I have seen a lot of movies. I watched a ton as a kid, mostly because there was nothing else to do. In college I actually minored in watching movies because that was a thing. And that was only when I wasn’t watching movies for my major. Almost every class started with a spate of silent movies and classics of film history. Often times the same ones over and over again. I took entire classes on film noir and Hitchcock. I look through lists now and my recollection of which I watched (and which I slept through) is a little foggy. I went on to watch films on planes and on couches and in bed. So many on cable or on DVD or just channel surfing. So many I recall, but others are lost to time. I may have seen all of the Emmanuelle movies on Cinemax, but I may have only seen the same three scenes over and over again from Emmanuelle 4. I couldn’t be bothered to care. What I’m starting to realize after starting to compile this list is that my parents were way too lenient in the movies they let me see as a child.
Here I have started an initial list of the movies I’ve seen. I will add to it over time as my memory sharpens or I just run across titles I’ve missed — and I’ve certainly missed a ton. Any films that have full reviews on this site will be linked to that review. Any that just strike my fancy will have one-sentence comments about the film or my memory of it and will be added to over time as the mood strikes me. Yes, I’m obsessive, but it was fun to recall some of these titles and wonder how I possibly had enough time in my life to enjoy (or not enjoy) them. It’s also made me wistful for cinema-going, browsing Blockbuster shelves and ordering Netflix DVDs through the mail. That really helped focus my viewership that has now become scattered with all the streaming options. I have rediscovered some of that joy with the discovery that my local library — which is literally steps away — stocks and can order thousands of catalog DVDs for free. Bonanza.
10
10 Cloverfield Lane
10 Things I Hate About You
12 Angry Men
12 Monkeys
The time travel film that started a life-long relationship with the genre, this is an incredible visual experience and introduced me to the idea of mind-fuckery in the best sense of the term.
13 Going on 30
17 Again
18 Again!
1917
1941
2 Days in the Valley
2 Fast 2 Furious
2001: A Space Odyssey
I’m not sure I understood a thing that was going on when I first watched this film and am not sure watching it now that I’d understand it any more.
2010: The Year We Make Contact
I watched this in the theater and don’t recall being this bored or confused since watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture and wondering when the hell the credits would roll.
21 Jump Street
This is among my favorite serendipitous watches, as I am complete unable to skip by it if it’s being broadcast on one of the many channels in my plan — and it is often on — because there are so many incredibly funny scenes that never seem to get old or fail to leave me giggling like a complete idiot.
22 Jump Street
3 Ninjas
I was forced by Hipster Jr. to watch this film and its many sequels way too many times and I feel like an idiot for letting it happen instead of making him watch Enter the Dragon or at least one of the better Jackie Chan films.
3 Ninjas Kick Back
3 Ninjas: Knuckle Up
3:10 to Yuma
The 40-year-old Virgin
48 hrs.
50 First Dates
50/50
(500) Days of Summer
8MM
9 1/2 Weeks
The A-Team (2010)
About Last Night…
About Schmidt
The Abyss
I had this on LaserDisc and somehow the behind-the-scenes cast interviews are more harrowing than the film’s drowning scene, which still haunts Ms. Hipster to this day.
The Accidental Tourist
The Accountant
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Yes, this movie is really fucking stupid, but in a packed theater it absolutely killed to the point you’d think you were watching the funniest film in the history of cinema.
Ace Venture Jr.: Pet Detective
Action Jackson
The Addams Family (1991)
The Addams Family (2019)
Adventureland
Adventures in Babysitting
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
I rented this thing like eight different times in the 1980s thinking it would get better — because critics at the time said it was the best thing since sliced cheese — but I failed to connect with its absolute mess of a screenplay and the student production quality that couldn’t support the grandiosity of its ambitions.
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
I watched this way more times than I should have in college dorm rooms and fraternity houses, but there was something about the masculine appeal of Andrew Dice Clay that spoke to my obsession with Fonzie as a child — which is probably just me laughing at two nice Jewish squishes cosplaying as Italian tough guys and wondering how or why anyone was buying it.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
The Adventures of Tintin
The Accidental Spy
After Hours
Against All Odds
Agnes of God
Air Bud: Golden Receiver
Air Force One
The Air Up There
Airheads
Airplane
Airplane II: The Sequel
Aladdin
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alien
Alien³
Aliens
For my teenage brain, this was a perfect mixture of sci-fi action, humor and horror that lit up every portion or every pleasure center and made for one of the more memorable theater-going experiences of my young life.
All of Me
All the President’s Men
All the Pretty Horses
All the Queen’s Horses
All the Right Moves
We know that football players weren’t as big in 1983 as they are now, but for us to buy a stretch-5′ 6″ Tom Cruise as a gifted, scholarship-worthy football player is still a little laughable.
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Always
Amadeus
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Amazing Stories
Amazon Women on the Moon
American Hustle
American Ninja
American Splendor
An American Werewolf in London
Amistad
Anaconda (1997)
Analyze This
Analyze That
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Angel Heart
I feel like this is one of the films Hipster Parents put on the “banned” list (along with Porky’s), and after finally seeing it, I can kind of understand why; shit is pretty disturbing.
Anger Management
Angus
Annie Hall
I know we’re not supposed to be okay with Woody Allen now, but this movie is so quintessential 1970s NYC, and so incredibly ethnically and culturally resonate, that I can’t help but feel it in my bones.
Anora
Another 48 Hrs.
Ant-Man
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
There is a reason green screens and CGI exist, but I don’t think god intended for it to be abused in this completely horrible way.
Antz
Any Given Sunday
If football was really this violent and bloody, there is no way humans would allow it to go on.
Apocalypse Now
Apollo 13
Apt Pupil
Aquaman (2018)
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Aquamarine
Argo
The Aristocrats
Armageddon
Army of Darkness
Arrival
As Good as it Gets
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Arthur
Atomic Blonde
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
The Avengers
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Awakenings
At Close Range
One of the first memories I have of leaving a theater completely depressed and horrified by the cruelty of life, which was probably not Hipster Mom’s intention by bringing me to this film — which was a double feature with something I don’t recall — but at least my intro to this darkness was brought along by the likes of Sean Penn and Christopher Walken.
Au Revoir Les Infants
Audrey Rose
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Avengers (1998)
The Avengers (2012)
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Infinity War
Babe
Babel
Baby Geniuses
I must have been in my masochistic phase when I decided to put this one on for Hipster Jr., as it is among the worst experiences I’ve had in my life — and I’ve had a colonoscopy.
Baby’s Day Out
Bad Boys
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Bad News Bears (2005)
Bad Teacher
Bachelor Party
Back to School
The Kurt Vonnegut gag alone is worth the price of admission, as is the social experiment of an industry somehow trying to make Rodney Dangerfield a leading man.
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part III
Backdraft
Bad Moms
Bananas
Band of the Hand
Barbie
Barcelona
Barton Fink
This film was very formative for me, an incredibly cerebral film that spawned layers and layers of conversation about the meaning of every scene and every visual, breaking down John Turturro and John Goodman’s performances and thinking that I could somehow make something so incredibly weird and wonderful with my my undergraduate film studies and absolutely no skill in writing metaphor or showing the world of the mind like a Coen brother.
Baseketball
Basic Instinct
The Basketball Diaries
Batman (1989)
Looking back, it’s shocking how this initial swing by D.C. to make a Hollywood superhero film found itself half-way out of the comic book chrysalis and what a wreck the butterfly looked like a couple decades later.
The Batman
Batman & Robin
Batman Forever
Batman Returns
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justic
Battleship Potemkin
Be Cool
The Beastmaster
Beautiful Girls
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Bedtime Stories
Beethoven
Beetlejuice
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Being There
Belly
Bend It Like Beckham
Bernie
Best Defense
You go in thinking you’re seeing an Eddie Murphy film, but end up with a dud of a Dudley Moore movie, which was a real bummer for me and pretty much the entirety of the moviegoing audience.
Best In Show
The Best of Times
Better Off Dead
A staple of the mid-80s poorly directed teen comedies that shaped Gen X in probably a really unhealthy way.
Beverly Hills Cop
It’s absolutely shocking that Eddie Murphy was only 23 when he made this movie, as he just owned the screen and launched himself into the stratosphere as a cool leading man who could drive a franchise and charm the hell out of America.
Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop III
Battle Los Angeles
Somehow this is a different movie than Battle of Los Angeles that came out the same year (2011), but probably half as memorable or popular.
Bend It Like Beckham
The Bicycle Thief
Big
If there was ever a movie tailor-made for an actor, this is the one.
The Big Chill
Big Daddy
Big Hero 6
The Big Lebowski
I’m not sure I appreciated this film when I first saw it — what with its completely and almost aggressively abandoned plot — but it has grown and grown in my mind over the years and has become a foundational example of an actor embodying a character and an incredibly sly study of philosophical ideologies.
The Big Short
The Big Sick
The Big Sleep
Big Trouble in Little China
We really put up with some seriously coked-out nonsense in the 1980s, none more wacky than this comedy adventure filled with super-weird special effects and a storyline so seemingly problematic that it would eat itself and implode in whatever a quasar is if it were to come out in 2026.
The Big Year
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Billy Madison
Biloxi Blues
Bird on a Wire
The Birdcage
Birdman
The Birds
Birdy
The Birth of a Nation
Yes, this is about how awesome the KKK was, but every single film class I took in college started off showing this movie — one where a bunch of dudes in black face chase a woman to the edge of a cliff and rather than face these “black” people, she jumps to her death.
The Black Hole
I imagine this film would absolutely not hold up in 2026, but as a young kid this thing was like a portal into my future love of sci-fi and the mystery of imagination that film could open up.
Black Panther
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Black Rain
Black Sheep (1996)
It was not until this very moment that I realized Black Sheep and Tommy Boy are two different movies, but I think this was the bad version of that movie and Tommy Boy the “better” of the two, but maybe I have that backwards.
Black Swan
Black Widow
Blackboard Jungle
Blade Runner
Blank Check
Blankman
Blazing Saddles
The movie that proved farts are funny and that Mel Brooks’ sense of humor was not to change for 50 years.
Blended
Blind Date
The Blob
Blood Simple
Bloodsport
Blow
Blow Out (1981)
Blown Away
Blue Chips
Blue Jasmine
Blue Ruin
Blue Steel
Blue Thunder
I recall walking out of this film (a film I was way too young to be watching) to a car backfiring while I quickly hit the pavement, shellshocked by the site of a killer helicopter that lived to blow the crap out of bad guys.
Blue Valentine
Blue Velvet
The Blues Brothers
Body Double
Body Heat
I just recall Hipster Mom talking about this movie at the time of its release as if she’d seen the great pyramids of Giza or the face of god and was confused a several years later when watching it why this William Hurt fella was always so damn sweaty.
The Bodyguard
Bolero (1984)
As an adolescent, this film took on mythological status as an X-rated film with what I recall was some sort of Playboy tie-in and just absolute mayhem about Bo Derek’s nudity and riding horses and stuff — all of which, based on my recollection, would probably earn a soft-R in the 2020s.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Boogie Nights
The Book of Eli
Boomerang
Borat
Born on the Fourth of July
Boss Baby
Bottle Rocket
The Bourne Legacy
Boyz n the Hood
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Braveheart
Brazil
The Breakfast Club
Breakin’
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
To this day the second part of anything gets the “electric boogaloo” treatment, which absolutely never gets old, though my occasional “Save Miracles!” utterances haven’t hit the way they should.
Breaking Away
Breathless
Brewster McCloud
Bridesmaids
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bridge to Terabithia
A Bridge Too Far
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones’s Diary
As far as rom coms go, this one hits all the right notes, is very entertaining and makes me wonder what could have been for Renée Zellweger has she just made some different choices.
Bring It On
Bringing Out the Dead
Broadcast News
Broken Arrow
A Bronx Tale
The Brother from Another Planet
Bruce Almighty
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
A Bug’s Life
Bugsy
Bull Durham
Bulworth
Bumblebee
Burn After Reading
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Butterfly Effect
Cabin Boy
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Cable Guy
Caddyshack
Campus Man
Candleshoe
Candyman
Cannonball Run
There was probably a time in my life where I’d seen this terrible movie more than any other, a movie that is right in the pocket of pre-teens who only care about cars jumping stuff and Dom DeLuise jokes.
Cannonball Run II
Can’t Buy Me Love
Can’t Hardly Wait
Cape Fear (1991)
I’m confused as to why or how they’re going to turn this very taught (and incredibly creepy) film into a television series, but who am I to question Hollywood’s decision making and desire to put teenage girls in peril?
Capitalism: A Love Story
Captain America: Brave New World
Captain American: Civil War
Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain Marvel
Career Opportunities
Carlito’s Way
If I was Puerto Rican, I would burn Al Pacino in effigy for his absolutely hysterical and insulting attempt at doing a Puerto Rican accent — after his equally terrible, but award-winning Southern-ish accent in Scent of a Woman — where there are so many hacky performances and terrible camera shots that it’s amazing everyone’s career didn’t just go up in smoke.
Carrie
Cars
I was tortured with this movie when Hipster Jr. was a child, and to this day I have PTSD when I see those stupid eyes on what I think are supposed to be anthropomorphized automobiles who have feelings and stuff, but no drivers — which begs the question where humans are in this chain and if the cars are live-born or if cars just build other cars or how this whole thing works?
Cars 2
Casablanca
Casino
Casino Royale
Casper
Cast Away
The Cat From Outer Space
The cat from outer space is literally just a house cat with a sparkly collar, which is a hysterical flex by Disney to make an entire film about this magical cat that just licks its own asshole between cuts.
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Catfish
Cat’s Eye
Catwoman
Caveman
Cedar Rapids
The Cell
Central Intelligence
Chances Are
The Change-Up
Changing Lanes
Charade
Chariots of Fire
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie St. Cloud
Charlie’s Angels (2000)
Charlotte’s Web
Chasing Amy
Cheech & Chong’s: The Corsican Brothers
Cherry (2021)
Chicken Little
Chicken Run
Un Chien Andalou
Children of Men
Chinatown
A Christmas Story
Chronicle
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Cricle
Circuitry Man
Circuitry Man II: Plughead Rewired
I was an unpaid intern on this super-low-budget sci-fi film, played a club-goer, a dead body and was the personal driver of all the film’s stars, including Traci Lords, Vernon Wells, Dennis Christopher and Paul from Cheers.
Citizen Kane
City Heat
City Lights
The City of Lost Children
City Slickers
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Class
Class Act
Clear and Present Danger
Clerks
The cussing and the DIY nature of this film blew our minds in 1994 and actually gave us the sense that our film degrees would be worth a damn.
The Client
Cliffhanger (1993)
Cloak & Dagger
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Club Paradise
Clue (1985)
Clueless
Cobra
Cocktail
The late eighties were bananas, as is this movie about a guy played by Tom Cruise who basically becomes a bottle-twirling padawan bartender and follows his dreams about opening a cheesy, neon-filled bar of his own while pursuing a woman who would never actually date a bartender.
Coco
Collateral Damage
Color of Night
The Color Purple
It’s not a matter of if you’ll cry, it’s a matter of how many times.
Comet
Commando
Con Air
Conan the Barbarian
Coneheads
Condorman
The Constant Gardener
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
The Constant Gardener
Contact
Contagion
Cool Runnings
Cool World
The Cooler
Coraline
Corpse Bride
Cosmopolis
Couples Retreat
Coyote Ugly
Crazy People
Creed
Creed II
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crocodile Dundee
The Crossing Guard
Crossroads
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cruel Intentions
Crumb
The Crush
Cry-Baby
The Crying Game
The whole twist ending here feels particularly early-90s and only shocking in that context given how society has moved in the intervening twenty years and would probably only elicit a “so what” shrug in modern times.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Curious George
Filled with Jack Johnson music and lovely voice performances by Will Ferrell and Drew Barrymore, we watched this tons of times when Hipster Jr. was little and never really tired of its chill vibe and ability to be the least annoying cartoon movie of all time.
Curly Sue
Cyrus
D.C. Cab
Daddy Day Care
Daddy’s Home
Dangerous Liasons
The Dark Knight Rises
Dark City
The Dark Crystal
Darkman
Date Night
Dave
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Days of Thunder
Dazed and Confused
Dead Calm
Dead Man Walking
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
The Dead Poets Society
The Dead Pool
Dead Ringers
The Dead Zone
Deapool
Deadpool 2
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dear God (1996)
Death Becomes Her
Deathtrap
Deep Blue Sea
The Deer Hunter
Defending Your Life
Delicatessen
For years after seeing this film, this is the “type” of movie I said was my jam because it made me seem like I was super-artsy and a film connoisseur, but in reality it confused me but also made me realize that not everything needed to live in the universe of the three-act movie.
Deliverance
Demolition Man
The Departed
Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself
Desperately Seeking Susan
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
The Devil’s Advocate
The Devil’s Own
Dial M for Murder
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Dick Tracy
Die Hard
I saw this in a theater in Chicago that was populated by mostly black folks, and I don’t want to stereotype — because I honestly had no idea this was a stereotype in 1988 — but people were constantly hopping out of their seats and yelling at the screen at John McClane in one of the most fun, raucous and interactive moviegoing experiences I’ve ever had in my life.
Die Hard 2
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
The Dilemma
Diner
Dinner for Schmucks
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Harry
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Disaster Artist
Disclosure
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Django Unchained
Do the Right Thing
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Dog Day Afternoon
Domino
Donnie Brasco
Don’t Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
The Doors
Double Indemnity
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Dr. Dolittle 2
Dr. No
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dragnet
DragonHeart
Dragonslayer
Dreamscape
I feel like this was the first PG-13 movie, but I watched it at least twice in the theater during its run even thought it kind of freaked me out.
Drop Dead Fred
Drugstore Cowboy
Drunken Master
Duck Soup
Due Date (2010)
Duel
Dumb and Dumber
My recollection of seeing this opening night in a NYC theater is that it pretty much looked like the movie theater scene in Gremlins, chaotic and uproarious and just utter pandemonium as everyone laughed and roiled in a way not seen ever in a comedy film — even though it was mostly stoked by Jeff Daniels’ explosive diarrhea.
Dune (1984)
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Dunston Checks In
Duplicity
Dutch
Dying Young
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
I waited in lines snaking around the block twice in one day to first watch this with a friend and then force my parents to come back in the evening to see the first movie I recall eliciting this kind of emotion from my young heart and a lifelong love of Reeses Pieces.
Earth Girls Are Easy
Earth to Echo
Ed
Ed Wood
Eddie Murphy Raw
Edward Scissorhands
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
El Mariachi
Elemental
The Elephant Man
Elf
Never has there been a film built for annual viewing like this one, even if you’ve seen it a 1,000 times as I have, the family will watch it and enjoy it every single Christmas season — and sometimes twice.
Elizabethtown
Empire Records
Encanto
Encino Man
This movie represents the very last breathe of the wastoid late-80s / early-90s in a way that totally changed seconds later with the rise of grunge and us trying to take ourselves more seriously as a species.
Enemy Mine
The English Patient
I agree with Seinfeld’s Elaine Benes here; this thing is an overly-long bore and people just felt pressured to say they liked it because we used to be country whose opinions were based on cultural peer pressure and highfalutin interests.
Enough
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Enter the Dragon
Entrapment
Erin Brockovich
Escape from Alcatraz
Escape from L.A.
Escape from New York
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternals
EuroTrip
Evan Almighty
Event Horizon
Every Which Way but Loose
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Evil Dead 2
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Excalibur
Another weird artifact of the early 80s that every boy in elementary school whispered — and sometimes shouted — about due to the whole sex amongst the knights thing.
Explorers
Eyes Wide Shut
The Fabelmans
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Face/Off
One of the most absurd action films ever made, I can’t say there was a more purely entertaining moviegoing experience in the late nineties than this one — logic be damned.
Falling Down
It’s hard to put into words how this film viscerally summed up the building anger and dissatisfaction with everything in the early 90s grunge era despite being about a horrible boomer driven to violence because the America he loved was leaving his stupid what ass behind.
Fame
The Family Fang
The Family Man
The Fan
Fanboys
Fantasia
I’m told this is the first movie I ever saw in the theater, which explains a lot.
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Four (2005)
Fantastic Four (2015)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fargo
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fatal Attraction
Father of the Bride
Fatso
We used to be a country where you could have a movie called “Fatso” about a fat guy played by Dom DeLuise and nobody even made a peep about body shaming or how remarkably offensive this title might be.
Fearless
La Femme Nikita
Ferdinand
Ferngully
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Fever Pitch
A Few Good Men
Field of Dreams
The Fifth Element
I have seen this film so many times, and it continues to be a really entertaining mix of the best of comedy, action and sci-fi — a real classic of the genre.
The Fighter
Final Analysis
Finding Dory
Finding Forrester
Finding Nemo
Firefox
Firestarter
Firewalker
The Firm
First Blood
My friend’s dad bought us tickets for this R-rated film at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, and I think I’m still scarred by a film not at all meant to be viewed by a nine-year-old kid who had no clue what Vietnam was.
The First Wives Club
Firstborn
A Fish Called Wanda
The Fisher King
Five Nights at Freddy’s
The Flamingo Kid
The Flash (2023)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Flashdance
Flatliners (1990)
Flight of the Navigator
Flightplan
The Flinstones
Flubber
Flushed Away
The Fly (1986)
Footloose (1984)
For a Few Dollars More
For Your Eyes Only
Forces of Nature
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Foxy Brown
Frankenweenie
Frantic
Freaky Friday (1976)
Freaky Friday (2003)
Freddy Got Fingered
Freejack
Frenzy
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
The Freshman
Friday
Friends with Benefits
Fright Night
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Russia with Love
Frost/Nixon
Frozen
I believe this is the first in-theater movie for Hipster Jr. Jr. and without fail Disney kills the parents from jump, but fills the contry’s youth with indelible songs that spawned more theme parties than Grease.
The Fugitive
Full Metal Jacket
Funny People
Galaxy Quest
The Game
The Game Plan
Gandhi
Garfield: The Movie
Gas Food Lodging
Gattaca
George of the Jungle
Get Him to the Greek
Get Shorty
Get Smart (2008)
The Getaway
Ghost
Ghost Dad
Ghost Dog
Ghost Ship
Ghost Town (2008)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters (2016)
Ghostbusters II
Ghosts Can’t Do It
Ghosts of Mississippi
Gia
Girl, Interrupted
The Girl on the Train
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Gladiator
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Gleaming the Cube
Glengarry Glen Ross
Glory
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Gods Must Be Crazy II
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
The Golden Child
Goldeneye
Goldfinger
Gone Baby Gone
Gone Girl
Gone with the Wind
The Good Girl
Good Luck Chuck
Good Morning, Vietnam
Good Night, and Good Luck.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Good Will Hunting
GoodFellas
The Goonies
Gotcha!
This movie was beloved by adolescent and teen boys everywhere, but despite Linda Fiorentino and the mid-eighties 100% guarantee of one gratuitous topless shot, I imagine its weirdly niche focus on the brand-new trend of college campus paintball “murder” games might not have aged all that well.
The Graduate
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Grand Canyon
Gravity
Grease
Grease 2
The Great Escape
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby (2013)
The Great Muppet Caper
The Great Outdoors
The Green Hornet (2011)
The Green Mile
Gremlins
A month or so after seeing this movie — which I loved — I showed up for a commercial call (as an aspiring child actor) and was immediately faced with Corey Feldman, who most definitely got the part over me.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
The Grifters
Grosse Point Blank
Groundhog Day
Grumpy Old Men
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guarding Tess
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Gulliver’s Travels (2011)
Gung Ho
There was a time in the mid-eighties when the US was convinced that Japan was going to take over all American industry and subjugate us to doing calisthenics during lunch and being subjugated to what I can imagine — without having seen this film in a few decades — was some pretty racist shit.
Gus
I once won a trivia for remembering this movie about a field goal kicking mule.
Gymkata
Hackers
Hail, Caesar!
Hairspray
Halloween
Hancock
The Hangover
The Hangover Part II
Hanna
Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannibal
Happiness
Happy Feet
Happy Gilmore
Hard Target
Hard to Kill
Harlem Nights
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Harold and Maude
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Hateful Eight
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Heartbeeps
Heartburn
Heat
The Heat
Heathers
The Heavenly Kid
Heaven’s Gate
Heavy Metal
Hello Again
Hero
Hidden Figures
High Anxiety
High Crimes
High School Musical
High School Musical 2
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Highlander
History of the World: Part I
Hitch
Holes
Hollow Man
Home Alone
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Fries
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Honeymoon in Vegas
Hoop Dreams
Hoosiers
Hope Floats
Horrible Bosses
Horton Hears a Who!
Hpister Jr.’s first in-theater movie experience, I hope he wasn’t as freaked out by the look of the Whos as I was, but at least we get a talented Jim Carrey voicing the classic Dr. Suess elephantine character.
The Hot Chick
Hot Dog… The Movie
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
Disney used to make these live-action comedy films back in the 1970s, and I couldn’t get enough of them, but they seem to be lost to time, despite them being pumped out by a popular studio starring popular comedy stars of the time like Don Knotts.
Hot Shots!
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Hot Tub Time Machine
Hotel Transylvania
House
House Arrest
House Bunny
House Party (1990)
House Party 2
Housesitter
How I Got Into College
How Stella Got Her Got Her Groove Back
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Howard the Duck
Howl’s Moving Castle
Hudson Hawk
The Hudsucker Proxy
Hugo
Hulk
The Hunger
The Hunger Games
The Hunt for Red October
The Hurt Locker
Hustle & Flow
I Am Legend
I Could Never be Your Woman
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Love Trouble
I Love You to Death
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
I, Tonya
Ice Age
The Ice Pirates
Identity Thief
Idiocracy
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
The Imitation Game
In the Line of Fire
Inception
The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Incredibles 2
Independence Day
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Informant!
Innerspace
We used to be a proper country when we had these wacky sci-fi movies that felt like it was targeting me as a young teen, but probably also appealed to adults and anyone with a heart and eyes.
Inside Out
Inside Out 2
The Insider
Inspector Gadget
The Intern
The Internship
The Interpreter (2005)
The Interview
It’s super-weird that a movie this bad caused such a kerfuffle both inside Hollywood and in the world of global politics and international relations.
Interview with the Vampire
Intolerable Cruelty
Iron Eagle
Iron Eagle II
The Iron Giant
It’s amazing that a cartoon robot voiced by a monosyllabic Vin Diesel can elicit so much emotion and consistent joy from a Ms. Hipster who probably counts this among her top-ten wonderful tearjerkers.
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Irreconcilable Differences
Ishtar
It Could Happen to You
Another romantic comedy that is incredibly unbalanced and fairytale-like, but also revolves around the lottery and a nice white guy cop overwhelmed by his materialistic, shreiky Puerto Rican wife who is drawn to the skinny white lady waitress… as we all know where this is going.
The Italian Job (2003)
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It’s a Wonderful Life
J. Edgar
Jabberwocky
Jack
Jack and Jill
Jack Frost (1998)
Jackie Brown
Jacob’s Ladder
This is a pitch-black film about the horrors of war, PTSD and the philosophy about heaven and hell and everything in between — which somehow became a real touchstone in my movie viewing canon.
Jade
Jagged Edge
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jaws 3-D
The Jazz Singer
The Jerk
Jerry Maguire
I’m sorry, but this movie is so good; from the script to the acting it is one the best romantic comedies (with some dramatic flourishes) of all time.
Jersey Girl (1992)
Jesus’ Son
The Jewel of the Nile
JFK
Jingle All the Way
Joe Versus the Volcano
John Dies at the End
John Wick
John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Johnny Be Good
Anthony Michael Hall decided to lift some weights and return to film as a studly football quarterback and absolutely nobody bought it.
Johnny Dangerously
Johnny Suede
Jojo Rabbit
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Juice
Jumanji (1995)
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Jungle 2 Jungle
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Jungle Book (2016)
Jungle Cruise
Jungle Fever
Junior
Jurassic Park
The special effects and sound design in this 1993 film are still better than anything that came out in the years since.
The Juror
Just Friends
Just Go with It
Just Married
Just One of the Guys
There is only one scene in this 1985 film that young me — and every other boy my age — cared about, back when the MPAA was still trying to figure out how to shoehorn boobs into a PG-13 movie about a high school girl trying to pass as a boy because of… I forget.
Justice League
K-9
Kalifornia
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Karate Kid Part II
The Kentucky Fried Movie
This was the one all the boys traded stories about in elementary school, upping the ante on who was more into the nudity and whatnot that our parents somehow cluelessly let us watch.
Kicking & Screaming (2005)
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
The Kid
The Kids Are Alright (2010)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Killing Zoe
Kindergarten Cop
King Kong (1933)
King Kong (2005)
King of California
The King of Comedy
King Solomon’s Mines (1985)
Kingpin
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Knight and Day
A Knight’s Tale
Kong: Skull Island
KPop Demon Hunters
Kramer vs. Kramer
Krull
King Fu Hustle
Kung Fu Panda
L.A. Confidential
L.A. Story
La Bamba
Labyrinth
Lady Bird
Lady in the Water
Ladyhawke
The Ladykillers
The Lake House
Larry Crowne
Last Action Hero
The Last Boy Scout
Never has there been a more bonkers, but fun, action film than this one — including an opening NFL game played in practical darkness and lots and lots of clear police brutality and one-liner jokes that feel like they were written by an absolute psychopath.
The Last Emperor
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last Seduction
The Last Starfighter
The Last Temptation of Christ
Laura
The Lawnmower Man
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
A League of Their Own
Leaving Las Vegas
Legally Blonde
Legend
The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Legend of Billie Jean
Legends of the Fall
The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
The Lego Batman Movie
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Leon: The Professional
Less Than Zero
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 3
Liar Liar
License to Drive
License to Kill
Life (1999)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Life is Beautiful
Lifeboat
Like Father Like Son
The 1987 body switching movie you don’t remember, but watching a drunk Dudley Moore giddily play a teenager is to wacky to be lost to time.
Lilo & Stitch
The Lion King (1994)
Little Big League
Little Giants
Little Man Tate
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Nicky
Little Nikita
Little Shop of Horrors
The Living Daylights
Living in Oblivion
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Longest Yard (1974)
The Longest Yard (2005)
Look Who’s Talking
Look Who’s Talking Too
Looper
The Lorax
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of War
Lords of Dogtown
Losin’ It
The Lost Boys
Lost In American
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Love at First Bite
The Love Bug
Love Potion No. 9
Loverboy
Luca
Lucas
Lucky Number Slevin
M
Mad Love
Mad Max
Mad Max 2
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max: Fury Road
Madagascar
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
Made in America
The Majestic
Major League
Major League II
Malice
Mallrats
The Maltese Falcon
Man of Steel
Man on the Moon
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Man with Two Brains
The Manchurian Candidate
Manhattan
Manhunter
Marley & Me
Marnie
Married to the Mob
Mars Attacks!
Marty Supreme
The Marvels
Marvin’s Room
Mary Poppins
M*A*S*H*
Mask
The Mask
The Mask of Zorro
The Master
Masters of the Universe
Matchstick Men
The Matrix Revolutions
Maverick
Max Dugan Returns
Max Headroom
Max Payne
The Maze Runner
Me, Myself & Irene
Meatballs
Meatballs: Part II
Meet Joe Black
Meet Me in the Bathroom
Meet the Fockers
Meet the Parents
Megamind
Melvin and Howard
Men in Black
Men in Black II
Men in Black 3
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Mercury Rising
Mermaids
I first saw this movie on a plane where they edited out a crucial scene that made the entirety of the film not make sense, and it wasn’t until years later that I saw the unedited version and the epiphany of what the hell happened to the Winona Ryder character.
The Meteor Man
Metropolis (1927)
Metropolitan
The Mexican
Miami Vice
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Run
Mighty Aphrodite
The Mighty Ducks
Mighty Joe Young
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Miller’s Crossing
A Minecraft Movie
Minions
Minions: The Rise of Gru
The Minus Man
Miracle on 34th Street
Mischief
Misery
Miss Congeniality
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible III
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Mississippi Burning
Modern Problems
Molly’s Game
Mommie Dearest
The Money Pit
Money Train
Moneyball
Monsters Inc.
Monsters University
Monsters vs. Aliens
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Moonraker
Moonrise Kingdom
Moonstruck
Moscow on the Hudson
Moulin Rouge!
Mouse Hunt
Mr. Deeds
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
Mr. Mom
Mrs. Doubtfire
Much Ado About Nothing
Mulan
Multiplicity
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy (2017)
Munich
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Muppets (2011)
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Music and Lyrics
My Best Friend’s Wedding
My Blue Heaven
My Bodyguard
My Boss’s Daughter
My Cousin Vinnie
My Fair Lady
My Father the Hero
Truly one of the most unintentionally disturbing movies ever made, which was only compounded by Gérard Depardieu’s later cancelation.
My Favorite Year
My Girl
My Left Foot
My Own Private Idaho
My Science Project
My Stepmother Is an Alien
My Tutor
Mystic Pizza
Mystic River
Nacho Libre
The Naked Gun (1988)
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
Naked Lunch
Nancy Drew (2007)
The Nanny Diaries
Nanook of the North
Nashville
National Lampoon’s Animal House
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon’s European Vacation
National Lampoon’s Vacation
National Lampoon’s Van Wilder
National Treasure
The Natural
Natural Born Killers
You cannot tell me that there wasn’t a coke and mushroom drip going on with this entire production, as if just swirled into messier and messier unreality and ended with a movie that felt like a drug trip through hell.
Nebraska
Necessary Roughness
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
The Net
Network
Never Been Kissed
Never Let Me Go
Never Say Never Again
The NeverEnding Story
New Jack City
Next Goal Wins
The Next Karate Kid
The Nice Guys
Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist
Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
Night of the Comet
Night Shift
Nightcrawler
The Nightmare Before Christmas
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Nine Months
Nine to Five
Nixon
No Strings Attached (2011)
No Time to Die
No Way Out
Norbit
North
North by Northwest
Nosferatu (1922)
Nothing But Trouble
Nothing In Common
Notting Hill
Now You See Me
The Nude Bomb
Nuns on the Run
The Nutty Professor
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ocean’s Eleven
Ocean’s Twelve
Ocean’s Thirteen
The Octagon
Octopussy
The Odd Couple
Office Christmas Party
Office Space
Oh, God!
Once Bitten
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
One Crazy Summer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hour Photo
Only Lovers Left Alive
Only You
Open Season
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Oppenheimer
Orange County
Osmosis Jones
The Other Guys
The Other Woman
Our Idiot Brother
Out of Sight
Out of the Past
Outbreak
Over the Hedge
Over the Top
Overboard
Pacific Heights
The Pacifier
Pandemonium
ParaNorman
The Parent Trap (1998)
Parenthood
Paris, Texas
Patch Adams
The Patriot
Patriot Games
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
PCU
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Pelican Brief
Pennies From Heaven
The Perfect Storm
A Perfect World
Permanent Midnight
Pet Sematary (1989)
Pet Sematary II
Pete’s Dragon (1977)
Pete’s Dragon (2016)
Philadelphia
Phone Booth
The Pick-up Artist
Pink Floyd: The Wall
The Pink Panther (1963)
The Pink Panther (2006)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Pinocchio (1940)
Pippi Longstocking
The Pirate Movie
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pitch Perfect
The Place Beyond the Pines
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Platoon
The Player
Pleasantville
Point Break
Point of No Return
Poison Ivy
The Polar Express
Police Academy
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Poltergeist
Ponyo
Pootie Tang
Popeye
Porky’s
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Powder
Predator
Prelude to a Kiss
Presumed Innocent
Prêt-à-porter
Pretty Woman
Pretty in Pink
Primal Fear
The Princess Bride
The Princess Diaries
The Private Eyes (1980)
Private Benjamin
Private Parts
Private School
Prizzi’s Honor
Project X
The Proposal (2009)
Psycho (1960)
Psycho (1998)
Psychokenesis
The Public Enemy
Pulp Fiction
I saw this in packed theaters twice when it first came out; once in NYC where people were yelling and screaming and fainting and clapping, and once in LA where the theater was dead silent, the audience watched the entirety of the credits and only then erupted in rapturous applause.
Pump Up the Volume
Purple Rain
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Pushing Tin
Quantum of Solace
Quest for Fire
The Quick and the Dead
Quick Change
Quicksilver
Quiz Show
Race to Witch Mountain
Radio Days
Radio Flyer
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Despite first seeing this film in the theater when I was less than ten years old, this is still one of the most glorious and exhilarating film-going experiences of my life.
Rain Man
The Rainmaker
Raising Cain
Raising Arizona
I decided, after seeing this in the theater as a teen, that this was somehow my movie, something made just for me in a weird way that I was unable to explain at the time and am still incapable of putting into words.
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo III
Ramona and Beezus
Ran
Rango
Ransom
Ratatouille
Rattle and Hum
Raw Deal
Ray
Ready Player One
Real Genius
Real Steel
This was one of Hipster Jr.’s favorite movies when he was a kid, and it is remarkably entertaining and well-made for what amounts to a kids’ film about boxing robots.
Reality Bites
Re-animator
Rear Window
Rebecca (1940)
Reckless (1984)
RED
The Red Balloon
Red Dawn (1984)
Red Eye
Red Heat
Red Sonja
Regarding Henry
Reindeer Games
Religulous
Remember the Titans
The Replacements
Reservoir Dogs
Resident Evil
Return to the Blue Lagoon
Reversal of Fortune
Return from Witch Mountain
Revenge (1990)
Revenge of the Nerds
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
Revolutionary Road
Rio
R.I.P.D.
Rise of the Guardians
Rising Sun
Risky Business
The River Wild
River’s Edge
The Road to Wellville
Road Trip
The Road Warrior
Robin Hood: Men In Tights
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
I may have seen this movie more than any other, working at the Mann Village Westwood theater where they just refused to ever chance this film out for the entire summer.
RoboCop (1987)
RoboCop 2
The Rocketeer
Rocky
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Roger Dodger
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Role Models
Romancing the Stone
Romeo + Juliet
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
Rope
Rosemary’s Baby
Rounders
Roxanne
Rumble in the Bronx
Runaway Bride
The Running Man
Running on Empty
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Ruthless People
Sabrina
Safe House
The Saint
Salvadore
San Andreas
The Sandlot
Satisfaction (1988)
Saving Private Ryan
The sheer audacity of Spielberg to film that opening Normandy scene will forever cement him as one of the best directors of all time and make this film an enduring entry in the large canon of war films.
Say Anything
We just don’t make romantic dramedies like this anymore, where our hero can just be a cool slacker with little-to-no direction other than loving a girl with daddy issues whose dad — who is also Frasier’s dad — turns out to not be the man she thought he was.
A Scanner Darkly
Scent of a Woman
I don’t think this was meant to be a comedy, but Al Pacino’s absolutely laughable hoo-ah performance somehow won him an Oscar and forever made me wonder if perhaps my brain doesn’t work the same way as those who watch Pacino consistently and hilariously overact and butcher accents over and over again.
Schindler’s List
Ms. Hipster and I saw this movie on Christmas in the Jewish section of Rochester, NY in a theater filled with older Jewish folks (because my people eat Chinese and go to the movies on Christmas) and only once turned to see hundreds of wet faces in a real scene that only served to intensify this absolute gut-punch of a movie.
School Daze
School of Rock
School Ties
Let me get this straight: this is a movie about a blue-collar Jewish kid who is given a scholarship to a fancy prep school because he’s awesome at football and is played by the notoriously not-at-all-Jewish actor, Brendan Fraser, but is not a comedy or fantasy film but rather part of the weird spate of issues-based dramas (in this case anti-semitism) that were all the rage in the early nineties?
The Science of Sleep
Scooby-Doo
The Scout
Scream
Scrooged
Sea of Love
Seabiscuit
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Secret of My Success
The Secret of NIMH
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Selena
Serial Mom
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Seven Samurai
sex, lies, and videotape
The Shadow (1994)
The Shaggy D.A.
Shaolin Soccer
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shark Tale
Shattered Glass
Shazam!
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
She’s All That
She’s Gotta Have It
She’s Having a Baby
She’s the Man
Shine
The Shining
Short Circuit
Short Circuit 2
Short Cuts
Showgirls
Shrek 2
Shrek the Third
Sicario
Sid and Nancy
Silver Linings Playbook
Silverado
A Simple Plan
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Single White Female
Singles
Prototypical Gen X movie combining the best soundtrack of all time and quippy dialog with rom com underpinnings and a smart sense of itself.
Sister Act
The Sitter (2011)
Six Days Seven Nights
Six Degrees of Separation
Six Pack
Yes, there was actually a 1982 movie starring country music star, Kenny Rogers, that employed the 80s movie trope of pairing an adult man with a bunch of rambunctious kids for laughs and tears.
Sixteen Candles
Ski School
The world is just a less fun place without these 80s sex comedies that almost always involve some sort of sport and almost always star Dean Cameron’s eyebrows.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Skyfall
Slacker
The only thing I remember from this meandering film is that someone on the street is trying to sell Madonna’s pub hair floating in a jar of liquid — and that is supposed to sum up the entirety of Gen X.
Slap Shot
Sleeper
Sleepers
Sleeping With the Enemy
Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepy Hollow
Sling Blade
Slums of Beverly Hills
Small Soldiers
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit II
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
The Smurfs
Snack Shack
Sneakers
Snow Dogs
Soapdish
Solo: A Star Wars Story
There is a ton of hate around this film and Alden Ehrenreich’s performance as young Han Solo, but I found it pretty entertaining and Ehrenreich’s Solo way more believable and on-point than some other prequel characterizations over the years.
Some Kind of Wonderful
Something Wild
Son of the Mask
Song Sung Blue
Soul Man
The Sound of Music
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Space Jam (1996)
Spaceballs
The Spanish Prisoner
Speed
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Speed Racer
Spellbound (1945)
Sphere
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Splash
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Spotlight
Spy
Spy Kids
These movies are body horror children’s programming gone awry, what with the giant walking thumbs and absolutely monstrous set and creature design from one of the world’s most confusing and divisive directors in Robert Rodriguez.
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
Spy Kids 3: Game Over
The Spy Next Door
The Spy Who Loved Me
St. Elmo’s Fire
St. Vincent
Stakeout
Stand of Deliver
Stand By Me
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi
Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
Starman
Starship Troopers
Starsky & Hutch
State of Play (2009)
Staying Alive
Stealing Home
I believe this movie was supposed to cement Mark Harmon (who went to my high school!) as a Hollywood romantic lead after his long run on St. Elsewhere, but this film, despite a pretty stellar cast, was seemingly dumped and lost to time despite — from what I recall — it being a well-crafted and well-acted emotional ride.
Step Brothers
The Stepford Wives (2004)
The Sting
I actually watched this one on a plane back when the whole plane had to watch the same movie and recall being stunned by the excellent twists and turns even though my young brain had no concept how they pulled off the magic of the con.
The Sting II
Stir Crazy
Stop Making Sense
A Stranger Among Us
Stranger Than Fiction
Strangers on a Train
Streets of Fire
Striking Distance
Striptease
Stroker Ace
Sudden Impact
Suicide Squad (2016)
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Summer Rental
Summer School
I’ve probably seen this movie at least five times and all I can remember is Courtney Thorne-Smith in a wetsuit.
Super 8
This was Hipster Jr.’s favorite movie as a kid, making us watch Elle Fanning and the crew do their best to make a Spielberg movie and confirming that even adolescent boys will do anything for a pretty, blonde face.
Supergirl (1984)
Superman (1978)
Superman (2025)
Superman II
Superman III
The Sure Thing
The Survivors
Swamp Thing (1982)
The Sweet Hereafter
Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet November
Swimfan
Swimming Pool
Swimming With Sharks
Swingers
Switch
I worked at a once-great movie theater in Westwood where this was the sole movie playing for a couple weeks and I am still disturbed by watching Ellen Barkin play a dead man returned to Earth by god and the devil in the body of a woman, but also there is some light rape and weird heaven stuff in this “comedy” that is, in retrospect, seriously weird and very, very 1991.
The Switch (2010)
Swordfish
Talk Radio
Tank Girl
Taps
Taxi Driver
Teachers
Team America: World Police
Teen Beach Movie
Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf Too
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Tequila Sunrise
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
That Thing You Do!
That’s My Boy
Thelma & Louise
There’s Something About Mary
They Call Me Bruce? (1982)
Our friend did the music for this film, so we got to go to a screening, met the star, Johnny Yune, and were treated to a film that any adolescent boy would have found pretty darned entertaining — though it was confusingly also called A Fistful of Chopsticks at some juncture in its run.
They Live
Hot damn this movie was a classic b-movie watch, with all the hallmarks of a drinking game type movie that could get any room full of frat boys to hot and holler for star, Rowdy Roddy Piper and his bubblegum.
The Thief and the Cobbler
The Thin Blue Line
The Thing (1982)
Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead
This Boy’s Life
This Is 40
This Is Spinal Tap
This Is the End
I know I’m supposed to like this, but the stoner humor and stupidity of the whole endeavor just hits wrong for me.
This Means War
Thor
Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor: Ragnarok
Thor: The Dark World
¡Three Amigos!
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Three Man and a Baby
Three O’Clock High
I loved this movie so much when I saw it as a young teen in the theater, as it was the first film I recall that used wacky camera movements and really made the cinematography part of the everyday high school action.
The Three Stooges (2000)
Throw Momma from the Train
Thunderbolts*
THX 1138
Time After Time
I watched this movie on cable like 1,000 times and count it among my most formational time-travel texts in a lifetime filled with the love of the mechanics of the genre.
Time Bandits
I saw this in the theater as a young child, and because I thought it was incredibly awesome I recommended it to Hipster Parents, who ended up literally walking out on it during their movie-going experience.
A Time to Kill
Tin Cup
Titanic
Ms. Hipster and I sat in a theater in NYC blown away by the ship-sinking special effects, but were less enthused by the French people behind us translating the whole quiet floating-on-the-door scene from English to French — we all know he’s saying he’s cold, there’s no reason to whisper “j’ai froid” to your seat mate, connasse.
To Die For
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Live and Die in L.A.
Tombstone
Tommy Boy
Tomorrow Never Dies
Tootsie
Top Gun
Top Secret!
Topaz
Total Recall
Touch of Evil
Tough Guys
Tower Heist
The Toy
Toy Soldiers
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Toys
Trading Places
Traffic
Trainspotting
Trainwreck
The Transporter
Trapped in Paradise
Tremors
A Trip to the Moon
Tron (1982)
I saw this in an empty theater as an adolescent and thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen despite nobody else bothering to show up.
Tropic Thunder
True Lies
True Stories
The Truman Show
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Turner & Hooch
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Twins
Twister
Two Moon Junction
U Turn
UHF
Uncharted
Uncle Buck
Under Siege
Under the Cherry Moon
Unfaithful
Unforgiven
The Untouchables
Up In Smoke
Up In the Air (2009)
The Usual Suspects
V.I. Warshawski
Vacation (2015)
Valley Girl
Vampire’s Kiss
The Vanishing
Venom
The Verdict
Vertigo
Victory
A View to a Kill
Vision Quest
Visioneers
Volunteers
Wag the Dog
Waiting for Guffman
Wall Street
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Wanderlust
War Games
The War of the Roses
War of the Worlds (2005)
WarGames
The Warriors
The Watch
Watchmen
The Waterboy
Watership Down
Waterworld
The Way of Water
Wayne’s World
Wayne’s World 2
The Weather Man
Wedding Crashers
The Wedding Planner
The Wedding Singer
Weird Science
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Welcome to the Dollhouse
We’re No Angels
What a Girl Wants
What About Bob?
What Lies Beneath
What Women Want
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
When Harry Met Sally
While You Were Sleeping
White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
White Men Can’t Jump (2023)
White Noise
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Whole Nine Yards
The Whole Ten Yards
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Wicked
Wild at Heart
Wild Orchid
Wild Things
Wild Wild West
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Wimbledon
Winter’s Tale
The Witches of Eastwick
Witness
The Wiz
The Wizard of Oz
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolverine
The Woman in Red
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Working Girl
The World According to Garp
World War Z
The World’s End
Wreck-It Ralph
The Wrestler
X2
Xanadu
X-Men
X-Men: Apocalypse
X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: First Class
X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The Year of Living Dangerously
Year One (2009)
Yentl
Yes Man
Yesterday
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
Young Adult
Young Frankenstein
Young Guns
Young Guns II
Youth in Revolt
You’ve Got Mail
Zapped!
Zardoz
Zelig
Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Effect
Zootopia
Zorro: The Gay Blade
