Name some movies you think everyone should watch

[Connonym]

Doesn't have to be the greatest movies of all times, not necessarily a complete and ultimate list, just a couple of movies that you think everyone needs to experience before they die

I'll start: Blade Runner, Star Wars, Rocky Horror, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, To Have and to Have Not, Caddyshack, Fight Club

[AlCzervik]

1. Stalag 17, the original Manchurian candidate, Jaws, Animal House, Goodfellas

Caddyshack, Meatballs, All about Eve, The Women.

[CBHagman]

44. Okay, you get points for diversity.

One has to admire the breadth of your list!

Here's a partial listing from an overtired movie buff:

The Lion in Winter
Casablanca
12 Angry Men
Holiday
Henry V (1989)
The 39 Steps
Enchanted April (1992)
Cinema Paradiso
It's a Wonderful Life
To Kill a Mockingbird
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
An American in Paris
On the Town
Meet Me in St. Louis
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
The Usual Suspects
Bringing Up Baby
Mr.Smith Goes to Washington
When Harry Met Sally
Matewan

Maybe in the morning I'll have some more...zzzz.

[Broken_Hero]

2. The Boondock Saints,

Conan the Barbarian, Sin City, 300, Fight Club, Simon Birch, The Green Mile, the Shawshank Redemption...to name a few.....(oh, and of course, superman the movie)

[Forkboy]

61. "You and your fuckin' rope!"

Boondock Saints is great.Hopefully the planned sequel can get some needed financing.

[Broken_Hero]

69. The Cat part...still gets

me...every single time.

[carly denise pt deux]

3. Godfather, Animal House, the always excellent rite de passage movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

Carly

[cobalt1999]

4. Das Boot, Casablanca, Godfather 1&2, and Eraserhead.

[Skittles]

5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Children of Men, Spinal Tap :D

[baldguy]

6. Citizen Kane,

The Magnificent Ambersons, The Third Man, Touch of Evil, A Man for All Seasons...



And that's just Orsen Wells

[MrScorpio]

7. Paths of Glory

V For Vendetta

Network

Catch 22

Hustle and Flow

Scarface

Godfather I and II

[Capn Sunshine]

8. The Usual Suspects, Being John Malkovich, Endless Summer

Off the top of my head. I always get all endless summery in fall.

[Xipe Totec]

9. Patton, Midway, Laurence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird

War of the Roses, Dark City, Donny Darko, The Man Who Wasn't there, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Ben Hur,

Apocalypse Now, Edward Scissorhands, Powder, As Good as it Gets, Forrest Gump, Like Water for Chocolate,

Macario, Emilie, Taxi, Silence of the Lambs....

[begin_within]

10. The essential films:

"Tokyo Story" (1953)
"The Bicycle Thief" (1948)
"Soy Cuba (I Am Cuba)" (1964)
"Au Hasard, Balthazar" (1966)
"Salt of the Earth" (1954)
"Psycho" (1960)
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962)
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)
"Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (1965)
"Five Easy Pieces" (1970)
"El Norte" (1983)

[edbermac]

11. Plan 9 From Outer Space.

A sci-fi classic...even Kubrick couldn't come close to making a picture this.

[CGowen]

25. looks like Elvira

I prefer effects like in "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" (1953)

[Dr. Strange]

51. No, no, that's Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira

She sued Elvira for $10,000,000 for "stealing" her character. (But she lost.)

[CGowen]

65. I only remember playing the AMIGA videogame

http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/elvira-mistress-of-the-dark

I've never seen a Vampira or Elvira movie

[Duncan Grant]

12. Just a few.

I love the "My Movies" feature over at imdb:

Alien, The Best Years of Our Lives, Das Boot, Brokeback Mountain, Full Metal Jacket, The Killers, Lawrence of Arabia, Matewan, Paths of Glory, The Pianist, The Princess Bride, Schindler's List, Shakespeare In Love, and The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. I watched Alphaville, La Jetée and Don't Look Now recently.

All were fantastic.

[stuntcat]

14. Harold and Maude

and Being There
:headbang:
,

[Lautremont]

15. Ace in the Hole, The Thing (82), The 49th Parallel, Hercules in the Haunted World

and Ghostbusters.

[DarkTirade]

16. Seven Samurai and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Those are the first two that haven't been mentioned in the OP that popped into my head right away. :)

[w8liftinglady]

17. 1984-a fantastic enlightenment

http://www.amazon.com/1984-John-Hurt/dp/B00007KQA3/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-9958960-3893724?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1192504114&sr=1-1
not shown enough on mainstream tv

[Glorfindel]

18. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, As Good as It Gets,

16 Candles, The Hudsucker Proxy, Dune (no, really!), Pocketful of Miracles, Gladiator, Big Business, Latter Days, Gosford Park, Gone with the Wind, and most importantly, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Plus anything else with Sir Ian McKellan in it. :bounce:

[CGowen]

26. 16 candles, I really like the good John Hughes movies

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/filmorate

[KitchenWitch]

19. Cinema Paradisio

[w8liftinglady]

20. "my favorite year"

http://www.amazon.com/My-Favorite-Year-Peter-OToole/dp/B0000648ZX/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-9958960-3893724?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1192505053&sr=1-1

The Funniest movie I have seen in a long time.Worth the money

[w8liftinglady]

21. c'mon,y'all=recommend this thread

[w8liftinglady]

22. Good Will Hunting

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119217/
I just finished watching it What a beautiful screenwriting piece

[simpleone]

23. Great Movies to watch

Dazed and Confused, Harold and Kumar: Go to White Castle, Rambo Series 1-3, Pulp Fiction, Any Given Sunday and Sicko.

Also, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth

[w8liftinglady]

24. KIcking to recommend..c'mon.people

I love watching cutting edge movies..

[BlueIris]

27. "If These Walls Could Talk," "Mississippi Burning" and "Brokeback Mountain."

If any of you allegedly socially aware progressives skipped those films—get thee some DVDs, ASAP.

[bridgit]

28. A Scanner Darkly, Fur, Throne of Blood, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang...

http://wip.warnerbros.com/ascannerdarkly

http://www.furmovie.com

http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=190

http://kisskiss-bangbang.warnerbros.com/indexa.html

[Manifestor_of_Light]

29. The Keeper:The Legend of Omar Khayyam.

Story of the great Persian poet, scientist and astronomer. And his modern day descendants in America. Best movie I've ever seen.

Available on DVD at www.greatomar.com

[Ava]

30. charade

one of my favorite movies if not my favorite.

[Aristus]

31. If everyone would just watch "Local Hero", the world would be a better, happier place.

And oil companies wouldn't suck so bad.

[WinkyDink]

32. Hoosiers; Breaker Morant; The Boys in the Band; Death in Venice;

Lady and the Tramp;
The Big Bus;
Psycho;
The Day of the Jackal;
To Sir with Love;
Alfie;
Fail-Safe;
The Heiress;
From Here to Eternity;
The Godfather, I and II;
A Hard Day's Night;
Lord of the Flies.

[Mz Pip]

33. The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Wizard of Oz

Any Preston Sturgis film.

Fred Astair movies.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[bridgit]

34. Little Big Man...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

35. Mine

Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, An Inconvenient Truth, The Sixth Sense, Gandhi, The Last Emperor

[EFerrari]

36. Compulsion, My Own Private Idaho, Like Water for Chocolate

[jgraz]

37. Network and The Day After Trinity

Day After Trinity is a documentary done by David Peoples (screenwriter for Blade Runner) that discusses the building of the first atomic bomb as Los Alamos. One of the best documentaries ever made, IMHO.

[riverdeep]

50. Alright, since you 'stole' my Network recom,

I'll go with Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources. Don't let the fact that Gérard Depardieu is in it scare you off, it's very, very good. Also don't let that it is a foreign, two-parter with subtitles turn you off either.

[ruiner4u]

38. Shaun of the Dead

best zombie knockoff ever...




Its a movie I make post first date potentials watch

[Captain Angry]

39. Since you got Blade Runner, Star Wars and Caddyshack...

I'll have to go weird.

Strange Brew
They Live
Remo Williams
Buckaroo Banzai
Death Race 2000

After you watch the classics, you might need to give your brain a rest. And any of these will do the job.

[Tafiti]

40. A few not yet mentioned...

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (predecessor to Snatch, and better, IMO)

High Fidelity (John Cusack film for music lovers - music snobs, actually. Great movie. True-to-life love story. And Jack Black)

Amelie (French feel-good movie. Great cinematography)

Waking Life (tripped-out half-digital, half-animated Richard Lanklater project. Intensely interesting dialogues/monologues. Gotta be in the right mood for this, i.e. stoned:))

Adaptation (Nicolas Cage's best movie - he's actually good in this movie, I swear! A brilliant-yet-overlooked Charlie Kaufman film. Outstanding performance by Chris Cooper)

[evlbstrd]

41. A Clockwork Orange.

The 5,000 Fingers of Professor Terwilliger, a Dr. Seuss film.

[Ron Green]

42. Children of Paradise, All That Heaven Allows, The Lost Weekend, The Searchers

[CaliforniaPeggy]

43. The Shawshank Redemption...

[Bicoastal]

45. TWELVE ANGRY MEN!!

The world would be a better place if every person watched that movie.

Just saw it for the second time--incredible.

BTW, enjoy this loving tribute by Sesame Street.

[NewJeffCT]

52. Seconded

one of my favorite movies.

[Connonym]

46. All right! Some great and diverse selections here!

:thumbsup: I'm going to compile a list of everything mentioned here and try to work my way through as we head into winter.

[Sugar Smack]

47. Fargo, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Kalifornia.

:bounce:

[Richardo]

58. Blood Simple, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Big Sleep, Amelie

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Thin Man

[JetJaguar]

48. For Halloween

Equinox (1970)
aka "The Equinox... A Journey Into the Supernatural" - USA (restored version)



Night of the Demon (1957)
aka "Curse of the Demon" - USA (recut version)



Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
aka "Five Million Years to Earth" - USA

Any Quatermass flick.




20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

Any Harryhausen project.




It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)

Any movie where "IT" describes the title character.

[Oeditpus Rex]

49. "Things To Come"

H.G. Wells' 1936 portrait of a society that goes from complacency to world war to post-war devastation and finally rebuilding, spanned over a century.

"Metropolis" — Amazing Fritz Lang 1927 silent classic about a futuristic society in which the Thinkers rule the Workers. (If you get this one, make sure it's the restored version.)

"All Quiet on the Western Front" — The insanity of World War I through the eyes of a young German soldier who goes from idealism to disenchantment.

"Europa Europa" — During WWII, a 13-year-old Polish Jew is separated from his fleeing family. Fearing capture by the Nazis, he poses as an Aryan and becomes a translator for a Wehrmacht squadron, whose commander later enrolls him in the Hitler Youth. A fascinating tale of survival, based on a true story.

"Night On Earth" — "Five taxis. Five cities. One night." Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. At times funny, at others moving.

Any or all of the Marx Brothers first seven films: "The Cocoanuts," "Animal Crackers," "Monkey Business," "Horse Feathers," "Duck Soup," "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races," simply because they wrote the book on film comedy. (I and most other Marx Brothers fans consider "Monkey Business," "Horse Feathers" and "Duck Soup" their best work, though "Duck Soup" generally gets the nod as their best film while I call it for "Horse Feathers.")



Thought I was gonna list the Monty Python films, din'cha? :D

[skyblue]

53. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick), Big Fish (Tim Burton),

City of Lost Children (for artsy people), Tripletts of Belleville (for artsy people), Yellow Submarine, The Wall (Pink Floyd), Ran, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Motorcycle Diaries, Annie Hall, Sleeper, Banannas, Brazil, Streetcar Named Desire, Night of the Iguana, The Mind Snatchers (Christopher Walken), Batman Returns

[Connonym]

54. I loved Big Fish

and Eternal Sunshine is one of my all time favs. I get a lot of grief about that from people who hate Jim Carrey but I keep telling them not to dismiss this film because he's in it (and does a great job I think).

[skyblue]

59. Ya Jim Carrey wasn't "on" at all. & messed up my list I meant Batman Begins not Batman Returns

[HughBeaumont]

55. The Sandlot.

Children of Men
City of Lost Children
Taxi Driver
A Clockwork Orange
The Corporation
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Dr Strangelove
This is Spinal Tap

[NewJeffCT]

56. Some of my choices

Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Dangerous Liaisons
12 Angry Men
The Hidden Fortress and the Americanized version Star Wars
The Seven Samurai, and the Americanized version The Magnificent Seven
Godfather 1 & 2
On the Waterfront
Bridge on the River Kwai
Enter the Dragon

You have to like that Python type of British humor for the Holy Grail, though.

[SteppingRazor]

57. Bob Roberts and the entire Michael Moore ouevre (except maybe Canadian Bacon). n/t

[Zavulon]

60. The Kentucky Fried Movie

It was the forerunner of Airplane! and every other even remotely-amusing spoof.

"But how does zinc oxide affect ME?"

[CGowen]

63. I liked "Amazon Women on the Moon" n/t

[Forkboy]

62. Stalingrad, Grave of the Fireflies, and of course, the Japanese version of Godzilla.

All three are somber and heavy anti-war movies, even Godzilla, which was Americanized into a regular B-movie, but is far more serious and heavy in the Japanese version, and Godzilla was the director's take on the destruction he witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the war.All the nuclear references were removed from the American version, with a couple of very minor exceptions.

[Perry Logan]

64. Performance

A 1969 film, co-directed by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell. Mick Jagger's first acting effort. Lotsa trippy fun. Has a mind-blowing ending and a cult following, among whom I count myself.

[Carrieyazel]

66. Breakdown

Great story of how urban dwellers moving through the country are nearly slaughtered by nasty, evil, rednecks.

[sakabatou]

67. Akira

[Inchworm]

68. Holy Smoke, Oh Brother Where Art Thou and Sling Blade

3 off top of head :)

:hi:

[redqueen]

70. Naked

I have a crush on David Thewlis now. LOVED that movie.

[Ekirh]

71. Battle of Algiers. . .

Network

The Cabinet of DR Caligari (Mainly cause it's my favorite silent film . . . so I feel the need to say you should watch it.)

I could name a lot of moives I think people should watch. But there's the three that popped in my mind first.

[Burma Jones]

72. Being There, Dr. Strangelove, ET, The Exorcist

[Rambis]

73. Spinal Tap

Princess Bride
Young Frankenstein
Jaws
Caddyshack
Dazed and confused
History of the world part I
Love and Death
Grateful Dead Movie
Woodstock
Fish Called Wanda