One of the greatest movies of all time about obsession, which all watch collectors can relate to. Plus, just as a movie, it’s fantastic:

 

Some of my favorites are:
Black Hawk Down
Three Kings
Lone Survivor
Shooter
The Martian
Lord Of The Rings
Matrix
Bicentennial Man
The Gambler
Pain and Gain
Inception
Cool Runnings
Fight Club
Lucky Number Slevin
RocknRolla
Hidalgo

 

The Maltesefalcon
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The African Queen
The Public Enemy
Unforgiven
Bullit
The original Star Trek movies
The Searchers
The World's Fastest Indian
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Man Who Would be King
Secondhand Lions
The Italian Job (the original)
Mad Max franchise
Cape Fear (the original)
Lawrence of Arabia

 

True Lies.

 

How could I forget this one!? GREAT movie.

 

Full Metal Jacket and Reservoir Dogs have to be two of the best movies for sensitive viewers.

 

Great shout - I love The Thing. Waiting very impatiently for a 4K HDR release of it. Where did you find that poster??

 

"Master and Commander" starring Russell Crowe always was a favourite movie, not only due to it's historical correctness, (English Navy, Napoleonic Wars) but also to my love of the ocean and all things nautical. It was not until I was well into the 20 book series that this movie was based on (Loosly based around one of the books, "The Far Side of the World") that I began to really appreciate the references to Captain Jack Aubrey's Breguet Chronometer (s) that regularly make mention. Makes you really appreciate the history, and importance of a good time piece, especially back in such days without GPS!

 

"Odd Man Out" 1947.
I have a feeling Tarantino saw this film as a youngster and it affected his work as an adult.

 

Just finished reading "Who Goes There?", the story "The Thing" is based on. In the story they often refer to the creature only as "the Thing".
The Story is ten times as entertaining and disturbing as any of the film adaptations.
One thing I really liked was how the first paragraphs are a description of just how much an Antarctic station of that era stank of cows and dogs and human BO. You found you could visualize the station and living conditions there without any real attempt to describe it other than in snapshots.

 

Thanks for the recommendation, @Professor - ordered!

 

Snatch
The Goodfellas
Catch me if you can
Interstellar

One can see a wristwatch (a Hamilton actually) play a key role in the latter one.

 

The treasure of Sierra Madre
On the Waterfront
The Italian Job(original)
Gone in 60 seconds(original) although I somewhat enjoy the new one as well.
Scarface

 

Just read Tom Wolfe's great book The Right Stuff.
This is the film adaption about the Mercury Seven.

 

"Well, what KIND of spe-ci-men??"

 

It's amazing that I have only seen Lawrence of Arabia listed once. To see it on a big screen is an experience. Feels fresh even today. I believe the shot of Omar Sharif walking to the water hole was the longest duration continuous film shot in movie history before the digital era.

Now for my submission: Being There starring Peter Sellers

 

My wife’s favorite movie! She’d leave me for Rob Zombie by the way!

 

Great haunted house film "the Haunting" (1963)

Opening lines of the book "the Haunting of Hill House"
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."
Free download of the book.
https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20180856