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
• Blade Runner [final cut]
• Brazil
• Children of Men
• Dark City
• Dark Star
• District 9
• Donnie Darko
• Dredd [2012]
• Appleseed
• Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina
• Event Horizon
• Galaxy Quest
• Inception
• The Iron Giant [animated]
• The Matrix
• The Lord Inquisitor [animated]
• Metropolis [1927]
• Metropolis [animated]
• Moon
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [animated]
• The Prestige
• Robocop [1987]
• Robocop 2
• Robot Jox
• Solaris [1972]
• Stalker [foreign]
• Star Trek [2009]: Half-decent if you pretend it isn't a Trek film.
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home [Even if you hate Star Trek this movie is great]
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Star Wars [trilogy]
• Starship Troopers
• Terminator
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Transformers: The Movie [Animated, 1987 version only]
• Twelve Monkeys
• Ultramarines:The Movie [Animated]
• WALL-E [animated]
• K-Pax

Horror

• 28 Days Later
• Alien
• Aliens
• Alien 3 [director's cut]
• Brotherhood of the Wolf
• Cabin In The Woods
• Dog Soldiers
• Eraserhead
• Evil Dead [trilogy]
• Event Horizon
• The Exorcist
• Hellraiser
• In the Mouth of Madness
• Mulholland Drive
• Pandorum
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Shining
• The Thing [1982]
• Witchfinder General

Fantasy

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

• Big Trouble in Little China
• Camelot (1988)
• Conan the Barbarian [1982]
• Conan the Destroyer
• Dragonheart
• Excalibur
• Fire and Ice [animated]
• How to Train Your Dragon [animated]
• Howl's Moving Castle [animated]
• Ink (2009)
• Jabberwocky (1977)
• Krull
• Kull the Conqueror
• Lord of the Rings [animated]
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Princess Mononoke [animated]
• The 13th Warrior
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• The Hobbit [Animated]
• The Last Unicorn [animated]
• The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]
• The Princess Bride
• The Return of the King [animated]
• The Thief of Baghdad (1924/1940)
• Time Bandits
• SAGA - Curse of the Shadow
• Solomon Kane
• Song of the Sea [animated]
• Secret of Kells [animated]
• Stardust
• Willow
• Ronal The Barbarian [animated]

Comedy

• Shaun Of The Dead
• Your Highness
• The Gamers trilogy

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
• A Clockwork Orange
• Apocalypse Now
• Astropia
• Chinatown
• Dr. No
• Fight Club DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS
• Forest Gump
• Good Morning, Vietnam
• Heavy Metal (animated)
• Indiana Jones [trilogy only-outside the original 3 there are no others]
• Jurassic Park
• Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut]
• Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
• Léon: the Professional
• Mad Max [trilogy & Fury Road]
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• Seventh Seal, The
• Six-String Samurai
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Superman (1978) & Superman 2 (1980)
• The Dark Knight; aka Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy
• The Fall
• The Last Valley
• The Sword and the Rose
• The Wild Hunt
• Trash Humpers
• 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)
• In The Name Of The Rose