Saturday, June 03, 2023

Tom’s Top Films (Updated 8/2024)

Updated August 2024

Here are some of my favorite movies (unranked).  No documentaries or made for TV movies.

8 1/2
12 Angry Men
40 Year Old Virgin
400 Blows
48 Hours
2001: A Space Odyssey      
A Christmas Carol (1951) 
A Christmas Story
A Clockwork Orange
A Few Good Men
A Hard Day's Night
A Star Is Born (1954)
A Star Is Born (1976)
A Streetcar Named Desire
About A Boy
Adventures of Robin Hood           
Airplane
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
Alien
Aliens 
All About Eve
All Of Me (1984)
All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
All That Jazz 
All The President's Men                
Amadeus
American Graffiti
An American In Paris
An Officer and A Gentleman
Anchorman
Animal House
Annie Hall
Apartment
Apocalypse Now
Apollo 13
Around the World In 80 Days 
Atlantic City
Avatar 
Babette’s Feast 
Back To The Future
Bad News Bears (1976)
Bambi (1942)
Barbie 
Beau Travail 
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Being There
Belle de Jour
Ben-Hur
Best In Show
Best Years Of Our Lives
Beverly Hills Cop
Bicycle Thieves
Big
Big Lebowski                  
Billy Elliot
Birdman of Alcatraz
Blackboard Jungle
Black Girl (1966)
Black Panther
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blow Out (1981)
Blow-Up (1966)
Blue Hawaii
Blue Velvet
Body Heat (1981)
Bonnie and Clyde
Boogie Nights
Bourne Identity
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Breakfast Club
Breathless (1960)
Bride of Frankenstein
Bridge On The River Kwai
Brokeback Mountain
Bull Durham
Bullitt
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cabaret
Caddyshack
Can't Buy Me Love
Car Wash 
Casablanca
Casino Royals (2006)
Cast Away
Chinatown
China Syndrome
Cinema Paradiso
Citizen Kane
City Lights
City Of God 
Cleo From 5 to 7
Close (2022)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Clueless 
Coal Miner's Daughter
Color of Money
Coming to America
Conversation
Cool Hand Luke
Crime Wave (1954)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Dark Knight
Das Boot 
Day for Night (1973)
Day The Earth Stood Still
Dazed and Confused
Deer Hunter
Defending Your Life 
Deliverance 
Die Hard
Diner
Dirty Dozen
Dirty Harry
Do The Right Thing
Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Zhivago
Dog Day Afternoon    
Double Indemnity     
Duel
East Of Eden
Easy Rider
Elephant Man
Elf 
Elvis (2022) 
Empire Strikes Back
Enter The Dragon
Eraserhead
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fame (1980)
Fanny and Alexander 
Fargo
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Father Of The Bride (1991)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fiddler On The Roof 
Fight Club
Five Heartbeats
Flashdance (1983)
Footloose (1984)
For A Few Dollars More 
Forbidden Planet
Forrest Gump
Frankenstein (1931)
French Connection
From Here To Eternity
From Russia With Love 
Fugitive
Full Monty
Funny Girl (1968)
Fury (1936)
Getaway (1972) 
Ghostbusters (1984)
Giant 
Girlfriends (1978) 
Gladiator (2000)
Godfather
Godfather II
Goldfinger
Gone With The Wind
Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Goodfellas
Goonies
Graduate
Grand Hotel (1932)
Grapes Of Wrath 
Grease
Great Escape 
Great Expectations (1946)
Gremlins
Green Mile
Groundhog Day
Hairspray (1988)
Halloween
Hamlet (1948)
Happy Gilmore
Harold and Maude
Heathers 
Heaven Can Wait (1978) 
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Help
Home Alone
How Green Was My Valley 
Hud
Hustler
Imitation Of Life (1959) 
In Bruges 
In The Heat of the Night
In The Mood For Love
Inception 
It Happened One Night 
It's A Wonderful Life
Jailhouse Rock
Jaws
Jeanne Dielman
Jeremiah Johnson
Jerry Maguire
Karate Kid (1984)
Key Largo
King Creole
King Kong (1933)
Klute
Kramer vs. Kramer
La Strada
Last Emperor 
Last Of The Mohicans 
Last Picture Show   
Lawrence of Arabia
Life Of Emile Zola 
Lion King (1994)
Logan's Run
Long Goodbye
Longest Day
Longest Yard (1974) 
Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings:Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Lost Horizon (1937)
Lost In America
Lost In Translation 
Lost Weekend (1945)
Love Story 
M
Mad Max 
Magnificent Ambersons
Major League
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Man With A Movie Camera
Marathon Man
Marty
Mary Poppins
M*A*S*H
Mask (1985)
Matrix
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Mean Streets 
Memento 
Metropolis
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Run
Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Mister Roberts
Modern Romance
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 
Mrs. Miniver
Mulholland Drive
My Best Friend's Wedding
My Fair Lady
My Name Is Nobody 
Nashville
Network
Night Moves (1975)
Night of the Hunter
North By Northwest
Nutty Professor (1996)
Office Space 
On Golden Pond
On The Town
On The Waterfront
Once Upon A Time In The West 
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
One On One 
Outlaw Josey Wales
Paper Chase
Paper Moon
Papillon
Parasite 
Paris, Texas
Passion of Joan of Arc
Paths Of Glory
Patton
Persona (1966)
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Story
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Poltergeist (1982)
Poseidon Adventure 
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Platoon
Popeye
Poseidon Adventure 
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
Pretty Woman
Princess Bride
Producers  (1967)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rashomon
Real Life 
Rear Window
Red Shoes (1948) 
Reds
Rebel Without A Cause
Reservoir Dogs
Return of the Jedi
Right Stuff
Risky Business
Road Warrior
Robocop (1987)
Rocky
Roman Holiday
Roxanne (1987)
Royal Tenenbaums
Running Scared (1986)
Safety Last 
Saturday Night Fever
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Seance On A Wet Afternoon 
Seven Samurai
Seventh Continent 
Shaft (1971)
Shampoo
Shane
Shawshank Redemption 
Shrek
Silence of the Lambs
Singin' In The Rain
Slap Shot
Sleeper (1973)
Sleepless In Seattle
Smokey and the Bandit
Solaris (1972)
Some Like It Hot
Sound of Music
Sounder
Spaceballs
Spartacus
Spinal Tap
Splash
Stagecoach
Stalker (1979)
Stand By Me
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Star Wars
Stir Crazy
Strangers On A Train 
Sunday Bloody Sunday 
Sunset Blvd. 
Sunrise (1927)
Superbad
Superman 
Superman II
Sweet Smell of Success
Taxi Driver
Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 
Terms of Endearment 
To Kill A Mockingbird
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Birds 
The Candidate
The Crowd  (1928)
The Fly (1986)
The General (1926)
The In-Laws (1979) 
The Jerk
The Kid (1921)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Man Who Would Be King 
The Piano
The Search (1948)
The Searchers
The Shining
The Sting
The Swimmer (1968)
The Verdict
The Way We Were 
Thelma & Louise
There’s Something About Mary 
Thin Man
Third Man
Three Amigos
Three Days of the Condor 
Time Bandits
Tin Cup
Titanic
To Sir With Love
Tokyo Story
Tootsie
Top Gun
Top Hat
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
True Grit (1969)
Twelve O'Clock High
Umbrellas Of Cherbourg 
Up
Urban Cowboy
Vertigo
Virgin Spring
Viva Las Vegas
Waiting for Guffman
War Games (1983)
Warriors (1979)
When Harry Met Sally
Wild Bunch
Wild River (1960)
Wild In The Country
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Wizard of Oz
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Young Frankenstein
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