Gabe's 100 Favorite Films!

I last made a list like this when I was a kid so I wanted to update. I don't like to rank films opposite each other, so although I do have a Top 5, I listed the rest in alphabetical order. Is US/UK unless otherwise indicated:



1. ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984, dir. Sergio Leone, US & ITALY)

2. FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982, dir. Ingmar Bergman, SWEDEN)

3. RETURN TO OZ (1985, dir. Walter Murch)

4. NETWORK (1976, dir. Sidney Lumet)

5. SUNSET BLVD (1950, dir. Billy Wilder)




12 ANGRY MEN (1957, dir. Sidney Lumet)

1776 (1972, dir. Peter H. Hunt)

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

8½ (1963, dir. Federico Fellini, ITALY)

AFTER LIFE (1998, dir. Hirukazu Koreeda, JAPAN)

ALADDIN (1992, dir. John Musker & Ron Clements)

ALIENS (1986, dir. James Cameron)

ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (1999, dir. Pedro Almodovar, SPAIN)

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930, dir. Lewis Milestone)

AMERICAN MOVIE (1999, dir. Chris Smith, DOCUMENTARY )

APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX (1979 & 2001, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

BAD EDUCATION (2004, dir. Pedro Almodovar, SPAIN)

BARAKA (1992, dir. Ron Fricke, DOCUMENTARY)

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991, dir. Gary Trousald & Kirk Wise)

A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN (1969, dir. Bill Melendez)

BRAZIL (1985, dir. Terry Gilliam)

BROKEN EMBRACES (2009, dir. Pedro Almodovar, SPAIN)

CINEMA PARADISO (1988, dir. Guiseppe Tornatore, ITALY)

CITIZEN KANE (1941, dir. Orson Welles)

CLERKS (1994, dir. Kevin Smith)

CLUE (1985, dir. Jonathan Lynn)

COME AND SEE (1985, dir. Elem Klimov, USSR)

CRIES AND WHISPERS (1973, dir. Ingmar Bergman, SWEDEN)

CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989, dir. Woody Allen)

THE DARK KNIGHT (2008, dir. Christopher Nolan)

DAY FOR NIGHT (1973, dir. Francois Truffaut, FRANCE)

THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE (2001, dir. Guillermo Del Toro, MEXICO & SPAIN)

DOWNFALL (2004, dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel, GERMANY)

DR. STRANGELOVE (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (1982, dir. Steven Spielberg)

ED WOOD (1994, dir. Tim Burton)

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980, dir. Irvin Kershner)

EVITA (1996, dir. Alan Parker)

EYES WIDE SHUT (1999, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

FANTASIA (1940, dir. Walt Disney)

FARGO (1996, dir. The Coen Brothers)

FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (2008, dir. Nicholas Staller)

FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (1994, dir. Mike Newell)

THE GODFATHER (1972, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

THE GODFATHER: PART II (1974, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

GONE WITH THE WIND (1939, dir. Victor Fleming & other directors, REALLY directed by David O. Selznick)

GOODFELLAS (1990, dir. Martin Scorsese)

THE GREEN MILE (1999, dir. Frank Darabont)

HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986, dir. Woody Allen)

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007, dir. David Yates) [NOTE: This is really a stand-in for the series in general, but this is the entry that I enjoy the most].

HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE (1991, dir. Fax Bahr & George Hickenlooper, DOCUMENTARY)

HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (1959, dir. Alain Resnais, FRANCE)
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1996, dir. Gary Trousald & Kirk Wise)

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997, dir. Curtis Hanson)

THE LAST EMPEROR (1987, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, UK/CHINA/ITALY)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (2001, 2002, 2003, dir. Peter Jackson)

MANHATTAN (1979, dir. Woody Allen)

MARY POPPINS (1964, dir. Robert Stevenson)

MATILDA (1996, dir. Danny DeVito)

THE MIGHTY (1998, dir. Peter Chelsom)

MOONSTRUCK (1987, dir. Norman Jewison)

MOULIN ROUGE (2001, dir. Baz Luhrmann)

MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001, dir. David Lynch)

MY COUSIN VINNY (1992, dir. Jonathan Lynn)

OLDBOY (2003, dir. Chan-wook Park, SOUTH KOREA)

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968, dir. Sergio Leone, USA & ITALY)

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975, dir. Milos Foreman)

PAN'S LABYRINTH (2006, dir. Guillermo Del Toro, MEXICO & SPAIN)

THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987, dir. Rob Reiner)

PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997, dir. Hayao Miyazaki, JAPAN)

PULP FICTION (1994, dir. Quentin Tarantino)

RAGING BULL (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)

RAN (1985, dir. Akira Kurosawa, JAPAN)

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975, dir. Jim Sharman)

ROME: OPEN CITY (1945, dir. Roberto Rossellini, ITALY)

ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998, dir. Steven Spielberg)

THE SEARCHERS (1956, dir. John Ford)

THE SECRET GARDEN (1993, dir. Agnieszka Holland)

SE7EN (1995, dir. David Fincher)

THE SEVEN SAMURAI (1954, dir. Akira Kurosawa, JAPAN)

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994, dir. Frank Darabont)

SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959, dir. Walt Disney)

THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965, dir. Robert Wise)

STAND BY ME (1986, dir. Rob Reiner)

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982, dir. Nicholas Meyer)

TALK TO HER (2002, dir. Pedro Almodovar, SPAIN)

TASTE OF CHERRY (1997, dir. Abbas Kiarostami, IRAN)

THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007, dir. Paul Thomas Andersen)

THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984, dir. Rob Reiner)

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961, dir. Ingmar Bergman, SWEDEN)

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962, dir. Robert Mulligan)

TREKKIES (1997, dir. Roger Nygard, DOCUMENTARY)

UMBERTO D. (1952, dir. Vittoria De Sica, ITALY)

VACATION (1983, dir. Harold Ramis)

VERTIGO (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939, dir. Victor Fleming & other directors)

WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (1988, dir. Pedro Almodovar, SPAIN)

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988, dir. Robert Zemickas)

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966, dir. Mike Nichols)