Films That Remind me of High School: Or Birth of a Cinephile

By: Josh Richard​son

In 1999, I Moved to a house that was within walking distance of a video store.

• 01
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 02
  Magnolia
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 03
  Requiem for a Dream
  Darren Aronofsky
• 04
  Blue Velvet
  David Lynch
• 05
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  Miloš Forman
• 06
  Bringing Out the Dead
  Martin Scorsese
• 07
  Fight Club
  David Fincher
• 08
  American Beauty
  Sam Mendes
• 09
  Rushmore
  Wes Anderson
• 10
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 11
  River's Edge
  Tim Hunter
• 12
  Fargo
  Joel Coen
• 13
  Clerks
  Kevin Smith
• 14
  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  Terry Gilliam
• 15
  Being John Malkovich
  Spike Jonze
• 16
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 17
  Lost Highway
  David Lynch
• 18
  High Fidelity
  Stephen Frears
• 19
  Trainspotting
  Danny Boyle
• 20
  The Ice Storm
  Ang Lee
• 21
  The Meaning of Life
  Terry Gilliam
• 22
  Smoke
  Wayne Wang
• 23
  American Splendor
  Shari Springer Berman
• 24
  Man on the Moon
  Miloš Forman
• 25
  subUrbia
  Richard Linklater
• 26
  The Virgin Suicides
  Sofia Coppola
• 27
  Kids
  Larry Clark
• 28
  Pi
  Darren Aronofsky
• 29
  A Clockwork Orange
  Stanley Kubrick
• 30
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 31
  The Big Lebowski
  Joel Coen
• 32
  Scotland, Pa.
  Billy Morrissette
• 33
  Heater
  Terrance Odette
• 34
  Battle Royale
  Kinji Fukasaku
• 35
  The Deer Hunter
  Michael Cimino
• 36
  Memento
  Christopher Nolan
• 37
  Tape
  Richard Linklater
• 38
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 39
  Easy Rider
  Dennis Hopper
• 40
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 41
  Barton Fink
  Joel Coen
• 42
  The Chocolate War
  Keith Gordon
• 43
  The Hotel New Hampshire
  Tony Richardson
• 44
  Wonder Boys
  Curtis Hanson
• 45
  American Psycho
  Mary Harron
• 46
  Blow
  Ted Demme