A List of Movies I Can Recommend to People When They Find Out I Watch a Lot of Movies and Then Inevitably Ask Me For Movie Recommendations

I watch a lot of movies and as such, folks will often approach me for recommendations. I'm not good at thinking on-the-spot so I've put together this list to help with that. Below I mainly try to avoid big-name releases or otherwise really well-known films, unless I think they are remarkable for some reason.

Note: this list is in no particular order

1. Tumbledown (2015)
2. A Bag of Hammers (2011)
3. Four Lions (2010)
4. Dead Set (2008)
5. Carol (2015)
6. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
7. Sleight (2016)
8. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
9. Censor (2021)
10. King Richard (2021)
11. Annette (2021)
12. Above the Shadows (2019)
13. The Peanuts Movie (2015)
14. Boyz n the Hood (1991)
15. Never Too Young to Die (1986)
16. Dolls (1987)
17. Creep (2014)
18. Creep 2 (2017)
19. Trick 'r Treat (2007)
20. Day of the Dead (1985)
21. Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini (2015)
22. Tenebre (1982)
23. Ganja & Hess (1973)
24. Just Before Dawn (1981)
25. The Night House (2020)
26. Night Teeth (2021)
27. Borgman (2013)
28. Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
29. Petey Wheatstraw (1977)
30. Bliss (2019)
31. One Cut of the Dead (2017)
32. Sugar Hill (1974)
33. Seance (2021)
34. Evilspeak (1981)
35. Super Hot (2021)
36. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
37. J.D.'s Revenge (1976)
38. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
39. All Monsters Attack (1969)
40. Vampyr (1932)
41. Blithe Spirit (1945)
42. Firestarter (1984)
43. Lady in the Water (2006)
44. Come to Daddy (2019)
45. The Columnist (2019)
46. Def by Temptation (1990)
47. Possession (1981)
48. Suspiria (1977)
49. The Day of the Beast (1995)
50. Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
51. Satanic Panic (2019)
52. Till Death (2021)
53. Vicious Fun (2020)
54. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
55. The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)
56. Under the Shadow (2016)
57. Zombie for Sale (2019)
58. Little Sister (2016)
59. Jakob's Wife (2021)
60. Slaxx (2020)
61. House (1977)
62. The Wailing (2016)
63. Practical Magic (1998)
64. The Guilty (2018)
65. Schumacher (2021)
66. From Beyond (1986)
67. Cellar Dweller (1988)
68. You're Next (2011)
69. The Final Girls (2015)
70. Lucky Day (2019)
71. One Night in Bangkok (2020)
72. Kate (2021)
73. Jennifer's Body (2009)
74. Little Woods (2018)
75. Troll Hunter (2010)
76. Psycho Goreman (2020)
77. Vacation Friends (2021)
78. Metalhead (2013)
79. Candyman (1992)
80. Val (2021)
81. Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
82. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
83. Fast Color (2018)
84. Luce (2019)
85. The Evil Within (2017)
86. Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival (2016)
87. A Deadly Adoption (2015)
88. Big Man Japan (2007)
89. The Net (1995)
90. Hideaway (1995)
91. Extract (2009)
92. Trees Lounge (1996)
93. Addicted to Fresno (2015)
94. His House (2020)
95. Butter (2011)
96. Vamps (2012)
97. Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman (2012)
98. Permanent Midnight (1998)
99. Burn Your Maps (2016)
100. Liyana (2017)
101. Stolen Seas (2013)
102. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (2011)
103. Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
104. The Rocket (2013)
105. Train to Busan (2016)
106. Furie (2019)
107. American Satan (2017)
108. The Harder They Come (1972)
109. Pulgasari (1985)
110. Gringo Trails (2014)
111. Guilt (2014)
112. I Saw the Devil (2010)
113. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
114. The Crow's Nest (2014)
115. I Am Not a Witch (2017)
116. Oxygen (2021)
117. Spree (2020)
118. Widows (2018)
119. Skater Girl (2021)
120. Serena (2012)
121. House of Sand and Fog (2003)
122. Flipped (2010)
123. Phenomena (1985)
124. The Wrestler (2008)
125. FDR: American Badass! (2012)
126. Drag Me to Hell (2009)
127. Kajillionaire (2020)
128. Minding the Gap (2018)
129. Lost Child (2017)
130. Villains (2019)
131. I Married a Witch (1942)
132. Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
133. The Founder (2016)
134. Crawl (2019)
135. VHYes (2019)
136. Spontaneous (2020)
137. Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
138. Pig (2021)
139. Fatman (2020)
140. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
141. Anthropoid (2016)
142. Christine (2016)
143. If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
144. Searching (2018)
145. Good Boy (2020)
146. St. Vincent (2014)
147. Meet the Deedles (1998)
148. Operation Finale (2018)
149. Ingrid Goes West (2017)
150. Heaven Adores You (2014)
151. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
152. Ford v Ferrari (2019)
153. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
154. Black Dynamite (2009)
155. Multi-Facial (1995)
156. The Book of Henry (2017)
157. Wild at Heart (1990)
158. Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
159. It Could Happen to You (1994)
160. The Family Man (2000)
161. The Weather Man (2005)
162. Trapped in Paradise (1994)
163. Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
164. Take Shelter (2011)
165. The Monster Squad (1987)
166. The Love Witch (2016)
167. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)
168. Blood Diner (1987)
169. Chef (2014)
170. The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
171. The Skeleton Twins (2014)
172. Up in the Air (2009)
173. Another Round (2020)
174. Miss Sloane (2016)
175. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
176. UHF (1989)
177. The World's End (2013)
178. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
179. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
180. Leave No Trace (2018)
181. Proxima (2019)
182. The Golem (1920)
183. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
184. The Harder They Fall (2021)
185. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
186. Safety Last! (1923)
187. Divine Intervention (2002)
188. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
189. Three Colors: White (1994)
190. Three Colors: Red (1994)
191. Vessel (2014)
192. The Enemies (2017)
193. Sunday in Brazzaville (2011)
194. Bad Black (2016)
195. Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010)
196. The Eagle's Nest (2020)
197. The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)
198. The Last Duel (2021)
199. Shake Hands With the Devil (2007)
200. Night of the Kings (2020)
201. Rose Plays Julie (2019)
202. Viy (1967)
203. Pottersville (2017)
204. The One I Love (2014)
205. Language Lessons (2021)
206. Big Nothing (2006)