Take a look at my DVD collection and help me to add some more variety to it (1 Viewer)

[Keith_R]

I know these kinds of threads may be getting a bit tiresome but I would like some recommendations on movies that will add some variety to my DVD collection. As you can see a good majority of my titles are action or Sci-Fi and while I enjoy these kinds of films I would like to broaden my horizens and start adding variety to my collection. I would like recommendations for almost any kind of movie besides romance movies and westerns.

• The Abyss
• Air Force One
• Alien
• Aliens
• Almost Famous:Untitled
• Blade
• CastAway
• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
• Demolition Man
• Heat
• Desperado
• Face/Off
• The Fast and the Furious
• Terminator
• Terminator 2
• Die Hard Ultimate Collection (boxset)
• Simpsons First season
• The Replacement Killers
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Mummy
• Swordfish
• Superman
• Gladiator
• True Lies
• Lethal Weapon
• Lethal Weapon 2
• Lethal Weapon 3
• Traffic
• X-Men
• The Rock:CC
• Les' Miserables
• The Matrix
• The Matrix:Revisited
• Jaws
• Predator
• End of Days
• Fight Club

thanks for any suggestions you guys may be able to give.

 

[DanR]

Hahaha, I guess you like action movies huh? Yes, most of us wind up with a lot of action movies because of the WOW factor they give us in our home theaters.

Here's a few to add that will give you more viewing options than just action/adventure:

American Beauty

Ben-Hur

Braveheart

Dances with Wolves (new version is coming from MGM soon)

A Few Good Men

Ghostbusters

The Naked Gun Trilogy

The Princess Bride

The Shawshank Redemption

The Green Mile

Titanic

Spartacus

Good luck,

Dan

 

[Jack Briggs]

If you want to broaden your horizons, start giving serious attention to classic, must-have films. And a good place to start would be Warner's exquisite Citizen Kane DVD set. Then start exploring the work of Alfred Hitchcock--the Rear Window and North By Northwest DVDs are superb; Vertigo is a must-have as well, but the transfer, while nice, is not anamorphic. Martin Scorcese's work is essential, too--Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, and Goodfellas (a non-anamorphic flipper disc, unfortunately) are just a few.

And then there's the body of work by Stanley Kubrick--twelve of his thirteen features are on DVD, many of them superb transfers.

I could go on and on, but I turn the floor over to other HTFers.

 

[Jon Robertson]

ALL the Kubrick discs are superb transfers (just make sure you pick up the right versions)!

 

[stewart borland]

American Beauty

Braveheart

Any Pink Panther movies

Local Hero

Gregory's Girl

Notting Hill

Pretty Woman

Waking Ned

Uncle Buck

Have a laugh!

for starters!

 

[Michael Dehaven]

The Third Man CC

Grand Illusion CC

Woman In The Dunes

Wit

Farewell My Concubine

8 1/2 CC

Gandhi

Rushmore CC

Bridget Jones's Diary

High Fidelity

Antz

Princess Bride

Twin Peaks season one

Sopranos season 1 and 2

An American Werewolf In London CE

Rosemary's Baby

The Crow

etc............................................... ..

 

[StephenA]

Lawrence of Arabia

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Glory

Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menance

Akira Special Edition

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Halloween

Hellraiser

Psycho(1960 version)

A Clockwork Orange

The Shining

Seven

The Usual Suspects

Trainspotting

Requiem for a Dream Director's Cut

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Leon the uncut international version

Night of the Living Dead '68 Elite version

Dawn of the Dead

LA Confidential

Traffic

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Crow

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Chasing Amy

Casablanca

Enter the Dragon

 

[Robyn Young]

Do you like documentaries? I have a whole mini-collection of documentary-like dvd's to include:

Walking with Dinosoars

Allosaurus

The Mars Collection

The Planets

Ken Burns Jazz

A&E's Serial Killers DVD and Civil War DVD

Image of the Assasination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film.

Most are pretty good. I also have some of those cheaper WWII dvd's, as well as some of the NASA DVD's.

One way of diversifying your collection.

robyn

 

[Patrick McCart]

City Lights

Modern Times

Fantasia

Help! (Out of print, though.)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: SE

It Happened One Night

Doctor Zhivago

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Nosferatu: SE (Red cover)

Citizen Kane

You can't go wrong with any of the above titles.

 

[Rob Lutter]

well, If I were you... I'd get...
Army of Darkness: Theatrical
Army of Darkness: Director's (Bootleg) Cut MUST HAVE!
Brazil: Criterion Collection MUST HAVE!
Rushmore: Criterion Collection
The New Stanley Kubrick Collection (from Lolita till Eyes Wide Shut, new transfers)
Se7en: Platinum Series
Disney: Treasures (namely Mickey and Silly Symphonies)
Suspiria: Limited Edition (if you like horror)
Toy Story: Ultimate Toy Box (3 Disc set) MUST HAVE!

 

[Walt Riarson]

Hmmm.

Why not try some of Fellini's films?

I recommend the Criterion discs.

 

[Keith_R]

thanks a lot for all the advice guys, keep it coming

 

[Josh_Hill]

I recommend:

Seventh Seal

Seven Samuri

American Beauty

Star Wars: Phantom Menace

Moulin Rouge

Unbreakable

Any Bond disc

Hannibal

Kubrick Restored Boxset

Lawrence of Arabia

 

[Neil Joseph]

How about some animation...

- Tarzan

- Toy Story UTB

- A Bug's Life

- Dinosaur

- The Iron Giant

- The Prince Of Egypt

- The Road To ElDorado

- Shrek

and some more action.....

- Braveheart

- Crimson Tide

- The Mask Of Zorro

- The Perfect Storm

- Titanic (romance???)

and some drama...

- The Colour Purple

 

[Dave F]

Heck, just check out the AFI Top 100 American Films on DVD over at The Digital Bits.
That'll keep you busy.
-Dave

 

[Josh_Hill]

Oh yeah and you need Evil Dead 2!

 

[james st. james]

i would recommend:

* memento - thriller, special edition coming in april?

* following - if you liked memento

* jesus' son - great acting (billy crudup, jack black, dennis leary) and black humor

* concerts - there are some excellent live shows that would definitly add some variety to your collection. i liked u2 elevation tour. there are a wide variety of titles so you can probably find something you like.

* u-571 - not exactly diversifying but i liked it

* hoosiers - no extras so its cheap

* glory - special edition

* lock stock and two smoking barrels - little bit of comedy with a little bit of action

* snatch - same as above

* the mexican - same as above

* office space - if you work in an office and have problems with the fax machine chances are good you will find it funny

 

[MatthiasK]

Crime / Mystery / Suspense
Zero Effect - Bill Pullman & Ben Stiller, kinda like a modern day Sherlock Holmes story
***
Sixth Sense - Bet you've heard of this one

 

[Brian E]

A few suggestions...

North By Northwest

Big Sleep (1946)

Maltese Falcon

Seven Samurai

Hidden Fortress

Swingers

Young Frankenstein

Bridge on the River Kwai

Lawrence of Arabia

Citizen Kain

Contact

Gattaca

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Princess Bride

Stalingrad

Willy Wonka

 

[Eric S M]

Adding to the list (and hopefully not repeating much):

The Shawshank Redemption

Yojimbo (Kurasawa)

My Fair Lady (maybe romance, but still entertaining)

American Graffiti

Wizard of Oz

Cleopatra

Das Boot (action, but also a lot of drama)

-Eric