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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

My answer to this question changes a lot, but for now I'm gonna say Heathers

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They Live. I stumbled across it on TV while exhausted at 2 am one night and it had me locked in the whole time.

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Vampire's Kiss. It perfectly encapsulates Nick Cage's superposition

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These are not feel good movies at all but I think really send important messages. Not for kids, but at 16+ would be good. There's very important takeaway messages in both.

Grave of the Fireflies

Requiem for a Dream

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Requiem for A dream is a very good film. Its quite similar to the much older German film "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" (We children from the station zoo). The original version has a quite weird style in terms of how it tells the story but its still a very good film. Can only recommend it to everybody. Heroin one hell of A drug that can quite easily ruin everything.

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Evil Dead 2

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Rubber. The movie about the tire who woke up and chose violence.

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Oh one more. Contagion. Made years and years before covid - pretty spot on tho.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - The quintessential 80s movie. Everything you need to know about the 80s is contained in this film.

Also Mr. Krabs is in it.

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No one's said Network (1976) yet. It's so prescient it's kind of scary.

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Gladiator extended edition. No other movie matters now. Tis a masterpiece

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Cloud Atlas

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Tora Tora Tora!

Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Gone with the Wind

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The Shawshank Redemption

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Some great ones were already mentioned. I'll add Life Is Beautiful (1997).

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Full Metal Jacket.

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Some you need to see to get the references:

  • Soylent green
  • 1984 (or read the book of course)
  • Inception
  • Everything by Stanley Kubrick and Tarantino

Food for thought:

  • Free Rainer

For something (more) crazy:

  • The Holy Mountain
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Scott pilgrim vs the world

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Army of Darkness

Alien

Aliens

Because fuck you: Watcher in the Woods

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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The Pianist

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  • The Blues Brothers (1980)
  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) <- The best film version of "A Christmas Carol". I will die on this hill.
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
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To Kill A Mockingbird

And read the book.

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The Dark Knight

There Will Be Blood

The Prestige

Memento

The Shining

Gangs of New York

Aliens

The Machinist

Full Metal Jacket

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Enemy Mine (1985)

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The Man Who Knew Too Little

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