By popular demand, my Top 100 Movies of all time.
1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather II
4. The Godfather
5. The Searchers
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Planet of the Apes
8. Chinatown
9. Raging Bull
10. Goodfellas
11. Bonnie and Clyde
12. The Wild Bunch
13. Rocky
14. America Graffiti
15. The Gold Rush
16. The French Connection
17. The African Queen
18. The Birth of a Nation
19. Lawrence of Arabia
20. It’s A Wonderful Life
21. Sunset Boulevard
22. To Kill a Mockingbird
23. Psycho
24. Schindler’s List
25. The Maltese Falcon
26. They Made Me a Criminal
27. High Noon
28. Annie Hall
29. The Best Years of our Lives
30. Taxi Driver
31. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
32. Unforgiven
33. The Graduate
34. Gone With The Wind
35. The Empire Strikes Back
36. The General
37. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
38. It Happened One Night
39. A Clockwork Orange
40. Network
41. Fargo
42. Singin In the Rain
43. On The Waterfront
44. City Lights
45. The Bridge on the River Kwai
46. The Grapes of Wrath
47. E.T.
48. Apocalype Now
49. Midnight Cowboy
50. Dr. Strangelove
51. Pulp Fiction
52. Rebel Without a Cause
53. The Third Man
54. The Manchurian Candidate
55. Ben Hur
56. Forrest Gump
57. Silence of the Lambs
58. The Deer Hunter
59. Duck Soup
60. Twelve Angry Men
61. True Grit
62. Blade Runner
63. Frankenstein
64. Dances With Wolves
65. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
66. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
67. Raiders of the Lost Ark
68. North by Northwest
69. Jaws
70. Double Indemnity
71. The Wizard of Oz
72. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
73. The Pink Panther
74. West Side Story
75. Dirty Harry
76. The Sound of Music
77. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
78. Shane
79. A Streetcar Named Desire
80. Caberet
81. MASH
82. An American In Paris
83. Mutiny on the Bounty
84. Sophie’s Choice
85. The Out of Towners
86. The Odd Couple
87. Yankee Doodle Dandy
88. The Jazz Singer
89. The Last Picture Show
90. A Night at the Opera
91. Platoon
92. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
93. Spartacus
94. Stagecoach
95. Nashville
96. In The Heat of the Night
97. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
98. Casino
99. Modern Times
100. The Sixth Sense
14 comments:
WOW! You've got a lot of free time on your hand!!! "The Out of Towners"??? Please say you mean the one w/ Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis? It got a little tiresome w/ all of the adversity, but it had some great "one-liners." You need to watch "Rear Window"; some of the best dialogue ever written.
Yes, I should have put a disclaimer on the list, ALL MOVIES ARE THE ORIGINALS! No remakes.
Now as to mick, Rear Window is one that I just completely forgot about.
I should have put that in the top 25.
This was a hard list to do.
So many more I could have added or subtracted but this was just off the cuff, straight from the old memory banks.
So, the list isn't always in order either.
Some of the late ones, probably belong earlier in the list and vice versa.
So, everyone feel free to add or subtract with my list!
You are missing two of my favorites...Dances With Wolves and Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson...That's the Best!!
Scratching the crust from the top of my head, here are some of my favorites (in no apparent order):
Rear Window
The Usual Suspects
First Blood
Midnight Express
Escape from Alcatraz
Fried Green Tomatoes
Apollo 13
Tombstone (Val Kilmer: 2 thumbs up)
Pulp Fiction
Historical action films: Raiders of the Lost Ark and National Treasure
Boxing films: Cinderella Man and Million Dollar Baby
What was the most amazing thing to me is that w/ Apollo 13, NASA wouldn't release any video footage to Ron Howard. He had to simulate all of it. A great documentary was made recently called "In the Shadow of the Moon". As you can tell by my selections, I'm not necessarily an afficiando of older films. That's not because I don't appreciate them. I just wasn't as exposed to them as a kid. I grew up on Fat Albert, The Brady Bunch and M*A*S*H (the series)
Dances With Wolves is on the list at #64.
Mick: The Usual Suspects was great, Midnight Express, First Blood too, but have to end there.
Yes, you need to watch more of Turner Classic Movies and catch up a bit.
Notice about 90% of my films are Pre-1980.
I think the height of great movie making was the 1940's. Film Noir, Hitchcock, Welles, Ford all incredible directors, but the stars are what really drove them.
The late 1960's to mid 1970's was a renaissance I think too.
I have only seen 10 of your favorite movies. -Kristi
You'll have to forgive him, Kristi. He's "old school"!
Good list Bill. I'm curious about what you think makes these films great. I've always been a big fan of movies, but never understood why one is considered better than another. I'm a big documentary guy myself since most of what Hollywood does these days disappoints me.
I highly recommend everyone rent a film called "Riding Giants" about the history of big wave surfing. Even if you don't surf, it's a great film...
I like Mick's list better than Bills.
There are ton's of movies on Bill's list that I love, like African Queen! Wonderful! There are tons that I don't like at all, like Casino, Silence of the Lambs, and Pulp Fiction. But I understand boy and girl taste differences.
I would sub Dirty Dancing, Lady and the Tramp and Rear Window for the above, as well as about a dozen others.
Did I miss Wizard of Oz on your list?
Yes, you did Tammy! It's #71.
I don't believe I saw the Sound of Music on your list. An oversight I presume.....
No Sound of Music.
The hills are NOT alive.
Notice my list is a bit short on musicals.
I don't find them to be GREAT films. They are usually adaptations of Broadway productions, rather than from the mind of a screenwriter.
I like musicals, don't get me wrong, but not like I do, regular films.
If I were to have musicals, I think I did put West Side Story, they would include, Singing in the Rain, Stage Door and Yankee Doodle Dandy. I think I might even have those on the list.
So, again, this is just my opinion.
Feel free to continue to add or subtract from the list.
Actually, "Singin in the Rain" and "The Sound of Music" ARE on your list! I must say that "Fiddler on the Roof" should be on there as well. Actors that participate in musicals must be able to: sing, act and dance!!! Gene Kelly was one of the most brilliant men of our time. He choreographed most of "Singin in the Rain", as well as his other hits. He brought masculinity to dancing that Fred Astaire was unable to.
my oversight....#76
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