Supporting a discussion elsewhere on social media, here are my top 100 films of all time, highly subjective of course, arranged alphabetically. Cut it at 95 to leave some room for films I’ve probably forgotten about or which are on a near-term watchlist that have a chance to make it. Admittedly there’s a fair amount of junk and pop culture on here as I’m a product of my time, and I wouldn’t change the channel on any one of these. Sorry, no Citizen Kane. Documentaries would be a separate list.
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- After Hours
- Alien
- All the Presidents Men
- Animal House
- Annie Hall
- Amarcord
- Amadeus
- Apocalypse Now
- Armageddon
- Badlands
- Bacurau
- Belle de Jour
- The Bicycle Thief
- Blow Up
- Body Heat
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Breathless
- Boondock Saints
- Brokeback Mountain
- Casablanca
- Claire’s Knee
- Cleo from 5 to 7
- Close-up
- Coco
- La Collectionneuse
- Contempt
- The Dark Knight
- Day for Night
- Day of the Jackal
- Dead Poets Society
- The Deer Hunter
- Deliverance
- The Departed
- Do the Right Thing
- Die Hard
- Dr. Strangelove
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Easy Rider
- Fargo
- Field of Dreams
- Forrest Gump
- Gladiator
- The Godfather (Part 1)
- The Godfather (Part 2)
- Goodfellas
- The Graduate
- The Great Escape
- Hiroshima Mon Amour
- House of Games
- In the Heat of the Night
- Lion King
- Local Hero
- Jaws
- Jules and Jim
- Jurassic Park
- Kill Bill 1 & 2
- Last Year at Marienbad
- A Man for All Seasons
- A Married Woman
- The Matrix
- Mean Streets
- Memento
- Moneyball
- Mulholland Drive
- No Country for Old Men
- Ocean’s 11
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Platoon
- Pretty Woman
- The Professional
- Psycho
- Pulp Fiction
- Raging Bull
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Ran
- Renoir
- The Right Stuff
- Rio Bravo
- Rome: Open City
- Scarface (1983)
- Se7en
- Shakespeare in Love
- Silence of the Lambs
- Swept Away
- Taxi Driver
- The Taking of Pelham 123 (original)
- Toy Story
- True Romance
- Variety
- Viridiana
- Vivre sa vie
- Without Limits
- Working Girl
- Z
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