Tom’s Top Films (Updated May 2024)

Updated March 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)

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 
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

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

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 

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
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