Just name the movies you think everyone should have seen at least once in their lifetime. Go!
The Princess Bride
As you wish.
That’s inconceivable!
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- The Big Lebowski
- Inception
Edit: Can’t believe I left these out:
- High Fidelity
- Princess Bride
Because I haven’t seen it mentioned:
They Live
I grew up with Duke Nukem and later found a lot of his quotes were from that movie.
Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day
*The Terminator […]
They dropped, for whatever reason, the The after the first movie.
Thanks :) The The: also a good band, btw.
You’re twice the the he ever was!
- The Fifth Element
- Big Trouble in Little China
- LOtR
- Akira
- Up
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
- 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
I fucking love In the Loop, but it took me a few viewings to understand what the hell was going on. I should watch it again.
The TV show was really good too, but the movie captures the absurdity so well.
Shoutout for mentioning Brick. Modern noir masterpiece I never see mentioned online. Great, eclectic list overall!
Idiocracy. It was funny when it came out. Now it hurts.
That might explain why I didn’t like it too much. I saw it last year, it probably hits too close to home :/
- Caddyshack
- Animal House
- Goodfellas
- The Godfather
- Shawshank Redemption
- Schindler’s List
- The Shining
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Big Trouble in Little China
Princess Bride
Romancing the Stone
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Memento
- 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
Donnie Darko
Office Space
Equilibrium
Amélie
Back to the Future
- 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
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
Listing a bunch of decaprio movies and not adding Romeo and Juliet feels wrong. Everyone should experience it at least once.
Fair enough, I haven’t seen it yet. Also didn’t really notice how Decaprio heavy the list was until your comment.
