Essential DVDs

BluesLover

Being rather disenchanted with streaming services, I've bought a dvd player and have started a library of essential movies...so far I've got
Get Carter
The outlaw Josey Wales
Terminator 
Lord of the rings trilogy

What would you buy?

RaymondLin

LOTR
Alien/Aliens
T1/T2
Die Hard
Godfather Trilogy 
Lost in Translation 
Ghibli Complete Works
Your Name
Amelie
Forest Gump
Almost Famous
Infinity War/End Game
Nolan’s Batman Trilogy
La La Land (yes, seriously)
Matrix Trilogy
Star Wars 4-6

boogieman

Where to start??!!

Blazing Saddles (too unPC nowadays to be shown on most tv channels)
Young Frankenstein
Alien
The Godfather trilogy
Goodfellas
2001 A Space Odyssey 
Clockwork Orange 
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 

Bridge over the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Vanishing Point
Cool Hand Luke 

Funkfingers

I had LOTR and The Hobbit down as Blu-Ray to experience the CGI to the full.

Jules Et Jim
Das Boot
Brazil

Kurtis

I had a great video collection but couldn't be bothered starting again with dvds.

Kind of glad I didn't as I haven't had a dvd player for years. 

RaymondLin

Kurtis said:

I had a great video collection but couldn't be bothered starting again with dvds.

Kind of glad I didn't as I haven't had a dvd player for years. 

True, I wouldn't go as far back as DVD.  I would go at least Bluray, 4k Blu-ray preferable.  720 x 576 PAL isn't really the best experience these days. 

Philly_Q

It's kind of difficult to tell someone else what they should buy, but...

The Wicker Man
Don't Look Now
The Wages of Fear
The Shining
Raw
Once Upon a Time in the West
Suspiria
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Let the Right One In
Touch of Evil
Walkabout
M Hulot's Holiday
Fargo
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

and a few thousand others I'll think of later.

Keiko

Hendrix at Woodstock 

theatreanchor

A 4K player, and a 4k TV.

tony99

Apocalypse Now

Lost in Translation

King Kong (1933 for classic, and the 2005 version as the fight with the dinosaur is one of the best cinematic experiences ever)

guitars4you

The wire
Spiral

CavemanGrogg

The Green Lantern, truly a cinematic master piece that no collection is complete, yet alone could be considered a collection, without it in.

blobb

Futurama series 1-4.

Rocker

The complete Poirot. 

Great British train journeys. 

tony99

Oh yeah if you're talking box sets too then Blue Planet, Planet Earth, and World at War!!

HAL9000

Time Bandits 
Dead Man (The Johnny Depp one)
The Man Who Would be King
Amadeus
The Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns + Pale Rider, + The Outlaw Josey Wales

2001 (obviously)
The Name of the Rose (despite it not being a patch on the book)
Gladiator
A Few Good Men
Top Gun

fretmeister

Oh man.

Ive got about 5000 DVD and Blurays.

Jaws
Dirty Harry
Kind Hearts and Coronets 
Jason and the Argonauts
All the President’s Men
LA Confidential 
The Pianist 
Amadeus
Chinatown
In Bruges
Spotlight


Loads really. 

Cols

Aliens
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Back to the Future
Predator
Star Trek II - the Wrath Of Khan
Terminator 2
The original Star Wars trilogy
Jaws

Chris.B

Two British films for my suggestion:

Whisky Galore. The original version, rather than the remake. 

Snatch. Probably not a popular choice, but it's my favourite comedy film. 

stonevibe

• Until the End of the World
• Man Bites Dog
• Near Dark
• Wild at Heart
• Brazil
• City of Lost Children
• Delicatessen
  
• The Hunger
• The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover
• Leon
• King of New York
• The Addiction
• The Lost Boys
• The 40 Year Old Virgin
• Dune
• Apocalypse Now
• Logan's Run
• Event Horizon
• District 9
• Ex Machina
• Inception
• Lost Highway
• True Romance

I could add a few hundred more, but it's Sunday, and these are all that came to mind. I need more coffee...

But I know I already own all of these on DVD, and they are somewhere in my attic, along with a few hundred more!

Shrews

I still watch DVD's but have many that I've watched only a few times and some that are regulars to fit the occasion or time of year

Spring - Manhattan, Annie Hall, Jesus Christ Superstar, any Biblical epic
Summer - Mamma Mia, Stand By Me, La La Land
Autumn - Harry Potter, LOTR and Hobbit collections
Winter - Any of the Christmas films

To give me a lift when I feel sorry for myself: Champions

To give me a lift when I need to see life for what it is:
Life Of Brian

To think about how fragile life is and how we could all be gone tomorrow: many disaster films, but favourites would be:
Deep Impact, Threads, 

To marvel at Sci-Fi special effects:
Blade Runner, Close Encounters, Gravity, I Robot, Contact

To marvel at a great storyline: Betty Blue, Born Free, Theory of Everything, Kings Speech

For music: Oliver, Bohemian Rhapsody, Yesterday, Rocket Man, The Boat That Rocked

For feeling youthful: Trainspotting, Quadrophenia

For horror: American Werewolf in London, Rosemarys Baby, The Wickerman, 28 days/weeks later, The Howling

For a bit of mild naughtiness: The Dreamers, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Barbarella 

For laughs: The Office, The Inbetweeners, Borat, Up Pompeii

For a surreal experience: After Hours, Napoleon Dynamite, Melancholia, Troll Hunter

For a bit of violence: Goodfellas, Casino, Godfather trilogy, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Rocky 1,2,3,4 (lost interest after) 

War: Schindlers List, Saving Private Ryan, The Pianist

Just because they're good and easy to watch: Shaun of the Dead, The Truman Show, Fever Pitch, Notting Hill