Recommend a Film

[ecche]

Anything by Hiyao Miyazaki

I'll second that. For a non-animated intelligent film try 'A Simple Plan' ...

 

[Lyle]

Memento is a good renter, especially since you'll probably want to re-watch it as soon as it's over.

 

[xsedrinam]

If you like Westerns: My kids got me Duval's triology on DVD:
Open Range, Lonesome Dove and Broken Trail

I was pleasantly surprised with The Illusionist
And I always recommend A Few Good Men, since I've probably watched it more than any DVD I have and, I have a lot.

 

[Vidd]

Secrets and Lies
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

 

[Leareth]

Actually, that wasn't by Miyazaki. He did do what is commonly considered inspiration of The Cat Returns, which is what I linked to in my previous post, Whisper of the Heart.

Doh!... I had assumed since it is a Studio Ghibli film its one of his...

 

[MultiM]

Office Space

 

[sb58]

V for Vendetta. It was Awesome.

 

[strider42]

One of my favorite films that a lot of people haven't seen is called "City of God". its a brazilian flick about the slums of Rio and the violent gangs there, a boy who wants to be a photographer how is from the slums, two childhood friends who become gang leaders, one who lives for the life and the other who wants to get out of the life and become a hippie with his girlfriend, and an gang war that starts accidentally. Incidentally, its all based on a true story (one of my favorite parts is at the ending credits where they show news reels of some of the real people involved) Its in portuguese, its super violent at times, but startlingly well done. its directed by the same guy who did the constant gardner, though this is a superior movie in my opinion.

 

[cycocelica]

Man of the Year

Personally I would only recommend the first half of this movie and then turn it off immediately because this movie just nose dives half way through and turns into a god awful movie.

 

[johnee]

War Games (must have seen that movie 500 times and I still catch something new everytime)

Quest For Fire (haven't seen it in a while, but WOW)

Usual Suspects

Groundhog Day

The Departed (first time i saw it, the emotional impact was incredible)

Donnie Darko

Rushmore

 

[Cashmere Fedora]

The Godfather

The Godfather: Part II

Fargo

Chinatown

and a more recent film I really like is Pan's Labyrinth.

Edit: I guess I sort of misinterpreted the thread. Anyway, if you haven't seen any of these movies, I'd certainly suggest renting them.

 

[steamboat26]

Snatch
Lock stock and two smoking barrels
spaceballs
not another teen movie

 

[D0ct0rteeth]

Stranger Than Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Children of Men
Almost Famous
A Simple Plan
Albino Alligator
American Beauty
Annie Hall
Barton Fink
Before Sunset/Before Sunrise
Big Fish
Bowling for Columbine
City of God
Cider House Rules
Driving Miss Daisy
Glengarry Glenross
Goodfellas
The Green Mile
Hard Candy
Hotel Rwanda
I Am Sam
Identity
An Inconvenient Truth
The Jacket
Jesus Camp
Love Actually
The Machinist
Memento
Mulholland Drive
Of Mice and Men
Phenomenon
Playing By Heart
Prime
Schindlers List
Seven
Six Feet Under (yes, the entire series. Once you get past the first 3-4 episodes its an amazing story)
Swingers
Vanilla Sky

 

[XnavxeMiyyep]

To the fans of The Departed:

Have you seen Infernal Affairs, the Chinese film upon which The Departed was based? I find it to be the superior film.

A lot of my favorite films have already been mentioned previously, but I recommend Little Otik. It's a Czech horror film about the husband in a childless couple who finds a stump shaped (vaguely) like a baby for his wife.

 

[furious]

Little Miss Sunshine
Thank you for smoking

 

[72930]

Heavenly creatures
City of god
About a boy

 

[devilot]

About a boy

*dreamy sigh* That's a good one. As is Amelie.

 

[camomac]

Gwoemul aka "The Host" - (English title)

Trivia: "The movie has the highest record for people who watched in Korea,
which counts 13,019,740. It means over 20% of the whole Korean population
watched it. (Of course, there are people who watched it several times.)"

 

[Legolamb]

Some of my musical selections only ( films and animations that have great musical numbers)

• all Fred Astaire
• all Gene Kelly
• Wizard of Oz
• Stormy Weather, 1943 (Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, Fats Waller; masters all)
• Showboat
• Amadeus
• Annie
• Nightmare before Christmas (not a musical, this is more of an animated opera)
• Prince of Egypt
• Disney: Lion King, Alladin. Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan,
• Les Triplettes de Belleville (rare dialogue, mostly pastische, gibberish, great scat)
• Les Uns and Les Autres (Incredible Claude Lelouch film entirely in French and English with appropriate subtitles.
• Grease
• Saturday Night Fever
• Hair
• Blues Brothers
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Twist and Shout number; anyway, this is one my favorite films so i'll try to fit it in anywhere, anytime)
• Moulin Rouge
• Fighting Temptations (ok, I like Gospel; don't tell my Jewish family)
• Phantom of the Opera
• Chicago

 

[0007776]

The Illusionist
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Apocalypto very gory, but a good movie
Batman Begins

 

[iGav]

Paddle to the Sea.

'I am Paddle to the Sea, please put me back in to the water'.

 

[bartelby]

*dreamy sigh* That's a good one. As is Amelie.

Amelie is one of my all time favourites!!

 

[iBlue]

A couple off the wall movies that I found surprisingly good:

Fried Green Tomatoes.

Erin Brockovich

also worthy of mention:

The Life of Brian.

Layer Cake

 

[arkitect]

Caché (Hidden) - Michael Haneke