Interstellar

Unironically: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Forrest Gump The Blues Brothers Jurassic Park Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Jupiter Ascending

Lonesome

A lot of movies already mentioned, so I'll add two movies which I feel are essential to watch:

• Ex Machina (2014)
• Into the Wild (2007)

Dr. Strangelove

The original Jumanji. The first Jurassic Park. Rush Hour. The Sound of Music. Spirited Away. Alien. The Dead Poet's Society. The Matrix. Happy as Lazaro. The Dark Knight. The Godfather. 2001: A Space Odyssey The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy). Seven Samurai. The Terminator. The Lion King.

Such classics.

A bunch of other people have mentioned Ghibli movies and since I'm in the middle of a binge through every Ghibli movie I think I'll recommend one that I hadn't seen before a few days ago: Only Yesterday or Omoide Poroporo.
It's Isao Takahata, not Miyazaki, but it's easily my favorite Ghibli movie and one of my favorite movies of all time. It feels so real and relatable, the whole movie is essentially a really slow-paced series of flashbacks to the main character's 10-year-old self and every detail is so well-thought-out and interesting.
Very worth watching, although I'll mention as a disclaimer that all the friends I was watching it with thought it was super pointless and boring.

• The fool
• The platform

If we're ever going to see eye to eye, you must be familiar with a Goofy Movie.

Interstate 60

Predestination

Everyone going the biggest and best....

I suggest:

Both versions of House on Haunted Hill (evolution of the campy horror genre)

Both versions of Black Christmas (see horror tropes become them and the retelling)

Jason X (Jason the undying killer but in space!)

Teeth (if you needed a movie to really drive home that SA is bad)

Trainspotting (if you needed a movie to really drive home that drug addiction is bad)

The Room (a detailed instructional of how not to write a movie)

Super Mario Bros 1993 (watch as both the main characters appear to become more drunk as the story goes on because their actors actually were) .... And the new one I guess. It's ok but not as entertaining on a meta level

DOA Dead or Alive (possibly the most true to source video game movie and a fun martial arts movie)

Patch Adams (if you can watch the whole thing twice, you're better than me. That third act is brutal emotionally for me)

Slaxx (do not read anything about it. Go in blind. Enjoy the layers of what the actual fuck is going on)

Dungeons and Dragons 2000 (about as accurate a oneshot as I've ever seen. Also, Jeremy Irons being peak Jeremy Irons)

What the bleep do we know (Science! Physics! Learning!)

Wicker man (Cage version during the height of him taking literally any role to pay off debts. Watch him overact and punch a woman in a bear suit)

Romeo and Juliet (decaprio version. Shakespeare but in modern day Miami. They do not update the language to current English.)

I've got more but that should be good for a few days worth of watching.

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) - not entirely faithful to the novel, but this version is brutal in its depiction of the war. I do think removing Paul's short return to his village hurt the story. It's interesting to compare this one to the 1930 version

Spaceballs (1987) - Mel Brooks doing what he does best.

Blindness (2008)

Day of the Wacko

Some I haven't seen mentioned: -The Best of Youth -Enter the Void -Call Me by Your Name -Nocturnal Animals -The Secret Life of Walter Mitty -The Hunt -Moonrise Kingdom -Mother (Korean movie) -The Baader Meinhoff Complex -City of God -Snatch

Network

YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, MR. BEALE, AND I WON'T HAVE IT! Is that clear?!

Mary and Max

American Movie

It hasn't been mentioned.

Primer

It's simply the BEST time travel movie

Con Air aka the greatest film ever made : https://youtu.be/5ekakWBxspA?si=SxnwRkzsJWQaCo47

Good responses! I couldn't think of anything that wasn't already there!

Cinema Paradiso Gaslight Arsenic and Old Lace North by Northwest The Mummy (Brenden Fraser) Gladiator Saving Private Ryan Up Finding Nemo

A few I don't see getting mentioned much:

• 3-Iron
• The Seventh Continent
• Hausu
• The Lives of Others
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
• Spoorloos

I know the franchise has been on shaky ground lately, but I really think everyone should watch the Infinity Saga, in order, at least once. 23 movies that tell one vast over-arching story, featuring some of the best god-damn superhero casting ever seen.

Gremlins (The only Christmas movie worth watching).