I need a list of "must see" movies

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DH away with work next week so once the babies are asleep at 6.30pm I fancy settling down with a movie each night with my dinner. As DH not here I can indulge without having to find something we would both like.

Films ive watched recently and enjoyed are
Shutter Island
Inception
Life of Pi
Bridesmaids (why did I wait so long!)
Hunger Games (the three that are out anyways)

Dont mind most genres except horror.

Also dont mind age of the movies - dont have to be current.

What would you suggest I must see?

Dead Poet's Society
Melancholia (I'd recommend the other films in Lars Von Trier's depression trilogy, but they contain quite a lot of graphic sex so be warned. They're called Antichrist (I cried big huge sobs at the start of that film, it is so unbelievably sad) and Nymphomaniac)
Donnie Darko
Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Sin City
Shawshank Redemption
Dallas Buyer's Club
Good Will Hunting
50/50
Identity
Event Horizon (it is scary, but it's brilliant)

Do you have Netflix? If so, there are some fantastic series out at the moment.

Edge of Tomorrow
Pitch Perfect
Interstellar
Divergent -similar to Hunger games

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Secret in their Eyes
500 days of Summer
Talented Mr Ripley
About a Boy

To kill a mockingbird
Chariots of fire
The Goonies

Rush - true story, I cried at this.
Senna, as a pp said.
The Grand Budapest Hotel - most bizarre, but DH & I loved it.

The Lost Boys great fun film and vampires have never been so attractive

I watched Lost Boys the other week and it was just as good as I remembered - Jason Patric yum!!!!

Gone with the wind
The aviator
12 angry men
True grit (Cohen brothers remake)
A night to remember
Terminator 2
Gosforth park

Hi all,

With the OP's permission, we are now going to sweep this thread over to our rather lovely new Films topic.

Thanks

Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland looking their best what isn't there to like about the film

Argo
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Pitch Perfect (just watched it a few days ago and it is was good fun)
Die Hard!
Les Miserables
District 13
Jurassic Park (might as well as the new one is out!)
LA Confidential
Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet (might as well go for fab soppy baz luhrman)

I have a terrible memory for these kinds of things but a few great films I've seen recently -

What We Do In The Shadows is the funniest film I've ever seen and is just ace in all sorts of ways, the story, the artwork, the actors, it's brilliant
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gone Girl
Gravity
They Came Together
My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service are all excellent for kids and adults alike

I saw Dallas Buyer's Club at the weekend and didn't like it. Felt I had wasted my time watching a depressing film about a character I couldn't care less about. But maybe I just have a problem with MM as I didn't much like Interstellar either.

You must add Alien to that 80s list OP!

The Killing Fields
The Godfather
Senna
The Damned United (I don't even like football)
La Gloire de Mon Pere
I Capture the Castle
The Fabulous Baker Boys

oh and Patha Pan Charlie

For light relief and Benedict Cumberbatch at his best innocent and funny, try Starter for 10

Terms of Endearment
Pay It Forwards
The Blind Side
Top Gun
Could watch any of these at any time but will cry at least once during each

Amélie (my all time favourite film)
Dangerous Liaisons (with Glen Close)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo (the trilogy)
La Haine
Life is Beautiful
Paris je t'aime
The Pianist
Sense and Sensibility

Anything by Tarantino - my favourite is Inglorious Basterds but you might want to watch them in chronological order.

And the good films with Matthew McConnaughey in them (ie not the rom coms!)

+1 for:
About Time
Dallas Buyers Club
The Help
Romeo and Juliet

Amazing list everyone!

The Help and Pitch Perfect - tick!

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Gone Girl - tick!

The Shawshank Redemption
Mississippi Burning
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Peter's Friends
The Goonies
Footloose
The Silence of the Lambs
Mystic River
ET
Schindler's List
Stand by Me
Saving Private Ryan
Pretty Woman
Argo
Ocean's Eleven

I could go on all day... Great thread OP.

What About Bob
Notting Hill
The Net
Arlington Road
Twister

Silence of the Lambs! Yes! Although maybe not for watching alone

Classic era Steve Martin, like The Jerk and the Man With Two Brains - oh and Planes Trains and Automobiles
Zoolander
Bringing Up Baby
Another vote for The Women, original version, it's amazing

Brief Encounter for a spot of romance

Poseidon adventure (70's version) and towering inferno for some classic disaster movie

Recently, I have really enjoyed:

Barney's Version
Away We Go
The Time Travellers Wife
Half Nelson
Gone Girl
Little Miss Sunshine
Crazy Stupid Love (I heart Steve Carrell)

...and Sideways