Film Recs for Gamers

A companion to my other list.
Game and/or film suggestions welcomed.

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The Postman (1997) dir. Kevin Costner

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Yojimbo (1961) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Ran (1985) dir. Akira Kurosawa [Suggested by MPK92]

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Donnie Darko (2001) dir. Richard Kelly
Hard Candy (2005) dir. David Slade
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) dir. Mamoru Hosoda

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Bloodsport (1988) dir. Newt Arnold [Suggested by MPK92]

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Jacob's Ladder (1990) dir. Adrian Lyne
Lost Highway (1997) dir. David Lynch

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Only Yesterday (1991) dir. Isao Takahata

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Time of the Wolf (2003) dir. Michael Haneke
The Road (2009) dir. John Hillcoat
Logan (2017) dir. James Mangold [Suggested by Hot_Anarcocoa]

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MirrorMask (2005) dir. Dave McKean

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Evil Dead II (1987) dir. Sam Raimi

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The Thing (1982) dir. John Carpenter

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The Show (2020) dir. Mitch Jenkins

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Dawn of the Dead (1978) dir. George A. Romero [Suggested by MPK92]

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Scarface (1983) dir. Brian De Palma [Suggested by MPK92]

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L.A. Confidential (1997) dir. Curtis Hanson [Suggested by MPK92]

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Heat (1995) dir. Michael Mann [Suggested by MPK92]

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The Proposition (2005) dir. John Hillcoat [Suggested by MPK92]

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The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik [Suggested by MPK92]

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Hard Boiled (1992) dir. John Woo [Suggested by MPK92]

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The Nightingale (2018) dir. Jennifer Kent

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Friday the 13th (1980) dir. Sean S. Cunningham
An American Werewolf in London (1981) dir. John Landis

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Might be an unpopular opinion but I think Logan (2017) is a much better pairing with The Last of Us than The Road (2009). I think Logan's arc with Logan initially not wanting the kid but growing to be like a surrogate father, is much more in line with what The Last of Us is thematically about, but people gravitate towards The Road because it's so superficially similar, but I think The Last of Us is more than just "wow wouldn't it be bleak if there was a post-apocalypse with cannibals!"
I'm also not a huge fan of The Road just because I didn't really know what to take from it aside from "Be depressed and abandon all hope for humanity" so that might be coloring my opinion here, but I really do think that despite The Last of Us' tonal similarities in many places, there is also more brightness in that game than many people give it credit for.
@Hot_Anarcocoa Thanks for the suggestion! I kind of forgot that Logan existed, just because my mind has started to block out comicbook/superhero movies due to the MCU flood. But I do remember a lot of people mentioning it reminded them of TLoU.
I'm also not a a huge fan of The Road, but I thought I ought to mention it because I've heard so many people compare the film with the game.
@MPK92 Thank you for all your suggestions! I decided to skip over the more obvious options because the point of the list wasn't so much to suggest games that are related to films but films and games with similar themes. Still, you gave me plenty to work with.


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