🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Spicy - A must watch
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Hot - Recommended
🌶️🌶️🌶️ Mild - Could be good
🌶️🌶️ Bland - Don’t bother
🌶️ Rotten - Disaster

Which movies are worth watching? These ratings serve as recommendations for cinema enjoyers based on cinematography/story/fun and to discover similar films. Reviews/analysis are spoiler protected.

High and Low (1963)

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High and Low (1963)

Hollywood film noir doesn’t seem that high up anymore.

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Yojimbo (1961)

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Yojimbo (1961)

Samurai epic meets spaghetti western.

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Harakiri (1962)

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Harakiri (1962)

Cinematography as sharp as samurai steel.

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Scarface (1983)

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Scarface (1983)

Shakespearean downfall of a charismatic drug lord.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

When the story is more intriguing than the slashing.

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M (1931)

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M (1931)

If there was ever the case for why classic films are more cinematic.

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Metropolis (1927)

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Metropolis (1927)

Nein out of ten.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Global archeological adventure awaits!

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Stand By Me (1986)

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Stand By Me (1986)

Pre-internet adventures of American adolescence.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Perhaps the holy grail is the laughter we found along the way.

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Amadeus (1984)

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Amadeus (1984)

The Mozart effect applies to movies too.

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Jaws (1975)

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Jaws (1975)

Spielberg makes a generation afraid of the beach.

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Taxi Driver (1976)

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Taxi Driver (1976)

You talking to me?

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Blade Runner (1982)

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Blade Runner (1982)

Why science fiction should exist.

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Carrie (1976)

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Carrie (1976)

Catharsis for all the high school injustice.

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In Cold Blood (1967)

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In Cold Blood (1967)

A masterclass in cinematography.

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Solaris (1972)

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Solaris (1972)

A philosophical odyssey venturing into our cosmic subconscious.

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Days of Heaven (1978)

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Days of Heaven (1978)

When Terrence Malick makes a film rather than a diary.

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)

An entertaining detective film noir mystery even by modern standards.

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Army of Shadows (1969)

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Army of Shadows (1969)

A war thriller at the peak of the French wave.

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Alien (1979)

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Alien (1979)

The alien movie that really started it all.

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Perhaps the vastest epic of all time.

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Psycho (1960)

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Psycho (1960)

The father of horror/thrillers.

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Seven Samurai (1954)

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Seven Samurai (1954)

The blade doesn’t cut deep for this Japanese epic.

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Casablanca (1942)

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Casablanca (1942)

The pinnacle of classic cinema.

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12 Angry Men (1957)

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12 Angry Men (1957)

A historically relevant film in cinema on human bias.

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Rear Window (1954)

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Rear Window (1954)

A glimpse of what visual storytelling is all about.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Crazy is never out of fashion.

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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

An ambitious potential masterpiece falls short.

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The Godfather Part II (1974)

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The Godfather Part II (1974)

Perhaps the best gangster epic of all time.

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Barry Lyndon (1975)

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Barry Lyndon (1975)

An epic character study underneath all the powered wigs.

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Apocalypse Now (1979)

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Apocalypse Now (1979)

The greatest war film ever made.

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Vertigo (1958)

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Vertigo (1958)

Hitchcock’s masterpiece disorients audiences for the worse.

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The Third Man (1949)

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The Third Man (1949)

The king of classic film noir.

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Citizen Kane (1941)

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Citizen Kane (1941)

A revolution in filmmaking no longer revolutionary.

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Paris, Texas (1984)

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Paris, Texas (1984)

When slow burn erupts into a volcano.

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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)

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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)

The definitive western epic.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The definitive visual establishment of space.

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The Shining (1980)

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The Shining (1980)

Redrum.

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A Clockwork Orange (1971)

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A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Glimpse into delinquency.

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