Get Crazy (1983). Just a fun piece of silliness with a cameo from Lou Reed.
And Electric Larry
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Get Crazy (1983). Just a fun piece of silliness with a cameo from Lou Reed.
And Electric Larry
Full Metal Jacket.
Children of Men.
One of my all time favorites. I usually recommend it along with I Origins. They hit differently, but scratch the same itch for me.
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.
I used this movie as the basis for at least three school assignments in high school. Brilliant.
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.
In the Mood for Love is phenomenal.
Eat Drink Man Woman is one I've re watched a number of times.
I wouldn't say either are movies everybody needs to watch, but they are great movies.
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:
I'll throw RRR onto the international pile since it's the kinda film that feels like the greatest movie ever while you're watching it.
Predestination [2014]
Many good ones were already mentioned
But from memory:
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:
Food for thought:
For something (more) crazy:
Mary and Max.
That's a great movie! I can't exactly remember the ending, though.
The Matrix