Arrival

V for Vendetta

Wall-e

It's our future if we don't fix shit.

The Blues Brothers (1980).

The Dark Knight

There Will Be Blood

The Prestige

Memento

The Shining

Gangs of New York

Aliens

The Machinist

Full Metal Jacket

Top Secret, by the same guys who did Naked Gun. I think it's somehow actually funnier on average than Naked Gun, even though that one's great, too.

Basically, I don't know if a human could watch it and not find it fucking amazingly funny. So dense with jokes, so creative with the execution, so many funny practical effects, you're constantly astounded that they created props and sets for such absurd humor, and it really works.

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

Brazil. Should be mandatory after 9/11.

Since my movie taste is a bit of everything here is my colourful list:

• Pans Labyrinth
• Princess Mononoke
• 12 Monkeys
• Her
• Parasite
• Persepolis
• The man from earth

Children of Men is a madtapiece.

Everybody’s Everything. I knew nothing about Lil Peep and I absolutely loved the whole documentary.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Not really the most profound or insightful, but it's just a good fun film.

If you want to add non English movies to the list, then I have two to suggest:

• Children of Heaven
• Cinema Paradiso

Movies made outside of the US. United-statesians underestimate too much on other countries' productions. There's many great movies made outside of Hollywood that you can find if you search.

A suggestion that I can give is Netflix's Brazilian film Just Another Christmas, where a guy who hates Christmas gets on a time curse and he keeps waking up on each year's next Christmas eve, his life keeps changing before his eyes and at the end he learns a valuable lesson. I've seen it being compared to Click, not sure though.

2001: A Space Odyssey

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

If you like dark humor, In Bruges is absolutely outstanding.

Scott pilgrim vs the world

• pulp fiction
• before I disappear (my personal favorite film of all time)
• Donnie Darko
• Momento

The Pianist

Grandma's Boy.

"It's a wonderful Life". I'm not religious but the message of the movie is very straight forward, and very important. Be a good person, always try to help others, have integrity, and try to make meaningful connections with people. You also don't have to have a long list of accomplishments to have a meaningful life, as long you positively affect others, you've done good.

It's a wonderful life used to be my favorite movie to watch around Christmas time, to remind myself of whats important in life, but now I've added:

The movie "About Time". Slow down. Savor, and enjoy life. Most days I forget about the message of that movie, but I try to remind myself every now and then. It hits especially hard now as my father passed away at 80 last year.

We're gonna get a lot of the more standard "Perfect movies" so I'm going to stick with some of the ones that may not be "perfect movies" but I found personally always enjoy

• Ex Machina - Fucks with your mind through the entire movie, and leaves you bewildered at the end

• Ocean's 11, the Clooney version personally, I watch this regularly and is my favorite heist movie

• Seeking a friend for the end of the world - Tears, but it's a movie that's worth a watch - but I can never rewatch it.

• The Whale - just last year, another amazing movie that has to be watched, but you will probably never be able to rewatch it.

• The Theory of Everything - Personally this movie is what started me out from "Movies are cool action things I go with friends to see" to "Maybe movies can evoke emotions that I didn't know I could fully appreciate", and for those here who have seen me comment on movies before, this is where Felicity Jones became my favorite actress. You forget your watching a movie, and she became Jane Hawking in it, and it's the first movie I legit cried to. It hurt me deep. Eddie Redmayne did a wonderful job, fully embodying Steven as well, to the point that again you forget you are watching a movie.

And one more because what the hell

• Imitation Game - Bendlydoodle Cuddlefish and Kiera Knightley tell the story of Alan Turing. I say it should be mandatory watching for any computer/IT/programmer nerd out there, and I won't say why it's 100% worth a watch, but it's there.

None of these would I nominate as best movie of all time, I just went through my list of most watched movies and these stuck out