200+ Unsolicited Film Recommendations
Here’s a list of films I highly recommend watching. I’ll probably add more as I think of them/watch more movies. Please ask me if you have any questions about any of them or if you have any recommendations for me! :-)
10 Things I Hate About You
17 Again
2 Days in Paris
The 40 Year Old Virgin
(500) Days of Summer
8 1/2
About Adam
The Addams Family
Addams Family Values
All About Eve
Almost Famous
Amadeus
American Beauty
American Grafiti
American Psycho
Animal House
Annie Hall
The Bad Seed
Bananas
Batman Begins
The Baxter
Bedazzled (with Dudly Moore and Peter Cook)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Becoming Jane
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Being John Malkovitch
Bend it Like Beckam
Best In Show
The Big Lebowski
The Big Night
Blue Velvet
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Boys from Brazil
Brazil
The Breakfast Club
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Brick
Brideshead Revisited (mini series with Jeremy Irons)
Brokeback Mountain
Bullets Over Broadway
La Cage Aux Folles
Can’t Hardly Wait
Casablanca
Casino
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cecil B. Demented
Celebrity
Charade
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
Clerks
Clueless
Coffee and Cigarettes
Cruel Intentions
Dangerous Liasons
The Darjeeling Limited
Detroit Rock City
Dick
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dogma
Dr. Strangelove
La Dolce Vitta
Donnie Darko
The Dreamers
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood
Emma
The English Patient
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Factory Girl
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Female Trouble
Fight Club
A Fish Called Wanda
Five Easy Pieces
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
French Kiss
The Full Monty
The Fugitive
Galaxy Quest
Garden State
The Gay Devorcee
Ghostworld
Gigi
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Goodfellas
Gone With the Wind
Grosse Pointe Blank
Groundhog’s Day
Guys and Dolls
Hairspray (the one from the 80s, the musical isn’t bad, but see the original)
Hamlet (w/ Kenneth Branagh)
Hannah and her Sisters
Harold and Maude
Happy Endings
Heathers
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
High Fidelity
I Heart Huckabees
The Importance of Being Ernest (with Colin Firth and Rupert Everett)
The Imposters
Iron Giant
It Happened One Night
Indiana Jones (all of them except the one with Shiah Lebouff)
In & Out
James and the Giant Peach
Jawbreaker
The King of Comedy
The King’s Speech
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Labyrinth
Last Tango In Paris
Lawrence of Arabia
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Little Miss Sunshine
A Little Princess
Little Shop of Horrors (the musical)
Lost in Translation
Love’s Labors Lost
Mallrats
The Maltese Falcon
A Man and A Woman
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Marie Antoinette
Mean Girls
Mean Streets
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Stanley Tucci and Rupert Everett)
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight in Paris
Mighty Aphrodite
A Mighty Wind
Miracle on 34th Street
The Misfits
Miss Petegrew Lives for a Day
Monty Python and the Holly Grail
Monty Python and the Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Meaning of Life
Moulin Rouge
Mrs. Henderson Presents
The Muppet Movie
A Muppet Christmas Carol
Muppet Treasure Island
My Fair Lady
My Favorite Year
Nacho Libre
Nightmare Before Christmas
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
On The Waterfront
Office Space
Oliver!
Paper Moon
The Paris Blues
Paris Je T’aime
The Passenger
The Philadelphia Story
The Pink Panther
Pirates of the Caribbean
Polyester
Pride and Prejudice (w/ Colin Firth, the one with Kierra Knightly isn’t terrible, but the other one is 6 hours of amazingness)
Pride and Prejudice (with Laurence Olivier)
The Princess Bride
The Producers
Pulp Fiction
Quills
Raging Bull
Rebel Without A Cause
Repo Man
Robin Hood Men in Tights
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Romancing the Stone
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
Rosemary’s Baby
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Ruling Class
Rushmore
Sayonara
The Secret Garden
Sense and Sensibility
Serendipity
Serenity
Serial Mom
The Seven Year Itch
Sid and Nancy
Sixteen Candles
Shakespeare in Love
She Done Him Wrong
Shop Girl
Singin’ in the Rain
Sleeper
Sliding Doors
The Slums of Beverly Hills
Small Time Crooks
Soap Dish
Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
This is Spinal Tap
Spirited Away
Stage Beauty
Stardust
Star Trek (w/ Chris Pine)
Star Trek: Generations (and any of the Star Trek movies are really worth watching)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Strictly Ballroom
Sullivan’s Travels
Superbad
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (dir. by Todd Haynes, available on youtube)
The Taming of the Shrew
Taxi Driver
The Thin Man
Throw Mama from the Train
Tumbsucker
Tropic Thunder
True Grit
True Romance
Tootsie
Top Hat
Total Recall
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Trainspotting
The Usual Suspects
Velvet Goldmine
The Virgin Suicides
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Waiting for Guffman
Waitress
Wayne’s World
Wayne’s World 2
The Wedding Singer
Wet Hot American Summer
West Side Story
What’s New Pussycat?
When Harry Met Sally
Where’s Poppa?
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Wilde
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Working Girl
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Young Frankenstein
