Movies Movies Everyone Should See

[Major]

The Fountain
Trainspotting
The Lion King
Se7en
Forrest Gump

 

[Shwa]

Changeling
A Beautiful Mind
Pan's Laberynth
Akira
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Memoirs of a Geisha


Those are some I can think of now, but thats because others have already put some movies I was gonna put haha. But I think these movies are really moving and a must see.

~Shwa

 

[DrHasslein]

Do the Right Thing - For the subject matter and characters.
The Caine Mutiny - For the all time great performance by Humphrey Bogart.

 

[qweerblue]

OK, so I did my best to alphabetize the list and to incorporate the films into it that aren't yet showing up in the OP.


So many fantastic films here, though I have to wonder if this list really is a list of movies "everyone should see" or if it includes some films that just happen to some GFers favorites Like, I absolutely LOVE "Pineapple Express", but I'm not sure I think it's a film "everyone should see". Still, I know that this is largely subjective, and though I drew the line at "Pineapple Express" for myself, I'm still sure that a lot of folks would quibble with the choices I *did* go with:


Being John Malkovich
Corpse Bride
The Hours
Pi: Faith in Chaos

Waking the Dead
Waltz with Bashir



Also, I left out any documentaries, because, at a quick glance, it didn't seem as if anyone else included anything from that genre, and, for my own ease, I also only included one foreign-language film, because despite the fact that so many of my own choices had already been listed by other folks, I still had a devil of a time narrowing my list to five (or six







500 Days of Summer
A Beautiful Mind
A Few Good Men
Akira
Alien
American Beauty
American History X
Amores Peros
Batman Begins
Beauty and the Beast
Before Sunrise
Being John Malkovich

Ben-Hur
Blood Diamond
Braveheart
Casino Royale
Changeling
Citizen Kane
City of Angels
City of God
Clerks
Clockwork Orange
Corpse Bride

Crash
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dead Poets Society
Do the Right Thing
Dr Strangelove: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
Enter the Dragon
ET
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Flight 93
Forrest Gump
GI Jane
Gladiator
Gone With The Wind
Goodfellas
High Fidelity
House of the Spirits
Inception
Jersey Girl
Leon
Lord Of The Rings
Memento
Metropolis
Monster
Mulan
My Left Foot
Mystic River
Oldboy
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Pan's Labrynth
Patch Adams
Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Philadelphia
Pi: Faith in Chaos

Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Red Dragon
Red Violin
Red Violin
Remember the Titans
Requiem for a Dream
Revolver
Rob Roy
Rocky 4
Scarface
Se7en
Serendipity
Shallow Grave
Shallow Hal
Shawshank Redemption
Shindlers List
Snatch
Somewhere In Time
Star Wars
Taken
Taxi Driver
The Birds
The Book of Eli
The Caine Mutiny
The Colour Purple
The Dark Knight
The Departed
The Elephant Man
The Fountain
The Godfather Part 1 & 2
The Green Mile
The Hours

The Jacket
The Lion King
The Lovely Bones
The Matrix
The Patriot
The Rock
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sound of Music
The Usual Suspects
The Warriors
This Film is Not Yet Rated
Toy Story
Toy Story 3
Training Day
Trainspotting
Unforgiven
V for Vendetta
Waking the Dead

Wall Street
Waltz with Bashir

We Were Soldiers
While You Were Sleeping
Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

 

[ysabel]

OK, so I did my best to alphabetize the list and to incorporate the films into it that aren't yet showing up in the OP.




500 Days of Summer
A Beautiful Mind
A Few Good Men
Akira
Alien
American Beauty
American History X
Amores Peros
Batman Begins
Beauty and the Beast
Before Sunrise
Being John Malkovich

Ben-Hur
Blood Diamond
Braveheart
Casino Royale
Changeling
Citizen Kane
City of Angels
City of God
Clerks
Clockwork Orange
Corpse Bride

Crash
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dead Poets Society
Do the Right Thing
Dr Strangelove: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
Enter the Dragon
ET
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Flight 93
Forrest Gump
GI Jane
Gladiator
Gone With The Wind
Goodfellas
High Fidelity
House of the Spirits
Inception
Jersey Girl
Leon
Lord Of The Rings
Memento
Metropolis
Monster
Mulan
My Left Foot
Mystic River
Oldboy
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Pan's Labrynth
Patch Adams
Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Philadelphia
Pi: Faith in Chaos

Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Red Dragon
Red Violin
Red Violin
Remember the Titans
Requiem for a Dream
Revolver
Rob Roy
Rocky 4
Scarface
Se7en
Serendipity
Shallow Grave
Shallow Hal
Shawshank Redemption
Shindlers List
Snatch
Somewhere In Time
Star Wars
Taken
Taxi Driver
The Birds
The Book of Eli
The Caine Mutiny
The Colour Purple
The Dark Knight
The Departed
The Elephant Man
The Fountain
The Godfather Part 1 & 2
The Green Mile
The Hours

The Jacket
The Lion King
The Lovely Bones
The Matrix
The Patriot
The Rock
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sound of Music
The Usual Suspects
The Warriors
This Film is Not Yet Rated
Toy Story
Toy Story 3
Training Day
Trainspotting
Unforgiven
V for Vendetta
Waking the Dead

Wall Street
Waltz with Bashir

We Were Soldiers
While You Were Sleeping
Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

Thanks and that's why I <3 you!

I would like to add Life is Beautiful/La Vie est Belle/La vita è bella. I know that some people easily shy away from foreign movies because they either have issues with watching a subtitled movie or dubbed seems distracting. But this is one movie that I was so glad I watched. I remember trying to watch it when I can barely understand French and had to watch it in the only available setting: Italian with French subtitles. I "endured" it because it was such a lovely movie and it's engaging. Then yay for DVDs I finally rewatched it with Eng ST although now it wouldn't matter to me either way.

Other foreign language films for me (non Eng/Fre): Cinema Paradiso Cinema Paradiso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Belle Epoque http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Époque_(film)

 

[Konshentz]

I've seen the ones in bold...

(500) Days of Summer
A Beautiful Mind
A Few Good Men
Akira
Alien
American Beauty
American History X
Amores Peros
Batman Begins
Beauty and the Beast
Before Sunrise
Being John Malkovich
Ben-Hur
Blood Diamond
Braveheart
Casino Royale
Changeling
Citizen Kane
City of Angels
City of God
Clerks
Clockwork Orange
Corpse Bride
Crash
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dead Poets Society
Do the Right Thing
Dr Strangelove: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
Enter the Dragon
ET
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Flight 93
Forrest Gump
GI Jane
Gladiator
Gone With The Wind
Goodfellas
High Fidelity
House of the Spirits
Inception
Jersey Girl
Leon
Lord Of The Rings
Memento
Metropolis
Monster
Mulan
My Left Foot
Mystic River
Oldboy
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Pan's Labrynth
Patch Adams
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Philadelphia
Pi: Faith in Chaos
Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Red Dragon
Red Violin
Remember the Titans
Requiem for a Dream
Revolver
Rob Roy
Rocky 4
Scarface
Se7en
Serendipity
Shallow Grave
Shallow Hal
Shawshank Redemption
Shindlers List
Snatch
Somewhere In Time
Star Wars
Taken
Taxi Driver
The Birds
The Book of Eli
The Caine Mutiny
The Color Purple
The Dark Knight
The Departed
The Elephant Man
The Fountain
The Godfather Part 1 & 2
The Green Mile
The Hours
The Jacket
The Lion King
The Lovely Bones
The Matrix
The Patriot
The Rock
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sound of Music
The Usual Suspects
The Warriors
This Film is Not Yet Rated
Toy Story
Toy Story 3
Training Day
Trainspotting
Unforgiven
V for Vendetta
Waking the Dead
Wall Street
Waltz with Bashir
We Were Soldiers
While You Were Sleeping
Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

 

[SlowburnDarkly]

Just to name a few...

"Star Wars: A New Hope"
"Vanishing Point"
"Dog Day Afternoon"
"Sleuth"
"A Clockwork Orange"
"A Scanner Darkly"

 

[Impact]

@queerblue. Thanks for doing that. I can't edit the OP any more, so I need a mod to edit in your list.

I still need to see:

A Beautiful Mind
A Few Good Men
Akira
Alien
American History X
Amores Peros
Batman Begins
Beauty and the Beast
Before Sunrise
Being John Malkovich
Ben-Hur
Changeling
Citizen Kane
City of Angels
City of God
Clockwork Orange
Corpse Bride
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dead Poets Society
Do the Right Thing
Dr Strangelove: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
ET
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
GI Jane
Gone With The Wind
Goodfellas
High Fidelity
House of the Spirits
Jersey Girl
Memento
Metropolis
Monster
Mulan
My Left Foot
Mystic River
Oldboy
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Patch Adams
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Philadelphia
Pi: Faith in Chaos
Raising Arizona
Red Violin
Rob Roy
Rocky 4
Scarface
Se7en
Serendipity
Shallow Grave
Shindlers List
Somewhere In Time
Taxi Driver
The Birds
The Caine Mutiny
The Colour Purple
The Elephant Man
The Green Mile
The Hours
The Jacket
The Lion King
The Patriot
The Sound of Music
The Usual Suspects
The Warriors
Toy Story
Toy Story 3
Unforgiven
Waking the Dead
Wall Street
Waltz with Bashir
We Were Soldiers
While You Were Sleeping

Fuck, a lot of movies. haha

 

[sunrise]

I will need to see:

Revolver
Taken
Snatch
Requiem for a Dream
Memento
Oldboy
High Fidelity
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Philadelphia
Scarface
The Warriors
Mystic River
The Godfather Part 1 & 2
Lord Of The Rings
Gladiator
Leon
Inception
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Lovely Bones
The Dark Knight
Flight 93
Mulan
Patch Adams
Remember the Titans
Rob Roy
The Patriot
Shindlers List
Shawshank Redemption
City of God
Batman Begins
Casino Royale
Amores Peros
While You Were Sleeping
Raising Arizona
Shallow Hal
Somewhere In Time
Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
Taxi Driver
Dr Strangelove: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
The Usual Suspects
V for Vendetta
The Sound of Music
The Elephant Man
Clockwork Orange
Citizen Kane
Gone With The Wind
500 Days of Summer
Gladiator
The Book of Eli
Training Day
The Jacket
Goodfellas

I also have a lot to watch

 

[diva]

it's sad to that these movies are not on anyone's list:

Monster's Inc.
Edward Scissorhands
Ratatouille
Wall-e
My cousin Vinny