Just realised I am a film philistine - dire need of suggestions!

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It's only just dawned on me... some friends were talking about favourite films and I had seen barely any of the ones mentioned! Not sure how this happened.. we rented videos regularly when I was a child but the rental place closed down when I was around 10 and from then on I mainly just watched tv series. But now I've reached the ripe old age of 29 and realised I've seen hardly any films that are not musicals or children's films 😳
Any suggestions? They don't need to be the best films of all time, just anything you enjoyed. When I google 'best films to watch' the lists are very highbrow... it's not that I don't want to watch anything serious, it's just I want to watch it because it's enjoyable/moving rather than because it was groundbreaking at the time iyswim. Obvious suggestions welcome as there's a high chance I won't have seen it. Only recently saw Titanic for the first time 😬

I have watched and really enjoyed:
Billy Elliot, Stand by Me, Brassed Off, Knives Out, Brooklyn, East is East, Devil Wears Prada, Saving Mr Banks, Mean Girls, Shutter Island, Bridget Jones, Father of the Bride, Planes trains and automobiles, Schindler's List, The Pianist..
..and not a whole lot else!

Thanks for that @ShoesoftheWorld !

YES @TotalOverhaul I just looked up Purely Belter and saw Tim Healy's in it...aka Billy Elliot's dad from the stage musical... this was meant to be!!

Northern Soul sounds great as well, I love watching an underrated film 🥳

Definitely definitely 6th sense

Mrs Doubtfire

Cinderella man

Gosh and this really good one about a a bunch of jurors and it had some cool people in it. Jeff Goldblum?

All the avengers movies

While you were sleeping

Gravity

Get out

deep impact

lord of the rings

There are so many wonderful films, a lot mentioned here.

I was just thinking, if you like French foreign films, years ago I watched Jean de Florette, then it's sequel Manon de Sources after. I was bawling at the end!
More light hearted is La Cage aux Folles which I remember being very funny.

Also Cinema Paradiso as mentioned.
Life is Beautiful was also amazing, get the tissues ready for both!

I love so many films from every decade. Don't seem to watch as many now as just don't sit and make the time.

Sometimes at night a good film will come on one of the BBC channels, will watch it when everyone's gone to bed.

PALM SPRINGS

Paranormal activity

Babbadook

Oh yes @MafsisNafsbutcompelling probably 12 angry men? Haven't seen it but it's on the list! And yes, love Mrs Doubtfire... haven't seen the others but think I read While You Were Sleeping

Sorry scratch that, I read While My Eyes Were Closed 😂While you were sleeping is going on the list!

Point break - has to be the original with Patrick Swayze
Hidden Figures
First wives club
Sunshine cleaning
A few good men

Agree with Dopesick recommended above. Gobsmacking.

We have recently been through a phase of Nanni Moretti. It sounds like you are more film-literate than you let on. I remember once someone at work asked me if I'd seen any films at the weekend, and I said, 'Yes, Man Bites Dog'. She said 'What's that?' I replied 'A black-and white Belgian comedy about a serial killer'. She said 'Only you, Manadou, would like a film like that'. I think you either like Benoît Poelvoorde or you don't. I do, DH doesn't.

Thanks @ThriceInALifetime will definitely watch those! I know what you mean about not making the time... now that there's so much streaming, there's no sense of urgency in watching a film whereas before I would've watched a film whenever if I saw that it was going to be on tv. On maternity leave now though so determined to get in a few films while the baby is sleeping/feeding! Need to branch out from watching repeats of Friends 😂

Thanks @EwwSprouts , haven't seen them but I loved Patrick Swayze in The Outsiders!

Hot Fuzz
Snatch
The Hunt for Red October
Bullet Train

Must add: 'It Happened One Night' to that great list

Thanks @Manadou , yes I definitely find that some of my favourite films are the more offbeat ones 😂 your post reminded me that I loved an Italian film called Come Dio Comanda about an accidental murder... I only watched it because I'd liked the book but then found that the film was brilliant in a different way! Maybe I have seen more films than I realised... I just feel that recently all I watch is tv series or reruns of the same old stuff! Must make the time to watch a film of an evening, it feels so much more satisfying than watching something I've seen a million times before

Thanks @PictureOfFlorianTray ! I've heard great things about The Hunt for Red October

I would add The Searchers, Arsenic and Old Lace and Grosse Point Blank

The Lord of the Rings movies- absolute masterpieces.

Jaws
men in Black
Independence Day
Day after Tomorrow
Indiana Jones
Titanic
Jurassic Park
Mamma Mia
Outlaw Josey Wales
Blair Witch Project

Bridesmaids
Something about Mary
Superbad
Layer cake
Rock n rolla
Just go with it

The proposal

Be warned.. it’s a bit cold to start with.

@salamithumbs

Last weekend we watched Una mujer fantástica from Chile, with the excellent Daniela Vega. This being Mumsnet I won't elaborate on the plot except to say that at the end she does a marvellous performance of Ombra mai fu ('Handel's Largo')

Adding:
Priscilla queen of the desert
The green mile
four lions
Bladerunner
Schindlers list

this thread is ace.

also in Bruges- very good

actually not Jeff Goldblum but it's Chicago 7
great courtroom and my favourite movie ever

DISTRICT 9!!!

hot fuzz is great

keep hearing about a movie where someone is in a car Tom Hardy? And he deals with shite. Lock? Locke?

also THE MENU