Movies that I think are excellent (9/10 or above):
Inception
The Prestige
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Your Name
Alita: Battle Angel
I don't watch a lot of movies, so the list is kind of short right now. and I don't remember all the movie I watched off the top of my head
200 Mana for each recommended movie that I ended up watching and think are excellent
(I might take a while before I get to watch them, so be patient)
update:
Some of the movies recommended below that I have watched already, and my rating of them base on my highly subjective personal taste, not on the overall merit of the movie:
Memento 8/10
Now You See Me 8/10
The Social Network 7/10
Spirited Away 8/10
Weathering With You 8/10
Forrest Gump 10/10
Interstellar 8/10
Princess Mononoke 8/10
Arrival 8/10
Feel free to come bet on which movies I will enjoy here!
Really good in line with your suggestions:
The Matrix
Zodiac
Oldboy
28 Days Later
Donny Darko
American History X
Sound of Metal
Interstellar
12 Monkeys
Mad Max: Fury Road
Seven
Shutter Island
Really good and I think you will like them:
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Great Beauty
La Haine
Life is Beautiful
The Pianist
American Beauty
V for Vendetta
Let me give you a list from each of yours
Movies that I think are excellent:
Inception
I would say Memento was Nolan’s closest movie to Inception. This is my favorite movie of all time, and nothing else’s really tickled me the same way.
The Prestige
I’ll recommend Amadeus here. You get a similar dynamic of two people trying to one-up one another. This movie was also released alongside The Illusionist, which while not nearly as good, is still somewhat worth a watch.
If you want more magic movies, I also really thought the Now You See Me movies were ok. The first was better than the second.
Barbie
This was a fairly singular movie, but Wes Anderson’s movies have similarly fully developed world’s. The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom are my favorites of his, but all of his movies are great. He’s also made some shorts based Roald Dahl stories which are on Netflix.
Oppenheimer
Amadeus is fairly similar to Oppenheimer in some ways. In terms of epic biopics, The Social Network also ranks near the top of my list. Great music, cool story, all-around fantastic movie.
Your Name
When it comes to Japanese animation, Spirited Away will always be my first recommendation. I adore that movie. Really any Miyazaki will be worth your time. I’ve also heard the Suzume and Weathering With You, from the same director - Makoto Shinkai, are really good.
Alita: Battle Angel
Ok, this was James Cameron’s proving film to build the technology he used for Avatar: The Way of Water. So I guess you could watch that, though it’s not incredible (story-wise).
Of a similar vibe are, The Creator from last year, and Blade Runner (and 2049 too) is among the best of the genre! An older one, but iRobot with Will Smith is still great!
Lmk if you’ve seen any of these and I’ll swap it out
Everything from the IMDB top 100 that I have seen, thought was really good, and intuitively seemed to match some of the themes of the movies you mentioned that I'd seen: