For the few people who didn’t already watch it, and the best movie of all time :

Mad Max: Fury road (2015 ) by Miller .

This is what film story telling is about: having an entire weird universe told through visual medium. The 1st half hour has mad max gagged and incapable of talking, and it is amazing. Preferably on big screen.

A gem from the past:

Taboo(1999), by Nagisa Ôshima,

a samurai movie with hint of homosexuality. and an ending that can only be understood by paying close attention to the sound off screen.

A classic:

Seven samurai(1954), Kurosawa.

Just enjoy the black and white shot , and immerse in old Japanese culture

Apocalypto

The Hunger Games

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

If you want to add non English movies to the list, then I have two to suggest:

• Children of Heaven
• Cinema Paradiso

Many good ones were already mentioned

But from memory:

• The snatch
• The big Lebowsky
• Clerks
• American Psycho
• 2001 a space odissey
• Blade Runner (possibly the directors cut)
• Apocalypse now (possibly the redux version)
• Full metal jacket
• The godfather (first 2 movies, the rest is not as good)
• Fight club
• Alien
• The Truman show
• In the mouth of madness
• They live
• The terminator (first 2)
• Animal house
• the dollar trilogy from Sergio Leone
• Once upon a time in America
• pulp fiction
• reservoir dogs

Predestination [2014]

The Matrix

Some you need to see to get the references:

• Soylent green
• 1984 (or read the book of course)
• Inception
• Everything by Stanley Kubrick and Tarantino

For something (more) crazy:

• The Holy Mountain

Mary and Max.

Gladiator extended edition. No other movie matters now. Tis a masterpiece

The Dark Knight

There Will Be Blood

The Prestige

Memento

The Shining

Gangs of New York

Aliens

The Machinist

Full Metal Jacket

Arrival

I find it inconceivable that no one has mentioned ‘The Princess Bride’ yet.

Oh one more. Contagion. Made years and years before covid - pretty spot on tho.