After landing on a recent flight, I overheard another passenger say he'd watched Sicario for the 3rd time. Maybe he just really liked the movie so much that there was nothing else he'd rather have watched. But maybe he just didn't know what else was good.

I asked a filmmaker friend for recommendations from the current list (Jan 2016), he replied it's an unbelievably good selection and you can't go wrong with any of the following. I thought I'd share, in case anyone finds this helpful. Of course you can find which movies are well-rated on IMDB/Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritic, but that's tedious when you're trying to find the one good movie left that you haven't seen.

The Abyss
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alien
Aliens
All the President's Men
American Hustle
Being There
Best in Show
Big Hero 6
Birdman
Bonnie and Clyde
Bridge of Spies
Cabaret
Caddyshack
Chariots of Fire
Cool Hand Luke
Crocodile Dundee
Diner
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dog Day Afternoon
Driving Miss Daisy
End of the Tour
A Face in the Crowd
Foxcatcher
Giant
Goodfellas
JFK
The Kingsmen
Love & Mercy
The Manchurian Candidate
The Martian
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Mean Streets
Once Upon a Time in America
Papillon
Risky Business
Sicario
Sideways
Straight Outta Compton
The Town
Twenty Feet from Stardom
Unforgiven