Recommended Movie List for Netflix or any related service

No, you just haven't watched movies until you have watched those.

 

Try using the top 100 list and editor's picks.

Other than that...give City of God, Sunshine, Serenity (and Firefly for that matter though Ive never watched the series), Appleseed and Appleseed ExMachina, Steamboy, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Time and Tide, Across the Universe a try.

 

God, I hated this movie. My friends were going crazy over it, and it was such a huge let down. Now, I like a lot of movies others consider pretentious. But jeez, this one was like, the consummate wtf eccentric hipster movie.

 

These are "My Favorties" in Blockbuster Online

Pan's Labryrinth
Apocalypto
Black Snake Moan
The Last King of Scotland
Blood Diamond
Crank
Sling Blade
Napoleon Dynamite
Beyond the Gates of Splendor
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Schindlers List
The Green Mile
Life is Beautiful
Hotel Rwanda
Misery
Braveheart

 

Found in Netflix:
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Romance / Drama)
Whisper of the Heart (Animation / Romance)
Princess Mononoke (Animation / Action / Adventure)
Before Sunrise / Before Sunset (Romance)
The Road Home (Romance / Drama)

Elsewhere:
A Moment to Remember (Romance / Melodrama)
My Sassy Girl (Romance / Comedy)
The Wow-Choten Hotel (Comedy)
The Crazy Family (Dark Comedy)
Men Suddenly in Black (Spoof / Comedy)
Forbidden City Cop (Spoof / Comedy)

 

since you asked for anything...here's some random stuff

for Documentaries:
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Buena Vista Social Club
Planet Earth (Discovery Channel) if it's out, all of them
When We were Kings
********** Blues
PBS: History of Rock & Roll (1995) 10 Episodes...including Blues, Funk, Punk, everything
http://www.amazon.com/History-Rock-Roll-Solomon-Burke/dp/B0002234XQ

For Monologues/Stand Up
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An Evening with Kevin Smith (there is more than one)

TV
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Twin Peaks

 

my asterix title is

C0cksucker Blues (documentary by Robert Frank of the Rolling Stones)

 

Checkmate
Blame it on the Rain
Firestorm
Cry, cry again
Death blow
Sack lunch
Ponce de leon
Chunnel
Brown eyed girl
Agent zero
Plan 9 From Outer Space


and my two all time favorites, ...........Prognosis Negative and Rochelle, Rochelle

 

Barton Fink
Trainspotting
Battle Royale

 

any recommendations for movies under the "watch instantly on pc" option? most of the ones i see are old or obscure movies i've never heard of.

 

High School Musical
High School Musical 2
The Notebook


and of course..


Snow Dogs

 

1. Mean Streets
2. M.A.S.H.
3. The Quiet Earth
4. Carrie
5. The Wild Bunch
6. Take The Money and Run
7. Barton Fink
8. Boogie Nights
9. Night of the Hunter
10. There's Something About Mary

For a really peculiar director whose films all have a sort of uniqueness about them, I would recommend any of Stanley Kubrick's films, particularly:

1. Lolita
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. 2001 A Space Odyssey
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Barry Lyndon
6. The Shining
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Eyes Wide Shut

 

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (Monica Bellucci as Cleopatra)

 

Red Dragon
ManHunter
Hannibal
SOTL
Hannibal Rising
Moulin Rouge
Monster
Million Dollar Baby
Boys Don't Cry
Requiem for a Dream
Rochelle, Rochelle

 

My girlfriend also fell asleep during the movie. It just means you are getting old.

 

Here's some recent stuff:

The White Countess
Over the Edge
The Old Grey Whistle Test Vol. 1-3 (Classic rock/pop performances)
Heavy Metal Parking Lot (footage of burnouts hanging out before a 1985 Judas Priest/Dokken concert in Maryland)
House M.D. Season 1

LOL

 

Base Moi
Irreversible
Ichi The Killer
Visitor Q
Battle Royale
Audition
I Spit on Your Grave

and last but not least.. Eraserhead.

and if you are still in the mood for more, I recommend Gummo.

 

Foreign Flicks:

Trope De Elite
Badoleros
Rec
Bus 174
City of Men
La Haine
Ghosts Of Cite Soleil
Protege

TV:

Oz
The Wire
Weeds
The Shield
City of Men (Brazilian)