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
• 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]

Horror

• 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]

Fantasy

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.
• 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

Comedy

• 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

Western

• 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")

Action

• Blood Diamond
• Centurion
• 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
• Hard Boiled [1992]
• Haywire
• John Wick
• Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
• Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]
• Mad Max [original trilogy only]
• Mission Impossible 3 & 4 (and only those two)
• Predator & Predators
• Ronin [1998]
• Running Scared [2006]
• Streets of Fire
• True Lies
• Waterworld
• The Untouchables

War

• Apocalypse Now
• Das Boot [extended, serialised version - takes 7 hours, worth every minute]
• Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut]
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Platoon
• Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]
• Sahara [1943/95, *not* the adventure flick from 2005]
• Soldier [1998]
• War [2002, Russian]

Crime

• Chinatown
• Crimson Rivers [French] (avoid English dubbing, it's horrible)
• Dog Day Afternoon
• The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)
• The Good Thief
• Heat
• L.A. Confidential
• Layer Cake
• No Country for Old Men
• Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• The Town [2010]
• Trance [2013]
• The Truth About Charlie
• Witness [1985]

Adventure

• 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)

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
• 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)