If you haven't seen the 6 Star Wars, 3 Indiana Jones, or the Dark Knight trilogy start with those. Otherwise here are my personal favorites, some of which are severely underrated/not well known.

Hell or High Water

Bad Times At The El Royale

Trading Places

Casino

Django Unchained

Major League

Shutter Island

42

A Bronx Tale 

Edge of Tomorrow

Collateral

The Mummy 1 and 2

Braveheart

The Game

Hostiles

 
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The Masterpieces:

Schindler's List

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Once Upon a Time in America

Avengers: Infinity War (haha just kidding, fuck marvel)

Godfather 1 & 2

A Clockwork Orange

2001: A Space Odyssey

Seven Samurai

The Pianist

Rashomon

Taxi Driver

A Man's Rise and Fall:

Barry Lyndon

Citizen Kane

Goodfellas

Fitzcarraldo

There Will Be Blood

Stylish Movies:

The Dollars Trilogy

Pulp Fiction

Kill Bill

Magical/Fantasy:

Pan's Labyrinth

Spirited Away

The Princess Bride

(B)romance:

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid

Bonnie and Clyde

Comedy:

Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Airplane

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Life of Brian

Rush Hour

 

To add a few other genres:

War: 

Apocalypse Now

Full Metal Jacket

The Thin Red Line

Surreal:

A Serious Man

Mulholland Drive

Being John Malkovich (although really anything by Charlie Kaufman would work, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind deserves a special shoutout)

Human Interest/Introspective

Blue Valentine

The Florida Project

Columbus

The Rider

 
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To add a few other genres:

War: 

Apocalypse Now

Full Metal Jacket

The Thin Red Line

Surreal:

A Serious Man

Mulholland Drive

Being John Malkovich (although really anything by Charlie Kaufman would work, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind deserves a special shoutout)

Human Interest/Introspective

Blue Valentine

The Florida Project

Columbus

The Rider

And it doesn't really fit into any categories but it's a quiet movie that I found incredible and isn't spoken about enough: Columbus. 

The Florida Project is one of my all-time faves and so underrated. Thank you for including it!

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Would add Casino to rise and fall and Django to stylish movies as well. Also, imo Infinity War is actually one of the only good Marvel movies (way better than Endgame). One of the only ones I've seen where they weren't afraid to have the superheroes lose even though you knew they were going to undo it somehow later, action was really good since they got everything from huge battles like Wakanda to intense 1v1s like Iron Man v. Thanos, and Thanos was one of the best villains in recent memory. Sad that they reverted him to a basic Marvel baddie in Endgame.

 

If you want to watch a great kung fu movie, I highly recommend Kung Fu Hustle. The dialogue is basically a meme and the fight scenes are awesome. I don't watch movies more than once but this is the only movie I've watched like 4 times. 

 

I had a bunch more I wanted to add, but wanted to finish a movie. I'll limit it to 20 in no specific order.

  1. Good Will Hunting
  2. Silence of the Lambs
  3. Darjeeling Limited
  4. Rushmore - Wes Anderson film
  5. the Handmaiden
  6. Rosemary's Baby - this movie is insane and impactful. It really changed the way I view thrillers and horror
  7. The Pianist
  8. Chinatown
  9. Schindler's List
  10. Pan's Labyrinth
  11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  12. Being John Malkovich
  13. Gran Torino 
  14. Million Dollar Baby
  15. In the Mood for Love
  16. Burning - Korean
  17. The Call - Korean
  18. Your Name - anime movie, beautiful animation and lots of references to Japanese folklore
  19. La Haine - one of my personal favorites, saw this when I was younger and helped me understand the perspective of others while I attended university
  20. Citizen Kane
 

I watched First Cow the other night and really liked it (on Showtime). It's pretty slow paced but an enjoyable watched. It's produced by A24 if anyone's familiar.

I also watched LA Confidential for the first time recently too and that was amazing (on Netflix).

 

No. You're watching a man's rise and fall before your eyes. You see how despite his wealth, fame, power, and sheer ambition, he is never able to find the happiness and freedom he had when he was a child. The movie is especially interesting to watch today because of Trump. It's almost uncanny how similar they are. I really believe that Trump watched the movie and decided that he wanted to live the same life.

Michael Beschloss on Twitter: "Charles Foster Kane claims to public that  the election in which he was defeated had been marked by “Fraud At Polls!”  “Citizen Kane” (1941):… https://t.co/RwY8Dbnpt7"

 

Goodfellas

Whiplash

Interstellar

The Shawshank Redemption

There Will Be Blood

Parasite

Citizen Kane

A Clockwork Orange

Bronx Tale

Dark Knight

Inglorious Basterds

 
  1. Inglourious Basterds
  1. Shawshank Redemption
  1. Pulp Fiction
  1. Dark Knight
  1. Ford v Ferrari
  1. The Hateful Eight
  1. The Departed
  1. Inception
  1. Superbad
  1. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
  1. Social Network
  1. Django
  1. Wolf of Wall Street
  1. Catch Me if You Can
  1. Get Out
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