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All of these are books, movies, and TV shows I recommend. I would also recommend experiencing all of the fiction here blindly, without knowing too much about it beforehand. The reviews are there if you need more convincing though.
Some reviews are written with more effort than others and some use different approaches to analysis, so you'll have to forgive the inconsistency and lack of cohesion.
Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky: Brilliant and disturbing psychologial insight, a classic.
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky: A dramatic look into the mind of a troubled and guilty man.
Stoner - John Williams: The deeply depressing and unfulfilling life of William Stoner.
Dune - Frank Herbert: Probably the best science fiction out there.
Invisible Cities - Calvino: 55 cities described meaningfully.
Lord of the Flies - Golding: An exhibition of the savagery that's dormant within all of us.
The Death of Ivan Ilych - Tolstoy: The slow, emotional, and insightful death of an average man.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde: The Faust legend retold in very good victorian british writing.
The Stranger - Camus: A man confronts the inherent absurdity of life with debatable success.
At The Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft: An antarctic expedition faces the horror of the unknown.
Blood Meridian - McCarthy: A gruesome, brilliant and innovative epic western that is hard to read.
The Road - McCarthy: An emotional and deeply masculine post-apocalyptic father and son story.
Heart of Darkness - Conrad: A disturbing critical journey into the moral depravity of imperialism.
Moby Dick - Melville: A classic story of adventure, vengeance, and esoteric whaling references.
Human Smoke - Nicholson Baker: World War 2 History with a twist.
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius: A classic in self help and stoic philosophy.
Metaphysics of War - Evola: Analyzing the spiritually fulfilling nature of war.
The Origin of Language - Gans: A linguistic theory that turns into a theory of everything.
Anthropomorphics - Bouvard: The best insights offered by Generative Anthropology.
Crisis of the Modern World - Guenon: A spot-on metaphysical diagnosis of our declining society.
Nemesis - C.A. Bond: Illiberal political theory based on Jouvenel's analysis of power.
2 John - John the apostle A study on the uncompromising importance of the concept of truth.
The Godfather (1 and 2)
Le Samourai
The Hunt (Jagten)
Another Round (Druk)
Arrival
Blazing Saddles
Duck Soup
Dr. Strangelove
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Fight Club
Lawrence Of Arabia
Marriage Story
Nathan for You
No Country for Old Men
Parasite
Phantom Thread
Ping Pong The Animation
Prisoners
Serial Experiments Lain
Taxi Driver
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Nightcrawler
The King of Comedy
The Northman
There Will be Blood
The Silence of the Lambs
Drive
The Truman Show
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Twin Peaks
Pulp Fiction
The Thing
Dune
2001 A Space Odyssey
12 Monkeys
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
Blade Runner 2049
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
The Wind Rises
Oppenheimer
The Shawshank Redemption
A Clockwork Orange