I've been looking for good movies to watch lately. Anyone know of some movies that a person just has to see once in their life? There are a lot of great movies I have not seen, but I never seem to know about them or think of them when looking for movies to watch. So what do you think are movies you just, have to know about? Or simply got any really good movie recommendations?
Thanks in advance! :)

List based off of the ones i hadn't seen and the ones that seemed interesting that were linked in this thread (in no particular order):

  • Ip man
  • Ip man 2
  • Alien
  • Memento
  • Blood and Bone
  • Iron mans
  • Captain Americas
  • It Follows
  • 28 days later
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • The Departed
  • The Martian
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Primer
  • The Imitation Game
  • Braveheart
  • Snatch
  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  • Red Beard
  • Blade Runner
  • Donnie Darko
  • Children of Men
  • Princess Mononoke
  • The Thin Red Line
  • The Big Short
  • Schindler's List
  • The Usual Suspects
  • American History X
  • Triangle
  • Blood Diamond
  • Gran Torino
  • Apocalypse Now
  • The Hunt for Red October
  • Christine
  • Cast Away
  • Dark City
  • Pan's labyrinth
  • The Pursuit of Happyness
  • Pacific Rim
  • The Man from Earth
  • Prisoners
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
  • Cashback
  • American Beauty
  • Blazing Saddles
  • Willow
  • The Terminal
  • Into the Wild
  • The Raid
  • The Raid 2
  • Ong-bak
  • Ong-bak 2
  • Ong-bak 3
  • Killer Joe
  • Equilibrium (seen)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • City of God
  • Mean Girls (seen)
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • The World's End
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (seen)
  • Lucky Number Slevin
  • Pitch Black
  • Heat
  • Collateral
  • Sleepy Hollow
  • The Fifth Element
  • The Machine Girl
  • Léon
  • Grave of the Fireflies
  • World of Tomorrow
  • Reservoir Dogs (seen)
  • A Tale of Two Sisters
  • White Dog
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Lost Highway
  • Escape
  • Wu Xia
  • Red Cliff 1
  • Red Cliff 2
  • The Butterfly Effect
  • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • House of Flying Daggers
  • Fargo
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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PULP FICTION!

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Actually have seen this one like 3 times already. Truly is a great movie!

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i agree with that

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Just off the top of my head.

Alien
Aliens
District 9
Edge of tomorrow
The Dark Knight

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District 9? You must be joking.

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Nope. A great movie.

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+1

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+1

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+1

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+1

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+1

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Big +1 for The Dark Knight

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On top of my head:

Limitless
Interstellar
Source code
Memento
Spirited Away (anime)

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You beat me to Memento. A great mindfuck.

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No "Moon"?
I actually liked it more than source code

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Moon is great indeed ! Too underrated as well :)

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I feel like the only one who almost cried in disappointment at Interstellar...

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tangled, little mermaid, brave :3

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Tangled is freaking awesome.

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This is all I can remember at this moment, the movies I would start watching, every single one after another right now.

Pompeii
Edge of Tomorrow as recommended above.
Saving Private Ryan
The Maze Runner
The Hunger Games series
Men in Black series
Ip man series
Blood and Bone
The 5th Wave
Mad Max
Fast and furious series or Furious 7/Seven
Terminator series
Captain America series
Iron Man series
Hulk series
Lord of the rings series
It Follows
The Babadook
Ring
28 Days Later

Even though most of those are old, personally I think they're must see if you haven't watched, and they're very memorable as well.

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Pompeii
The Maze Runner
The Hunger Games series
The 5th Wave
Hulk series

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+1 for boom

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Yeah now to think, lol, I didn't arrange them in genre order or year release. I just remembered endings and some moments then wrote down names, sorry about that.

Your profile pic, lol.

P.S Though I wouldn't recommend watching another movie right after ending instantly, give it some time, at least several hours or a day, so memories won't get mixed up and/or later cause confusion.

View attached image.
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Hey there, maybe you would be interested in joining Movie Addicts group?
Check the requirements here and if you agree i will hit you with an invite. :)

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Well, I really do love and enjoy movies, but I'm not watching them anymore, just rarely if I find some good movie which is translated into my language, I'm sticking with anime for a while.

Anyways, also I doubt I'll be able to keep up with the rule 1 and 2, the ones about making giveaway, I can't promise that I will make giveaways for now, so yeah, I better not take the risk.

Thank you for the offer, I appreciate it :)

Also, you're whitelisted, and have a great day!

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Catching Fire wasn't too bad, but the rest were not worth watching in theatres. Sadly GF is a big dystopian novel fan so we pretty much go see all movies like that.

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Strange list
IP man 2, in particular is not much diferent from Rocky4, minus the dumb robot scene.

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You might have watched most of these already, but;

Inception
Wolf of Wall Street
Bridge of Spies
Back to the Future
A beautiful mind
The good the bad and the ugly
Se7en
The grand budapest hotel
Inglorious Bastards
Silence of the lambs
I origins
Shutter Island
Pulp fiction
The departed
The martian
A clockwork orange
Primer
Minority report
Saving private ryan
The prestige
Fight club
The imitation game
Shawshank redemption
Intersteller
Life of pi
I am legend
Braveheart
Matrix
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
American Psycho
Predestination

Edit: And I almost forgot these

Raging Bull
Godfather 1 and 2 (3 too but I didn't find it good as the first 2)
Kingsman: secret service
Django Unchanined

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Best list on here so far...just missing a few good mobster movies, Godfather 1 and 2, and Good Fellas, etc.

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+1 for the list.
Boyhood is a somewhat good movie.

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Hey there, perhaps you would be interested in joining Movie Addicts group? Check the requirements here and if you agree i will gladly send you an invitation. :)
And thanks for the great list, haven't seen The Prestige.

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Add Mad Max: Fury Road, Django Unchained and Kingsman ^^

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I totally forgot about Kingsman and Django (added now) but for some reason I didn't like Mad Max so much.

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I have the impression you either like or hate Mad Max. I personally loved the action and the overall look of the move (barely CGI, every car is reel).

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+1 Yay! Kingsman!
Church Fight scene spoiler

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That church scene is why I love the movie so much :3

You will drown in the blood of the loooooord!

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Jacob's Ladder

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Red beard http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058888/
Fireworks http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119250/
American psycho http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/
The Thing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/
In the mood for love http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/

And many others! Seriously there's like tons and tons of brilliant movies out there :D

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IF you like since ficción:
Blade runner (original versión, not directors cut)
Star wars (at least The original trilogy)

IF you like adventure and fantasy:
Lord of The rings (all The trilogy)

Classic:
North by northwest
Psicosis

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Donnie Darko, a nightmare on Elmstreet and back to the future

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2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Alien + Aliens
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Donnie Darko
Requiem for a Dream
Children of Men
The Fountain
Mononoke Hime (anime)
The Thin Red Line

And more recently:
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
The Big Short
The Lobster
Trumbo
Bone Tomahawk
Victoria (German film)

That should hopefully keep you busy for a bit ^^

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Hey there fellow Mad Max fan! :)
Perhaps you would be interested in joining Movie Addicts group? Check the requirements here and let me know if you can agree and i will send an invite.
Good list, haven't seen Victoria, Trumbo and Children of Men

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I had seen that thread before, but sadly my ratio is currently at 0.92 and I honestly don't know that I can create giveaways that regularly, due to my current financial situation. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, though :)

PS: Victoria is a 2:15h-ish single shot film-- it would be almost worth it for that alone, but turns out the movie is actually a really good thriller.

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+1 for both 'Children of Men' and 'Mad Max'.

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Lorenzo's Oil. I remember being watched this one in the elementary school.. Not saying it was a great idea for teachers to make us watch it at that age but if you are not in depression mode you should definetely watch it. If you are, well stay away from the sharp objects just in case ^^ Or i dont know maybe i am just exaggerating due to being kid when i watched it.. Anyway you should check it out ^^

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Watched The Hateful Eight (directed and written by Quentin Tarantino) recently, it was great. It has a lot of unexpected twists, interesting dialogue, and jelly beans :)

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The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather 1, 2
Schindler's List
Fight Club
The Usual Suspects
You Don't Know Jack
Forrest Gump
Scarface
American History X
Hotel Rwanda
The Constant Gardener
Triangle
Blood Diamond
A Beautiful Mind
Se7en
Gran Torino
Memento
Requiem for a Dream
Empire of the Sun
The King's Speech
Million Dollar Baby
Apocalypse Now
The Prestige
The Hunt for Red October

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Hmm, must see.... these would be what I consider the best five movies I've seen
Dances with Wolves
The Last Samurai
Interstellar
The Martian
The Green Mile

With some nifty runner ups being
Footloose (original not remake)
Christine
Letters from Iwo Jima/Flags of Our Fathers
Cast Away
Snowpiercer

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Wow you mentioned Christine, i love that movie.
And perhaps you would be interested in joining Movie Addicts grou?. Check the requirements here and if you agree let me know. :)

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Too many to just list here...

But since I do happen to have a list for that, it would probably be the top entries on it for me, even if taste and top listing is indeed always a subjective thing:
Rad's List

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movies that a person just has to see once in their life

Matrix
The Usual Suspects
The Pursuit of Happyness
Gladiator
Inception
Titanic
Shawshank Redemption
Pacific Rim
Avengers
The revenant

If you're into animations:
Frozen
Big Hero 6
Hotel Transylvania

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I think you should remove Gladiator from this list, if you don't see that movie multiple times you are not among the living anyway.

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I`m not among the living then :P

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Ga-Ga-Ga-Ghost or Zombie Apocalypse? I need to know who to call here.

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Also remove 'Frozen'. Replace it with 'The Good Dinosaur'.

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I love cartoons, not that they're intellectual as my other post had stated but they're peaceful. I would agree with this statement x10, my ONLY problem with a "The Good Dinosaur" is the fact that the main dinosaurs voice is annoying, his howl is pretty good though.

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I loved this movie, also K-Pax (this movies are not for everyone, you`ve been warned).

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Yes, so good.

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gamer, doom, spirited away, and i cant think of anything else

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Gamer... Bloody hell, that's when humanity surpasses VR technology, Call of Duty players become celebrities, and the the sexual drive of the young generation is on steroids.

I cannot complain about the boob scene though.

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I can only say there were two pairs of eyes staring at me.

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i liked the whole movie idk what you guys are taking about Kappa

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Gamer attracts my attention, but in the wrong ways. :3

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you should watch it again and ignore the boobs its a great movie in my opinion that just adds to it

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DOOM, really?...saw this at a friends house, it was so bad that i assumed i was watching a Uwe Boll movie

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Oh god, Uwe Boll u,u
Even is name is super shitty

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i actrually enjoyed it. dont shit on it just casue you dont like it

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Maybe i went a little to far by comparing it to Uwe Boll, but that was a real moment in my life.
The movie just felt like i was watching someone play DOOM 3 but with the wrong pacing...well, that was many years ago so who knows i might enjoy the story now. But the action scenes, those i remember quite well, and they were the equivalent to the fake games you see people playing on TV series...the way they shot those scenes was much closer to House of the Dead games than it was too Doom

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so you continue to shit on it

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These are the only movies I voted a perfect 10 for (on IMDB):

Ladybird Ladybird       1994
Memento                 2000
Short Cuts              1993
The Seventh Seal        1957
Umberto D.              1952
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Gattaca

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Using my personal ratings (out of 10):

Whiplash - 9.4
Shawshank Redemption - 9
Rear Window - 9
The Grand Budapest Hotel 8.9
Prisoners - 8.7
LOTR Trilogy - 8.7
The Dark Knight - 8.6
Bourne Trilogy - 8.6
Finding Nemo - 8.5
Saving Private Ryan - 8.5
Rocky - 8.5
The Prestige - 8.5
Alien - 8.4

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