Movies Tier A - Excellent
List of Movies I consider Excellent. Very much worth a watch, even if I wouldn’t recommend them to literally everyone.
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2001: Space Odyssey
Type:
Sci-Fi Adventure Epic
Description:
When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two scientists and one supercomputer is dispatched to Jupiter to find its origins.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
09/2026
500 Days of Summer
Type:
Romantic Comedy
Description:
After being dumped by the girl he believes to be his soulmate, hopeless romantic Tom Hansen reflects on their relationship to try and figure out where things went wrong and how he can win her back.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
3
Last Watched:
03/2025
Arrival
Type:
Mystery, Sci-Fi
Description:
A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
1
Last Watched:
02/2024
Baraka
Type:
Description:
A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
04/2025
Blade Runner 2049
Type:
Sci Fi Thriller
Description:
Young Blade Runner K’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who’s been missing for thirty years.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
09/2026
Casino
Type:
Gangster Epic
Description:
In Las Vegas, two best friends–a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer–compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
09/2026
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Type:
Drama, Romance
Description:
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
04/2025
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
Type:
Fantasy Epic
Description:
A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
09/2026
Ex Machina
Type:
Thriller
Description:
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
1
Last Watched:
05/2023
Godfather (Part II)
Type:
Epic Crime Drama
Description:
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
09/2026
Handmaiden (The)
Type:
Thriller
Description:
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
03/2025
Midsommar
Type:
Drama, Horror, Mystery
Description:
A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown’s fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
08/2023
Mr Nobody
Type:
Drama, Fantasy
Description:
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn’t choose, anything is possible.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
1
Last Watched:
09/2023
Parasite
Type:
Thriller
Description:
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
02/2024
Se7en
Type:
Thriller
Description:
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
3
Last Watched:
09/2021
Snatch
Type:
Dark Comedy
Description:
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
09/2026
Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad)
Type:
Action, Drama, Crime
Description:
In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
4
Last Watched:
07/2024
Truman Show
Type:
Drama
Description:
An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
02/2024
Twilight Saga
Type:
Teen Drama, Fantasy
Description:
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire.
Quick Review:
One of the best comedies I’ve seen in my life.
Times Watched:
1
Last Watched:
04/2025
Zootopia
Type:
Animation, Family
Description:
In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy.
Quick Review:
Times Watched:
2
Last Watched:
07/2025