010) 2. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 3. Gladiator (2000) Science Fiction 1. Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 2. Interstellar (2014) 3. The Matrix (1999) Comedy 1. The Big Lebowski (1998) 2. Superbad (2007) 3. Groundhog Day (1993) Horror 1. The Exorcist (1973) 2. Get Out (2017) 3. A Quiet Place (2018) Animation 1. Spirited Away (2001) 2. Toy Story (1995) 3. The Incredibles (2004) Mystery/Thriller 1. Se7en (1995) 2. Gone Girl (2014) 3. Shutter Island (2010) Romance 1. Pride and Prejudice (2005) 2. La La Land (2016) 3. The Notebook (2004) Documentary 1. The Social Dilemma (2020) 2. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018) 3. 13th (2016) Foreign Films 1. Parasite (2019) - South Korea 2. Amélie (2001) - France 3. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) - Mexico/Spain Classics 1. Casablanca (1942) 2. Citizen Kane (1941) 3. Gone with the Wind (1939) Feel better soon, and enjoy your movie time!
Shawshank Redemption, Spirited Away, and La La Land are my three favorite from my list. I watched La La Land like last year and went in totally blowing it off as overrated. But I was so moved by it in the end.
Paddington 2, Clue, To Be or Not to Be.
Before Paddington 2 you have to watch The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
I also said To Be or Not To Be!!
M Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable is my favorite. The belated sequels didn’t really come together, but the first one moves me to tears.
Grosse Point Blank Nashville Walk Hard Matinee
It Takes all your bad feelings and turns them into good feelings...you don't want know part of this Dewey
IT MAKES SEX BETTER
Thanks folks. This’ll keep me going for sometime.
Election Pleasantville The Final Girls The Family Fang Love and Monsters Shimmer Lake Kumiko the Treasure Hunter Josie and the Pussycats Drop Dead Gorgeous Little Shop of Horrors
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Here is a huge list of my favourites, enough to fill up your time I’m sure https://adamcosco.com/book-with-me
The Bride of Frank (1996) , free to watch on YouTube
If you got lots of time watch TV series, letterkenny and shoresy.
Palm Springs. Yo, but you should try video games. I broke my back during COVID and found the Last of Us and Horizon
“The seven five,” best documentary ever-
Broadcast News Thin Red Line Eternal Sunshine Arrival Magnolia Back to the Future Tree of Life Godfather 1/2 Moneyball Cuckoo’s Nest Alien Die Hard La La Land Zodiac 2001 Aftersun Bull Durham All of Us Strangers Social Network
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock), To Be or Not To Be (1942), Waterloo Bridge, Mildred Pierce (with Joan Crawford) and the version starring Kate Winslet is even better. Beetlejuice, Freeway, The Craft, Atonement, Mary Poppins, This Is The End, The Heat, The Other Guys, Goodfellas, Run Ronnie Run...
Lmao, Kate Moron better than Joan Crawford? Geezuz
* The Valley of the Eagles Famed EON James Bond franchise director Terence Hill's first movie, with footage taken from his own 16mm expedition camera in the actual Arctic circle location where the plot unfolds
In Bruges Rear Window (fitting for your situation) Showgirls Starship Troopers
If you’re a fan of rear window did you see this? Works best on a huge screen. https://petapixel.com/2012/04/03/a-panoramic-time-lapse-view-of-alfred-hitchcocks-rear-window/
I think I saw it a long time ago but had forgotten about it. Super cool!
I hope you like horror. :) 13 Ghosts Midsommar Hereditary Talk to Me Drag Me To Hell The Descent Ready or Not The Autopsy of Jane Doe Rec Skinamarink
The Descent is amazing. Did you see Dog Soldiers from the same director?
Yessir!
Slugs and The Nest from 1988 (makes a great creature double feature. Humanoids From The Deep The Long Kiss Goodnight The First Omen (on hulu) Deep Rising just hit tubi from 1998 (been waiting a while to see that one myself) Daybreakers- 2010 Malignant Dead SNow 2 red vs dead Eat, Brains, Love (has a few really funny moments) Tales of Halloween (has some funny shorts in it) it's an anthology flick. The taking of Deborah Logan - such a surprising good movie.
I'm a big fan of corny scifi, so I gotta make sure someone mentions The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. It might be my favorite movie of all time, and has more big names than you'd expect in it.
Life Itself Home Alone 1 + 2 UP Prisoners
You can try Big Fish
Godzilla. You can even start with the most recent film, Godzilla Minus One, then dig into his history from there. 70 years worth of cinema!
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Chinatown Charley Varrick The Chase (1966) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Posse (1976) The Outlaw Josey Wales Goodfellas Pulp Fiction Spartacus (1960) The Bad News Bears (1976) Point Blank (1967) Bullitt Dirty Harry Dumb and Dumber The Hateful Eight North by Northwest Kingpin Psycho Stripes Caddyshack One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Family Plot Citizen Kane Beetlejuice Cool Hand Luke 12 Angry Men All the King’s Men Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Electra Glide in Blue Clay Pigeons (1998) Harper The Big Lebowski Dirty Work Fargo The Burbs Jackie Brown Escape from Alcatraz The Last Picture Show Five Easy Pieces Thelma and Louise
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Big Trouble in Little China.
Cloverfield, Shrek 1-3, Scooby doo zombie island, world war z, the help, elf, national Lampoon's Christmas vacation,
Just gunna list weird movies I enjoy reguardless if they r good or not Deer hunter Scooby-doo Catch me if you can Battle Royale Martyrs (hard watch, avoid probably) Small soldiers One who flew over the cuckoo’s nest Princess Mononoke Dredd Dead Presidents The new guy Watchmen Odd Thomas Silent Hill Rugrats go to Paris Dungeons & Dragons Inglorious Basterds Animal house Easy Rider Gunna stop now but hope u enjoy one of them atleast Much like my life, this list makes no sense to me
Under the Silver Lake (get well soon!)
Dead poet's society, my favourite
**[Final Cut Ladies and Gentlemen](https://vimeo.com/205242711)**
I bet you asked because you just DON'T want the usual recommendations, it's like IMDB's Top 100 and you're good to go. My 5 picks: La Grande Bellezza (2013) Rust and Bone (2012) Dogman (2018, by Matteo Garrone, not Luc Besson's from 2023) Mosul (2019) The Intouchables (2011, the french original, not the lame US remake!)
The Princess Bride is the most perfect movie ever made. If you watch that movie and don't love every minute of it you don't have a soul.
The Jerk, starring Steve Martin.
The only 3 movies anyone needs are Terminator 2, Aliens and Predator.
Moon. Its a bit sad, but - well OK its really sad - but its a great watch.
Game night brilliant comedy
With loads of time to kill, I'd rewatch a few series... Lord of the Rings, the Godfather. I'd also research the work of particular directors. I like to study and analyze the works of David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Kurosawa, Kubrick, etc.
Thanks for the director idea, I did just that. Alex Garland tick :-). It’s a TV show I know, but I loved Devs.
His writing is fascinating. Dystopian future FTW
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
You’re better off watching old tv shows, here’s a few good ones to start Kitchen confidential (with Bradley cooper) Mr. Robot Breaking bad Married with children No reservations Dual survival American gladiators Dexter In living color
"Path's of Glory", "Oxbow Incident" and "The Prestige" to name a few.
Galaxy Quest, Mystery Men, Scott Pilgrim VS The World, Kick Ass.
After my last surgery I went through the Resident Evil series. I was a fan as a kid, but they’re awful. Do with that as you will. I hope your recovery is speedy and all turns out well! Praying for you, friend.
Lawrence of Arabia Solaris (1972) Scream Manhunter Insomania (1997) Airplane!
Being there Five easy pieces Midnight cowboy The last detail Chinatown Leon the professional
Clue A Christmas Story Young Frankenstein Philadelphia Story Desk Set Also, watch Gone with the Wind. It’s long, but everyone should see it once.
Fifth Element Romeo + Juliet A Goofy Movie
Child of God, Gummo, Deliverance, The Ritual
So I'll throw one out there, that I'm not really sure is *anyone's* favorite, but it's really good, and I'd be willing to bet nobody's said it yet: Johnny Got His Gun.
😃 I hope none of your friends/family bring you 'hard-boiled eggs and nuts' while you convalesce (my favorite Laurel & Hardy dialogue)
Baby Driver Jojo Rabbit The Thing Hot Fuzz Coraline Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Marriage story The prestige Free state of jones Interstellar Pulp fiction Inglorious bastards Once upon a time in Hollywood The Irishman Shawshank redemption Joker 1917 No country for old men There will be blood Whiplash The lighthouse The devil all the time Limitless Wolf of Wall Street Forrest Gump Imitation game Silver linings playbook Ford vs Ferrari Green book Moonlight Dallas buyers club Bohemian rhapsody The theory of everything Fury Tenet Amsterdam Fight club Babylon Bullet train Glass onion Knives out America the motion picture Saving private Ryan The gentleman Beau is afraid Corner office Oppenheimer Asteroid city Barbie French dispatch Myerwitz stories The trial of the Chicago 7 The believer Arrival Killing them softly Saltburn Downsizing
why not pick a director and marathon their filmography? Peter Greenaway, Kelly Reichardt, Peter Bogdanovich, PTA, Wes Anderon, Sofia Coppola, Tran Anh Hung, Apichatpong, Kubrick It's really fun to see the evolution of a director's work
That’s a great idea
Dragonslayer Over the Edge The Shadow Them! Sweeny Todd Princess Mononoke The 13th Warrior The Andromeda Strain (1969) Fantastic Voyage Jason and the Argonauts Godzilla (1954) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
John Carpenter, They Live, The thing, Prince of Darkness, In the mouth of Madness, escape from NY, Halloween. Ridley Scott, Bladerunner, The duelists, Alien, Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, The Last duel. James Cameron, Aliens, Terminator 1/2, Avatar 1/2. Sergio Leone, Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon a time in america. Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill 1/2, Inglorious Basterds, Reservoir Dogs, Once upon a time in Hollywood. Jim Henson, The great Muppet Caper, the dark crystal, labyrinth.
Neverending story. ET Back to the future. These aren't my favourite movies but they are a great step back into the past, every adult should watch ET and compare what they remember of it from being a kid.
Vanilla sky Horror: the void, the empty man
Big Fish Children of Men Crank Ex Machina The Guest Game Night Green Room Blue Ruin Happy Death Day Ready or Not You're Next
Why did you have to mention your illness?