Please recommend excellent movies

[Necromunchkin]

I've been a bit out of touch with cinema, I've realized, and I've got me a new Netflix subscription, so, please recommend quality films to look into here.

I'm not concerned over genre. Just things that are well done, thought-provoking, or downright strange/unique.

 

[Henrik Main]

Some of my current favourites:

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
The Illusionist
Lucky Number Slevin
Unknown
The Departed
Pans Labyrinth
Crank
Master And Commander

Edit: Added some of my other personal favourites:

Layer Cake
Sin City
Kill Bill: Vol 1
Kill Bill: Vol 2
Saving Private Ryan
Catch Me If You Can
Gangs Of New York
The Godfather trilogy
The Lord Of The Rings trilogy
Gladiator
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Troy

 

[circus_brimstone]

Pi

^ Watched that for the first time the other night. Very cool.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Oldboy
Infernal Affairs
8 1/2
Downfall
Clown on Her
The Return
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

 

[Dark One]

Clown on Her

 

[dill_the_devil]

Hard Candy
Insomnia
Strange Days
Brother (Takeshi Kitano and Omar Epps, hugely under-rated movie)

 

[Dark One]

Sin City
Office Space
The Big Lebowski
Kingpin
12 Angry Men (1957)
Batman Begins
Murder By Decree
Unbreakable
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Exorcist III

There's a really nice eclectic mix of awesome movies for you.

Jason

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Brother (Takeshi Kitano and Omar Epps, hugely under-rated movie)

Though if you are to see one Kitano movie, prefer "Hana Bi" (english title - "Fireworks")

 

[JayKeeley]

How long is a piece of string?

Just start here: TOP 100 AFI MOVIES

and here: TOP 100 BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

Obviously start with the top 10 of each. Select couple that become mandatory are therefore:

The Godfather
The Third Man

Jumping into the old classics might be a stretch if you're a noob, but you should definitely school yourself with those two before most anything else.

Otherwise, just cut to the chase and go with Empire Strikes Back, the greatest 'modern' movie of our time, as voted by both Empire Magazine staff and readers. (And it's true).

 

[Henrik Main]

Just saw The Prestige

One of the best films I've seen in a long time. The final twist truly is something out of the ordinary, and the general plot is just fantastic.

 

[Six-winged Seraph]

Kindergarden Cop

 

[Evil?]

How long is a piece of string?

Just start here: TOP 100 AFI MOVIES

and here: TOP 100 BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

Obviously start with the top 10 of each. Select couple that become mandatory are therefore:

Wizard of Oz number six? This film has never done anything for me.

 

[dill_the_devil]

To be fair, despite the length of time that has passed since it was made, The Wizard Of Oz is still a visually very impressive movie.

 

[JayKeeley]

I think when it comes to those lists, it's similar to music in the sense that the 'originators' get the credit for establishing the blueprint.

By the way, I LOVE the fact that the BFI listed Trainspotting in its top 10. I think it's one of the greatest movies made in our lifetime at least.

 

[dill_the_devil]

Yeah, excellent film. Every time I watch it, I end up thinking 'I don't think I can sit through that again', but I always end up pulling it out at a later date. The scene where Renton is going cold turkey is one of the most intensely disturbing things ever (dead heroin overdose baby crawling upside on the ceiling, anyone?).

 

[JayKeeley]

yeah...and all that just after he overdoses to the sound of Lou Reed's "perfect day". Classic classic stuff.

 

[Demonspell]

I agree, right up there with anything from Clockwork Orange for inspired dementia and very uncomfortable to watch...more recently, the suicidal hallucination scene from A Scanner Darkly made me similarly uncomfortable.

 

[Claws of Perdition]

Anal sluts 9

 

[Evil?]

Back Door sluts 9

fixed

 

[dill_the_devil]

I agree, right up there with anything from Clockwork Orange for inspired dementia and very uncomfortable to watch...more recently, the suicidal hallucination scene from A Scanner Darkly made me similarly uncomfortable.

My dad's got a pirate copy of that on DVD downstairs, might have to watch it later tonight and report back...

Also, for another excellent movie recommendation: A History Of Violence.