Films You Should Watch... (56 titles)

You're going to die. Probably soon, so don't waste time finding out what films are good and bad. Just listen to me because my opinion is always right.

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Pretty much the seminal movie buff film of all time. I don't want to get all long winded on you and start spouting lines like "Pretty much invented modern Cinema." But this film pretty much invented modern cinema.

Citizen Kane on DVD (1941)
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead
Director: Orson Welles
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CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard ..read more »

Rate this: 70% from 22,113 members

The Third Man

This film sums up the whole concept of "Film Noir" for me. An amazing piece of storytelling set in the cool down after the war.

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The Third Man on DVD (1949)
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard
Director: Carol Reed
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This classic noir mystery, from the team of Carol Reed and Graham Greene, is generally considered to be the best filmwork of both of these estimable talents. THE THIRD MAN features Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his ..read more »

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Chinatown

Forget it Jake, It's Chinatown..."

Chinatown on DVD (1974)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Director: Roman Polanski
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Director Roman Polanski's neo-noir detective story is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) runs a detective agency specializing in matrimonial strife and ..read more »

Rate this: 73% from 23,144 members

The Trial

Possibly one of my favourite films of all time. An almost dream-like insight into the legal system, based off the novel by Franz Kafka.

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The Trial on DVD (1963)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli
Director: Orson Welles
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THE TRIAL is Orson Welles's claustrophobic adaptation of Franz Kafka's surreal tale of fear and paranoia in a nameless society. Tinged with background jazz, filmed in shadowy black and white--mostly with direct light--THE TRIAL looks like a classic film noir, with angled close-ups and characters ..read more »

Rate this: 68% from 220 members

Angel Heart

An amazingly atmospheric film that delivers accurate period detail, beautiful scenery, attitude, atmosphere and some very, very nasty characters.

Angel Heart on DVD (1987)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
Director: Alan Parker
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In Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART, based on the novel FALLING ANGEL by William Hjortsberg, a New York City gumshoe is hired to find an aging blues singer. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) follows clues from the ominous ghettos of Harlem to the witchy backwoods of Louisiana, where he takes up with Epiphany ..read more »

Rate this: 65% from 8,812 members

The Machinist

Someone once told me that The Machinist was Christian Bale looking his worst and acting his best. The Machinist is an emotional insight to Insomnia and the way humanity copes with guilt.

The Machinist on DVD (2004)
Starring: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon
Director: Brad Anderson
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An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity

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American Psycho

I was torn over this film for a good few months of my life. They took my favourite book and turned it into a film. Will I enjoy it? Won't I? It turns out I did.

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American Psycho on DVD (2000)
Starring: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto
Director: Mary Harron
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Patrick Bateman is young, white, beautiful, ivy leagued, and indistinguishable from his Wall Street colleagues. Shielded by conformity, privilege, and wealth, Bateman is also the ultimate serial killer, roaming freely and fearlessly. His murderous impulses are fueled by zealous materialism and ..read more »

Rate this: 65% from 19,454 members

The Shawshank Redemption

Possibly the most emotional film of all time? The tale of Andy Dufresne and his stretch in the confines of Shawshank Prison.

The Shawshank Redemption on DVD (1994)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Robert Gunton
Director: Frank Darabont
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City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying. The bonus features stretch over two ..read more »

Rate this: 87% from 98,442 members

Fight Club

An amazing book, an amazing film. A lot of people think it's about masculinity and male macho bullshit, but I don't think it is. I like to think it's more about the way people get tied down to the "rules of life" through their jobs, possessions and relationships.

Fight Club on DVD (1999)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf
Director: David Fincher
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FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or tourist, the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who ..read more »

Rate this: 77% from 73,640 members

Seven

Bodies are piling up, one sin at a time. A detective story with a twist and arguably one of the most climatic endings to a movie ever.

Seven on DVD (1995)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director: David Fincher
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Gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, and lust--these are the seven deadly sins that are being punished with unimaginable cruelty and calculation by an enigmatic killer in David Fincher's bleak thriller SEVEN. Set in a perpetually gloomy unnamed city, the film follows Somerset (Morgan Freeman)..read more »

Rate this: 78% from 75,585 members