No one's said Network (1976) yet. It's so prescient it's kind of scary.
The Shawshank Redemption
Oh one more. Contagion. Made years and years before covid - pretty spot on tho.
Forrest Gump
Zardoz
Some you need to see to get the references:
Food for thought:
For something (more) crazy:
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.
Cloud Atlas
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Tora Tora Tora!
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Gone with the Wind
Some great ones were already mentioned. I'll add Life Is Beautiful (1997).
Army of Darkness
Alien
Aliens
Because fuck you: Watcher in the Woods
The Pianist
Enemy Mine (1985)
Children of Men.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Lawrence of Arabia
If you like horror and you haven't seen Repo! The Genetic Opera, nows the time.
To Kill A Mockingbird
And read the book.
The Dark Knight
There Will Be Blood
The Prestige
Memento
The Shining
Gangs of New York
Aliens
The Machinist
Full Metal Jacket
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Threads. Especially should be mandatory for politicians. To date one of the most accurate portrayals of nuclear war. It is not an uplifting movie.
I would like to add 2 absolute masterpieces of German cinematic creations.
First: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo(W children from station zoo)
Devinetively not ab easy or joyfully film. So far I only watched the original version which isn't great in terms of story telling but it displays the reality of drug abuse(in this case heroin) in a very good way. This film is devinetively capable of ruining your day.
Werner - Beinhart( Werner and the wizard of booze)
A quite old(1990) animated film. It is funny as hell but you can clearly see, that it was made in a different time/society. However, its still funny as hell(at least in my opinion).
The End of Evangelion is a masterpiece, but you must watch NGE before, which also is a masterpiece.
My recommendation is either The Grand Budapest Hotel or Moonrise Kingdom. Both by Wes Anderson, and probably his two best films. Excellent director with a very distinct visual style.
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