Your Favourite Movies

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I'm not a movie person (i.e. still dunno who Peter Pan is lmao), and like can't think of a top 5 if my life depended on it you know what I mean :^) BUT my forever favourite that I can watch over and over is called 5 Centimeters per Second. 

[That Venice Bitch 28,249]

I’m a film major and I love being annoying about it

 

Top 20 (in no order)

• Parasite

• Spirited Away

• Mandy

• Mother (Bong Joon Ho)

• Vertigo

• La La Land

• Sound of Metal

• Train to Busan

• Night of the Living Dead

• Pierrot le Fou

• The Killing of a Sacred Deer

• Hereditary

• Minari 

• Uncut Gems

• The Lobster

• Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

• Pig

• First Cow

• Minding the Gap

• Moonlight

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parasite (2019) needs to be in EVERYONE’S list 

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can’t come up with a top 20 list so here’s my top 10 

 

Parasite

Perfect Blue

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Scream (1996)

Final Destination 3

Kristy

The Craft

Evil Dead (2013)

Definitely, Maybe

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25 minutes ago, pawnshop said:

can’t come up with a top 20 list so here’s my top 10 

 

Parasite

Perfect Blue

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Scream (1996)

Final Destination 3

Kristy

The Craft

Evil Dead (2013)

Definitely, Maybe

FINAL DESTINATION 3 AND EVIL DEAD IKTR!! Love to see another horror stan!

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31 minutes ago, Volta said:

FINAL DESTINATION 3 AND EVIL DEAD IKTR!! Love to see another horror stan!

it’s just the best genre!  no it’s true it’s true

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A Clockwork Orange

American Beauty

American Psycho

An American Werewolf In London

Assassination Nation

Bridget Jones's Diary

Clueless

Die Hard

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Let The Right One In

Mean Girls

Monty Python And The Holy Grail

Pride And Prejudice

Scream

Shawn Of The Dead

Titanic

The Dark Knight

The Devil Wears Prada

The Lovely Bones

Trainspotting

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This was so hard to make considering the crazy amount of movies that I've watched but oh well:

 

1. The Sunset Limited: Two angry men, one room. (sounds like gay porn)  One represents christian optimism and brotherhood while the other represents nihilism and despair. It starts off with the first guy trying to save the other one but a sudden dramatic switch in power (the climax of the movie) forces both the christian guy and the audience to see the flaws in both philosophies. It's brilliant in the most unsettling way. The play it was based on is a good read too. 

 

2. Double Indemnity: Noir excellence. It's the movie that legitimized the genre in the eyes of mainstream cinema. 

3. The Grand Budapest Hotel: The cinematography, the soundtracks, the perfect timing of the dialogue, Ed Norton.  

4.  The Virgin Suicides: Hauntingly beautiful (especially the book). The guys' sexualisation of the Lisbon girls' innocence and purity went too far that it became dehumanizing. Trip's tantrum after Lux loses her virginity to him (and thus her purity) still manages to piss me off. 

 

5. Solaris: Many people found this movie to be slow, which is unfair considering it's a russian movie made in the 70s. Once you can contextualize it, the pacing will make sense. It's a fascinating meditation on consciousness in the context of outer space. Tarkovsky is an underrated director. 

 

6. True Romance: This one was so fun to watch. It's such a perfect mixture of action, romance and comedy. Bonus point because It ends in a classic Tarantino way. Pretty solid performance from every actor involved too, but especially Brad Pitt. I feel like any Lana fan would enjoy it.

 

7. Departures: Everything about this movie is simply beautiful. The visuals, the use of humor to mask the characters' fears, the life-long grief from losing a loved one, etc. That scene where Daigo recalls a time with his dead father when he was 5/6 years old, but despite the vividness of the memory, his father's face is nothing but a blur. As someone who also lost a father at the same age (and can't remember what he looked like without the help of a picture), that scene made me cry like a baby. 

8. Inglourious Basterds: Tarantino's magnum opus and he knows it. Morally gray characters have always been one of Tarantino's defining qualities as a director but I feel like that quality was especially highlighted in this movie. The actors' phenomenal performances (looking at you, Christopher Waltz) alongside the taut directing are enough to build a suspense that would put any high budget jumpscare-filled horror movie to shame. The historical inaccuracies can be bothersome at certain points but they were intentional so who cares. 

 

9. Fallen Angels: My favorite Wong Kar Wai movie. It also has one of the best opening scenes I've ever seen. Fun Fact: Tarantino did an introduction for the movie where he talks about how it influenced his style.

 

10. Chinatown: I really hate Polanski's pedo ass but I have to separate the art from the artist for this one. It has a realistically unforgiving ending that will stick with you for a long time. I could write an essay on the ending but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who plans on watching it. 

 

11. Shutter Island: My favorite Scorsese film and Leo's best performance to date. It could probably qualify as Neo Noir. 

12. Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures: This movie was recommended to me by my russian class professor  I only actually got to watching it because I'm a huge fan of russian literature and so russian cinema seemed promising. It did not disappoint. I got tired of American cinema's love of antagonizing the people of the soviet union and so this movie was a breath of fresh air, it's lighthearted representation of young adults living the good old soviet life with some surprisingly-still-relatable comedy to make the movie even better. 

 

13. I'm Thinking of Ending Things: Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind's older alcoholic sister. 

 

14. Django Unchained: Another Tarantino classic. Everyone praises Leo's, James' and Waltz' performances (as they should) but they seem to forget about Samuel Jackson. The way he kept switching between the fake dumb servant role and the mastermind behind Monsieur Candy is enough to warrant him every single oscar on this planet. 

 

15. Hereditary:  The acting. THE ACTING.

16. My Neighbor Totoro: I'm only putting it here because I have totoro tattooed on my wrist and I need to gaslight myself into thinking it was worth it.  

17. Razzia: A franco-moroccan movie set in my hometown so you know it will be in my top 20    The movie follows several characters that are more connected to each other than one may think. One of my favorite characters is a cinema buff whose favorite movie is Casablanca, which makes him fall deeper in love with his city. But that romanticized image is soon shattered by the reality of several radical uprisings, classicism, etc. He learns in the final scene that the movie Casablanca was never even filmed in Casablanca. The way I'm about to cry.  It also showcases the discrimination against the moroccan jewish community (finally), so bonus point. 

18. À mon âge je me cache encore pour fumer: A franco-algerian movie set in a bathhouse  It's set during the rise of radical islam in Algeria after its independence from french colonialism and how a sudden change in politics of a country that once was so liberated is affecting the women in it. It's so beautiful. The way the director simplified all of the events occurring in the country and represented them through each woman in the bathhouse is chef's kiss. 

 

19. The Man From Earth: A brilliant think piece. It's not meant to be taken too seriously because you'll just end up with a lot of plot holes. 

20. En Attendant Les Hirondelles: Another franco-algerian movie. It's divided into 3 parts but I only like one. 

 

 

what a long ass post holy fuck 

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I can’t think of all of them at the moment but my top 5 would be

1. Spirited Away

2. Buffalo 66

3. Before Sunrise

4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

5. Midsommar

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Twin Peaks: The Return
Safe (1995)

Donnie Darko

Almost Famous

L.I.E.

Marathon Man

Sorcerer

Silence of the Lambs

Thelma & Louise

You Can Count On Me

Marie Antoinette 

Grease

Titanic

Toy Story 3

Muriel’s Wedding

Blow Out

Widows

The Lure

All That Jazz / Cabaret

My Beautiful Laundrette

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In no specific order (I have a passion for literary adaptions and biographies):

 

A Beautiful Mind

Die Glasbläserin

Gladiator

Inglourious Basterds

Never Look Away

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Ray

Schindler’s List

The Aviator

The Cider House Rules

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

The Da Vinci Code

The English Patient

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Matrix

The Village

Walk the Line

Water for Elephants

You’ve Got Mail

You, Me and Dupree

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4 hours ago, Volta said:

I dont have the energy to come up with 20 so here’s my top 10!

 

1. Martyrs

2. Mysterious Skin

3. Love Exposure

4. Possession

5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

6. Kill Bill (vols. 1 & 2)

7. Black Swan

8. Neon Genesis Evangelion: End Of Evangelion

9. Before Sunrise

10. Stalker

 

ok so i decided to come up w the rest of my top 20:

 

11. Mulholland Drive

12. 3 Women

13. Rosemary’s Baby

14. Grave of the Fireflies

15. Come and See

16. Dogville

17. Happy Together

18. Eyes Wide Shut

19. Spirited Away

20. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (which seems to be a fan favorite here!)

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In no particular order:

 

1. Get Out

2. Train to Busan

3. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

4. One Million Happy Nows

5. Moonlight

6. Hotel Artemis

7. Tremors

8. Black Panther

9. But I’m a Cheerleader

10. Attack the Block

11. Pan’s Labyrinth

12. The Brother from Another Planet

13. Evil Dead 2

14. Scream

15. the entire Friday the 13th franchise

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Very hard, But my list in no particular order at the moment…

 

The Exorcist 

The Car - 1977

The Italian Job - 2003

Gone in 60 seconds - 2000

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The Love Bugs

Batman & Batman Returns

Nightmare Before Christmas

Titanic

Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle

Kill Bill

Tomb Raider - Angelina

Starsky & Hutch - 2004

Ferris Bueller’s day off

Misery

American Psycho 

The Cannonball Run

Smokey & The Bandit

Die Hard

Resident Evil

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updated list as of recent 

 

Suspiria (1977)

Climax

Mother!

Perfect Blue

Suspiria (2018)

Heathers

Halloween (1978)

Jennifers Body

Alien

Kids

Gone Girl

The Exorcist

Black Swan

Midsommar

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Jawbreaker

Promising Young Woman

Carrie

Scream

Dancer in the Dark

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Hmmm.....off the top of my head.....

 

1. Lawrence Of Arabia

2. La Dolce Vita

3. 8 1/2

4. Vertigo

5. INLAND EMPIRE

6. Dead Of Night

7. 2001 A Space Odyssey

8. Casablanca

9. King Kong (1933)

10. Satantango

11. The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp

12. Out 1

13. Celine And Julie Go Boating

14. The Thing (1982)

15. Dekalog

16. Persona

17. Stalker

18. L'Avventura

19. Jeanne Dielman

20. Night Of The Hunter

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1. Lady Bird. 
2. Bridesmaids. 
3. Almost Famous. 
4. Mermaids. 
5. La La Land. 
6. A Star is Born (1954).

7. Never Been Kissed. 
8. Beautiful Boy. 
9. Unfaithful. 
10. Bridget Jones Diary. 
11. Mean Girls. 
12. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. 
13. Silver Linings Playbook.

14. Titanic. 
15. Scream. 
16. Easter Parade. 
17. Little Women. (2019.)

18. Meet Me in St. Louis. 
19. Finding Nemo. 

20. The Aristocats. 

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pulling from my letterboxd here, including my top 4 faves (the rest are from my list of The Fucking Movies Ever). otherwise it's in no particular order

 

1. Mirrormask (2005)
2. Peeping Tom (1960)
3. M (1931)
4. Dr. Jack (1922)
5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
6. The Hands of Orlac (1924)
7. The Scarlet Letter (1926)
8. Design for Living (1933)
9. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
10. Now, Voyager (1942)
11. Stormy Weather (1943)
12. Dragonwyck (1946)
13. The Unsuspected (1947)
14. Rope (1948)
15. East Side, West Side (1949)
16. Captain Clegg/Night Creatures (1962)
17. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
18. The Name of the Rose (1986)
19. Matador (1986)
20. Sputnik (2020)

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I haven't been a movies person for a long time, so my favourites are mostly movies i saw before the age of 15, especially the ones with female protagonists (nearly all).

No order except the top 4 are definitely my faves.

 

• Ginger Snaps
• The Love Witch 
• The Witch 
• Annihilation 
• Sleepy Hollow
• Black Swan
• Avatar
• Scott Pilgrim vs The World
• The Crow
• Jennifer's Body
• The Sisterhood of Night
• Alice in Wonderland (1951)
• Gone Girl
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron 
• American Mary

Not quite 20 because I've taken out a few that I know now are very problematic or have a certain domestic abuser in the lead role (A**** H****)

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spencer  it might be too soon but i am sure it will be one of my forever favourites. i forgot to mention clouds of sils maria in my list too; pachelbel's canon fuck me up!!!!!!!!!