My Favorite 100 Movies

[Updated 1.5.11]
Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars®
(* = recent addition)

The Top 20 (alpha order): 2001, All About Eve, Babe, The Best Years of Our Lives, City of God (Brazil), Cinema Paradiso (Italy), The Conformist (Italy), Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather II, Hannah and Her Sisters, Hero (China), Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (France), Lawrence of Arabia, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, My Fair Lady, Once Upon a Time in America, Parenthood, Requiem for a Dream, The Seven Samurai (Japan), The Shawshank Redemption, Wall-E

Top 100 in alphabetical order

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The 400 Blows * (France, bw)
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. A Room With a View
5. A Wednesday (India) *
6. After the Wedding (Denmark) *
7. Aliens
8. All About Eve (bw)
9. Amadeus
10. Annie Hall
11. Apocalypse Now!
12. As Good as It Gets
13. Babel (Mexico)
14. Babe
15. Baraka * (Documentary)
16. Battle of Algiers (France-Algiers, bw)
17. The Best Years of Our Lives (bw)
18. Big Fish
19. Brazil
20. The Bridge On the River Kwai
21. Carmen (Spain, flamenco version)
22. Casablanca (bw)
23. Central Station * (Brazil)
24. Chicago
25. Chungking Express * (China/Hong Kong)
26. Cinema Paradiso (Italy)
27. City of God (Brazil)
28. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
29. Conformist, The (Italy)
30. Conversation, The
31. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (China)
32. Dances With Wolves
33. Dangerous Liaisons
34. Departures * (Japan)
35. Devils on the Doorstep * (China)
36. Diva (France)
37. Doctor Strangelove (bw)
38. Double Indemnity (bw)
39. The Empire Strikes Back
40. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
41. Field of Dreams
42. Finding Neverland
43. Finding Nemo
44. Fitzcarraldo (Germany)
45. Gandhi
46. The Godfather
47. The Godfather, Part II
48. Good Bye, Lenin! * (Germany)
49. Goodfellas
50. Goodnight Mister Tom
51. Graduate, The
52. The Gray Fox
53. Groundhog Day
54. Hannah and Her Sisters
55. Hero (China)
56. Hoop Dreams (Documentary)
57. Hope and Glory
58. House of Games
59. Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (France)
60. Kolya (Czech Republic)
61. L'america (Italy)
62. The Last Emperor
63. L'avventura (Italy, bw)
64. Lawrence of Arabia
65. La Femme Nikita (France)
66. The Last Emperor
67. The Last Picture Show (bw)
68. The Lives of Others (Germany)
69. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
70. Manhattan (bw)
71. The Maltese Falcon (bw)
72. Memento
73. Million Dollar Baby
74. Minority Report
75. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington *
76. My Brilliant Career
77. My Fair Lady
78. The Namesake *
79. Network
80. Night of the Hunter (bw)
81. Norma Rae
82. Nowhere in Africa (Germany)
83. October Sky
84. On the Waterfront (bw)
85. Once Upon a Time in America
86. Open Range
87. Out of the Past (bw)
88. Parenthood
89. The Philadelphia Story (bw)
90. Platoon
91. The Player
92. Rabbit-Proof Fence *
93. Raging Bull (bw)
94. Raising Arizona
95. Requiem for a Dream *
96. The Road Warrior (aka Mad Max 2)
97. Run Lola Run (Germany)
98. Salaam Bombay! * (India)
99. Schindler's List (bw)
100. The Seven Samurai (Japan, bw)
101. Shakespeare in Love
102. Shane
103. The Shawshank Redemption
104. The Silence of the Lambs
105. Singin' in the Rain
106. Sunset Boulevard (bw)
107. The Sweet Smell of Success (bw)
108. To Kill a Mockingbird (bw)
109. To Live (China)
110. Together (China) *
111. Traffic
112. Turtles Can Fly (Iraq-Iran-France) *
113. The Twilight Samurai (Japan)
114. Umberto D * (Italy)
115. V for Vendetta
116. Walkabout
117. Wall-E
118. Whale Rider
119. Winged Migration (Documentary)
120. When Harry Met Sally
121. Zelary (Czech Republic)

Ok, so I can't count - that's why I had them auto-numbered.. call this a "baker's 100", you get ten dozens. 'So many movies, so little time..' (to paraphrase Raising Arizona)

Thirty are foreign language films.. always watch the subtitled and not the 'dubbed into English' versions.. once you know the dialogue (usually once), you can watch them without subtitles and see just the film itself.. A few more titles are films in English from foreign directors, such as Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, Italy), The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, Italy), and The Namesake (Nair, India).

This list is always changing.
Newer: Departures, A Wednesday, After the Wedding, Whale Rider, Central Station, Umberto D, L'avventura, Wall-E, Good Bye Lenin, Baraka, Devils on the Doorstep, The Namesake, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Together, Turtles Can Fly

Just Removed: It's a Wonderful Life, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Citizen Kane, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ugetsu (Japan), Slumdog Millionaire, Duck Soup, Auntie Mame, Patton, Mephisto, A Christmas Story, Sybil, Gangs of New York, Back to the Future

Low on the List (next to go): The Last Picture Show, As Good As It Gets, Devils on the Doorstep, Norma Rae, Manhattan, Goodfellas TV Miniseries (that would be in the top 100): 1. Band of Brothers (10 hrs) 2. Planet Earth (12 hrs) 3. Into the West (12 hrs) 4. Brideshead Revisited (10 hrs) 5. Lonesome Dove (6 hrs) 6. The Prisoner (13 hrs, 17 episodes)