This is a list of recommended movies to watch for everyone born after the year 2000.
This includes movies released in 2005 and before and thus today there are many young people on the planet who have not seen these amazing movies yet at all.
If you are a Zoomer, i.e. born in 2000 or later, consider knowing about these movies as part of general education.
But regardless whether you are a Zoomer, a Millenial or older, if you have not yet seen these movies yet, then go and watch them and thank me later .
I have only included movies that I personally like. Movies only, no anime or series.
There are also movies that one absolutely must watch during one’s lifetime.
If one has not watched these, it is almost to be considered like a failed incarnation of sorts…
#JustifiedFOMO
Such must watch movies have [MUST WATCH] behind their title.
Only you with Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey jr. - circa 1994
A terrible movie that I happen to love, I watch it mostly to see Billy Zane say “molto coinchidenchay”
Plot:
Marisa Tomei plays Faith, a hopeless romantic who brings new meaning to the term. When she’s 11 she gets the name “Damon Bradley” as her soul mate off a Ouija board.
This girl is in her wedding dress ok? She goes, in her wedding dress, to the airport, flies to italy to find this person, and complete ridiculousness further ensues.
Hamlet 1996
Everything from Andrej Tarkowski and nearly everything from Ingmar Bergman
Citizen Kane
Oldboy 2003
Tatami Galaxy
Monster (04-05 anime)
Serial Experiments Lain
Revolver
Mulholland Drive
Lost Highway
Eraserhead
12 Angry Men
Gosford Park
Casino
Magnolia
There Will Be Blood
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Memento
The Prestige
This post is very sweet but funny, cause this list is longer than the subjects we study in school?
But as a Zoomer I’m proud to say I’ve watched a few of them.
Also shouldn’t Godfather make it into the list? Baap of all films
Hah yes they’re cult classics especially with the West. But many Zoomers in the East like me are delving into Hollywood now so even Godfather is new. In my circles, very few people of my age have seen it. It’s mostly the older generation.
Never thought about that. American. What can I say.
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Waking Life
The Untouchables
Winter Kills
The Parallax View
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Endless Summer
I find this movie very average. 6/10 at best. Just some criminals with a few interesting lines of dialogue. Good actors, but boring story. No notable special effects. That’s why it is not on my list.
Godfather and Godfather II are kind of a rite of passage in the U.S., I think they’re great, but @JAAJ’s pick Once Upon a Time in America is better. Both are fascinating studies of the American Dream.
Loved Interview with a Vampire! I never realised how much of a good actor Tom Cruise was until I watched that movie. Check out his other movies that are worth watching too; Rain Man (featuring Dustin Hoffman). Heard good things too about Vanilla Sky but not seen this though.
I really enjoyed The Shawshank Redemption and I’ve watched it numerous times but it is kind of overrated I think (…especially on IMDB). No Zoomer or anyone for that matter has seen the greatest prison drama until you’ve watched Papillion. The remake is good but the old version is a masterpiece with an all round great cast and exceptional performance by Steve McQueen. The new version is still worth watching but the original is better directing, acting and narrative since the remake had lots of changes made to it so they can sell the film more (sex and violence etc).
Here are many honourable mentions:
Comedy:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Patch Adams
Mrs Doubtfire
Lets go to Prison
Clerks (trilogy)
Airheads
Planes, Trains and Automobile’s
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 (The funniest movie I’ve ever seen and great legendry actors you’ll never see again. It makes Rat Race and The Cannon Ball Run movie look disappointing/inadequate)
Uncle Buck
Crime/Gangster/Thriller:
Donnie Brasco
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
New Jack City
Heat (A bank heist shootout that makes WW2’s D-Day look like Disneyland)
Falling Down (I don’t blame him )
Action:
Con Air (High-octane pure action… cant ask for anything more)
Speed (There’s a bomb on the bus!!! That ending scene where that train light takes Dennis Hopper’s head clean off )
The Running Man
Sci-Fi:
Bicentennial Man (Very wholesome movie for the family to watch)
AI: Artificial Intelligence (Unbelievably sad and tear jerking that would even make Jason Voorhees burst in to tears)
Steven Spielberg Presents Taken- Short/3 seasons TV series (Bonus)
Red Planet (It’s basically like the film Predator but instead it’s about a robot called AMEE that turns rogue on the space crew and starts hunting/picking them off one by one… worth watching if you liked Predator movie)
Romance:
Ghost
Leaving Las Vegas
Horror:
The Ring 1998 Japanese version (Even Freddy Kruger would run a mile)
Pet Sematary 1989 (Very disturbing horror… but underrated)
Day of the Dead 1985 (Gruesome, sick and gory but a notorious zombie classic that was banned once… the ending can be quite difficult to watch)
The Thing 1982
Carrie 1976
The Fly 1986
The Lost Boys (About vampires…)
Arachnophobia (Most horrors are usually adults only but this is rated PG-13. Many critics say it should be a 15 due to the psychological horror theme and fear factor)
Blade
Dead Silence (Killer Ventriloquist dummies… terrifyingly good that will keep you awake at night for a whole week)
Scream 1996
Drama:
Heavenly Creatures (Its a great film by Peter Jackson and underrated but very weird/uncanny… adults only for this one)
A Clockwork Orange (A notorious controversial cult classic that was once banned… a Stanley Kubrick must watch for any Zoomer)
Animal Farm 1999 (Controversial film by George Orwell about Communism and collectivism… 1984 film is another similar adaptation that’s worth watching if you enjoyed Animal Farm)
This Boys Life (Great acting chemistry between Robert Di Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio)
War:
Apocalypse Now (Disturbing Vietnam war drama about an army officer been sent to assassinate a renegade special force soldier)
Platoon
We Were Soldiers
The Pianist
The Deer Hunter
Empire of the Sun (Coming of age WW2 drama about the Japanese Empire)
Full Metal Jacket (Ruthless dehumanising basic training that takes place before embarking the killings of Vietnam… adults only)
I tried watching Godfather on the TV this one time but it was the slowest movie I’ve ever watched… I literally fell a sleep, no word of a lie. I usually handle similar films like Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner but Godfather for me unfortunately was just next level slow.
Honestly though if anyone here cant sleep at night… just slap on Godfather.
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I won’t have a shortage of movies to watch now for like a lifetime. So many to go 
this is the first time I’ve heard someone say that about Godfather. Haha I suppose there are better movies when you’ve seen so much
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