My 200 (or so) Favorite Films

Top 11

Casablanca — 1942
Conspiracy Theory — 1997
How Green Was My Valley — 1945
Lawrence of Arabia — 1962
My Cousin Vinny — 1992
Scent of a Woman — 1993
Shane — 1955
The Big Country — 1963
The Hustler — 1960
Tin Cup — 1996
The Godfather, parts 1 and 2 — 1972

Next 9

A Fish Called Wanda
Braveheart
Duets
In & Out
It Happened One Night
Le Placard (The Closet)
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Fall of the Roman Empire
White Nights

Comedy

A Fish Called Wanda (Top 20)
A Night at the Opera
All the Pink Panther films with Peter Sellers
Animal House
Arsenic and Old Lace
Be Kind, Rewind
Being There
Blazing Saddles
Coming to America
Damsels in Distress — 2011
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Idiocracy
In & Out (Top 20)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire
Le Placard (The Closet) (Top 20)
Liar, Liar
Love and Death
Miss Congeniality
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
My Cousin Vinnie (Top 11)
Office Space
PK
Pumpkin
Sleeper
The 12 Chairs
The Court Jester
The Horse's Mouth
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Pentagon Wars
The Producers
The Ruling Class
Tootsie
Tough Guys
Wag the Dog

Romantic Comedy

50 First Dates
Annie Hall
As Good As It Gets
Cousin, Cousine
Groundhog Day (Top 20)
His Girl Friday
It Happened One Night (Top 20)
Manhattan
My Best Friend's Wedding
Sabrina (Bogart and Hepburn)
Shakespeare in Love
The Front Page
The Philadelphia Story
There's Something About Mary

Westerns

Destry Rides Again
Firecreek
High Noon
Shane (Top 11)
Tall in the Saddle
Valdez is Coming
The Big Country (Top 11)
Two Rode Together

Sports Comedy

Bull Durham
Long Gone
Slap Shot
Tin Cup (Top 11)

Sports Drama

North Dallas 40
Rocky

Metallurgy

No Highway in the Sky

Kids' Films

Ever After
My Blue Heaven
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Secondhand Lions
The Princess Bride

Science Fiction

A Clockwork Orange
Brazil
Dark Star
Demolition Man
Free Guy
Gattaca
Serenity
Simone
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Truman Show
Total Recall

Action/Adventure

All the James Bond films with Sean Connery
Casino Royale with Daniel Craig
Conspiracy Theory (Top 11)
Crocodile Dundee
Enemy of the State
Gladiator
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 (Top 11)
Rollerball
Romancing the Stone
The Fugitive
To Have and Have Not
Unknown (2011)
US Marshalls

Capitalism

Cash McCall
Margin Call (here's the boardroom scene)
Other People's Money

Communism

The Lives of Others
We the Living
White Nights (Top 20)

Musicals

Carousel
Duets (Top 20)
Fiddler on the Roof
Guys and Dolls
Kiss Me Kate
Man of La Mancha
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (Top 20)
State Fair
The Blues Brothers
The Music Man
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
West Side Story (1961)

Documentary

Apollo 13
Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
Bill Russell: My Life, My Way
Mine Your Own Business
Searching for Sugarman (Top 20)
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Killing Fields

Drama

A Beautiful Mind
A Hole in the Head
A Man for All Seasons
Braveheart (Top 20)
Chocolat
Cyrano (1950)
Dangerous Beauty
Dangerous Minds
Dead Poets Society
Eat Drink Man Woman
Educating Rita
Elmer Gantry
Good Will Hunting
How Green Was My Valley (Top 11)
Jerry Maguire
Life is Beautiful
Muriel's Wedding
Mutiny on the Bounty
Network
Scent of a Woman (Top 11)
Searching for Bobby Fisher
The Fountainhead
The Hustler (Top 11)
The Swimmer
Titanic
Whiplash

Crime Drama

Atlantic City
Dead Silence
Double Indemnity
Memento
Misery
Night of the Hunter
Ransom! (1956)
The Godfather, parts 1 and 2 (Top 11)
The Maltese Falcon
The Silence of the Lambs
Thief

Suspense

Shadow of a Doubt
Vertigo

War

Casablanca (Top 11)
Paths of Glory

Prison Drama

Cool Hand Luke
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
La Grande Illusion
The Great Escape
The Shawshank Redemption

Historical

300
Spartacus
Swing Time
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Top 20)

Coming of Age Dramedy

Moonrise Kingdom

Almost made the top 200

Comic book series

Avengers
Batman: The Dark Night
Captain America
Iron Man
Thor
Wonder Woman

Others

Blast from the Past
Broadcast News
Dirty Pretty Things
Doctor Zhivago
Falling Down
Flight (Denzel Washington, 2012)
Major League
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
On the Waterfront
Quo Vadis
Soylent Green
Strictly Ballroom
Tough Guys

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