The Phantom Carriage (1921)
The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
Ugetsu (1953)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
Onibaba (1964)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
Paper Moon (1973)
Tampopo (1985)
Magnolia (1999)
A Serious Man (2009)
Boyhood (2014)
Arrival (2016)
Drive My Car (2021)
If you love Singin in the Rain you will love Young Girls of Rochefort. It’s the only musical that has made me feel the same way as I did watching Singin in the Rain
This list is pretty fantastic if for nothing else than the inclusion of Ugetsu and A Serious Man.
This sub knows A Serious Man but Ugetsu is *criminally slept on*. I have it ranked as #5 on the GOAT list. Transcendent masterpiece.
Great choices.
And A Serious Man is insanely brilliant. It's almost the conclusion of the Coen bros entire ouvre, except that Inside Llewyn Davis came afterwards and that might be the conclusion.
If you haven't already, go read up on Heisenberg and Schrödinger and then marathon The Man Who Wasn't There, A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis, in that order. It might actually blow your mind.
In my own mind that is their "Quantum Physics Trilogy". But the themes in those films are all over the rest of their canon.
Those guys are legit geniuses I think.
Maybe some Béla Tarr?
Werckmeister Harmonies and The Turin Horse are two of my favorites. I've only heard great things about Sátántangó but it can be hard to find the time for a 7.5 hour movie. I've definitely been meaning to.
The Given Word (1962) O *Pagador de Promessas* Directed by Anselmo Duarte
Born in Flames (1983) Directed by Lizzie Borden
Burn! (1969) *Queimada* Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
Black Narcissus (1947) Directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) Directed by Errol Morris
Even though I've only seen two of the movies in your Top 20 (House and Vampyr) I feel like we have very similar tastes. You probably have seen/heard of the following films, but still:
Silvia Prieto (1999)
Taipei Story (1985)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1944) and Maya Deren's other short films.
Kaili Blues (2015) and also Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018), which has already been mentioned, both directed by Bi Gan.
Whisky (2004)
Return to Seoul (2022)
Drive My Car (2021) and the rest of Ryusuke Hamaguchi's films.
Picnic (1996)
The Delinquents (2023)
9 Souls (2003)
His Motorbike, Her Island (1986), directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi director of House.
From Pasolini Oedipus Rex (1967) and The Decameron (1971). I still need to check out Theorem and the rest of his filmography.
You like movies driven by conversation/dialogue, so:
Manhattan (1979), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Talk Radio (1988), Life Is Sweet (1990), What Happened Was… (1993), Before Sunrise (1995), Certified Copy (2010), The Trip (2010)
You also like meta-movies about movies/theater/performance, so I recommend:
The Player (1992), Living in Oblivion (1995), American Movie (1999 documentary), Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Honestly, probably nothing that a man of your great tastes hasn’t heard of in that case, only things coming to mind are Pauline at the Beach and the Three Colours trilogy
I see you have Slacker in your top 10! It's one of my favorite movies of all time. Here are some movies that I found similar and therefore enjoyed a lot.
-Elephant by Gus Van Sant: a more serious story but it's a narrative with a slow burn where the camera literally follows characters around. Has a similar focus on youth culture and "hanging out"
-Dazed and Confused: Another so-called "hangout movie" from Linklater. I'd be surprised if you hadn't seen it, but in case you hadn't
-Birdman: Very well known for its gimmick but I liked it a lot
If anyone wants to jump in with more similar movies I'm always looking for them.
Arrebato (1979) Iván Zulueta
>Heroin-addicted vampires, who spend their days making horror flicks and their nights getting high, find themselves being eaten alive by their video camera one by one. Released in the first year of post-fascist democratic Spain, Iván Zulueta’s 1979 film Arrebato captures the zeitgeist of the cine quinqui art movement, sounding the alarm for a young, lost generation suspended in time between the years of Francoism and the *Pacto del Olvido*, ‘Pact of Forgetting’, of 1980s Spain. In a phantasmic patchwork of libertine contempt, furious invocation, and a eulogy for nostalgia, Zulueta, in his only feature film, indicts a nation, addicted to forgetting its past, for the vampiric draining of identity of the next generation and depriving them, like the viewer, of their tether to reality, time, and self.
Thanks!! I couldn't find it on LB at first because it goes by the English title "Rapture" on there. Looks like it was already on my watchlist, but I'll readd it so it doesn't get buried again
Tropical Malady, Syndromes & A Century, An Elephant Sitting Still, The River by Tsai Ming Liang, Onibaba, Timecrimes, Hard To Be A God, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, La Cienaga, Blind Chance, Through The Olive Trees, Close-Up, Taste of Cherry, Vagabond, Damnation, Melancholia by Lav Diaz, Return to Seoul, Festen, Still The Water, The Towrope
Here's my personal top 11:
Metropolis
Potemkin
Seven Samurai
Wages of Fear
Videodrome
The Graduate
Ace in the Hole
Carrie (De Palma's version)
Modern Times
La Dolce Vita
Airplane!
However, I suspect you've seen all of these.
I loooooove Potemkin. Eisenstein is excellent. Have you seen Que viva Mexico? So good.
haven’t heard of Wages of Fear, and Ace in the Hole has never been on my radar. which do I watch first?
Also it’s great to see La Dolce Vita love. I feel like only old people prefer this Fellini over, say, 8 1/2. So sexy and sad.
also I watched The Graduate as a teen and didn’t like it. maybe I didn’t get it and might see it differently but I think Nichols is sooooooooo overrated maybe but I’m not sure.
In terms of which to pick first, Wages of Fear and Ace in the Hole are both excellent, but both very different. If you're looking for a thrill ride, choose the former. If you're looking for a downer, choose the latter.
The Graduate is a very personal one for me. I identify with it quite a bit, as practically everything that happens in that movie happened to me in real life one way or another.
Honestly? I love Mirror. But I tried Stalker and Solaris when I was younger and I thought they were very boring. Didn’t finish Solaris. I think I might’ve been too young, maybe I just didn’t get it? what film of his do you recommend I watch next (any of them but Mirror)?
Stalker is incredible, maybe give it another try. But I can understand why some might find it boring, because the actual 'plot' is pretty simple, but from your list it seems like you have enough experience to understand the subtext and appreciate the insanely beautiful cinematography.
Considering you also like some old musicals, have you also watched the Bob Fosse remake, Sweet Charity? It's a very different beast, in a way, but I like it a lot. Shirley MacLaine is great in it.
Also, piecing together some of the things I've read here... Have you looked into Angelopoulos at all? I saw one of his recommended above (Landscape in the Mist). I also saw your struggle with Tarkovsky, and was thinking Angelopoulos is also a director of striking long takes, but for the most part there's no challenge to "get" them, being more personal journeys with individuals and their struggles. And now when I look into it your mention of Fellini was the flimsiest reason for me to consider him again, since their films are very different, and it turns out that I had overestimated Tonino Guerra's place in his filmography - apart for Amarcord he was only a writer on And the Ship Sailsed On and Ginger & Fred. In any case, Angelopoulos started working with the writer in his 1984 film Voyage to Cythera, and did so for eight movies until his death in 2012.
Now my absolute favorite of his goes against some of my reasoning: The Traveling Players, which I have on my top 4 banner, precedes this writer-director partnership by a decade, has a more complex gallery of characters, and would be harder to grasp fully without a good understanding of the shifting powers in Greece during the 1930s and 40s, although I think it's also realized in a way that you're not required to catch every nuance to follow the drama. But it's also told in just about 80 cuts over a close to four hours runtime, though I never felt it drags, and have gotten myself stuck in all night rewatches when I was just gonna watch a bit of it but were unable to turn it off.
And some part of me wants to recommend the more mystical Alexander the Great to someone with Parajanov on their list, but it's definitely not a dip your toe-movie, being not only about as long but also slower, more cryptic and generally harder to get to grips with.
His run with Guerra from 1984 until at least the turn of the millennium is solid and hard to go wrong with. More personal in scope and higher on sentiment, more approachable even if I haven't been as completely floored as with his earlier epic. Still arthouse classics of "slow cinema". Landscape in the Mist that someone else suggested belongs to this period, as does Eternity and a Day (Bruno Ganz), Ulysses' Gaze (Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson), The Suspended Step of the Stork (Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau)...
Going by some of your entries Id suggest The Tin Drum and Repulsion....glad to see the very hypnotic Vampyr that I just discovered last year getting some love
Wonderfully inspiring list.
My suggestions are Beau Travail (1999), l'Homme de Sa Vie (2006), Incendies (2010) and Lee Chang Dong's masterpiece, Poetry (2010).
- The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
- Black Narcissus (I saw you’ve seen The Red Shoes, so I think this one would be good if you haven’t seen)
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- Gaslight
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (I saw this was recommended by others. I just saw it for the first time a few months ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it)
The Phantom Carriage (1921) The Earrings of Madame de… (1953) Ugetsu (1953) The 400 Blows (1959) Ivan’s Childhood (1962) Onibaba (1964) Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) Paper Moon (1973) Tampopo (1985) Magnolia (1999) A Serious Man (2009) Boyhood (2014) Arrival (2016) Drive My Car (2021)
If you love Singin in the Rain you will love Young Girls of Rochefort. It’s the only musical that has made me feel the same way as I did watching Singin in the Rain
This list is pretty fantastic if for nothing else than the inclusion of Ugetsu and A Serious Man. This sub knows A Serious Man but Ugetsu is *criminally slept on*. I have it ranked as #5 on the GOAT list. Transcendent masterpiece. Great choices.
Thank you, Ugetsu is one of my favorites as well. I highly recommend it to anyone here who hasn’t watched it.
And A Serious Man is insanely brilliant. It's almost the conclusion of the Coen bros entire ouvre, except that Inside Llewyn Davis came afterwards and that might be the conclusion. If you haven't already, go read up on Heisenberg and Schrödinger and then marathon The Man Who Wasn't There, A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis, in that order. It might actually blow your mind. In my own mind that is their "Quantum Physics Trilogy". But the themes in those films are all over the rest of their canon. Those guys are legit geniuses I think.
Thank you
https://preview.redd.it/fjjmlxi99e8d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d5b600bbc71719995912a82195f368e873e3dd3
I totally second this! I feel like OP would love it, it's also one of my all-time faves.
Cleo from 5 to 7 Young Girls of Rochefort All That Jazz
Badlands
Your list has 3 made in Texas, 4 based in Texas. Try The Last Picture Show, Hud, Midnight Cowboy, A Ghost Story, Red Rocket, Wild at Heart
Last Picture Show is an excellent choice.
Miss oyu by Mizoguchi
A Brighter Summer Day
umbrellas of cherbourg
love this film so much. It’s a film I rewatched recently, it hits so differently as an adult than as a child.
No joke. Rewatch all of them. I bet one or two fall off
Maybe some Béla Tarr? Werckmeister Harmonies and The Turin Horse are two of my favorites. I've only heard great things about Sátántangó but it can be hard to find the time for a 7.5 hour movie. I've definitely been meaning to.
Watch some Terrence Davies
The Long Day Closes would be good for them.
I feel like you will have seen anything I could suggest. Buffalo '66, The Gleaners and I, Safe, Ida, Irma Vep, Rotting in the Sun.
Great picks
The Given Word (1962) O *Pagador de Promessas* Directed by Anselmo Duarte Born in Flames (1983) Directed by Lizzie Borden Burn! (1969) *Queimada* Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo Black Narcissus (1947) Directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) Directed by Errol Morris
Night on Earth Close-Up Solaris
Did you see Landscapes in the Mist, Ritual, or Mirror? Love your list so much I’m gonna finally watch the few I’m missing!
Even though I've only seen two of the movies in your Top 20 (House and Vampyr) I feel like we have very similar tastes. You probably have seen/heard of the following films, but still: Silvia Prieto (1999) Taipei Story (1985) Meshes of the Afternoon (1944) and Maya Deren's other short films. Kaili Blues (2015) and also Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018), which has already been mentioned, both directed by Bi Gan. Whisky (2004) Return to Seoul (2022) Drive My Car (2021) and the rest of Ryusuke Hamaguchi's films. Picnic (1996) The Delinquents (2023) 9 Souls (2003) His Motorbike, Her Island (1986), directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi director of House. From Pasolini Oedipus Rex (1967) and The Decameron (1971). I still need to check out Theorem and the rest of his filmography.
You like movies driven by conversation/dialogue, so: Manhattan (1979), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Talk Radio (1988), Life Is Sweet (1990), What Happened Was… (1993), Before Sunrise (1995), Certified Copy (2010), The Trip (2010) You also like meta-movies about movies/theater/performance, so I recommend: The Player (1992), Living in Oblivion (1995), American Movie (1999 documentary), Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
*Contempt* (1963), also known as *Le Mépris*
One of my favs. Got another?
Honestly, probably nothing that a man of your great tastes hasn’t heard of in that case, only things coming to mind are Pauline at the Beach and the Three Colours trilogy
I’ll make it my first Rohmer
Madea?
Tyler Perry’s or Bong Joon Ho’s?
Both at the same time
While playing subway surfers
The Red Shoes
I love this movie so much. Recommend me another?
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Ordet
I see you have Slacker in your top 10! It's one of my favorite movies of all time. Here are some movies that I found similar and therefore enjoyed a lot. -Elephant by Gus Van Sant: a more serious story but it's a narrative with a slow burn where the camera literally follows characters around. Has a similar focus on youth culture and "hanging out" -Dazed and Confused: Another so-called "hangout movie" from Linklater. I'd be surprised if you hadn't seen it, but in case you hadn't -Birdman: Very well known for its gimmick but I liked it a lot If anyone wants to jump in with more similar movies I'm always looking for them.
https://preview.redd.it/uv6hlhx8hf8d1.png?width=524&format=png&auto=webp&s=07f1d485f8d0208915d73af09176d95c34badaa5
Just here to say your taste is on point
What's 4?
Arrebato (1979) Iván Zulueta >Heroin-addicted vampires, who spend their days making horror flicks and their nights getting high, find themselves being eaten alive by their video camera one by one. Released in the first year of post-fascist democratic Spain, Iván Zulueta’s 1979 film Arrebato captures the zeitgeist of the cine quinqui art movement, sounding the alarm for a young, lost generation suspended in time between the years of Francoism and the *Pacto del Olvido*, ‘Pact of Forgetting’, of 1980s Spain. In a phantasmic patchwork of libertine contempt, furious invocation, and a eulogy for nostalgia, Zulueta, in his only feature film, indicts a nation, addicted to forgetting its past, for the vampiric draining of identity of the next generation and depriving them, like the viewer, of their tether to reality, time, and self.
Thanks!! I couldn't find it on LB at first because it goes by the English title "Rapture" on there. Looks like it was already on my watchlist, but I'll readd it so it doesn't get buried again
Goddamn, I love this list!!!
Close-up by Abbas Kiarostami
Came to say it. Also, the Koker trilogy. And don't forget Taste of Cherry.
Nacho Libre
Tropical Malady, Syndromes & A Century, An Elephant Sitting Still, The River by Tsai Ming Liang, Onibaba, Timecrimes, Hard To Be A God, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, La Cienaga, Blind Chance, Through The Olive Trees, Close-Up, Taste of Cherry, Vagabond, Damnation, Melancholia by Lav Diaz, Return to Seoul, Festen, Still The Water, The Towrope
I see a fellow Ivan Zulueta enthusiast
obsessed
Have you seen any King Hu films? Would definitely recommend A Touch of Zen.
Yeah. Come back down to earth and watch National Treasure or something enjoyable and NOT depressing.
lol I love tragedy. makes me feel alive
Honestly? That's the first good list I've ever seen in this sub. Also, I would recommend Blood and Black Lace.
Agreed, its the only list with any nuance and not bro-cinephile movies.
*2001* and *Singin’* are bro af
Nah. Filmbros don't watch 1950s Technicolor musicals. It's a good list, and don't feel too bad. My personal Top 10 hasn't changed in nearly 15 years.
give me a recommendation bro
Here's my personal top 11: Metropolis Potemkin Seven Samurai Wages of Fear Videodrome The Graduate Ace in the Hole Carrie (De Palma's version) Modern Times La Dolce Vita Airplane! However, I suspect you've seen all of these.
I loooooove Potemkin. Eisenstein is excellent. Have you seen Que viva Mexico? So good. haven’t heard of Wages of Fear, and Ace in the Hole has never been on my radar. which do I watch first? Also it’s great to see La Dolce Vita love. I feel like only old people prefer this Fellini over, say, 8 1/2. So sexy and sad. also I watched The Graduate as a teen and didn’t like it. maybe I didn’t get it and might see it differently but I think Nichols is sooooooooo overrated maybe but I’m not sure.
In terms of which to pick first, Wages of Fear and Ace in the Hole are both excellent, but both very different. If you're looking for a thrill ride, choose the former. If you're looking for a downer, choose the latter. The Graduate is a very personal one for me. I identify with it quite a bit, as practically everything that happens in that movie happened to me in real life one way or another.
Le Pont des Arts (2004)
pm me for it. standard def tho
I feel like you'd love Andrei Tarkovsky's movies
Honestly? I love Mirror. But I tried Stalker and Solaris when I was younger and I thought they were very boring. Didn’t finish Solaris. I think I might’ve been too young, maybe I just didn’t get it? what film of his do you recommend I watch next (any of them but Mirror)?
Stalker is incredible, maybe give it another try. But I can understand why some might find it boring, because the actual 'plot' is pretty simple, but from your list it seems like you have enough experience to understand the subtext and appreciate the insanely beautiful cinematography.
The Nights of Cabiria by Fellini.
One of the best tragedies. Fellini is my favorite director
Considering you also like some old musicals, have you also watched the Bob Fosse remake, Sweet Charity? It's a very different beast, in a way, but I like it a lot. Shirley MacLaine is great in it. Also, piecing together some of the things I've read here... Have you looked into Angelopoulos at all? I saw one of his recommended above (Landscape in the Mist). I also saw your struggle with Tarkovsky, and was thinking Angelopoulos is also a director of striking long takes, but for the most part there's no challenge to "get" them, being more personal journeys with individuals and their struggles. And now when I look into it your mention of Fellini was the flimsiest reason for me to consider him again, since their films are very different, and it turns out that I had overestimated Tonino Guerra's place in his filmography - apart for Amarcord he was only a writer on And the Ship Sailsed On and Ginger & Fred. In any case, Angelopoulos started working with the writer in his 1984 film Voyage to Cythera, and did so for eight movies until his death in 2012. Now my absolute favorite of his goes against some of my reasoning: The Traveling Players, which I have on my top 4 banner, precedes this writer-director partnership by a decade, has a more complex gallery of characters, and would be harder to grasp fully without a good understanding of the shifting powers in Greece during the 1930s and 40s, although I think it's also realized in a way that you're not required to catch every nuance to follow the drama. But it's also told in just about 80 cuts over a close to four hours runtime, though I never felt it drags, and have gotten myself stuck in all night rewatches when I was just gonna watch a bit of it but were unable to turn it off. And some part of me wants to recommend the more mystical Alexander the Great to someone with Parajanov on their list, but it's definitely not a dip your toe-movie, being not only about as long but also slower, more cryptic and generally harder to get to grips with. His run with Guerra from 1984 until at least the turn of the millennium is solid and hard to go wrong with. More personal in scope and higher on sentiment, more approachable even if I haven't been as completely floored as with his earlier epic. Still arthouse classics of "slow cinema". Landscape in the Mist that someone else suggested belongs to this period, as does Eternity and a Day (Bruno Ganz), Ulysses' Gaze (Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson), The Suspended Step of the Stork (Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau)...
What’s your account name?
Close (2022) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Network (1976) Psycho (1960)
all about my mother
Contempt (Le Mepris) seems to be missing.
it’s my #49
Going by some of your entries Id suggest The Tin Drum and Repulsion....glad to see the very hypnotic Vampyr that I just discovered last year getting some love
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Always blows my mind just how many movies there are that people love that ive never heard of. On your list ive heard of 5 and watched 2.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Son of Saul
Marketa Lazarova
Some Like It Hot is my fave sandwiching it in between Singing in the Rain and All About Eve
Badlands directed by T. Malick
Did you like Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths?
Ten Skies by James Benning
Looks like you haven’t seen Iron Man
Army of Shadows Three Colors: Blue
Wings of Desire Cinema Paradiso Umbrellas of Cherbourg
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^FloridaFlamingoGirl: *Wings of Desire* *Cinema Paradiso* *Umbrellas of Cherbourg* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Wonderfully inspiring list. My suggestions are Beau Travail (1999), l'Homme de Sa Vie (2006), Incendies (2010) and Lee Chang Dong's masterpiece, Poetry (2010).
Dogville Belle de Jour Le Corbeau (1943) The Rope Branded to Kill Paris is Burning Man facing Southeast Daisies The Marriage of Maria Braun
Black Narcissus
Past Lives (2023), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) & if you like anime Your Name (2016).
The Devils (1971)
Perfect days (2023) by Wim Wanders. My personal favourit of his, and I say that while absolutley loving Paris Texas.
*Pride & Prejudice* (2005) *The Great Gatsby* (2013) *The Before Trilogy* (1995-2013) *The Last Samurai* (2003) *Chicago* (2002) *Fight Club* (1999) *Vanilla Sky* (2001) *The Godfather Trilogy* (1972-1990) *The Passion of Christ* (2004) *What’s Eating Gilbert Grape* (1993)
Obviously you’ve never seen the avengers
- The Fabulous Baron Munchausen - Black Narcissus (I saw you’ve seen The Red Shoes, so I think this one would be good if you haven’t seen) - Meet Me in St. Louis - Gaslight - Cleo from 5 to 7 (I saw this was recommended by others. I just saw it for the first time a few months ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it)
[удалено]
lol it’s on there
High and low (1963)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Marriage Italian Style, Wings of Desire, Eraserhead
Persona
The Best Years of Our Lives is my go to recommendation no matter what, so I'll go with that.