Watch List
Last updated May 17, 2026
Films, shows, and documentaries I want to watch — and ones I have. Pulled from recommendations by friends, podcasts, and newsletters. Roughly in the order they were added.
To Watch
- John Hughes
- Sixteen Candles
- Tokyo Vice
- John Candy
- Stripes
- The Great Outdoors
- Spaceballs
- Cool Runnings
- Summer Rental
- Zac recs
- The Hip Hop Project (Zac produced score)
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Army of Darkness
- The Dark Crystal
- Labyrinth
- A Prairie Home Companion (rewatch)
- Michael recs
- In the Realm of the Senses
- Woman in the Dunes
- Ichi the Killer
- Helter Skelter
- Chernobyl (HBO)
- Tim Ferriss recs (5BF)
- Eat Drink Man Woman (early Ang Lee)
- Undone (Prime, animated series)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013, Prime)
- The Peanut Butter Falcon — as of 8/12/25 can only buy it
- The Fantastic Mr. Feynman
- An Irish Goodbye (short film)
- Argentina, 1985
- The Big Sick (Amazon)
- Jumanji (Netflix)
- Adolescence (Netflix, Gareth and KK rec)
- Emilia Perez (KK, Netflix)
- Blood of Zeus (Netflix)
- Busy World of Richard Scarry (YouTube)
- Century of the Self (series, Tom rec)
- Kintaro Walks Japan
- Match Point (Woody Allen, Tom rec)
- There Will Be Blood (rewatch)
- Escape at Dannemora (Conan)
- Best of 2024
- #6 Ryuichi Sakamoto / Opus (documentary)
- #7 Love Lies Bleeding (thriller)
- #8 Thelma (comedy)
- #9 Rebel Ridge (action)
- Monkey Man
- Ju-On (horror, Vanessa)
- The Others (horror, Vanessa)
- Smile (horror, Vanessa)
- The Rock (rewatch)
- The Goonies
- Rififi (Sean rec)
- Hackers (Rohan)
- The Ritual (Sam, horror)
- Naked and Afraid
- Creedence Clearwater Revival doc narrated by Jeff Bridges (Prime)
- Living in the Time of Dying
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Lex podcast)
- Nathan For You
- Jim Henson Idea Man (Ron Howard on Conan podcast)
- Endless Summer
- Shameless
- The Vanishing (Conan)
- Mystic Pizza (Laura's show)
- The Day After
- WarGames
- Reservoir Dogs
- Amazing Race (Danny)
- 8 Mile
- Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
- From (Adriaan, scary, smart)
- Shrill
- Cast Away (Netflix, rewatch, Zemeckis, Hidden Brain)
- Rick & Morty Season 6 (HBO, Adriaan)
- X (A24)
- Fifth Element (rewatch, KK)
- Euphoria (HBO, A24)
- Spring Breakers (A24)
- Knives Out (Adriaan, same creator as Poker Face)
- Poker Face (series, Adriaan)
- Peripheral
- Some Kind of Monster (rewatch)
- Get Back (Beatles doc, Rubin)
- The Aviator (4HWW)
- Pick of the Litter (Ferriss, Twitter)
- Ready to Rumble (2000) (classic B movie according to Brian)
- Confess, Fletch (Tuesbetter Newsletter)
- Drive (2011) (Hacker News)
- Free Burma Rangers
- Event Horizon (Sam)
- Joe Versus the Volcano (SYSK)
- Don't Look Up (SYSK)
- While You Were Sleeping
- Little Women (2019)
- Long Strange Trip
- American History X
- Twelve O'Clock High (Bomber Mafia, old movie about precision bombing)
- Raising Dion
- Carnage
- The Inbetweeners
- Seven Years in Tibet
- Sunshine Superman (skydiving documentary)
- JFK (Oliver Stone)
- The Untold History of the United States (Oliver Stone)
- One Child Nation (Aaron)
- Adaptation (Tom rec)
- Dark Waters (Tom)
- Contagion
- The Yellow Sea
- Apollo 13
- Team America: World Police (rewatch)
- The Green Book
- Buena Vista Social Club
- A Quiet Place (2018) (Prime)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Cool Runnings
- Begin Again
- Love & Mercy (Beach Boys doc)
- Evolution (rewatch)
- It (first one)
- Bitter Lake
- Léolo
- 1987 (Korean)
- Rec (horror)
- Room
- The Science of Sleep (rewatch)
- Something by Lewis Carroll
- A Royal Affair
- Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
- Sing Street
- Battle Royale
- Secret Sunshine (Korean)
- Poetry (Korean)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin
- The Dancer
- The Wind Rises (Miyazaki)
- City of God
- Enemy of the State
- Mo' Better Blues
- Orphan Black
- What Lurks in the Shadows
- Dazed and Confused
- The Newsroom (Jeff Daniels, HBO)
- The Hundred-Foot Journey
- Citizenfour
- Drag Me to Hell
- Fruitvale Station
- Eraserhead
- The Intouchables
- Interview with the Vampire
- Auto Focus
- The Fugitive
- Footloose
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Predestination
- Long Way Round (Jon's Learning Group)
- George Carlin specials
- Nymphomaniac
- De Niro: The Untouchables, Casino, The Deer Hunter
- Roman Holiday (very old)
- Michael Clayton
- Training Day
- Public Enemies (BAMF blog)
Watched
- John Candy
- Splash
- Uncle Buck
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Tim Ferriss recs (5BF)
- John Candy — I Like Me (Prime, 5BF)
- Hunger (Thai noodle lady, Michael rec)
- The Menu (Michael rec)
- Middleditch & Schwartz (Netflix, Diego rec)
- No Sudden Move (B. Fraser, Sean rec)
- The Whale
- Rental Family (awesome!!!)
- Secret Mall Apartment (Netflix, KK) — stupid, woke
- Akira, Ghost in the Shell (adult anime, Tomorrow book)
- Lawrence of Arabia (Tom, Itay)
- Best of 2025
- Sinners (Prime)
- Train Dreams (Netflix)
- Outlast (Zac, Alaska reality show on Netflix) — watched… not good
- Frankenstein (Netflix)
- Rango (Netflix)
- In the Heat of the Night (Louis CK on Theo Von)
- The Simpsons, early seasons (Disney+)
- LouisCK.com stuff
- Vintage specials
- Lucky Louie
- Listers (bird-watching doc on YouTube, 5BF)
- KPop Demon Hunters (5BF, Netflix)
- Superman (2025)
- Darkest Hour (Netflix)
- F1 (2025)
- The Thinking Game (YouTube interview with Derek Muller)
- Just Friends (Ryan Reynolds)
- Becoming Led Zeppelin (Tom)
- Anselm (documentary)
- Rivers and Tides (Zac rec)
- 32 Sounds (5BF)
- Harakiri (Japan or Die #20)
- From Dusk Till Dawn (Tarantino, dir. Robert Rodriguez, recently on Tim Ferriss)
- The Social Network (rewatch)
- Tampopo (Japan or Die #55)
- Shōgun (Disney+)
- Best of 2024
- #1 Conclave (bad ending)
- Anora (Best Picture)
- #2 Evil Does Not Exist (Japanese; bad, stupid ending)
- #3 Challengers (drama)
- #4 Nosferatu (horror)
- #5 The Substance (sci-fi) (Galloway)
- Flow
- Roadrunner (Bourdain, 5BF)
- Leaning Into the Wind — Andy Goldsworthy (Tim Ferriss with Chris Sacca)
- Severance S2 (waited for it all to come out)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The Rescue (Thailand cave, 5BF)
- The Wild Robot
- The Conversation (Sean rec)
- Fourth of July
- Perfect Days (5BF)
- Sweet Smell of Success (Louis CK, on Rogan)
- What's Up, Doc? (Louis CK, on Rogan)
- The Bear (Sean C's new tattoo; Sam doesn't like it)
- No Direction Home (Bob Dylan doc by Scorsese, Tom rec)
- Hot Ones with Conan
- Kedi (documentary about cats)
- Arrested Development (rewatch)
- Magnolia (Scott Galloway)
- 3 Body Problem (Netflix)
- Firefly (2002) (Recomendo)
- Moon Is the Oldest TV (Tim Ferriss)
- Joint Security Area
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- American Fiction (5BF)
- Yellowstone (Laura)
- Best Films of 2023
- #1 The Zone of Interest
- The Color Purple
- #2 The Taste of Things
- #3 Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
- #4 Poor Things
- The Holdovers
- #5 They Cloned Tyrone
- Barbie
- Oppenheimer
- #7 Talk to Me
- #8 The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki)
- #9 Beyond Utopia
- #10 Godzilla Minus One
- Albert Brooks
- Mother
- Defending Your Life
- Modern Romance
- Lost in America
- This Is Spinal Tap (directed by Rob Reiner)
- Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (documentary)
- Leo (Netflix)
- Sunken Ship Rescue (NOVA, rent on Google)
- Paramount+
- Doug's Geology Journal (Amazon, KK)
- Wild Tales (Tim Ferriss)
- Past Lives (Tim Ferriss)
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Arnold (Netflix)
- The Nowhere Inn
- Jury Duty (Amazon, KK)
- Ozark (Netflix, Vinh loves it)
- The Biggest Little Farm (5BF, August 2023)
- How to Get Rich (Netflix)
- Used Cars
- Her (rewatch, Sam Harris)
- 100 Foot Wave (HBO, KK email)
- Primal (animated series, HBO, Adriaan)
- The Lighthouse (A24)
- Hereditary (2018, A24, Conan podcast)
- The Jungle Book (Favreau, SmartLess)
- The King of Kong (documentary, KK)
- Australian Survivor: Heroes v Villains (Aaron, YouTube)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)
- Succession (HBO, Adriaan)
- Winnebago Man (Ferriss)
- Zootopia (with Luu)
- Pepsi, Where's My Jet? (Philip, Netflix)
- Sheng Wang: Sweet and Juicy (Ferriss, Netflix)
- Goliath (Prime series, Tim Ferriss email)
- Dealt (Tim Ferriss email)
- Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
- Fishing with John (Ken recommended the Dennis Hopper episode)
- Colonia (about Chile, Pablo rec)
- A Twelve-Year Night (about Uruguay, Pablo rec)
- Dune
- Palm Springs (Marshall loved it)
- Gemini Man (Will Smith, Cartagena)
- 8-Bit Christmas
- Apocalypse Now (Vietnam, Coppola)
- Blow the Man Down (Amazon Prime, Mom)
- Burn After Reading (Coen Brothers)
- Human (Jeff)
- Elevator to the Gallows (Miles Davis doc)
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (finished)
- I'm No Longer Here (Connla, Netflix)
- Avengement — sucked
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Eyes Wide Shut (Netflix)
- Murder Mystery
- Eddie Murphy: Raw & Delirious
- Ford v Ferrari
- Three Identical Strangers
- Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- 1917
- Parasite (2019)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (rewatch with Ruby)
- The Terminator (1984)
- First They Killed My Father
- Rocketman
- The War Room
- Platoon (Prime)
- Armageddon (rewatch)
- Burning (Korean)
- The Revenant (Netflix, rewatch)
- Captain Fantastic
- Isle of Dogs (2018)
- The Social Network (rewatch)
- Searching for Sugar Man
- The Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass
- Iron Sky (Manu)
- The Mule (2018)
- American Vandal (Netflix)
- The Black List (Netflix)
- The Other Guys
- The Founder
- A Star Is Born
- Back to School
- BoJack Horseman
- Star Trek
- Top Gear Vietnam Special
- Kingpin
- Paddington
- Lucy
- Barista (documentary, Sean)
- Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
- Groundhog Day
- True Lies
- Train to Busan
- Touching the Void
- Lost in Translation
- The Man from Nowhere (Korean, Sean rec)
- Magic Mike
- The Lego Batman Movie (again)
- Babe: Pig in the City
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Taxi Driver
- La Vie en Rose
- Moonlight
- Thirst (Park Chan-wook)
- Blade Runner
- Pumping Iron
- Memories of Murder (Korean)
- The Host (Netflix)
- Doctor Strange
- Fences
- Carol
- My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
- Porco Rosso (Miyazaki)
- Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki)
- Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki)
- Spirited Away
- Addicted to P: Chasing the Cardboard Butterfly
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Joe Versus the Volcano
- New Star Wars
- 12 Years a Slave
- Big Eyes
- Blue Jasmine
- Galaxy Quest
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- The Interview
- The Assassination
- Nina Simone (documentary)
- The Handmaiden
- The Wailing
- The Conjuring
- Scarface
- Horace and Pete
- Dead Poets Society
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
- Babe
- Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
- High Maintenance
- Obama & Seinfeld
- Short Term 12
- Moonrise Kingdom
- The Theory of Everything
- Django Unchained
- North by Northwest
- The Wire
- Coherence
- Samsara
- Amy
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi (again)
- Malcolm in the Middle (Netflix)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Peep Show
- Narcos
- Mad Max
- Black Dynamite
- Moneyball
- Pulp Fiction (again)
- The Drop
- Seven Samurai
- Kung Fu Panda
- The Imitation Game
- Whiplash
- Black Mirror
- Zoolander
- Too Many Cooks
- Jackie Brown (watch again)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (Netflix)
- Man on Wire
- 6 Days to Air (South Park)
- Snowpiercer
- The Truth About Cats & Dogs
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Trainspotting
- Escape from Alcatraz
- The Sting (Paul Newman)
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Good Morning, Vietnam
- Oldboy
- In Like Flint (movie night!)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (movie night!)
- Goldfinger
- The X-Files
- My Cousin Vinny