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

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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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