MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS!

‘Peter’s Friends’ and ‘The Theory of Flight’

ZoeLo

"Josie and the Pussycats" and "Death at a Funeral", both of them. ;)

Patrick W

the butterfly is beautiful spanish movie. night on earth is also a wonderful indie film from the nineties with tom waits doing the music (first and only one he did)

michael anderson

Night Watch is such a unique movie (Day Watch too). If he gets to this one, I really hope he can get a copy with the dynamic subtitles. It added an extra layer of awesome to an already great movie.

Monty python and the holy grail or a clockwork orange

Lynda Olson

YEES

Enter the void, Pusher (1996)

Tears of the Sun

Pleasantville (1998)

Luke Mattison

Amadeus is amazing!

Jon Bradley

Oh yes!

Both excellent

Foreign spanish horror movie- Rec

Lethalbacon

Top 1 and 2 : Dances with Wolves, Silence of the Lambs

Randall Keizer

sorry, but just read the 'keep it to one or 2' , my bad

Randall Keizer

12 Angry Men

Randall Keizer

foreign films - the Sweden version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Randall Keizer

Platoon, Dances with Wolves, Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiven, Raging Bull

Randall Keizer

Godfather (1972)

fear and loathing in las vegas (1998)

Lily

The Hunt for Red October (1990) The Martian (2015)

Jiri Luza

Please: Hard Boiled (1992) John Woo + Chow Yun Fat. The action is astounding. The acting is superb. The cinematography is second to none. This movie will knock your socks off! Hong Kong Cinema is amaze-balls. Also, “The Lady In White” is a great underrated film with a passionate writer/director basically making an autobiographical film. Just listen to his commentary on your second viewing. He exquisitely immortalized his childhood on celluloid.

Christian Rennie

Night Watch, Brotherhood of the Wolf

Ernesto Maldonado

Seventh Seal was my first taste of arthouse filmmaking. Great film.

kimsmk

The Holy Mountain, Welcome to The Dollhouse

kimsmk

Pride and Prejudice (2005) it uses a lot of good film making techniques. And since you seem to like fantasy a lot, 13th Warrior with Antonio Banderas ✨

Aimée Town

Ran is epic AF. Great suggestion!

Steven Montano

Daughters of the Dust and Plein Soleil

Sorry, I JUST noticed you said 1-2 per person. I’ll do better next time. 😊

Jen G.

As much as I would like to say "Shaolin Soccer", but I think you'll get to it once you get past Kung Fu Hustle. 1) The Last Starfighter (First use of CGI as we know it and Robert Preston's last acting role) 2) RAN (Japan war epic that put The Last Samurai to shame.)

Bd Blake

Ink

Chad Crayton

Platoon and La Samourai

Cal Graham

My Cousin Vinny The Platform

Dustin Bruce

Almost Famous Catch Me If You Can

Jesse Stilwell

No country for old men!

gone baby gone and IT (orginal tv movie)

Katrina Richelle

Ravenous and What About Bob?

sean smith

Pleasantville and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

While Metropolis wasn't the first sci-fi ever (Melies got there first with A Trip to the Moon, and the Russian film Aelita, Princess of Mars is from 1924) it was the most influential, particularly to the filmmakers of the 1970s and later. Blade Runner and Dark City are the two films whose inspiration is most obvious, but any dystopian sci-fi shows traces of Metropolis. And make sure that the post-2009 "complete" version is used. It's not only the most complete but has the clearest story.

Brett Coster

Blood Diamond is amazing. Definitely recommend that

I had high expectations for Man on Fire but it just didn’t live up to them. The filming style just really threw me off

lawless and The Grey

Q

I literally just recommended Metropolis in this thread :o I hope he selects it for the poll. Its amazing

a.n.w

Metropolis from 1927 The first sci fi movie ever, amazing practical effects and sets, beautiful art deco aesthetics and good politics about the soulless nature of industrialization

a.n.w

One of the reasons you're the first person I've supported here.......Equilibrium!!! Lol. I haven't watched it in years, but I would watch the full length to get your perspective. The premise is fascinating. Cheers!

American Graffiti

I'm still hoping that Stalker gets through the tournament of death, but in the meantime, I'd like to suggest two silents: 1 Metropolis (1927) 2 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Both are late silents that take advantage of all the lessons learnt in the silent era, especially Sunrise, which has a recorded soundtrack and sound effects, but no speech. Sunrise also uses very few title cards but still tells a very strong story visually. Both have some amazing camerawork. Note: The 2001 anime Metropolis is also pretty good but doesn't really compare with Fritz Lang's movie

Brett Coster

Since I really hope you will still pick up Delicatessen and The Handmaiden I will use this opportunity (again ;-) ) to push for Kurosawa, either Seven Samurai (1950s) or Ran (1985).

Paul Steffens

Wolf Children

Jake Thompson

Yes I love that film

Matt

Kid Detective

Mister Lou

Yes and Yes

Matt

Frailty (2001) The Hidden (1987)

Just got Sound of Metal and Minari blu rays my two favorite films of last year

Matt

The Cell: A very stylized and brutal sci-fi thriller. Staring Vincent D'onofrio, Vince Vaughn, and Jennifer Lopez.

Cifer

-The Road to Perdition (Incredibly shot gangster film staring Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, and Paul Newman) -Before Sunrise (One of the best romance movies ever staring Ethan Hawk, same director as Boyhood) -Amadeus (One of the best historical movies around, and amazing music/costumes)

FRANK (2014) WHIPLASH

Sean Medellin

Arrival and Locke!

Jackson Greenberg

THX 1138, for intelligent and visually stunning scifi Sideways, for something lighter and character driven (Best Picture and Director nominee. Won best screenplay)

ActionJeans

I second To Live and Die in LA

Ken

I have three ... Pump Up The Volume (1990) with Christian Slater (if he had to choose one film to be remembered for, this is it) Only The Brave ... story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots To Live And Die In LA ... another Friedkin masterpiece from the mid-1980s with Willem Dafoe, William Peterson (aka Grissom of CSI), John Turturro, and others about a counterfeiting investigation that goes wrong and won a Stuntman's Award for a car chase scene

Jon Bradley

Absolutely seconding Only The Brave. As someone from Arizona, this film always hits close to home

Jon Bradley

So underrated. It was one of Katheryn Bigelow's first films

Jon Bradley

Awesome choices

Jon Bradley

Both are excellent

Jon Bradley

Silverado is an awesome film. It has such a lauded ensemble cast

Jon Bradley

absolute classic

Jon Bradley

Love that film!

Jon Bradley

Hell yes!

Jon Bradley

Just watched Sorceror last night ... get Friedkin film

Jon Bradley

Both solid choices ... love Brotherhood of the Wolf

Jon Bradley

Arrival!

CK12341

FIRST MAN 2018

Matt

In the Mood For Love and Chungking Express directed by Wong Kar Wai, and Exiled, Election 1, Election 2 directed by Johnnie To.

Lee

Gross Pointe Blank = hilarious dark comedy staring John and Joan Cusack, Dan Akroyd The English Patient = epic drama with amazing cinematography, won a bunch of Oscars

Sonia Deepak

It's Such A Beautiful Day by Don Hertzfeldt

Meili

SEXY BEAST - movie will blow your mind James. One of the most tyrannical antagonists ever put to film.

1. Das Boot. In German with subtitles. 2. Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Dennis Quaid, Tom Sizemore, Bill Pullman, Michael Madsen & Mark Harmon (the greatest actor who ever lived))

F Yale

Climax (2018) and Nashville (1975).

The Great Race (1965) and Tears of The Sun (2003)

Wingates_Hellsing_42

Godzilla 1954 (the original Japanese version) and The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (you can watch this free on Vimeo).

Mr Zilla

Le pacte des loups (otherwise known as Brotherhood of the Wolf), and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Inland Empire and Only God Forgives!

Mitchy D

The Kings Speech, True Grit (2010)

James

" The Bounty" starring Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson, Daniel Day Lewis, Laurence Olivier, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill, and Edward Fox. Probably one of my favorite movies.

Blindspotting and It Follows

Gillian Hadland

Haven't seen Run Lola run, but I've heard good things about it. The other 2 are good choices

Das Boot, Carlito's way.

The King is a fantastic film! All the performances are excellent, with Chalamet‘s being the stand out

Only The Brave The King Whiplash

You are in luck, he reacted to that already.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar

I can't think of a movie with better shot car chases.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar

I strongly second The Player

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar

Run Lola run, dances with wolves, legends of the fall 👍🏻

Ancestor of Freedom

The Player (1992) Almost Famous (2000) Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

I saw this in theatre when it came out. Really good & interesting.

Penultimate Tommy Wiseau

Ronin (1998) Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Sean Bean

Dark Waters (trailer does the movie no justice) (2019) Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Jack Ryan

Anime "Sword of the Stranger" 2007 release. Classic trope, warrior and child. "Bright" 2017 release. Orc cop, that says it all.

House (1977)

nick moose

Festen (1998) Die Welle (2008)

You should react to some Terrence Malick movies, either start with Badlands (1973) or jump to The Thin a Red Line (1998)

Grunwalski

Seven Samurai and I will always suggest Stalker or anything from Tarkovsky

Jansson

Black Swan (2010) or The House That Jack Built (2018)

Lily

Son of Saul, movie in one take like 1917, but in Auschwitz

Yes to Spotlight, I never saw the foxcatcher.

Blue Valentine

Jovanni Ruiz

Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love. Two films from Wong Kar-Wai and cinematographer, Christopher Doyle.

Avery

Amores Perros Minding the Gap The Elephant Man

Jordan Porter

Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) A Scanner Darkly

Luke Trottier

The King on netflix

matthew

The Prince of Egypt, Dreamworks' first traditionally animated film 5 Centimeters Per Second, animated

Kero-chan

Near Dark

I have become such a fan of Jim Cummings this year. Great recommendation!

Yessica C

Empire Of The Sun

Man on fire Pan's labyrinth

Chickenelegs

My Way (2011) Korean WW2 film. Subtitles only but it is amazing.

Ken

I have like 20 haha, but here's two: -"Wolf of Snow Hollow" (2020 horror thriller movie from Jim Cummings) -"Dragged Across Concrete" (2018 film from S Craig Zahler, who did Bone Tomahawk)

Tim Brown

Lucy

Rurouni Kenshin, film based off manga and The Protector, has a 4 minute one continues shot featuring Tony jaa

Ravenous (Guy Pearce movie) Upgrade

Brittyn Lindsey

Tom Hardy is one of the only actors who could pull of the performance in Locke!

Jeremy Lindstrom

Change 'masterpiece of cinema' to horribly bloated, amateurishly made, and atrociously written bastardization of one of the foundational pillars of the western canon and you'd be right on the money ;)

Foxcatcher, Spotlight

Jeremy Lindstrom

Training Day True Lies

Carlos Hurtado

Climax would be perfect. Just a nonstop dance horror nightmare haha

Tim Brown

Red Cliff (2008) a wonderful John Woo movie. Schindler's List (1993) Steven Spielberg, just watch and bring tissues.

Coleyra

THX 1138 Night of the Hunter

Ken

Do you mean Coherence?

Brittyn Lindsey

Cinema Paradiso Pain and Glory

Yessica C

1945 (2017) Hungarian film. Mystery film about guilt and conscience set against aftermath of the Holocaust

Matt G

The Sword of Doom (1966) & Parasite (2019)

Basquiat

Carina F

It's a beautifully human 'hard-science fiction' tale of alien contact which, perhaps more than any other film I've seen in the sci-fi genre, truly and unapologetically embraces the SCIENCE of science fiction.

The Fisher king

Carina F

Lost in Translation, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patrick

Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is an experimental psychodrama masquerading as exploitation horror. Also, A Hard Day is an excellent South Korean neo-noir with some Coen Bros.-esque moments.

CJ SWANSON

Maybe check out Contact (1997), directed by Robert Zemeckis (director of Cast Away, Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) and based on the wonderful writing of the incomparable Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan (science-popularizers extraordinaire and creators of the original 'Cosmos' from 1980).

Luca (2021) Coherent (2013)

Logan

Midsommar

- Victoria (2015) - Locke (2013)

H.

Red (2012) And Young Frankenstein (1974) And Step Brothers (2008)

Before Sunrise (1995)

Chelsea Warkentine

I have not!

James Adams

I’ve seen that film a WHILE back. Forget how it went again but it was shocking. Maybe I’ll revisit!

James Adams

"McCabe & Mrs. Miller" or "Nashville"

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar

Paris, Texas

Amores Perros (Mexico)

bro. Predestination.

Joshua Day

Have you done "Run Lola Run" 1998 ?

George Inotowok

'SLING BLADE' (1995) Written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton who also stars in it, in a role that you will never forget once you see it.

Paul Phelan

I Saw The Devil & 13 Assassins

martin overengen

Almost Famous Man on Fire

The Fall (2006) great fantasy story with beautiful locations. and Mandy (2018) with Nicholas Cage, completely insane.

Daniel

Beasts of No Nation is a really good (intense) movie that got lost a bit in the netflix catalog. Blood Diamond is pretty good too and I think more seen

Nishant

Rango Game Night

Matthew Richson

I am amending this comment to a better "epic" Lawrence of Arabia. Ignore............Troy(horribly inaccurate historical, amazing masterpiece of cinema anyways)

The imaginarum of doctor Parnassus (heath ledger died while filming recast halfway through movie)

Clue (1985). A cult classic you will absolutely love, and I know the fans will enjoy it.

Eurocheese

Climax

Frequency (2000) very grounded sci-fi changing time film, also a Murder mystery. Stars Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, and Andre Braugher. SIlverado, a western from the writer of Star Wars Empire Strikes Back who also directs the film as well, stars Kevin Kline, Scott Glen, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennahey, Rosanna Arquette, Linda Hunt, John Cleese, and Jeff Goldblum.

Cody Price

Danish movie with Mads Mikkelsen. Named Pusher...

Intouchable

Nick Sneddon

Oldboy (2003)

Justin S Tuisamoa

Blood Diamond (2006), Dead Mans Shoes (2004, Shane Meadows movie)

Xclusive

Man on Fire (2004). Great Denzel Washington action flick. Sunshine (2007), an underrated Danny Boyle scifi masterpiece.

Steven Montano

No Country for Old Men Nocturnal Animals Midsommar

Jen G.

Once Were Warriors(1994)

Justin S Tuisamoa

Pan's Labyrinth, Dead Man's Shoes

Richard Akhtar-Dobson

Unforgiven (1992) and The Seventh Seal (1957)

AliaAtreides84

Ex Machina (2014) and the japanese drama Shoplifters (2018). Two very different movies, but both are really great in my opinion.

Sigurd Lillebo

“O’ Brother Where Art Thou” & “No Country for old men”

lol

James Adams

Ad Astra: a space drama with amazing cinematography featuring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: a 1969 classic western featuring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. An awesome movie about bankrobbers in the 1890s

The Hunt would be nice >.<. But other than that. Lucky Number Slevin is an underrated masterpiece. Definitely check that out.

asdasdaaa

The good the bad and the ugly

Arrival Ender‘s Game

Underwater Sunlight (Eddy)

Ronin (1998) John Frankenheimer

Penultimate Tommy Wiseau

13 Assassins (2010), Headhunters (2011)

Carlos

K.I.D.S is a masterpiece

Juan Pablo Camero

The sound of metal, you’ll love the sound design, guaranteed

Dylan

The invisible Man (2020)

karth

Seven samurai RAN

Braveheart & Unforgiven

Justin McDonald

Sorcerer Glengary Glen Ross