What are your favorite movies? (Recs thread)

Here's my list, idk if you care. Idc.

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need to watch those

so small...

Old Boy is great.

Yoo Treasure Planet getting some love? Based.

I strongly recommend french movie La Haine (1995) deffo in my top 5.

Out of your list, these following films should be watched at least once:

• Seventh Seal (IMO Bergman's best film)
• Wild Strawberries (Another Bergman masterpiece)
• The Magician (Another Bergman masterpiece)
• Come and See (Best War movie ever made. period.)
• Rashomon & Harakiri (Akira Kurosawa, enough said.)
• Apocalypse Now (A great adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", it might not be as impactful or nuanced as Come and See but it's still a very psychological and philosophical war movie, it feels like a horror movie at times)
• Stalker, Nostalgia & Mirror (Three films from Andrei Tarkovsky, IMO Stalker is his best films, but you should check the other two masterpieces as well or even his entire work, a true auteur of the medium)
• Bicycle Thieves (An Italian neorealist classic)

That being said, my top 10 recs are (no particular order)

• La Dolce Vita
• 8½
• Tokyo Story
• The 400 Blows
• Pierrot le Fou
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• Vertigo
• Le Samourai
• The Last Tango in Paris
• The Woman Who Left

NGL, I wasn't expecting to see so much taste here.

Let's see, I'll go by directors, in no particular order:

Andrei Tarkovsky: Pretty much everything he made, which is just 7 movies.

Ingmar Bergman: Too many stuff to name honestly, but here's some of the first that come to mind: The Seventh Seal, Persona, Wild Strawberries, Shame, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, Silence.

Federico Fellini: La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8½

Akira Kurosawa: Pretty much everything he made is worth watching.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata

David Lynch: Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., Inland Empire

Charlie Kaufman: (Synecdoche, New York), Anomalisa, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Alejandro Jodorowsky: El Topo, Holy Mountain

Sion Sono: Love Exposure, Forest of Love, Antiporno, Tag, Why Don't You Play in Hell, Cold Fish, Strange Circus, Suicide Club

Shinya Tsukamoto: Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Vital, A Snake of June

Robert Eggers: All three of his movies: The VVitch, The Lighthouse, The Northman

Werner Herzog: Nosferatu The Vampyre, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo

Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Paths of Glory

Abbas Kiarostami: Taste of Cherry, Close Up, Where is Friend's Home, Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Certified Copy

Krzysztof Kieslowski: Dekalog, The Three Colors Trilogy, Blind Chance, The Double Life of Veronique

Sidney Lumet: 12 Angry Men, Network

Yorgos Lanthimos: Dogtooth, Lobster

Yuri Norstein: Hedgehog in the Fog, Tale of Tales

Alex Garland: Devs, Ex Machina

Saitoshi Kon: Perfect Blue, Paprika

And here's some standalone movie recs:

Coherence (2013), Triangle (2009), Timecrimes (2007), Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020), Donnie Darko (2001), Archie's Final Project (2009), Kwaidan (1964), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Putney Swope (1969), Long Day's Journey into Night (2018), Branded to Kill (1967), Baron Prášil (1961), Audition (1999), 5 Centimeters per Second (2007), About Endlessness (2019).

Vertigo and 8 1/2 are dope, i love Aguirre. Will make sure to peep those, thanks a lot.

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I've peeped the entire filmography (or close to it) of people like Bergman, Tarkovski, Kubrick, Kurosawa etc.

I've peeped most of these tho there are some still on my backlog, and some i never heard of.

Kwaidan looks incredible, i might just watch it this weekend lol, thanks for tha recs anyway

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if no anime is included it's

LOTR movies

The Godfather (only seen the 1st tho)

alot of movies Toshiro Mifune is in

Blade of the immortal

anime movies are allowed

i didn't know there's a Blade of the Immortal movie, is it any good? Live Action adaptations tend to suck, and i loved the manga

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Only movie I ever recommend is Gifted (2017).

Aliens, Predator, Terminator 1 and Terminator 2, The Dark Knight, The Winter Soldier, Civil War, Infinity War, and a few other random films

Logan was incredible

I didn't know it had an anime but I like the story and the action is great IMO ofc

since anime movies are allowed

OP film z and strong world

Mugen train

Spirited away

Nice to see a somewhat unique list, honestly. It depends on the person, of course, but these are my top 3 films, and so I'd generally highly recommend them:

1. Black Swan
2. Your Name
3. Himizu

The first 2 are hardly unknown, but they haven't been mentioned yet, and the 3rd is incredibly underrated.

Taxi Driver , Shutter Island , Drive , Silence of the lambs , Cinema Paradiso

eh the anime is iffy and it only adapts a small part of the manga

The manga is a masterpiece tho

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@theinsufferable: I've just noticed that you listed Sion Sono. Out of curiosity, was there a specific reason you didn't include his film Himizu, or have you not watched it?

@boc: Actually, I've watched and liked it. I just wasn't being very comprehensive for each director and the movie didn't come to my mind at the time. There's plenty of movies I could add to the listed directors if I revised the list at some point. But yeah, Sono is definitely one of the more interesting contemporary directors, and Himizu is great.

Either forrest gump or old yeller

@theinsufferable: Ah, nice. Himizu is actually the first film of Sono's that I've watched. Is there a specific one of his that you'd recommend next, given how much I loved it?

@boc: Well, my first one was The Forest of Love: Deep Cut (There's two versions of this available. One is a 151 minutes movie called The Forest of Love, the other is a longer TV series called The Forest of Love: Deep Cut). It remains my favorite, even though most don't consider it to be his finest work. The cool thing about Forest of Love is that it has bits and pieces of many different themes and motifs found in Sono movies. So if you see this one, it's pretty easy to make recommendations based on the aspects you like in it. Do note, however, that it has some REALLY EXTREME violent stuff.

With that out of the way, Love Exposure is generally considered his best work, and it's not hard to see why. It's a really good movie, but it's around 4 hours. However, it's engaging enough that it's easier to watch than many 2 hour movies.

If you want to go for something more accessible, Tag and Why Don't You Play in Hell are good recommendations.

If you find yourself digging the extremes, Suicide Club, Strange Circus, Cold Fish, and Guilty of Romance are some of his more extreme stuff.

Lastly, Antiporno is probably his ultimate mindf*ck movie.

I strongly recommend*;

• Breathless (2008)
• Cold Fish (2010)
• In The Mood for Love (2000)
• Peppermint Candy (1999)
• A Sun (2019)

*Some if not all of these movies are slow-paced, if you're looking for some park-themed blockbuster like those DC and Marvel shitshows you won't find here.

@theinsufferable: Appreciate the breakdown. I'll probably start with Love Exposure and The Forest of Love: Deep Cut, then.