Recommend-a-Movie Thread

Recently, I've been spending more time looking for good movie DVD's to buy than I have been looking for CD's.

I'm looking for recommendations for ANY movie, whether it's old or new, just seen in the theater or seen on DVD, whatever.

So, post one (or more!) movies that you really recommend.

I'll start off: I've been on a horror movie binge recently, and my recommendation is The Descent (2005). Holy crap, that movie is good. If you like the idea of a well-made horror movie that is genuinely very scary, look no further.

A Matter of Life and Death
title for US release Stairway to Heaven
it is from 1946 but is an amazing movie

Check out the Criterion Collection for some great DVDs, including Wes Anderson's films. Also, buy Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. I know that none of these movies are horror films, but they are excellent in their own right.

I just saw Children Of Men last night. It was fantastic. Some of the best directing I've seen in awhile.

Fight Club

Thanks for the recommendations.

Logos: I bought the first Saw on DVD recently, due to my horror movie binge. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm looking forward to doing so, maybe tonight.

Here's another recommendation from me: Donnie Darko. Watch the original, NOT the director's cut, which ruins it to a large extent. That movie has excellent use of soundtrack, tying into the film in interesting ways, definitely a good movie for prog fans even though the music isn't prog.

Keep 'em coming!

Equality 7-2521 wrote: I just saw Children Of Men last night. It was fantastic. Some of the best directing I've seen in awhile.

I second that one.

moreitsythanyou wrote: One top of that: Life of Brian or Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Agreed, two great movies, especially the latter!

The T wrote: fandango wrote: Vittorio De Sica: The Bicycle Thieves....   ....utterly superb....   A masterpiece, one of the landmarks in movie history.. a simple story, a human story, a poor italian working class family and a bike, you can't get much low-budget that that... ands to think that today, with all the millions they spend, they can't come up with interesting screenplays (well, they can, but curiously, mostly for unexpensive films or films where the only big expense is the star's salary... but the cgi-ridden films, agghhh....)   If you like horror, check the classics first, I would advice you not to stick only with today's cheap blood-fests. Some of these are decent, but most are just a chain of "how to kill and torture in the most sick and graphic manner and thus cause the audience to shock".

depends which classics you mean. One person might go for Alien, another Nosferatu, and another person yet might say Tetsuo the Iron Man.

I recommend Tetsuo the Iron Man ;P

If you like westerns Sergio Leone's 'Dollars' trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West are must see films particularly the latter which is one of the best films I've ever watched.