Approved Movies

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This is a list of /tg/ approved movies, organized into loose genres, alphabetically.

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Science Fiction

  • 5th Element, The
  • Animatrix - short Program [animated] (how to pull certain /tg/ cliche right)
  • Appleseed
  • Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina
  • Blade Runner [final cut]
  • Brazil
  • Children of Men
  • Chronicle [2012]
  • Dark City
  • Dark Star
  • District 9
  • Donnie Darko
  • Doomsday
  • Dredd [2012]
  • Equilibrium
  • Event Horizon
  • eXistenZ
  • Galaxy Quest
  • Gattaca
  • Immortal [French]
  • Inception
  • The Iron Giant [animated]
  • K-Pax
  • The Lord Inquisitor [animated]
  • The Matrix
  • Metropolis [1927]
  • Metropolis [animated]
  • Moon
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [animated]
  • O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization [Polish] (best unofficial Paranoia movie)
  • Outlander
  • The Prestige
  • Primer
  • Robocop [1987]
  • Robocop 2
  • Robot Jox
  • Snowpiercer
  • Solaris [1972, 2002]
  • The Sphere
  • Stalker [Russian]
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  • Star Wars [original trilogy]
  • Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country, First Contact and Beyond for sure)
  • Stargate (1994)
  • Starship Troopers
  • Strange days
  • Sunshine
  • Terminator
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • The Thirteenth Floor
  • Total recall [1990]
  • Transformers: The Movie [Animated, 1987 version only]
  • Twelve Monkeys
  • Ultramarines:The Movie [Animated]
  • WALL-E [animated]

Horror

  • 28 Days Later
  • 30 days of night
  • 9th Gate
  • Alien
  • Aliens
  • Alien 3 [director's cut]
  • Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre [French] - preferably helped with the original mini-series from the 60s.
  • Brotherhood of the Wolf [French]
  • Cabin In The Woods
  • The Descent
  • Dog Soldiers
  • Eraserhead
  • Evil Dead [trilogy]
  • Event Horizon
  • The Exorcist
  • The Gift [2000]
  • Hellraiser
  • In the Mouth of Madness
  • Interview with the Vampire (and gender-flipper Byzantium)
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Pandorum
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • The Shining
  • The Thing [1982]
  • Witchfinder General
  • The VVitch [2015]

Fantasy

The essential fantasy trilogy (not on the list because it's so obvious that this is a /tg/ approved movie).
  • The 13th Warrior
  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  • The Beastmaster
  • Beowulf [animated, 2007]
  • Big Trouble in Little China
  • The Brothers Grimm
  • Camelot (1988)
  • Conan the Barbarian [1982]
  • Conan the Destroyer
  • Dragonheart
  • Erik the Viking
  • Excalibur
  • Fire and Ice [animated]
  • Highlander (only the first movie; "Highlander II: The Quickening" is /tg/ unapproved, but worth a watch if you just want to see an insanely bad movie and a solid lesson in how *not* to extend a setting)
  • The Hobbit [Animated]
  • How to Train Your Dragon [animated]
  • Howl's Moving Castle [animated]
  • Immortal [French]
  • Ink (2009)
  • Innocent Blood (1992)
  • Jabberwocky (1977)
  • Jumanji (and if you have spare time - the animated TV show too)
  • Krull
  • Kull the Conqueror
  • Ladyhawke
  • The Last Unicorn [animated]
  • The Last Witch Hunter
  • The Legend
  • Lord of the Rings [animated]
  • Night Watch (Russian)
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]
  • Ondine
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Princess Mononoke [animated]
  • The Princess Bride
  • The Return of the King [animated]
  • Ronal The Barbarian [animated]
  • SAGA - Curse of the Shadow
  • Solomon Kane
  • Song of the Sea [animated]
  • Secret of Kells [animated]
  • Stardust
  • The Thief of Baghdad (1924/1940)
  • Time Bandits
  • Trollhunter [Norwegian]
  • Vidocq [French]
  • Willow

Comedy

  • Forrest Gump
  • Fright Night (1985 & 2011)
  • Futurama Bender's Game - A Futurama movie created in honor of Gary Gygax's death. Basically a parody to Dungeon and Dragons and lord of the ring. It also counts as a science fiction film because well, is Futurama.
  • The Gamers trilogy (preferably with dice subtitles)
  • Gentlemen Broncos
  • Groundhog Day
  • Kung Fu Hustle
  • Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Monty Python's Life of Brian
  • Shaun Of The Dead [Actually, the whole Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End]
  • Snatch
  • The Sting
  • Your Highness
  • What We Do In The Shadows
  • Zombieland

Western

  • 3:10 to Yuma [1957]
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Dollars Trilogy [A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - preferably extended cuts]
  • The Good, The Bad, The Weird [Korean] (Korean cut, not the international!)
  • High Noon
  • High Plain Drifter
  • The Magificent Seven [1960]
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Open Range
  • Outland
  • Pale Rider
  • Quigley down under
  • Rio Bravo
  • Silverado
  • Tombstone
  • Treasure of the Silver Lake (along with other Winnetou films) - a warning of what happens if you have no clue how to run a western setting.
  • Unforgiven
  • The Wild Bunch
  • White Sun of the Desert (Soviet "eastern")

Action

  • Blood Diamond
  • Centurion
  • Collateral
  • Commando
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Departed (and original Infernal Affairs)
  • Die Hard 1 & 3 (and only those two)
  • Elite Squad 1 & 2 (Brazilian)
  • Escape from New York
  • Hard Boiled (1992)
  • Haywire
  • Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
  • Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]
  • Mad Max [original trilogy only]
  • Mission Impossible 3 & 4 (and only those two)
  • Predator & Predators
  • Ronin [1998]
  • Running Scared (2006)
  • Streets of Fire
  • True Lies
  • Waterworld
  • The Untouchables

War

  • Apocalypse Now
  • Das Boot [extended, serialised version - takes 7 hours, worth every minute]
  • Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut]
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Platoon
  • Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]
  • Sahara [1943/95, *not* the adventure flick from 2005]
  • Soldier (1998)
  • War [2002, Russian]

Crime

  • Chinatown
  • Crimson Rivers [French] (avoid English dubbing, it's horrible)
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)
  • The Good Thief
  • Heat
  • L.A. Confidential
  • Layer Cake
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • The Town [2010]
  • Trance [2013]
  • The Truth About Charlie
  • Witness (1985)

Adventure

  • The Crimson Pirate [1952]
  • The Ghost and the Darkness
  • The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
  • Indiana Jones [trilogy only - outside the original 3 there are no others]
  • King Solomon's Mines [1985]
  • Last of the Mohicans
  • The Man Who Would Be King
  • The Mummy (1999 - and only this one)
  • Prince of Persia
  • The Road to El Dorado [Animated]
  • Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
  • Tintin - both the 2011 motion capture and old feature animations from the 60s (animated TV series is meanwhile approved television)
  • Tomb Raider [2001] (Just bring lots of alcohol and friends)

General

  • Mazes and Monsters - The so bad that is good type movie. Based on Jack Chick's story that bashes dungeon's and dragon, calling it a satanic game. Starring Toms Hank and World Trade Center Towers (it was made before their destruction)
  • 7 Samurai
  • Astropia
  • A boy and his dog
  • The Cell
  • The City of Lost Children
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • The Day After (1983)
  • Dr. No
  • The Duellists
  • The Fall
  • Fight Club DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS
  • Heavy Metal (animated)
  • The Hidden Fortress (Japanese)
  • House of Flying Daggers
  • In The Name Of The Rose
  • Jurassic Park
  • The Last Valley
  • Léon: the Professional
  • The Lives of Others [German] (how to Lawful Evil)
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (how to maritime)
  • Miracle Mile
  • Once upon a time in China 1 & 2
  • Ran (Japanese)
  • Rashômon (1950)
  • Rob Roy
  • Sanjuro (1962)
  • The Seventh Seal
  • Six-String Samurai
  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
  • Sorcerer [1977, obligatory HD restored version]
  • Superman (1978) & Superman 2 (1980)
  • The Sword and the Rose
  • Throne of Blood (Japanese)
  • Trash Humpers
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • The Wild Hunt
  • Yôjinbô (Japanese)
  • Zatōichi (at least the 2003 film)