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 [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 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
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- 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