# Suggest for Me a Film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-a-film/305857 "2005-05-28T04:17:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-a-film/305857/21 "2005-05-28T18:22:12Z")
**I’ll second** Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, To kill a Mockingbird, and Fargo. **I’ll recommend** The Shawshank Redemption, 12 Angry Men, Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (best title ever for a movie), American Beauty, Fight club, A Clockwork Orange, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby and Dog Day Afternoon. **If you want to catch up to all the TV culture you’ve missed out on** I’d watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Dazed and Confused, Star wars, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Fight Club, both Terminator movies (you can skip the third if you want), The Graduate, Back to the Future, Groundhog Day, Midnight Cowboy (it will help you understand the Seinfeld episode where George buys John Voight’s car) and the number one office movie that dominate the office comedy genre: Office Space. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-a-film/305857/22 "2005-05-29T00:51:05Z")
5 great films (off the top of my head) that are still enjoyable when watched on video (or DVD) rather than in the theatre… [Arsenic and Old Lace](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/) [Duck Soup](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0023969/) [Matewan](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/) [One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/) [The Spy Who Came In From The Cold](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0059749/) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-a-film/305857/23 "2005-05-29T07:21:48Z")
> [@Stark Raven Mad](#): > > For more recent films: > > _Requiem for a Dream_ > _Trainspotting_ > _Pulp Fiction_ > _Amadeus_ > > I have no idea why three of those four movies involve a lot of drugs. Wait, which one doesn’t? I won’t recommend _Kentucky Fried Movie_, although my father made me watch it when I was a kid–so then of course, he figured I had to watch _Enter the Dragon_… OK, here’s the list: **First Knight Superman II**–skip the rest of the series, seriously **A Knight’s Tale Four Weddings & a Funeral** (these last two I just _have to_ watch again periodically. ymmv) **The Princess Bride Groundhog Day Joe Vs. the Volcano** (with your previous viewing experience, you may not be bothered by the low production values) **Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home Pretty in Pink Metropolis** (the silent film by Fritz Lang) **Twilight of the Cockroaches** (Japanese, mixed animation & live-action, & really out there) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-a-film/305857.md?page=1)