During this isolation, I would be interested in suggestions of great movies you like.


please suggest films you feel are worth, actually very worthy, of watching now?  Looking for very good and intelligent films.  As far as ones that simply pass the time, that will be for another day.  I may have the most interest in any classics I may have missed.....you know, films like 'Howdy Doody, Man or Myth"...and "Sex and the Single Dentist". 


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A Serious Man is perhaps the most overlooked Coen Brothers films. I wouldn't have understood it nearly as well if I hadn't had a Jewish girlfriend. It is like no other movie you have sever seen, which is true of all theirs.

Real good one @r_f_sayles. Wings Of Desire is, amongst other things, one of the most beautiful looking films ever made, breathtakingly so.

The Black & White cinematography in the Coen Brothers The Man Who Wasn't There (starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, and Scarlett Johansson) is the best I've ever seen: deep, deep black, and shimmering, almost iridescently-silver white. 


The Coen Brothers: The Man Who Wasn’t There. A Serious Man. No Country For Old Men.

David Lynch: Eraserhead. Lost Highway. Mulholland Dr.

Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove. Full Metal Jacket.

Jim Jarmusch: Down By Law. Mystery Train. Coffee And Cigarettes.

Billy Wilder: Sunset Blvd. The Apartment.

Martin Scorsese: Mean Streets. Taxi Driver.

Christopher Guest: Best In Show. Waiting For Guffman. A Mighty Wind.

Mel Brooks: The Producers (original). Young Frankenstein.

Carl Reiner: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.

Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation.

Peter Bogdanovich: The Last Picture Show.

Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo.


The Three Faces Of Eve. Sybil.

The American.

Crazy Heart.

Freaks.

The Ghost And Mr. Chicken.

Ghost World.

Kingpin.

The Machinist.

Rivers Edge.

Rubin & Ed.

Tender Mercies.