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DocTWood's "Movies I Keep Recommending To People"

So people always ask, and then I respond off the top of my head. So here is a list of 100 off the top of my head which I then started to put into alphabetical order post-facto (you’ll see I made it 20 some movies in before nixing anymore sorting).

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1. Casino (Widescreen 10th Anniversary Edition)
by Martin Scorsese
 
2. City of God
by Fernando Meirelles
 
3. Collateral (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Mann
 
4. A Clockwork Orange
by Stanley Kubrick
 
5. Crash (Widescreen Edition)
by Paul Haggis
 
6. Das Boot - The Director's Cut
by Wolfgang Petersen
 
7. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Richard Kelly (II)
 
8. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
 
9. Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by David Fincher
 
10.
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Four Rooms
by Quentin Tarantino
 
11. From Dusk Till Dawn (Dimension Collector's Series)
by Robert Rodriguez
 
12. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Widescreen Edition)  
13. Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition)  
14. Leon - The Professional (Deluxe Edition)
by Luc Besson
 
15.
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lies  
16. Murderball
by Henry Alex Rubin
 
17. The Pianist  
18. The Silence of the Lambs (Full Screen Special Edition)
by Jonathan Demme
 
19. Swingers
by Doug Liman
 
20. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)  
21. Whale Rider
by Niki Caro
 
22. The Whole Nine Yards
by Jonathan Lynn
 
23. Training Day  
24. Raging Bull (Special Edition)  
25. Gallipoli (Special Edition)
by Peter Weir
 
26. In America
by Jim Sheridan
 
27. The Machinist
by Brad Anderson (II)
 
28. Scarface (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)
by Brian De Palma
 
29. The Killing Fields
by Roland Joffé
 
30. Memento (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Christopher Nolan
 
31. Intermission
by John Crowley (III)
 
32. Downfall
by Oliver Hirschbiegel
 
33. Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut)  
34. Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
by David Fincher
 
35. A Christmas Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
36. The Natural
by Barry Levinson
 
37. L.A. Confidential
by Curtis Hanson
 
38. The Shawshank Redemption (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Frank Darabont
 
39. Gandhi  
40. Natural Born Killers
by Oliver Stone
 
41. American History X
by Tony Kaye
 
42. Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Mann
 
43. Death to Smoochy (Widescreen Edition)  
44. Apocalypse Now Redux  
45. Alien
by Ridley Scott
 
46. Cool Hand Luke
by Stuart Rosenberg
 
47. This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)  
48. Hoosiers
by David Anspaugh
 
49. The Sting (Universal Legacy Series)
by George Roy Hill
 
50. Full Metal Jacket  
This is DocTWood's list. Only DocTWood can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by DocTWood on Apr 29, 2006.