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I’m working night shifts for the past few months, and was wondering if any of you guys/girls have any movie recommendations? I’m looking for something gritty, dark, with excellent acting and good scripts.

I’m not looking for comedies or kind of movies with that alapaca dude, nothing of that sort. I need good thrillers, SciFi, dramas, noir etc.

Any tips? I’m open to older classics, and I generally don’t care if it aint’ in English.

Kad već pitaš:

Jacob’s Ladder
Rope (1948, personal fav of Hitchcock )
The Devil’s Rejects

reservoir dogs >:)
also
Inception
The Road
Drive

Quoted from Freakie

I’ve been meaning to see the Wolf of Wall Street for a while now, heard good things about it.

3 hours of FUCK FUCKING CRACK CASHFLOW LEONARDO MUNCHING PILLS STACK PAPERS BETTER RECOGNIZE A TRUE AMERICAN NICE LAMBORGHINI NO BUGATTI YOU ONLY WEAR NICE SUITS ONCE

great film tho

snowpiercer

If you’re into sci-fi and have the time to devote 3 hours to intense concentration then Stalker (Tarkovsky, 79) is amazing. Hands down the most profound movie I’ve seen and it was the first movie to really challenge the way I thought of movies (like …7-8 years ago, I’ve rewatched it regularly since)

Otherwise to get a few off the top of my head:
Moon
Metropolis (Once again, slow but amazing)
M (Fritz Lang’s finest movie, Peter Lorre is beyond amazing in it)
Primer is wonderfully confusing (and just a tiny bit arrogant about its own cleverness)
The Good, the Bad, the Weird is an amazing korean retelling of The Good The Bad The Ugly.
The Departed
Lucky Number Slevin
Enemy of the Earth (my most watched movie as an adult, like 15 times or something. Objectively it’s pretty shit but it charmed me)
Both Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are so good.
eXistenZ is weirdly good and basically inception 10 years before inception.
Once upon a Time in America is in my eyes Sergio Leones greatest movie

I don’t know how much noir you’ve watched but you can’t really go wrong with the classics – Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Citizen Kane etc (imdb got some pretty good lists for this kind of thing). Road to Perdition is an ok modern take on it and I saw something amazing last week that I honestly can’t remember the name of atm :x

edit: Oh yeah, if you want to watch a series then watch The Wire.

You should check imdb lists, they have the “official” top10 and stuff like that and then users playlists of what kind of movies. It really helped me a lot when I was on hospital bored as hell with no ideas for movies

You should maybe consider watching series as well, there are some awesome ones after all and they are perfect for killing time.

You probably know all of the mainstream series by the title at least but give them a try if you havent watched them yet.

such as

dexter
lost
prison break
breaking bad
house of cards