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TSR Film Recommendations Thread
Feel free to ask for a film to watch or to recommend a film for the list


This thread has two purposes; to provide a general guide on what are favourable films and to act as an active discussion thread for anybody looking for further film recommendations. If you feel strongly about a film that was omitted or is not on the list, then please post it below. If a few other people agree with you, it will be added.

Alternatively, if you have examined the list and want to ask for some further film recommendations, go ahead and post - some users may be able to help you out. :h:


If you are going to recommend a film for the list, please:

a) Check if it is on the list (CTRL-F)
b) Use the formatting: Title (Year, Director) - Genre

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Cream of the Crop :king1:
October 2010: The Social Network (David Fincher) - Poll results
November 2010: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates) - Poll results.
December 2010: Tron: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski)
2010: Inception (Christpher Nolan). For a full list of top ranking films of 2010, see the Poll results..
January 2011: Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
February 2011: True Grit (2011, Coen Brothers)

Action

V for Vendetta (2006, James McTeigue)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)

Battle Royale (2000, Kinji Fukasaku)

Casino Royale (2006, Martin Campbell)

Terminator 2 (1991, James Cameron)

Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)

Hero (2002, Yimou Zhang)

Sherlock Holmes (2009, Guy Ritchie)

Underworld (2003, Len Wiseman)

Kill Bill (2003, Quentin Tarantino)

The Hurt Locker (2008, Kathryn Bigelow)

Independence Day (1996, Roland Emmerich)

Ronin (1998, John Frankenheimer)

The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975)

The African Queen (John Huston, 1951)



Animated

Up (2009, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson)

Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)

Finding Nemo (2003, Andrew Stanton, lee Unkich)

Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter)

Howl's Moving Castle (2004, Hayao Miyazaki)

Beauty and the Beast (1991, Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)

Wall-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)

The Lion King (1994, Roger Allers)

The Land Before Time (1988, Don Bluth)

The Great Mouse Detective (1986, Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, David Michener, John Musker)

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006, Mamoru Hosoda; pseudo-sequel to novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui 1967)

Princess Mononoke (1997, Hayao Miyazaki)

The Simpsons Movie (2007, David Silverman)

Despicable Me (2010)

How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

Toy Story 2 (1999, John Laseter)

Toy Story 3 (2010, Lee Unkrich)

The Incredibles (2004, Brad Bird)

Ratatouille (2007, Brad Bird)

Batman: Under the Red Hood

Batman: Gotham Knight

Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Robert Zemeckis)



Black Comedy

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005, Shane Black

In Bruges (2008, Martin McDonagh)

Withnail and I (1987, Bruce Robinson)

Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)

Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)

A Serious Man (2009, Joel and Ethan Coen)

Shallow Grave (1994)

Fargo (Coen & Coen, 1996)



Comedy/Satire

The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips)

Hot Fuzz 2007, Edgar Wright)

Scott Pilgrim v The World (2010, Edgar Wright)

Dogma (1999, Kevin Smith)

Austin Powers (1997, Jay Roach)

The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)

Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright)

Raising Arizona (1987, Joel Coen)

Anchorman (2004, Adam McKay)

Airplane (1980, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)

The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)

Annie Hall (1997, Woody Allen)

Home Alone (1990 - 2002, Chris Columbus)

EuroTrip (2004, Jeff Schaffer)

The Ladykillers (1955, Alexander Mackendrick)

Buffalo '66 (1998, Vincent Gallo)

Zombieland (2009 Ruben Fleischer)

Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)



Comedy-drama

Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton)

Mermaids (1990, Richard Benjamin)

The History Boys (2006, Nicholas Hytner)

About A Boy (2002, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz)

Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis)

The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir)

Up in the Air (2009, Jason Reitman)

Lolita (1962, Stanley Kubrick)

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)

Little Miss Sunshine (2006, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)

Adventureland (2009, Greg Mottola)

Greenberg (Noah Baumbach, 2010)

The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson, 2009)

Lost in Translation (2003)

The Terminal (2004, Spielberg)



Crime

Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)

Ocean's Eleven

Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Se7en

Brick (2005, Rian Johnson)

No Country for Old Men

Once Upon a Time in America

The Departed

Catch Me If You Can

Sin City

Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)

Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)

The Usual Suspects

Shallow Grave

Jackie Brown

Casino

Godfather: Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)

City of God (2002, Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund)

The Bone Collector (1999, Phillip Noyce)

Carlito's Way

Juice

The Road to Perdition

Sin Nombre

Miller's Crossing

Training Day

Rope (1948, Hitchcock)

Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock)

Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007)

L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)

The Town

Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel)

Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)

Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn, 2004)

Man on Fire



Drama

12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)

Gran Torino (2008, Clint Eastwood)

The Basketball Diaries (1995, Scott Kalvert)

Men of Honor (2000, George Illman Jr)

Cruel Intentions (1999, Roger Kumble)

Castaway

It's A Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)

Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)

The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)

A Beautiful Mind (2001, Ron Howard)

Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón)

Green Mile (1999, Frank Darabont)

Good Will Hunting (1997, Gus Van Sant)

Trainspotting (1996, Danny Boyle)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Milos Forman)

American history X (1998, Tony Kaye)

American beauty (1999, Sam Mendes)

Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)

Any Given Sunday (1999, Oliver Stone)

Friday Night Lights (2004, Peter Burg, Josh Pate)

Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson)

Identity (2003, James Mangold)

Into the Wild (2007, Sean Penn)

Philadelphia (1993, Jonathan Demme)

The Italian Job (1969, Peter Collinson)

Atonement

Stand By Me (1986, Rob Reiner)

Lilya 4-ever (2002, Lukas Moodysson)

Kids (1995, Larry Clark)

Mysterious Skin (2004, Greg Araki)

21 Grams (2003, Alejandro Inarritu)

North By Northwest (1959, Hitchcock)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)

The Fountain (2006, Darren Aronofsky)

Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)

Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)

Sometimes in April (2005, Raoul Peck)

Crash (2004 )

The Guardian

Harry Brown (2009, Daniel Barber)

The Bucket List (Robert Reiner, 2008)



Fantasy

Lord of the Rings (2001-2003, Peter Jackson)

Edward Scissorhands (1990, Tim Burton)

Pirates of the Caribbean (2003, 2006, 2007, Gore Verbinksi)

Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton)

Night Watch

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo del Toro)

Harry Potter series (2001-present, various)

King Kong (2005, Peter Jackson)



Foreign

Volver (2006, Pedro Almodóvar)

Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

Léon (1994, Luc Besson)

Los Cronocrímenes (2007, Nacho Vigalondo)

Kung Fu Hustle (2004, Stephen Chow)

The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

Three Colours Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

Akira (1988, Katsuhiro Otomo)

Delicatessen (1991, Jean Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro)

Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)

Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)

Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)

Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Niels Arden Oplev)

Christiane F aka. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981, Uli Edel)

Der Siebente Kontinent aka. The Seventh Continent (1989, Michael Haneke)

Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)

Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)

In the Mood For Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)

Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)

A Bout de Souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

Le Scaphandre et le papillon (Julien Schnabel, 2007)

Les Choristes (Barratier, 2004)

Bien Venu Les Ch'tis (Boon, 2008)

Au'Revoir Les Enfants (Malle, 1987)

L'Auberge Espagnol (Klapisch, 2002)



Historical


Downfall (2004)

Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg)

The Pianist (2002, Roman Polanski)

Gladiator 2000, Ridley Scott)

Robin Hood (2010, Ridley Scott)

Hotel Rwanda - Terry George, 2004



Horror

Cloverfield (2008, Matt Reeves)

Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)

Event Horizon (1997, Paul W.S. Anderson)

The Blair Witch Project (1999, Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)

The Lost Boys (1987, Joel Schumacher)

30 Days of Night (2007, David Slade)

The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)

28 Days Later (2002, Danny Boyle)

The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)

Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)

[Rec] (2007, Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza)

Paranormal Activity (2007, Oren Peli)

Ju-on (2002, Takashi Shimizu)

Night of the Living Dead (1968, George Romero)

The Mist (2007, Frank Darabont)

The Birds (1963, Hitchcock)

Freaks (1932, Tod Browning)

Scream (1996)

Saw (2004)

Saw 2

Scream 2



Musicals

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, Jim Sharman)

Little Shop Of Horrors (1986, Frank Oz)

Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)

RENT (2005, Chris Columbus)

Oliver! (1968, Carol Reed)

Sweet Charity (1969, Bob Fosse)

My Fair Lady (1964, George Cukor)

Grease (1978, Randal Kleiser)

The Wizard Of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Henry Selick)

The Sound Of Music (1965, Robert Wise)

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999, Trey Parker)

West Side Story (1961, Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise)

Bugsy Malone (1976, Alan Parker)

Beauty & The Beast (1991, Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)

The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)

Hairspray (2007, Adam Shankman)

Mary Poppins (1964, Robert Stevenson)

Dreamgirls (2006, Bill Condon)

Chicago (2002, Rob Marshall)

Across the Universe (2007, Julie Taymor)



Mystery

The Prestige

The Sixth Sense (1999, M. Night Shyamalan)

Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)



Prison dramas

The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)

A Prophet

Scum

Bird Man of Alcatraz

Borstal Boy

Doing Time

The Hurricane (1999)




Psychological thriller

Donnie Darko

Oldboy (2003, Chan-wook Park)

Memento

Mulholland Drive

Inland Empire

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Butterfly Effect

Funny Games (1997, Michael Haneke)

Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)

Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)

Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)

Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

Black Swan (2010, Darren Aronofsky)



Romance

The Notebook

Chocolat

Edward Scissorhands

Romeo and Juliet

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Titanic (1997, James Cameron)

Moulin Rouge (2001, Baz Luhrmann)

The English Patient

Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)

Sliding Doors (1998)



Romantic-comedy

Amelie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

10 Things I Hate About You

(500) Days of Summer

Love Actually (2003, Richard Curtis)

Definitely, Maybe (2008, Adam Brooks)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961, Blake Edwards)

When Harry Met Sally (1989 Rob Reiner)

Bridget Jones

Four Weddings and a Funeral

The Wedding Planner

The Holiday

Shallow Hal

Two Weeks' Notice

How To Lose A Guy in 10 days

Notting Hill

Sweet Home Alabama

Pretty Woman

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

There's Something About Mary



Science Fiction

Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)

Primer

Event Horizon

Avatar

Gattaca

Los Cronocrímenes

Chronicles Of Riddick

Terminator 2

Moon

2001: A Space Odyssey

District 9

Blade Runner

Fifth Element

Back to the Future

Star Trek (2009, J.J. Abrams)

The Matrix (1999, Andy & Lana Wachowski)

Star Wars (4-6) (1977-1983, various)

E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial

Starship Troopers

I Am Legend (2007, Francis Lawrence)

Tron (1982, Steven Lisberger)

Aliens (1986, James Cameron)

Dark City (1998)

Tron: Legacy (2010)



Superhero

The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)

Spiderman 2

Batman Begins

Iron Man (2008, Jon Favreau)



Thriller

The Bourne Identity

The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)

The Strangers (2008, Bryan Bertino)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Wes Craven)

Strangers on a Train (1951, Hitchcock)

The 39 Steps (1935, Hitchcock)

The Informant! (2009, Steven Soderbergh)

The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)



Teen

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986, John Hughes)

The Breakfast Club (1985, John Hughes)

Mean Girls (2004, Mark Waters)

The Lost Boys (1987, Joel Schumacher)

Superbad (2007, Greg Mottola)



War

Black Hawk Down (2001, Ridley Scott)

Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)

Inglorious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)

Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg)

The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Cimino)

Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)

Glory (1989, Edward Zwick)

Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)

Troy (2004, Wolfgang Peterson)

Letters from Iwo Jima



Western

3:10 to Yuma (2007, James Mangold)

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)

The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges)

A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Sergio Leone)

For A Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone)

Once Upon A Time In The West (1968, Sergio Leone)

A Fistful of Dynamite (1971, Sergio Leone)

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)

True Grit (Coen Brothers, 2011)

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973, Sam Peckinpah)

High Plains Drifter (1973, Clint Eastwood)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Clint Eastwood)




Documentaries (courtesy of Phalanges)

Roger & Me (1989, Michael Moore)

Bloody Sunday (2002, Paul Greengrass)

An Inconvenient Truth (2006, Davis Guggenheim)

The Cove (2009, Louie Psihoyos)

Man On Wire (2008, James Marsh)

Thin Blue Line (1988, Errol Morris)

Hoop Dreams (1994, Steve James)

Fahrenheit 911 (2004, Michael Moore)

One Day in September (1999, Kevin Macdonald)

Super Size Me (2004, Morgan Spurlock)

The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix The World (2003, 2009, Various)

The War Game (1965, Peter Watkins)

Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room (2005, Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot)

Touching the Void (2003, Kevin Macdonald)

Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog)

Earthlings

Waltz With Bashir (2009, Ari Folman)

King of Kong (2007, Seth Gordon)

Why We Fight (2005, Eugene Jarecki)

Taxi To The Dark Side (2007, Alex Gibney)

Catfish









If you are interested in the IMDB Top 250 films, follow this link: http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1441279
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Hey everyone,

im just watching Scream and i was wondering what everyones favourite scary movie is?:p:
Reply 2
umm The ring and candyman

scares me eveytime :frown:
Alien :smile:

I hate horror movies, scare the life out of me! I love sci-fi horror though :wtf?:. I suppose it's because I can evisage Norman Bates coming into the shower to kill me, but I can't quite see a Predator sneaking up on me, wrist-blades out... :p: :biggrin:

-Saruman
Reply 4
Ring, japanese!!!!

Audition
Reply 5
Mean Girls.....

No.. Probably: The Ring (japanese) & Saw - That messed me up for a few days :ninja:
Oh my god i was watching the same thing lsat night, it is like so obviously scream! I just love the ironic parts, those were genius and irony takes tlent to create successfully. Especially at the 'look behind you, he's behind you!' part!
Severence

Danny Dyer. Oh Baby.
Hellraiser - I have seen all 8 of them but realistically only the first 3 are really good the others are average or below.
Reply 9
the ring and saw 1 and 2
Dark Water (Jap)

This film is all about atmosphere so watch it on your own in the dark at night.
Reply 11
Ringu, Don't Look Now (a masterpiece), and The Wicker Man (1973)
Reply 12
'The Descent' - I will never watch that film again.
Reply 13
:ditto:

Loved that movie; although I have watched it again - several times! It's great for scaring the **** out of people and watching their reactions! :biggrin:

Can't wait for Neill Marshalls next film; if the step up in quality from Dog Soldiers to The Descent is anything to go by, it's going to be fantabuladosies!!!
Reply 14
the skeleton key...
i feel terrified each time i thought as i am the victims
Reply 15
the scariest movies i've watched are (not in order) .... maybe the ring 1 (japanese version), the halloween series. (they're all scary!!).. exorcism of emily jones..was kinda scary...
the grudge (japanese one) was scary aswell!! man i love scary movies!!!!!!!!!
wrong turn, bride of chucky
Reply 17
Brown Eyes Angel
wrong turn, bride of chucky


Aye, freaky that film... :ninja:
Reply 18
Im a big fan of zombie movies so my fave scary movies are probably 28 weeks later, 28 days later and Dawn of the Dead. I mean zombies that can move like an olympic runner:eek: HOW CREEPY WOULD THAT BE??? Although I wouldn't say no to Freddy vs Jason, the Chucky movies and Saw movies. Oh and the Grudge (Jap version)! That messed me up!
Alien
REC

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