Movie Must watch movies (classic or recent)

[Marlowe]

Platoon, Born on the fourth of July, Escape From New York, Robocop, Lethal Weapon, Braveheart, Boyz n the Hood, This is Spinal Tap, Office Space

 

[watts4ever]

The birth of a nation, The general, Gone With the wind, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Bonnie and Clyde, star wars a new hope, raging bull, fight club, lord of the rings trilogy, the tree of life.

 

[buddyruff]

You have to be joking????????????

I have 3 1/2K movies in my collection, several movie collectors have well in excess of 10K movies.

And how many of them have you actually paid for?

 

[He_Beast]

yeah, cause that's relevant

 

[OrdinaryJoel]

Boyz N Da Hood
American Gangster
Remember the Titans
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Basketball Diaries
Blood Diamonds

Some more modern ones are those that are listed above...

 

[Asgardian]

And how many of them have you actually paid for?

An interesting question, plus as He_Beast remarks .... sarcastically ..... "yeah, cause that's relevant", it is of zero importance, I'll answer anyway because my movie collection database can be divided up by which medium the movie is on.

3 1/2K movies

About 345 of them are on original VHS tapes, all of them commercially purchased by me

About 1,815 on original DVD / Blu-Ray, all of them commercially purchased by me.

About 1,340 of them are on DVD-r

Of the 1,340 on DVD-r the split would be about 50%/50% between movies I have gained by swaps with fellow movie collectors and others I have purchased from fellow movie collectors. The 1,340 on DVD-r are 100% public domain movies.

I do not download movies, I do not know how to download movies.

I created a thread a month or 2 back asking about download sites because when searching for nearly impossible to find movies several download sites come up in the Google search. I have since found the download sites appearing do not actually have the movies I am searching for, they just come up hoping for more traffic by people like me.

I do not agree with the practice of downloading movies readily commercially available. That is just me though, I am not saying to anyone else what they should or shouldn't do.

Does this satisfy your high & mighty question buddyruff?

 

[wce_dyl]

Kind of top 10 (in no order except for #1) but stretched it out so over a few genres.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - westernSe7en - thriller
Pulp Fiction - crime?
This is Spinal Tap - musical
Escape from New York -
Monty Python's Life of Brian - comedy
Enter the Dragon - martial arts
The Dark Knight - action
Raiders of the Lost Ark - adventure
Saving Private Ryan - war

Total Recall - Haven't seen the remake but I know it can't possibly live up to the original. Awesome storyline and non-stop action.

My favourite is The Running Man, Arnie rocks!!!

 

[Papa Juggs]

R.I.P Demonoid.

That's where I was getting your sci-fi recommendations Asgard.

Now that's dead I'm as lost as you, people don't seed on the bay of pirates.

 

[Chism]

The Pursuit of Happyness

Fantastic film.

While i have not done a list this movie would be the 1st one i write down.

 

[Asgardian]

R.I.P Demonoid.

I had to Google Demonoid to find out what you were talking about, like I said, I know nothing about downloading movies.

That's where I was getting your sci-fi recommendations Asgard.

Name a public domain movie & I will probably be able to name a source, may even be me, just as long as it's not one of the presumed to be "Lost movies"

Now that's dead I'm as lost as you, people don't seed on the bay of pirates.

As lost as me??????????????????

The movies I'm after are the same movies that movie collectors world wide are after, they just do not seem to be available.

 

[Papa Juggs]

Ok fair enough.

Seems like the type of thing you have to pay the right dude to let you into some movie studio archive (if such thing even exists)

I'm not keen to pay for anything really. I'll watch cam rips on occasion I'm that adverse to paying.

 

[Marlowe]

Can't believe it, but has The Big Lebowski yet to be mentioned?

HAS THE WHOLE WORLD GONE CRAZY!

Intact, everything* from the Coens should be added.

*okay then, maybe not Intolerable Cruelty

 

[Asgardian]

Ok fair enough.

Seems like the type of thing you have to pay the right dude to let you into some movie studio archive (if such thing even exists)

The movies we swap around have come from some very obscure sources, for example movies found in the basement of an old out of use town hall in the middle of nowhere USA, or in an unknown collection found in eastern Europe.

I'm not keen to pay for anything really. I'll watch cam rips on occasion I'm that adverse to paying.

Then I am not one of your sources, nor would be any of the contacts I have.

 

[Dry Rot]

A few off the top of my head ... which have not already been mentioned

The Cruel Sea
White Heat
The Wages of Fear
The Great Dictator
Battleship Potemkin
Miller's Crossing
Anatomy of a Murder
Paisà
Lang ist der Weg
Forbidden Planet
The Burmese Harp
The Roaring Twenties
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
This Sporting Life
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Scarface (1932)
Seven Samurai
The Warriors (1979)
Casablanca
Duel
Judgment at Nuremberg
Zulu
Touch of Evil
Witness for the Prosecution
Ran (1985)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Raging Bull
Downfall
The Box of Pandora
Little Man, What Now?
Rear Window
Two Women (1960)
And Then There Were None
The New Lot (1943)
Fiddler on the Roof
Becket (1964)
Schindler's List
Hotel Rwanda
Dracula (1931)
Paths of Glory
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Exorcist
Fantasia (1940)
All About Eve
To Have and Have Not
Man of Aran
The Mad Parade (1931)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Peeping Tom
The Killing (1956)
Nosferatu (1922)
It's a Wonderful Life
Les diaboliques
The Defiant Ones
Metropolis
Liberation (1969)
Lawrence of Arabia
Lifeboat (1944)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Apartment
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
North by Northwest
The Sand Pebbles
The Pawnbroker
Harvey
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Call Northside 777
The Ascent (1977)
The Devil and Daniel Webster
La Grande Illusion
Television Spy
Ace in the Hole
Singin' in the Rain
I Will Fight No More Forever
Ivan's Childhood
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Death of a Salesman
Das Boot
Story of a Prostitute
Ben-Hur
Tunes of Glory
M (1931)
Psycho
The Last Picture Show
Wings (1927)
Western Approaches
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
The War Game (1965)
Fires on the Plain
Ed Wood
She Goes to War
A Hard Day's Night
The Man from Earth
The Right Stuff
Life Is Beautiful
Die letzte Brücke
The Caine Mutiny
Come and See
Rebecca
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
The Adventures of Martin Eden
Double Indemnity
A Streetcar Named Desire
Triumph of the Will
The Sorrow and the Pity
The Public Enemy
Lilies of the Field
Die Wannseekonferenz
Shock Corridor
The Great Escape
Queen Christina
The Searchers
A Man for All Seasons
Johnny Got His Gun
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
High Noon
Culloden (1964)
The Execution of Private Slovik
Night and the City
The Wild Bunch
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Le vieux fusil
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
Mrs. Miniver
Pan's Labyrinth
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Naked City
King Kong (1933)
Hangmen Also Die!
Soldier of Orange
'Breaker' Morant
Japan's Longest Day
High Sierra
Sweet Smell of Success
Joyeux Noel
In the Heat of the Night
Black Book
The Wicker Man (1973)
Some Like It Hot
The Hill (1965)
Germany Year Zero
Stalag 17
Army of Shadows

Absolute pleasure reading this great list. Some of the younger folk here might realise there were some great films made pre 1980. Rare to see that someone has seen the The Harp of Burma - terrific film.

What about two of my all time favourites - Bertolucci's The Conformist and Kurosawa'a Dersu Uzala?

Watched The Third Man on FTA the other night - a perfect film - great storytelling.

 

[Dry Rot]

Asgardian, no love for "Out of the Past"?

Great film.

I hope someone has included the original of The Postman always rings twice and Double Indemnity?

BTW, It's not a good idea to mix substance abuse with watching O Lucky Man.

Anyone mentioned Notorious?

Let's take the glam star of Casablanca and turn her into a drunken **** who's old man was a US nazi, mix in a grim self loathing Cary Grant who's OSS job means he has to pimp her out and the magnificnet Claude Raines as a stylish nazi in south America and some uranium.

IMO a classic under rated Hitchcock.

 

[Papa Juggs]

I've only just started to get into older movies.

Asgardian shouldn't give up the fight. Keep pushing the old cinema

So many new movies are just garbage.

Going to watch Fahrenheit 451 in the next few days. I saw the start of the movie many years ago as a kid but have never watched the whole thing.

 

[Ed_Gein]

So many new movies are just garbage.

Yup, so many re-makes, reboots and reviving of old franchises that should have been left alone. Won't be long until people start looking to older movies for something different. Asguardian might get the imdb ratings he is so desperately craving. lol.

 

[Predator35]

Just a quick few,
French Connection- Hackman at his best.
The Odessa File.
JFK- Hooked me right into assassination research.
The Bourne trilogy.
The Day of the Jackal.
The Dirty Dozen- who does't love Lee Marvin.
Clear and Present Danger.
Predator.
Jaws.
Original Star Wars trilogy.
The Usual Suspects.
Reservoir Dogs.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
A Fistful of Dollars.
For a Few Dollars More.
The Hunt For Red October.

 

[Gough]

Bob Roberts. Great film from the early 90's. Tim Robbins plays an ultra right wing folk singer running for the Senate, Gore Vidal plays his Democrat adversary. Looking at it now, it's amazing how much he got right about the future direction of American politics.

 

[Asgardian]

I've only just started to get into older movies.

Asgardian shouldn't give up the fight. Keep pushing the old cinema

Fight????? never ...

Don't get me wrong, I love lots of modern, post 1970 movies.

But they do not replace the pre-1960's stuff, for me.

Hummmmmm, leaves a gap, 1960 - 1970, I love some of that stuff too. ...

Yup, so many re-makes, reboots and reviving of old franchises that should have been left alone. Won't be long until people start looking to older movies for something different. Asguardian might get the imdb ratings he is so desperately craving. lol.

No "U" mate ...

Anyway, the movies (in the main) that I want people to vote on for me will probably never be seen by you blokes.

For example, how many have heard of, let alone seen The Dictator (1922)

I haven't seen it ... yet, but I hope to get a copy ... one day.

That movie does not yet have an IMDB rating, it's waiting for 5 people to vote on it.

But it's not a movie I'm asking for anyone to vote on because I haven't seen it therefore I cannot give a guide as to its quality.

So Ed_Gein does that answer why I'm after people to vote ... on a very select few movies ... which I can give a guide for.

 

[placebo]

Watched The Third Man on FTA the other night - a perfect film - great storytelling.

Watched it the other week. Wonderful film in every respect. The script is excellent.

 

[Dickie Greenleaf]

Would like to throw La Haine on to my previous list as well.

Love Vincent Cassel's work as an actor and here he's teamed up with Mathieu Kasovitz who he also collaborated with on the good but not great french thriller The Crimson Rivers

Sadly Kasovitz has since dropped off with his later output and thrown up some rubbish like Babylon AD and Gothika, but La Haine was an instant classic imo.

 

[Asgardian]

Watched one of the top notch 1950's film noir that is a virtual unknown

The Phenix City Story made in 1955.

It's based on real events, real people, real corruption and real murders.

According to IMDB it's one of Martin Scorsese's favorite films.

 

[Purple7x08_24]

In no particular order:

The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Cries and Whispers
Through A Glass Darkly
Scenes From a Marriage
Persona
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Crimes and Misdemeanours
Hannah and Her Sisters
Deconstructing Harry
The Godfather Trilogy
2001: A Space Odyssey
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
Dr. Strangelove
The Shining
Apocalypse Now
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Melancholia
12 Angry Men
Sunset Boulevard
City of God
Citizen Kane
Star Wars (original trilogy)
Inherit The Wind
Nuremberg Trials
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Duck Soup
Animal Crackers
Horse Feathers
Night at the Opera
Fargo
No Country For Old Men
A Serious Man
Paris, Texas
American Beauty
In The Mood for Love
Ikiru
Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Solaris (Original Tarkovsky)
The Mirror
Rope
Vertigo
Magnolia
Pulp Fiction


I'll add to it when I can think of some more.

Solid list. Looking at getting some of these

 

[GROTTO]

I love movies in general and almost every single genre of film... It all depends on my mood at the time, but some that automatically come to mind and all for different reasons are:

Closer
American Beauty
In My Father's Den (brilliant NZ indie film)
Midnight Express
Clerks
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bitter Moon
Cinema Paradiso
Seven Pounds
Sexy Beast
Requiem for a Dream
Christane F
Gone Baby Gone
Almost Famous
Happiness
Goodfellas
In Brugges
City of God
The Club

Some nice gems in here that while not popular or regularly mentioned were enjoyable for me.

In particular, Seven Pounds, Requiem for a Dream and Gone Baby Gone.

3 good drama movies. Seven Pounds is heartbreaking