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!

Emperor Of The North
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe
To Kill A Mockingbird
Pili
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
The Ciderhouse Rules
Long Walk To Freedom
Last King Of Scotland

Oh, and:
Walkabout
Stormboy
Amazing Grace
Amistad
Madness Of King George
If

With nail and I
Amelie
Chocolat
Delicatessen
Jules et Jim
Seven Samurai
The Big Lebowski
The third man
The African queen
It's a wonderful life
Raging Bull
Apocalypse now
Taxi driver
All the godfather films
Goodfellas

Shawshank Redemption
Leon
Usual Suspects
Green Mile
The Big Short

Forrest Gump
Silence of the Lambs
Goodfellas
Sleepers
Interview with the Vampire
The Green mile
The Crow
Once were Warriors

Bad Taste
Brain Dead
The Revenge of Billy the Kid

The Shining.
Wag the Dog.
Oliver.

And seconding Blazing Saddles and Strictly Ballroom.😍

The Lives Of Others

Watched Gone Girl the other night on Netflix - would recommend

Seconding Betty blue - beautiful film if difficult watch.

Gone with the wind
Casablanca
In a lonely place (yes I’ve a soft spot for bogey)
All about Eve
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Roman holiday
Sabrina (original - seriously don’t bother with the remake)
Charade
Imitation of life
Madam x
Blackboard jungle
The colour purple
American history x
Erin brockovich
The blind side
Spotlight
LA confidential
The great gatsby - the baz luhrmab version
Romeo & Juliet ditto - any Shakespeare tends to work well in film I feel
Goodfellas

All the presidents men
127 hours - seen by accident, wouldn’t have chosen, AMAZING!
Milk - fantastic film!
Fruitvale station - if I could I’d make every American watch this.
The impossible
All the “godfathers”
12 angry men
Glengarry glen ross
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Terms of endearment
Rear window - in fact as many Hitchcock as you can!
Good will hunting
What dreams may come (though must admit I’ve not been able to watch since robin williams died)
The third man - but you must concentrate for this one no playing on your phone or knitting
Fargo - just genius! So much so I’m ridiculously reluctant to try the tv series
Shallow grave - if dark humour is your thing
A life less ordinary - a lesser known film but just extraordinary
Enemy of the state - seemed sensationalist at the time...now with Siri & Alexa, wiki leaks and Cambridge analytica? Scarily accurate!
The apartment
Interview with the vampire - I went as a huge Tom cruise fan (yea I know he’s hated on here!) but was seriously impressed with Antonio banderas in it too, and Kirsten Dunst blows you away even as a child actress.

Ones I haven’t seen myself yet but are on my list

12 years a slave
Green book
Hidden figures
Capote

Wild
I, Tonya
Selma
The help
Double indemnity
No man of her own
The conversation
To kill a mocking bird

Should be more than enough for you to get going on with op!

Over hyped in my opinion

It’s a wonderful life
Shawshank redemption
Reservoir dogs
Pulp fiction
Saving private Ryan
My fair lady

Strictly Ballroom
The Green Mile
Singing in the Rain
Amelie
8Mile
Leon
O Brother where art thou
Gone with the wind
To kill a mockingbird
My fair lady
Million dollar babe

So many more.....🤪

Second Goodbye Lenin, Pan's Labyrinth, Amelie, Delicatessen, Fried Green Tomatoes

Wings of Desire
Taxi (French version)
Okja
The Dinner Game
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
My Neighbour Totoro
Big Eyes

Some British classics

Kes
How Green Was My Valley
AnTaste of Honey
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
Gregory's Girl

The Sixth Sense.

The Lives of Others.

The godfathers. 2 is the best.
The green mile - without a shadow of a doubt, one of THE best films ever made.
The colour purple. I forgot about how amazing it was
For light relief, Mean Girls - so so good.
Blades of Glory - not one of the best I've ever seen, but we've been watch a lot at 12 and 12a rated movies with Dd in lockdown and this did make me lol
Napoleon dynamite
Goodfellas
Casino
Pretty much any movie with Leonardo DiCaprio in is bound to be good.

Studio Ghibli films (I really hate how the English script changes the flow of the films, use Japanese audio with subtitles because the subtitles are better translated)

Amelie
Shawshank redemption
Avengers movies
Pulp fiction
Coming to America
Forrest Gump
Battle Royale
Drunken Master
Erin Brockovich
Memento
Coco
The Color Purple
The Goonies
Sense and sensibility

My absolute favourites:

Brokeback Mountain
Closer
Into The Wild
Crazy Heart
In The Name Of The Father
Scent of a Woman
Away We Go

Magickingdom
JDF & MDS - my two favourite films ❤️

The Green Book is absolutely brilliant

Thank you so much everyone for your recommendations. So far I have watched The Shawshank Redemption and Forrest Gump from your recommendations and loved both! Now to choose which one to watch this evening...

PositiveVibez I loved Blades of Glory too.

The LIves of Others has been mentioned. That's a beautiful film.

I came back to add Sideways! That's a gem of a film. It's moving, it's hilarious, it's just a great film. 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's a good'un.

And I'll mention Moonlight again. That's one of the best films I've seen in years.

Life Is Beautiful
Don’t let subtitles put you off, it’s the most wonderful film.

Also A Streetcar Named Desire