100 Fave Movies

Favorite does not mean best.  A favorite movie is one I look forward to watching again (and again).  It can be a great movie, but if I don’t want to see it again, it’s not on the list.

1. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

2. The Sound of Music (1965)

3. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

5. Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (1987) 

6. Meet the Parents (1999)

7. There’s Something About Mary (1998)

8. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003)

9. When Harry Met Sally (1989)

10.  The Breakfast Club (1985)

11.  Four Weddings & a Funeral (1993)

12. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991

13.What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1992) 

14. While You Were Sleeping (1995)

15. A Walk on the Moon (1999)

16. Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

17. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

18. Bridget Jones’s Diary, 2001

19. Reality Bites (1994)

20. No Way Out (1987)

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22. A Few Good Men, 1992

23. Ever After (1998)

24. Serendipity (2001)

25. The Wedding Singer (1998)

26. Dirty Dancing (1987)

27. Batman Begins & The Dark Knight (2004, 08)

28. Rocky series (excluding #5) (1976, 79, 82, 85, 2006)

29. Psycho (1960)

30. Braveheart (1995)

31. Grease (1978)

32. Father of the Bride (1991)

33. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

34.  Only You (1994)

35. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

36.  Pretty Woman (1990)

37. Maltese Falcon (1941)

38. An Officer & a Gentleman (1982)

39. Roman Holiday (1953)

40. The Matrix (1999)

41. Pretty in Pink (1986)

42. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

43. Coco, 2017

44 Sixteen Candles (1984)

45. An Affair to Remember (1957)

46. Chocolat (2000)

47. The Big Sick, 2017

48. Beauty & the Beast

49. Modern Times (1936)

50. Made in Heaven (1987)

51. Crash (2004)

52. Platoon (1986)

53. Deterrence (2000)

54. The Talk of the Town (1942)

55. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

56. Mansfield Park (1999)

57. Legends of the Fall (1994)

58. Revolutionary Road (2008)

59. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

60. Notorious (1946)

61. Two for the Road (1967)

62. State of the Union (1948)

63. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

64. 12 Angry Men (1957)

65. Some Like It Hot (1959)

66. Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

67. Speed (1994)

68. The Professional (1994)

69. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

70. Hunger Games trilogy

71. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

72. The Fugitive (1993)

73. Rain Man (1988)

74. North by Northwest (1959)

75. Move Over, Darling (1963)

76. Love in the Afternoon (1957)

77. The Sting (1973)

78. The Proposal (2009)

79. Wall-E (2008)

80. Romancing the Stone (1984)

81. Major League (1989)

82. Hoosiers (1986)

83. Protocol (1984)

84. Bridesmaids (2011)

85. The Ref (1994)

86. Fire With Fire (1986)

87. Pride & Prejudice (1995 BBC miniseries)

88. Bonnie & Clyde (1967)

89. Catch and Release (2006)

90. Desk Set (1957)

91. Judgement at Neurenberg (1961)

92. The Blind Side (2009)

93. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

94. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

95. Collateral (2004)

96. High Noon (1952)

97. Sense & Sensibility (1995)

98.  It Happened One Night (1934)

99. Prisoners (2013)

100. The Princess Bride (1987)

17 thoughts on “100 Fave Movies

  1. Wrighty says:

    W€hat a great list! I’ve seen many of these but I’m sorry to say that I haven’t seen several of the older classics. I’ve always wanted to borrow some from the library but it never seems to happen. A current favorite that I never get tired of is Steel Magnolias. I just love those southern women and how they can insult each other and still make it sound polite. There are so many wonderful lines in that movie. And anything that makes me laugh is always a good thing!

  2. Laura's Reviews says:

    Great list of movies! I applaud you for putting them all down in a list and making the choices. I should get around to doing that with books and movies one of these days. There are so many good ones!!

    We have the same tastes in movies – I’d put a lot of your list on my top 100 movies as well!

  3. Brendan says:

    You have plenty of variety, so you’re doing something right.

    I think of Psycho as the ultimate one-timer though. Maybe I need to appreciate Hitch’s direction more and focus less on the story.

  4. Diana @ Thoughts on Papyrus says:

    Great list, some true classics here! Some I still have to see and will do so very soon, including Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Judgement at Neurenberg. Romancing the Stone is such a guilty-pleasure watch, isn’t it? I also want to re-watch What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.

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