Approved Movies
This is a list of /tg/ approved movies, organized into loose genres, alphabetically.
Add important details in brackets.
Science Fiction
- 5th Element, The
- Blade Runner [final cut]
- Brazil
- Children of Men
- Chronicle [2012]
- Dark City
- Dark Star
- District 9
- Donnie Darko
- Dredd [2012]
- Appleseed
- Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina
- Equilibrium
- Event Horizon
- eXistenZ
- Galaxy Quest
- 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]
- The Prestige
- Primer
- Robocop [1987]
- Robocop 2
- Robot Jox
- Solaris [1972, 2002]
- The Sphere
- Stalker [foreign]
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Star Wars [trilogy]
- 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]
- Brotherhood of the Wolf
- 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 13th Warrior
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Big Trouble in Little China
- 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]
- Ink (2009)
- Jabberwocky (1977)
- Krull
- Kull the Conqueror
- Ladyhawke
- The Last Unicorn [animated]
- The Legend
- Lord of the Rings [animated]
- The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]
- Ondine
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Princess Mononoke [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
- Forest Gump
- 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
- Gentlemen Broncos
- 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, the World's End]
- Your Highness
- What We Do In The Shadows
- Zombieland
Western
- 3:10 to Yuma [1957]
- Dollars Trilogy [A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - preferably extended cuts]
- High Noon
- High Plain Drifter
- The Magificent Seven [1960]
- Open Range
- Outland
- Pale Rider
- Quigley down under
- Silverado
- The Wild Bunch
Action
- Centurion
- Collateral
- Commando
- Escape from New York
- Haywire
- Heat
- Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
- Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]
- Mad Max [original trilogy and Fury Road]
- Predator
- Ronin [1998]
- 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]
- Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]
- Sahara [1943/95, *not* the adventure flick from 2005]
- War [2002, Russian]
Adventure
- The Ghost and the Darkness
- Indiana Jones [trilogy only-outside the original 3 there are no others]
- King Solomon's Mines [1985]
- The Man Who Would Be King
- Prince of Persia
- Tomb Raider [2001] (a truly awful movie where the antagonist is literally the illuminati. The only two redeemable aspects of this movie are watching Angelina Jolie naked and that you may actually laugh with how stupid this movie is. If you dare watch it, 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
- The Cell
- Chinatown
- A Clockwork Orange
- Crimson Rivers
- The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)
- Dr. No
- The Dark Knight
- The Fall
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- In The Name Of The Rose
- Jurassic Park
- Léon: the Professional
- Once upon a time in China 1 & 2
- Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- Rob Roy
- Seventh Seal, The
- Six-String Samurai
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Superman (1978) & Superman 2 (1980)
- The Last Valley
- The Sword and the Rose
- The Wild Hunt
- Trance [2013]
- Trash Humpers
- The Truth About Charlie