I’m not a huge movie fan, but I want to broaden my horizons a bit. I’ll offer my list (that I’ve rewatched so many times I’m a bit tired of them):

  • Young Poisoner’s Handbook

  • Full Metal Jacket

  • Life of Brian

  • Holy Grail

  • Sunset Boulevard

  • Curse of the Golden Flower

  • The Nightingale

  • Downfall

  • Amadeus

  • Once Were Warriors

  • Dusk to Dawn

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Ooh, my kids are heading deep into teenager territory so this feels like my chosen, specialist subject. Avoiding OP’s picks (the Python stuff would be on my list too), and in no particular order:

    Bladerunner (Directors cut)
    The Blues Brothers
    This is Spinal Tap
    Alien
    Aliens
    Terminator
    Terminator 2
    Seven Samurai
    Yojimbo (+ A Fistful of Dollars)
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Schindler’s List
    12 Angry Men
    Rear Window
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    Memento
    Dune (the Lynch 1980’s one)
    The Princess Bride
    The Confetti Trilogy (Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End + Baby Driver)
    Die Hard
    Pulp Fiction
    Fight Club
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Se7en
    The Usual Suspects
    2001 A Space Odyssey
    Platoon
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    Trainspotting
    My Neighbour Totoro
    Do The Right Thing
    The Thing (John Carpenter version)

    Some they’ve seen, most they haven’t yet.