Good films
Created: 07 Sep 2019, Modified: 08 Feb 2026
favourite 3
- Life Story (1987)
- Day of the Dead (1985)
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
history
main list
- taps
- contagion
- contratiempo [the invisible guest]
- world war z
- 12 angry men
- mission impossible 5
- flynn’s robin hood
- crowe’s robin hood
- october sky
- philomena
- life story (the race for the double helix)
- breaker morant
- gallipoli
- the water diviner
- the shankshaw redemption
- black hawk down
- darkest hour
- fargo
- in the valley of elah
- the hunt for red october
- the fugitive
- bridge of spies
- road to perdition
- spooks (mi-5)
- courage under fire
- outbreak (i can’t remember liking it that much but looks like i rated it 10)
- the silence of the lambs
- a few good men
- state of play (can’t even remember that one)
- a monster calls
- the second downey sherlock holmes film
- the man from uncle
- men in black 3
- sunshine
- source code
- the grand budapest hotel
- star trek IV an undiscovered country
- mr holmes
- star trek generations
- gravity
- mad max fury road
- the martian
- interstellar
- whiplash
- star trek I-III
- v for vendetta
- snowpiercer
- 2001 a space odyssey
- gladiator
- stargate
- transcendence
- some of the alien films probably deserve a mention
- the thing
- a league of their own
- unbroken
- annihilation [esp if you cut all the modern day awkward scenes]
- the irishman
- the two popes
- ad astra
- the girl with all the gifts
- the way back (2020)
- 1917
- hamilton
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Tenet (2020)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
- The Italian Job (1969)
- The Day of the Jackal (1973)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- Copshop (2021)
- The First Wave (2021)
- Synchronic (2019)
- Train to Busan (2016)
- Paragon’s Paragon (1974)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- Day of the Dead (1985)
- Arrival (2016)
- Don’t Look Up (2021)
- Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
not sure about them but they affected me a lot
- a league of their own
- citizen kane
- amadeus
- joker
- network
- Soylent Green (1973)
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
quaint
- Blade Runner 2049
- Gemini Man
- The Madness of King George [flawed, but i really like pembroke a huge amount]
- terminator: dark fate [very flawed, not as good as i’d hoped, but grace is still so cool and deserves mention]
- little joe
- Riders of Justice (2020)
- Passenger 57 (1992)
- The Fifth Element (1997)
- Shock Waves (1977)
- zombie nazis at the bottom of the ocean
favourite james bond
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- the one with the space hijackings
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
- the on in the swiss alps; nice music and kind of quaint, the only film with lazenby as bond
- The Living Daylights (1987)
- dalton’s first bond, the one with the sniper. very mission-impossible-esque
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