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Can someone reccomend me a few good movies to watch


Some directors I like: Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, Terry Gilliam, Richard Linklater, Dario Argento, Darron Aronofsky, Guillermo Del Toro, David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowski, David Cronenberg, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, Charlie Kaufman (writer).

Some movies:

Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
A Tale of two Sisters
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Syndecoche, New York
Gozu
Fight Club
I Heart Huckabees
Open your eyes
Donnie Darko
Cries and Whispers
Audition
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Midnight in Paris
A Beautiful Mind
INLAND EMPIRE
Mulholland Drive
Pulp Fiction
Interiors
House of Games
The Virgin Spring
The Seventh Seal
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Stalker
Lost Highway
Cube
Wild Strawberries
Airplane!
Let the Right One In
Eraserhead
The Magician
Andrei Rublev
Ordet
Through a Glass Darkly
Blue Velvet
Psycho
Goodfellas
Waking Life
Pi
The Holy Mountain
American Beauty
Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)
Phenomena (Dario Argento)
Being John Malcovich (Charlie Kaufmann)
Match Point (Woody Allen)
The Devil's Backbone
Nazarin
Rashomon
Viridiana
Sunset Boulevard
M (Fritz Lang)
Three Colors (White, Blue, and especially Red)
Ink
Suspira
12 Angry Men
Fear and Loathing
Inglorious Basterds
Knocked Up
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
Deconstructing Harry
Melinda and Melinda
Videodrome
Annie Hall
Rosemarys Baby
Manhattan
Reservior Dogs
Adaptation
The Illusionist
The Fountain
The Shining
The Omen
Shutter Island
Jacobs Ladder
Taxi Driver
Casino
The Silence of the Lambs
The Ring
Fantastic Planet
A Clockwork Orange
The Blues Brothers
A Serbian Film
Blazing Saddles
El Topo
The Machinist
Eastern Promises
No Country for Old Men
There Will be Blood
Chinatown
eXistenZ
Deep Red
A Scanner Darkly
The Shawshank Redeption
Bullets over Broadway
Tenebre
The Piano Teacher
Dead Ringers
A History of Violence
Love and Death
Hour of the Wolf
Cape Fear (Original)
Full Metal Jacket
The Game
Memento
Raging Bull
Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me
Cool hand Luke
Tideland
Hannah and Her Sisters
Interiors
Blue Jasmine
Death at a Funeral
Mindwalk
The Tenant
Old Boy
Knife in the Water
Requiem for a Dream
The Orphanage
May
Vicky Christina Barcelona

and many more, as I've seen a lot of good films since the time this was compiled (over a year ago).

UPDATED: Rare, Non-Lexicon Gems in CAPITAL LETTERS

____ Iconic (cultural touchstones) classics: Hud; Cool Hand Luke; The Magnificent Seven; Shawshank; To Sir with Love; The Godfather series; Irma La Douce;

___ Dramatic, Acting Driven: INSIDE MOVES (has 1 of the greatest jokes about Racism ever!!!!); Ordinary People; Nobody's Fool; Henry V (Branaugh); THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS; Good Will Hunting;

____ Compelling by Story: Cry, The Beloved Country ('55 & ?'93); OTHELLO (w Lawrence Fishburne); **** THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Pacino); The Color Purple; The Gods Must be Crazy;

'FOREIGN' LANG: Kolya; ******KING OF HEARTS ('67; De Broca);
CENTRAL STATION; THREE SEASONS (Vietnam); TOGETHER (Chinese); The Lives of Others
I'd like to add:

Europa
Europa, Europa
Antichrist
Breaking The Waves
Life of Pi
Public Enemies
The Social Network
The French Connection
Super
The Prestige
Swimming Pool
Gravity
Interstellar
Brazil
Killer Joe
Volver
True Grit
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Naked Spur
Once Upon a Time in the West
Eden Lake
The Killing
The Asphalt Jungle
Easy Rider
Winter's Bone
The Conversation
The Reflecting Skin
Shame

Metropolis
Solyaris (The original by Tarkovsky, the American remake did not hold a candle to this masterpiece)

More later

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