I've been looking for good movies to watch lately. Anyone know of some movies that a person just has to see once in their life? There are a lot of great movies I have not seen, but I never seem to know about them or think of them when looking for movies to watch. So what do you think are movies you just, have to know about? Or simply got any really good movie recommendations?
Thanks in advance! :)

List based off of the ones i hadn't seen and the ones that seemed interesting that were linked in this thread (in no particular order):

  • Ip man
  • Ip man 2
  • Alien
  • Memento
  • Blood and Bone
  • Iron mans
  • Captain Americas
  • It Follows
  • 28 days later
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • The Departed
  • The Martian
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Primer
  • The Imitation Game
  • Braveheart
  • Snatch
  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  • Red Beard
  • Blade Runner
  • Donnie Darko
  • Children of Men
  • Princess Mononoke
  • The Thin Red Line
  • The Big Short
  • Schindler's List
  • The Usual Suspects
  • American History X
  • Triangle
  • Blood Diamond
  • Gran Torino
  • Apocalypse Now
  • The Hunt for Red October
  • Christine
  • Cast Away
  • Dark City
  • Pan's labyrinth
  • The Pursuit of Happyness
  • Pacific Rim
  • The Man from Earth
  • Prisoners
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
  • Cashback
  • American Beauty
  • Blazing Saddles
  • Willow
  • The Terminal
  • Into the Wild
  • The Raid
  • The Raid 2
  • Ong-bak
  • Ong-bak 2
  • Ong-bak 3
  • Killer Joe
  • Equilibrium (seen)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • City of God
  • Mean Girls (seen)
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • The World's End
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (seen)
  • Lucky Number Slevin
  • Pitch Black
  • Heat
  • Collateral
  • Sleepy Hollow
  • The Fifth Element
  • The Machine Girl
  • Léon
  • Grave of the Fireflies
  • World of Tomorrow
  • Reservoir Dogs (seen)
  • A Tale of Two Sisters
  • White Dog
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Lost Highway
  • Escape
  • Wu Xia
  • Red Cliff 1
  • Red Cliff 2
  • The Butterfly Effect
  • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • House of Flying Daggers
  • Fargo
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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A few modern films I've rated 10/10:
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
Memento
Inception
Children of Men
The Matrix
Little Miss Sunshine
Drive
The Silence of the Lambs

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  • John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • Requiem For A Dream (2000)
  • Scarface (1983)
  • Alien (1979)
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • I Saw The Devil (2010)
  • Return of the Living Dead (1985)
  • Ghost in the Shell (1995)
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Thanks everyone! Made a huuuuge list of 88 movies I still have to watch based on the ones recommended in this thread. Now to go and watch them all! If you guys want I could post the list here.

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Go for it, would be cool to see the whole list :)

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Check the main thread :)

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i will make you a list now

1-Wes Anderson All Movies (rushmore some worse than others. Best Ones are Budapecht Otel and Bottle Rocket)
2-city of god
3-The Fall (2006)
4-Scott pilgrim vs. the World
5-The Watchmen (watch ultimate cut)

Movies you should watch
Science of Sleep
Blues Brothers (1980)

if you want more you can ask me

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if you want laugh for a week ... see Death at a funeral but the English original version directed by Frank Oz

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·Crash.
·Mr. Nobody.
·The Exam.
·Cube.
·The Imitation Game.
·The game.
·Wreck it Ralph.
·Chappie.
·Birdman.
·Pain and Gain.
·Her.
·About time.
·In time.
·Vanishing Waves (Aurora)
·Seven Pounds. (The only good film with Will Smith, imho)
·The butterfly effect.
·Life of Pi.
·Big Fish.
·The Island.
·The Truman Show.
·Ethernal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
·Inception.
·The Host.
·Fight Club.
·American History X.
·Shutter Island.
·Good Will Hunting.
·Slumdog Millonaire.
·Seven.
·Avatar.
·Holy Man.
·The Big Leboswki.

Enjoy! :D

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(The only good film with Will Smith, imho)

No love for Independence Day?!

But yeah, Seven Pounds is well worth a watch.....but so sad o.o

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Some random good ones;

Watchmen
Ali G In da House
Deadpool
Constantine
Kick-Ass 1-2

Also if you know Turkish culture, I recommend Cem Yılmaz movies. I literally cried from laughing in those 3;
G.O.R.A.
A.R.O.G.
Yahşi Batı

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The Prestige

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I can propose (Don't know if it was added already)
Pleasantville
The World, the flesh and the devil
Contracted
Promised Land
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Seven
Casablanca
The Apartment (1960)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
12 angry men
Vertigo
Good Will Hunting
Marnie
Whatever Works
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Annie Hall
Vicky Christina Barcelona
2046/In the mood for love
All the Wes Anderson movie
Punch Drunk Love
Cabaret
Atonement
Princess Bride
Breakfast Club
Zardoz
Existenz
and I'm gonna stop here or I will do this forever ^^

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  • The Maltese falcon
  • Casablanca
  • the treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Oceans 11 (the original, although the remake wasn't bad)
  • The Birds
  • The Big Sleep
  • Key Largo
  • Citizen Kane
  • The African Queen
  • Chinatown
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well, i have something in my list:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
The Golden Compass (2007)
Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
The Longest Yard (2005)
Charlotte's Web (2006)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Nowhere Boy (2009)
War Horse (2011)
Cloverfield (2008)
The Mist (2007)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Dead Silence (2007)
Killer Toon (2013)
Shutter (2004)

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There are FIVE versions of Blade Runner. It is worth to see each version.

If you have Blazing Saddles on your list but you do not have The Princess Bride or Spaceballs!?

Stardust - by Neil Gaiman - anything by Neil Gaiman is worth seeing or reading! (I suggest this because of The Princess Bride and Neil Gaiman is a literary deity in present times.)

Requiem For A Dream - Directors Cut (I suggest this because you have American History X on your list)

Blindness - ( I suggest this because you have Children of Men on your list)

Léon is also known or titled as The Professional - This is some of Natalee Portmann's best acting. Especially considering her age at the time.

Awakenings with Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams. - I suggest this because you have Grave of the Fireflies on your list and this one always makes me cry.

Repo! The Genetic Opera - such an amazing movie / opera!

12 Angry Men or the modern remake 12 - The first and best ever courtroom drama. Amazing even in black and white.

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I will +1 The Mission.

It is one of the few historically accurate movies based during colonial times. It shows the intense competition between those compelled to travel to the 'new world' for their faith and the problems encountered when governments and men pursue power.

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+1 the Dinner Game is one of the best comedies ever made

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Fight Club, The Boondock Saints, The Last Samurai, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Dune, Warrior, Rush, Creed, Jurassic Park El Mariachi, Desperado, Heat, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, How to Steal a Million, Air Force One, The Fugitive, Oblivion, Elysium and..many, many more.

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Since A lot of people are recommending a lot of good movies which I can recommend too but there will be no point.
I will advice you to watch Son of Saul Don't cry like me :)

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Citizen Kane, 12 angry men.

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Inside Out!
And if you understand german: Daniel der Zauberer. The worst movie ever made.

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Here are the first that came to my mind:

  • The Hidden Fortress;
  • Rushmore;
  • Coraline;
  • The Iron Giant;
  • The Thing (1982);
  • Silent Movie;
  • The Station Agent;
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
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