Recomendations on Must See Film's

[blankedboy]

The Fifth Element. That movie is fucking brilliant. A bit low-budget, but it's probably the most off-key and creative movies I've seen in ages.

Also, Moon. It's a darkish thrillerish thing with a no-way-out atmosphere to it, very artsy and with one of coolio plots that makes you have to watch it twice to get what's going on, because the clues are absolutely EVERYWHERE in the first half and the second half resolves it all bit-by-bit. Waaaatch iiiit.

 

[New Vegas Samurai]

Moon, really good indie flick, the uncut version of Kingdom of Heaven, and My personal favorite, DR.Strangelove,

A couple from This japanese movie Director, Akira something, he made Seven Samurai and Ikuru or in english, To live

 

[Nazulu]

Fantasia (1940s) and Space Odyssey:2001, the ultimate artsy films. Go see 'em NOW!

 

[ADDLibrarian]

You can't go wrong with checking out AFI's Top 100 Movie List.
http://www.filmsite.org/afi100filmsA.html
They pretty much cover the most influential films of all time.
I used to check em off once I've seen em- I should get my list out again and watch some of the ones I've missed!!

 

[The Rockerfly]

Fight Club
American Beauty
American History X
The Matrix (first one, not the other two)
Titanic
The Lord of The Rings
Requiem for a Dream
Hot Fuzz

All of them are fairly mainstream titles but there is a reason for that, all of them are fucking brilliant. They all either have; brilliant scripts, fantastic music, incredible scripts (or based on really interesting ideas), brilliant visual effects or for Hot Fuzz, humour.

Enjoy!

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Metropolis, one of the first big sci-fi films I think my teacher said, its a silent film. Its also one of the most expensive silent films made, as the wiki below states,(Then again *shrug* its wiki, as people say).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)

Delicatessen, Tokyo!, The Darjeeling Limited, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Fargo, Life is Beautiful, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Blazing Saddles, The Social Network, and Full Metal Jacket

These are a bunch of fantastic choices. I saw the extended edition of Metropolis when they rereleased it, and it's incredible how you can watch it and see where other films got some of their ideas from.

My personal recommendations come in the following flavours: The Princess Bride, Clue, Lord of the Rings, The Notebook, Brighton Rock, and any film made by Studio Ghibli.

I think that covers just about everything.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Old Boy
Il Deserto Rosso
L'Avventura
The Passenger
Easy Rider
5 Easy Pieces
The Host
The Chaser
Phantom of the Paradise
Winter's Bone
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Frankenstein Must be Destroyed!
The Horror of Dracula
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave!
Frankenstein
Nosferatu
Die Nibelungen
M
Moontide
In a Lonely Place
Footloose
Streets of Fire
The Warriors
The Thing
Maniac(From the 30's)
The Black Cat(With Lugosi and Karloff)
Motel Hell
Days of Heaven
The New World
Thin Red Line
Badlands
Head

annnnddd I could go on forever. So for now, I cease!

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Go see Black Swan. Right now.

I just recently saw it and was completely blown away by just about everything in it.

 

[darth.pixie]

The Cameraman. It's really old but it's considered to be Buster Keaton's last masterpiece. It's full of ambitious gags but it works.

The Apartment . Two of my favorite actors are Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. I have watched every single one of their movies simply because they were in it. That said, this is one of the best movies Lemmon made and could be considered also Billy Wilder's (the director's) best. It balances drama and humour.

The serious suggestions being over with, Clue and Murder by Death, if you're into mystery. If only for the humour in them.

 

[Kortney]

Singin' in the Rain. See this movie! Quite simply, the greatest musical in existence.

Great comedy, writing, dancing, acting, storytelling...everything. Back when you needed talent to be in movies...

I agree it is a must see but to say it is the greatest musical in existence would be akin to me saying Halo is the best FPS of all time.

 

[Purple Shrimp]

Deliverance is probably my all-time favourite movie, watch it

 

[JoJo]

Grave of the Fireflies is a difficult, but worthwhile emotional film to watch, it's a real shame it gets far less atention than it deserves.

 

[octafish]

Moon, really good indie flick, the uncut version of Kingdom of Heaven, and My personal favorite, DR.Strangelove,

A couple from This japanese movie Director, Akira something, he made Seven Samurai and Ikuru or in english, To live

Don't do that, don't mess with Kurosawa like that.

One of the greatest films of all time is Night of The Hunter it has brilliant crisp visuals that borrow heavily from German expressionism, as well as very compelling villain, in fact Stephen King has said he is the greatest villain of all time.

There isn't a lot of fancy camera work or lighting in Glengarry Glen Ross but it is a very engrossing character exploration. It is also one of the manliest films ever made.

Casablanca deserves all the praise it gets, it's smart, funny, subversive, and yes romantic as well. Anyone who doesn't find Captain Renault hilarious, well there is something missing in them.

 

[John the Gamer]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (5th best comedy)
Monty Python and the Life of Brian (1st best comedy)

Seven Samurai (1950´s) (just good)

 

[laol1999]

watch "The Trotsky" and "Hamlet 2"
the trotsky is about a canadian boy who thinkshe is the reincarnation of trotsky and hamlet 2 s an amazing and funny movie about a drama teacher who is trying to make a hit new play

 

[Casual Shinji]

Swimming With Sharks.

If you haven't seen it yet you need to right now.

 

[Chromatic Aberration]

One name: Stanley Kubrick. Go and watch his films. Everyone is awesome in its own regard.

I especially recommend A Clockwork Orange .
The cinematography, visual style and overall atmosphere are just art - pure and simple.

Also if you want something surreal to wrap your head around I recommend Mulholland Drive by David Lynch. A real good Mind fuck that leaves you with a feeling of utter and complete confusion.

Now if you also like to look over the rim and try out some Animes, there are two that I can recommend for being visually stunning and deep at the same time: Serial Experiments Lain and Paranoia Agent . Both are incredible mind fucks. Paranoia Agent is reminiscent of David Lynch but tries to explain a lot more and wraps up its storyline. Still that series is full of social criticism and I highly recommend watching it. As for Serial Experiments Lain the visuals are full of symbols and you can spend years trying to analyze all its symbolism. It also features a wide variety of art-styles. Recommended for its visuals alone.

 

[Duruznik]

Try "Amelie." Personally I found the cinematography to be great. It's french, but you can always watch it with subs.

If you're looking for good visuals, and don't mind anime, I have to reccomend Fooly Cooly (it's a 6-episode miniseries, but it's basically a 2.5 hour movie). The animation and visual style is unique and brilliant, and the writing is simply genius.

 

[Antari]

I'd have to say this is a must see movie. Just came out too.

Spoiler

 

[smeghead25]

Pretty much anything by Uwe Boll is absolutely amazing.

*Watches in wonder as the wrath of the entire Escapist userbase crashes down upon me*

...Also, I absolutely loooooooove Shoot 'Em Up and In Bruges. Shoot 'Em Up shows you how to really nail the... erm... shoot 'em up genre... and it does so with a shitload of style, humour and an entertaining story to boot.

In Bruges is a dark comedy, and only just beats out Four Lions and the ENGLISH Death At A Funeral for top spot, as it has probably the least appropriate humour I've ever seen in a (non-Uwe Boll) movie, and on top of that has a damn good ending that relates back to a whole lot of stuff that has been said and alluded to throughout the film.