Movies you HAVE to have seen

[CK76]

Many I'd suggest have been mentioned so just chip in

Das Leben Den Anderen
Amelie
Momento
Joyeux Noel
Dekalog
Taxi Driver
Seventh Seal
Der Letzen Tagen

Many many films are worth watching if I had to pick one be simply too hard.

 

[SpecklePattern]

Snatch
Shaun of the dead
Forrest Gump
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars
Fight Club
The Matrix
American Beauty
Alien
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Gladiator
The Terminator
Sin City
American History X

I can't remember them all :-/

 

[A Pious Cultist]

Ugh, you thought Dark Knight and BB were intelligent movies? Man...The only good part of Dark Knight was Heath Ledger as the joker. You want to see an intelligent comic book movie? Go watch Watchmen, it makes the new batman movies look like they were written by a five year old. I'm not kidding.

Assholish or complete web-blanket protagonists spouting existential pseudo-phillosophy in silly moulded-plastic costumes. I'll pass. I spent the entire duration of that movie not really giving a shit about anything on screen.

 

[Srdjan]

There will be blood, No country for old man, Hotel Rwanda, Colour of purple, Gran Torino.

 

[historybuff]

Terminator and Terminator Two: Judgment Day

The Breakfast Club

The Princess Bride

 

[Enigma6667]

The original Star Wars films, anything made by Pixar, Pan's Labyrinth, Fight Club, The Dark Knight, Watchmen, Anything by Quentin Tarantino, The first two Terminators, the first two Alien films, the Evil Dead trilogy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Fargo, oh dear god I could go on :/

The Machinist. Because it's never too late to say you're sorry.

Wow, I just watched that last night. Damn, you're so right =]

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

If you have not watched at least 3 Pixar films you sir have no soul.

 

[Bek359]

The Shawshank Redemption, LOTR series, The Matrix, and Citizen Kane. Believe me, it's not called the best movie of all time for nothing.

 

[LiquidGrape]

Anything by Quentin Tarentino, because he makes some of the most thought provoking movies ever, and not to mention they are extremely enjoyable *cough* kill bill *cough*.

Now, by thought-provoking, you meant brain poison. Right?

 

[Plurralbles]

... what a flaccid thread...

Anyway, here's a small list of movies I think everyone should see once.

Star Wars Series
At least oen of the StarTrek movies.
Birds
The Shining
Teh Sound of Music
Airplane!
Simon of the Desert
2001 A Space Odyssey
20000 Leagues under the Sea(1954)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Angels in the Outfield
The Karate Kid
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Bad Seed
Ben-Hur
Teh Ten Commandments(it's a fun old movie, if your'e Christian or not)
Shoot 'Em Up
One of John Wayne's movies.
A James Bond movie
The Indian in the Cupboard.


oh wait.. I said small list...

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Up.

Don't ask, just see it. You can thank me later.

 

[mexicola]

The Godfather easily. Oh and The Godfather 2, as for 3 well... no need to go that far unless you really want to.

 

[gavinshai]

Nice list from the thread as a whole, but honestly I'm shocked we've gotten to page 3 without a mention of Jurassic Park or Jaws.

Also every childhood would be incomplete without several of the Disney animated films, who do you know that didn't grow up watching 1 or 2 of them ad nauseum?

 

[Mistermixmaster]

Jay and Silent Bob strikes back!
Starship Troopers
Stalingrad
PhoneBooth
Saints and Soldiers
The Adventures of Indiana Jones (the good ones, not the mediocre one with the aliens and shit >_>... screw you crystal skull!)
Gran Torino

...what? I love these movies at least!

 

[T-Bone24]

Anyone who is in any way interested in sci-fi should have already seen District 9. That film is glorious.