theorangeninjaEssential movies to watch
Equilibrium
I don’t see these enough
Fully believe Equilibrium would be our Matrix if the Matrix didn’t exist
Hunt for the Wildepeople
Memento
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- The Big Lebowski
- Inception
SkvlpTerminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day
macniel*The Terminator […]
They dropped, for whatever reason, the The after the first movie.
Because there’s always more than one after that haha
Thanks :) The The: also a good band, btw.
You’re twice the the he ever was!
Usually_LurkerCaddyshack
Animal House
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Shawshank Redemption
Schindler’s List
The Shining
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
BjörnPrincess Mononoke
Interstate 60
EyedustKrull is one that stays in all my libraries. It’s so obscure yet has names like Liam Neeson, Robbie Coltrane, and David Battley. It was my dad’s favorite movie.
The fool
The platform
American History X and The Green Mile
No particular order. Also, it’s movies that I watched, can’t speak on essentials that I might be missing.
It’s kinda hard to make a list on essentials tho. Because your personal taste obviously plays a big role. I can’t see my girlfriend liking more than 10 percent of those…
Schindlers List Gladiator No country for old men The grand Budapest hotel The big Lebowski The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers Star Wars (the original one) Requiem for a dream Pulp fiction The good, the bad, the ugly The lives of others La vita é Bella All quiet on the western front (1930 version) The dark knight The Truman Show 2001: Space odyssey Alien 7 Samurai Princess Mononoke Trainspotting Boyz N the Hood Scarface The Godfather 1,2 The Matrix Clockwork Orange Shutter Island Kingdom of Heaven Wolf of Wall Street
Honorable mentions because they are popular and everybody always talks about them (I like a lot of them, too. Don’t consider them essentials tho):
Inception Interstellar Fight Club Harry Potter Return of the King Rest of Star Wars (whatever people consider the good ones at last) Saving Private Ryan Django Unchained Toy Story The Lion King
Listing a bunch of decaprio movies and not adding Romeo and Juliet feels wrong.
Everyone should experience it at least once.
Fair enough, I haven’t seen it yet. Also didn’t really notice how Decaprio heavy the list was until your comment.
Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Indiana Jones (first 3 movies)
SavvyWolfPuss in Boots: the Last Wish turned out to be really good, imo.
MeldrikInterstellar
pruwybenThe Princess Bride
As you wish.
Cloudless ☼That’s inconceivable!
Please remove “that’s”
Santa Sangre (1989)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Sorcerer (1977)
The General (1926)
Santa Sangre is a twisted sort of amazing. Cherished, never expected to see anyone else mention it.
Thanks!
I always call it a smorgasbord of the senses. I can pretty much guarantee that everyone watching it will see at least one thing that they’ve never really conceived of before.
Every time I watch it yields things I’d not seen before.
Spaghetti westerns? Sure. But have you ever seen a Spanish Inquisition western?
“Should have seen” is strange, I’ll go with titles that, if you are into cinema probably you have heard about?
Citizen Kane
The Seventh Sigil
Apocalypse Now
Vertigo (Any Hitchcock movie really)
Seven Samurai (Any Kurosawa movie really)
Pretty much anything from Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin (I guess Modern Times)
The Godfather part I & II
Taxi Driver
On the Waterfront (Peak Marlon Brando stuff)
Some Truffaut stuff (I guess “Day for Night” would be the most relevant here)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind to get pretty much everything interesting from the Spielberg side of things
Man with a Camera (ok this one is not something I espect any conema lover to know, it’s a very early montage wonder from Russia, always good to get back there and get reminded progress doesn’t always go forward)
La Dolce Vita
2001: A Space Odyssey
Shining
A Clockwork Orange
Reservoir Dogs
Lost Highway (The better Mulholland Drive)
Blade Runner
The Matrix
Star Wars
There’s some good newer stuff but it’s much less “popular” so it wouldn’t make sense to expect anybody to know them. Very little new stuff looks like has the staying power to be relevant years down the line.
I guess The Lord of the Rings? But I consider it more of a great book that got a quality adaptation than a ground breaking stepping stone of cinema.
No country for old men, probably.
Most of mine are already listed but here’s a couple more.
Army of Darkness
Dogma
The Protector
Clue
Full Metal Jacket
One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest
Howl’s Moving Castle
Four Rooms
Pulp Fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey
Matrix Alien/Aliens Spirited Away The Dark Knight The Shining Heat Wall-E Memento Jurassic Park Apollo 13 Children of Men Unbreakable Hereditary The Witch Arrival Thin Red Line Sixth Sense Terminator 2 Primer Finding Nemo
I could keep going
Pat_RiotBig Trouble in Little China
Princess Bride
Romancing the Stone
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Alien, Aliens, Alien3.
Rashomon
Man with a Movie Camera
Metropolis
The Lost Boys
The Matrix
Withnail & I
Requeim for a Dream
Synecdoche, New York
Hero
Let the Bullets Fly
Jackie Brown
Anomalisa
The Skin I Live in
Parrallel Mothers
Martyrs
Amélie
Taxi Driver
Etneral Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Lighthouse
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
A New Hope, Empire, RotJ (despecialised, or original cuts
Bladerunner, Bladerunner 2049.
The Orphanage
Watership Down
Donnie Darko
American Beauty
I’m All Right, Jack
The Great Dictator
Blow-Up
City of God
12 Angry Men
My Neighbour Totoro
Memento
Wall-E
The Truman Show
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
simpleMy Neighbour Totoro over Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle though?
My neighbor Totoro is a kids movie and probably one of the best one there is because it respects kids intelligence, the others aren’t really aimed at kids so they can’t really be compared.
My Neighbour Totoro is unique. In this film kids actually act and talk like kids. It is extremely imaginative and magical while not trying to be epic. It treats the audience as intelligent, curious people, giving a lot of quiet thinking space in between scenes.
It is a masterpiece of film making. The other Studio Ghibili films are good, but Totoro remains to be my favourite.
I watch eternal sunshine most times i see it on, but some days I just didn’t have the energy. It’s so good, but also exhausting.
lemmyng- The Fifth Element
- Big Trouble in Little China
- LOtR
- Akira
- Up
Day of the Wacko
Sing
Terminator
Toy Story
The Corporation
ET
Dirty Harry
A Fistful of Dollars
Jupiter Ascending
Lonesome
PronellI just watched Jupiter Ascending and it didn’t click with me at all. Glad you enjoyed it!
Good responses! I couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t already there!
Because I haven’t seen it mentioned:
They Live
I grew up with Duke Nukem and later found a lot of his quotes were from that movie.
FleppensteynDonnie Darko
Office Space
Equilibrium
Amélie
Back to the Future
Send Pics of SandwichesBig Trouble in Little China
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil
A Clockwork Orange
12 Monkeys
The Abominable Dr.Phibes
3 from Gilliam? Agreed, tho Might as well just watch everything he’s associated with.
Fisher King & Time Bandits are lovely. Zero Theorem, the Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
All the Monty Python, of course.
Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Colin (2008), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Metropolis (1927), The Last Man on Earth (1964), and The Crow (1994) are all I can come up with.!
whotookkarl- The Thing Carpenter’s version
- Shawshank Redemption
- Yojimbo
- The Seventh Seal
- Duck Soup
- No Country For Old Men
- The Naked Gun
- Back to the Future
- The Guest
- Shrek
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Blues Brothers
- Dark City
- The rifftrax version of Jaws
- Double Indemnity
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Hot Fuzz
- The Dead Don’t Die
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Free Solo
- In the Loop
- Evil Dead original
- Office Space
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- The Cabin in the Woods
- Clue
- North by Northwest
- Brick
- The Sting
- Return of the Jedi
- Casablanca
- The Third Man
itstoowetI fucking love In the Loop, but it took me a few viewings to understand what the hell was going on. I should watch it again.
The TV show was really good too, but the movie captures the absurdity so well.
Movie was more accessible, Thick of It series was blacker, crueller humour
SʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇShoutout for mentioning Brick. Modern noir masterpiece I never see mentioned online. Great, eclectic list overall!
- Airplane!
0x30507DEJust off the top of my head: Alien and Aliens are wonderful, Apocalypse Now needs no introduction, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and finally Oppenheimer, which is one of the best movies ever made in my opinion (what can I say, I’m a sucker for an incredibly well-told story).