Post recommendations of movies that I haven't seen and might like. This might be challenging, because I find almost all movies to be mediocre or terrible and have already seen thousands of movies; however, I will award copious Mana if you can suggest something new to me that I rate >= 9.0/10 (this rating cutoff might represent the top 3% of all movies I've seen). Here are some examples of what movies currently fall into those rating categories:

9.0/10

Force Majeure

Dr. Strangelove

Ghost World

Swimming to Cambodia

Sideways

9.5/10

Fitzcarraldo

The Florida Project

Koyaanisqatsi

Synecdoche, New York

Do the Right Thing

10/10

Rosetta

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Upstream Color

The Seventh Continent

I don't think good movies are about enjoyment or having fun; rather, I want to be devastated by a character or an idea. Some examples of specific things I don't like:

Horror (counterexamples: It Follows and Midsommar; rarely, I find psychological horror to be decent)

Action/Thriller (car chase and fight scenes bore me; rarely, I will see an action movie that is maybe 7-8/10, but none I've seen to date would make the cut for any prize bounty, except, somewhat incomprehensibly, the 1971 Warren Beatty/Goldie Hawn movie $ [dollars])

Anything in a highly "American" film style (shallow or over-explained; I'm a massive snob, as should be obvious by now -- ***see note below)

Post ideas (a single well thought-out suggestion is worth more to me than an unconsidered shotgun approach) and I will watch as many interesting new suggestions as I can. If I've already seen what you've suggested, I will give feedback on those movies to provide more information on which to make further suggestions.

If you post something that sounds interesting enough to put onto a watch queue, I will immediately pay M100, even if I end up not liking it. If I do like it, I will pay out approximately as follows:

9.0/10: M1500

9.5/10: M3000

10/10: M6000

***A note on film styles (what is an "American" style movie?)

Note that movies created in the US don't universally suffer from such defects; this is perhaps more of a Hollywood problem in particular, and I am not specifically trying to encourage foreign movies. Anyway, here is the best case study imaginable between differing styles. I'm actually glad Hollywood made the flaming pile of dogshit that is Downhill (a very pathetic American remake of Force Majeure) because its flaws are completely laid bare (if you can't discern a quality difference between the two clips below then don't suggest movies here):

Force Majeure avalanche scene [Spoiler! (maybe)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saNvY4tD3wA

Downhill avalanche scene [you can't spoil this piece of shit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPq4lfrt0qw

Added to queue (unwatched; this is going to take a while to get through):

35 Shots of Rum

A Coffee in Berlin

Aftersun

A Short Film About Love

Beau is Afraid

Birdman

Blue Collar

Le Bonheur

Bridge of Spies

Burning

Cemetery of Splendor

The Day of the Jackal

The Disciple

The Double Life of Veronique

The Draughtsman's Contract

Exit Strategy

Farewell Mr. Haffman

Gambling Gods and LSD

Grave of the Fireflies

Ikiru

Kiarostami's Close-Up

Last Year at Marienbad

The Man From Earth

Memories of Murder

Mississippi Burning

Past Lives

Remains of The Day

Repulsion

Roma

Roshomon

Schrader's Mishima

Short Term 12

The Silence

The Station Agent

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

Time Trap

Watched (bounty awards):

Come and See -- 9/10 -- I think I agree with one review I read that this was like an improved Apocalypse Now (which is reasonably good but overwrought in some ways). The gradation of the story from something innocent to absolute hellscape, accompanied by the boy's apparent aging face to that of an old man's. It's not more than a 9 for me though, since come to think of it, war movies seem to top out around there for me in general.

Watched (no award):

Red Sorghum - Opening sequence was great, but it felt a bit disjointed after that. I think for the Gong Li/Zhang Yimou pairing Raise the Red Lantern is superior in nearly every way.

3 Iron -- Refreshing in the non-verbal character building and progression of the story. The speaking parts with the abusive husband and corrupt cop were rather tropish, however, which weighed on what was otherwise a very relaxing movie. This one misses by a little bit.

Peppermint Candy -- There is some variability in the quality of the vignettes of his past life that led him to his current despair. However, the foreshadowing with his foot/leg problems (if you can call it that in a reverse-chronology) reinforces, in an interesting way, the deterministic outcome of his life from our initial perspective at the point of its ending. The prescribed nature of the destination of the railroad tracks, which are depicted during the time transitions, help emphasize in the set outcome we are (un)-building towards. I'm giving it an 8.5 score for now, but its one of those movies that I might revise later. Great rec! (oh, if anyone wants to watch, the link in the comments didn't have subtitles but this link does, though I had occasional buffering issues with the stream)

Funeral Parade of Roses -- An "experimental" movie that struck me as being far more style than substance. Some of the visuals and sounds were very harsh and I watched it not in the mood for that sort of thing, though I did admire its willingness to adopt an uncompromising style.

Gummo -- Ah yes, I hadn't realized this was a Harmony Korine movie until 30 seconds into it and being reminded of Julien Donkey Boy, the latter being perhaps a perfected version of what Gummo was striving for. Aimless and ugly, but also compassionate with the treatment of the characters, who sometimes veered too close to caricature for my taste.

The Match Factory Girl -- Like 3 Iron, this one is minimalistic with respect to dialogue, but also with a very nordic (nearly soviet) subdued quality. For how subdued its style, I found it very heavy handed with articulating a very conventional storyline.

Chunking Express -- In many ways, a cleverly done movie. I liked it at least as much as Peppermint Candy but also probably not quite a 9. [I just watched this tonight and usually take a few days to think about things with movies, so will see how I feel about it later]

Benny's Video -- A great (brief) setup up to the main incident, and then some disappointment afterwards. Haneke does suspense well when warranted, but here, it feels superfluous. I guess a not bad exploration of the morality around concealment of a crime (obviously applicable to a more general level in Austria), but lacking in some bite. I would have liked to have seen the father grinding up body parts for some time, though I fully understand the choice to show the opposite side of that coin.

Another Round -- I hate this, or at least, I think I did. It is a crushingly conventional approach to telling a story like this. I guess the pro-social benefits of alcohol are rarely on display in movies, but here, it is done in such a paint-by-numbers manner that I had a hard time caring about the characters. The "jazz ballet", or whatever, was nice at the end.

American Fiction -- Been out of the Oscar's loop and didn't know a thing about this nor realize it was getting such buzz. The story line is a clutter, and thematically, it's surprisingly anodyne, given the kinetic potential of the subject matter. Spike Lee already did this much bigger and better in Bamboozled (the biggest problem with Bamboozled is it is at least 20 minutes too long). Interestingly (speaking of recent releases), I also just watched The Holdovers which, despite my love of Alexander Payne and Paul Giammatti, was just awful. In this case, despite occasional moments of excessive melodrama, the 1951 movie The Browning Version is superior in every way, and in contrast to the 2h 13m running time of The Holdovers, is tight as a drum at 90 minutes. It's depressing to see such poorly executed derivative ideas get award nominations.

The Babadook -- I'm going to restate that I am baffled by what it is that makes standard horror an interesting genre to any extent. I thought maybe this would be a bit off-kilter from descriptions and reviews, but it quickly settled into a very standard pattern. My least favorite movie so far. Some of the reviews, having seen it, seem surreal with respect to suggesting this film did anything new or interesting. The acting was also shit, which I usually can forgive, if only the ideas are good.

(no bad feelings about watching it, for the recommender, but I am going to be ruthless in my reviews)

I Heart Huckabees -- I really wish this was done in a more focused manner. Jude Law is at peak-hotness plus a very solid Dustin Hoffman, and the existential crisis vibes are conceptually great. It just seemed like with a jam-packed list of stars in this movie that they decided to play it too safe. Here is a case for Charlie Kaufman, who could have taken this to a more extreme level. I think this was good overall, but not matching the high threshold I have set for this bounty.

Run Lola Run -- I didn't realize this was a multiple-universe type story, so that added a bit above what I was expecting. However, I find something like Sliding Doors better from that perspective, even though that one gets tedious towards the end. It's good for what it is (and stylistically coherent), but I didn't find that it contained much in the way of depth.