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[lordcooper]

I think I've run out of films I want to watch, so I'm coming here for help.

My all time favourites run from Equilibrium, One flew over the Cuckoos Nest, The Matrix, Oldboy, Battle Royale, eXistenZ, The Last Samuria, 1984, The Devils Rejects etc.
Anything that makes you think, really.

Oh yeah, it would be a definite bonus if it was in English.  I love Japanese films, but they can be a right pain when subtitled.

[Shades]

How can you stand to watch Japanese films in English? That is just painful.

[de5me7]

i can make a lot of suggestions but i have no idea what you've already seen. So

Blade Runner
Belleville Rendez-vous
Chungking Express
Ran
Brazil
Dark City
The Warriors
Platoon
La Haine
The Lives of Others
Goodbye Lenin
If
Kes
Blue Velvet
After Hours
28days later
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Third Man
Army of Shadows
Breathless
12 Monkeys
City of God
waltzing with Bashir

hit em up on Imdb for more info, some are in english, some are french, chinese, or japenese, or even hebrew for the last one

[Il Palazzo]

My all time favourites run from Equilibrium, One flew over the Cuckoos Nest, The Matrix, Oldboy, Battle Royale, eXistenZ, The Last Samuria, 1984, The Devils Rejects etc.
Anything that makes you think, really.

Gattaca, Moon, Rollerball(197? version, not the 2000-ish one), Blade Runner, Scanner Darkly, Space Odyssey 2001, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, are all thinking man's SF movies. Often minimalist, but always with something to say, kind of in the same vein as Equilibrium and eXistenZ.

Primer deserves it's own spot on the list, as it'll intimidate your intelligence with its realistic-ish take on time travel and lack of expository dialogue.

Jeunet & Caro's Delicatessen and especially the City of Lost Children, are uniqely whimsical dystopias, with an unforgettable visual style and Grimm's fairy-tale-like feel.

Darren Aronofsky's movies tend to leave you with a lot to think about: Pi, Requiem for a Dream, the Fountain.

ninja: have seen only maybe 2/3rds of movies on de5met's list, but they all were really good.

[ILikePie]

I recommend watching Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. It's pretty recent, a 2009 film I think, and it's got a pretty interesting take on WWII. It's the first movie I've seen that makes the Nazi soldiers look human (And not the cold "robots" they are in other films).

[Cecilff2]

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

[fqllve]

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

Fuck yes.

-great recommendations-

Fuck yes to all of these.

And Eraserhead.

[Il Palazzo]

Hey, let's not forget Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - the way I see it, these are the only two movies Jim Carrey ever really played in.

[Ricky]

the big white

i jsut watched it today

[MetalSlimeHunt]

12 Angry Men (1950's Version)
Event Horizon
Jacob's Ladder
Heavy Metal
Snatch
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
The Descent

[Nilocy]

How to train your dragon is quite good. Very dwarven.

[fqllve]

Solaris. Preferably the 1970s Tarkovsky version.

Soderbergh's is okay, but it doesn't open with five minutes of highway.

Also by Soderbergh, Schizopolis is funny. It's not really thoughtful but it pretends to be.

[Vertigon]

I will second The Truman Show

[lordcooper]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys

This lot should keep me going for a while (I've seen maybe 20% of them), but I swear to watch every one I haven't yet seen.

[Jusman]

The Godfather trilogy