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Originally Posted by sightless
Sure, Netflix has a ton of movies which I consider to be must see. Here are some of them:
Broken Blossoms (1919) - D.W. Griffith
Chess Fever (1925) - Pudovkin
Man with the Movie Camera (1929) - Vertov
It Happened One Night (1934) - Capra
Grand Illusion (1937) - Renoir
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Capra
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) - Hawks
Stagecoach (1939) - Ford
His Girl Friday (1940) - Hawks
The Maltese Falcon (1941) - Huston
Casablanca (1942) - Curtiz
To Be or Not To Be (1942) - Lubitsch
Laura (1944) - Preminger
The Big Sleep (1946) - Hawks
My Darling Clementine (1946) - Ford
Thieves' Highway (1949) - Dassin
The Third Man (1949) - Reed
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Kazan
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) - Minnelli
On the Waterfront (1954) - Kazan
La Strada (1954) - Fellini
Paths of Glory (1957) - Kubrick
Vertigo (1958) - Hitchcock
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) - Chukhrai
Eyes Without a Face (1959) - Franju
Peeping Tom (1960) - Powell
Marnie (1964) - Hitchcock
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) - Demy
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Penn
Point Blank (1967) - Boorman
Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Rosenberg
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) - Neame
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972) - Fassbinder
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) - Herzog
The BRD Trilogy: Veronika Voss (1982) - Fassbinder
The Son (2002) - Dardenne
ok here is some more recommendations to watch instantly on netflix. The first batch of these movies and the ones listed in a quote above are the ones which I consider to be all time great/great and believe that any serious movie fan should check them out. The second batch are movies which I feel just miss the mark of being great. I have about 200 more movies on my watch instantly queue, so obv there are a ton more quality movies available to watch.
8 1/2 (1963)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)
The Awful Truth (1937)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
The Birds (1963)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961)
Destiny (1921)
Diabolique (1954)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Exorcist (1973)
Fear of Fear (1975)
Gilda (1946)
Gosford Park (2001)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Hombre (1967)
Ikiru (1952)
Ivan the Terrible (1944)
Julia (2008)
Klute (1971)
L'Avventura (1960)
La jete'e (1961)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Murderers Are Among Us (1946)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Pickpocket (1959)
Psycho (1960)
Rashomon (1950)
Scarface (1932)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Solaris (1972)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
12 Monkeys (1995)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Blade Runner(1982)
Branded to Kill (1967)
California Split (1974)
Carrie (1976)
The China Syndrome (1979)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Elevator to the Gallows (1957)
Foolish Wives (1922)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
The General (1927)
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
Gloria (1980)
The Innocents (1961)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Keane (2004)
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
The Marriage Circle (1921)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Memento (2000)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
A Nos Amours (1983)
Onibaba (1964)
Pandora's Box (1929)
People Will Talk (1951)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Saboteur (1942)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Searchers (1956)
Shanghai Triad (1995)
The Shooting (1967)
Show Me Love (1998)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
The Tall T (1957)
The Trial (1962)
Ugetsu (1953)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Yojimbo (1961)
Z (1969)
Last edited by sightless; 01-25-2010 at 03:05 PM.