r/films

I have a few options but I’m trying to narrow it down, it’s 15 women and I need something very high energy to keep them all focused.
I really like classic films but I know most of them don’t
- Clue (1985)
- Wake up dead man (2025)
- Jawbreaker (1999)
- Drop dead gorgeous (I have seen it but I love it so much I would watch it again like the first time) (1999)
- Scream VI (2023)
- Election (1999)
- Game night (2018)
- How to Make a Killing (2025)

You can say more if you want.

Щас вечер, мне оч скучно, подскажите прям мощный фильм или сериал! Только не ужастик, фантастика, боевик, а так любой жанр, комедия, романтика и че там еще осталось , хз ну пожалуйста выручайте 🙏 прям чтоб хорошо было, 10\10

Unfortunately, due to a 1965 MGM Film Vault fire, many films of the silent era were permanently lost.

While I am against using AI to "cast" actors who are no longer alive alongside contemporary actors (kind of like that AI James Dean film that thankfully got shelved due to controversy back in 2019), I was wondering, would it make sense to/would it be acceptable to use AI to recreate/restore some of the lost films of that era?

I would think providing an AI engine with a script, production stills, and maybe some video samples of surviving films of that era that starred some of the same actors that AI could potentially do somewhat faithful recreations of some of the films.

The film in particular that comes to mind is the lost Tod Browning directed 1927 horror film "London After Midnight" starring Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, and Conrad Nagel. The script is still intact and I've heard the intertitles are as well,,so they could be interwoven. And there are several production stills from the film that AI could use to recreate it.

That said, I'm not sure how I would feel about that-- I do think as long as proper credit is given that this is a more ethically acceptable usage of AI in the film industry than trying to cast deceased "actors" alongside living actors innew films.

I've seen comedies but none of them have made me laugh; maybe I'm just not easily amused.

I need help finding a movie I used to watch on tv many years ago. I don’t remember much about the movie but I remember the opening scene was a husband at the gas station with his little boy aged of three or four while the two others are at home. He asked his ex wife to meet him at GS but it was a trap and he killed her. I remember he then put her body in her car and pushed the car into a river to make it look like a suicide or accident. Later on the show an inspector suspicious about the husband comes to ask some questions to the kids ( the oldest tell the inspector when their dad left and came back very agitated, the time matched the wife’s death ) this guy eventually found a new wife ( a blond actress very known in tv movies )
That’s all I remember, sorry I don’t even know if I’m at the right place to ask but I couldn’t find any other. Thanks in advance if you can help me find the title of this movie.

Drama about hope, friendship, and never giving up, even in the hardest moments.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/?ref_=ls_t_1

One of the best horror movies of the generation, arguably only topped by the director's subsequent film "Weapons".

The competition it had that same year (2022):

Terrifier 2

Scream 5

Bones and All

Pearl

Nope

Scream No Evil

X

The Menu

Men

Smile

Deadstream

Fresh

Watcher

Prey

Bodies Bodies Bodies

....and it still wiped the floor with all of them. Financial success, UNIVERSAL acclaim from both critics and audiences, and now the director is the hottest new thing in town, releasing Weapons to amazing success and soon the new Resident Evil, and beyond. This director can literally do anything he wants right now. He's earned the good graces of everyone, critics and audiences alike. He's the Tarantino of horror, hot new director dropping two classics back to back and having everyone excited to see what he does next. That name Zach Cregger now puts butts in seats.

Not just liked more but one you genuinely understood differently years later.

For me I rewatched Lost in Translation recently and it honestly hit me in a completely different way. The first time I watched it I thought “nothing really happens here.” Now I realized the whole movie is basically about drifting through life and trying to feel understood for even a moment. I really think a lot of movies land differently once you’ve actually lived a little more.

Welcome to This Week’s Binge Thread!

This is the place to share what you’ve been watching lately - movies, series, documentaries, anything!
Any hidden gem, a blockbuster, or even something you regret watching, we’d love to hear about it.

Things you can share:

• ⭐ What you watched (movie/series name + year if possible)
• 💭 Your quick thoughts/review (liked it? hated it? somewhere in between?)
• 🎯 Would you recommend it to others here?
• 📺 What’s on your watchlist for next week?

A few guidelines:

• Keep spoilers clearly marked (use spoiler tags >!like this!<).
• Be respectful of different tastes – not everyone enjoys the same genres.
• Recommendations are encouraged – the more variety, the better!

🍿 So… what have you been watching this week?

It can be anything but i'd prefer some trippy ominous stuff like fantastic planet, i want the visuals for a project i'm working on

A list of films that question the system, reality, and the human mind: from The Matrix to Stalker, from They Live to Network

I’ve recently realized that some films are not just “films.” They feel more like small mental ruptures that make you question reality, society, media, authority, capitalism, technology, and even your own consciousness.

So I wanted to put together a list. I didn’t organize these films by genre, but by the deeper message they seem to carry. There’s horror, sci-fi, dystopia, psychological thriller, political cinema, philosophical cinema… but they all have one thing in common:

After watching them, they leave you with one question:

“Am I truly free, or am I living inside a reality that has been shown to me?”

**1. False reality, simulation, and perception breakdown**

These films ask: “Is the world you live in actually real?”

The Matrix

The Truman Show

Dark City

The Thirteenth Floor

eXistenZ

Inception

Vanilla Sky

Source Code

Total Recall

Coherence

Primer

Donnie Darko

Paprika

Mr. Nobody

Jacob’s Ladder

Pi

The Mandela Effect

This category is perfect for anyone who loves the whole “Matrix mindset.”

**2. Media, propaganda, advertising, and mass hypnosis**

These films explore how media, advertising, television, and news shape society.

They Live

Network

Videodrome

Wag the Dog

Looker

Branded

The Insider

State of Play

The Conspiracy

Conspiracy Theory

Under the Silver Lake

The Manchurian Candidate

Mr. Robot

For me, the strongest trio here is: **They Live, Network, Videodrome.**

**3. Authoritarian systems, surveillance, and state control**

The core idea here is that the system doesn’t only want to control your behavior; it wants to control your thoughts, memories, emotions, and language too.

1984

V for Vendetta

Brazil

Equilibrium

THX 1138

Fahrenheit 451

Minority Report

Anon

A Scanner Darkly

Gattaca

Children of Men

The Lobster

Metropolis

Snowpiercer

The Platform

Soylent Green

Essential territory for dystopia lovers.

**4. Capitalism, consumer culture, and modern alienation**

These films show how modern people become trapped inside work, money, status, brands, anger, and consumption.

Fight Club

American Psycho

Office Space

Falling Down

Joker

Idiocracy

Requiem for a Dream

Pleasantville

Monsters, Inc.

Snowpiercer

The Platform

Metropolis

Soylent Green

Especially **Fight Club** and **American Psycho** capture the emptiness behind a life that may look “cool” from the outside.

**5. Social engineering, obedience, and psychological experiments**

These films deal with how easily humans can be influenced, how people submit to authority, and how dangerous group psychology can become.

A Clockwork Orange

Experimenter

The Wave

The Experiment

The Class / Klass

Oldboy

Martyrs

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

This is the category that makes you think, “I would never act like that,” and then quietly makes you uncomfortable.

**6. Artificial intelligence, identity, soul, and the question of what it means to be human**

These films question what actually makes someone human. Is it memory? The body? Consciousness? The soul?

Blade Runner

Blade Runner 2049

Ghost in the Shell

Ex Machina

Transcendence

Moon

Oblivion

2001: A Space Odyssey

Solaris

Prometheus

Jupiter Ascending

The strongest ones here, in my opinion, are **Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, Ex Machina,** and **Moon**.

**7. Existence, consciousness, and spiritual searching**

These are heavier, more philosophical films. They look less at the outside world and more at the inner world of the human being.

Stalker

Solaris

2001: A Space Odyssey

Waking Life

My Dinner with Andre

Mindwalk

The Man from Earth

Enter the Void

The Holy Mountain

The Brand New Testament

Wise Blood

Mother!

Agora

Mr. Nobody

Pi

This category is less “let me watch a movie” and more “let me think about this for several days.”

**8. Secret elites, deep state, and invisible systems of power**

These films play with the idea that behind the visible political and social order, there may be other structures operating in the background.

Eyes Wide Shut

The Skulls

The Manchurian Candidate

Conspiracy Theory

The Good Shepherd

The Conspiracy

Z

State of Play

The Insider

The Adjustment Bureau

Under the Silver Lake

Wag the Dog

They can be watched as conspiracy stories, but in most of them the real subject is not paranoia. It’s power, information, and manipulation.

**9. Humanity’s origins, aliens, and cosmic perspective**

These films ask whether humanity is really as special as it thinks it is — or whether history is truly the way we’ve been told.

The Arrival

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Prometheus

Stargate

Lifeforce

The Forgotten

Oblivion

Jupiter Ascending

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Especially **Stargate** and **Prometheus** explore human origins somewhere between mythology and science fiction.

**10. Religion, mythology, and criticism of sacred narratives**

These films question faith, God, religious institutions, creation stories, or sacred narratives.

The Holy Mountain

Mother!

The Brand New Testament

Wise Blood

Agora

Prometheus

Stargate

The Man from Earth

Some of these may feel too symbolic or uncomfortable for certain viewers, but that’s exactly what makes them valuable.

**My essential top 20 from this list**

If someone were just getting into this kind of cinema, I would probably recommend starting with these:

The Matrix

The Truman Show

They Live

Network

Fight Club

1984

Brazil

Blade Runner

Blade Runner 2049

Stalker

Solaris

A Clockwork Orange

Gattaca

Snowpiercer

The Platform

Videodrome

Dark City

Children of Men

Ex Machina

Mr. Robot

The overall message I take from these films is this:

Human beings often believe they are free, but their reality is shaped by media, the state, the market, technology, fear, memory, desire, and society itself. That’s why some films matter: they entertain us, but at the same time they quietly ask, “Are you awake?”

Which films would you add to this list?

I’m especially looking for films that:

Break your perception of reality

Criticize media and propaganda

Explore dystopian societies

Question consciousness, identity, and what it means to be human

Examine systems, authority, or invisible power structures

Drop your recommendations. I’d love to expand the list.