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I +1 mellon's suggestion of Paprika. The film does things that would only work through its animation style. It's a memorable and pleasing watch.

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You would not be incorrect at all! I love Studio Ghibli

My personal favourite Ghibli film was not directed by Miyazaki. It's called Whisper of the Heart. It is very slice of life, slow pacing, it's got fantasy elements but for the most part it is realistic boring school days of youth. Which is why I love it. It was directed by Yoshifumi Kondō who was meant to be Miyazaki's successor, but he tragically died at age 47

Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away would be my #1 suggestions otherwise

Also though I think everyone needs to watch Grave of the Fireflies. It's based on an IRL survivor of WWII's account of the nuclear bomb. It's one of those films you can't forget after you watched it

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This is a phenomenal and remarkably comprehensive list of recommendations. I greatly appreciate that you took the time to narrow down a few that you think I would enjoy based on what you know about my personality, and then further justified them. While I am certainly no fan of didactic cinema, I don't mind a bit of treacle. Not even the most weathered soi-disant cinephile can survive on a diet of downtrodden, anxiogenic films alone. One of my favorite films, Margaret (2011), is a contemplative pendulum that explores the swells and nadirs of human emotion, and it ends on a tender hug at the end of an opera. I can scarcely think of something more nominally saccharine than that.
I will admit that when my partner attempts to explain the merits of Japanese animation to me, she does it in terms that do not quite appeal to me. That may simply be a difference in value judgments, however, and I could extract meaning in ways she doesn't and vice versa. I'm loath to immediately disregard a film based on its initial presentation (unless it's a comedy with a poster that contains a white background behind the cast, in addition to the film's title with a pithy tagline written in red, 3D text. Those are uniformly trash.)
I watched Oldboy a while ago, but I would definitely benefit from a second viewing. I have been thinking about watching that and The Handmaiden on two consecutive nights. My watchlist may be precipitously ballooning here, but I trust your judgment enough to just watch both films.

I figured you would have some advanced acquaintance on the matter, but I didn't want to be presumptuous. Thank you for the recommendations. This is a genre of film that is wildly out of my wheelhouse, but again, I would hate to dismiss a potential surfeit of good cinema because I am not accustomed to Japanese animation.

I am immensely grateful for everyone's suggestions, and I'm adding them all to my watchlist. Sometimes, however, I'm busy, and I'll even be out of town next week, so I'll progress through them rather slowly. I look forward to watching them all, though! I mean this sincerely, and not in the corporate email way that my parlance may communicate.

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I run a plex server with 35 TB and I still don’t even watch everything that gets put onto it.

Probably the most recent films I’ve seen this year (in no particular order of quality) is recent Spider-Man film, death of the Nile, American underdog, the 355, coda (this is actually really good one), the tomorrow war, latest scream film, encanto (this movie isn’t that great to me), and dog (movie is hella cheesy).

Been meaning to watch Moonfall.

Out of the list I would say the latest Spider-Man film was the best one simply because of nostalgia.

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Everything Everywhere All At Once. It has a little something in it for everybody, it's amazing. Such an eclectic film with a lot of different things to appreciate. The cinematography, the off-the-wall smorgasbord of scenes, the action sequences, etc. It'll make you laugh and make you cry. It replaced Donnie Darko (which I love for all the different interpretations it can have) as my favorite movie. Definitely a must-see, and I absolutely plan to watch it many more times in the future.

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Try the new apple tv series, severance is a great series

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After I've been in film hell for a while I think I can give more recs that aren't in your watchlist and are more targeted towards what you're into and are also distinctly what I'm into.

- Sound of Metal (Darius Marder)
- Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda) / Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
- Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
- Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook)
- The Chaser (Na Hong-jin)
- The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
- A Better Tomorrow (John Woo)

As far as I know, Sound of Metal is already on your watchlist, but I felt that you'd resonate with that quite a bit, and you should push it up in your priority list. Pick your poison for the Kore-eda film! I heard that his newest film (Monster) was really good too, but I'm waiting for it to be on home video so that I can see it for myself. I'd also mention Infernal Affairs again since you're quite into The Departed, but you've heard me mention that film more than three times, so no need for me to mention it again I think.

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Let It Shine, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Maleficent, Greyhound, A Quiet Place Part 2

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Oldboy is a Korean film I watched last year that I would highly recommend if you can tolerate subtitles as there is no English translation, however, there appears to be a Western remake of the movie but we all know what happens when the West tries to make an English Adaptation. Please do note that I've never actually seen the Western adaptation of the film so I don't actually know if it's actually trash or not, I'm just basing this off of past experiences.

I've added both the short and long versions of the synopsis depending on much you want to know before watching it.
The longer one obviously gives you more details about the movie as a whole but I don't think it really spoils anything other than just giving you a better idea of what it's about, but maybe it's best to just read the short version or neither of them if you want as little information as possible.

Please bear in mind this movie is uncomfortable to watch at times.