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Includes Let Us Prey, Waste Land, Necrofobia, and Over Your Dead Body

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/check-out-spike-lees-list-of-essential-films-every-filmmaker-must-see-20130726

Includes Miracle Mile, Zathura, Strings, and The Last Wave

Includes The Woods, Ek Hasina Thi, The Meltdown Memoirs, and Wilderness

Includes Diary of the Dead, The Entrance, Wicked Flowers, and Kuruizaki sanda rodo

Includes Let the Right One In, Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu, Acolytes, and The Man from Hong Kong

Includes Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Doghouse, Battle League Horumo, and RoboGeisha

Includes Fire of Conscience, Primal, Buried, and Secuestrados

Includes Body Temperature, Underwater Love, Aardvark, and Two Eyes Staring

Includes Cold Blooded, La Memoria del Muerto, The Final Member, and Plan C

Includes LFO: The Movie, Coherence, Moebius, and Patrick

Includes Cowboys & Aliens, Small Time Crooks, I Am Number Four, and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Includes The Adventures of Tintin, Tintin and the Lake of Sharks, and The Crab with the Golden Claws

Includes Equilibrium, Continuum, Person of Interest, and Eyeborgs

Those excellent epic battles that leave you in awe in the sheer scale of the men involved and the superb work done by the cast and crew to create such intense on-screen action.

Includes Miracolo a Milano, I mitici, A Brief Vacation, and Rocco and His Brothers

A genre and movement of film noted for its emphasis on social equality and intellectualism that rose to prominence in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Novo#List_of_key_films

Includes The Faculty, American Pie, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, and Pump Up the Volume

Includes A River Runs Through It, 127 Hours, Fargo, and There's Something About Mary

Includes A Separation, The Battle of Chile: Part 1, Spirit of the Beehive, and A Brighter Summer Day

Includes Kurt Josef Wagle og legenden om Fjordheksa, The New World, Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World, and Rugrats Go Wild

Films that received the highest possible rating in Halliwell's Film Guide (2005 edition)

Includes The Happening, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Next, and I, Robot

Includes and Savage

Includes Red Dragon, Manhunter, Hannibal, and The Silence of the Lambs

Includes My Friend Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Army, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein, and Victor Frankenstein

Includes Metropolitan, The Taste of Money, Human Capital, and Abraham's Valley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Man

Includes The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury, Riddick, The Chronicles of Riddick, and Pitch Black

Includes The Grand Budapest Hotel, Birdman, Selma, and The Imitation Game

Includes Aliens, Alien, and Akira

is the term for a group of Japanese film directors emerging from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. The term also refers to their work, in a loose creative movement within Japanese film, from a similar time period.

Films reflective of the time in which they were made, more so than other films made in the same period. As such the goal is to pick one or two film per year.

Every nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. An interesting mix of renowned masterpieces as well as quite a few films that have fallen into obscurity. notes: - The winners are listed first, and then the also-rans. Otherwise, they're listed chronologically (by year of nomination). - Some films were nominated a year or two before or after their official release date. - The award has been given since 1947 but there was no official nominees list until 1956. - There was no award given in 1953. - One film, Un Lugar En El Mundo (1992), was announced as a nominee but later disqualified & removed from the final ballot. I've included it here. - If you're only interested in the winners, there's a fine collection, "Oscar: Best Foreign Film" moderated by PeaceAnarchy. - based on information from Wikipedia.

Films and series for those who have ever uttered the phrase: 'Protect muh property', especially if they held a firearm while saying so.

Includes Sanjay's Super Team, Stutterer, Day One, and World of Tomorrow

Films in the Land Before Time series.

The Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA) founded in 1982, are the most prestigious film awards in Hong Kong and among the most respected in mainland China and Taiwan. Award ceremonies are held annually, typically in April. The awards are the Hong Kong equivalent to the American Oscars and the British BAFTAS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Film_Award http://www.hkfaa.com/

collection of films featuring beautiful snowy winter landscapes

Includes Hanussen, Life or Something Like It, and Knowing

Films in which the main character(s) lack meaningful connection with or get help from others, resulting in isolation and feelings of depression and despair.

A collection for the "House" franchise of horror films.

A film being complete shit is not a sufficient requirement for inclusion in this list. Rather, it must be clear that its makers deluded themselves into believing it was not shitty, even though it really is.

Includes Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The American Friend, The Barefoot Contessa, and The Sweet Hereafter

Includes AVP: Alien vs. Predator, The Ruins, and Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

Includes Shrek 2, The Pig Who Cried Werewolf, Shrek the Third, and Scared Shrekless

Any movie that contains a montage of two lovers walking on the beach, sharing a milkshake, having fun at the carnival, running through a meadow or any other activities that two people in love do in a movie.

Great films that have some form of prolonged silence or quieter movies in general.

Includes and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

This is a collection of films involving 2 (or more) opposing/competing/alternate realities, that each give the film a completely different meaning, thus causing a paradigm shift as the movie switches from one reality to another. As this happens, the story told is revealed in a drastically different light, shattering the viewer's preconceptions and altering the viewer's understanding so profoundly that the entire storyline must be contemplated in a new context by the viewer who is forced to revisit everything that happened during the film. This is different from just finding out, who the murderer is. When the viewer encounters a paradigm shift, it is a radical alteration of his perception of events from the beginning of the film through to the end. ---- Unfortunately, for the time being, I can only come up with some pretty mediocre examples, that don't really hit the mark. I will add better examples later on.

Examples (some spoilers ahead):
• a person, who is either insane or experiencing supernatural events
• a foe taken for a friend or vice versa
• ambiguous clues possibly suggesting that a person has been dead all along the movie.
• In "K-Pax" the audience wonders whether the protagonist is insane or an alien.
• In "Shutter Island", Leo DiCaprio is either a US Marshal or a psychiatric patient.