I’ve always wanted to expand my favorite films list to 100 and my birthday seemed like the perfect time for doing so. With that, I present my list. It is ever changing. This list is a current reflection of my personal cinematic taste – what speaks to me emotionally, and those films that are just too so entertaining that all evaluation of their technical quality doesn’t even matter. I’ve labored over this for quite some time and it was not an easy task, but I feel confident that the results are accurate. For today.

(For the purposes of this list, LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring and Before Sunrise represent their respective trilogy.)

This is my list. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. La La Land
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Jaws
5. 12 Angry Men
6. The Princess Bride
7. The Prestige
8. Alien
9. Interstellar
10. Before Sunrise
11. Blade Runner
12. The Exorcist
13. Jurassic Park
14. Top Gun
15. Singin’ in the Rain
16. Inside Llewyn Davis
17. The Last of the Mohicans
18. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
19. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
20. The Dark Knight
21. Children of Men
22. Young Frankenstein
23. The Shawshank Redemption
24. Aliens
25. The Cabin in the Woods
26. Die Hard
27. Inception
28. Drive
29. 2001: A Space Odyssey
30. Vertigo
31. Gone with the Wind
32. Almost Famous
33. Raiders of the Lost Ark
34. Casablanca
35. Short Term 12
36. My Neighbor Totoro
37. Tombstone
38. The Nightmare Before Christmas
39. The Social Network
40. The Wizard of Oz
41. The Lion King
42. Back to the Future
43. Seven Samurai
44. Citizen Kane
45. The Iron Giant
46. The Blair Witch Project
47. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
49. Armageddon
50. Whiplash
51. The Incredibles
52. The Departed
53. The Bridge on the River Kwai
54. Reservoir Dogs
55. Pacific Rim
56. Unforgiven
57. The Empire Strikes Back
58. Memento
59. Forrest Gump
60. Into the Wild
61. The Sound of Music
62. Scream
63. Gravity
64. Pan’s Labyrinth
65. Gladiator
66. Batman Begins
67. Hell or High Water
68. Pulp Fiction
69. Rashomon
70. Fight Club
71. The Right Stuff
72. Star Wars
73. Finding Nemo
74. Serenity
75. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
76. Groundhog Day
77. 3:10 to Yuma
78. Mary Poppins
79. The Wailing
80. The Shining
81. True Grit (2010)
82. Apocalypse Now
83. Fargo
84. Moon
85. The Godfather
86. The Silence of the Lambs
87. Beauty and the Beast
88. Ex Machina
89. No Country for Old Men
90. The Breakfast Club
91. The Place Beyond the Pines
92. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
93. Platoon
94. Equilibrium
95. The NeverEnding Story
96. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
97. Psycho (1960)
98. Silence
99. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
100. Your Name.

Like it? Hate it? Think I’m crazy? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Link to list on Letterboxd