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Stuff I've watched

Films and documentaries I've watched with staying power. The more ⭐️️s, the greater the recommendation.

2024

  • Incendies ⭐️

  • The Boy and The Heron

  • One Life

  • May Decmber

2023

  • Maestro

  • Drops of God

  • Happy

  • California Typewriter

  • Inside

  • The Great Gatsby

  • Past Lives ⭐️

  • David Attenborough pollination episode

  • Almost Famous

  • Unorthodox ⭐️

  • The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby ⭐️

  • Captain Fantastic

  • The Deepest Breath ⭐️

  • Roadrunner ⭐️

  • Arnold

  • American History X

  • A Time to Kill

  • You Hurt My Feelings

  • Blackberry (movie)

  • Unstuck in Time by Kurt Vonnegut

  • Everything Everywhere All At Once

  • The Fabelmans ⭐️⭐️

  • How to Change Your Mind

  • Pulling Power from the Sky — The Story of Makani

  • Flight

  • The White Lotus

  • Gone Girl (again)

  • Inside Out

  • Stutz

  • The Tender Bar

2022

  • Urban Oasis (short) ⭐️

  • We Are As Gods

  • Swarm (short) ⭐️⭐️️

  • Where the Crawdads Sing ⭐️

  • The End of the Tour

  • Transparent

  • Chef's Table — Pizza, Chris Bianco

  • Untold — The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist

  • PEN15

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

  • Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive

  • Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much

  • The Worst Person in the World ⭐️️

  • The Imitation Game

  • Inventing Anna

  • My Octopus Teacher ⭐️⭐️

  • A California Christmas

2021

  • Four Good Days

  • Bo Burnham — Inside ⭐️️

  • Lady Bird ⭐️

  • Pig

  • Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story

  • Another Round ⭐️️

  • You Laugh But it's True

2020

  • Sex Education ⭐️

  • The Queen's Gambit

  • Steve Jobs — Secrets of Life ⭐️

  • 30 for 30: LANCE

  • LBJ

  • Where's My Roy Cohn?

  • Free Solo ⭐️

  • Valley Uprising ⭐️️

  • Pride & Prejudice

  • Seabiscuit ⭐️️⭐️️

  • Silver Linings Playbook ⭐️

  • Fleabag

  • Miss Americana

  • You

  • The Game Changers

2019

  • Big Little Lies ⭐️

  • Marriage Story ⭐️️

  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ⭐️⭐️

  • Searching for Bobby Fischer ⭐️

  • American Factory

  • A Star is Born ⭐️⭐️

  • Formula 1 — Drive to Survive ⭐️

  • The 2000s

  • The Dawn Wall

2018

  • Catch Me if You Can ⭐️

  • The Nineties

  • RBG

  • Molly's Game ⭐️️

  • Chappaquiddick

  • Runaway Jury ⭐️

  • Bobby Kennedy for President ⭐️

  • The Barkley Marathons ⭐️

  • Moneyball ⭐️⭐️

  • Wild Wild Country ⭐️️

  • AlphaGo ⭐️

2017

  • Bridge of Spies

  • Sour Grapes ⭐️

  • 21 ⭐️

  • The Sixties

  • The Seventies

  • Narcos ⭐️

  • Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo

  • Icarus ⭐️

  • Command and Control

  • 30 for 30: Slaying the Badger ⭐️

  • The Big Short ⭐️⭐️

  • Betting on Zero

  • Magnus

  • Get Me Roger Stone

  • The Internet's Own Boy

  • Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States ⭐️

  • View from a Blue Moon

  • The Man in the High Castle

2016

  • The Look of Silence ⭐️

  • Spotlight

  • The Walk ⭐️

2015

  • Mitt ⭐️️

  • Pawn Sacrifice ⭐️

  • Best of Enemies ⭐️⭐️

  • Inequality for All

  • Whiplash

  • The Jinx ⭐️

  • The Gatekeepers

  • The Immitation Game

  • The Theory of Everything

  • Last Days in Vietnam ⭐️⭐️️

  • The Prestige ⭐️

  • Gone Girl ⭐️

2014

  • Citizenfour

  • 8 Mile

  • Game Change

  • Boyhood ⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • 30 for 30: Soccer Stories: Maradona '86

  • He's Just Not That Into You

  • The Unknown Known ⭐️

  • The Fog of War ⭐️️⭐️

  • Revenge Of The Electric Car ⭐️

  • The Summit

  • Before Midnight ⭐️

  • 30 for 30: The Price of Gold

  • The Armstrong Lie

  • Before Sunset ⭐️

  • Blackfish

  • Somm ⭐️

2013

  • The Act of Killing ⭐️

  • Pandora's Promise

  • Game of Thrones ⭐️

  • Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

  • Before Sunrise ⭐️

  • American Beauty

  • 30 for 30: You Don't Know Bo ⭐️

  • The Social Network

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower ⭐️️

  • 30 for 30: Four Days in October

  • Searching for Sugarman ⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • 30 for 30: Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks

  • 30 for 30: Broke

  • Good Will Hunting ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • Friday Night Lights ⭐️⭐️️

  • 30 for 30: The U

  • House of Cards

  • Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview ⭐️

  • The Usual Suspects ⭐️️

  • The West Wing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2012

  • Argo

  • Gilmore Girls ⭐️

  • Jerry Maguire

  • Gossip Girl ⭐️️

  • Recount ⭐️

  • Exit through the Gift Shop ⭐️

  • Crash ⭐️️

  • Memento

  • Waiting for Superman

  • Crazy, Stupid, Love.

  • The Town

  • Inside Job ⭐️️

2011

  • The Help ⭐️⭐️️

  • Senna

  • The Wave

  • Friends with Benefits

  • Margin Call ⭐️️⭐️

  • Mad Men ⭐️️⭐️

  • Pulp Fiction

  • The Right Stuff

  • Touching the Void ⭐️

  • The Kennedys ⭐️

  • 500 Days of Summer

  • Inception

2010

  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

  • Shattered Glass

  • The Insider

  • The Hunt for Red October

  • The American President

  • Schindler's List ⭐️

  • Prefontaine ⭐️

  • Frost/Nixon ⭐️️

2009

  • The Cove

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ⭐️

  • Minority Report

  • Man on Wire ⭐️

  • Grace Is Gone ⭐️

  • Helvetica

  • The Silence of the Lambs

  • All the President's Men ⭐️

  • The Boondock Saints ⭐️️

  • Juno ⭐️️

  • Gone Baby Gone

  • Rain Man

  • Into the Wild

  • Dead Poets Society ⭐️️

  • Cinderella Man

  • Cast Away ⭐️️

  • Braveheart

2008

  • Seven Pounds

  • Saving Private Ryan ⭐️️

  • Forrest Gump ⭐️️

  • The Patriot

  • The Fugitive ⭐️️

  • The Departed

  • Remember the Titans ⭐️️

  • Miracle ⭐️️

  • Caddyshack

Earlier

  • Hitch ⭐️️

  • Ocean's Eleven ⭐️️

  • The Italian Job ⭐️️

  • The Shawshank Redemption ⭐️⭐️

  • The Green Mile

  • The Aviator

  • Pay it Forward ⭐️️

  • October Sky

  • Inside Man

  • The Notebook

  • Blow ⭐️️

  • A Beautiful Mind ⭐️⭐️

  • The Pianist

  • Apollo 13 ⭐️⭐️

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  • Happy Gilmore

TV shows I grew up with

  • Numb3rs

  • How I Met Your Mother

  • House

  • The Pretender

  • American Idol

  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?