Ask Lemmy

Get Crazy (1983). Just a fun piece of silliness with a cameo from Lou Reed.

And Electric Larry

Full Metal Jacket.

Children of Men.

Lucky Number Slevin

Man On Fire

Syriana

Equilibrium

And for some solid Australian cinema: Mystery Road

They Live. I stumbled across it on TV while exhausted at 2 am one night and it had me locked in the whole time.

Spirited Away. In my opinion the most Miyazaki movie. It's also just amazing. I've probably seen it a dozen times now.

Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dead

Cloud Atlas

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Tora Tora Tora!

Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Gone with the Wind

I get that most people are just listing their favourite movies, and that’s fair, but I feel like a lot of them are already well watched.

My suggestion is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Everything about it is a stunning piece of cinema that got massively overlooked at the time, and I don’t really know why. It stars Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, has a score by Nick Cave (who has a cameo) and Warren Ellis, and has cinematography by the mighty Roger Deakins.

On the cinematography; you could pause it at almost any point, take a screengrab, and print it out for display. It’s a stunningly well shot movie.

Nothing about the movie is fast. Everything takes place as it needs to, in its own time, all creeping glacially towards what you know is going to happen.

I adore this movie. I showed it to my kid a couple of years ago, fearful that he would hate it. Turned out he loved it as much as I do. It’s the best western I’ve ever seen, but to call it a western does it a disservice.

Movies made outside of the US. United-statesians underestimate too much on other countries' productions. There's many great movies made outside of Hollywood that you can find if you search.

A suggestion that I can give is Netflix's Brazilian film Just Another Christmas, where a guy who hates Christmas gets on a time curse and he keeps waking up on each year's next Christmas eve, his life keeps changing before his eyes and at the end he learns a valuable lesson. I've seen it being compared to Click, not sure though.

Natural Born Killers

For the few people who didn't already watch it, and the best movie of all time :

Mad Max: Fury road (2015 ) by Miller .

This is what film story telling is about: having an entire weird universe told through visual medium. The 1st half hour has mad max gagged and incapable of talking, and it is amazing. Preferably on big screen.

A gem from the past:

Taboo(1999), by Nagisa Ôshima,

a samurai movie with hint of homosexuality. and an ending that can only be understood by paying close attention to the sound off screen.

A classic:

Seven samurai(1954), Kurosawa.

Just enjoy the black and white shot , and immerse in old Japanese culture

Apocalypto

The Hunger Games

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

If you want to add non English movies to the list, then I have two to suggest:

• Children of Heaven
• Cinema Paradiso

Predestination [2014]

Many good ones were already mentioned

But from memory:

• The snatch
• The big Lebowsky
• Clerks
• American Psycho
• 2001 a space odissey
• Blade Runner (possibly the directors cut)
• Apocalypse now (possibly the redux version)
• Full metal jacket
• The godfather (first 2 movies, the rest is not as good)
• Fight club
• Alien
• The Truman show
• In the mouth of madness
• They live
• The terminator (first 2)
• Animal house
• the dollar trilogy from Sergio Leone
• Once upon a time in America
• pulp fiction
• reservoir dogs

Gladiator extended edition. No other movie matters now. Tis a masterpiece

The Dark Knight

There Will Be Blood

The Prestige

Memento

The Shining

Gangs of New York

Aliens

The Machinist

Full Metal Jacket

Some you need to see to get the references:

• Soylent green
• 1984 (or read the book of course)
• Inception
• Everything by Stanley Kubrick and Tarantino

Food for thought:

• Free Rainer

For something (more) crazy:

• The Holy Mountain

Mary and Max.

The Matrix