The ultimate list of movies & series for men of culture

Series:

  • Mad Men
  • Narcos
  • House of Cards
  • Sopranos
  • Better Call Saul
  • True Detective

Movies:

  • Wall Street (1, 2)
  • Margin Call
  • Big Short
  • American Psycho
  • Boiler Room
  • Moneyball
  • Wolf of Wall Street
  • The Lincoln Lawyer
  • Godfather (1, 2, 3)
  • Goodfellas
  • Scarface
  • American Gangster
  • Casino
  • A Bronx Tale
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Schindler's List
  • The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
  • Fight Club
  • Gladiator
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • The Departed
  • Casablanca
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Shawshank Redemption

I could happily spend my 60s and 70s watching on repeat, on a full screen, many of those masterpieces with a nice drink on my side.

P.S. GoT, Squid Games, Marvel, Lord of the Rings, etc. can be fully taken by the SWE guys.

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- Shawshank Redemption 

- Inception 

- Se7en

- Good Will Hunting 

- Requiem for a Dream

- Scarface 

- The Sixth Sense 

- A Beautiful Mind 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

For me, great movies are about making something exceptional with the simple things which life has to offer (ordinary places, relationships, people, etc.). All the fictional movies with special effects, fictional places, and special characters are extras to a movie in the same way as silicone is to porn. I prefer what is real, what is raw, and generally what feels more close to my daily life instead of what is extremely woah but distant. 

 

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Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 

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The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.
 

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