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 @minsmum , I did want to see some older films! And I see John Cusack's in Grosse Point Blank 😍

There are some great ones already mentioned.

I'd add The English Patient and Lawrence of Arabia. Also, 2001 and the original 1960s Planet of the Apes. And Children of Men, 12 Years a Slave (don't miss this one!), Fiddler on the Roof.

@FirstFallopians it's ridiculous because in primary school everyone was either team Harry Potter or team Lord of the Rings.. I felt I couldn't watch Lord of the Rings or I'd be betraying Harry Potter😂 time to get over it methinks!

Thank @Itappleby I've seen Jaws, Titanic and Mamma Mia, will check the others out!

Thanks @vernatheraven , I loved Just Go With It! Will try the others x

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Pet semetery
Legally Blonde
Clueless
hidden figures
12 years a slave
2001: a space odyssey
apocalypto
Demolition man
the Martian

those are the last 10 films I watched

Thanks @Manadou I actually love a bit of opera! My biggest gripe with the greatest showman was the "opera singer" doing a pop performance 😂

Thanks @titchy , I have been wanting to watch Bladerunner! Loved Schindler's List

Oh very good, two courtroom dramas to watch then @MafsisNafsbutcompelling ! Will look into the one with Tom Hardy.... loved him in Peaky Blinders and that Oliver Twist series

Oh yes I love Fiddler on the Roof @StuckintheUSA ! Will add the others to the list!

Thanks @KeeefBurtain , haven't seen any of those except Clueless and Legally Blonde!

Adding to what everyone else has said:
Lion
Slumdog millionaire
Erin Brokovitch
War Horse - not sure if it’s meant for children but I watched as an adult and nearly cried, parts of it are really sad.

What about animated films? Like Persepolis, Princess Mononoke or Grave of the fireflies (I watched that thinking how sad can an animated film be? More fool me!)

Thanks @NoraLuka , I did see Slumdog Millionaire! Brilliant film. Definitely not opposed to an animated film, I just thought I'd seen most of them since I've seen a lot of disney, pixar, and ones like Anastasia, An American Tail etc. But I definitely relate to crying at an animated film.. Coco had me in tears and I was definitely an adult when I saw that!

Never actually saw War Horse but I did read it as a child!

Miller's Crossing
The Godfather I and II
Vertigo
Rosemary's Baby
Night of the Living Dead
Get Carter
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Don't Look Now
The Big Lebowski
Jaws
Saving Private Ryan
All the President's Men
The Birds
Shaun of the Dead
The Usual Suspects
The Shape of Water
The Thing
There Will Be Blood
Raiders of the Lost Ark
To Kill a Mockingbird
3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Hannah and Her Sisters
Oliver

Oooh yes Oliver is one of my favourite films... I'd say I know it by heart at this stage @LuluBlakey1 ! I've seen 3 Billboards and To Kill a Mockingbird but not the others, will take a look! Thanks x

You could look through a list of all Oscar winners

War Films
Life is Beautiful
Come and See
The Iron Cross
All Quiet on the Western Front
Apocalypse Now
Empire of the Sun
Playing for Time

Chinese/Asian Cinema
Eat, Drink, Man,Woman
Raise the Red Lantern
City of Life and Death
Raise the Red Lantern
Farewell to my Concubine

Post Apocalypse
The Road
Children of Men

Horror
The Trench
The Descent
Day of the Dead
Insidious
40 Days of Night
I am Legend
Scream

Science Fiction
Bladerunner
Terminator
Alien/Aliens

Love a bit of atmospheric music

Then you should love The Third Man. Classic British noir.

Hollywood classics - almost anything with Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis or Claude Rains.

Westerns - John Wayne in Stagecoach, Rio Bravo and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. (People may have other preferences, but those are my favourites.)

This Happy Breed - about an ordinary London family between the wars.

Great Expectations with John Mills.

Just thought of another couple:
Argo - great film directed by Ben Affleck
Interstellar - great sci-fi film.

That's a great idea @BlueStockingTimes , don't know why I didn't think of it! Thanks for the suggestions x

Thanks @HonoriaLucastaDelagardie , Bette Davis is a great call! I loved Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, forgot about that one. Also think I would love This Happy Breed, I like anything set in that era! Will have a look at the others x

Oh yes I actually saw Interstellar in the cinema @StuckintheUSA ! Amazing on the big screen... will have a look at Argo!

For years DH and I have both liked anything with Ricardo Darín or Sergi López. They are our favourite film actors.

Cinematography great. Good plot too.

SO many good suggestions!

I always come on to recommend;
Pride
Both Paddington films
Alien and Aliens
Withnail and I
The Cornetto trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and (most) of The World's End)
Thelma and Louise
Pulp Fiction