Movies you always recommend

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What are those movies that you always recommend to people?

Here's my top 5:

The Crossing Guard
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Beautiful Girls
American History X
O Brother Where Art Thou
 
I was just recommending What Dreams May Come to my girlfriend. Haha. We were talking about the power of religious and classical imagery.
 
Depends on the person, obviously (not everyone's taste runs to True Romance or whatever). But one that is almost universally well-received and I always suggest is Let the Right One In. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is another.
 
In no particular order:
Waking Ned Divine
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Children of Men
The Searchers
Whatever Works
 
Depends on the person I am recommending too, but here are a few I will tell most of my friends to check out.
Night at the Roxbury
Secondhand Lions
Holes
 
Non-American Films I recommend

Angel-A
City of Lost Children
Let the Right One In
The Killer
Hard Boiled
Raise the Red Lantern
Shanghai Triad
The Emperor and the Assassin is awesome.


For Westerners who are curious about anime,
Cowboy Bebop, the Movie
Wings of Honneamise (a bit dense, but whoooboy, the animation)


And lately,
The Devil's Double
 
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension
Big Trouble In Little China
The Rocketeer
The Blues Brothers
Alien
Superman
Star Wars, ESB and RotJ
 
Comedy: The Big Lebowski
Action: The Hunt for Red October
Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Star Wars
Family: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
 
I recommend to watch the original star wars trilogy first, then the prequels.
the maltese falcon
nacho libre
seconhand lions
shawshank redemption
 
It varies by people but
Logan's run
Omega man
on the beach
the day after
Transformers (1986)
Rock N Rule
Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (1977)
back to the future trilogy
star trek 1-3
War of the worlds (1951)
Earth Vs The Flying Saucers
Appleseed and appleseed ex machina
ghost in the shell: stand alone complex (they have combined episodes into a movie)
robocop
final fantasy 7: advent children
 
The one at the top of my list is The Shawshank Redemption. I never appreciated it until I got a little bit older, but now I recommend it to everyone. It's seems to have universal appeal.
 
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Chinese Odyssey 2002. Hilarious Oriental faux-historical (but really, slapstick) thing that none of you will ever see unless I keep harping on about it. :p
 
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