A common topic of discussion among ‘movie-buffs’ is the idea of top films of all-time list. The American Film Institute’s list, (AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies) is probably the most famous of such rankings. I’ve been writing this blog for a few years and this is a topic that I have often thought about covering but, compiling my own list of 100 films always seemed like a pretty daunting task. The question was always ‘how do I pick just 100 when there are so many films I love?’ Well, I finally decided to take a swing at it. Now, this isn’t necessarily the all-time 100 best films in my opinion, just my 100 favorites. These are the films that have stuck with me, the ones I find myself going back to time and time again, and the ones I’ll regularly find myself quoting or thinking about. Consider it more as “100 Movies I Recommend” rather than a true “Top 100 Best Ever Made” list. Obviously, new films are being released in theaters all the time and I’m constantly finding something I’ve never seen before, so this isn’t a definitive ranking and will almost certainly change a little over time.
#100 Re-Animator (1985)
Directed By: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Jeffery Combs, Bruce Abbott, and Barbara Crampton
#99 The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Directed By: John McTiernan
Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Tim Curry, and Scott Glenn
#98 Torn Curtain (1966)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Paul Newman and Julie Andrews
#97 City Slickers (1991)
Directed By: Ron Underwood
Starring: Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Helen Slater, and Jack Palence
#96 Total Recall (1990)
Directed By: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox and Michael Ironside
#95 Highlander (1986)
Directed By: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Christopher Laambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and Roxanne Hart
#94 Birdman (2014)
Directed By: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone and Andrea Riseborough
#93 Casino Royale (2006)
Directed By: Martin Campbell
Starring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, and Mads Mikkelsen
#92 Moon (2009)
Directed By: Duncan Jones
Starring: Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey
#91 Grease (1978)
Directed By: Randal Kleiser
Starring: John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
#90 Hot Fuzz (2007)
Directed By: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
#89 The French Connection (1971)
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey
#88 The Usual Suspects (1995)
Directed By: Bryan Singer
Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite, and Kevin Spacey.
#87 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart and Doris Day
#86 Stripes (1981)
Directed By: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, Sean Young, and John Candy
#85 The Firm (1993)
Directed By: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman
#84 High Anxiety (1977)
Directed By: Mel Brooks
Starring: Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, and Madeline Kahn
#83 The Hustler (1961)
Directed By: Robert Rossen
Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, and Piper Laurie
#82 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Directed By: Shane Black
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan
#81 The Naked Gun (1988)
Directed By: David Zucker
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalbán, George Kennedy, and O. J. Simpson
#80 Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Directed By: Doug Liman
Starring: Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt
#79 The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Directed By: John Sturges
Starring: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn and Horst Buchholz
#78 Frankenstein (1931)
Directed By: James Whale
Starring: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, and Dwight Frye
#77 The Sting (1973)
Directed By: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw
#76 The Godfather (1972)
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, and Robert Duvall
#75 Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Directed By: Jack Arnold
Starring: Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, and Antonio Moreno
#74 Ed Wood (1994)
Directed By: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Patricia Arquette
#73 Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Directed By: George Sydney
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Kathryn Grayson
#72 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, and Alison Doody
#71 Casablanca (1942)
Directed By: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid
#70 Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Directed By: Stuart Rosenberg
Starring: Paul Newman and George Kennedy
#69 Manhattan (1979)
Directed By: Woody Allen
Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway
#68 The Nice Guys (2016)
Directed By Shane Black
Starring: Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling
#67 From Russia with Love (1963)
Directed By: Terence Young
Starring: Sean Connery, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, and Daniela Bianchi
#66 The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: John Forsythe and Shirley MacLaine
#65 The Wolf Man (1941)
Directed By: George Waggner
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, and Evelyn Ankers
#64 Jaws (1975)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss
#63 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Directed By: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, and Dorothy Provine
#62 The Public Enemy (1931)
Directed By: William Wellman
Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, and Edward Woods
#61 The Artist (2011)
Directed By: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo
#60 Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Directed By: Frank Oz
Starring: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, and Steve Martin
#59 His Girl Friday (1940)
Directed By: Howard Hawks
Starring: Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant
#58 Moneyball (2011)
Directed By: Bennett Miller
Starring: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman
#57 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Directed By: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne and James Stewart
#56 Field of Dreams (1989)
Directed By: Phil Alden Robinson
Starring: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta and Burt Lancaster
#55 Superman (1978)
Directed By: Richard Donner
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, and Marlon Brando
#54 M.A.S.H. (1970)
Directed By: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, and Elliott Gould
#53 Scarface (1983)
Directed By: Brian De Palma
Starring: Al Pacino
#52 Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Slim Pickens
#51 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, and Michael Madsen
#50 Wayne’s World (1992)
Directed By: Penelope Spheeris
Starring: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Tia Carrere, and Rob Lowe
#49 Casino (1995)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci
#48 The Birds
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren
#47 Apollo 13 (1995)
Directed By: Ron Howard
Starring: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris
#46 The Big Lebowski (1998)
Directed By: Joel Coen
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, and Steve Buscemi
#45 Chaplin (1992)
Directed By: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller, and Kevin Kline
#44 Hellboy (2004)
Directed By: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Rupert Evans, and John Hurt
#43 Spaceballs (1987)
Directed By: Mel Brooks
Starring: Bill Pullman, John Candy and Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, and Mel Brooks
#42 Top Gun (1986)
Directed By: Tony Scott
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, and Val Kilmer
#41 Cinderella Man (2005)
Directed By: Ron Howard
Starring: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti
#40 Dances with Wolves (1990)
Directed By: Kevin Costner
Starring: Kevin Costner
#39 The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Directed By: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
#38 Strangers on a Train (1951)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, and Robert Walker
#37 Slap Shot (1977)
Directed By:George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Jeff Carlson Steve Carlson and David Hanson
#36 There Will Be Blood (2007)
Directed By:Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano
#35 Fight Club (1999)
Directed By: David Fincher
Starring: Brad Pitt and Edward Norton
#34 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Directed By: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.
#33 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, and Charles Fleischer
#32 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Directed By: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross
#31 Mary Poppins (1964)
Directed By:Robert Stevenson
Starring: Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke
#30 RoboCop (1987)
Directed By: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, and Kurtwood Smith
#29 Caddyshack (1980)
Directed By: Harold Ramis
Starring: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray
#28 Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1939)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart and Jean Arthur
#27 Pulp Fiction (1994)
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, and Ving Rhames
#26 Rebecca (1940)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine
#25 Inglorious Bastards (2009)
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent
#24 Minority Report (2002)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow
#23 Bull Durham (1987)
Directed By: Ron Shelton
Starring: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
#22 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Directed By: Miloš Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher
#21 Rear Window (1954)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart and Grace Kelly
#20 Young Frankenstein (1974)
Directed By: Mel Brooks
Starring: Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn
#19 Back to the Future (1985)
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Crispin Glover
#18 The Searchers (1956)
Directed By: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, and Natalie Wood
#17 The Great Escape (1963)
Directed By: John Sturges
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, and James Coburn
#16 The Untouchables (1987)
Directed By: Brian De Palma
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García, and Robert De Niro
#15 Rocky (1976)
Directed By: John G. Avildsen
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith
#14 North by Northwest (1959)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason
#13 Blazing Saddles (1974)
Directed By: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, and Harvey Korman
#12 Rope (1948)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger
#11 Harvey (1950)
Directed By: Henry Koster
Starring: James Stewart and Josephine Hull
#10 True Grit (1969)
Directed By: Henry Hathaway
Starring: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, and Kim Darby
#9 Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Directed By: Hal Needham
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jerry Reed, Sally Field, and Jackie Gleason
#8 Batman (1989)
Directed By: Tim Burton
Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Kim Basinger
#7 It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore
#6 Jurassic Park (1993)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough
#5 Gone with the Wind (1939)
Directed By: Victor Fleming
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland
#4 Vertigo (1958)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart and Kim Novak
#3 Goodfellas (1990)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta
#2 Singin’ in the Rain(1952)
Directed By: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds
#1 Psycho (1960)
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and Vera Miles
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