Incomplete list of movies I like, saved for posterity here after a discussion with colleagues:
■ Entertainment ■ Mind Bending ■ Make You Feel Things
- 12 Angry Men
- 12 Monkeys
- 2001 A Space Odyssey
- A Clockwork Orange
- A Scanner Darkly
- Akira
- American Psycho
- Annihilation
- Arrival
- Blade Runner 2049
- Blade Runner
- Children of Men
- Coherence
- Contact
- Cube
- Donnie Darko
- Dune
- Ex Machina
- Fight Club
- Gattaca
- Ghost in the Shell (1995)
- Gone Girl
- Inception
- Interstellar
- Mad God
- Memento
- Minority Report
- Moon
- Mulholland Drive
- No Country for Old Men
- Nope
- Oldboy (2003)
- Paprika
- Parasite
- Perfect Blue
- Possessor (warning: visceral)
- Primer
- Seven
- Sunshine
- The Lighthouse
- The Lobster
- The Man from Earth
- The Matrix
- The Prestige
- The Shining
- The Sixth Sense
- The Thing (1982)
- The Truman Show
- Total Recall
- Under the Skin
- Videodrome
- Apocalypse Now
- Black Swan
- Cast Away
- Citizen Kane
- Django Unchained
- Drive
- Fargo
- Finding Nemo
- Flowers for Algernon
- Forrest Gump
- Full Metal Jacket
- Good Will Hunting
- Goodfellas
- Grave of the Fireflies (warning: devastating)
- Heat
- Her
- Hereditary (warning: will fuck you up)
- Howl's Moving Castle
- In Bruges
- Inglourious Basterds
- Jojo Rabbit
- Klaus
- Léon: The Professional
- Logan
- Margin Call
- Monsters, Inc.
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Nightcrawler
- Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood
- Poor Things
- Princess Mononoke
- Rain Man
- Requiem for a Dream (warning: will fuck you up)
- Reservoir Dogs
- Scarface
- Schindler's List
- Sicario
- Spartacus
- Spirited Away
- Taxi Driver
- The Big Short
- The Departed
- The Fly (1986)
- The Godfather
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- The Green Mile
- The Hateful Eight
- The Iron Giant
- The Lion King
- The Prince of Egypt
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Social Network
- The Substance
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- There Will Be Blood
- Too Big to Fail
- Toy Story 2
- Toy Story
- Unforgiven
- Wall-E
- Whiplash
- Wolfwalkers
- Your Name
- Zodiac
- 28 Days Later
- A Bug's Life
- A Fish Called Wanda
- Ace Ventura
- Airplane!
- Alien
- Aliens
- An American Werewolf in London
- Anchorman
- Animal House
- Army of Darkness
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Austin Powers
- Back to the Future
- Batman: The Dark Knight
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Black Sheep
- Blazing Saddles
- Bo Burnham: Inside
- Borat
- Bruce Almighty
- Caddyshack
- Casino Royale (2006)
- Catch Me If You Can
- Chicken Run
- Collateral
- Commando
- Con Air
- Conan the Barbarian
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
- Dark Star
- Demolition Man
- Die Hard 2
- Die Hard with a Vengeance
- Die Hard
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- District 9
- Dodgeball
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Dredd
- Escape from New York
- Evil Dead 2
- Face/Off
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Fierce Creatures
- First Blood
- Galaxy Quest
- Ghostbusters
- Gladiator
- Gremlins
- Groundhog Day
- Hardcore Henry
- Heavy Metal (1981)
- Home Alone
- Hot Fuzz
- Idiocracy
- Independence Day
- Indiana Jones: Last Crusade
- Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom
- Jaws
- John Wick
- Jurassic Park
- Kick-Ass
- Kill Bill: Vol 1
- Kindergarten Cop
- Last Action Hero
- Lethal Weapon
- Liar Liar
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Mars Attacks!
- Men in Black
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Monty Python's Meaning of Life
- Mulan
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Nimona
- Office Space
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
- Police Academy
- Predator
- Princess Bride
- Pulp Fiction
- Rat Race
- Redline
- RoboCop
- Saving Private Ryan
- Shaun of the Dead
- Shrek 2
- Shrek
- Sin City
- Sintel
- Snatch
- Space Balls
- Space Jam
- Speed
- Star Wars IV: A New Hope
- Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi
- Starship Troopers
- Step Brothers
- Stripes
- Superbad
- Talladega Nights
- Team America: World Police
- Terminator 2
- Terminator
- The 6th Day
- The Big Lebowski
- The Blues Brothers
- The Cabin in the Woods
- The Emperor's New Groove
- The Fifth Element
- The Incredibles
- The Karate Kid
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Mummy (1999)
- The Naked Gun
- The Other Guys
- The Quick and the Dead
- The Raid
- The Road to El Dorado
- The Rock
- The Running Man
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The World's End
- They Live
- This is Spinal Tap
- Top Secret
- Trading Places
- Train to Busan
- Treasure Planet
- Tremors
- Tropic Thunder
- True Lies
- Tucker and Dale vs Evil
- V for Vendetta
- Wanted
- What We Do in the Shadows
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Young Frankenstein
- Zoolander