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<div>This is a list of /tg/ approved movies, organized into loose genres, alphabetically.<br />
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Add important details in brackets.<br />
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==Science Fiction==<br />
<br />
* 5th Element, The<br />
* The Abyss<br />
* Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension<br />
* Animatrix - short Program [animated] (how to pull certain /tg/ cliche right)<br />
* Appleseed<br />
* Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina<br />
* Avalon [Japanese, with original, Polish voices - this is '''very''' important]<br />
* Babylon A.D.<br />
* Blade Runner [final cut]<br />
* Blade Runner 2049<br />
* Brazil<br />
* Children of Men<br />
* Chronicle [2012]<br />
* Cyborg [1989]<br />
* Dark City<br />
* Dark Star<br />
* District 9<br />
* Donnie Darko<br />
* Doomsday<br />
* [[Judge Dredd|Dredd]] [2012]<br />
* Edge of Tommorow<br />
* Enemy Mine<br />
* Equilibrium<br />
* Event Horizon<br />
* eXistenZ<br />
* Fortress [1992]<br />
* Galaxy Quest<br />
* Gattaca<br />
* Ghosts of Mars<br />
* Hell [German]<br />
* Immortal [French]<br />
* Inception<br />
* The Iron Giant [animated]<br />
* The Island<br />
* Johnny Mnemonic<br />
* K-Pax<br />
* Logan's Run<br />
* Looper<br />
* [[The Lord Inquisitor]] [animated]<br />
* The Matrix<br />
* Men in Black [only the first one]<br />
* Metropolis [1927]<br />
* Metropolis [animated]<br />
* Moon<br />
* Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [animated]<br />
* O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization [Polish] (best unofficial [[Paranoia]] movie)<br />
* Outlander<br />
* Pacific Rim<br />
* The Prestige<br />
* Primer<br />
* Red Planet<br />
* Robocop [1987]<br />
* Robocop 2<br />
* Robot Jox<br />
* Rock & Rule [animated] (preferably with Canadian dubbing, as American one simply sucks)<br />
* Snowpiercer<br />
* Solaris [1972, 2002]<br />
* Source Code<br />
* The Sphere<br />
* Stalker [Russian]<br />
* Star Wars [original trilogy]<br />
* Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country, First Contact and Beyond for sure)<br />
* Stargate [1994]<br />
* [[Starship Troopers]]<br />
* Strange days<br />
* Sunshine<br />
* Terminator<br />
* Terminator 2: Judgment Day<br />
* The Thirteenth Floor<br />
* Time Cop<br />
* Titan, AE [Animated]<br />
* Total recall [1990]<br />
* Transformers: The Movie [Animated, 1987 version only]<br />
* Treasure Planet [Animated]<br />
* Twelve Monkeys<br />
* [[Ultramarines:The Movie]] [Animated]<br />
* WALL-E [animated]<br />
<br />
==Horror==<br />
<br />
* 28 Days Later<br />
* 30 days of night<br />
* 9th Gate<br />
* Alien<br />
* Aliens [preferably director's cut]<br />
* Alien 3 [''obligatory'' director's cut]<br />
* Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre [French] - preferably helped with the original mini-series from the 60s.<br />
* Brotherhood of the Wolf [French]<br />
* Cabin In The Woods<br />
* Carrie [1976] - any sequel or remake is disapproved<br />
* Dagon [Spanish]<br />
* The Descent<br />
* Dog Soldiers<br />
* Eraserhead<br />
* Evil Dead [trilogy]<br />
* Event Horizon<br />
* The Exorcist<br />
* From Dusk Till Dawn [more of a parody than straight out horror; sequel is also worth it]<br />
* From Hell<br />
* The Gift [2000]<br />
* Ginger Snaps (sequels are optional)<br />
* Hellraiser<br />
* The Hunger [1983]<br />
* In the Mouth of Madness<br />
* Interview with the Vampire (and gender-flipper Byzantium)<br />
* The Masque of the Red Death<br />
* Mulholland Drive<br />
* Nattevagten [Danish]<br />
* Pandorum<br />
* Pitch Black<br />
* The Shining<br />
* Silent Hill [2006]<br />
* The Thing [1982]<br />
* Virus [1999]<br />
* Witchfinder General<br />
* The VVitch [2015]<br />
<br />
==Fantasy==<br />
[[Image:97_35566_0_TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowship.jpg|right|thumb|The essential fantasy trilogy (not on the list because it's so obvious that this is a /tg/ approved movie).]]<br />
* The 13th Warrior<br />
* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen<br />
* The Beastmaster<br />
* Beowulf [animated, 2007]<br />
* Big Trouble in Little China: Mind you, it's Urban Fantasy. Also, ''very'' 80s.<br />
* Blade 1 & 2<br />
* The Brothers Grimm<br />
* Camelot [1988]<br />
* Conan the Barbarian [1982]<br />
* Conan the Destroyer<br />
* Constantine<br />
* Dragonheart<br />
* Erik the Viking<br />
* Excalibur <br />
* Fire and Ice [animated]<br />
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad<br />
* Hellboy (only the first one)<br />
* 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)<br />
* The Hobbit [animated]<br />
* How to Train Your Dragon [animated]<br />
* Howl's Moving Castle [animated]<br />
* Immortal [French]<br />
* Ink [2009]<br />
* Innocent Blood [1992]<br />
* Jabberwocky [1977]<br />
* Jumanji (and if you have spare time - the animated TV show too)<br />
* Krull<br />
* Kull the Conqueror<br />
* Labyrnth<br />
* Ladyhawke<br />
* The Last Unicorn [animated]<br />
* The Last Witch Hunter<br />
* The Legend<br />
* Lord of the Rings [animated]<br />
* Masters of the Universe [1987]<br />
* Neverending Story<br />
* Night Watch [Russian]:Hello again, Urban Fantasy.<br />
* The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]<br />
* Ondine<br />
* Pan's Labyrinth<br />
* Princess Mononoke [animated]<br />
* The Princess Bride<br />
* Red Sonja<br />
* The Return of the King [animated]<br />
* Ronal The Barbarian [animated]<br />
* SAGA - Curse of the Shadow<br />
* The Secret of NIMH [animated]<br />
* Snow White and the Huntsman (the visuals are definitely worth enduring it)<br />
* Solomon Kane<br />
* Song of the Sea [animated]<br />
* Secret of Kells [animated]<br />
* Stardust<br />
* The Thief and the Cobbler [animated, The Recobbled Cut]<br />
* The Thief of Baghdad [1924/1940]<br />
* Time Bandits<br />
* Trollhunter [Norwegian]<br />
* Underworld (first movie, rest of the franchise is purely optional)<br />
* Vidocq [French]<br />
* Voyage of the Unicorn [TV movie]<br />
* Willow<br />
* Wolfhound of the Grey Hound Clan [Russian]<br />
<br />
==Comedy==<br />
* 48 hours<br />
* Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 (and let's pretend 3 doesn't exist)<br />
* Big Lebowski<br />
* Blues Brothers<br />
* Buffalo Soldiers<br />
* Cocoon (1985)<br />
* Coming to America<br />
* The Cuckoo [Russian]<br />
* A Fish Called Wanda<br />
* Fletch<br />
* Forrest Gump<br />
* Fright Night [1985 & 2011]<br />
* 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.<br />
* The Gamers trilogy (preferably with dice subtitles)<br />
* Gentlemen Broncos<br />
* Ghostbusters (1984)<br />
* Grosse Pointe Blank & War, Inc.<br />
* Groundhog Day<br />
* In Bruges<br />
* Kindergarten Cop<br />
* Kung Fu Hustle<br />
* Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels<br />
* The Mask<br />
* The Men Who Stare at Goats<br />
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail<br />
* Monty Python's Life of Brian<br />
* Nothing to Lose<br />
* Secondhand Lions<br />
* Shaun Of The Dead [Actually, the whole Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End]<br />
* The Sister Act<br />
* Snatch<br />
* Space Balls<br />
* Spies like us<br />
* The Sting<br />
* Taxi [French]<br />
* Trading Places<br />
* Tremors<br />
* Vabank [Polish]<br />
* We're No Angels (both the 1955 and 1989 versions)<br />
* What We Do In The Shadows<br />
* Your Highness<br />
* Zombieland<br />
<br />
==Western==<br />
* 3:10 to Yuma [1957]<br />
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<br />
* Dances with Wolves (preferably extended edition; warning - it runs for almost 4 hours, but is well worth it)<br />
* The Dark Valley [Austrian]<br />
* Django [1966]<br />
* Django Unchained [unrelated with the above]<br />
* Dollars Trilogy [A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - preferably extended cuts]<br />
* The Good, The Bad, The Weird [Korean] (Korean cut, not the international!)<br />
* The Hateful 8<br />
* High Noon<br />
* High Plain Drifter<br />
* Jeremiah Johnson<br />
* The Magificent Seven [1960]<br />
* My Name Is Nobody<br />
* Once Upon a Time in the West<br />
* Open Range<br />
* Outland<br />
* Pale Rider<br />
* Quigley down under<br />
* Rio Bravo<br />
* Showdown at The O.K. Corral<br />
* Silverado<br />
* They call me Trinity<br />
* Tombstone<br />
* 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.<br />
* True Grit (1969 and 2010 versions)<br />
* Two Mules for Sister Sara<br />
* Unforgiven<br />
* The Wild Bunch<br />
* White Sun of the Desert (Soviet "eastern")<br />
<br />
==Action==<br />
* Blood Diamond<br />
* Blue Thunder<br />
* Centurion<br />
* The Chronicles of Riddick<br />
* Collateral<br />
* Commando<br />
* The Dark Knight<br />
* The Departed [and original Infernal Affairs]<br />
* Die Hard 1 & 3 (and only those two)<br />
* Elite Squad 1 & 2 [Brazilian]<br />
* Escape from New York<br />
* Hanna<br />
* Hard Boiled [1992]<br />
* Haywire<br />
* John Wick<br />
* Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2<br />
* Knight and Day<br />
* Last Action Hero<br />
* Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]<br />
* Mad Max [all four of them]<br />
* Mission Impossible 3 & 4 (and only those two)<br />
* Predator & Predators<br />
* Ronin [1998]<br />
* The Running Man<br />
* Running Scared [2006]<br />
* Steel Dawn<br />
* Streets of Fire<br />
* The Transporter ('''only''' the first one)<br />
* True Lies<br />
* The Untouchables<br />
* Waterworld<br />
<br />
==War==<br />
* The 9th Company [Russian] (watch original version - English dubb is just awful)<br />
* Alexander [Final Cut version, avoid like fire theatrical cut]<br />
* Apocalypse Now<br />
* A Bridge Too Far<br />
* Colonel Wolodyjowski [Polish]<br />
* Das Boot [extended, serialised version - takes 7 hours, worth every minute]<br />
* The Deluge [Polish]<br />
* Dirty Dozen<br />
* The Dogs Of War<br />
* Fury<br />
* Gallipoli<br />
* Guns of Navarone<br />
* Hell in the Pacific<br />
* Kelly's Heroes [and it's remake/update Three Kings]<br />
* Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut]<br />
* Lawrence of Arabia<br />
* Legionnaire<br />
* Lone Survivor [2013] (as a case study of how and why high-level characters aren't invulnerable)<br />
* Lord of War<br />
* Manhunt [2012, Polish]<br />
* Mulan [Chinese from 2009 and animated from 1998]<br />
* Platoon<br />
* Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]<br />
* Sahara [1943/95, '''*not*''' the adventure flick from 2005]<br />
* Sharpe series [TV movies starring Sean Bean]<br />
* Soldier [1998]<br />
* Soldier of Orange [Dutch]<br />
* Thin Red Line<br />
* War [2002, Russian]<br />
* Windtalkers<br />
* Where Eagles Dare<br />
* Zwartboek [Dutch, '''only''' after watching Soldier of Orange]<br />
<br />
==Crime==<br />
* The Casino<br />
* Chinatown<br />
* Crimson Rivers [French] (avoid English dubbing, it's horrible)<br />
* Dobermann [French] (chaotic evil campaign)<br />
* Dog Day Afternoon<br />
* The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)<br />
* Entrapment [1999]<br />
* Escape from Alcatraz<br />
* French Connection<br />
* Gone Girl<br />
* The Good Thief<br />
* The Handmaiden [Korean] (just watch it, don't read anything about it)<br />
* Heat<br />
* Heist [2001] (all-Rogue campaign)<br />
* Hell or High Water<br />
* A History of Violence<br />
* In the Shadow [2012, Czech]<br />
* Insomnia [2002]<br />
* Italian Job [1969 & 2003]<br />
* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang<br />
* L.A. Confidential<br />
* Layer Cake<br />
* Matchstick Men<br />
* Money Train<br />
* The Nice Guys<br />
* No Country for Old Men<br />
* Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]<br />
* Plunkett & Macleane<br />
* Pulp Fiction<br />
* Red Rock West<br />
* Reservoir Dogs<br />
* The Score<br />
* A Simple Plan<br />
* Sneakers<br />
* The Spanish Prisoner<br />
* The Thieves [Korean]<br />
* The Thomas Crown Affair [both 1968 & 1999]<br />
* The Town [2010]<br />
* Trance [2013]<br />
* The Truth About Charlie<br />
* The Usual Suspects<br />
* The Witness [1985]<br />
<br />
==Adventure==<br />
* The African Queen<br />
* Alatriste [Spanish]<br />
* Atlantis: The Lost Empire [Animated]<br />
* Captain Blood<br />
* Cast Away<br />
* The Crimson Pirate [1952]<br />
* Cutthroat Island<br />
* Fanfan la Tulipe [1952, French]<br />
* Flight of the Phoenix [1965/2004]<br />
* The Ghost and the Darkness<br />
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad<br />
* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan [the only approved Tarzan production]<br />
* Hidalgo<br />
* Indiana Jones [trilogy only - outside the original 3 there are no others]<br />
* Ivanhoe <br />
* Janosik [2009, Polish-Slovakian co-production]<br />
* King Kong [1933, 2005]<br />
* King Solomon's Mines [1985]<br />
* Kon-Tiki [Norwegian]<br />
* Last of the Mohicans<br />
* Le Bossu [French, 1959/1997]<br />
* The Librarian [TV movies franchise]<br />
* The Man Who Would Be King<br />
* The Mummy [1999 - and only this one]<br />
* National Treasure<br />
* Prince of Persia<br />
* Queen of the Desert<br />
* Quest for Fire [1981]<br />
* Renegades [2017] (a perfect Merc 2000 module)<br />
* The Road to El Dorado [Animated]<br />
* Romancing the Stone<br />
* The Sea Hawk<br />
* The Snow Walker<br />
* Stand by me (how to handle atypical quest with atypical party)<br />
* Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger<br />
* Six Days, Seven Nights<br />
* Tintin - both the 2011 motion capture and old feature animations from the 60s (animated TV series is meanwhile approved television)<br />
* Tomb Raider [2001] (Just bring lots of alcohol and friends)<br />
* The Way Back<br />
<br />
==General==<br />
* [[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)<br />
* 7 Samurai<br />
* 8MM<br />
* Aguirre, the Wrath of God [German]<br />
* The American<br />
* As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me [German]<br />
* Astropia<br />
* The Blood of Heroes/Salute to the Jugger [goes under both titles] - two words, my friend: "Walk slowly"<br />
* Baraka [obligatory HD restored version]<br />
* A boy and his dog<br />
* Capricorn One<br />
* The Cell<br />
* The City of Lost Children<br />
* A Clockwork Orange<br />
* The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover<br />
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<br />
* The Day After [1983]<br />
* Dead Calm [1989]<br />
* Death Wish [1974] (sequels are so hilariously bad they are painful to watch)<br />
* Deliverance<br />
* Dirty Harry (the rest of the series is optional)<br />
* Donnie Brasco<br />
* Dr. No<br />
* The Dressmaker<br />
* The Duellists<br />
* The Fall<br />
* Falling Down<br />
* <s>Fight Club</s> DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS<br />
* First Blood<br />
* Fort Saganne [French]<br />
* The Game [1997]<br />
* Gangs of New York<br />
* Geronimo: An American Legend<br />
* Ghost Dog<br />
* The Great Escape<br />
* Heavy Metal [animated]<br />
* Hero [Chinese]<br />
* The Hidden Fortress [Japanese]<br />
* House of Flying Daggers<br />
* In The Name Of The Rose<br />
* The Insider<br />
* Jurassic Park<br />
* Koyaanisqatsi (rest of the Qatsi trilogy is optional)<br />
* The Last Valley<br />
* Léon: the Professional<br />
* Les Diaboliques [both French original and the remake from 1996]<br />
* Les Samurai [French]<br />
* The Lives of Others [German] (how to Lawful Evil)<br />
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (how to maritime)<br />
* Miracle Mile<br />
* The Mission [1986] (novelisation is approved literature, greatly expanding the story into TTRPG campaign territory)<br />
* Money Talks [1997]<br />
* Mr Brooks<br />
* Nick of Time<br />
* North by North-West<br />
* Nowhere in Africa [German]<br />
* On the Beach [1959 & 2000]<br />
* Once upon a time in China 1 & 2<br />
* Papillon [1973]<br />
* The Piano<br />
* Ran (Japanese)<br />
* Rashômon [1950]<br />
* The Road<br />
* Rob Roy<br />
* Run Lola Run [German]<br />
* Runaway Train<br />
* Sanjuro [1962]<br />
* Sense and Sensibility<br />
* Sekal has to die [Czech-Polish co-production]<br />
* The Seventh Seal<br />
* Shawshank Redemption<br />
* Six-String Samurai<br />
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow<br />
* Sorcerer [1977, obligatory HD restored version]<br />
* Superman [1978] & Superman 2 [1980]<br />
* Surviving the Game<br />
* The Sword and the Rose<br />
* Sympathy for Lady Vengeance<br />
* Tai-Pan<br />
* Tasogare Seibei [Japanese]<br />
* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy<br />
* Throne of Blood [Japanese]<br />
* Trash Humpers<br />
* Training Day<br />
* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre<br />
* Unbreakable<br />
* Vatel [French]<br />
* WarGames<br />
* The Wild Hunt<br />
* Yôjinbô [Japanese]<br />
* Zatōichi [''at least'' the 2003 film]<br />
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<div>This is a list of /tg/ approved movies, organized into loose genres, alphabetically.<br />
<br />
Add important details in brackets.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
==Science Fiction==<br />
<br />
* 5th Element, The<br />
* The Abyss<br />
* Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension<br />
* Animatrix - short Program [animated] (how to pull certain /tg/ cliche right)<br />
* Appleseed<br />
* Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina<br />
* Avalon [Japanese, with original, Polish voices - this is '''very''' important]<br />
* Babylon A.D.<br />
* Blade Runner [final cut]<br />
* Brazil<br />
* Children of Men<br />
* Chronicle [2012]<br />
* Cyborg [1989]<br />
* Dark City<br />
* Dark Star<br />
* District 9<br />
* Donnie Darko<br />
* Doomsday<br />
* [[Judge Dredd|Dredd]] [2012]<br />
* Edge of Tommorow<br />
* Enemy Mine<br />
* Equilibrium<br />
* Event Horizon<br />
* eXistenZ<br />
* Fortress [1992]<br />
* Galaxy Quest<br />
* Gattaca<br />
* Ghosts of Mars<br />
* Hell [German]<br />
* Immortal [French]<br />
* Inception<br />
* The Iron Giant [animated]<br />
* The Island<br />
* Johnny Mnemonic<br />
* K-Pax<br />
* Logan's Run<br />
* Looper<br />
* [[The Lord Inquisitor]] [animated]<br />
* The Matrix<br />
* Men in Black [only the first one]<br />
* Metropolis [1927]<br />
* Metropolis [animated]<br />
* Moon<br />
* Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [animated]<br />
* O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization [Polish] (best unofficial [[Paranoia]] movie)<br />
* Outlander<br />
* Pacific Rim<br />
* The Prestige<br />
* Primer<br />
* Red Planet<br />
* Robocop [1987]<br />
* Robocop 2<br />
* Robot Jox<br />
* Rock & Rule [animated] (preferably with Canadian dubbing, as American one simply sucks)<br />
* Snowpiercer<br />
* Solaris [1972, 2002]<br />
* Source Code<br />
* The Sphere<br />
* Stalker [Russian]<br />
* Star Wars [original trilogy]<br />
* Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country, First Contact and Beyond for sure)<br />
* Stargate [1994]<br />
* [[Starship Troopers]]<br />
* Strange days<br />
* Sunshine<br />
* Terminator<br />
* Terminator 2: Judgment Day<br />
* The Thirteenth Floor<br />
* Time Cop<br />
* Titan, AE [Animated]<br />
* Total recall [1990]<br />
* Transformers: The Movie [Animated, 1987 version only]<br />
* Treasure Planet [Animated]<br />
* Twelve Monkeys<br />
* [[Ultramarines:The Movie]] [Animated]<br />
* WALL-E [animated]<br />
<br />
==Horror==<br />
<br />
* 28 Days Later<br />
* 30 days of night<br />
* 9th Gate<br />
* Alien<br />
* Aliens [preferably director's cut]<br />
* Alien 3 [''obligatory'' director's cut]<br />
* Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre [French] - preferably helped with the original mini-series from the 60s.<br />
* Brotherhood of the Wolf [French]<br />
* Cabin In The Woods<br />
* Carrie [1976] - any sequel or remake is disapproved<br />
* Dagon [Spanish]<br />
* The Descent<br />
* Dog Soldiers<br />
* Eraserhead<br />
* Evil Dead [trilogy]<br />
* Event Horizon<br />
* The Exorcist<br />
* From Dusk Till Dawn [more of a parody than straight out horror; sequel is also worth it]<br />
* From Hell<br />
* The Gift [2000]<br />
* Ginger Snaps (sequels are optional)<br />
* Hellraiser<br />
* The Hunger [1983]<br />
* In the Mouth of Madness<br />
* Interview with the Vampire (and gender-flipper Byzantium)<br />
* The Masque of the Red Death<br />
* Mulholland Drive<br />
* Nattevagten [Danish]<br />
* Pandorum<br />
* Pitch Black<br />
* The Shining<br />
* Silent Hill [2006]<br />
* The Thing [1982]<br />
* Virus [1999]<br />
* Witchfinder General<br />
* The VVitch [2015]<br />
<br />
==Fantasy==<br />
[[Image:97_35566_0_TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowship.jpg|right|thumb|The essential fantasy trilogy (not on the list because it's so obvious that this is a /tg/ approved movie).]]<br />
* The 13th Warrior<br />
* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen<br />
* The Beastmaster<br />
* Beowulf [animated, 2007]<br />
* Big Trouble in Little China: Mind you, it's Urban Fantasy. Also, ''very'' 80s.<br />
* Blade 1 & 2<br />
* The Brothers Grimm<br />
* Camelot [1988]<br />
* Conan the Barbarian [1982]<br />
* Conan the Destroyer<br />
* Constantine<br />
* Dragonheart<br />
* Erik the Viking<br />
* Excalibur <br />
* Fire and Ice [animated]<br />
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad<br />
* Hellboy (only the first one)<br />
* 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)<br />
* The Hobbit [animated]<br />
* How to Train Your Dragon [animated]<br />
* Howl's Moving Castle [animated]<br />
* Immortal [French]<br />
* Ink [2009]<br />
* Innocent Blood [1992]<br />
* Jabberwocky [1977]<br />
* Jumanji (and if you have spare time - the animated TV show too)<br />
* Krull<br />
* Kull the Conqueror<br />
* Labyrnth<br />
* Ladyhawke<br />
* The Last Unicorn [animated]<br />
* The Last Witch Hunter<br />
* The Legend<br />
* Lord of the Rings [animated]<br />
* Masters of the Universe [1987]<br />
* Neverending Story<br />
* Night Watch [Russian]:Hello again, Urban Fantasy.<br />
* The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]<br />
* Ondine<br />
* Pan's Labyrinth<br />
* Princess Mononoke [animated]<br />
* The Princess Bride<br />
* Red Sonja<br />
* The Return of the King [animated]<br />
* Ronal The Barbarian [animated]<br />
* SAGA - Curse of the Shadow<br />
* The Secret of NIMH [animated]<br />
* Snow White and the Huntsman (the visuals are definitely worth enduring it)<br />
* Solomon Kane<br />
* Song of the Sea [animated]<br />
* Secret of Kells [animated]<br />
* Stardust<br />
* The Thief and the Cobbler [animated, The Recobbled Cut]<br />
* The Thief of Baghdad [1924/1940]<br />
* Time Bandits<br />
* Trollhunter [Norwegian]<br />
* Underworld (first movie, rest of the franchise is purely optional)<br />
* Vidocq [French]<br />
* Voyage of the Unicorn [TV movie]<br />
* Willow<br />
* Wolfhound of the Grey Hound Clan [Russian]<br />
<br />
==Comedy==<br />
* 48 hours<br />
* Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 (and let's pretend 3 doesn't exist)<br />
* Big Lebowski<br />
* Blues Brothers<br />
* Buffalo Soldiers<br />
* Cocoon (1985)<br />
* Coming to America<br />
* The Cuckoo [Russian]<br />
* A Fish Called Wanda<br />
* Fletch<br />
* Forrest Gump<br />
* Fright Night [1985 & 2011]<br />
* 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.<br />
* The Gamers trilogy (preferably with dice subtitles)<br />
* Gentlemen Broncos<br />
* Ghostbusters (1984)<br />
* Grosse Pointe Blank & War, Inc.<br />
* Groundhog Day<br />
* In Bruges<br />
* Kindergarten Cop<br />
* Kung Fu Hustle<br />
* Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels<br />
* The Mask<br />
* The Men Who Stare at Goats<br />
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail<br />
* Monty Python's Life of Brian<br />
* Nothing to Lose<br />
* Secondhand Lions<br />
* Shaun Of The Dead [Actually, the whole Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End]<br />
* The Sister Act<br />
* Snatch<br />
* Space Balls<br />
* Spies like us<br />
* The Sting<br />
* Taxi [French]<br />
* Trading Places<br />
* Tremors<br />
* Vabank [Polish]<br />
* We're No Angels (both the 1955 and 1989 versions)<br />
* What We Do In The Shadows<br />
* Your Highness<br />
* Zombieland<br />
<br />
==Western==<br />
* 3:10 to Yuma [1957]<br />
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<br />
* Dances with Wolves (preferably extended edition; warning - it runs for almost 4 hours, but is well worth it)<br />
* The Dark Valley [Austrian]<br />
* Django [1966]<br />
* Django Unchained [unrelated with the above]<br />
* Dollars Trilogy [A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - preferably extended cuts]<br />
* The Good, The Bad, The Weird [Korean] (Korean cut, not the international!)<br />
* The Hateful 8<br />
* High Noon<br />
* High Plain Drifter<br />
* Jeremiah Johnson<br />
* The Magificent Seven [1960]<br />
* My Name Is Nobody<br />
* Once Upon a Time in the West<br />
* Open Range<br />
* Outland<br />
* Pale Rider<br />
* Quigley down under<br />
* Rio Bravo<br />
* Showdown at The O.K. Corral<br />
* Silverado<br />
* They call me Trinity<br />
* Tombstone<br />
* 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.<br />
* True Grit (1969 and 2010 versions)<br />
* Two Mules for Sister Sara<br />
* Unforgiven<br />
* The Wild Bunch<br />
* White Sun of the Desert (Soviet "eastern")<br />
<br />
==Action==<br />
* Blood Diamond<br />
* Blue Thunder<br />
* Centurion<br />
* The Chronicles of Riddick<br />
* Collateral<br />
* Commando<br />
* The Dark Knight<br />
* The Departed [and original Infernal Affairs]<br />
* Die Hard 1 & 3 (and only those two)<br />
* Elite Squad 1 & 2 [Brazilian]<br />
* Escape from New York<br />
* Hanna<br />
* Hard Boiled [1992]<br />
* Haywire<br />
* John Wick<br />
* Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2<br />
* Knight and Day<br />
* Last Action Hero<br />
* Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]<br />
* Mad Max [all four of them]<br />
* Mission Impossible 3 & 4 (and only those two)<br />
* Predator & Predators<br />
* Ronin [1998]<br />
* The Running Man<br />
* Running Scared [2006]<br />
* Steel Dawn<br />
* Streets of Fire<br />
* The Transporter ('''only''' the first one)<br />
* True Lies<br />
* The Untouchables<br />
* Waterworld<br />
<br />
==War==<br />
* The 9th Company [Russian] (watch original version - English dubb is just awful)<br />
* Alexander [Final Cut version, avoid like fire theatrical cut]<br />
* Apocalypse Now<br />
* A Bridge Too Far<br />
* Colonel Wolodyjowski [Polish]<br />
* Das Boot [extended, serialised version - takes 7 hours, worth every minute]<br />
* The Deluge [Polish]<br />
* Dirty Dozen<br />
* The Dogs Of War<br />
* Fury<br />
* Gallipoli<br />
* Guns of Navarone<br />
* Hell in the Pacific<br />
* Kelly's Heroes [and it's remake/update Three Kings]<br />
* Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut]<br />
* Lawrence of Arabia<br />
* Legionnaire<br />
* Lone Survivor [2013] (as a case study of how and why high-level characters aren't invulnerable)<br />
* Lord of War<br />
* Manhunt [2012, Polish]<br />
* Mulan [Chinese from 2009 and animated from 1998]<br />
* Platoon<br />
* Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]<br />
* Sahara [1943/95, '''*not*''' the adventure flick from 2005]<br />
* Sharpe series [TV movies starring Sean Bean]<br />
* Soldier [1998]<br />
* Soldier of Orange [Dutch]<br />
* Thin Red Line<br />
* War [2002, Russian]<br />
* Windtalkers<br />
* Where Eagles Dare<br />
* Zwartboek [Dutch, '''only''' after watching Soldier of Orange]<br />
<br />
==Crime==<br />
* The Casino<br />
* Chinatown<br />
* Crimson Rivers [French] (avoid English dubbing, it's horrible)<br />
* Dobermann [French] (chaotic evil campaign)<br />
* Dog Day Afternoon<br />
* The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)<br />
* Entrapment [1999]<br />
* Escape from Alcatraz<br />
* French Connection<br />
* Gone Girl<br />
* The Good Thief<br />
* The Handmaiden [Korean] (just watch it, don't read anything about it)<br />
* Heat<br />
* Heist [2001] (all-Rogue campaign)<br />
* Hell or High Water<br />
* A History of Violence<br />
* In the Shadow [2012, Czech]<br />
* Insomnia [2002]<br />
* Italian Job [1969 & 2003]<br />
* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang<br />
* L.A. Confidential<br />
* Layer Cake<br />
* Matchstick Men<br />
* Money Train<br />
* The Nice Guys<br />
* No Country for Old Men<br />
* Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]<br />
* Plunkett & Macleane<br />
* Pulp Fiction<br />
* Red Rock West<br />
* Reservoir Dogs<br />
* The Score<br />
* A Simple Plan<br />
* Sneakers<br />
* The Spanish Prisoner<br />
* The Thieves [Korean]<br />
* The Thomas Crown Affair [both 1968 & 1999]<br />
* The Town [2010]<br />
* Trance [2013]<br />
* The Truth About Charlie<br />
* The Usual Suspects<br />
* The Witness [1985]<br />
<br />
==Adventure==<br />
* The African Queen<br />
* Alatriste [Spanish]<br />
* Atlantis: The Lost Empire [Animated]<br />
* Captain Blood<br />
* Cast Away<br />
* The Crimson Pirate [1952]<br />
* Cutthroat Island<br />
* Fanfan la Tulipe [1952, French]<br />
* Flight of the Phoenix [1965/2004]<br />
* The Ghost and the Darkness<br />
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad<br />
* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan [the only approved Tarzan production]<br />
* Hidalgo<br />
* Indiana Jones [trilogy only - outside the original 3 there are no others]<br />
* Ivanhoe <br />
* Janosik [2009, Polish-Slovakian co-production]<br />
* King Kong [1933, 2005]<br />
* King Solomon's Mines [1985]<br />
* Kon-Tiki [Norwegian]<br />
* Last of the Mohicans<br />
* Le Bossu [French, 1959/1997]<br />
* The Librarian [TV movies franchise]<br />
* The Man Who Would Be King<br />
* The Mummy [1999 - and only this one]<br />
* National Treasure<br />
* Prince of Persia<br />
* Queen of the Desert<br />
* Quest for Fire [1981]<br />
* Renegades [2017] (a perfect Merc 2000 module)<br />
* The Road to El Dorado [Animated]<br />
* Romancing the Stone<br />
* The Sea Hawk<br />
* The Snow Walker<br />
* Stand by me (how to handle atypical quest with atypical party)<br />
* Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger<br />
* Six Days, Seven Nights<br />
* Tintin - both the 2011 motion capture and old feature animations from the 60s (animated TV series is meanwhile approved television)<br />
* Tomb Raider [2001] (Just bring lots of alcohol and friends)<br />
* The Way Back<br />
<br />
==General==<br />
* [[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)<br />
* 7 Samurai<br />
* 8MM<br />
* Aguirre, the Wrath of God [German]<br />
* The American<br />
* As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me [German]<br />
* Astropia<br />
* The Blood of Heroes/Salute to the Jugger [goes under both titles] - two words, my friend: "Walk slowly"<br />
* Baraka [obligatory HD restored version]<br />
* A boy and his dog<br />
* Capricorn One<br />
* The Cell<br />
* The City of Lost Children<br />
* A Clockwork Orange<br />
* The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover<br />
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<br />
* The Day After [1983]<br />
* Dead Calm [1989]<br />
* Death Wish [1974] (sequels are so hilariously bad they are painful to watch)<br />
* Deliverance<br />
* Dirty Harry (the rest of the series is optional)<br />
* Donnie Brasco<br />
* Dr. No<br />
* The Dressmaker<br />
* The Duellists<br />
* The Fall<br />
* Falling Down<br />
* <s>Fight Club</s> DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS<br />
* First Blood<br />
* Fort Saganne [French]<br />
* The Game [1997]<br />
* Gangs of New York<br />
* Geronimo: An American Legend<br />
* Ghost Dog<br />
* The Great Escape<br />
* Heavy Metal [animated]<br />
* Hero [Chinese]<br />
* The Hidden Fortress [Japanese]<br />
* House of Flying Daggers<br />
* In The Name Of The Rose<br />
* The Insider<br />
* Jurassic Park<br />
* Koyaanisqatsi (rest of the Qatsi trilogy is optional)<br />
* The Last Valley<br />
* Léon: the Professional<br />
* Les Diaboliques [both French original and the remake from 1996]<br />
* Les Samurai [French]<br />
* The Lives of Others [German] (how to Lawful Evil)<br />
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (how to maritime)<br />
* Miracle Mile<br />
* The Mission [1986] (novelisation is approved literature, greatly expanding the story into TTRPG campaign territory)<br />
* Money Talks [1997]<br />
* Mr Brooks<br />
* Nick of Time<br />
* North by North-West<br />
* Nowhere in Africa [German]<br />
* On the Beach [1959 & 2000]<br />
* Once upon a time in China 1 & 2<br />
* Papillon [1973]<br />
* The Piano<br />
* Ran (Japanese)<br />
* Rashômon [1950]<br />
* The Road<br />
* Rob Roy<br />
* Run Lola Run [German]<br />
* Runaway Train<br />
* Sanjuro [1962]<br />
* Sense and Sensibility<br />
* Sekal has to die [Czech-Polish co-production]<br />
* The Seventh Seal<br />
* Shawshank Redemption<br />
* Six-String Samurai<br />
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow<br />
* Sorcerer [1977, obligatory HD restored version]<br />
* Superman [1978] & Superman 2 [1980]<br />
* Surviving the Game<br />
* The Sword and the Rose<br />
* Sympathy for Lady Vengeance<br />
* Tai-Pan<br />
* Tasogare Seibei [Japanese]<br />
* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy<br />
* Throne of Blood [Japanese]<br />
* Trash Humpers<br />
* Training Day<br />
* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre<br />
* Unbreakable<br />
* Vatel [French]<br />
* WarGames<br />
* The Wild Hunt<br />
* Yôjinbô [Japanese]<br />
* Zatōichi [''at least'' the 2003 film]<br />
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