Approved Movies

Action

• Riddick series
• Batman Begins, The Dark Knight
• Die Hard
• Kill Bill
• Lethal Weapon series
• Predator
• James Bond series
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
• The Rocketeer
• Aliens
• Captain Blood
• The Transporter
• Mad Max series
• Escape from New York
• John Wick

Comedy

• The Big Lebowski: Farcical love letter to Raymond Chandler. Except instead of an intrepid PI our heroes are a shiftless slacker and his bowling group. Endlessly quotable, and important background for one Old Man Henderson.
• Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker: Not a series but a team of three directors known for some incredibly funny spoofs of: disaster flicks (Airplane!), spy movies (Top Secret!) and police procedurals (The Naked Gun) that pretty much defined the genre spoof format for the next 30 or so years, until less competent writers ran it into the ground. Known for casting "serious" actors like Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen, who could deliver even the most absurd lines without a hint of irony.
• Blazing Saddles: Western spoof from the great Mel Brooks and a vulgar, anachronistic, fourth-wall-breaking riot. A corrupt attorney general needs a town removed so he can sell the land to a railroad company, so he has a black man appointed sheriff knowing the racist townsfolk will tear him and the town apart. Or so he thinks. Billed as "a 1974 story in 1874", this is probably the most times you will ever hear the word "nigger" outside of an imageboard and none of it feels gratuitous.
• The Blues Brothers
• Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II
• Back to the Future series
• Monty Python
• Pulp Fiction
• Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Gamers trilogy
• Snatch
• Tropic Thunder
• Spaceballs
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Attack the Gas Station

Drama

• The Godfather
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity series
• Gone with the Wind
• Resevoir Dogs
• Apocalypse Now
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Fantasy

• Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja
• Highlander
• Clash of the Titans
• The Beastmaster
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Hellboy
• Fire and Ice
• Wizards
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Jason and the Argonauts
• Labyrinth
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Princess Bride
• The Black Cauldron

Horror

• Alien
• John Carpenter's The Thing
• The Fly: Why you don't fuck with teleporters: the movie. A masterclass in body horror, the ending will haunt your nightmares for years to come.
• H.P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator
• Evil Dead series
• Psycho
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Jaws
• House
• Event Horizon
• Eraserhead
• The Cabin in the Woods
• The Crow
• "Dead" series

War

• Apocalypse Now
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• The Bridge Over the River Kwai
• Full Metal Jacket
• Saving Private Ryan
• Das Boot: One of the most expensive films in the history of German cinema, a psuedo-autobiographical account of a German U-boat crew in 1941. Based on a historical fiction novel by a war journalist under the Third Reich with surviving crewmen as consultants, so it's as much about fighting boredom and the deep-seated turmoil within the Kriegsmarine as attacking the Allies. The uncut edition (intended to be televised in three parts) weighs in at five hours and is worth every minute.

Western

• Dollars series: Seminal "trilogy" (connected only by cast and crew) directed by Sergio Leone. "A Fistful of Dollars" is an unauthorized remake of the Japanese classic Yojimbo (also approved) while "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" are stock adventure plots held together by outstanding soundtracks, cinematography and the acting skill of one Clint Eastwood. Mandatory viewing for any Western campaign that takes itself remotely seriously, or any campaign with a heavy focus on murderhoboing. Almost singlehandedly responsible for replacing the romantic image of the Old West enshrined by Hollywood with lawlessness, corruption and amoral antiheroes.
• 3:10 to Yuma
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• True Grit
• Tombstone
• Rango
• Django Unchained

Science Fiction

• Star Wars: Duh. Original trilogy only, and get the unauthorized 4K remasters from before Lucas fucked with it by Team Negative 1 if at all possible; prequels and Rogue One if you crave more, everything else is strictly if you hate yourself.
• Planet of the Apes
• Heavy Metal
• RoboCop
• The Terminator series
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Black Magic M-66
• Iron Sky
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Blade Runner
• The Andromeda Strain
• Dark Star
• Judge Dredd
• Men in Black
• Ghost in the Shell
• Pacific Rim
• Starship Troopers
• Stargate
• THX 1138
• Time Cop
• Titan AE
• The Transformers: The Movie
• Westworld

Pure Schlock

• Blade series
• Wild, Wild, West
• The 25th Reich: At one point in this independent strayan movie Nazi officer gets sodomized by a giant robot spider teleported in by a flying metal swastika. If that isn't enough to get you to tune in, I don't know what will.
• Kung Fury
• This Island Earth
• Manos... the hands of fate?