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Comedy & Buddy || Action, War, & Westerns || Rebels, Cops, & Criminals
Horror, Sci-Fi, Art House, & Mindbenders || Classics, Nudity, & Train Wrecks
WHICH MOVIES IS THE MOST SEEN? FIND OUT HERE!
HORROR
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More Must-See Horror Movies |
Carrie 1976
The Exorcist 1973
The Fly 1986
Halloween 1978
Jaws 1975
A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
Psycho 1960
Rosemary’s Baby 1968
The Shining 1980
28 Days Later 2002 |
 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1974
None of the countless teens-versus-cannibals ripoffs can match the indie audacity and nerve-jangling trauma of Tobe Hooper’s original gorefest. It may be the only horror movie for which the audio alone would scare you stupid.
Rewind: The infamous “meat hook” scene is edited so well, viewers rarely notice that they never actually see hook pierce flesh.
Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead
1968/1978
George A. Romero combined politics and apocalypse to invent the zombie genre as we know it in his still-terrifying no-budget B&W classic, Night—then topped it with the splatter-tastic Dawn.
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Three Must-See Horror Clips |
SCI-FI/FANTASY
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More Must-See Sci-Fi Movies |
Alien/Aliens 1979, 1986
Back to the Future 1985
Blade Runner 1982
Children of Men 2006
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
E.T. 1982
King Kong 1933
Planet of the Apes 1968
Star Wars 1977
Terminator/T2 1984, 1991 | The Empire Strikes Back
1980
It takes a lot to trump an immortal classic. But damn if this funnier, smarter, darker sequel, featuring an AT-AT battle, Han Solo in carbonite, and Yoda, doesn’t pull it off.
 2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Who needs drugs when you have the Blu-ray of this cosmic magnum opus? Stanley Kubrick combines a classical soundtrack with then-advanced FX to tackle no less a theme than the eons-spanning evolution of humankind.
Extra: To nail HAL 9000’s creepily relaxed computer voice, actor Douglas Rain spoke his lines with his bare feet resting on a pillow.
Starship Troopers
1997
In the future, soldiers will look like models. They will wage war against alien bugs. And a current of fascism will turn a B-movie into a dissertation-worthy classic.
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Three Must-See Sci-Fi Clips |
ART HOUSE
 A Clockwork Orange
1971
The swinging ’60s meet dystopian future in Stanley Kubrick’s daring provocation, in which proto-punk Malcolm McDowell somehow gets our sympathy when brainwashed by the big, bad government.
Rewind: McDowell mimics Singin’ in the Rain while engaging in a bit of ultraviolence.
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More Must-See Art House |
Badlands 1973
The Bicycle Thief 1948
The Conversation 1974
Do the Right Thing 1989
Elephant Man 1980
The Last Picture Show 1971
Repo Man 1984
Rushmore 1998
Short Cuts 1993
There Will Be Blood 2007 | Withnail and I
1987
Take two drug-addled on-the-dole actors from 1969 London, throw them into a dilapidated country house, take away any modern conveniences, add a touchy-feely gay uncle and—voilà!—you have a sardonic cult classic. Cheers!
City of God
2002
Imagine the best gangster bits from The Wire, mix in doc-style cinematography, then set the whole thing in the slums of Rio, and you might have something approaching Fernando Meirelles gritty, intoxicating epic.
Annie Hall
1977
Relationships suck—and yet everybody wants one. No film better explains that paradox than Woody Allen’s lone Best Director winner, whose title character (Diane Keaton) makes Allen equal parts miserable and happy(ish).
Midnight Cowboy
1969
Never has a fish-out-of-water tale been so subversive as when Texas cowboy poser Jon Voight steps off the bus in Manhattan naively looking to become a gigolo and makes unlikely friends with scuzzy swindler Dustin Hoffman.
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Three Must-See Art House Clips |
MINDBENDERS
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More Must-See Mindbenders |
Beetlejuice 1988
Blue Velvet 1986
Brazil 1985
Donnie Darko 2001
Edward Scissorhands 1990
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
Fight Club 1999
Memento 2000
Pink Floyd: The Wall 1982
The Manchurian Candidate 1962 |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975
Obscene chants, trashy lingerie, perversion—and that’s just the audience! No wonder it’s been a midnight staple for decades.
Akira
1988
This anime tour de force makes no sense unless viewed under heavy sedation, but the postapocalyptic Tokyo overrun with biker gangs and fascist police is gorgeous.
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Three Must-See Mindbender Clips |
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