My Movie List

Movie suggestions from a lifelong film lover

If you came here from an external link, you probably don’t know I have an entire website dedicated to story structure in feature films.

Here’s a list of some movies you may have seen, but others you probably haven’t and might enjoy. If you like half of these movies, you’ll probably like the other half. 

Gone with the Wind
Groundhog Day
Harold and Maude
Hamlet, with Kenneth Branaugh
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
Meet the Robinsons
Bullet Train
Beauty and the Beast
Regarding Henry
Brazil
The Usual Suspects
Darkest Hour
LA Confidential
Cloud Atlas
At Eternity’s Gate
Wall-e
Monsters, Inc.
Matilda
My Fair Lady
Molly’s Game
The Princess and the Frog
I, Tonya
Enola Holmes
Mr Ripley (all)
Cinema Paradiso
The taking of Pelham 123
Les Miserables
Real Steel
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
No Country for Old Men
Witness
Across the Universe
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Avatar (only the first one)
The Fugitive
True Lies
Argo
American Hangman
Good Will Hunting
Get Shorty
Funny Bones
War Machine
Hillbilly Elegy
The Freshman
Nine Queens
Australia
Apollo 13
21
Blade Runner
The Blind Side
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Catch me if you Can
Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson)
Napoleon Dynamite
Moulin Rouge
Lucy
Anna
Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
Strictly Ballroom
Borg vs Mcenroe
Baby Driver
The Take
Gladiator
Chinatown
The Boxtrolls
The Last King of Scotland
The Pope of Grenwich Village
Angel Heart
The Hurt Locker
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Wonder
The Game
House of Games
Wag the Dog
Braveheart
The Truman Show
Dead Poets Society
Green Book
The Lego Movie
The Dark Knight
The Last Emperor
Swimmers
Wreck-it Ralph
The Last Samurai
Seven
The Edge of Tomorrow
Top Gun: Maverick
The Shawshank Redemption
Paris, Texas
The Wrestler
Repo Man
Joker
The Graduate
Cars (all)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Men in Black (all)
Hotel Transylvania (all)
The Matrix (all)
Gravity
The Post
Saving Private Ryan
Mamma Mia!
The Sixth Sense
Schindler’s List
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Indiana Jones (all)
The BFG
Blue Velvet
Inglorious Basterds
Reservoir Dogs
Big Hero 6
Pulp Fiction
Million Dollar Baby
Django Unchained
The Hateful Eight
Bourne (all)
The Professor and the Madman
The Professional (Leon)
I Am Sam
Rocketman
Bohemian Rhapsody
Borat (1st one)
Ocean’s Eleven
Ocean’s Twelve
Ocean’s Thirteen
Michael Clayton
The Davinci Code
Angels and Demons
Fargo
Barton Fink
The Big Lebowski
The Silence of the Lambs
Moneyball
Capote
Owning Mahowny
Being John Malkovitch
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (all)
Chariots of Fire
The Princess Bride
Mauritius
South by Southwest
Ender’s Game
Interstellar (forget the Hollywood apocalyptic nature nonsense)
Death of a Salesman (Dustin Hoffman)
Glengarry Glen Ross
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Mission Impossible (Tom Cruise, all)
Minority Report
Ghandi
Three Identical Strangers
Lawrence of Arabia
Man on the Moon
Hair Spray (2007)
BlacKkKlansman
Oblivion
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Amadeus
Roma
Tár
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
The Gods Must be Crazy 1 & 2
Diner
Don’t F**k with Cats

See my film theory page.