This is not meant as a “best of” list. The idea is to provide a list of film recommendations that is easy to use. The films are grouped by genre so if you feel like sci fi one night and a rom com the next you can have a list of ten great films in whatever genre you like.
Horror
Descent
The Ring
Madre
Hagazussa
The Witch
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Us
The Blair Witch Project
The Shining
The Babadook
Documentaries
The Act of Killing
Casting JonBenet
The Six O’Clock News
The Panama Deception
Latcho Drom
Microscosmos
Bowling For Columbine
Capturing The Freedmans
Grey Gardens
Five Broken Cameras
LGBTQ+
Paris Is Burning
Brokeback Mountain
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
The Celluloid Closet
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
We the Animals
Boys in The Band
Funeral Parade of Roses
Far From Heaven
Tangerine
Animation
Mutafukaz
How To Train Your Dragon
Coonskin
Fantasia
Toy Story
Twice Upon A Time
Mary and Max
The Secret of Kells
Anime FilmsSpirited Away
The Case of Hana & Alice
Akira
Cleopatra Queen of Sex
Your Name
My Neighbor Totoro
Romantic Comedies
Moonstruck
When Harry Met Sally
A Song is Born
The Philadelphia Story
Gregory’s Girl
Annie Hall
It Happened One night
Love Actually
The Lady Eve
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Science Fiction Films
Gantz
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars & Empire Strikes Back
The Matrix
Annihilation
Evolution
Dune
Alien & Aliens
Altered States
Blade Runner & Sequel
“So bad they’re good” Films
The Battle Wizard
Meatball Machine
Santo and The Blue Demon vs the Monsters
Oily Maniac
The Creeping Terror
Robo Vampire
Super Infra-man
The Man That Saves The World
The Room
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Kung Fu Films
Rendezvous With Death
Fist of Legend
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
Kung fu Hustle
Drunken Master
Five Superfighters
Iron Monkey
Fearless
Ip Man
Comedies
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Noises Off
Playtime
Dr. Strangelove
Airplane
Best In Show
Arsenic And Old Lace
Men In Black
Young Frankenstein
Raising Arizona
Bollywood Musicals
Baahubali
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Lagaan
Mohaabatein
Jugnu
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Singham
Bhaktha Prahlada
Naag Panchami
Aadmi Aur Insaan
Period Films
The Dead
Amadeus
Ran
Remains of The Day
Barry Lyndon
The Favourite
Howard’s End
12 Years a Slave
Boogie Nights
Virgin Spring
Classic Hollywood Films
Gaslight
Cool Hand Luke
A Touch of Evil
Sunset Boulevard
Streetcar Named Desire
Vertigo
All About Eve
Meet John Doe
On The Waterfront
Fury
Heart Warming Films
ET
Princess Bride
Soapdish
Tender Mercies
Cinema Paradiso
Local Hero
My Favorite Year
Sweet Bean
Raising Victor Vargas
King of Masks
Dramas
Ordinary People
Coming Home
A Woman Under The Influence
The Color of Paradise
The Dresser
Moonlight
Paris Texas
Sex Lies And Videotape
I Dream In Another Language
The 400 Blows
Japanese films
Onibaba
Rashomon
The Seven Samurai
Floating Weeds
Woman In The Dunes
Sword of Doom
Tampopo
The Ballad Of Narayama
Gate of Hell
Ugetsu Monogatari
War Films
Joyeux Noel
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Empire of The Sun
The Killing Fields
Come And See
J’Accuse
Spanish Language Films
Amores Perros
Like Water For Chocolate
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
Spirit of the Beehive
Pans Labarynth
Y Tu Mama También
I Dream in Another Language
The Dance of Reality
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Musicals
My Fair Lady
Guys and Dolls
The Wizard of Oz
West Side Story
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
Sound of Music
Fame
Grease
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tommy
Silent Films
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Nosferatu
Battleship Potempkin
The Passion of Joan Of Arc
J’Accuse
Vampyr
Faust
The General
Modern Times
Destiny
Thrillers
Diobolique
Dead Calm
Fargo
Good Time
Rear Window
A Simple Plan
The Usual Suspects
Silence of the Lambs
Peeping Tom
M
Art Films
Dreams That Money Can Buy
The Seventh Seal
Eight and a Half
The Exterminating Angel
The Turin Horse
Wings of Desire
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Nostalgia (Tarkovsky)
La Jette
Ivan The Terrible 1 and 2
Westerns
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
My Darling Clementine
The Revenant
Stage Coach
The Searchers
Unforgiven
Shane
Quirky Films
Mystery Train
Small Apartments
Amalie
Delicatessen
Barton Fink
Harold And Maude
Pecker
I Am Not A Witch
Kin-dza-dza!
Air DollChallenging Films
The Cook The Wife The Thief and Her Lover
Songs From The Second Floor
Holy Motors
November
Mulholland Drive
Werkmeister Harmonies
Horse Money
Rubber
The Dance of Reality
The Mirror
Incredibly Bad Films
Homoti
Bat Pussy
The Man Who Saves The World
Blackenstein
Invasion of the Love Drones
Anyab
Forbidden Zone
Alien Beasts
War Is Menstrual Envy
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