My real favorites are mostly classics from the 1970s like
The Godfather, Network, Chinatown, French Connection, Conversation
Guilty pleasures:
Clint Eastwood Westerns of the 1960s: Fistful, Few Dollars More, Josey Wales, Good Bad Ugly
Schwarzenegger movies: Terminator, Total Recall, Conan, RUnning Man
Anything with vampires, I don't care how dumb or how bad, I just love those vampires
Ones I know I should like and I do:
Anything by Kurosawa in B&W: Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Yojimbo
Anything by Luis Bunuel: Discrete Charm, Obscure Object
Any of those period movies by Merchant/Ivory, or Austen adaptations, but I have to watch them with my wife, never alone because that just wouldn't be very cool
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The Shawshank Redemption (Morgan Freeman)
Signs (Mel Gibson)
Toy Story (Tom Hanks)
Cast Away (Tom Hanks)
...and loads of others but can never remember them
I havent seen any of those movies Mac_Doll
I'm not sure the movies you guys listed really qualify as "films."
Gandhi
Lawrence of Arabia
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Cry Freedom
Amelie
Starship Troopers
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Get Shorty
The Last Temptation of Christ
I'm away from my DVD collection right now. I'll supplement this when I get back home.
Blues Brothers
Blazing Saddles
The Great Dictator/Modern Times
A Night at the Opera/A Day at the Races
The General
Drama:
The Man Who Would Be King
Citizen Kane
Dr. Strangelove
Brazil
Sci/Fi/Fantasy
LOTR Trilogy
Star Wars: ANH
Empire Strike Back
Blade Runner
2001
The Time Machine (original George Pal version)
Animation: {since you specified a particular interest}
Bambi meets Godzilla
Wallace and Gromit
Animatrix
I could probably go on (also away from my DVD collection), but that's enough for to get you renting
Edit: had to add a few classics that came to me over dinner
Truman Show
What About Bob?
Moulin Rouge
Pleasantville
The Matrix
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Mary Poppins
...to name a few. I also am away from my DVD collection, so I'll probably get home and have a "Doh!" moment.
Wing Chun
Northern Kicks, Southern Fist
Shaolin Master Killer
Iron Monkey
Once Upon a Time in China
Chinese Super Ninja
The Big Lebowski
The Decalogue
The Double life of Veronique
Three Colors: Blue, White, Red (Trilogy)
A Short Film About Killing
Mulholland DR
The Elephant Man
Barton Fink
Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil
Down by Law
Night on Earth
It wasn't all that popular, but I liked it in the theater and left thinking "I gotta buy this when it comes out on DVD". So I did.
Entire collection if you want to browse.
'C2"
'Coprophile III: The Return Of Brown Max'
A Matter of Life and Death is my all-time favourite film.
Very special mentions:
Once Upon a Time in the West
2001
The Company of Wolves
Manon des Sources (I am a romantic man)
The Seven Samurai
Millers Crossing
5th Element, the\t\t\t
9th Gate, the\t\t\t
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The\t\t\t
After Hours\t\t\t
AI\t\t\t
Akira\t\t\t
American Beauty\t\t\t
An Evening at Home with Claude\t\t\t
Angel Heart\t\t\t
Being Human\t\t\t
Being John Malcovitch\t\t\t
Bend it like Beckham\t\t\t
Bill and Ted, 1 and 2\t\t\t
Blade Runner, directors cut\t\t\t
Blue Velvet\t\t\t
Brazil\t\t\t
Caberet\t\t\t
Cabin Boy\t\t\t
Clerks\t\t\t
Clue\t\t\t
Coca-Cola Kid, the\t\t\t
Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her lover, the\t\t\t
Crash (not the new one)\t\t\t
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon\t\t\t
Delecatessen\t\t\t
Diva\t\t\t
Dogma\t\t\t
Down and Out in Beverly Hills\t\t\t
Eating Roul\t\t\t
Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas\t\t\t
Fight Club\t\t\t
Four rooms (first three rooms only)\t\t\t
Galexina\t\t\t
Get Shorty\t\t\t
Ghost in the Shell, the 1 and 2\t\t\t
Grose Point Blank\t\t\t
Hair\t\t\t
Harold and Maude\t\t\t
Heathers\t\t\t
Henry and June\t\t\t
High Fidelity\t\t\t
Highway 61\t\t\t
Hunger, the\t\t\t
Incredibles, The\t\t\t
Interview with a Vampire\t\t\t
James and the giant peach\t\t\t
Jesus Christ Superstar\t\t\t
Jesus of Montreal\t\t\t
Johnny Mnemonic\t\t\t
Kill Bil, vol 1 and 2\t\t\t
La Femme Nikita\t\t\t
Lawrence of Arabia\t\t\t
Liquid Sky\t\t\t
Lone Star\t\t\t
Lord of the rings 1,2,3\t\t\t
Mallrats\t\t\t
Matrix 1-3 and Anamatrix\t\t\t
Midnight in the Garden of good and evil\t\t\t
Natural Born Killers\t\t\t
Nightmare before Christmas, the\t\t\t
Party, the\t\t\t
Pirates of the Carribean\t\t\t
Pistol Opera\t\t\t
President's Anylist, the\t\t\t
Princess Bride, the\t\t\t
Pulp Fiction\t\t\t
Queen of the Damned\t\t\t
Repo Man\t\t\t
Rocky Horror Picture Show\t\t\t
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead\t\t\t
Scenes from the class struggle in Beverly Hills\t\t\t
She's gotta have it\t\t\t
Sid and Nancy\t\t\t
Six degrees of seperation\t\t\t
Snatch\t\t\t
Spun\t\t\t
Star Wars 4,5,6\t\t\t
Super Mario Brothers\t\t\t
Tank Girl\t\t\t
Taxi Driver\t\t\t
Time Bandits\t\t\t
Tomb Raider 1 and 2\t\t\t
Trainspotting\t\t\t
Usual suspects, the\t\t\t
Videodrome\t\t\t
Wild Things\t\t\t
Office Space\t\t\t
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Godfather, Network, Chinatown, French Connection, Conversation
Guilty pleasures:
Clint Eastwood Westerns of the 1960s: Fistful, Few Dollars More, Josey Wales, Good Bad Ugly
Schwarzenegger movies: Terminator, Total Recall, Conan, RUnning Man
Anything with vampires, I don't care how dumb or how bad, I just love those vampires
Ones I know I should like and I do:
Anything by Kurosawa in B&W: Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Yojimbo
Anything by Luis Bunuel: Discrete Charm, Obscure Object
Any of those period movies by Merchant/Ivory, or Austen adaptations, but I have to watch them with my wife, never alone because that just wouldn't be very cool
Ones I know I should like but I don't:
Anything by that Aronofsky
Anything by that Tarantino
Anything by that Ingmar Bergman
followed by:
shawshank redemption
the great escape
true grit
rushmore
raising arizona
pleasantville
blade runner
city of lost children
jackie brown
there are probably some more that i can't think of that would go in that group as well.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Crotch
Crotch Redemption
Crotch Runner
Crotch Space
Lord of the Crotch: The Two Crotches
The Crotch Who Loved Me
Some Like it Crotch
Dr. Crotchlove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crotch
Singing in the Crotch
There's Something about Crotch
Fast Crotches at Ridgemont High
Good Morning, Crotch!
'For a Few Crotches More'
'Once Upon a Time in the Crotch'
'Pat Garrett and Billy the Crotch'
Monseuir Hulot's Holiday
La Jour du Fete (for where I was and who I was with when I saw it mostly)
The Green Ray
Alphaville