Movie recommendations

Won't repeat all those already named, but am missing two great movies up to now:

Chunking Express

Suzhou River

EDIT: Not Sure if already listed but of course also: La Vita E Bella

"Crazy" - an astonishingly good French Canadian film just out about 5 Quebecois boys growing up in a house with a Pop who loves Patsy Kline

"The World's Fastest Indian"

Good story (brilliant performance from Anthony Hopkins), well-shot movie with an inspirational meme..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412080/

Tsotsi
The Weather Man
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Walk The Line
The Station Agent
The Family Stone
Aeon Flux

probably been said before but:

american history x (a must see for everyone)
usual suspects
shawshank redemption
Gattaca (my alltime fav film)
The Crow
Dark City (an amazing film well worth hunting down - possibly the biggest brainfking film ive watched)
donnie darko
bladerunner
Aliens 1 and 2
terminator 1 and 2
Fight Club
napoloen dynamite (thought it was shit first time but growing on me)
Lord of War (recently released - a very good watch)
Reqiuem for a Dream
Collateral
Heat
French Connection
SCARFACE
Pi
Se7en
Garden State (amazing film very underrated)

plenty more when i think of em

actually was a required movie in our high school curriculum. they cut out the curbing and the shower rape so we didnt need permission slips or anything, but yeah. great film.

(and I think I'm the only person I've met who doesnt like Donnie Darko )

okay- how about Uncorked>
i think my best friend and i are the only ones who find this movie hilarious! i have it on dvd (region 1) if anyone wants to borrow it.
the title above is the US title. it seems to go by At Sachem Farm everywhere else.

@davee - totally agree about Garden State. Very good film.

Derailed was one of the few movies that came out in the last few months that was worth watching, not saying a heck of a lot considering most movies to have come out in the last year have been utter crap.

Some other good ones include Fun with Dick and Jane and Worlds Fastest Indian. Now that I think about it, all 3 only really stand out because everything else has been such drivel.

I just watched Puff, Puff, Pass and it is a very funny entertaining movie, highly recommended.

The Squid and the Whale is totally recommended. Hilariously awkward.

the best i've seen the last 2 weeks were:

kiss, kiss, bang, bang
shaun of the dead

i saw Sin City last night directed by frank miller. A movie masterpiece

There's at least two sequels in the works for that.

Apparently Johnny Depp is on board for the second one.

Has anyone seen Grandma's Boy yet i watched it the other night and was wetting myself it's hilarious

"Breakfast On Pluto" directed by Neil Jordan.

Left Behind Fascinating movie, only based on the first book though, hope they make some sequels. A good choice for those who feel the Da Vinci Code is a bit too theologically presumptuous!

China White Serpentine Fucking cool movie. Awesome.

Havoc is another damn good movie, how come all the movies that win awards, and get advertised suck so much, and all the awesome ones noones ever heard of?

Dirty Deeds a hilarious light hearted comedy in the geeks beat the jocks style like revenge of the nerds, and its got a fair amount of titty... Highly recommended.

i just watched Hustle & Flow. great movie, excellent acting. but even as a native-english speaker, i had to turn on the english subtitles (okay, more for the sake of my bf)! premise: a pimp with a mid-life crisis turns into a rapper.

I'm amazed that not one Fellini film was mentioned in this thread. If you haven't seen 8 1/2, check it out. One of the best films ever made.

Also check out Tarkovsky's sci-fi masterpiece Solyaris, not previously mentioned in this thread.

I quite liked Igby Goes Down.

Good call on Solaris, Brain.

I have recently tried to expand my view of German Cinema and have recently watched Das Experiment and Das Wunder von Bern. Both pretty good.

I don't suppose I really need to tell anybody about Das Boot do I?

I haven't seen Lola Rennt/Run Lola Run yet, but it's supposed to be pretty good. Trip to Amazon.de, I think.

Run Lola Run is supposed to be magnificent. Or so I hear.

Run Lola Run is not bad. An interesting concept is how they play on time- what could have been if you did something a minute later etc etc. Wouldn't rave about it though, acting is appalling and extremely predictable

If you like Sci-Fi see Silent Running and you'll see where George Lucas got a few of his ideas for Star Wars from.

If it hasn't been posted yet, I'd recommend:

Schindler's List - for serious stuff,
A Destiny of Her Own - for fun,
Amélie - for refreshment!

As well if it hasn't been posted yet, I'd say:
51st state (aka formula 51) samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle at their best
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: beats Snatch by far.

If there's a movie I would recommend people to NOT see it would be Silent Hill.

I think it is the worst movie I have ever been to the cinema to see.

The boyfriend is in the position to buy extremely cheap DVD's and wants me to complile a list of movies for him to buy.

What would be your list of absolute must-have movies?

Cinema Paradiso
Heat
Once upon a time in the west.
High Noon
Alien

Briefly...

¡Three Amigos!
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dekalog
Family Guy
Fawlty Towers
The Looney Tunes Show
Malcolm in the Middle
The Ren & Stimpy Show
The Simpsons
Traffik
The Twilight Zone
2001: A Space Odyssey
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Abre los ojos
Adaptation.
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Alien
All the World's a Stooge
Amadeus
American Beauty
American Graffiti
An American Werewolf in London
Amores perros
Animal House
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Ba wang bie ji
Babe
Babe: Pig in the City
Bad Lieutenant
Barton Fink
The Basketball Diaries
Beetle Juice
Being John Malkovich
Best in Show
The Big Lebowski
Big Night
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blood Simple.
Blue Velvet
The Blues Brothers
Boogie Nights
Boot, Das
The Bourne Identity
Brazil
A Bug's Life
Bull Durham
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casino
Celebrity
Chariots of Fire
Chasing Amy
Chinatown
Cidade de Deus
Cité des enfants perdus, La
City Slickers
Clerks.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Color Purple
Como agua para chocolate
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dances with Wolves
Delicatessen
Dirty Harry
Dog Day Afternoon
Dogma
Donnie Brasco
Drugstore Cowboy
Escape from Alcatraz
Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le
The Falcon and the Snowman
Fargo
Father of the Bride
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Fish Called Wanda
The Fisher King
Flash Gordon
Full Metal Jacket
Galaxy Quest
Gandhi
Gattaca
Ghost World
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
The Godfather: Part III
The Gods Must Be Crazy II
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Good Bye Lenin!
Goodfellas
The Green Mile
The Grifters
Grosse Pointe Blank
Groundhog Day
Harold And Maude
Hellboy
High Fidelity
Hollywood Ending
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The Hunt for Red October
Husbands and Wives
The Impostors
The Incredibles
The Insider
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
It's a Wonderful Life
Jaws
Jui kuen II
The Jungle Book
Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Koroshi no rakuin
Léon
L.A. Confidential
The Last Emperor
Lawrence of Arabia
Life of Brian
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lost in Translation
Mad Max
Mad Max 2
Magnolia
The Man Who Wasn't There
Manhattan
Manhattan Murder Mystery
The Matrix
The Meaning of Life
Men in Black
Men in Black II
Metropolis
Mighty Aphrodite
Minority Report
Misery
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mulholland Dr.
Munich
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Of Mice and Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Per qualche dollaro in più
Per un pugno di dollari
Pieces of April
Planet of the Apes
Playtime
The Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raising Arizona
Ran
Rashômon
Reservoir Dogs
The Right Stuff
A River Runs Through It
Ronin
Roxanne
Rushmore
Ruthless People
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface
Schindler's List
Serpico
Shadow of the Vampire
Shakespeare in Love
The Shawshank Redemption
Shichinin no samurai
The Shining
Shrek
Shrek 2
The Silence of the Lambs
Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
Spook Louder
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Starship Troopers
The Sting
Stripes
Tampopo
Taxi Driver
The Third Man
This Is Spinal Tap
Three Kings
Time Bandits
To Kill a Mockingbird
Traffic
Trainspotting
Tremors
Trois couleurs: Bleu
Trois couleurs: Rouge
Trzy kolory: Bialy
Twelve Monkeys
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Unforgiven
Vanilla Sky
Vertigo
Vita è bella, La
Wag the Dog
Waiting for Guffman
When Harry Met Sally...
The Wizard of Oz
Y tu mamá también
Yin shi nan nu
Young Frankenstein

Silence of the Lambs. *****
Meet Joe Black. *****
Somewhere in Time. ( Christopher Reeves. ) *****
The Good , the Bad, and the Ugly. *****
It's a Mad mad mad mad World. *****

My desert island 5.
Enjoyed every minute of every one of them.

Raffles.

Hard Candy very intense, very interesting, very unlike other movies, and very watchable. Cant say too much about it without ruining it. Amazing performance by the young Ellen Page. Definitly a must-watch.

Spun. Has everything one could want, drug use, violence, nudity, humour, and the best bits are the awesome animation sequences that occur throughout the movie.

Trying hard to think of some of those not-so-hyped ones which I thought were brilliant, and this is what I came up with:

Holy Man
Life
You've Got Mail
Vanilla Sky

And of course, although it was very much hyped, you can't miss my current favorite of all time, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. :-)

Just watched Open Water and its a damn good, effective thriller I guess is the best word, but its pretty original and based on a true story too. Puts me off scuba diving anyway.

Lucky Number Slevin... fab

A Scanner Darkly

Little Miss Sunshine

Here are some of my faves (depends on my mood when I wanna watch them though!):

Crash
Clockwork Orange
Love Actually
Finding Nemo
The Deer Hunter
Saturday Night Fever
Pulp Fiction
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Monty Python's Life of Brain
Road Trip (for those silly days)

Oooh just too many to list!! Obviously the obligatory LOTR Trilogy (how can any film compete with that?!?!) as well as the cheesy but great Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman and Top Gun!!

Watched Top Gun the other day in German and it was soooo weird ...just doesn't have the same effect when it's dubbed does it? Wish the Germans would play films on tv in original languages and put subtitles on instead!

Yesterday I picked up BBC's Planet Earth at Saturn (Planet Erde) for only 19.95 euros. I have always been a huge fan of nature documentaries and David Attenborough in particular, but so far this series is completely blowing me away. Most amazing Nature doc yet.

The DVD's are of episodes 1-5, the next 6 episodes are being aired starting in November, and I guess will be released on DVD sometime next year...

@room101: What age range do you think would enjoy this? I have a 10 year old nephew. Is is too advanced for that age.
Thanks

not sure, think it will depend on the kid - the narration should be understandable for a 10 year old. And the footage is brilliant and should be ageless.

A word of warning though: there is a bit more violence in this series than in previous BBC doc's. It's spectacular though - there is a wolf hunt from the air, a wild dog hunt from the air, great white sharks chomping on seals in slow motion, etc. Most ten-year old boys would probably love that stuff, but some parents might not be so happy about it...

I don't want to start an entirely new thread for this, so I hope this is the right place to also ask for recommendations.

Has anyone seen Little Miss Sunshine yet? Has it even come out in Munich yet?
I am thinking about going tonight, so I am wondering if its good. It is between that (going to the cinema) and another meal of couscous...don't think I can take anymore couscous.

SD - cabbagefairy has seen it (post 91)

ha! spot on.. thanks Hams

didn't see that..
*channeling my grandmother* if it had been a snake it would of bit me

Spent the afternoon (yes it is that long) watching "Once upon a time in America" - oh my god how dull! Possibly the most boring film I have watched.

It has all the elements - gangsters, De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sergio Leone directing but it never gets going for the whole 200 mins. Avoid.

I can recommend Amores Perres though - wicked film.

Someone lent me 'Night on Earth' a little while back: It was a German version without the option of English subtitles and I speak little German, hardly any French or Italian (and obviously no Finnish): Even though as a result 3/5ths of it was unintelligeable from a spoken word point of view, I thought it was a great film; especially the sequence with the manic Italian cab driver...

Just wish I coud see it in English