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Full In the Loop

Advanced guide to getting in the loop.

Supplementary to "Civilization Essentials."

If a movie is on this list, then it has one of these:
-Pop culture reference value
-Meme value
-Example of a namedropped director/producer/actor
-Popularity + cult popularity
-Had a cultural impact regardless of quality

  • Harakiri
  • Come and See
  • Seven Samurai
  • The Godfather Part II
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Parasite
  • The Godfather
  • Schindler's List
  • Ikiru
  • La Haine
  • The Dark Knight
  • GoodFellas
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Whiplash
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • The Handmaiden
  • Perfect Blue
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Oldboy
  • Rear Window
  • All About Eve
  • The Thing
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Se7en
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • All That Jazz
  • No Country for Old Men
  • The Departed
  • Before Sunrise
  • Psycho
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Django Unchained
  • Chinatown
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Akira
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • The Elephant Man
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Fight Club
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Alien
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Raging Bull
  • Vertigo
  • The Shining
  • Hamilton
  • Trainspotting
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Boogie Nights
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  • Moonlight
  • Citizen Kane
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • North by Northwest
  • Oppenheimer
  • Fargo
  • Coraline
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Thelma & Louise
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Little Women
  • Stand by Me
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Black Swan
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Nashville
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Forrest Gump
  • Get Out
  • Shutter Island
  • Gladiator
  • Midnight Cowboy
  • Taxi Driver
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
  • Scarface
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • The Big Lebowski
  • What We Do in the Shadows
  • La La Land
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Jurassic Park
  • 1917
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Blade Runner
  • My Dinner with Andre
  • Brazil
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Rocky