A list of movies that I like, in no particular order.
I didn't opt for rating as not to obsess over building a ranked list. On a individual basis I, most of the time, have a good idea of whether or not I want to watch a movie again (and would thus recommend it to others).
OrganisationTwo lists, split between full and limited recommendation.
See Limited recommendations hereThe list is continually updated as I watch and re-watch movies. Recent entries include a date and have been more accurately judged and tagged.
Click the yellow bar to sort the table by a row (takes a sec, I was too lazy to implement it myself).
| name | known for | tags (genre/descriptive) | last watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost Dog The Way Of The Samurai | Jim Jarmusch, RZA, Forest Whitaker | samurai, nyc, complete, characters | 2023-05-30 |
| Night on Earth | Jim Jarmusch | taxi, night, personal-stories, life | 2023-05-22 |
| Demolition | Jake Gyllenhaal | drama, marriage, death, finding-oneself | 2023-02-23 |
| 12 Angry Men | drama, black-white, top250, justice, court, law, jury | 2023-02-19 | |
| The Batman | Robert Pattinson | film-noir, crime, vengence, characters | 2022-06-11 |
| Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Bill Murrey, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson | drama, comedy, top250, kids | 2022-04-02 |
| Marriage Story | Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Noah Baumbach | relationship, drama, characters, divorce, love | 2022-03-20 |
| Don't Look Up | Adam McKay, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Ron Perlman, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande | corona, commentary, cynic, drama, comedy, politics, human-nature | 2022-01-01 |
| The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Wes Anderson, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe | life, weird-world, sea, characters | 2021-11-20 |
| Palm Springs | Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons | time-loop, life, marriage | 2021-09-15 |
| The Royal Tenenbaums | Wes Anderson, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Murray | drama, family, nyc | 2021-08-21 |
| Groundhog Day | Bill Murray | drama, comedy, time-loop | 2021-08-18 |
| Fantastic Mr Fox | Wes Anderson, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman | comedy, drama, stop-motion, kids | 2021-07-21 |
| The Big Short | Christian Bale, Adam McKay, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling | drama, real, wall-street, stocks | 2021-07-06 |
| Hot Fuzz | Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman | comedy, action, drama, police, britain, growing-up, cornetto-trilogy | 2021-03-31 |
| The Social Network | David Fincher, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Rashida Jones | drama, real, facebook, college, business, biography | 2021-03-30 |
| A History of Violence | Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris | drama, dark, no-spoilers, characters | 2021-03-13 |
| Thee Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Woody Harrelson | drama, revenge, police, rural, us | 2021-03-06 |
| John Wick | Keanu Reeves | action, current, revenge, loss, nyc | 2021-03-02 |
| Redline | anime, drama, racing, emotional, characters, passion-project | 2021-01-30 | |
| Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things | Matt D'Avella | life | 2021-01-27 |
| The Breakfast Club | John Hughes | school, detention, parents, personal-development | 2021-01-25 |
| Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Jon Bernthal | drama, top250, wall-street, sales, excess | 2021-01-18 |
| Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Uma Thurman | drama, comedy, top250 | 2021-01-11 |
| The Revenant | Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy | drama, action, nature, revenge, 1820s, american-frontier | 2020-12-11 |
| Graduation | Cristian Mungiu | drama, romania, life, independance | 2020-11-25 |
| Captain Fantastic | Viggo Mortensen | family, drama, kids, alternative-lifestyle, society, social-commentary | 2020-11-20 |
| One Cut of the Dead | watch-without-spoilers, zombies, japanese, comedy | 2020-11-07 | |
| Thoroughbreds | Anya Taylor-Joy, Cory Finley | thriller, dark, psychology, solipsism, emotions, suburb, wealth-gap | 2020-09-16 |
| The Equalizer | Denzel Washington, Chloë Grace Moretz | action, variety-kills | 2020-09-13 |
| Birds of Passage | drama, columbian, tradition, family, rural, greed | 2020-09-12 | |
| Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | Muppets | docu, emotional, art, passion, bio, happiness | 2020-09-06 |
| Split | M. Night Shyamalan, James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy | thriller, split-personality, abduction | 2020-09-05 |
| The Game | David Fincher, Michael Douglas | thriller, mystery | 2020-08-27 |
| Your Name | drama, emotional, anime, top250, love | 2020-08-22 | |
| The Place Beyond The Pines | Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes | drama, police, fathers, classism, intergenerational | 2020-08-19 |
| Barton Fink | Coen Brothers | drama, hollywood, screenwriter, 80s, characters, la, pychopath | 2020-07-25 |
| Joker | Todd Phillips, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz | drama, mental-illness, characters, superheroes, society, riot, top250 | 2020-07-24 |
| Don Jon | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson | porn, addiction, porn-addiction, sex, drama, characters, love | 2020-07-16 |
| Hamilton | musical, drama, history, live, music, nyc, top250 | 2020-07-06 | |
| Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg, Liam Neeson | drama, holocaust, black-white, top250, emotional, nazi, 40s, real | 2020-06-15 |
| The Darjeeling Limited | Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman | india, drama, exploration, journey | 2020-06-08 |
| Seven | David Fincher, Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey | thriller, detective, top250, dark, police, nyc, crime | 2020-05-16 |
| The King | Timothee Chalamet, David Michod | medieval times, drama, history, war, characters, politics, british | 2020-04-26 |
| The Usual Suspects | Kevin Spacey | thriller, crime, mystery, 90s, top250 | 2020-04-01 |
| Madeo | Bong Joon Ho | korean, village, past, thriller, drama, detective, characters | 2020-01-28 |
| Leon The Professional | Natalie Portman | drama, 90s, characters, nyc, top250 | 2020-01-24 |
| Parasite | Bong Joon Ho | korean, thriller, poverty, current, family, top250 | 2020-01-19 |
| Oldboy | korean, dark, thriller, 00s, top250 | 2020-01-19 | |
| Die Welle | Jürgen Vogel, Elyas M'Barek, Max Mauff | nazi, 00s, drama, school, german | 2020-01-17 |
| Klaus | Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones, J.K. Simmons | kids, animation, christmas, top250, drama | 2019-12-25 |
| Heat | Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer | top250, crime, 90s, drama, characters, shoot-out | 2019-12-22 |
| Whiplash | Damien Chazelle, Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons | drama, top250, music, characters, intense | 2019-12-20 |
| Clerks | Kevin Smith | comedy, work, store, 90s | 2019-12-01 |
| Unbreakable | M. Night Shyamalan, Bruce Willis, Samual L. Jackson | drama, present, superhero | 2019-11-01 |
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off | John Hughes | comedy, kids, nyc, 80s | 2019-11-01 |
| Baby Driver | Edgar Wright, Jon Bernthal, Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx | action, drama, crime, driving, heist, soundtrack | 2019-10-14 |
| The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale | action, drama, top250, comic | |
| Ziemlich Beste Freunde | drama, comedy, emotional, top250, kids, french | ||
| The Lego Movie | comedy, animation, kids | ||
| Interstellar | Christopher Nolan | drama, space, top250, kids, sci-fi | |
| Sing Street | drama, comedy, kids, current | ||
| The Matrix | action, drama, top250, sci-fi | ||
| 28 Days Later | drama, post-apocalyptic, zombies | ||
| Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | drama, top250, futuristic | |
| Fight Club | David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton | action, drama, top250, current | |
| Gone Girl | David Fincher | thriller, top250, missing-person | |
| Gran Torino | drama, top250, suburbs | ||
| Looper | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | action, thriller, futuristic, time-travel | |
| Butterfly Effect | Ashton Kutcher | drama, time-travel, change-the-past | |
| Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan, Bruce Willis | drama, top250 | |
| Inception | Christopher Nolan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy | drama, top250 | |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman | drama, action, top250, sword-fighting, dark | |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman | drama, action, sword-fighting, dark | |
| Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson | drama, action, top250, western | |
| Inglorious Bastards | Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Til Schweiger, B.J. Novak | drama, comedy, action, top250, nazi | |
| The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson | drama, action, western, snow | |
| Death Proof | Quentin Tarantino | drama, dark | |
| Akira | action, drama, anime, top250 | ||
| Liar, Liar | Jim Carry | comedy, kids | |
| Citizenfour | Edward Snowden | docu, tech, political | |
| The Invention of Lying | Ricky Gervais, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K., Rob Lowe | comedy | |
| Death at a Funeral | comedy, dark | ||
| Neal Brennan: 3 Mics | comedy, special | ||
| Tekkonkinkreet | drama, emotional, anime | ||
| Sucker Punch | Zack Snyder | drama | |
| Source Code | Jake Gyllenhaal | drama, action, train, time-travel | |
| The Parking Lot Movie | docu, philosophy | ||
| The Shawshank Redemption | Morgan Freeman | drama, top250, prison | |
| American History X | Edward Norton | nazi, dark, drama, top250, suburbs | |
| Destination Wedding | Keanu Reeves | comedy, drama, current, romance | |
| Hardcore Henry | first-person, action, dark, gimmick | ||
| Howl's Moving Castle | Studio Ghibli | kids, anime, drama, top250 | |
| Rain Man | Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise | drama, comedy, roadtrip, kids | |
| Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan | real, war, drama, scenery, historic | |
| The Nice Guys | Shane Black, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling | comedy, hollywood, 70s | |
| The Raid 2 | action, martial-arts | ||
| WALL·E | pixar | comedy, drama, sci-fi, kids, animation | |
| Die Hard | Bruce Willis | action, 80s, thriller, top250 | |
| 10 Cloverfield Lane | Damien Chazelle | thriller, aliens | |
| Groundhog Day | Bill Murray | kids | |
| WALL-E | pixar | drama, animation, kids, cute, top250 |
Movies that are either not for everyone or basic but enjoyable.
Check tags to see if the movie would not be for you.
Violence and more mature themes are marked as 'dark'.
| name | known for | tags (genre/descriptive) | last watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everything Everywhere All at Once | family, effects | 2023-03-09 | |
| Wolfwalkers | animation, kids | 2023-02-25 | |
| Another Year (2010) | normal, daily-life, relationships | 2023-02-24 | |
| Ambulance | Michael Bay, Jake Gyllenhaal | la, police, robbery, chase | 2023-01-31 |
| Nobody | Bob Odenkirk | action, fights, comedy, simple fun | 2023-01-28 |
| Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | hero-story, fantasy, simplistic, great-music | 2022-12-03 | |
| Top Gun | Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer | us, fighter-pilot, 80s, action, flying | 2022-11-24 |
| Boyhood | growing-up, childhood, adolescence | 2022-05-20 | |
| Dune | Timothée Chalamet | fantasy, drama, epic | 2021-10-19 |
| Edge of Tomorrow | Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt | action, time-loop, war, aliens | 2021-09-14 |
| Moneyball | Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Aaron Sorkin | baseball, characters | 2021-09-06 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom | adventure, pirates | 2021-08-17 |
| Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Shane Black | la, comedy, thriller, detective | 2021-06-16 |
| The Corporation | docu, business, capitalism | 2021-04-01 | |
| B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 | Die Toten Hosen, Die Ärzte | Berlin, 80s, music, docu, art, zeitgeist | 2021-02-27 |
| Berlin Calling | Paul Kalkbrenner | soundtrack, drama, techno-szene, club, drugs, psychiatry, german, berlin | 2021-02-08 |
| The World's End | Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman | comedy, bar-crawl, human, growing-up, cornetto-trilogy | 2021-01-31 |
| Wall Street | Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas | wall-street, nyc, 80s, greed | 2021-01-17 |
| The End of the Tour | Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, David Foster Wallace | loneliness, writing, journalism | 2021-01-16 |
| Feels Good Man | pepe, meme, trump, 2016, 4chan, internet, culture | 2021-01-15 | |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | Tom Hardy | action, post-apocalyptic, wasteland, top250, basic | 2020-11-28 |
| Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | Mel Gibson | action, post-apocalyptic, wasteland, cars | 2020-11-28 |
| Isle of Dogs | Wes Anderson, Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson | drama, stop-motion, banishment, oppression | 2020-11-23 |
| American Psycho | Christian Bale | dark, wall-street, ego, delusion, high-society | 2020-11-21 |
| Green Book | Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali | jim-crow, segregation, friendship, 60s, south-us | 2020-11-09 |
| Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta | drama, gangster, top250, 60s, 70s, bio | 2020-09-21 |
| Phoenix | drama, holocaust, zeitgeist, german, 40s | 2020-09-20 | |
| The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne 2) | Matt Damon | action, realistic | 2020-09-19 |
| The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne 3) | Matt Damon | action, cia, nyc | 2020-09-19 |
| Going by the Book | korean, drama, comedy, robbery, police, training | 2020-09-11 | |
| Seven Samurai | drama, samurai, country, black-white, überlänge, top250 | 2020-09-07 | |
| 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | Michael Bay, John Krasinski | action, shoot-out, army, middle-east, überlänge | 2020-09-06 |
| The Death of Dick Long | thriller, dark, sex, fetish, country, stupidity | 2020-09-02 | |
| Revolver | Guy Richie, Jason Statham | thriller, ego, con, chess, mindgames | 2020-09-02 |
| The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne 1) | Matt Damon | action, spy, thriller, realistic | 2020-08-27 |
| Den of Thieves | Gerard Butler, 50 Cent | crime, action, heist, police, thriller, shoot-out | 2020-08-25 |
| Premium Rush | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | action, cycling, chase, nyc | 2020-08-25 |
| Drive | Ryan Gosling, Nicolas Winding Refn, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman | drama, crime, love, soundtrack, loner, cars, driving | 2020-08-18 |
| Pain & Gain | Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, Dwayne Johnson, Ed Harris, Ken Jeong | comedy, crime, real, gym, lifting, crime | 2020-08-14 |
| Cache | Michael Haneke | thriller, pychological, french, characters, meta, artsy | 2020-08-14 |
| Chasing Amy | Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck | drama, comedy, relationship, love, comics, nyc | 2020-08-11 |
| Shame | Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan | drama, sex-addiction, sex, addiction, characters, raw, dark | 2020-08-10 |
| Mallrats | Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck | comedy, mall | 2020-07-25 |
| American Gangster | Ridley Scott, Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin | crime, 70s, drugs, drama, police, characters, vietnam | 2020-06-18 |
| The Age of Stupid | docu, climate-change, now, emotional, human | 2020-05-29 | |
| Straight Outta Compton | Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, NWA | drama, real, hiphop, la, 90s, gangster, music, hiphop | 2020-05-10 |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger | action, drama, top250, sci-fi, 90s, robots | 2020-05-05 |
| Icarus | Bryan Fogel | docu, conspiracy, cycling, doping, sports, russia, politics, putin, current | 2020-05-03 |
| Pumping Iron | Arnold Schwarzenegger | docu, 70s, bodybuilding | 2020-04-19 |
| Speed | Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock | action, la, 90s, bus, bomb, police, terror, stunt | 2020-04-02 |
| Sicario | Denis Villeneuve, Josh Brolin | thriller, military, mexico, suspense, modern | 2020-03-30 |
| The Platform | thriller, low-budget, spanish, dystopian, critique, capitalism | 2020-03-20 | |
| The Meyerowitz Stories | Noah Baumbach, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman | relationship, family, city, current, characters, nyc, drama | 2020-02-13 |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster | dark, thriller, fbi, crime, psychological, top250 | 2020-02-12 |
| No Country for Old Men | Coen Brothers, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson | texas, drama, dark, top250 | 2020-02-11 |
| Gwoemul | Bong Joon Ho | korean, city, 00s, thriller, monster | 2020-01-27 |
| Fack Ju Göhte | Elyas M'Barek | comedy, 10s, german, kids, school | 2020-01-24 |
| American Hustle | Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C.K., Jeremy Renner | 80s, crime, drama, police, characters | 2019-12-23 |
| Climax | drama, french, artsy, dancing, drugs | 2019-12-01 | |
| Office Space | Jennifer Aniston | comedy, work, office, 00s | 2019-12-01 |
| Rocketman | Elton John | real, drama, music, bio | 2019-11-01 |
| First Man | Damien Chazelle, Ryan Gosling | 60s, drama, space, nasa | 2019-10-01 |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | comedy, kids | ||
| 17 Again | Zac Efron | comedy, teen, kids, current | |
| Zodiac | David Fincher, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. | thriller, detective, crime | |
| Idiocracy | comedy, futuristic, evolution, stupidity, iq, time-travel | ||
| R.I.P.D. | Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds, Mary-Louise Parker | action, fantasy, current | |
| Repo Men | Jude Law | action, sci-fi, thriller | |
| Sin City | Bruce Willes | drama, action, comic, black-white | |
| Midnight Special | drama | ||
| Green Room | action, drugs, heist, gangster | ||
| Dope | comedy, drugs | ||
| 8 Mile | Eminem | drama, real, hiphop, soundtrack, hood, detroit | |
| Memento | Christoper Nolan | thriller, top250, time, gimmick | |
| Shutter Island | Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio | thriller, top250 | |
| Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | drama, top250 | |
| Natural Born Killers | drama | ||
| Blade Runner 2049 | Ryan Gosling | drama, sci-fi | |
| Jack Reacher | Tom Cruise | action | |
| Jackass | comedy, real | ||
| The Prestige | Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie | drama, top250, sci-fi | |
| Limitless | Bradley Cooper | drama | |
| The Hangover | Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong | comedy, current | |
| Bruce Almighty | Jim Carry | comedy, kids | |
| The Truman Show | Jim Carry | comedy, top250, kids | |
| Yes Man | Jim Carry | comedy, kids | |
| The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard | docu, tech | ||
| Snowden | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | real, drama, current, tech | |
| Funny Games | Michael Haneke | dark, thriller, german, horror, pychological | |
| Beasts of No Nation | drama, real, perspective | ||
| Spring Breakers | drama | ||
| The Sisters Brothers | John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal | drama, western | |
| Carnage | Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly | drama, current | |
| Do You Trust This Computer? | docu, current, tech | ||
| Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | Neil Patrick Harris | comedy, musical, current | |
| Les Misérables | Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe | french, musical, drama, historic | |
| World of Tomorrow | Don Hertzfeldt | short, animation | |
| Das Experiment | german, dark, real, psychological, prison, thriller | ||
| Hackers | Angelina Jolie | drama, past, computers | |
| Jaws | Steven Spielberg | ||
| Searching | John Cho | thriller, computer, screens-only |