Mike’s Favorite Films

If you’re reading someone who’s talking about movies, you should at least know what their tastes are. It helps in being able to trust their opinions, and gauge how their tastes will relate to your own.

Here I list my favorite films of all time. And link to a bunch of other lists broken down specifically by year. But even if you don’t get into those, I’m listing what (currently. Since they change constantly, as should be the case with any self-respecting person) are my absolute favorites.

Here’s how it works: the top ten is presented in chronological order. But, by sheer happenstance, #1 just happens to be my favorite film of all time. The rest don’t have a particular order. Everything onward is broken into sections (11-20, 21-50 and 51-100) and presented alphabetically. The higher we get, the more interchangeable the list gets. 11-20 is pretty set. 21-50 has a few that are interchangeable with some from 51-100, and 51-100 has a bunch that, if I did this list again right this second, would be left off in favor of others. The idea is to give you a general idea of what I like.

1. The Thin Man (1934)

2. Gone With the Wind (1939)

3. The Third Man (1949)

4. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

5. The Apartment (1960)

6. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

7. The Godfather (1972)

8. The Godfather Part II (1974)

9. All That Jazz (1979)

10. Apocalypse Now (1979)

 

11. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

12. Casablanca (1942)

13. Citizen Kane (1941)

14. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)

15. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

16. The Red Shoes (1948)

17. Roman Holiday (1953)

18. The Sting (1973)

19. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

20. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

 

21. All the President’s Men (1976)

22. Almost Famous (2000)

23. Arthur (1981)

24. Back to School (1986)

25. Bad Santa (2003)

26. Black Dynamite (2009)

27. Blazing Saddles (1974)

28. Coming to America (1988)

29. The Deer Hunter (1978)

30. The Departed (2006)

31. Die Hard (1988)

32. The Fifth Element (1997)

33. Forrest Gump (1994)

34. Goodfellas (1990)

35. How the West Was Won (1962)

36. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

37. Jurassic Park (1993)

38. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

39. Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007)

40. My Cousin Vinny (1992)

41. Pulp Fiction (1994)

42. The Quiet Man (1952)

43. Raging Bull (1980)

44. Rocky (1976)

45. The Sandlot (1993)

46. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

47. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

48. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

49. There Will Be Blood (2007)

50. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

 

51. 25th Hour (2002)

52. Adaptation (2002)

53. Barton Fink (1991)

54. Black Narcissus (1947)

55. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

56. Children of Men (2006)

57. Chinatown (1974)

58. Do the Right Thing (1989)

59. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

60. Dodsworth (1936)

61. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

62. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

63. The Fountain (2006)

64. The French Connection (1971)

65. The General (1927)

66. Giant (1956)

67. Grease (1978)

68. The Great Escape (1963)

69. His Girl Friday (1940)

70. The Hustler (1961)

71. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

72. A League of Their Own (1992)

73. Let It Ride (1989)

74. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

75. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

76. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

77. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

78. Major League (1989)

79. The Matrix (1999)

80. My Darling Clementine (1946)

81. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

82. On the Waterfront (1954)

83. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

84. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

85. Paper Moon (1973)

86. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

87. Phantom Thread (2017)

88. The Producers (1968)

89. Rio Bravo (1959)

90. The Searchers (1956)

91. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

92. Snatch (2000)

93. Stalag 17 (1953)

94. Suspiria (1977)

95. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

96. True Grit (2010)

97. Les Vampires (1915)

98. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

99. West Side Story (1961)

100. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

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