Movie Recommendations
The following are movies that I consider exceptional by one metric or another. If you share my tastes, perhaps you can find some movies that you've missed here. If you think you know what I like and have a recommendation for me, let me know.
- 12 Monkeys
- 21 grams
- 25th Hour
- 28 Days Later
- A Close Shave
- A Few Good Men
- Amélie
- American Beauty
- Arlington Road
- Before Sunrise
- Before Sunset
- Being John Malkovich
- Boogie Nights
- Braveheart
- Brazil
- Changing Lanes
- Citizen Kane
- City of God
- Clerks
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Dead Poets Society
- Desperado
- Die Hard
- Donnie Darko
- Dr. Strangelove, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
- Drop Dead Gorgeous
- Easy Rider
- Empire of the Sun
- Enemy at the Gates
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness
- Fargo
- Fight Club
- Forrest Gump
- Full Metal Jacket
- Gladiator
- Hamlet (1990)
- Heat
- High Fidelity
- Human Nature
- I Heart Huckabees
- Identity
- Imagine: John Lennon
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Insomnia
- Jacob's Ladder
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Little Big Man
- Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
- Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
- Lost in Translation
- Magnolia
- Melvin Goes to Dinner
- Microscosmos
- Monster's, Inc.
- Moulin Rouge
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Nausicaä
- O Brother Where Art Thou
- One Crazy Summer
- One Hour Photo
- Parenthood
- Pi
- Pink Floyd: The Wall
- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- Powder
- Pulp Fiction
- Raging Bull
- Rain Man
- Requiem for a Dream
- Run Lola Run
- Say Anything
- Scarface
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape
- Shine
- Sling Blade
- South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
- Spirited Away
- Stand By Me
- Swingers
- The Abyss
- The Blues Brothers
- The Bourne Supremacy
- The City of Lost Children
- The English Patient
- The Fugitive
- The Godfather
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Incredibles
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- The Negotiator
- The Matrix
- The Mosquito Coast
- The Princess Bride
- The Ring
- The Rundown
- The Score
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Sixth Sense
- The Spanish Prisoner
- The Thin Red Line
- This is Spinal Tap
- ¡Three Amigos!
- Toy Story
- Toy Story 2
- Trainspotting
- True Romance
- Unbreakable
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- When Harry Met Sally
- Whisper of the Heart
Filmography links courtesy of IMDb.
Last updated: March 23, 2006
