I really do love movies. Well, my movies, my own personal favourite movies and I don’t always care for other people’s movies. I tend to like classic movies rather than modern ones, not that I’m denigrating modern film. Anyway, I started off trying to work out my top 10 and ended up with, well, a hundred!
Yes, I can also tell you that because of the list maniac that I am, I decided to make the list into a spreadsheet which is great because I can sort the data and throw certain things back at myself, or in this case, at you, the reader. Here are a few examples; A Number of directors had multiple entries, people like Oliver Stone, Michael Curtiz, Martin Scorcese, John Ford, and David Lean (all with three entries.) My top two directors came out as Woody Allen and Stanley Kubrick each with five entries. Woody Allen, Robert Redford and Humphrey Bogart were my favourite leading men and Liz Taylor and Mia Farrow my favourite leading ladies. My favourite years for movies appears to be 1946 with four favourite films and 1956 with five. Anyway, the complete list is below, in no particular order:
| A Kind of Loving |
| A Taste of Honey |
| Alfie |
| Blithe Spirit |
| Broadway Danny Rose |
| Casablanca |
| Charlie Bubbles |
| Dead of Night |
| It’s a Wonderful Life |
| Lost Horizon |
| On the Waterfront |
| Radio days |
| Rebecca |
| Saturday night and Sunday Morning |
| Serpico |
| Seven days in May |
| Spartacus |
| Sunset Boulevarde |
| Sweet Smell of Success |
| The Bad and the Beautiful |
| The French Connection |
| The Last Picture Show |
| The Long Arm |
| The Maltese falcon |
| The Man in the White Suit |
| The Quiet man |
| The Searchers |
| The spy who came in from the cold |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| The VIP’s |
| 2001 A Space Odyessy |
| A Hard Days Night |
| A Man for all Seasons |
| A Matter of Life and Death |
| Alien |
| All the President’s men |
| Angels One Five |
| Angels with dirty faces |
| Annie Hall |
| Around the world in eighty days |
| Awakenings |
| Back to the Future |
| Billy Liar |
| Bullitt |
| Citizen Kane |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors |
| Dances with Wolves |
| Desperately Seeking Susan |
| Dog Day Afternoon |
| Fail Safe |
| Fatal Attraction |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| Get Carter |
| Get Shorty |
| Giant |
| Gladiator |
| Goodfellas |
| Great Expectations |
| Green for Danger |
| Gregorys Girl |
| Hannah and Her Sisters |
| JFK |
| Kes |
| Lawrence of Arabia |
| Little Man Tate |
| Lost in Translation |
| night Of The Demon |
| North by Northwest |
| On Her Majestys Secret Service |
| One Flew over the Cuckoos nest |
| Paths Of Glory |
| Platoon |
| Pulp Fiction |
| Rocky |
| Shane |
| Smokey and the Bandit |
| Snow White and the Seven dwarfs |
| Some Like it Hot |
| Taxi Driver |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood |
| The Big Sleep |
| The Candidate |
| The Cincinatti Kid |
| The Cruel Sea |
| The Dambusters |
| The day the Earth stood still |
| The Godfather |
| The Graduate |
| The Great gatsby |
| The Ipcress File |
| The King of Comedy |
| The man who shot Liberty Valance |
| The Misfits |
| The Shining |
| The Silence of the Lambs |
| The Thief of Bagdad |
| The Third Man |
| The Wizard of Oz |
| Three days of the Condor |
| To Catch a Thief |
| Viva Zapata |
| Wall Street |
| Whats new Pussycat? |
| Whats up Doc? |
| When Harry met sally |
Hope you enjoyed the list. What are your personal favourites?
Letters from an unknown author! 