Watch List

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