Editing Approved Movies

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

Add important details in brackets.

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==Science Fiction==

* 5th Element, The
* The Abyss
* Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
* Animatrix - short Program [animated] (how to pull certain /tg/ cliche right)
* Appleseed
* Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina
* Avalon [Japanese, with original, Polish voices - this is '''very''' important]
* Babylon A.D.
* Blade Runner [final cut]
* Brazil
* Children of Men
* Chronicle [2012]
* Cyborg [1989]
* Dark City
* Dark Star
* District 9
* Donnie Darko
* Doomsday
* [[Judge Dredd|Dredd]] [2012]
* Edge of Tommorow
* Enemy Mine
* Equilibrium
* Event Horizon
* eXistenZ
* Fortress [1992]
* Galaxy Quest
* Gattaca
* Ghosts of Mars
* Hell [German]
* Immortal [French]
* Inception
* The Iron Giant [animated]
* The Island
* Johnny Mnemonic
* K-Pax
* Logan's Run
* Looper
* [[The Lord Inquisitor]] [animated]
* The Matrix
* Men in Black [only the first one]
* 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
* Pacific Rim
* The Prestige
* Primer
* Red Planet
* Robocop [1987]
* Robocop 2
* Robot Jox
* Rock & Rule [animated] (preferably with Canadian dubbing, as American one simply sucks)
* Snowpiercer
* Solaris [1972, 2002]
* Source Code
* The Sphere
* Stalker [Russian]
* 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
* Time Cop
* Titan, AE [Animated]
* Total recall [1990]
* Transformers: The Movie [Animated, 1987 version only]
* Treasure Planet [Animated]
* Twelve Monkeys
* [[Ultramarines:The Movie]] [Animated]
* WALL-E [animated]

==Horror==

* 28 Days Later
* 30 days of night
* 9th Gate
* Alien
* Aliens [preferably director's cut]
* Alien 3 [''obligatory'' 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
* Carrie [1976] - any sequel or remake is disapproved
* Dagon [Spanish]
* The Descent
* Dog Soldiers
* Eraserhead
* Evil Dead [trilogy]
* Event Horizon
* The Exorcist
* From Dusk Till Dawn [more of a parody than straight out horror; sequel is also worth it]
* From Hell
* The Gift [2000]
* Ginger Snaps (sequels are optional)
* Hellraiser
* The Hunger [1983]
* In the Mouth of Madness
* Interview with the Vampire (and gender-flipper Byzantium)
* The Masque of the Red Death
* Mulholland Drive
* Nattevagten [Danish]
* Pandorum
* Pitch Black
* The Shining
* Silent Hill [2006]
* The Thing [1982]
* Virus [1999]
* Witchfinder General
* The VVitch [2015]

==Fantasy==
[[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).]]
* 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.
* Blade 1 & 2
* The Brothers Grimm
* Camelot [1988]
* Conan the Barbarian [1982]
* Conan the Destroyer
* Constantine
* Dragonheart
* Erik the Viking
* Excalibur 
* Fire and Ice [animated]
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Hellboy (only the first one)
* 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
* Labyrnth
* Ladyhawke
* The Last Unicorn [animated]
* The Last Witch Hunter
* The Legend
* Lord of the Rings [animated]
* Masters of the Universe [1987]
* Neverending Story
* Night Watch [Russian]:Hello again, Urban Fantasy.
* The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]
* Ondine
* Pan's Labyrinth
* Princess Mononoke [animated]
* The Princess Bride
* Red Sonja
* The Return of the King [animated]
* Ronal The Barbarian [animated]
* SAGA - Curse of the Shadow
* The Secret of NIMH [animated]
* Snow White and the Huntsman (the visuals are definitely worth enduring it)
* Solomon Kane
* Song of the Sea [animated]
* Secret of Kells [animated]
* Stardust
* The Thief and the Cobbler [animated, The Recobbled Cut]
* The Thief of Baghdad [1924/1940]
* Time Bandits
* Trollhunter [Norwegian]
* Underworld (first movie, rest of the franchise is purely optional)
* Vidocq [French]
* Voyage of the Unicorn [TV movie]
* Willow
* Wolfhound of the Grey Hound Clan [Russian]

==Comedy==
* 48 hours
* Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 (and let's pretend 3 doesn't exist)
* Big Lebowski
* Blues Brothers
* Buffalo Soldiers
* Cocoon (1985)
* Coming to America
* The Cuckoo [Russian]
* A Fish Called Wanda
* Fletch
* 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
* Ghostbusters (1984)
* Grosse Pointe Blank & War, Inc.
* Groundhog Day
* In Bruges
* Kindergarten Cop
* Kung Fu Hustle
* Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
* The Mask
* The Men Who Stare at Goats
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
* Monty Python's Life of Brian
* Nothing to Lose
* Secondhand Lions
* Shaun Of The Dead [Actually, the whole Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End]
* The Sister Act
* Snatch
* Space Balls
* Spies like us
* The Sting
* Taxi [French]
* Trading Places
* Tremors
* Vabank [Polish]
* We're No Angels (both the 1955 and 1989 versions)
* What We Do In The Shadows
* Your Highness
* Zombieland

==Western==
* 3:10 to Yuma [1957]
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Dances with Wolves (preferably extended edition; warning - it runs for almost 4 hours, but is well worth it)
* The Dark Valley [Austrian]
* Django [1966]
* Django Unchained [unrelated with the above]
* 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!)
* The Hateful 8
* High Noon
* High Plain Drifter
* Jeremiah Johnson
* The Magificent Seven [1960]
* My Name Is Nobody
* Once Upon a Time in the West
* Open Range
* Outland
* Pale Rider
* Quigley down under
* Rio Bravo
* Showdown at The O.K. Corral
* Silverado
* They call me Trinity
* 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.
* True Grit (1969 and 2010 versions)
* Two Mules for Sister Sara
* Unforgiven
* The Wild Bunch
* White Sun of the Desert (Soviet "eastern")

==Action==
* Blood Diamond
* Blue Thunder
* Centurion
* The Chronicles of Riddick
* 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
* Hanna
* Hard Boiled [1992]
* Haywire
* John Wick
* Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
* Knight and Day
* Last Action Hero
* Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]
* Mad Max [original trilogy only]
* Mission Impossible 3 & 4 (and only those two)
* Predator & Predators
* Ronin [1998]
* The Running Man
* Running Scared [2006]
* Steel Dawn
* Streets of Fire
* The Transporter ('''only''' the first one)
* True Lies
* The Untouchables
* Waterworld

==War==
* The 9th Company [Russian] (watch original version - English dubb is just awful)
* Alexander [Final Cut version, avoid like fire theatrical cut]
* Apocalypse Now
* A Bridge Too Far
* Colonel Wolodyjowski [Polish]
* Das Boot [extended, serialised version - takes 7 hours, worth every minute]
* The Deluge [Polish]
* Dirty Dozen
* The Dogs Of War
* Fury
* Gallipoli
* Guns of Navarone
* Hell in the Pacific
* Kelly's Heroes [and it's remake/update Three Kings]
* Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut]
* Lawrence of Arabia
* Legionnaire
* Lone Survivor [2013] (as a case study of how and why high-level characters aren't invulnerable)
* Lord of War
* Manhunt [2012, Polish]
* Mulan [Chinese from 2009 and animated from 1998]
* Platoon
* Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]
* Sahara [1943/95, '''*not*''' the adventure flick from 2005]
* Sharpe series [TV movies starring Sean Bean]
* Soldier [1998]
* Soldier of Orange [Dutch]
* Thin Red Line
* War [2002, Russian]
* Windtalkers
* Where Eagles Dare
* Zwartboek [Dutch, '''only''' after watching Soldier of Orange]

==Crime==
* The Casino
* Chinatown
* Crimson Rivers [French] (avoid English dubbing, it's horrible)
* Dobermann [French] (chaotic evil campaign)
* Dog Day Afternoon
* The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)
* Entrapment [1999]
* Escape from Alcatraz
* French Connection
* Gone Girl
* The Good Thief
* The Handmaiden [Korean] (just watch it, don't read anything about it)
* Heat
* Heist [2001] (all-Rogue campaign)
* Hell or High Water
* A History of Violence
* In the Shadow [2012, Czech]
* Insomnia [2002]
* Italian Job [1969 & 2003]
* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
* L.A. Confidential
* Layer Cake
* Matchstick Men
* Money Train
* The Nice Guys
* No Country for Old Men
* Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]
* Plunkett & Macleane
* Pulp Fiction
* Red Rock West
* Reservoir Dogs
* The Score
* A Simple Plan
* Sneakers
* The Spanish Prisoner
* The Thieves [Korean]
* The Thomas Crown Affair [both 1968 & 1999]
* The Town [2010]
* Trance [2013]
* The Truth About Charlie
* The Usual Suspects
* The Witness [1985]

==Adventure==
* The African Queen
* Alatriste [Spanish]
* Atlantis: The Lost Empire [Animated]
* Captain Blood
* Cast Away
* The Crimson Pirate [1952]
* Cutthroat Island
* Fanfan la Tulipe [1952, French]
* Flight of the Phoenix [1965/2004]
* The Ghost and the Darkness
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan [the only approved Tarzan production]
* Hidalgo
* Indiana Jones [trilogy only - outside the original 3 there are no others]
* Ivanhoe 
* Janosik [2009, Polish-Slovakian co-production]
* King Kong [1933, 2005]
* King Solomon's Mines [1985]
* Kon-Tiki [Norwegian]
* Last of the Mohicans
* Le Bossu [French, 1959/1997]
* The Librarian [TV movies franchise]
* The Man Who Would Be King
* The Mummy [1999 - and only this one]
* National Treasure
* Prince of Persia
* Queen of the Desert
* Quest for Fire [1981]
* Renegades [2017] (a perfect Merc 2000 module)
* The Road to El Dorado [Animated]
* Romancing the Stone
* The Sea Hawk
* The Snow Walker
* Stand by me (how to handle atypical quest with atypical party)
* Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
* Six Days, Seven Nights
* 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)
* The Way Back

==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
* 8MM
* Aguirre, the Wrath of God [German]
* The American
* As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me [German]
* Astropia
* The Blood of Heroes/Salute to the Jugger [goes under both titles] - two words, my friend: "Walk slowly"
* Baraka [obligatory HD restored version]
* A boy and his dog
* Capricorn One
* The Cell
* The City of Lost Children
* A Clockwork Orange
* The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
* The Day After [1983]
* Dead Calm [1989]
* Death Wish [1974] (sequels are so hilariously bad they are painful to watch)
* Deliverance
* Dirty Harry (the rest of the series is optional)
* Donnie Brasco
* Dr. No
* The Dressmaker
* The Duellists
* The Fall
* Falling Down
* <s>Fight Club</s> DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS
* First Blood
* Fort Saganne [French]
* The Game [1997]
* Gangs of New York
* Geronimo: An American Legend
* Ghost Dog
* The Great Escape
* Heavy Metal [animated]
* Hero [Chinese]
* The Hidden Fortress [Japanese]
* House of Flying Daggers
* In The Name Of The Rose
* The Insider
* Jurassic Park
* Koyaanisqatsi (rest of the Qatsi trilogy is optional)
* The Last Valley
* Léon: the Professional
* Les Diaboliques [both French original and the remake from 1996]
* Les Samurai [French]
* The Lives of Others [German] (how to Lawful Evil)
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (how to maritime)
* Miracle Mile
* The Mission [1986] (novelisation is approved literature, greatly expanding the story into TTRPG campaign territory)
* Money Talks [1997]
* Mr Brooks
* Nick of Time
* North by North-West
* Nowhere in Africa [German]
* On the Beach [1959 & 2000]
* Once upon a time in China 1 & 2
* Papillon [1973]
* The Piano
* Ran (Japanese)
* Rashômon [1950]
* The Road
* Rob Roy
* Run Lola Run [German]
* Runaway Train
* Sanjuro [1962]
* Sense and Sensibility
* Sekal has to die [Czech-Polish co-production]
* The Seventh Seal
* Shawshank Redemption
* Six-String Samurai
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
* Sorcerer [1977, obligatory HD restored version]
* Superman [1978] & Superman 2 [1980]
* Surviving the Game
* The Sword and the Rose
* Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
* Tai-Pan
* Tasogare Seibei [Japanese]
* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
* Throne of Blood [Japanese]
* Trash Humpers
* Training Day
* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* Unbreakable
* Vatel [French]
* WarGames
* The Wild Hunt
* Yôjinbô [Japanese]
* Zatōichi [''at least'' the 2003 film]
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