What three movies do you recommend

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60. Dark Star, What's Up Tiger Lily?, Dr. Strangelove, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad World.

(OK, I got 4 instead of just 3!)

I've seen all of those several times and always enjoy them.

Dark Star was John Carpenter's first film (begun as a film student project, IIRC), and they ran out of money partway into filming, then decided to make it longer for a theatrical release, so filming resumed after a gap. One actor gains and loses about 25 pounds between scenes; another's hairline recedes and grows back several times. They have a space alien that they've taken on board, which is obviously a painted beachball (you can see the inflator valve) with monster feet glued on. An elevator scene looks a little 'off', until you realize that the actor is laying on a sheet of plywood being driven back and forth in a hallway on a forklift. Good fun, low-budget.

What's Up Tiger Lily was a Woody Allen project where they bought the rights to a Japanese spy film and overdubbed it with a new story and dialogue that had nothing to do with the original plot.

The other two are classics and have aged pretty well.

Oh, yeah - Don't forget Harold and Maude! Dark comedy/intergenerational love story all in one, with Ruth Gordon doing an outstanding job! Makes it an even 5...