What's your fave movie of all time that you love to recommend to people?

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For me it's Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing

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John Carpenter's 1982 masterpiece The Thing. The themes of paranoia and isolation are so perfectly explored; it launched the career of Keith David, who is just a treasure; the performances are all immaculate; and those effects. My god, the effects.

Brilliant film, I love John Carpenter. My favourite is They Live.

That's a great one as well. That alleyway fight scene is so fucking cool. Carpenter is easily one of the most creative, most fun artists of his generation.

Absolutely amazing movie, the effects were so ahead of their time!

Right? I can't watch it with people anymore, because I keep pausing to explain how certain effects were achieved. It's a monumental achievement.

Love that one too. What do you (or anybody with a theory or the answer) think is the meaning of the ending?

I think it's intentionally ambiguous. For me, the point is the paranoia and distrust. I might be wrong, of course, but my interpretation is that we are supposed to leave the experience with questions.

Damn, that movie really messed me up as a kid, watching it alone.

I can imagine; I wouldn't recommend it for kids. Way too much gore and tension.

5th Element

This is one of my favorites. Also Shawshank Redemption and The Birdcage. Although I learned recently that a lot of humor in The Birdcage goes over the heads of younger people.

Edit: Sharing this here in case you haven't seen it...

My fav movie! The perfect blend of sci-fi, action, comedy, and fashion model catwalk.

Bladerunner.

Me and a friend watched it in a cinema on release aged 13. I'm very tall and my friend looked about 40. (Now he's over 50 and looks under 40.) You could get away with it in those days.

On VCR release, our friend got his dad to buy a copy and we watched it on repeat at every opportunity. I've watched the Final Cut release many times, which I think is even better, and it's one of the very few films I will happily watch at any time.

The documentary about the making of it is great to watch as well. Watch the film first though. I started reading Dick's books aged about 11 or 12 and was already hooked before the film. I think that prepared me a bit, along with other sci-fi I was reading by then.

It's still my favourite film.

Just watched both bladerunner movies (idk which versions of them) and was rather underwhelmed. The cinematic grand setpieces i can apprechiate and see how they can be captivating for some but the story (or bith of them rather) wasnt very good imo. The worldbuilding is ambitious but the logic behind everything is lacking. Its just not "realistic" enough for me. I get thats sci-fi but for me it feels more like a fantasy movie like idk avatar or harry potter, rather than sci-fi which is supposed to play in our world/universe but with advanced tech. Things like not being able to distinguish replicants (first movie I just didnt buy. And then in the second one there is a gadget that can do just that.

And also Ryan Gosling played pretty badly (maybe it was the script), no emotions, (almost) no storytelling in his mimic, emotions, in his character at all. He is almost like a wax figure, during watching I multiple times had to pause and complain to my co-watcher about his performance, as it too was unrealistic and too stoic for my taste

I feel like I'm the only person I know who really enjoyed the sheer visual masterpiece that was the second movie. Gosling is supposed to under-react here, and that he does well, right until the point that he breaks.

I mean, I get both. Sometimes it felt more like a documentary whith grand and cinematic images of the city and few spoken words, I can apprechiate that, altho its not what I am looking for in a movie.

I suspected that he is supposed to not really show emotions, to show how he is trained/at the "baseline" and how he is not quite human. But I couldn't see a gradual/fine development nor "hidden" or suppressed emotions behind his cold pokerface. (Apart from the one moment at the memory girl's)

To be fair, you have to remember that the story the that the first film was based on was published in 1968. It's basically a form of the "Seinfeld isn't funny" trope. Just about every work of sci-fi, about being able to (or not) tell human from machine has borrowed one thing or another from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or the first Bladerunner film in one way or another. It's basically impossible not to.

So I wonder if your opinion of it, watching it for the first time in 2024 could be colored by that. If all of those themes have been beaten to death again and again, satirized, parodied, meme-ified, then eventually cycling around to being cool again, then maybe you're noticing all of those things as the tropes/memes they became.

I would say like half of Rick and Morty episodes are a take on a Philip K. Dick plot point. Had I not read his novels before being exposed to that stuff, I'm sure I would have probably caught more about how poorly written his female characters were, for example. But at the time I was just too blown away by the concepts this dude had come up with that it didn't matter to me.

Yea, me watching it so many ywars after it came out definitely colored my opinion. Its like that with many "first" movies, from Tron to Metropolis, that the original appeal decreases as the motives and filmmaking techniques arent as new anymore, because of those movies. One would have to watch "generic" movies from that year to really apprechiate the innovative parts which then got replicated over and over.

I try to consume media in the context of the time period it was made, but sometimes it can be difficult to overlook some things.

The Big Lebowski

Is gonna be the best movie you've ever seen once you see it twice

Really? I tried watching it but I couldn't get through it.

It has a really messy plot with fast paced dialogue and subtle details that you can miss, I also remember my first time seeing it and being like "wtf is going on?"

As I said, the second time I saw it years later, I already knew the general direction of the movie so I could focus on the single characters and let me tell you: there's a reason why there are a bunch of people quoting it all the time, every line of the script is like a meme, everything is so iconic

there's a reason why there are a bunch of people quoting it all the time, every line of the script is like a meme, everything is so iconic

You just described the writing in everything the Coen Brothers have ever made.

Never seen it, I actually started watching it this week, so far so good!

The dude is like my spirit animal.

A friend of mine mentioned 'Contact' was the perfect film. I thought about it for some time and found that I agree. The plot, casting, filmography, and score are all top notch.

Beyond favorite there are quite a few films I consider 'done' we don't need sequels or remakes. Most recently the original 'Willy Wonka' came to mind.

Great movie. If you haven't, you should check out Arrival (2016).

I like it, but it's also a movie where world leaders act in the most unrealistically stupid way possible. It's where emotions take more precedence than any actual pretense of diplomacy. Humans being gaslit into allies by future-seeing aliens is also a bit too deterministic to be seen as any kind of moral victory either. I dunno, not a movie for me

There's a video by a designer talking about some of the symbolism of Ellie's journey (Full talk video here -- SPOILERS for the film in both).

And also an insightful YouTube comment(!) someone made in response describing their interpretation:

::: spoiler spoiler "This is one of the most thoughtful and insightful reviews on deeper film meanings I think I've ever seen. In keeping with the rebirth symbolism, I would offer the following possibilities.

  1. The transport pod symbolizes more of a womb, rather than a gas chamber.
  2. The chair may not be an electric chair but rather a means for Ellie to assume a modified fetal position while in the capsule. This would mimic the position of a baby of in a womb prior to its own birth.
  3. The wires plugged into Ellie represent an umbilical cord to sustain her, rather than a means to kill her.
  4. The periodic updates given by the mission control staff as to the status of the machine (10%, 20%, 30%, etc.) mirror the increasing dilation of women in labor (1 cm dilated, 2cm dilated, 3cm dilated, etc.).
  5. The wormhole sequence mirrors the new life traveling through a birth canal.
  6. The capsule takes on a liquid form to symbolizes the protective amniotic fluid to keep the new life safe.
  7. After Ellie’s “birth”, the first person she sees is her father.
  8. This rebirth scene is enhanced by considering Ellie's mother died from complications of childbirth when Ellie was born. This backstory enhances Ellie's natural reluctance to be reborn as her initial birth killed her mother, and permanently altered her life.

There’s undeniably imagery of execution and rebirth simultaneously occurring within the same frames! The filmmakers did an outstanding of capturing some very compelling storytelling while inserting remarkable symbolism." :::

First rule is, I can't talk about it. Second rule is, I can't talk about it.

I have lost count of how many times I watched that movie. So many great details.

And I think most people take away the wrong message. It is critic and not encouragement.

It's a philosophical movie about breaking yourself apart and rebuilding yourself consciously.

Not hard to understand why so many people don't get that part of it. It's a deeply introspective movie, not just about sweaty guys fighting each other.

A high school friend of mine said it romanticized mental health disorders, which I can't really disagree with.

Seems like a general theme around Palahniuk's stories... I feel like his type of shock went out of style in the 00s. Probably for the best.

Ah, the Care Bears movie. Yeah I was deeply ashamed too, but you love what you love.

Snatch. Such an absolutely quotable movie with interesting characters, and the great mix of storylines that Guy Ritchie films are know for. The dialogue is just phenomenal!

Aliens.

Great story. Excellent pacing. Fantastic characters. Awesome music. I'm running out of adjectives, so I'll add that I really liked: dialog, acting, special effects, lore, and setting.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly... by like a lot.

I watched the Dollars Trilogy in order and I love all those movies. A Fistful of Dollars feels very low budget at certain points, including one of the worst day for night edits I've ever seen, but overall it's a damn good 9/10 Yojimbo ripoff.

For a Few Dollars More is straigt up one of the best movies I have ever seen, an easy 10/10. It's a full blown high budget movie that just shocked me when I saw it for the first time, I was amazed how good it was, and it confused me too since EVERYONE said that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the best of the bunch, like how could something be better than this???

Well, how is it...? When I first saw The Good, The Bad and The Ugly I almost went catatonic. If For a Few Dollars More is 10/10 then this movie is 11/10, or 12/10 or even 13/10. EVERYTHING about this movie is amazing, if the previous one was made with an A24 budget then this one was made with the same production level as fucking Oppenheimer. Everything is bigger, the scale of the movie is breathtaking, the Morricone music is the best of all time, the characters are amazing, the action is amazing, the climax of the movie is the best ever put on screen, I just fucking love this movie so SO fucking much.

So yeah... watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly if you haven't.

(Shout out to Duck, You Sucker. A movie that also blew my socks off, made by the same director.)

They are all great movies! Do you also think highly about What about Once Upon a Time in the West?

Absolutely! Both Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America are pure masterpieces too!

If you haven't seen it, check out Kurosawa's Yojimbo.

The Dollars Trilogy is a great recommendation, and I think your analysis is spot on! The cinematography in the second and third installments is incredible.

I like to follow up with Tarantino's Hateful Eight (my personal favorite film to recommend, especially as a Christmas movie in place of Die Hard) to see how hugely influential the Trilogy was.

The Bruce Willis movie, Last Man Standing, is a good Fistful of Dollars redo set in 1920s I believe.

The Blues Brothers. For years people had been telling me how good it was but I hadn’t got around to watching it. Now I get it.

I'm always telling people to REALLY watch Napoleon Dynamite. I think it got quoted and proto-memed to death when it came out, leading to most people having an unfair idea in their head of what the movie is.

The soundtrack is phenomenal. The acting is (mostly) way better than you may have thought it was. Jon Gries (Uncle Rico) was nominated for an Independent Spirit award and he absolutely deserved that nomination. The cinematography is excellent, especially knowing how much it cost to make + how much experience the crew had. Though it's not explicitly said, I think it's ultimately a story about neurodivergent people finding friendship, solidarity, and happiness in a world not made for them.

Also, the scene where Uncle Rico throws a steak at Napoleon is still funny.

I still cry laughing when I see or think about the grapefruit peg the windshield and Uncle Rico's scream.

I love most of Wes Anderson's body of work, but my absolute favourite of his is The Life Aquatic

"I wonder if he remembers me..."

Life Aquatic is great, but I have a soft spot for Royal Tennenbaums myself

Really? I love of Wes Anderson movies, but The Life Aquatic was the only one I couldn't finish.

That's too bad. I found it to be just a really beautiful movie top to bottom with a great story and clever humour.

Has to be The Matrix. Was 13 or 14 at the time of release, marketing around it was very mysterious. Obviously my childmind was blown during opening scene!

here here!

didn't think much of the sequels though

The Grand Budapest Hotel - visually beautiful, the story never slows, altime favorite

For action movie fans, I'll always recommend The Raid: Redemption. It's a good gateway to martial arts movies, which can lead to a whole slew of other more esoteric recommendations

yea it's amazing. Seconding that. Curious what those other recommendations would be? because aside from some old Jackie Chan flicks and a couple others, I'm a rookie in the martial arts flicks biz

I'd consider myself a rookie as well. Other than the classic Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan stuff, there's Oldboy, Ip Man, chocolate.

Checking what else those performers have been in can be a good way to branch out to other titles.

Ratatouille.

I don't think there's a movie that loves food more, or pays more respect to food. It's an actual masterpiece, from every strand of hair rendered on Remy's body, to each note played in the score. I will never get tired of watching this movie.

I like it too, but goddamn do I hate movies that boil down an entire culture to a single city. There's no greater French Culture than Paris! or There's nothing more British than London! or New York is all that exists for the arts!

I like the part about rats that cook. I find the love story somewhat creepy.

My favorite movie of all time is Lord of the Rings, but most people have already seen that.

I find that I recommend Warrior a whole lot. It is an awesome movie and most people haven't seen it.

A Scanner Darkly

Oooh. I understand people liking it. I get the film, but I do not enjoy watching it. Great plot!

Try the book. Though as far as movie adaptations of PKD go, it's relatively faithful.

Thank you for the recommendation.

If you like the mind fuckery of A Scanner Darkly, then you will probably love pretty much every Philip K. Dick novel. It's pretty much his thing. His novels will wrinkle your brain in the best way.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is one of my favorites, and you'd probably like it if you liked A Scanner Darkly. But yeah, check his books out.

Grave of the Fireflies.

If I can't be happy, no one will.

Seen it once, and never again. I will never recommend this movie to anyone.

I've seen it once, and I seem to be practically psychologically unable to cry, so rather than crying I walked around feeling like I was carrying a hundred pound millstone around my neck for about 4 days.

It's a beautiful movie with every last single one of the studio Ghibli traits that you have come to know and love.

But it's not a cartoon for little kids. I highly recommend that you watch it at least once if you haven't, just don't let your kids watch it until they are adults.

I haven't been able to find where to watch it, and can't seem to find a DVD copy on Amazon last I checked a few months back... Anyone know where one could watch this (preferably "remastered" for HD or whatever, assuming it ever got that treatment)?

There is a small chance that it is on Disney Plus, but I don't have a Disney Plus subscription anymore so I can't verify, I just know that they purchased studio Ghibli.

It's one of the few so-called Ghibli flims I still haven't seen. Max has all of them, I think, but I don't think it has Grave of the Fireflies (last I checked). I don't know if that one is technically Ghiblli? I think it came out before Ghlbil technically existed, which is why I think it's often not included in these distribution deals.

I don't wanna be one of those but there were plenty of releases on torrent and usenet (for FHD).
So if you are willing to go that route, there are releases.

with all the shit I read about it I've grown wary. Not sure I could handle it. I cry just watching my kitten be cute

Cube (1997) It's a great little film and a bit of a mindfuck.

The Matrix (1999). The one existential movie for all. Then, it's probably "Serenity" (2005). Then, probably Galaxy Quest (1999).

Adding another. Children of Men. Brilliantly made, disturbing premise, very plausible sci-fi. Quite violent, though.

Baby Driver was the first movie I saw 3 times at the theater. Gets me hooked beginning to end.

I don't have a single favorite, but generally it's going to go something like:

Triangle.

The Void.

The Endless.

Moon.

Upgrade.

Delicatessen

Upgrade was fantastic! So glad I caught that under the radar. Such a great action sci-fi with a dystopian flavour. "Black Mirror" meets "John Wick". And what an ending.

It it, IMO, the best cyberpunk movie that's hit theaters. So under rated.

I just recently saw Triangle. Definitely an under-appreciated movie. That one shot after she chases the girl to the top of the ship is S tier horror. Great ending too.

I watched it last night after Helix's comment piqued my curiosity. I'd previously never heard of it before, and it's one of those movies where it's even better on the second viewing. Enjoyed the mystery and the eeriness! Was not expecting that ending at all

Have you seen Vivarium or Color Out of Space?

I haven't seen Vivarium, although it looked like it would be good. My wife loved it.

I enjoyed The Color Out of Space for what it was; Dagon was another pretty solid Lovecraft adaptation. Oh, and for older horror, there's The Re-Animator, and From Beyond. I think a lot of Lovecraft doesn't translate to film very well; cosmic horror as a fiction genre just isn't quite the same as cosmic horror in film. Adaptations of books and stories to screen always have to make compromises that can cost some of the punch, and showing something--like the screaming bear in Annihilation--can give you more punch than trying to set the same scene up in a book. Neither is 'better' than the other, they're just different art forms.

If you're into these movies, I'd recommend Necronomicon, a 1994 anthology Lovecraft horror film. It's been out of print, but that link will take you to the full movie hosted on archive.org

It's weird and interesting

God yes I love The Void. It really hits those Lovecraftian themes extremely well imo. The practical effects are fantastic as well.

Network (1976) is a perfect movie.

Was just about to comment this. Paddy chafeyesky is a really unique but complicated figure, and how they let him, john sayles, and a few others get away with socialist themes in movies, I'll never know.

That movie could’ve been released this year and still been current

Storks

Inside out

Idiocracy

Popstar: Never stop never stopping.

Screamers (camp sci-fi horror)

Along with the rest mentioned here.

Recommendation depends on the audience

My sister worked on Screamers! It's so much fun.

Great list

Coherence, it's like 85 minutes long and came out a decade or so ago. No script, the actors ad-libed their lines with only minor directions.

It's a lot like Primer meets the Man from Earth

Just to avoid confusion, it's called Coherence. That's why none of your friends watched it! LOL

Edit: he said Cohesion.

I absolutely loved watching this movie going in with no idea of the plot other than the byline. Absolute hidden gem

As they pop in my head:

Everything everywhere all at once.

Her

Groundhog Day

I saw the devil

Patch Adams

Memento

Prisoners

Fight club

Good will hunting

I remember watching Her right after going through a big break up. That one really hit hard. Great movie, though.

Into the Spiderverse is a perfect movie.

Hot Fuzz is so funny every time.

The LOTR trilogy is my favorite but the two above are my recommendations.

Repo: The Genetic Opera.

It's definitely not for everyone, but it hits all the right buttons in my moody theatre kid heart, and "I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much" will always get the tears going for me.

And even if someone bounces off it, I've gotten a terrifying number of them hooked on Zydrate Anatomy. Might be the only song they remember from the whole thing, but it stays stuck.

Not too be mistaken with repo, the depressing film about organ repossession with a flimsy plot.

If you're 40 to 60 years old, definitely Hot Tub Time Machine.

It'd still be a great movie if you're out of that age zone, but if you were around to remember the 80's it just hits that much better. It's a fantastic comedy from beginning to end.

Dead Man directed by Jim Jarmusch.

I am by no means a Johnny Depp fan but he provides a top tier performance alongside Gary Farmer.

An acid western buddy movie about death, dying, and belief. Beautiful film with a beautiful score.

Just watched this for the first time a month or two ago on the Criterion Collection Blu Ray. Amazing film. Killer soundtrack by Neil Young that is clearly just him riffing while watching the movie.

If anyone has access to them, I highly recommend the Criterion extra features. Very cool long form interview with Gary Farmer, and the audio bit where Jarmusch answers letters written in by fans (including one from Bill Hader asking him if he can be in one of his films) is just a joy to listen to. I could listen to that man speak about filmmaking for hours and not get bored.

Dark City

The Matrix while not being quite The Matrix. Incidentally, both filmed in the same studios at similar times and allegedly shared some sets.

The Matrix was flashier, but I thought Dark City asked a more interesting question which is what makes us ourselves. Is it our environment, our memories, or is it something more.

Probably Cloud Atlas

It was a commercial failure so it's usually one that people haven't already seen.

Talented cast and directors passionate about the project.

It's extremely divisive, most people either love it or think it was a waste of time.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The hateful eight. Well, cut my legs off and call me shorty if I don't laugh every time.

Running with Scissors. It’s a weird movie, and most people probably wouldn’t enjoy it, but I want more people to use the word “masturbatorium”.

My favorite movie is probably Brazil (1985). It's a dystopian movie, but the population is suppressed by absurd amounts a bureaucracy (also the state surveiling and killing it's people). You need to fill out a form to fill out a form, and every screen is tiny, but magnified by a lens to be small instead.

But what I really love about it is the the "terrorist" Archibald Tuttle (who, very much, is not the protagonist); a repair man, who risks execution by the state, zip lining around the city fixing things like the protagonist's air condition.

I think we should all strive to be more like Tuttle in our daily lives.

I love Terry Gilliam's movies. I always try to recommend Zero Theorem to people who haven't watched it

I don't "love" to recommend anything to anyone, but I's say, 2001 is by far my most favorite movie. It's in perfect balance between science, fiction, and philosophy and was waaay ahead of it's time. And even nowadays it looks spectacularly good and has a timeless storyline.

I don't usually recommend movies in situations where the solution space isn't already limited significantly by the context, but 2001 is the one I thought of first upon reading the title, so I suppose there's at least two of us!

Synechdoche, New York

Mostly because I like to recommend things that are likely new to whoever I’m recommending to, and my experience has been that this isn’t a very widely appreciated or even known flick. And I also happen to love it personally, so it just became my go-to recommendation.

I do preface the recommendation with a “After watching it yearly for over a decade, I still don’t really really get it”. Its great.

I really enjoyed Tetris (2023). The story was super riveting and I also really liked the soundtrack (mostly just "modernized" Tetris music).

isn't the modernized music just modernized Russian folk music?

Tampopo, by Itami Juso. Fair warning: get ahold of a reservation to the nearest Japanese restaurant, you're going to need it afterwards.

Also, it's a western. About food. And an initiatic quest, the everlasting quest for perfection (in noodle-soup making).

Warrior - chock-full of powerful emotions at just the right points, and a really, really good "underdog rises to the top" storyline.

I remember really not wanting to see it when it came out in theaters. I thought it looked boring and another dumb sports movie.

My God it was so much more than that. I loved it immediately. I choked up a few times through the story, and I might have cheered a bit at the end. The trailers really did not do that movie justice.

I commented before I saw your comment but I said the same movie. It's not my favorite movie ever, but it's up there and most people haven't seen it, so I recommend it a lot. Nick Nolte is phenomenal in it. All of the actors are actually.

Sneakers had got to be one of my all-time favorite movies. Definitely still relevant.

Ghostbusters. Perfect in every respect, and endlessly quotable.

I don't know about favorite of all time, but I recently watched "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and it was incredible. An instant classic in my mind and I'd somehow never heard of it. It's about Ireland in the 1920s and stars Cillian Murphy and Liam Cunningham (most people will know him as Davos from Game of Thrones). Beautifully shot and acted.

Fun and Fancy Free

It's basically two Disney stories stitched into one feature film, released all the way back in 1947, featuring Jiminy Cricket as a major character. I think it's also the last Disney production where Mickey Mouse is voiced by Walt Disney himself (the info is according to the special features of my DVD copy).

Scent of a woman.

It is Pacino at his best (arguably at least, he has done some great work)

Secondhand lions, the pursuit of happiness, and the good neighbor (2016)

Not a recommendation per se, but if you like to ugly cry watch "Dear Evan Hanson"

Not a recommendation per se, but if you like to ugly cry watch "Dear Evan Hanson"

Evan Hansen is just shy of a rapist. He lied to a family about their dead son/brother and then leveraged that lie to sleep with the sister.

I haven’t seen the movie, but the musical struck me wrong. It was entertaining, and the set design was remarkable, but I couldn’t shake the ick factor.

If someone said they enjoy something, why did you reply about how you think it's bad? It's a story that means a lot to them. I know this is the Internet where the other users don't have feelings, but come on.

If someone said they enjoy something, why did you reply about how you think it's bad? It's a story that means a lot to them.

That’s a good question. It’s not like I was trying to be cruel or anything, but I can see where what I said could come off that way.

That said, I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong about disagreeing with someone. The “ick factor” as I called it is genuinely something that I think doesn’t get discussed sufficiently. The musical was WILDLY popular, and I can absolutely understand. It won the Tony for best musical. The portrayal of insecurity and depression is certainly moving, if basic.

But I also think the show could’ve been better. Evan should’ve come clean before fucking the girl he’d been lying to the whole show. And I find it baffling that anyone would think otherwise.

I know this is the Internet where the other users don't have feelings, but come on.

Again, I wasn’t trying to hurt anyone’s feelings. I don’t think I said anything that wasn’t warranted. This is a public forum, if someone doesn’t want to participate in public discussion the onus is on them, not those who respond without malice. If you make statements you open yourself to disagreement, which is a healthy part of communication. Life isn’t everyone agreeing about everything all the time, or it would be boring.

I do agree with you about the ick of it all, especially with it winning the tony like you mentioned. I think musicals have a weird relationship with reality, which can make creepy characters/situations hit different people in different ways. I think phantom/love never dies is a prime example of this.

And I get that this is a forum, but people get replies to their comments sent to their inbox, and it feels weird when I post something and then people disagree as if they aren't in a discussion with me.

Amelie. It is by far my favorite movie that isn't animated.

How to train your dragon (1, 2, and 3). These are my favorite American animated films.

My Neighbor Totoro. Favorite Japanese animated film.

I'm really surprised nobody already took out some distopian movie like matrix ,1982 ... So here I am ,my old time favorite movie is V for Vengeance

Ok I literally saw this tonight, but I think it's going to be one of my all time favorites:

Hundreds of Beavers

Not my favorite, but my favorite to recommend to people: Special Bulletin. And Without Warning is a close second.

Ace ventura 2.
Hardly needs recommending but i would be lying if i said it wasnt my favorite.

A Knights Tale would be a close second.

Oh my god, I must have watched Ace Ventura 2 hundreds of times as a kid. The rhinoceros scene is a freaking classic.

Interstellar or Pacific Rim

Interstellar for the story
Pacific Rim for the action and pacing.

The Fountain. I was just in the right place in the right time in my life when I first saw it, left an unforgottable memory.