Just name the movies you think everyone should have seen at least once in their lifetime. Go!

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    454·
    5 months ago
    • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    • The Big Lebowski
    • Inception

    Edit: Can’t believe I left these out:

    • High Fidelity
    • Princess Bride
  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
    241·
    5 months ago
    • 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
  • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
    221·
    5 months ago

    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

  • Usually_Lurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    5 months ago
    • Caddyshack
    • Animal House
    • Goodfellas
    • The Godfather
    • Shawshank Redemption
    • Schindler’s List
    • The Shining
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
    191·
    5 months ago

    Big Trouble in Little China

    Princess Bride

    Romancing the Stone

    The Shining

    Full Metal Jacket

  • Thaurin@lemmy.world
    172·
    5 months ago
    • Airplane!
    • Ghostbusters
    • The Naked Gun (Already mentioned)
    • Gremlins + Gremlins 2
    • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom + Raiders of the Lost Ark
    • The Great Dictator
    • Forrest Gump
    • American History X
    • Grave of the Fireflies
    • Rear Window
    • The Silence of the Lambs
    • Braveheart
    • Highlander
    • Resevoir Dogs (Already mentioned)
    • Children of Men (Already mentioned)
    • My Neighbor Totoro (Already mentioned)
    • The Exorcist
    • Rambo: First Blood
    • Groundhog Day
    • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
    • Scent of a Woman
    • Predator
  • Augustiner@lemmy.world
    183·
    5 months ago

    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

    • DokPsy@infosec.pub
      1·
      5 months ago

      Listing a bunch of decaprio movies and not adding Romeo and Juliet feels wrong. Everyone should experience it at least once.

      • Augustiner@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Fair enough, I haven’t seen it yet. Also didn’t really notice how Decaprio heavy the list was until your comment.

    • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
      3·
      5 months ago

      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.

      Clockwork Orange was pivotal in my late teens, early twenties.

      Eraserhead as well, other Lynch works: Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & Lost Highway hold solid ground for me.