I am in need of a good movie. I personally haven’t really watched any good movies (According to my friends), so I am here to hear what you guys would recommend me watching. (I’m not a big fan of horror films) Thanks guys! 
Reported for forum change to Cafe Society.
Thread relocated from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Start here: AFI’s 100 greatest movies of all time (PDF). Once you’ve made it through them, come back and we’ll add to it.
The Princess Bride.
Dr. Strangelove.
Forbidden Planet.
Casablanca.
Edward Scissorhands.
Star Wars iV,V.
Star Trek II.
The Man in the White Suit.
Das Boot.
Casablanca
Jaws
Forbidden Planet
Star Wars
Chinatown
Saving Private Ryan
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blade Runner
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Airplane
Groundhog Day
Ghostbusters
Die Hard
The Godfather, parts 1 and 2
All About Eve
Sunset Boulevard
Goodfellas
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Bridge Over The River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
The Searchers
Casino
Terminator
Terminator 2
Beavis and Butthead Do America
The thread title made me think that this was not a run-of-the-mill “movie bucket list” question, but that I’d open it up to learn that you had a terminal disease and were trying to narrow down the last few movies you’d ever watch in your life. Glad that’s not the case.
Given that, start with the AFI Top 100, the IMDB Top 250, the Sight & Sound Top Ten List, etc. If there’s a movie that you respond to, check out other works by the same director. So if you like Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” you might also like “Rear Window” or “North By Northwest.”
Roger Ebert’s Great Movie series is also a good starting point.
Enjoy!
A little film I treasure is the foreign film (Vietnamese language, French production) The Scent of Green Papaya. I saw it when it came out and again very recently. Roger Ebert opined: “I have seen “The Scent of Green Papaya” three times now - the first time in May 1993 at Cannes, where it was named the best film by a first-time director. It is a placid, interior, contemplative film - not plot-driven, but centered on the growth of the young woman. As such, you might think it would seem “slower” on later viewings, but I found that the opposite was true: As I understood better what the movie was, I appreciated it more, because like a piece of music it was made of subtleties that only grew deeper through familiarity. This is a film to cherish.”
Team America: World Police
Pink Flamingos
Gordon
Err…Flesh Gordon
I am sorry for your distress. I just thought that I would try to get all the movies I can see before I die. Thanks for the response, btw.
How long ya got?
Surprisingly, nobody yet has mentioned Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The problem is that once you get your list compiled, more movies that you want to see will continue to be produced between then and the time you die. There’s no catching up.
Gunga Din
In Name Only
The Philadelphia Story
Mr. Lucky
Notorious
The Bishop’s Wife
The Batchelor & the Bobby-Soxer
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
I Was A Male War Bride
Room For One More
To Catch A Thief
North By Northwest
Operation Petticoat
Father Goose
…and of course…
Charade
“You didn’t have to chase me so Hard… That one’s done, start on this one…”
What to watch before I die?
Your step.
Stalag 17! It’s on YouTube, darn it!