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

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    354·
    2 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
    201·
    2 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
  • Usually_Lurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 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
    141·
    2 months ago

    Big Trouble in Little China

    Princess Bride

    Romancing the Stone

    The Shining

    Full Metal Jacket

    • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 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.

  • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago
    • The Thing ('82)
    • Hot Fuzz
    • Mad Max: Fury Road
    • Spirited Away
    • Taxi Driver
    • The Matrix
    • Unforgiven
    • Nosferatu
    • Suspiria ('77)
    • 12 Angry Men
    • Psycho
    • The Wizard of Oz
  • dwindling7373@feddit.it
    111·
    2 months ago

    “Should have seen” is strange, I’ll go with titles that, if you are into cinema probably you have heard about?

    Citizen Kane

    The Seventh Sigil

    Apocalypse Now

    Vertigo (Any Hitchcock movie really)

    Seven Samurai (Any Kurosawa movie really)

    Pretty much anything from Buster Keaton

    Charlie Chaplin (I guess Modern Times)

    The Godfather part I & II

    Taxi Driver

    On the Waterfront (Peak Marlon Brando stuff)

    Some Truffaut stuff (I guess “Day for Night” would be the most relevant here)

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind to get pretty much everything interesting from the Spielberg side of things

    Man with a Camera (ok this one is not something I espect any conema lover to know, it’s a very early montage wonder from Russia, always good to get back there and get reminded progress doesn’t always go forward)

    La Dolce Vita

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Shining

    A Clockwork Orange

    Reservoir Dogs

    Lost Highway (The better Mulholland Drive)

    Blade Runner

    The Matrix

    Star Wars

    There’s some good newer stuff but it’s much less “popular” so it wouldn’t make sense to expect anybody to know them. Very little new stuff looks like has the staying power to be relevant years down the line.

    I guess The Lord of the Rings? But I consider it more of a great book that got a quality adaptation than a ground breaking stepping stone of cinema.

    No country for old men, probably.

  • 0x30507DE@lemmy.todayEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    Just off the top of my head: Alien and Aliens are wonderful, Apocalypse Now needs no introduction, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and finally Oppenheimer, which is one of the best movies ever made in my opinion (what can I say, I’m a sucker for an incredibly well-told story).

  • Augustiner@lemmy.world
    101·
    2 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