The 75 Movies Every Man Should See
The 75 Movies Every Man Should See
Our unranked, incomplete, utterly biased list of the greatest films that have shaped American men. Find out how many you've watched, and add to your Netflix queue along the way.
Mad Max: Fury Road
In an era of CGI superheroes, George Miller reminded us how action movies ought to be made.
The Godfather
Best-written, best-acted, most beautiful film about the immigrant experience ever contemplated. It invented most modern clichés.
Moonlight
To often, LGBTQ narratives are riddled with outright disaster, but Moonlight manages to examine the intersection of being a Black man from a difficult socioeconomic background, traversing the reality of being gay and closeted.
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Fellini’s best film about a director who may or may not represent Fellini trying to make his best film.
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee’s film about two closeted cowboys who find and rekindle love on the ridge of a mountain was robbed the Best Picture Oscar, somehow losing to Crash.
Jaws
The shark was a giant malfunctioning puppet with fake teeth, and it still scared the ever-loving shit out of you.
In the Heat of the Night
Never has a man been in a more wrong place at a more wrong time.
Iron Man
It is the superhero movie that launched the biggest Hollywood franchise of our lifetime.
Mean Girls
Tina Fey’s beloved teen comedy is the definitive depiction of high school in the 2000s. The only thing it didn’t do was make fetch happen.
Parasite
There’s no explanation of Parasite that does the film justice—a psychological thriller, a family drama, a horror story about the evils of capitalism and the relentless pursuit of wealth.
Save the Tiger
The nominees for Best Actor, 1973: Brando, Nicholson, Redford, Pacino, Lemmon. And the Oscar goes to: Jack Lemmon.
12 Angry Men
All that is terrifying and wonderful about the phrase "a jury of your peers."
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón’s evocative, black-and-white epic about a live-in housekeeper in Mexico City unspools an unforgettable story about class, family, and memory.
Fitzcarraldo
Because we've all had to carry a ship over a mountain once in our lives.
Selma
Aside from cementing Ava DuVernay as one of this century’s most important voices, Selma powerfully recounts the Selma to Montgomery marches—with the inimitable David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr.
Ghostbusters
Man at elevator: What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut? Dr. Venkman: No, we're exterminators. Somebody saw a cockroach up on twelve.
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Our unranked, incomplete, utterly biased list of the greatest films that have shaped American men. How many have you watched?