Approved Movies

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

Add important details in brackets.

Science Fiction

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2010: The Year We Make Contact
• The Fifth Element [1997]
• The Abyss
• Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Alphaville [French]
• Akira [animated]
• 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, avoid English dubbing or official subtitles like fire, they change most of dialogues into incomprehensive mess]
• Babylon A.D. [director's cut]
• Battle Beyond the Stars
• The Black Hole [1979]
• Black Magic M-66 [animated]
• Blade Runner [final cut]
• Blade Runner 2049
• Boys from Brazil, The
• Brazil
• Children of Men
• Chronicle [2012]
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Cyborg [1989]
• Dark City
• Dark Star
• Death Machine
• District 9
• Donnie Darko
• Doomsday
• Dreamscape
• Dune [1984, 2020s]
• Dredd [2012]
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Enemy Mine
• Equilibrium
• Event Horizon [40k fans consider this an accidental prequel to the grimdarkness we know and love, which should speak for itself]
• eXistenZ
• Forbidden Planet [1956]
• Fortress [1992]
• Galaxy Quest
• Gattaca
• Ghosts of Mars
• Hardware [1990]
• Hell [German]
• I, Robot
• Ice Pirates
• Immortal [2004, French]
• Inception
• The Iron Giant [animated]
• The Island
• Johnny Mnemonic
• Kin-Dza-Dza
• K-Pax
• Logan's Run
• Looper
• The Lord Inquisitor [animated]
• Les Maîtres du temps [animated]
• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• The Matrix
• Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
• Men in Black [only the first one]
• Metropolis [1927]
• Metropolis [animated]
• Moon
• Moon 44
• Moon Zero Two
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [animated]
• Nemesis [1992]
• O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization [Polish] (best unofficial Paranoia movie, see for yourself)
• Outlander
• Pacific Rim
• Paycheck (as an exercise of handling hooks and plot devices)
• Parallel [2018]
• Planet of the Apes [1968] - everything else under "... of the Apes" is purely optional
• Planet of the Vampires [1965]
• Prey
• The Prestige
• Primer
• Prospect
• Red Planet
• Robocop [1987]
• Robocop 2
• Robot Jox
• Rock & Rule [animated] (preferably with Canadian dubbing, as American one simply sucks)
• Runaway [1984]
• Snowpiercer
• Solaris [1972, 2002]
• Source Code
• Space Truckers [1996]
• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
• The Sphere
• Stalker [Russian]
• Star Wars [1977-]: original trilogy, everything else is purely optional.
• Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country, First Contact and Beyond for sure, the Search for Spock and the 2009 film if you want some more)
• Stargate [1994]
• Starship Troopers
• Strange Days
• Sunshine
• Tetsuo I & II
• The Terminator
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• The Time Machine [1960]
• The Thirteenth Floor
• THX 1138
• Time Cop
• Time Crimes [Spanish, 2007]
• 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]
• Westworld
• Zone Troopers

Horror

• 28 Days Later
• 30 Days of Night
• 9th Gate
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• The Addiction
• Alien, it’s also got a meh tabletop game
• Aliens [preferably director's cut]
• Alien³ [obligatory director's cut]
• #Alive [Korean]
• An American Werewolf in London
• The Autopsy of Jane Doe
• Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre [French] - preferably helped with the original mini-series from the 60s.
• Beyond The Black Rainbow
• The Blob [the 1988 version, not the cheesy original]
• Blood Quantum
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• The Brood
• The Boneyard
• Bone Tomahawk
• Brotherhood of the Wolf [French]
• Cabin In The Woods
• Carrie [1976] - any sequel or remake is disapproved
• Cell [2016]
• Children of the Corn [1984/2009, rest of the "series" is best ignored]
• Christine
• City of the Living Dead
• Coherence
• The Company of Wolves
• The Craft
• The Crazies [1973] - remake is purely optional
• The Crow [1994] - ignore every single sequel or remake.
• Cube [1997]
• Dagon [Spanish]
• The Descent
• Dog Soldiers
• Eraserhead
• Evil Dead [trilogy]
• Event Horizon
• The Exorcist
  • You might also want to see III (solid movie) and Dominion/The Beginning (respectively: decent thriller/decent CoC module) - either way, avoid Exorcist II, unless you want some memetically awful movie.
• The Fog [1980]
• From Dusk Till Dawn [more of a parody than straight out horror; sequel is also worth it]
• From Hell
• Frostbite [2006, Swedish] - also goes under Frostbiten (original Swedish title) and Frostbitten (second DVD release)
• The Gift [2000]
• Ginger Snaps (sequels are optional)
• Gothic [1986]
• The Guardian [1990]
• Halloween [1978]
• Hellraiser
• Horror Express
• The Hole in the Ground
• The Host [Korean]
• The Howling (and only the first)
• The Hunger [1983]
• In the Mouth of Madness
• Interview with the Vampire (and gender-flipper Byzantium)
• Kwaidan
• The Lair of the White Worm
• Late Phases [2014]
• Låt den rätte komma [Swedish, 2008], American remake is optional
• Leviathan [1989]
• The Lighthouse [2019]
• Martin [1977]
• The Masque of the Red Death
• Medium [1985, Polish]
• Mulholland Drive
• Nattevagten [Danish] - Night Shift: The Movie, featuring a night guard working at a morgue. Ignore the shitty English-language remake.
• Near Dark (the second half of inspiration for Vampire: The Masquerade after Interview)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Nosferatu [1922, yep, you are reading the year correctly]
• The Objective [2008]
• Of the Dead series - only the movies listed
  • Night of the Living Dead [1968/1990]
  • Dawn of the Dead [1978/2004]
  • Day of the Dead [1985]
  • Diary of the Dead [2007]
• Onibaba [1964]
• Overlord
• Pandorum
• Phenomena [Italian]
• Pitch Black
• Poltergeist [1982]
• Prince of Darkness
• Rabid [1977]
• Ravenous [1999]
• Ravenous [2017, Québécois]
• Re-Animator [and only the first one]
• The Return of the Living Dead
• The Ritual [2017]
• Rosemary's Baby [1968]
• Scanners [1981]
• Screamers [1995]
• The Shining
• Shivers
• Silent Hill [2006]
• Split Second [1992]
• Suspiria [1977/2018]
• The Thing [1982]
• Train to Busan [Korean]
• Thirst [Korean]
• Tombs of the Blind Dead
• Underwater
• V/H/S series - it's very hit-and-miss, but still good for mining ideas
• The Vast of Night
• Virus [1999]
• The Void
• Witchfinder General
• The VVitch [2015]
• The Wolf Of Snow Hollow [2020]
• Wolfen

Fantasy

The essential fantasy trilogy (not on the list because it's so obvious that this is a /tg/ approved movie).

• 10,000 BC
• 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.
• Black Death [2010]
• Blade 1 & 2
• The Brothers Grimm
• Camelot [1988]
• Circle of Iron [1978, also known as The Silent Flute]
• Clash of the Titans [1981]
• Conan the Barbarian [1982]
• Conan the Destroyer
• Constantine
• The Dark Crystal
• Death Trance [Japanese]
• Deathstalker 2 (ignore both 1 & 3)
• The Demon Of Mount Oe [Japanese] (technically a horror)
• Les Deux Mondes [2007]
• Doctor Sleep
• Dragonheart
• Dragonslayer
• Erik the Viking
• Excalibur
• Fantaghirò [Italian TV movie series]
• Fire and Ice [animated]
• The Forbidden Kingdom
• Gandahar [animated]
• George and the Dragon
• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
• Hellboy (only the first one; the 2004 one)
• Highlander (only the first movie, because there can be only one; "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]
• Hawk the Slayer
• Heisei Generations FOREVER [tokusatu]
• How to Train Your Dragon [animated]
• Howl's Moving Castle [animated]
• The Iceman Cometh [Chinese]
• Ink [2009]
• Innocent Blood [1992]
• Jabberwocky [1977]
• Jason and the Argonauts [1963 and the 2000 TV version]
• Jumanji (and if you have spare time - the animated TV show too)
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle & The Next Level
• Krull
• Kull the Conqueror
• Labyrinth [1986]
• Ladyhawke
• The Last Unicorn [animated]
• The Last Witch Hunter
• Legend [1985]
• Legendary Weapons of China [Chinese]
• Lord of the Rings [animated]
• Masters of the Universe [1987]
• Mythica series (glorious, modern cheese straight from someone's campaign)
  • The Crown and the Dragon and it's own series (same film crew)
• Neverending Story
• Night Watch [Russian]
• The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]
• Odd Thomas
• The Odyssey [TV movie, 1997]
• Ondine
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Peacock King [Chinese]
• The Polar Bear King [Norwegian]
• Practical Magic
• Princess Mononoke [animated]
• The Princess Bride [1987]
• Red Sonja
• Reign of Fire
• The Return of the King [animated]
• Ronal The Barbarian [animated]
• Season of the Witch [2011]
• The Secret of NIMH [animated]
• SAGA - Curse of the Shadow
• Snow White and the Huntsman (the visuals are definitely worth enduring it)
  • Same with the sequel, The Huntsman: Winter's War
• Solomon Kane
• Song of the Sea [animated]
• Secret of Kells [animated]
• Stardust
• The Sword and the Sorcerer
• Sword of the Valiant
• Sword of the Stranger [animated]
• 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]
• Viy 2: Journey to China [Russian] (also released under "Iron Mask" and "Journey to China")
• Voyage of the Unicorn [TV movie]
• The Warrior and the Sorceress
• Willow
• Wizards [animated]
• Wolfhound of the Grey Hound Clan [Russian]
• Wolfwalkers [animated]

Comedy

• 1 chance sur 2 [French]
• 48 hours
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• Airplane! [1980]
• Back to the Future [1985] and its sequels
• Bandits [2001]
• Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2
• The Big Hit
• Big Lebowski
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (sequel is approved too).
• Blazing Saddles
• The Blues Brothers [1980]
• Braindead [1992]
• Buffalo Soldiers [2000]
• A Chinese Ghost Story [1987, Chinese] - sequels are optional, remake is shunned
• City Heat
• Cocoon [1985]
• Coming to America
• The Cornetto Trilogy:
  • Shaun Of The Dead [2004]
  • Hot Fuzz [2007]
  • The World's End [2013]
• The Cuckoo [Russian]
• Dark Dungeons
• The Death of Stalin [2017]
• Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [1964]
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [1998]
• The Final Girls
• 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] - and only this one
• Grosse Pointe Blank & War, Inc.
• Groundhog Day
• Hudson Hawk
• In Bruges
• The Incredible Army of Brancaleone [Italian]
• Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession [Russian]
• Kindergarten Cop
• A Knight's Tale [2001]
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
• Love Potion No. 9
• The Mask
• The Men Who Stare at Goats
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• The Naked Gun 1 & 2 (3 can be skipped)
• Nothing to Lose
• Palm Springs
• The Raven [1963]
• Ready Or Not [2019]
• Role Models
• Rosaline [2022]
• Secondhand Lions
• The Sister Act
• Snatch
• Space Balls
• Spies like us
• St. Ives [1998]
• Stay Tuned
• The Sting
• Straight to Hell [1987]
• Taxi [French] - sequels are purely optional, with progressively worse quality
• Trading Places
• Tremors [1990] And first movie only
• Tropic Thunder - all-bard party at war
• Twins [1988]
• Vabank [Polish]
• We're No Angels (both the 1955 and 1989 versions)
• What We Do In The Shadows
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Your Highness
• Zombieland [2009] - ignore the sequel

Adventure

• The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938]
• The African Queen
• Agaguk (also known as "Shadow of the Wolf")
• Alatriste [Spanish, 2006]
• Angélique series [five movies from 1964-68, French]
  • Modern remake from 2013, too
• Armour of God & Armour of God II: Operation Condor (or "Operation Condor 2: The Armour of the Gods" & "Operation Condor", if you are American and fat) [Chinese]
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire [Animated]
• Berman-Thorpe trilogy, a genre-defining thing for knight epics
  • Ivanhoe [1952]
  • Knights of the Round Table [1953]
  • The Adventures of Quentin Durward [1955]
• Black Robe
• Blond Savage
• Bloodstone [1988]
• Le Bossu [1959/1997, French]
• The Buccaneer [1958]
• Bulletproof Monk
• Captain Blood
• Captain Fracasse [French]
• Cast Away
• El Cid [1961]
• The Crimson Pirate [1952]
• Cutthroat Island
• The Deceivers
• Don Cesare di Bazan and its remake, The Seventh Sword [Italian]
• Erik the Conqueror [French-Italian co-production]
• Fanfan la Tulipe [1952, French]
• Firewalker
• Flesh+Blood
• Flight of the Phoenix [1965/2004]
• The Journey to Kafiristan [German]
• The Ghost and the Darkness
• Golden Goddess of Rio Beni [German]
• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
• Greed in the Sun [French]
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan [the only approved Tarzan production]
• Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle
• Hidalgo
• High Road to China (also known as "Raiders of the End of the World")
• Himalaya [1999]
• The Horseman on the Roof [French]
• Indian Epic duology [1959]:
  • The Tiger of Eschnapur
  • The Indian Tomb
• Indiana Jones [original trilogy]
• Ivanhoe [1982]
• Janosik [2009, Polish-Slovakian co-production]
• Kerim, Son of the Sheik [Italian]
• The King's Guard [2000]
• King Arthur [2004]
• King Kong [1933, 2005]
• King Solomon's Mines [1950, 1985 and 2004 versions]
• Kon-Tiki [Norwegian]
• The Last Legion
• Last of the Mohicans
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• The Librarian [TV movies franchise]
• Long Way North [animated]
• The Man Who Would Be King
• Le masque de fer [1962]
• Medicine Man [1992]
• The Mummy [1999 - and only this one]
• National Treasure
• Pathfinder [Norwegian]
• The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak [French Indiana Jones spoof] (avoid English dubbing, it kills all the jokes)
• Pirates [1986]
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl [2003] - sequels are only for rabid fans
• Prince of Persia
• Princess of Thieves
• Queen of the Desert
• Quest for Fire [1981]
• Renegades [2017] (a perfect Merc 2000 module)
• Revenge of the Musketeers [French, also known as "Daughter of d'Artagnan"]
• The Road to El Dorado [Animated]
• The Rocketeer
• Romancing the Stone [and it's remake/update The Lost City]
• The Sandokan series [Italian, 1964]
• The Sea Hawk
• She [1965 - and only this one]
• Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
• Sinbad the Sailor
• Six Days, Seven Nights
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• The Snow Walker
• Stand By Me (how to handle atypical quest with atypical party)
• The Swordsman in Double Flag Town [Chinese]
• Storm Over Ceylon [German]
• The Three Musketeers [1973] and The Four Musketeers [1974]
• Tintin - both the 2011 motion capture and old feature animations from the 60s (animated TV series is meanwhile approved cartoon)
• Tomb Raider [2001] (Just bring lots of alcohol and friends)
• The Vikings [1958]
• The Warrior [2001, Korean cut, avoid the international one]
• Wicked Lady [1983]

Film Serials

Serials are best watched like mini-series, rather than one continuous movie. All of those listed below are eternal genre classics (many of them invented various mainstay cliches and plot devices for adventure and action movies), doing pulp in its purest form. Quintessential material for any tongue-in-cheek games, along with stuff like Savage Worlds or Hollow Earth Expedition, which are just those stories as games.

• Buck Rogers [1939]
• The Call of the Savage [1935]
• The Crimson Ghost [1946]
• Daredevils of the Red Circle [1939]
• Dick Tracy serials
  • Dick Tracy's G-Men [1939]
  • Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. [1941]
  • Dick Tracy [1945]
• Drums of Fu Manchu [1940]
• Hawk of the Wilderness [1938]
• Jungle Girl [1941]
  • Perils of Nyoka [1942], its unlicensed sequel
• Jungle Jim [1937]
• Jungle Queen [1945]
• King of the Rocket Men [1949]
• The Lost City [1935]
• Lost City of the Jungle [1946]
• The Lost Jungle [1934] & Darkest Africa [1936]
• The Mysterious Pilot [1937]
• The Phantom Empire [1935]
• Red Barry [1938]
• The Return of Chandu [1934]
• The Secret of Treasure Island [1938]
• The Shadow [1940]
• Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery [1935]
• Tarzan serials
  • Tarzan the Fearless [1933]
  • The New Adventures of Tarzan [1935]
• Terry and the Pirates [1940]
• The Tiger Woman [1945]
• Undersea Kingdom [1936]
• Zorro serials
  • Zorro Rides Again [1937]
  • Zorro's Fighting Legion [1939]

Western

• 3:10 to Yuma [1957]
• Aferim! [Romanian]
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• The Beguiled [1971]
• 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]
• Dead Man [1995]
• 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]
• Gold [2013, German]
• The Good, The Bad, The Weird [Korean] (Korean cut, not the international!)
• The Hateful 8
• High Noon
• High Plain Drifter - all-Evil alignment western campaign
• Jeremiah Johnson
• Klondike (technically a mini-series, but it's a 4 hours long movie)
• The Magnificent Seven [1960]
• Man of the West
• Maverick
• Meek's Cutoff - an excruciating drama that is a fantastic showcase of what happens when you take out all the excitement and escapism out of the western and decide to run "muh realistic campaign".
• Millionaires Express
• My Name Is Nobody
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Open Range
• Outland - don't be confused by the sci-fi decorations
• Pale Rider
• The Quick and the Dead
• Quigley down under
• Rango [animated]
• Rio Bravo
• The Sabata trilogy [Italian]
• 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
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• White Sun of the Desert (Soviet "eastern")

Action

• Beach of the War Gods [1973, Chinese]
• Becky
  • The Wrath of Becky
• A Better Tomorrow [1986]
• The Blade [Chinese]
• Bleeding Steel [2017] - bad movie, but great collection of reusable set-pieces
• Blind Fury
• Blood Diamond
• Blue Thunder
• Born to Fight [2004, Thai]
• Boss Level
• Bunraku [2010]
• Bullet Train
• Centurion
• The Chronicles of Riddick
• Cobra
• Collateral
• Commando
• Conspiracy Theory [1997]
• The Dark Knight
• The Departed [and original Infernal Affairs]
• Die Hard 1 & 3
• Elite Squad 1 & 2 [Brazilian]
• Escape from New York
• Face/Off
• Five Deadly Venoms [Chinese]
• Five Elements Ninjas [Chinese]
• Freelance [2023]
• The Hand of Death [Chinese]
• Hanna
• Hard Boiled [1992]
• Haywire [2011]
• The Heroic Trio [1993]
• In the Line of Duty film series [Chinese] - at the very least "Yes, Madam!"
• Jack Reacher
• John Carpenter's Vampires
• John Wick (at least the first one; the rest is totally optional)
• Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
• The Killer Elite [1975]
• Killer Elite [2012] (unrelated with above)
• Knight and Day
• Kung Fury
• Last Action Hero
• Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]
• The Long Kiss Goodnight
• Mad Max series
• Mission Impossible 3 & 4 (and only those two)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• Next of Kin
• Once upon a time in China 1 & 2
• Ong-Bak [Thai]
• Peking Opera Blues
• Police Story film series [Chinese]
• Polite Society
• Predator & Predators
• Raw Deal
• Road House
• Ronin [1998]
• The Running Man
• Running Scared [2006]
• Steel Dawn
• Stone Cold
• Streets of Fire
• The Taking of Tiger Mountain [Chinese] - be ready for lots of action cheese
• The Transporter (only the first one)
• Triple Frontier
• True Lies
• A Touch of Zen [Chinese]
• The Untouchables
• The Warriors
• Waterworld (preferably the Ulysses Cut)
• Wild Wild West
• The Witch [2018, Korean] - only the first one
• You're Next [2011]

War

• 1911 [2011]
• 1944 [Estonian]
• The 9th Company [Russian] (watch original version - English dub is just awful)
• Alexander [Final Cut version, avoid like fire theatrical cut]
• All Quiet on the Western Front [all three versions]
• Apocalypse Now
• Blue Max
• Das Boot: [extended, serialised version - takes 5 hours, worth every minute]
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• A Bridge Too Far
• Colonel Wołodyjowski [Polish]
• Crimson Tide
• Come and See [Russian]
• The Deluge [Polish]
• The Dirty Dozen
• The Dogs Of War
• Full Metal Jacket [1987]
• Fury
• Gallipoli
• Gettysburg (also available in a mini-series format)
• Glory
• Gods and Generals
• Guns of Navarone
  • Force 10 from Navarone (so-so sequel, but far more applicable as tabletop material)
• Hamburger Hill
• Der Hauptmann [2017, German]
• Hell in the Pacific
• Kelly's Heroes (and it's remake/update, Three Kings)
• Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut, very important]
• 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]
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (how to maritime)
• Massacre in the Black Forest [1967]
• Mulan [Chinese from 2009 and animated from 1998]
• Paths of Glory
• Platoon
• Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]
• Sahara [1943/95, *not* the adventure flick from 2005]
• Saving Private Ryan
• Sharpe series [TV movies starring Sean Bean]
• Soldier [1998]
• Soldier of Orange [Dutch]
• Spartacus [1960]
• Steiner - Das Eisernes Kreuz [1977, German]
• Thin Red Line
• War [2002, Russian]
• Waterloo [1970, Russian]
• Where Eagles Dare
• Windtalkers
• Zwartboek [Dutch, only after watching Soldier of Orange]

Crime

• American Animals - obligatory watch to anyone running and playing BitD
• Baby Assassins [Japanese], sequel is optional
• Bacurau [Brazilian]
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity series [Japanese]
• The Big Sleep [1946]
• Black Rain
• Brawl in Cell block 99
• The Casino
• Chinatown
• City of Industry
• Crimson Rivers [French] (avoid English dubbing, it's horrible)
• Croupier
• Dirty Harry (the rest of the series is optional)
• The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)
• Dobermann [French] (chaotic evil campaign)
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Donnie Brasco
• Dragged Across Concrete
• The Emperor of Paris [French]
• Entrapment [1999]
• Escape from Alcatraz
• French Connection
• The Godfather I & II
• Gone Girl
• The Good Thief
• The Handmaiden [Korean] (just watch it blind, don't read anything about it)
• Heat [1995]
• Heist [2001] (all-Rogue campaign)
• Hell or High Water
• A History of Violence
• In the Shadow [2012, Czech]
• Insomnia [2002]
• Invalid [Slovak]
• The Italian Job [1969 & 2003]
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• Knives Out
• L.A. Confidential
• Layer Cake
• The Long Goodbye [1973]
• M [1931, German]
• Matchstick Men
• Money Train
• Mr Brooks
• The Nice Guys
• No Country for Old Men
• Ocean's Eleven [2001]
• Olsen Gang series [Danish] - at least 1st, 6th and 8th movie, rest is optional
• Palmetto
• Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]
• Plunkett & Macleane
• Point Break [1991, the remake doesn't exist]
• Pulp Fiction
• Ransom
• Red Rock West
• Reindeer Games
• Reservoir Dogs
• The Score
• A Simple Plan
• Shallow Grave
• Sneakers
• The Spanish Prisoner
• Sweat [2002, French] (stay away from English dubbing, it mistranslated half of the dialogues)
• That Man from Rio [French] (preferably HD restored version)
• The Thief [1981]
• The Thieves [Korean]
• The Thomas Crown Affair [both 1968 & 1999]
• The Town [2010]
• Training Day
• Trance [2013]
• The Truth About Charlie
• Twilight [1998]
• The Usual Suspects
• The Witness [1985]
• The Yakuza

General

• Mazes and Monsters - The "so bad it's good"-type movie. Based on a novel by a hack writer for Cosmopolitan that assumed Dallas Egbert III's disappearance had something to do with gaming. Starring Tom Hanks and the World Trade Center Towers (it was made before their destruction)
  • Skullduggery [1983] - the Canadian knock-off of the above, riding the wave of Satanic Panic. And it's so bad, it's fantastic
• 13 Assassins [Japanese]
• 7 Samurai [Japanese]
• 1984 [1984]
• 8MM
• After the Dark (killer GM galore)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God [German]
• Amadeus
• The Ambassador [2011, Danish]
• The American
• As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me [German]
• Astropia
• Aragami [Japanese]
• Azumi [Japanese] - sequel is optional
• 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
• Caligula [1979]
• 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
• Der Untergang/Downfall
• Les Diaboliques [both French original and the remake from 1996]
• Dr. No
• The Dressmaker
• The Duelists
• The Fall
• Falling Down
• Fight Club DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS
• First Blood
• Fort Saganne [French]
• Four Souls of Coyote [Hungarian]
• The Game [1997]
• Gangs of New York
• Geronimo: An American Legend
• Ghost Dog
• The Ghost Writer
• The Great Escape
• Harakiri [Japanese]
• Heavy Metal [animated]
• Hero [Chinese]
• The Hidden Fortress [Japanese]
• House of Flying Daggers [Chinese]
• Humanity and Paper Balloons [Japanese]
• The Hunt for Red October
• In The Name Of The Rose
• The Insider
• Ironclad
• Jurassic Park
• Kagemusha [Japanese]
• Koyaanisqatsi (rest of the Qatsi trilogy is optional. Soundtrack is also approved.)
• Lagaan
• The Last Valley
• Legend of the Eight Samurai [Japanese]
• Léon: the Professional
  • And its spoof, Wasabi
• The Lion in Winter [1968]
• The Lives of Others [German] (how to Lawful Evil)
• The Madness of King George
• Miracle Mile
• The Mission [1986] (novelisation is approved literature, greatly expanding the story into TTRPG campaign territory. Also, amazing soundtrack.)
• Money Talks [1997]
• Nick of Time
• Ninja Wars [Japanese]
• North by North-West
• Nowhere in Africa [German]
• On the Beach [1959 & 2000]
• Papillon [1973] - and stay away from the horrible remake
• The Phantom of the Opera (only the 1925 and 2004 version)
• The Piano
• Proof [1991]
• Ran [Japanese]
• Rane [Serbian] - distilled Balkans
• Rashômon [1950]
• The Road
• Rob Roy
• Run Lola Run [German]
• Runaway Train
• Les Samurai [French]
• Sanjuro [1962]
• Sense and Sensibility
• Sekal has to die [Czech-Polish co-production]
• The Seventh Seal
• Shawshank Redemption
• Six-String Samurai
• Sorcerer [1977, obligatory HD restored version]
• The Stuff [1985]
• Superman [1978] & Superman 2 [1980]
• Surviving the Game
• The Sword and the Rose
• Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
• Tai-Pan
• Tasogare Seibei [Japanese]
• Temptation of a Monk [Chinese]
• A Time to Kill
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Throne of Blood [Japanese]
• These Final Hours (fetch-questing in style)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Unbreakable
• Vatel [French]
• WarGames
• The Wild Hunt
• Yôjinbô [Japanese]
• Zatōichi [at least the 2003 film]
• Zipang [Japanese]