Approved Movies

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]
Edge of Tommorow
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]

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]

The 13th Warrior
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Beastmaster
Beowulf [animated, 2007]
Big Trouble in Little China: Mind you, it's Urban Fantasy. Also, very 80s.
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):Hello again, Urban Fantasy.
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

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

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")

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)

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)