To ask what are your must see/bucket list films?

[OnlyByGrace]

I feel quite uncultured when it comes to films as I usually stick to the same cheesy rom coms . With the lockdown I have a lot of spare time so I thought it would be good to finally branch out a bit and watch some of those must see films that are often talked about and so I would love recommendations for films you think are must see or films that have resonated and stuck with you over time.

Thank you!

Blood Diamond is one of my faves. Deals with blood diamond trade and all it causes in Africa.

Shawshank. Some like it hot

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Little Miss Sunshine

Betty Blue
Amelie
Spirited away
Amores perros
Ponyo
Rocky horror picture show
Parasite

Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Scum
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Vanishing Point
Pulp Fiction
Sleepers

What We Do in the Shadows
Laurel and Hardy - Sons of the Desert/The Music Box/Brats
It Happened One Night
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Brief Encounter

Can you tell I really like old films.

law abiding citizen - very good!

The Departed
Nil By Mouth
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Prestige
Disco Pigs
Marty
The Shining
Requiem for a Dream
And inspired by my username; Nightcrawler

Some of these are really hard to watch but superb acting and stories.

Le Mans 66
Shakespeare in Love
Silence of the Lambs
Papermoon
Little Women (the recent one is great)
Theee Billboards

Thank you for the recommendations, I will start making my way through them. This afternoon I watched The Shawshank Redemption for the first time which was really good, can't believe I had never seen it before!

Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Evil Under The Sun
My Sister's Keeper
The Bone Collector

Schindlers list
Jaws
Godfather (first and second are good- third one not so much)
Back to the future 1 And 2
Top Gun
Lots of Disney films.
The avengers films
My Fair Lady
The sound of music
Grease

Predestination

Vertigo
Rear Window
Poltergeist
Gone with the wind
Casablanca

Pan's Labyrinth as suggested by a PP. Amazing!

My own suggestions......

All about Eve
The Dressmaker
True Romance
Memento
Hail Caesar
The Handmaiden
Donnie Darko
Amelie
Brooklyn
Four Lions
Atonement
Singin in the rain
500 days of summer
Walk the line
Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight (trilogy)

Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources

Melancholia
Fantasia
Brazil
Brief Encounter (mentioned by a PP)
Passport to Pimlico
The Field
The Quiet Man

I'm super into Spanish language cinema, I would definitely recommend Pans Labyrinth too - I believe it's currently on netflix
The motorcycle diaries is lovely, looks at the life of Che Guevara
Pedro Almovodar is iconic. Everyone raves about all about my mother and talk to her but my favourite is bad education - though it is graphic (not violence but sex/drugs)

Oh and the skin I live in - Antonio Banderas is much better in Spanish than English films, I can actually take him seriously in this

Withnail and I

Full Monty
East is East
Four Lions
2001: A Space Odyssey

Silence of the Lambs is my favourite film
Also American Psycho!
And Shutter Island

Erin Brockovich
Barefoot in the park
The avengers films
The pelican brief
The departed

Films that I think are just perfect in their own right, not necessarily the “best” films

Dr Strangelove
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
10 Things I Hate About You
Clueless