I often find myself wondering what movie to watch, and usually in the moment I just click on whatever is on the homepage of Netflix or pick a film that I've already watched a bunch of times. So in an attempt to expand my horizons, I decided to compile a list of movies based on the number of times they were recommended on the r/movies subreddit.

More specifically, I did a Google search for "best movies reddit", opened the first 7 links, found the 32 most upvoted comments, and added them to a list. I then normalised the movie names to correct for naming inconsistencies and created a small script to count and then sort the movies by frequency. Once this was done, I had a list of 344 movies, which I then trimmed down to 102 by just keeping the films with more than 2 recommendations.

You can probably tell, but this is a pretty basic way of compiling a list, and there is room for error, so I don't claim in any way that this list is totally accurate, but it's a good starting place.

I have already watched some of these films, and as I watch more I will mark them off, with the goal of watching them all, albeit without committing to a particular time frame.

So without further ado, here's the list of movies, sorted by number of recommendations:

• Goodfellas (8)
• Taxi Driver (8)
• Pulp Fiction (7) - watched
• 12 Angry Men (6)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (6) - watched
• A Clockwork Orange (6)
• Mulholland Drive (6)
• City Of God (5)
• Fargo (5)
• Fight Club (5) - watched
• Inception (5) - watched
• The Big Lebowski (5) - watched
• The Godfather (5) - watched
• Whiplash (5)
• Blade Runner (4) - watched
• Casablanca (4)
• High And Low (4)
• Lawrence Of Arabia (4) - watched
• Mad Max Fury Road (4)
• Star Wars: A New Hope (4) - watched
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (4) - watched
• The Dark Knight (4) - watched
• The Departed (4)
• The Good The Bad And The Ugly (4)
• The Long Goodbye (4)
• The Shining (4)
• The Thing (4)
• Alien (3) - watched
• Amadeus (3)
• Apocalypse Now (3)
• Citizen Kane (3)
• Die Hard (3) - watched
• Django Unchained (3) - watched
• Dr Strangelove (3)
• Good Will Hunting (3)
• Heat (3)
• Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (3) - watched
• Interstellar (3) - watched
• La Jetee (3)
• Magnolia (3)
• Memento (3)
• No Country For Old Men (3)
• Parasite (3)
• Indiana Jones and Raiders Of The Lost Ark (3) - watched
• Requiem For A Dream (3)
• Scream (3) - watched
• Se7en (3)
• Shutter Island (3)
• Tampopo (3)
• The Lives Of Others (3)
• The Silence Of The Lambs (3)
• The Truman Show (3) - watched
• 12 Years A Slave (2)
• 1917 (2) - watched
• American Beauty (2)
• American History (2)
• American Psycho (2)
• Birdman (2)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2) - watched
• Blue Velvet (2)
• Cinema Paradiso (2)
• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2)
• Do The Right Thing (2)
• Fearless (2)
• Full Metal Jacket (2)
• Gladiator (2) - watched
• Hot Fuzz (2) - watched
• In Bruges (2)
• Inglourious Basterds (2) - watched
• La Confidential (2)
• La Haine (2)
• Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2) - watched
• Matrix (2) - watched
• Mirror (2)
• Monty Python And The Holy Grail (2) - watched
• Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind (2)
• Oldboy (2)
• Possession (2)
• Psycho (2) watched
• Rocky (2)
• Saving Private Ryan (2) watched
• Scarface (2)
• Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (2)
• Serpico (2)
• Spirited Away (2) - watched
• Superbad (2)
• Suspiria (2)
• The Fly (2)
• The Graduate (2)
• The Green Mile (2)
• The Incredibles (2) - watched
• The Iron Giant (2)
• The Motorcycle Diaries (2)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2)
• The Shawshank Redemption (2) - watched
• The Third Man (2)
• The Usual Suspects (2)
• The Young Girls Of Rachefort (2)
• Three Colors Blue (2)
• Trainspotting (2)
• Tropic Thunder (2)
• Vertigo (2)