• Infernal Affairs
• The Killer (Hong Kong/Chow Yun-Fat)
• A Better Tomorrow (Hong Kong/Chow Yun-Fat)
• Rumble in the Bronx (Hong Kong/Jackie Chan)
• (Police Story 2) (Jackie Chan)
• Shogun assassin

• Vengeance trilogy (Park Chan-Wook):
  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  • Oldboy
  • Lady Vengeance
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring

Bong Joon Ho:

• Thirst (aka. Bakjwi)
• The Host
• Parasite
• Memories Of Murder (NRK)

• In the mood for love
• Hero (aka. Ying xiong)
• House of Flying Daggers (aka. Shi mian mai fu)
• Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain

• Big Bad Wolves

• Tropa de Elite
• City of God

• Fanny & Alexander (preferably the 6 h mini-series version)

• Taxi 2
• The Three Colours trilogy (Krzysztof Kieślowski):
  • Three Colours: Blue (1993),
  • Three Colours: White (1994),
  • Three Colours: Red (1994),
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

• The Fantastic Planet

• Das Leben der Anderen (aka. “The Lives of Others”)
• Run lola run
• Wir sind die nacht
• Er ist wieder da (“Look who’s back”)

• Pan’s Labyrinth / The Labyrinth of the Faun (El laberinto del fauno)
• Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes)
• Sleep Tight

• Wild Tales (aka “Relatos salvajes”, 2014)

Mandatory!

• The Thing
• Big Trouble in Little China
• They Live
• Escape from New York
• Prince of Darkness
• Assault on Precinct 13
• Christine (1983)

Very mandatory!

• Ferris Buller’s day off
• Breakfast club
• Sixteen candles
• Some kind of wonderful
• Career Opportunities (script)
• (Pretty in pink
• (Weird science)

Not Hughes but could have been:

• Say Anything
• Cant Buy me Love
• Heathers
• Mannequin
• Real Genius
• Fast times at Ridgemont High

Super-duper mandatory

• Terminator 1 & 2
• Conan 1 & 2
• Commando
• Predator
• True Lies
• Total Recall
• The Running Man
• Raw Deal
• Red Heat
• (Pumping Iron)
• Twins
• Kindergarten Cop

• Universal Soldier (1991, Dolph + van Damme)
• Tango and Cash
• RoboCop 1-2 (1987, 1990)
• Die Hard 1-2
• Rambo 1-3
• Leathal Weapon 1-2
• The Last Boy Scout
• Cobra
• The Long Kiss Goodnight
• Stone Cold
• Beyond the Law (C. Sheen)
• Mad Max 2 (and 3)
• 48 Hrs & 48 Hours
• John Wick 1-3 + Nobody (2021)
• xXx (Vin Diesel)
• Action Jackson
• Sniper
• Dolph Lundgren (in descending order)
  • The Punisher
  • Showdown in Little Tokyo
  • Joshua Tree
  • Dark Angel
  • Men of War
• Jean-Claude van Damme (in descending order)
  • Double Impact
  • Legionnaire
  • Hard Target
  • Timecop
  • Lionheart
  • Bloodsport
  • Sudden death
• Steven Segal (in descending order)
  • Under Siege 1 (2)
  • Above the law (Steven Segal)
  • Hard to Kill
  • Out for Justice
  • Fire down Below
• Wesley Snipes (in descending order)
  • Demolition Man
  • Blade (W. Snipes)
  • Passenger 57 (W. Snipes)
• … Chuck Norris
• Deathstalker I (Conan-clone + scantly clad wamen)
• Hell Comes to Frogtown (full movie) (Mad Max-clone with Randy Piper)

• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Spartacus (1960)
• The Conversation (1974)
• The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• The Killing (1956)

• Dirty Harry (1-3)
• Network (1976)
• Taxi Driver
• The Deer Hunter
• Scarface
• Bullet
• The Godfather 1,2,3
• The French Connection
• Jaws
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Planet of the apes (technically from the 60s)
• One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
• The Shining
• Apocalypse Now
• A Clockwork Orange
• Smokey and the Bandit
• Kelly’s Heroes
• Where Eagles Dare
• The Elephant man
• Easy Rider
• Superman
• Vanishing Point
• Deliverance

• Back to the Future 1-3
• Indiana Jones 1-3
• Beverly Hills Cop 1-2
• Highlander
• WarGames
• Ghostbusters 1 (2)
• Top Gun
• Blade Runner
• Coming to America
• Trading Places
• Blues Brothers
• Beetle Juice
• Big (1988)
• Cannonball run I (1981)
• Gremlins
• Ground hog day
• Iron eagle
• ET
• Planes Trains Automobiles
• The Platoon
• When Harry Met Sally
• Wallstreet
• Princess Bride
• K-9
• Overboard
• Rain man
• Turner and Hootch
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• The Fly
• Full metal jacket
• (Men at work)
• Vampire’s Kiss
• Wild at Heart
• Rocky I, II, III, IV, V

Possibly children’s movies but still classic

• Flight of the navigator
• Goonies

• Heat
• 12 Monkeys
• Falling Down
• Batman 1-2 (Michael Keaton)
• Con Air
• Point Break
• The Rock
• Executive Decision
• Speed
• Face/Off
• Silence of the Lambs
• Blow
• A few good men
• American History x
• Donnie Brasco (based on true story)
• Carlito’s way (Some really funny Pacino-lines in this one)
• Fearing and Loathing in Las Vegas
• The Rookie
• Leon
• Money Train
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Leaving Las Vegas
• From dusk til dawn
• Everything by Quentin Tarantino, including “Natural Born Killers” & “True Romance”
• True Romance (1993)
• Jurassic park
• Men in Black
• Seven (se7en)
• Shawshank redemption
• Sleepers
• The hunt for Red October
• Pirates of Silicon Valley
• The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
• Mission: Impossible
• The Fugitive
• US Marshals
• The Game
• The Usual Suspects
• American Psycho
• My Cousin Vinny
• Tremors 1 (2?)
• L.A. Confidential
• Fearless
• Scent of a Woman
• Broken Arrow
• Nikita
• Kiss kiss bang bang (2005)
• White men can’t jump
• Crimson tide
• Premium Rush
• Killing Zoe
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• Jerry Maguire
• The Bad Lieutenant
• Johnny Mnemonic
• The Boondock Saints
• Judge Dredd
• Rising Sun (S. Connery, W. Snipes)
• The Fan (De Niro, W. Snipes)
• Murder at 1600
• The Pentagon Wars
• Frequency
• Phenomenon
• Edmond (William H. Macy)
• The Kings of Summer (The “Stand by Me” of the 2010s?)
• The Matrix

• Remains of the Day
• Stand by me
• Magnolia
• Vanilla Sky
• Donnie Darko
• Station agent
• Me and you and everyone we know
• Melancholia
• The Wrestler (by Aronofsky, others: Black Swan, Pi, The Fountain)
• American Beuty (Kevin Spacey)
• Before Sunrise / Sunset / Midnight
• Lost in Translation
• Karate kid
• Labyrinth
• Sideways
• Ghost World
• American Splendor
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Into the Wild
• Garden State
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The Woodsman
• Another Earth
• Memento (Christopher Nolan)
• Carnage (Jodie Foster, Christopher Waltz, John C Riley)
• Locke (Tom Hardy)

• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Rushmore
• Bottle Rocket
• …and everything else by him

• Old School
• Blazing Saddles (Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks)
• Young Frankenstein (Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks)
• Office Space
• Dirty Work (Norm MacDonald)
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Life of Brian
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• A Fish Called Wanda
• Uncle Buck (John Candy)
• Wedding Crashes
• Weekend at Bernie’s
• Stripes (Bill Murray, John Candy)
• Super
• Super Bad
• Anchorman
• Armed and dangerous (John Candy)
• Back to school
• Encino man
• Step Brothers
• The Naked Gun
• Super Troopers
• Hot Shots (Dependency: Top Gun)
• Hot Shots 2 (Dependency: Rambo 2-3, Total Recall, Wallstreet, Platoon, Apocalypse Now)
• Airheads (Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler and Steve Buccemi hijack a radio station)
• Blast from the Past (1999)
• Groundhog day
• Police Academy (1)
• Wayne’s World 1 (2)
• Austin Powers 1-3
• Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
• National Lampoon’s Vacation
• National Lampoon’s European Vacation
• Kingpin
• Team America: World Police
• As Good as it Gets
• Anger management
• Scorched (2003)
• Zero Charisma
• Tropic Thunder

I’m intentionally excluding Armageddon, Deep Impact, Star Trek.

• Contact (Jodie Foster)
• The 5th element
• Equilibrium (Christian Bale, really cool fighting in this one)
• Gattaca (Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke)
• Primer
• Cube
• Event Horizon
• Ultraviolet
• Aeon Flux
• Sphere (1998 with Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L. Jackson)
• The Abyss (1989 Ed Harris)
• Stargate (Kurt Russel)
• Star Wars (4-6)
• Starship Troopers
• Repo Man (1984)
• The Hidden (1987)
• The Keep (1983)
• Wedlock (1991)
• Strange Days (Ralph Finnes)
• The Thirteenth floor
• Dark City
• Pitch Black (Vin Diesel)
• Alien (1) & Aliens (2)
• Minority Report
• The Forbidden Planet (1956)
• The Fantastic Voyage (1966)
• The Last Starfighter
• Soylent Green
• Yor the hunter from the Future
• Dreamscape
• Explorers
• Inner Space
• Flash Gordon
• Tron
• Krull
• Starman
• The Adventures of Backaroo Banzai
• Alien Nation
• Brainstorm
• Westworld (1973)
• Logan’s run
• Dark Star
• Battle Beyond the Stars
• Zardoz
• Silent Running
• (Rocky Horror Picture)
• (The man who fell to earth)

Fantasy:

• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Never Ending Story (1984)
• Clash of the titans (1981)
• Willow (1988)
• The Dark Crystal (1982)
• Gremlings (1 & 2)
• Dragonheart

• Big Lebowski
• Fargo
• Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Choen, 1984)
• Burn after reading
• …and much more

• Blue Velvet
• Twin Peaks (serie)
• Lost Highway
• Mullholland Drive
• (Dune)

Classic 90s films.

• Clerks
• Mallrats
• Chasing Amy
• Dogma
• Amy
• Clerks 2

• Dirty Harry 1-3
• Unforgiven
• Pale Rider
• Heartbreak Ridge
• Any which way but loose (1978)
• Any which way you can (1980)

• Samurai Cop (Some scenes were recorded after the main character got a haircut, thus the lady wig)
• The Room (so classic it spawned The Disaster Artist)