What are some essential films every person should see before they die?

[mb23100]

You're missing Major League

Never seen it

 

[raty tat tat]

Major League
The Breakfast Club
Fast times at Ridgemont High
Robocop
Terminator
Animal House
The Natural
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Godzilla Vs. Mothra
The 7-Ups
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky
LA Confidential
Double Indemnity
Total Recall
Speed
True Lies
The Matrix
Predator
The Thing 50s/80s

 

[Brofessor]

American Ninja

 

[essie]

I guess the first 10 that come to mind, trying to be hipster and stay away from mainstream American films

Ran (Kurosawa)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Herzog)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
Solyaris (Tarkovsky)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Hana-Bi (Kitano)
Army of Shadows (Melville)
Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)

Ran is my favorite Kurosawa too. Interesting that you went with Nights of Cabiria instead of Amarcord or 8 1/2 although I guess the latter is ubiquitous at this point. Cabiria is good but I think it fits into the neorealism of Italian cinema enough to make it less of an essential Fellini experience.

 

[dildos]

La La Land.

 

[essie]

to understand power - vertigo
to understand rapture - the new world
to understand transgression - what's opera, doc?
to understand nature - water mirror of granada
to understand art - the quince tree sun
to understand the body - city lights
to understand masculinity - beau travail
to understand femininity - jeanne dielman
to understand form - hapax legomena II poetic justice
to understand now - cosmopolis

 

[Nimrod]

One flew over the cuckoos nest
Easy rider
Straw dogs original
Midnight cowboy
Thunderbolt and lightfoot
The Grey
Taxi Driver

 

[LEGS MAHONEY]

The Fountain
Tarsem Singh's The Fall
In the Mood for love
Oldboy
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

 

[CodeBreaker]

Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
Inception