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[Dr Lecter]

I'm almost shocked that no-one has posted any Spaghetti Westerns (unless I missed them). Among the best films ever. If you like great music, inhuman gunmen, body counts and backstabbing; then you're bound to love it.

The Great Silence directed by Sergio Corbucci. watches abit more like an indie (in a good way) film than most of the others, definitely one of the most realistic and believable Westerns ever. Set in snow-filled Utah during the Great Blizzard of 1899.

Sabata directed by Gianfranco Parolini (AKA Frank Kramer) starring Lee Van Cleef. The soundtrack alone is insane.

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Walach. It's pretty much the quintessential Western. If you haven't seen it or don't plan to, I feel sorry for you.

Once Upon A Time In The West directed by Sergio Leone, starring Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda. Makes my top five films, the first American funded of Sergio Leone's films and the production values are quite apparent.

Actually any Sergio Leone's films pretty much, and loads of others besides.

[Kekskiller]

The Godfather
The Thief And The Cobbler

[moonmagic]

Sabata, generally, is insane. In a good way.

[The_Flying_Dove]

Tired of making the same old shit? Me too!

Let us post movies that we really need to see. Too many game designers take their inspiration from other games, which might very well be why we're stuck in this giant circle-jerk of bullshit that games are today. It's time to stop that and take our inspiration from our sister medium, the movies. And no, not fucking Robocop or even some Tarantino regurgitation. We have enough of that going around. Let's make a thread for movies that you really fucking need to see.

Fuck Jason Roher, fuck Kojima.. These are the people you need to spend your time studying if you want to make something meaningful.

Rules:
 - Nothing from after the year 2000
 - Nothing made in hollywood
 
(except for rare exceptions)

Army of Shadows -  Jean-Pierre Melville




The Underground - Emir Kusturica




Time of the Gypsies - Emir Kusturica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cyBXPMurJY

Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFAlegTEBUU

Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfowVslQBQk

Dead Man - Jim jarmusch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07xKQakj1hM

Alphaville - jean-Luc Godard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4k7XIdk7Vk

Fantastic Planet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E

Man With a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KytJFyMHZl0

Battleshp Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euG1y0KtP_Q

Blowup - Michelangelo Antonioni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xz1utzILj4

Fahrenheit 451 - Francois Truffaut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cQ-yGCyjyM

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Sergio Leone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13EUXqIwDkQ

Well, there actually are plenty of films from Hollywood before the Sexual Revolution that were phenomenal and that video games have yet to take inspiration from, so I would have to say that you're wrong if you think that most game designers have looked at most of what Hollywood has had to offer. For instance, how many movies like Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, or Citizen Kane have inspired games?

What I really like about the pre-Sexual Revolution period of cinema is that many movies were aimed at everyone, and even without so much violence and sexual content that most movies have had after the 1960s, they still were able to deliver perhaps the finest examples of storylines and characters. Almost anyone can become an actor today, and that wasn't possible before the 60s. Furthermore, there was a much heavier reliance on morality back then than today, and for that alone, I cannot possibly say that I am thrilled with watching 60s and post-60s films/TV shows anymore than those before the 60s. As a result, we're left with almost nobody that can be called as great as the pre-60s actors and actresses, especially when comparing today's actresses to those pre-60s ones. Actresses today are 90% or more of the time nothing but sex icons in the media.

Aside from that, there actually have been plenty of indie films before the 60s, but I doubt that many of them have been heard of.

From the top of my head, I can list many indie films across the span of cinema's history:

- La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion), by Jean Renoir
- Rules of the Game, by Jean Renoir
- Memento
- A Scanner Darkly
- The Thing From Another World
- Se7en


There actually were many other indie films that I watched, but I cannot seem to think of anymore examples.

[jstckr]

It's true that pre-1960 Hollywood movies are kind of an entirely different thing. But Ivan didn't really exclude these movies. As he explained later in the thread, this topic is for people to recommend the rather unknown pleasures of cinema-land. It is pointless to suggest to people to watch Godfather, for example. Not because the movie(s) are bad, but because everyone fucking knows Godfather. Same goes for Se7en - if you haven't heard of that movie yet, you probably have a long beard, live in a cave and wear shoes made of bark.
What Ivan should do at one point is edit the first post to be a bit more specific and less "lol I watch cooler movies than you".

Also, these Renoir movies are totally seconded.

[Eclipse]

(dunno if the english subbed bersion is any good, the italian version is just AWESOME)





Videodrome - David Cronenberg

eXistenZ - David Cronenberg

Altered States - Ken Russell

Jacob's Ladder - Adrian Lyne

Orwell: 1984 - Michael Radford


also almost all the David Cronenberg movies are pretty awesome stuff.

[Ivan]

(*) I was drunk.


But I'll edit the post.

[Fegon]

Well everyone should see Man bites dog, funny as hell that movie.

[KennEH!]

Well everyone should see Man bites dog, funny as hell that movie.

I am definitely going to watch this.

[ForteDante]

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a classic movie. Don't know about obscure, but it is quite old.

[droqen]

Someone already said Twelve Monkeys.

So, in unlinked and in reverse-chronological order
Memento
Fallen
The Princess Bride

[aeiowu]

if you liked 12 monkeys don't miss La Jetee

You can watch it there at that link in its entirety, though i'd recommend renting it (probably find it at the library)

[moi]

Bad santa is my new favorite movie.

[droqen]

Oh!

Brazil.

That is all.

[Ahimsa89]

It might be a little hard to watch this one now,
but I recommend this film, [The Housemaid] ('하녀' in Korean).
It's a 1960 black-and-white Korean thriller film about an affair between a housemaid and the master.
This had been re-made in 2010 and it won several awards.
It's not a happy story, but it kind of makes you think about a lot of things after watching it.

- Rotten Tomato link for Hanyo: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hanyo/

[Golds]

The Lives of Others is my favorite my of the century so far





You gotta watch Battle Royale. It is the cultural antecedent of PUBG *and* The Hunger Games.




Come and See, one of the best war movies ever made. It was produced in Russia during the reign of the USSR, and it popularized that ringing sound effect after an explosion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HCTIUx1Arc

Vertigo is one of my favorite Hitchcock movies, and has a classic twist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jvQwwHQNY

The Rules of the Game, this movie was directed by the famous painter Augueste Renoir's son, Jean Renoir, and invented the English manor murder mystery genre that you see later in movies like Gosford Park and Downton Abbey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxs4P6u1EiI

La Dolce Vita, my favorite Fellini, about press hustlers and youth in late 1950s Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHpCgL4jZZU

The Wages of Fear, this movie is an epic thriller classic, and was remade as Socerer in the 1970s. a must-watch. It's so tense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_0OrSG5RWA

Ashes and Diamonds, great Polish war movie, and one of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmvtaSGeOSI

Lust, Caution, my favorite Ang Lee movie, gripping movie about Chinese resistance during World War II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn0uZaiukXQ

Enron, The Smartest Guys in the Room, one of the best documentaries, chronicling Enron's meteoric rise and fall, and gives prescient hints towards the 2008 financial crisis to come. It's on Netflix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6duQhWuVk

Das Boot, one of my personal favorites. About a WWII German U-Boat crew, and a great tale of cooperation and teamwork under extremely harrowing circumstances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzKyeIex2Y

Housekeeping, a unique, emotional coming of age film about two teenage girls in the 1950s Pacific Northwest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ80uKQdIYU

Speaking of Coming of Age movies, I really like Frances Ha, and the actress from that movie just directed a great coming age movie of her own, Lady Bird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBn5dgXFMis

Videodrome is a really weird and disturbing David Cronenberg movie, about a TV producer who discovers a mysterious satellite channel broadcast..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFHey3utk0I

El Topo, directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky is famously incredibly strange, and a true culmination of creative vision. He was the first director to attempt to film Dune. Also check out his The Holy Mountain[/b]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uqb4Jy0GTg

L'AVVENTURA, about someone missing in 1960 Italy. I really like the mood of this movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ShLDfjnzw

Dreams, by Akira Kurosawa. He directed this movie at 80, and is an inspiring testament to a creative mind executed his vision into his 9th decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIA_Gyd2CYw

Once Upon a Time in The West, Ennio Morricone makes the best film scores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMd6D1Gw1g

Woman in the Dunes — don't fall into a sand pit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbK9FI5yK1w