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.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- La La Land
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Jaws
- 12 Angry Men
- The Princess Bride
- The Prestige
- Alien
- Interstellar
- Before Sunrise
- Blade Runner
- The Exorcist
- Jurassic Park
- Top Gun
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- The Dark Knight
- Children of Men
- Young Frankenstein
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Aliens
- The Cabin in the Woods
- Die Hard
- Inception
- Drive
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Vertigo
- Gone with the Wind
- Almost Famous
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Casablanca
- Short Term 12
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Tombstone
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Social Network
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Lion King
- Back to the Future
- Seven Samurai
- Citizen Kane
- The Iron Giant
- The Blair Witch Project
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Armageddon
- Whiplash
- The Incredibles
- The Departed
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Reservoir Dogs
- Pacific Rim
- Unforgiven
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Memento
- Forrest Gump
- Into the Wild
- The Sound of Music
- Scream
- Gravity
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Gladiator
- Batman Begins
- Hell or High Water
- Pulp Fiction
- Rashomon
- Fight Club
- The Right Stuff
- Star Wars
- Finding Nemo
- Serenity
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Groundhog Day
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Mary Poppins
- The Wailing
- The Shining
- True Grit (2010)
- Apocalypse Now
- Fargo
- Moon
- The Godfather
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Beauty and the Beast
- Ex Machina
- No Country for Old Men
- The Breakfast Club
- The Place Beyond the Pines
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose
- Platoon
- Equilibrium
- The NeverEnding Story
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
- Psycho (1960)
- Silence
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Your Name.
Like it? Hate it? Think I’m crazy? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
