Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Movie Suggestions, for when you blank while looking through Netflix


I like to have a bunch of lists on hand for when people ask me what they should rent on Netflix. These are in no way saying these are the best ever, they are just my personal preferences.

EXISTENTIAL THEMED MOVIES:
I Heart Huckabees
8 1/2
Ghost World
Art School Confidential
Synecdoche, NY
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Being There
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Deconstructing Harry
Darjeeling Limited
Lost in Translation
The Last Detail
Five Easy Pieces
Broken Flowers
Lost Highway
Carnal Knowledge
Election

ODD LOVE MOVIES
Harold and Maude
The Graduate
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
The Fisher King
Punch Drunk Love
Sweet and Low Down
Eraserhead
Badlands
Rushmore
Eagles Vs. Shark
Kissed
The Butcher Boy

PRISON MOVIES
Cool Hand Luke
Midnight Express
The Longest Yard

BIOPICS OR DOCUMENTARY
Ed Wood
Control
No Direction Home
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
How to draw a cartoon bunny
Your Gonna Miss Me

MAFIA MOVIES
Once Upon A Time in America
Goodfellas
Godfather I&II
Casino
Bronx Tale

SCI FI MOVIES
Visioneers
Idiocracy
Empire Strikes Back
Blade Runner
Metropolis
Primer
A Clockwork Orange
2001
Plant of the Apes I&II
Brazil
Moon
Existenz
12 Monkeys
Back to the Future 2
Tron
Donnie Darko
THX 1138
City of Lost Children
Gattaca
The Road Warrior
Sunshine
Watchmen
Unbreakable

HORROR
Rosemary's Baby
Carrie
M
The Shining
The Exorcist
Funny Games
Repulsion
Psycho I&II
Halloween
Bug
Frenzy
Texas Chainsaw Massacre I&II
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Suspiria
An American Werewolf in London
Nosferatu
28 Days Later
Dawn of the Dead (Romero)

CAR CHASE / ROAD MOVIES
Bullit
Vanishing Point
Deathproof
Dirty Mary, Krazy Larry
The French Connection
Easy Rider

ANIMATED MOVIES
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Nightmare Before Xmas
Corpse Bride
Ghost in the Shell
Fritz The Cat
Wizards
Heavy Traffic

DIRECTORS & MY FAV'S FROM THEM
Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil, Fear & Loathing)
Quentin Tarrentino (Deathproof, Kill Bill Vol. 1&2)
Hal Ashby (Being There, Harold & Maude, The Last Detail)
Luc Besson (The Professional, 5th Element)
Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
Jean Luc Goddard (Sympathy for the Devil, Breathless)
Martin Scorsese (King of Comedy, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood)
Coen Brothers (Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, A Serious Man, No Country For Old Men)
Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange, Lolita, The Shining)
Roman Polanski (Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby)
Federico Fellini (8 1/2, Satyricon)
Woody Allen (Sweet and Low Down, Annie Hall, Sleeper)
David Lynch (Eraserhead, Lost Highway)
Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation)
Michel Gondrey (Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine)
Wes Anderson (Royal Tenenbaums, Darjeeling Limited)
Sophia Coppola (Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation)
Jared Hess (Nacho Libre, Gentlemen Broncos)
Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis)
Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, Frenzy)
Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge)
William Friedkin (The Exorcist, Bug, The French Connection)

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