Movies Everyone Should Watch?

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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,457
    Also along with already mentioned:

    Memento
    My son my son what have ye done
    Lemony Snicket
    Rear window
    Bringing up baby
    The Outsiders
    Logan's run
    The third man
    Once upon a time in America
    Once upon a time in the West
    They live
    Stay
    The Fountain
    Drive
    Some like it hot
    Breathless
    Repulsion
    My best fiend
    Bronson (the one with Tom Hardy)
    Airplane!
    Top Secret!

    and anything you can come across that is from the New Hollywood era :D

    Can't think of more at the moment ... Maybe I'll add some later on!
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  • Leyna Minai
    Leyna Minai Posts: 691
    *I'm trying not to post dupes, but here are some great movies!

    28 Days Later
    American History X
    American Psycho
    Closer
    The Departed
    The Fall
    Fight Club of course!!
    High Fidelity
    The Machinist
    Requiem for a Dream
    The Town

    And also pretty much any movie from Directors David Fincher, Cameron Crowe, Christopher Nolan, Darren Aronofsky, Danny Boyle, Tarsem Singh (with the exception of Mirror Mirror...)
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    i watched trust (produced/directed by david schwimmer) the other night and it rocked me. every teenage girl should see this movie.

    one of the most fucked up movies i've seen in a long time.

    i am never having kids.
  • porchjeremy
    porchjeremy Posts: 30
    Red Dawn
    The moon still follows me overhead...
  • binauralsounds182
    binauralsounds182 Posts: 119
    Fight Club
    A Clockwork Orange
    O Brother Where Art Thou


    Oh and everyone should no doubt read Slaughterhouse-Five.
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  • AmherstJammer
    AmherstJammer Amherst, Massachusetts Posts: 1,510
    Saving Private Ryan
    The Pianist
  • shoug772
    shoug772 Posts: 41
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    Blow
    Youngblood
    Dazed and Confused
    Uncle Buck
  • eboweddie
    eboweddie Posts: 1,129
    2 words one film!!! Big Lebowski

    i wish i wish i wish i wish, i guess it never stops
  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    theres too many to pick out a few. when i was really getting into movies, i was turned onto stuff like Old Boy, Happiness, You me and Everyone We Know, the last 3 David Lynch films.

    I also went through each famous actor. Watched all of deniros films. then streeps. then pacinos. then sean penns. then jack nicholsons. then daniel day lewis etc... The went for directors.

    went then for festival winners. what won cannes, and sundance and Independent Spirit awards each year and saw those.
  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    As Good As It Gets.
  • PKTrekGirl
    PKTrekGirl Posts: 747
    I'm a big classic film buff, so ordinarily, I'd have a large list. However, I'll keep it to 20 films...and I'll leave the 'modern' movies to others, for the most part.

    Silents:
    The Kid - Charlie Chaplin
    The General - Buster Keaton
    Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Rudolph Valentino

    Classic Film:
    My Man Godfrey - William Powell/Carole Lombard (comedy)
    It Happened One Night - Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert (comedy)
    Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe (comedy)
    Lost Horizon - Ronald Colman
    Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman
    Double Indemnity - Barbara Stanwyck/Fred MacMurray
    Rear Window - James Stewart/Grace Kelly (Hitchcock)
    North By Northwest - Cary Grant/Eva Marie Saint (Hitchcock)
    High Noon - Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly (western)
    The Searchers - John Wayne (western)
    Sunset Boulevard - William Holden/Gloria Swanson
    From Here To Eternity - Montgomery Clift/Burt Lancaster/Frank Sinatra
    The Manchurian Candidate - Frank Sinatra/Angela Lansbury
    To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck
    Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney (musical)
    My Fair Lady - Audrey Hepburn/Rex Harrison (musical)
    Singin' In The Rain - Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds (musical)

    I intentionally left out some of the mega-long movies that are classics, but WAY long - Gone With The Wind, Ben Hur, Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia. But if you've got the stamina, knock yourself out.

    And if your objective is to watch a movie that you will not be able to shake for a week because it is just that harrowing: Apocalypse Now and Platoon are your best bets. These are both fabulous movies...but I can only watch each of them about once every 3-5 years as I have this vague sense of depression and terror for about a week afterwards.

    Modern Movie Comment: Why no love for The Shawshank Redemption, The Hunt For Red October, Amadeus, Dances With Wolves, and Out of Africa? Fabulous movies!
  • CAVSTARR313
    CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    True Romance!!
    The Big Lebowski
    Dial "M" for Murder
    Bill Cosby "Himself"
    The Beastmaster
    Die Hard
    Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail
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  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    Harold and Maude
    True Romance
    Rebel Without a Cause
    Dial "M" For Murder
    any Coen brothers movie
    Into the Wild
    ELITIST FUK
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,457
    PKTrekGirl wrote:
    I'm a big classic film buff, so ordinarily, I'd have a large list. However, I'll keep it to 20 films...and I'll leave the 'modern' movies to others, for the most part.

    Silents:
    The Kid - Charlie Chaplin
    The General - Buster Keaton
    Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Rudolph Valentino

    Classic Film:
    My Man Godfrey - William Powell/Carole Lombard (comedy)
    It Happened One Night - Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert (comedy)
    Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe (comedy)
    Lost Horizon - Ronald Colman
    Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman
    Double Indemnity - Barbara Stanwyck/Fred MacMurray
    Rear Window - James Stewart/Grace Kelly (Hitchcock)
    North By Northwest - Cary Grant/Eva Marie Saint (Hitchcock)
    High Noon - Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly (western)
    The Searchers - John Wayne (western)
    Sunset Boulevard - William Holden/Gloria Swanson
    From Here To Eternity - Montgomery Clift/Burt Lancaster/Frank Sinatra
    The Manchurian Candidate - Frank Sinatra/Angela Lansbury
    To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck
    Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney (musical)
    My Fair Lady - Audrey Hepburn/Rex Harrison (musical)
    Singin' In The Rain - Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds (musical)

    I intentionally left out some of the mega-long movies that are classics, but WAY long - Gone With The Wind, Ben Hur, Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia. But if you've got the stamina, knock yourself out.

    And if your objective is to watch a movie that you will not be able to shake for a week because it is just that harrowing: Apocalypse Now and Platoon are your best bets. These are both fabulous movies...but I can only watch each of them about once every 3-5 years as I have this vague sense of depression and terror for about a week afterwards.

    Modern Movie Comment: Why no love for The Shawshank Redemption, The Hunt For Red October, Amadeus, Dances With Wolves, and Out of Africa? Fabulous movies!

    Nice list :thumbup: I looove old movies! It's a shame that you can't watch them in the theatre around here ...
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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    PKTrekGirl wrote:
    I'm a big classic film buff, so ordinarily, I'd have a large list. However, I'll keep it to 20 films...and I'll leave the 'modern' movies to others, for the most part.


    Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe (comedy)

    They are showing this next week at a bombed out church near me. The walls remain but the roof is gone and they put out plastic garden chairs for you to sit on and they sell tea/coffee and some alcohol. Its only £2 per person and they even show Tom and Jerry cartoons before the film :D Great place to watch a film. Can be a bit chilly in the evening though...
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,457
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    PKTrekGirl wrote:
    I'm a big classic film buff, so ordinarily, I'd have a large list. However, I'll keep it to 20 films...and I'll leave the 'modern' movies to others, for the most part.


    Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe (comedy)

    They are showing this next week at a bombed out church near me. The walls remain but the roof is gone and they put out plastic garden chairs for you to sit on and they sell tea/coffee and some alcohol. Its only £2 per person and they even show Tom and Jerry cartoons before the film :D Great place to watch a film. Can be a bit chilly in the evening though...

    That sounds indeed like a great place to watch a movie!
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  • QuarterToTen
    QuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,654
    Sexy Beast
    The Limey
    Secrets and Lies
    American Hollow
    Marty
    Nice shirt.
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,457
    Nattevagten (aka Nightwatch) by Ole Bornedal. The original version ...
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    UP!!!! :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy-CBs0XNlM :clap:
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    The Sea Inside: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Inside

    a beautiful film...
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