Approved Movies

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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 [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
  • 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 - 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
  • The Cell
  • Chinatown
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Crimson Rivers
  • The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)
  • Dr. No
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Fall
  • Fight Club DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS
  • Heavy Metal (animated)
  • In The Name Of The Rose
  • Jurassic Park
  • The Last Valley
  • 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
  • Sorcerer [1977, HD remaster]
  • Superman (1978) & Superman 2 (1980)
  • The Sword and the Rose
  • Trance [2013]
  • Trash Humpers
  • The Truth About Charlie
  • The Wild Hunt