Movies to watch
publish #needswork Opened 2022-02-02. Related to Movies I’ve seen.
TODO: Organize these by genre
- Spider-man into the spiderverse
- Shaolin Soccer
- 3 billboards outside Evving Missouri
- The Departed
- Good Will hunting
- No Country for Old Men
- In Bruges
- Oldboy 2003 version with subtitles (Korean)
- Unbreakable
- First Man
- Apollo 11 - CNN documentary
- Kung pow: enter the first
- Taxi driver ← recommended by Kevin
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas (it was weird. Eh)
- Moneyheist - show on Netflix
- Side effects
- Goodfellas
- Saving Private Ryan
- Feels good man
- RBG
- Exit through the gift shop
- The vietnam war - Ken burns (this is on YouTube for free in my watch later)
- The ballad of buster scruggs
- Fargo
- The dissident - documentary on murdered saudi journalistkh-
- Yellow submarine
- Shrek with Japanese dub
- They shall not grow old (ww1 reconstruction by Peter Jackson)
- Primer ← old time travel movie recommended by Anthony
- Midnight in Paris - mystery movie recommended by Maddy
- Baseball by Ken burns - baseball documentary about industrial revolution, segregation, early unionization. Recommended by dale
- 12 Angry Men - movie on criminal justice system recommend by Sharon
- Come and see - brutal ww2 movie rec by Anthony
- The hurt locker - really good actually
- Hell or high water
- Train to Busan
- The kirlian frequency
- Top gun
- Patton
- Clerks
- The big short
- Ferris beuhkers day off
- Grosse pointe blank
- Talladega nights
- Gran torimo
- The survivors
- Blazing saddles
- Baby driver
- Slingshot - about the eccentric inventor of the Segway
- A year in space — this is on youtube
- Synechdoche new York
- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
- The godfather
- Hiroshima mon amor
- The big short
- Jarhead
- O brother where art thou
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- The emperor’s new groove
- After Yang
- Icarus - 92% rotten tomatoes, explains the Russian doping scandal. On Netflix. Academy award for best documentary 2018.
- the French dispatch - wes Anderson film
- Hamlet a24
- primer (big brain time travel movie)
- ex machina (from this Reddit thread)
- Where the Crawdads sing (new Sony pictures film)
- McCartney 3, 2, 1 (rec from William the Lyft driver, it’s a series of interviews where Rick Rubin asks Paul about his work with a focus on studio recordings)
- Our Great National Parks - Obama-narrated documentary about national parks.
- American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas - rec from chunyi. Won an Oscar for best documentary. On Netflix. It’s about how storytelling is important.
- Penguin town - Documentary where penguins run a town in Africa - rec from Pamela on 2022-06-16
- 14 Peaks - rec from Andy Gordon
- the times of Harvey milk - rec by Brandon from Sharon’s group at EDC
- my octopus teacher - rec by Jess Han
- violet evergreen - rec by Kenneth. It won some award for writing and the art is amazing
- 86 - rec by king.
- Thor: End of Days - showed up in my Google feed somehow, it’s a 2020 film based on the literal Thor mythology
- This Place Rules - Andrew Callaghan/Channel 5 meme footage movie published by A24 about media echo chambers leading up to the 2021 Capitol riots
- Layer Cake (2004) - pre-Bond Daniel Craig crime thriller
- In the Name of the father (1993)
- RRR - Tollywood movie with some ridiculous action sequences. Rec from Tim and Jonathan
- Stalker - Original inspiration for stalker video game. Rec from Tim
- Paddington 2 - Rec from Jonathan. Don’t even watch Paddington 1, he says
- Perfect blue
- raising Arizona
- blood simple ^ above raising Arizona - rec from dad
- catwalk 1 and 2, on canopy (library service) - rec by Jenny. Delves into the weird life of professional cat show attendees. The second one involves crime??
- Mad god - stop motion horror that took many years to develop
- idk the name - Japanese show where a guy travels to new place each day, is allotted 1 Instagram post, and receives money equivalent to how many likes he gets. So the show is about him getting by day to day in foreign countries. Rec from jihai on 2023-06-15
- alpinist - documentary about someone similar to the free solo guy. Rec from Matthew on 2023-09-05
- 17 peaks - Malaysian hiker who hikes a lot of mountains. Rec by Matthew
- Enter the void - REC by George about what happens after death and drugs
- Visage village / faces places - rec by Qintian 2024-01-14
- 20 days in Mariupol - 2024 Oscar winning documentary
- Megapolis - Francis Ford Coppola (director and co-writer on the Godfather) released this $120M, self-funded film that isn’t even being shown in the USA (as of 2024-05-21 due to a real human presenter needing to interact with the on-screen actors at every showing. Sounds semi-pretentious and at the very least, interesting.
- Didi - rec by Christie among other ppl
Trash movies to watch while multitasking
- next with Nicholas Cage
- RoboCop with Sam Jackson
- now you see me
- the legend of vox machina - Chris Prynoski is a producer like on Pantheon
- Hells Paradise in a nutshell
- The sympathizer - might not be trash actually
- 57 seconds
- Orville
- Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare
- scavengers reign
- blue eye samurai