What are the most amazing movies, in your opinion? If you knew your friend was dying and you had to make them a list of movies they needed to see before they die, what would you pick? Any genre.

List away!!!!!!! (and I am looking at you, member with the Hutz avatar)

Is this actually for someone dying? Just making sure ha I'm bad at understanding things over the interwebz

Anywho, here would be my list, it's probably not that good. In order:

1) Waiting For Guffman
2) High Fidelity
3) The Cheerleaders ('70s sexploitation at its VERY best)
4) Almost Famous
5) Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
6) Big Fish
7) Sid and Nancy
8) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
9) Girl, Interrupted
10) There's Something About Mary

...quite random

Can I add more later? I need to think about it more I guess lol.

haha no it's not for an actual dying person Thanks and feel free to add whenever you want.

Waking Life
What The Bleep Do We Know!?
Pi
Another Day In Paradise
Muriel's Wedding
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Amélie
Children of Men
The Fountainhead

Oh, and Nothing Is Private. I saw it at TIFF this past year. And I saw Alan Ball in person!
Double feature with American Beauty.

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The Graduate
Being John Malkovich
Requiem For A Dream
Better Off Dead
High Fidelity
Heathers
Breathless
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Pretty In Pink
Dazed and Confused

twas a tough list to make...

Blue
Red
The Sweet Hereafter

also
Network
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Shining (Original)
American Beauty

Just some random films:

Chinatown
Ed Wood
Candy
The Dark Crystal
Heathers
Unforgiven
Die Hard
Festen (The Celebration)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God

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I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

toto the hero
my life as a dog
freddy got fingered
santa sangre
lost highway
edit to add: touch of evil

just looking at these films that i think are important to see before you die, even freddy got fingered.. they all fuck with you. they all try and rattle you. the death rattle of complacency. toto the hero and my life as a dog are very innocent but they do the same thing.

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When I awoke, the Dire Wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was "Come on in".
Grateful Dead

my son and i talk about the skecksies all the time. because they are RUDE and eat with their mouths open and throw food on the floor.

and yes to die hard and aguirre. and NO a big resounding no to festen. might as well watch dripping water russian put a fucking drill to my head and let the spirits out before they consume me NO

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When I awoke, the Dire Wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was "Come on in".
Grateful Dead

I love Festen. I find it uplifting.

I got my sister a DVD of The Dark Crystal as soon as her daughter was born, because she must watch it as soon as possible. Demelza and I watched it around 4/5 and it never hurt us. She approved of my purchase whole-heartedly. I got the daughter a "Where's Bin Laden" book this year.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

are you a skecksie? oh i just looked it up. they spell it skeksi

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When I awoke, the Dire Wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was "Come on in".
Grateful Dead

Here is something geeky for you.. at work we discovered that Pi is an exact copy of an early Donald Duck short called "Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land" or something like that. We even got them both in and set up a screening of both for whichever dorks at work were interested.. and it was true!!

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Nosferatu
Frankenstein
Godfather
Terminator
Degrassi 'Schools Out'
Amadeus
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Natural Born Killers
Alien
Begotten
Nekromantik 2
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Last Man On Earth
Masque of the Red Death
Freaks

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festen is great, ever so exciting.

i find these lists hard to do. i looked at some top 100 films ever lists for prompting, but they're all full of shit like chaplin, and the more modern films will be the usual overrated stuff like blade runner.

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I'd like to add Dune.

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Juices like wine, like the blood in the sands.

Dr. Strangelove
The Big Lebowski
What's eating Gilbert Grape
Stand By Me
Gone With the Wind
Brief Encounter
Citizin Kane
Psycho
Say Anything
Caddyshack haha

I'm certainly not a pod person! That's so awesomely dark for a film for wee kids, sucking the life essence out of helpless puppets!

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

Chungking Express
Happy Together
Three Colours: Blue
Shaun of the Dead
Platoon
Amelie
Orlando
Rumblefish

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The city lights are cold and violent.

amelie
waking life
watership down
like water for chocolate
A very long engagement
Sin city
Leaving las vegas
Donnie darko
sunshine boys
dancer in the dark
silence of the lambs
clockwork orange
alien, aliens
terminator, terminator 2
forrest gump
e.t.
leaving las vegas
fear and loathing in las vegas
bringing out the dead
lord of war
Philadelphia