"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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List of Movies That Will CHANGE Your Life

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I've taken the painstaking voyageinto the world of movies to emerge from the pits of the inferno with a compilation of movies that will undoubtedly change your life. The first list of movies are movies for Men that cover topics such as dating, acting cool, being driven and motivated to achieve, honor, glory and success. The second list is a list of movies that will affect the way you think about the world and many of them have greatly impacted the way that millions of people worldwide think about life and understand the world beyond their borders.

This list contains foreign films that will enlighten you to other cultures and expose you to experiences you may or may not ever know personally. I hope to hear your feedback and truly hope this list of movies provides enjoyment by all. I am sure everyone who sees this list will find at least one movie they have never seen that is worth watching.

First List - The List for Men:
300
40 Year old Virgin
Alfie
Boiler Room
Bravehart
Casablanca
Fight Club
Glengarry Glen Ross
Godfather I,II
Man on Fire
Out of Sight
ROCKY V
Rodger Dodger
Scarface
Scent of a Woman
Swingers
Thank you for smoking
The Maltese Falcon
The Wedding Date
Up In Smoke
Van Wilder
Waiting
Wedding Crashers
When we Were Kings
When We Were Kings
Whipped

Second List (The Way You Think Shall be Altered Henceforth):
Apocolypse Now
2001 Space Odyssey
12 Angry Men
8 1/2 - Deferico Fellini
A Clockwork Orange
Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai
Alfie
Amores Perros
A Streetcar Named Desire
Awakenings
Baraka
Babel
Blues Brothers
Blue Velvet
Carandiru
Cidade de Deus (City of God)
Cinema Paradiso
Cool Hand Luke
Dark City
Doctor Zhivago
Dogma
Donnie Darko
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
Dr. Strangelove
Earth (Deepa Metha)
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Fahrenheit 451
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Forrest Gump
Furyo Anego Den
Heart of Darkness
Ichi The Killer (Artsy Japanese Film)
Irreversible
JAWS
Jacob's Ladder
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
La Meglio Gioventu (Italian)
Leaving Las Vegas
Let Him Have It
Los Gritos Del Silencio (The Killing Fields)
Machuca
Memphis Belle
Mindwalk
Monster (2003)
Naked Lunch
Needful Things
On the Waterfront
Out of Sight
Philadelphia
Requiem For a Dream
Roger Dodger
Samotari
Serenity
Shane
Shawshank Redemption
Silence of the Lambs
Sunset Blvd (1950)
Swimming with Sharks
The Basketball Diaries
The Bicycle Thief
The Birth of a Nation
The Boondock Saints
The City of Lost Children
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Deer Hunter
The Devil's Advocate
The Devil's Rejects
The Fountain
The Great Escape
The Great Santini
THX 1138
Tre Colori (Kieslowski)
Tsotsi
Videodrome
Visitor Q
What Dreams May Come
Whipped
Wings of Desire


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"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Serenity and The Devil's Rejects? Yeah right.

And is Alfie supposed to be on both lists?
 

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Even though Tom Cruise totally AFC'd in this movie....Vanilla Sky, I thought the overall message was awesome.

"Every second that passes was another chance to turn it all around."
 

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I'd add "The Pursuit of Happiness".
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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That's an excellent list Charm.

You forgot

Goodfellas
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Night Of The Hunter
Kelly's Heroes
Once Upon A Time In America
The Last Picture Show
Dangerous Liaisons
Raging Bull

and my all-time favourite - Head, The Monkees film (co-written by Jack Nicholson)

And, of course the seminal Bachelor Party. Hanks is a total DJ in that.
 

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Rebound Material said:
Even though Tom Cruise totally AFC'd in this movie....Vanilla Sky, I thought the overall message was awesome.

"Every second that passes was another chance to turn it all around."
What is this sh*t on this forum? Tom Cruise "AFC'd" in Vanilla Sky? What, when he was crying over his father's death bed? Pull the dj bible out of your ass.
 

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swingers is quite possibly one of the most amazing movies out there.
 

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swingers is quite possibly one of the most amazing movies out there.
yeah I've gotta see that movie because my hero pua, Swinggcat, recommended it
 

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I'd suggest Sideways. Many people don't like this film. I do and this is why:

You have one AFC who is miserable in life, and his more outgoing friend out banging girls and wondering if getting married is the right thing for him. It shows that life is what you make of it.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Nighthawk said:
That's an excellent list Charm.

You forgot

Goodfellas
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Night Of The Hunter
Kelly's Heroes
Once Upon A Time In America
The Last Picture Show
Dangerous Liaisons
Raging Bull

and my all-time favourite - Head, The Monkees film (co-written by Jack Nicholson)

And, of course the seminal Bachelor Party. Hanks is a total DJ in that.
I did miss one Flew and Goodfellas even though I have them! I forgot to list those two and they are great...

Those other movies you listed however are probably worth checking out and I shall!
 

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gmillar said:
Serenity and The Devil's Rejects? Yeah right.

And is Alfie supposed to be on both lists?
I didn't mean to double-list any. I did struggle with adding Serenity at the end but threw it in there because it is a good one.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Breve vacanza, Una
Olvidados, Los
Kimi ga wakamono nara
 

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The original Alfie with Michale Caine was much better, imo.

I'd add Training Day to the iist. Even though Denzel used it in the wrong way, I can't think of a film that was more about raw masculinity.
 

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If you want an injection of awesome that will make your testicles explode from the glory of sheer dominance, you must see 300. I wish King Leonidas was my dad.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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