This is a list of movies worth watching that I put together a few years ago. I have not updated it recently, so there are not current films on here. Yay for movies! Especially Space Lobster movies! These movies range from quirky oddball movies that are pretty obscure to well made mainstream movies. Mostly they feature interesting characters on interesting journeys, but some are just mental candy.
If you want to research them, you might find helpful info on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes, but don’t believe everything you read. Especially if you are easily transported. Some of those reviews are written by overly analytical types.
About a Boy
About Schmidt
About Time
American Beauty
An Angel at My Table
Anomalisa
As Good As It Gets
Away We Go
Bad Santa
Bad Words
Bagdad Cafe
Barfly
Batman Begins
Beasts of the Southern Wild
A Beautiful Mind
Beginners
Being John Malkovich
Being There
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Big
The Big Chill
Big Fish
The Big Lebowski
Big Night
The Big Short
Birdman
Blacksnake Moan
Boys Don’t Cry
The Breakfast Club
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Captain Phillips
Cast Away
Chef
City of Angels
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cocoon
The Color Purple
Crazy, Stupid, Love
The Crying Game
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Dallas Buyers Club
The Dark Knight
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Dead Man Walking
Dead Poets Society
Defending Your Life
The Descendants
Django Unchained
Don Juan DeMarco
The Doors
The Edge
Election
Elf
The End of the Tour
Erin Brockovich
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ex Machina
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Fargo
Fearless
Finding Forrester
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Fried Green Tomatoes
Frozen River
G. I. Jane
Gandhi
Garden State
Get Low
Ghost Dog
Ghost World
Glengarry Glenn Ross
Gods and Monsters
Goodwill Hunting
Gran Torino
Grandma
Gravity
The Green Mile
Groundhog Day
Guardians of the Galaxy
Harold and Maude
Harvey
Her
Holy Smoke
Hustle & Flow
In the Bedroom
The Incredible Hulk
Into the Wild
Invictus
Iron Man
Jeff Who Lives at Home
The Jerk
Juno
K-Pax
The King’s Speech
Kinsey
Lars and the Real Girl
Last Chance Harvey
The Last Samurai
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
The Lego Movie
Liar Liar
Life as a House
Life of Pi
Limitless
Little Miss Sunshine
Lost in Translation
Love Actually
Lovely and Amazing
Magic Mike XXL
Manchester by the Sea
Margot At The Wedding
The Martian
Michael
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight in Paris
The Milagro Beanfield War
Monster
Moonrise Kingdom
Mud
My First Mister
My New Gun
My Own Private Idaho
Mystic River
Napoleon Dynamite
Nebraska
Night on Earth
O’ Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ocean’s Eleven
Oh, God!
A Perfect World
Phenomenon
Phone Booth
The Piano
Powder
Prelude to a Kiss
Primal Fear
Quills
Rabbit-Proof Fence
The Reader
Role Models
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Rushmore
Safety Not Guaranteed
Say Anything
Scent of a Woman
Schindler’s List
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Secret of Roan Inish
Secretary
A Serious Man
The Sessions
Seven Years in Tibet
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Shakes the Clown
Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Shipping News
Shrek
Silence of the Lambs
Silver Linings Playbook
Sling Blade
Slumdog Millionaire
Smoke Signals
The Squid and the Whale
The Station Agent
Strangers in Good Company
Stranger than Fiction
Strictly Ballroom
Swimming to Cambodia
Thank You for Smoking
Thelma and Louise
The Theory of Everything
To Die For
Tootsie
Toy Story
Trainwreck
TransAmerica
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Up
Up in the Air
The Usual Suspects
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Big Short
The Visitor
Walk the Line
Warm Bodies
What Dreams May Come
Where the Wild Things Are
Whip It
Whiplash
Wild
World’s Greatest Dad
The Wrestler
These are all stories that pleased me in some way. You prolly won’t like them all, but I hope you have fun checking them out and maybe you will find something you have never seen before.
Melissa