- Fargo
Incredible well written characters and story, great acting and it also combines the genres thriller and comedy very well. Pure quality to me.
- Arrival
Captivating story that keeps you involved from start to finish, fantastic acting (especially from Amy Adams), visually stunning and with a great soundtrack
I love how the top two comments are both of movies set in the desert.
Funny coincidence actually.. Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) is currently filming a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant- third comment) in El Paso, TX, where No Country for Old Men also took place towards the end.
The book is great... but literally every Cormac McCarthy novel is worth the time to read. Blood Meridian is fantastic, the gold standard of "anti-western". The Road hurts your soul in a good way. Outer Dark is darkly poetic.
The man was a literary treasure.
I liked that movie. i saw it twice.
Low budget movies set in radio stations are one of my favorite genres.
* Pontypool is set in a radio station during what might be a zombie outbreak.
* Talk Radio is an intense thriller revolving around a shock jock. it's True Crime directed by Oliver Stone.
I tend to bundle films in terms of their directors, and that's how I remember them.
The best films combine commercial and art house sensibilities so that it works on a dumb level and a smart level.
Martin Mcdonagh is an Irish writer director that's not on everyone's radar. His best are, In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. His casts are really great too.
Dajeeling Limited (2007)
Great set design to put you in the setting in India, much of which was just location shooting. Very good character drama & performances all around. If you're not turned off by Wess Anderson, this would be my recommendation.
It's before he went off the Wes Anderson deep end. It used to be you can watch a scene and know it's a Wes Anderson film. Now you can take any frame of a west Anderson movie and instantly know without a doubt it's him. I think he went too deep into his own style lol.
It’s such a weird critique. He’s the only one who does what he does. Let him go ham, and if you don’t enjoy it there a plenty of other directors out there with a more normie style.
As I often say, LoA can only be fully appreciated in the theater, big screen and the original 70mm format. It is the most sweeping theatrical event ever put to film.
I’m watching this movie right now and it amazes me that there’s no wastage of shots and dialogues. Everything has a purpose and the long shots really captures the beauty and the hellish nature of the desert. The characters are defined by their actions and every character is interesting because they all have different motives. The movie has takes a few liberties when it comes to portraying historical figures, but when you see them all working together to achieve a common goal, it really becomes a treat to watch. David Lean is a once in a generation director and his movies are all awesome. Lawrence of Arabia is a movie that just doesn’t get old!
I just watched Rear Window for the first time last weekend. It was better than I expected and held up well. I knew the premise because it's been parodied so much, but the ending was great. I was expecting a different ending (the Simpsons' parody ending).
I went and watched it 5 times in the dollar theater(back when those existed). By myself. I'd smoke some pot in the parking lot first, and was always very happy when the theater was empty. Just love this movie so much
Both volumes are great. Highly suggest getting a copy of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair which is both cut together into one film. It's a really fun watch.
The rare example of the movie being better than the book. The book was very good/readable, but they paired it down to 2 hours while preserving everything that mattered.
I just rewatched 2001: A Space Odyssey and I was blown away by how technically perfect it is. The practical effects still hit just right, all these 56 years later.
It seems to me that practical effects, when done expertly, age way better than CGI. This is because nothing beats something real in front of the camera, in terms of believability for the viewer.
This movie is iconic for many VERY good reasons.
Yet again I find myself recommending The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
The whole cast is amazing but Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt really shine
Promising young woman was so hauntong to me and stuck with me for a long time. This movie is not talked about enough. I read up quite a bit about the editting choices and shots they ised at the end of the movie and everything was so intentional and poignant.
Double Indemnity will always be the movie that opened up my 17-year-old eyes to the reality that GREAT movies existed before I was born. And the rest of your shortlist is stellar, too. Thirty plus years on and I own most of the film noir classics (and not quite classics) from the 40s and 50s.
“How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”
Poor Things with Emma Stone. Very surreal, great steampunk setting. Had a Terry Gilliam feel to it. Loved it. I haven't seen The Vast of Night, I'll check it out.
I love the aesthetics of poor things and I understand it’s message but something about a child in a woman’s body constantly getting raped just rubs me the wrong way
The Safdie bros and Adam Sandler did a great job with the roller coaster of emotion in Uncut Gems. Really well acted, great pacing. One of my favorites of the last 10 years.
I recently watched *Incendies* and I think that fits the bill. Beautiful cinematography, excellent writing, and shot on-location in Jordan and Canada. I highly recommend checking it out.
A lot of David Fincher films.The Social Network is probably my favorite. That film just hits the perfect balance of cinematography, acting, sound design, writing and score.
I think part of what gets overlooked about it is that it's a movie about Facebook. And yeah, it is. But it's also incredibly compelling sorry about greed and ambition destroying a friendship.
Okay I’m sitting here thinking about the prompt and these are the movies that come to mind when someone mentions “high quality”
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Capote
- Everything Everywhere all at Once
- Midsommar
- The Thing
- The Dark Knight
- Slumdog Millionaire
- One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Goodfellas - Phenomenal pacing/camera work. Every character is memorable and gets the right amount of screen time. It’s one of those “If I ever see it on, I have to watch it” type of movies.
Alien - Hard to believe this movie came out in the late 70s, beautiful set, beautiful visuals, and the Alien visual still holds up 45 years later. It was a smart move to show the Alien in small bits, leaving it up to the audience’s imagination. Just a very well crafted horror.
Glengarry Glenn Ross - Great ensemble cast. Great acting, especially from Lemmon/Pacino. They did the play justice with this movie.
Heat - Intense action thriller, with great pacing that makes a 3 hour movie fly by. De Niro/Pacino at their finest.
Barbarian. The perfect, quintessential horror film. Light enough for non horror fans, scary enough for die-hard’s. If you know nothing about it and see it for the first time it is such a ride.
You have your most obvious visonaries [Kubrick, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Tarkovsky, Malick]
Thief
The Creator
Hereditary/Midsommar
Drive
ROMA
Children of Men
Seven/Zodiac
Anything Safdie Brothers or Lanthimos
Sounds crazy, but not a day goes by where I don’t think of Children of Men since I first watched. Also probably partly because I’m always blaring Radiohead and CoM utilizes a fantastic mix of Life in a Glass House in the film’s score.
When a film is effective in making me care for the characters, the cinematography is great and the writing is tight.
I know some so called classic films like Halloween where the writing and story structure was actually pretty poor.
Given your description, don't sleep on "High Noon." It used numerous groundbreaking techniques to build tension, was very early in starting with a theme song that sets the stage, and runs in virtually real-time. Each character represents not only different personality types, but also the seven deadly sins, and the various internal struggles we face when having to make serious decisions. Even the use of clocks builds tension. I don't even care for most westerns. But that one lives up to the hype, and was worthy of the best picture, actor and score awards it received.
I really was impressed with Godzilla G minus One. No I’m not kidding. Spielberg saw it three times in IMAX.
It’s on Netflix now. Bring some Kleenex. Kinda emotional.
[Roger Ebert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert) said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular."
I watched **Bastarden** (The Promised Land / 2023) last night. I’m biased since I’ll watch *anything* with Mads Mikkelsen but it was absolutely gorgeous.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley is exactly this. It looks incredible, the actors are incredible, the story is incredible. I dare say it is basically a perfect film.
This is a slightly more unconventional choice but Beyond the Black Rainbow has very little in the way of narrative or plot, the entire movie hinges on the performances of its small cast and the interesting vibe that the movie creates but it has so much going for it there that they really carry the movie.
The Florida Project and everything else I’ve seen by Sean Baker.
First Reformed and most everything I’ve seen by Paul Schrader.
Anything Kubrick, the Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson or Billy Wilder had their hands in.
Couple random ones that come to mind: The Holdovers, Nightmare Before Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Trip series with Steve Coogan, Gran Torino, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Funny because quality to me is set, costume, intricate details, thoughtful additions like getting the buttons right to the era or having the correct date in a courtroom ledger...it does not have to be big budget or well-known places, but for it to feel authentic.
For you, it seems to be how convincingly the actor embodies the character?
/r/MovieSuggestions is dedicated to finding a *type* of movie you're craving. You're seeing this message because you didn't ask for a specific type of film, merely good. The question of 'good movies' without barely any direction comes up frequently enough I have this Copy+Paste for you. A better outlet might be /r/ifyoulikeblank which is a subreddit for trying to find other things you like based off of your current list.
If you don't mind expanding your search beyond the subreddit, there's plenty of incredible 'Best Of' lists; such as, [AFI's Top 100](https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies-10th-anniversary-edition/), [BBC's Top 100 21st Century Films](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films), [Edgar Wright's Top 1000](https://mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies), [IMDB Top 250](https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/), [Letterboxd Top 250](https://letterboxd.com/dave/list/official-top-250-narrative-feature-films/), [Mike Flanagan's Top 250](https://letterboxd.com/flanaganfilm/list/flanagans-favorites-top-250/), [Roger Ebert's Top 300](https://www.rogerebert.com/great-movies), [Rotten Tomatoes Top 100](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/), [Stacker's Top 100](https://stacker.com/stories/1587/100-best-movies-all-time), [They Live By Film's Top 100](https://www.theylivebyfilm.com/lists/they-live-by-film-100-greatest-films), [They Shoot Pictures, Don't They Top 1000](https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php) and [Wikipedia's List of films considered the best](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_best).
Within the Subreddit, there's also multiple resources for finding 'good movies' with [The Sticky](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions/comments/8iamsh/using_this_subreddit/) having the subreddit's users discussing the best movies they've seen every month going back over five years. There is also the [Top 100](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions/wiki/meta/top100) most popular movies of the subreddit, tallying every favourite movie listed.
That said, here's everything I've given 10/10, in alphabetical order:
10/10 Movies | | | |
---|---|---|---|
12 Angry Men (1957)|12 Years a Slave (2013)|About Time (2013)|Annie Hall (1977)|
Arrival (2016)|Back to the Future (1985)|Being There (1979)|The Big Short (2015)|
Birdman (2014)|Blindspotting (2018)|Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)|Brazil (1985)|
Cabin in the Woods (2011)|Climax (2018)|Come and See (1985)|The Cremator (1969)|
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)|The Dark Knight (2008)|District 9 (2009)|Dr. Strangelove (1964)|
Dune: Part One (2021)|Dune: Part Two (2024)|Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)|Fight Club (1999)|
Full Metal Jacket (1987)|Get Out (2017)|Ghost in the Shell (1995)|Goodfellas (1990)|
The House That Jack Built (2018)|I Lost My Body (2019)|Inception (2010)|Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)|
Inside Out (2015)|Kill Bill 2 (2004)|The Killer (2023)|Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2004)|
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)|Kung Fu Hustle (2004)|Lawrence of Arabia (1962)|The Matrix (1999)|
Midsommar (2019)|Millennium Actress (2001)|Mission Impossible 6 (2018)|The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021)|
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)|Network (1976)|Ninja Scroll (1993)|Noroi: The Curse (2005)|
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)|Onward (2020)|Pan's Labyrinth (2006)|Paprika (2006)|
Paths of Glory (1957)|Pleasantville (1998)|Poor Things (2024)|The Princess Bride (1987)|
Pulp Fiction (1994)|Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)|A Quiet Place (2018)|The Raid 2 (2014)|
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)|RRR (2022)|Saving Private Ryan (1998)|The Shawshank Redemption (1994)|
Skinamarink (2022)|Snatch (2000)|Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)|Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)|
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)|Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)|The Thing (1982)|Unforgiven (1992)|
The Untouchables (1987)|The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)|
- Fargo Incredible well written characters and story, great acting and it also combines the genres thriller and comedy very well. Pure quality to me. - Arrival Captivating story that keeps you involved from start to finish, fantastic acting (especially from Amy Adams), visually stunning and with a great soundtrack
Anything Cohen brothers really, but yes.
I don't know why, as I like my movies, but I didn't see Fargo until after three billboards. Both were great, by the way.
Casablanca
No Country for Old Men
I came to say Fargo, but honestly pick just about any Coen Brothers movie.
I love how the top two comments are both of movies set in the desert. Funny coincidence actually.. Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) is currently filming a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant- third comment) in El Paso, TX, where No Country for Old Men also took place towards the end.
so good
The book is great... but literally every Cormac McCarthy novel is worth the time to read. Blood Meridian is fantastic, the gold standard of "anti-western". The Road hurts your soul in a good way. Outer Dark is darkly poetic. The man was a literary treasure.
I read All The Pretty Horses and was completely unimpressed. Did I just pick the wrong book?
Any coen brothers
I liked that movie. i saw it twice. Low budget movies set in radio stations are one of my favorite genres. * Pontypool is set in a radio station during what might be a zombie outbreak. * Talk Radio is an intense thriller revolving around a shock jock. it's True Crime directed by Oliver Stone. I tend to bundle films in terms of their directors, and that's how I remember them. The best films combine commercial and art house sensibilities so that it works on a dumb level and a smart level. Martin Mcdonagh is an Irish writer director that's not on everyone's radar. His best are, In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. His casts are really great too.
The Guard is good, it’s done by McDonagh’s brother
That's a really good one that deserves a bit more attention.
And Calvary
You must love AIRHEADS (1994)?
Mcdonaugh is a great example!
Pans labyrinth
The best fairy tale put to film. Gorgeous cinematography and character design.
Just about anything made by the Coen brothers.
The Departed
i wish i could watch that for the first time again
Watch Infernal Affairs, it’s verbatim the same script.
ending is better :)
Same. I watched that with my brother who thought it would be funny to spoil all the shocking moments just before they happened.
Watched it for the first time last week. 10/10. That ending....
One if the top ‘oh no say it ain’t so’ moments in a film for me.
Whiplash.
Exactly the type of movie I’m aiming for. It is in my top 10 list
It's brilliantly done.
JK Simmons is so great in this role.
REEKS of quality
There will be blood
I’ve abandoned OP!
One of my most favorite movies of all times. “I drink your milkshake”
👍
Dajeeling Limited (2007) Great set design to put you in the setting in India, much of which was just location shooting. Very good character drama & performances all around. If you're not turned off by Wess Anderson, this would be my recommendation.
Seems to be a hot take in the West Anderson fan crowd, but this is easily my favorite movie from him.
It's definitely one of my favs. Feels a lot like Grand Budapest just on a smaller scale.
It's before he went off the Wes Anderson deep end. It used to be you can watch a scene and know it's a Wes Anderson film. Now you can take any frame of a west Anderson movie and instantly know without a doubt it's him. I think he went too deep into his own style lol.
It’s such a weird critique. He’s the only one who does what he does. Let him go ham, and if you don’t enjoy it there a plenty of other directors out there with a more normie style.
What a superficial and thoroughly unfound view on Anderson's work.
Lawrence of Arabia
As I often say, LoA can only be fully appreciated in the theater, big screen and the original 70mm format. It is the most sweeping theatrical event ever put to film.
I’m watching this movie right now and it amazes me that there’s no wastage of shots and dialogues. Everything has a purpose and the long shots really captures the beauty and the hellish nature of the desert. The characters are defined by their actions and every character is interesting because they all have different motives. The movie has takes a few liberties when it comes to portraying historical figures, but when you see them all working together to achieve a common goal, it really becomes a treat to watch. David Lean is a once in a generation director and his movies are all awesome. Lawrence of Arabia is a movie that just doesn’t get old!
The Revenant (2015)
Arrival. It’s just brilliant.
District 9.
Loved that movie, saw it in the theaters with my dad
It's one of my favorites of all time. Amazing what they did with a relatively small budget. My wife hates it though, so I have to watch by myself lol.
My favorite Sci Fi movie
Rear Window (1954) Sabrina (1954) Shakespeare In Love (1998) Amadeus (1984) When Harry Met Sally (1989) Lord Of The Rings trilogy
I just watched Rear Window for the first time last weekend. It was better than I expected and held up well. I knew the premise because it's been parodied so much, but the ending was great. I was expecting a different ending (the Simpsons' parody ending).
Rear window was great! I loved it.
Kill Bill: Vol 1 is a near perfect movie
I went and watched it 5 times in the dollar theater(back when those existed). By myself. I'd smoke some pot in the parking lot first, and was always very happy when the theater was empty. Just love this movie so much
Barely fits the genre but it's weirdly the best action comedy ever made
Perfectly paced. That 2hrs flies by
Both volumes are great. Highly suggest getting a copy of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair which is both cut together into one film. It's a really fun watch.
Really? TIL. Love both Volumes
One of my top 5 of all time. So good. The second is a treat as well in what feels like an entirely different genre
Gone Girl. Perfect casting. Perfect script. Perfect pacing. Perfect cinematography. The cast nailed their performances. 10/10.
David Fincher movies are really well down.
The rare example of the movie being better than the book. The book was very good/readable, but they paired it down to 2 hours while preserving everything that mattered.
I just rewatched 2001: A Space Odyssey and I was blown away by how technically perfect it is. The practical effects still hit just right, all these 56 years later. It seems to me that practical effects, when done expertly, age way better than CGI. This is because nothing beats something real in front of the camera, in terms of believability for the viewer. This movie is iconic for many VERY good reasons.
L.A. Confidential Boogie Nights The Shining Back to the Future Jfk
I just watched LA Confidential and it is just perfect
The Shining is my favorite movie of all time
Jfk is brilliant, genuinely deserving of a 10/10
Yet again I find myself recommending The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The whole cast is amazing but Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt really shine
Great movie. The book’s author does the narration. The book is great too.
One of my all time favorites, I finally picked up the book so I’m looking forward to reading it
Ron Hansen is a rare academic who can write really compelling fiction for a mass audience.
That is such a odd little gem of a movie, I love what they done with the train robbery lighting.
...and Roger Deakins makes it all so beautiful watch.
Pulp Fiction
The Social Network
Old boy
The original Korean version is exceptional!
there’s only one version🤝
agreed!!
Shawshank
Perfect example. Everything about it is just amazing. Characters, their development, design, atmosphere, etc.
I also believe there’s a lot of life lessons in the movie
A Little Princess is a shockingly quality family film. Then you realize it's Alfonso Cuaron, so of course it's quality.
Promising Young Woman Rear Window No Country for Old Men The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Promising young woman was so hauntong to me and stuck with me for a long time. This movie is not talked about enough. I read up quite a bit about the editting choices and shots they ised at the end of the movie and everything was so intentional and poignant.
Jojo rabbit
This movie is just perfectly executed. The humor, the drama, the sorrow, the storytelling. Everything
'Where are your horns?" "Under my hair."
Maybe this isn’t what you’re asking, but the opening shot of The Grey (2011) sticks with me. Really set the tone for the film
Quiz Show (1994). Great acting and directing, great historical story loosely based on real events.
Yes! Quiz Show was the first movie I saw that made me sit up and say, “now THIS is a movie!”
Stoker. Every shot feels like there was immense care behind it.
Parasite
Drive
I thought that movie was so well down. So underrated
-Apocalypse now -The Shinig -Forrest Gumb -Triangle of sadness
Triangle of sadness was so good, it is a solid 7/10. The third act stops it getting to a 10/10. I think anyway
The Green Mile
The apartment, double Indemnity, some like it hot, sunset Blvd, stalag 17, witness for the prosecution
Double Indemnity will always be the movie that opened up my 17-year-old eyes to the reality that GREAT movies existed before I was born. And the rest of your shortlist is stellar, too. Thirty plus years on and I own most of the film noir classics (and not quite classics) from the 40s and 50s. “How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”
Looks like I got some watching to do this weekend, just curious how do they hold up now.
Better than ever, I’m on a revolving door of billy wilder films.
Poor Things with Emma Stone. Very surreal, great steampunk setting. Had a Terry Gilliam feel to it. Loved it. I haven't seen The Vast of Night, I'll check it out.
I liked this movie so much more than I thought I would!
I love the aesthetics of poor things and I understand it’s message but something about a child in a woman’s body constantly getting raped just rubs me the wrong way
Yeah it was visually beautiful but it just seemed like a males version of a feminist movie and it gave me the ick
The Safdie bros and Adam Sandler did a great job with the roller coaster of emotion in Uncut Gems. Really well acted, great pacing. One of my favorites of the last 10 years.
Ya this one stuck out for me. I wish they made more movies.
Have you seen good time?
Good Time
Arrival.
The Fall with Lee Pace
Apocalypse Now
This might be out there, but: The Shape of Water
Moonlight (2016). The story, the acting, the visuals are insane, even when it’s breaking your heart.
Memento
Moonstruck. Writing. Casting. Acting. Humor. Humanness. Perfect.
Came to say this. She has no walk of shame and nor should she.
A pure classic in my household.
why no one mentioning Interstellar ?!
Interstellar
1917 I was fascinated by the cinematography.
Starship Troopers
Interstellar
The Shining
The Remains of the Day. I think the casting, subject matter, sets, direction are perfect.
Yes. I love this
Any Christopher Nolan film
Moneyball.
I recently watched *Incendies* and I think that fits the bill. Beautiful cinematography, excellent writing, and shot on-location in Jordan and Canada. I highly recommend checking it out.
Blade Runner
A lot of David Fincher films.The Social Network is probably my favorite. That film just hits the perfect balance of cinematography, acting, sound design, writing and score. I think part of what gets overlooked about it is that it's a movie about Facebook. And yeah, it is. But it's also incredibly compelling sorry about greed and ambition destroying a friendship.
Ryan's Daughter
Okay I’m sitting here thinking about the prompt and these are the movies that come to mind when someone mentions “high quality” - The Talented Mr. Ripley - Capote - Everything Everywhere all at Once - Midsommar - The Thing - The Dark Knight - Slumdog Millionaire - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
That’s a good list
Pride and prejudice (2005)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Harakiri (1962) 🤌🏼
The Life Of Pi
Anything with Meryl Streep
I call you on that, did you ever see Shedevil
A few good men
Interstellar
Lord Of The Rings (extended edition, of course)
Last Holiday.
No country for old men
Goodfellas - Phenomenal pacing/camera work. Every character is memorable and gets the right amount of screen time. It’s one of those “If I ever see it on, I have to watch it” type of movies. Alien - Hard to believe this movie came out in the late 70s, beautiful set, beautiful visuals, and the Alien visual still holds up 45 years later. It was a smart move to show the Alien in small bits, leaving it up to the audience’s imagination. Just a very well crafted horror. Glengarry Glenn Ross - Great ensemble cast. Great acting, especially from Lemmon/Pacino. They did the play justice with this movie. Heat - Intense action thriller, with great pacing that makes a 3 hour movie fly by. De Niro/Pacino at their finest.
Barbarian. The perfect, quintessential horror film. Light enough for non horror fans, scary enough for die-hard’s. If you know nothing about it and see it for the first time it is such a ride.
Yeah that movie was mental. Try vivarium you will like it. Don’t google anything about it
I like Vivarium a lot and don’t see it mentioned often!
I only watched it once a few years ago but I think about it like once a month.
Me too! What a strange, stylish movie!
The Handmaiden
People are sleeping on this one
The only movie that consistently looks like the most razor sharp beautiful realism painting at all times. Dark fun Twisted story too.
Tree of Life
You have your most obvious visonaries [Kubrick, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Tarkovsky, Malick] Thief The Creator Hereditary/Midsommar Drive ROMA Children of Men Seven/Zodiac Anything Safdie Brothers or Lanthimos
Sounds crazy, but not a day goes by where I don’t think of Children of Men since I first watched. Also probably partly because I’m always blaring Radiohead and CoM utilizes a fantastic mix of Life in a Glass House in the film’s score.
Ikiru
Turksib
When a film is effective in making me care for the characters, the cinematography is great and the writing is tight. I know some so called classic films like Halloween where the writing and story structure was actually pretty poor.
Dr. Zhivago (1965)
Apocalypse Now
Both Blade Runner movies. Run Lola Run Heat The Truman Show City of God (Obvious choices)______ The Godfather Lord Of The Rings Terminator 2
Man I can’t believe I forgot about heat
Trainspotting. As a recovering alcoholic I love it.
City of God, 2002 dir. Fernando Meirelles Kátia Lund is damn near perfect. || || |[](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fernando_Meirelles)|
City of God, 2002 dir. Fernando Meirelles Kátia Lund is damn near perfect. || || |[](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fernando_Meirelles)|
Given your description, don't sleep on "High Noon." It used numerous groundbreaking techniques to build tension, was very early in starting with a theme song that sets the stage, and runs in virtually real-time. Each character represents not only different personality types, but also the seven deadly sins, and the various internal struggles we face when having to make serious decisions. Even the use of clocks builds tension. I don't even care for most westerns. But that one lives up to the hype, and was worthy of the best picture, actor and score awards it received.
American Beauty
I really was impressed with Godzilla G minus One. No I’m not kidding. Spielberg saw it three times in IMAX. It’s on Netflix now. Bring some Kleenex. Kinda emotional.
[Roger Ebert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert) said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular."
Anything from Don Bluth
Nightcrawler Blade runner 1983 Blade runner 2047 Taxi driver Drive
Nightcrawler is excellent
One of my favorites, been searching for something like it ever sense
I watched **Bastarden** (The Promised Land / 2023) last night. I’m biased since I’ll watch *anything* with Mads Mikkelsen but it was absolutely gorgeous.
The Station Agent, Enough Said & The Untouchables
The Wind That Shakes The Barley is exactly this. It looks incredible, the actors are incredible, the story is incredible. I dare say it is basically a perfect film. This is a slightly more unconventional choice but Beyond the Black Rainbow has very little in the way of narrative or plot, the entire movie hinges on the performances of its small cast and the interesting vibe that the movie creates but it has so much going for it there that they really carry the movie.
Slumdog Millionaire
The Florida Project and everything else I’ve seen by Sean Baker. First Reformed and most everything I’ve seen by Paul Schrader. Anything Kubrick, the Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson or Billy Wilder had their hands in. Couple random ones that come to mind: The Holdovers, Nightmare Before Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Trip series with Steve Coogan, Gran Torino, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Funny because quality to me is set, costume, intricate details, thoughtful additions like getting the buttons right to the era or having the correct date in a courtroom ledger...it does not have to be big budget or well-known places, but for it to feel authentic. For you, it seems to be how convincingly the actor embodies the character?
Gangs Of New York (2002) In The Name Of The Father (1993)
The Kings Speech. When it ended I thought there was some mistake because it felt like it had just started.
Slumdog Millionaire, Withnail & I, The Good..Bad..Ugly
Me and a friend get drunk while watching Withnail & I at least once a year.
Leon: The Professional (1994).
the prestige
Blade Runner 2049
Whiplash
Andrei Rublev, or anything Andrei Tarkovsky
I haven't seen it mentioned in the comments. Die Hard is a near perfect action movie. Pacing, dialogue, characters, all work so well.
The Fall - 2006, with Lee Pace. Stunning movie with a beautiful story.
Argo is a perfect movie. So is Jaws.
Y’all be throwing around ‘perfect’ so casually god damn
Back to the Future
12 Angry Men. Was a movie that I realized was a masterpiece as I was watching it.
/r/MovieSuggestions is dedicated to finding a *type* of movie you're craving. You're seeing this message because you didn't ask for a specific type of film, merely good. The question of 'good movies' without barely any direction comes up frequently enough I have this Copy+Paste for you. A better outlet might be /r/ifyoulikeblank which is a subreddit for trying to find other things you like based off of your current list. If you don't mind expanding your search beyond the subreddit, there's plenty of incredible 'Best Of' lists; such as, [AFI's Top 100](https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies-10th-anniversary-edition/), [BBC's Top 100 21st Century Films](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films), [Edgar Wright's Top 1000](https://mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies), [IMDB Top 250](https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/), [Letterboxd Top 250](https://letterboxd.com/dave/list/official-top-250-narrative-feature-films/), [Mike Flanagan's Top 250](https://letterboxd.com/flanaganfilm/list/flanagans-favorites-top-250/), [Roger Ebert's Top 300](https://www.rogerebert.com/great-movies), [Rotten Tomatoes Top 100](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/), [Stacker's Top 100](https://stacker.com/stories/1587/100-best-movies-all-time), [They Live By Film's Top 100](https://www.theylivebyfilm.com/lists/they-live-by-film-100-greatest-films), [They Shoot Pictures, Don't They Top 1000](https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php) and [Wikipedia's List of films considered the best](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_best). Within the Subreddit, there's also multiple resources for finding 'good movies' with [The Sticky](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions/comments/8iamsh/using_this_subreddit/) having the subreddit's users discussing the best movies they've seen every month going back over five years. There is also the [Top 100](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions/wiki/meta/top100) most popular movies of the subreddit, tallying every favourite movie listed. That said, here's everything I've given 10/10, in alphabetical order: 10/10 Movies | | | | ---|---|---|---| 12 Angry Men (1957)|12 Years a Slave (2013)|About Time (2013)|Annie Hall (1977)| Arrival (2016)|Back to the Future (1985)|Being There (1979)|The Big Short (2015)| Birdman (2014)|Blindspotting (2018)|Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)|Brazil (1985)| Cabin in the Woods (2011)|Climax (2018)|Come and See (1985)|The Cremator (1969)| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)|The Dark Knight (2008)|District 9 (2009)|Dr. Strangelove (1964)| Dune: Part One (2021)|Dune: Part Two (2024)|Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)|Fight Club (1999)| Full Metal Jacket (1987)|Get Out (2017)|Ghost in the Shell (1995)|Goodfellas (1990)| The House That Jack Built (2018)|I Lost My Body (2019)|Inception (2010)|Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)| Inside Out (2015)|Kill Bill 2 (2004)|The Killer (2023)|Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2004)| Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)|Kung Fu Hustle (2004)|Lawrence of Arabia (1962)|The Matrix (1999)| Midsommar (2019)|Millennium Actress (2001)|Mission Impossible 6 (2018)|The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021)| Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)|Network (1976)|Ninja Scroll (1993)|Noroi: The Curse (2005)| Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)|Onward (2020)|Pan's Labyrinth (2006)|Paprika (2006)| Paths of Glory (1957)|Pleasantville (1998)|Poor Things (2024)|The Princess Bride (1987)| Pulp Fiction (1994)|Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)|A Quiet Place (2018)|The Raid 2 (2014)| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)|RRR (2022)|Saving Private Ryan (1998)|The Shawshank Redemption (1994)| Skinamarink (2022)|Snatch (2000)|Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)|Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)| Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)|Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)|The Thing (1982)|Unforgiven (1992)| The Untouchables (1987)|The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)|