| Favorites: Movies |
| The following is by no means a complete list of my favorites, as there are many great movies that I’ve seen that are buried in my diaries and/or in my memory bank. I will continually update the list below as I discover and unearth more above-par films. Please feel free to comment with movies YOU recommend! |
| Click on any of the categories below to go directly to the corresponding list of movies: Adventures . Biographies . Bizarre . Camp . Character-Driven . Classics . Comedies . Crime Dramas . Detective . Documentaries . Dramas . Dramedies . Drinking . Film Noir . Food . Foreign . Gambling/Hustling . Mythological . Heartwarming . Horror . Mini-Series . Musical Documentaries . Musicals . Period Pieces . Photography . Quirky . Revenge . Romantic . Sci-Fi . Sexy . Silent Thrillers/Suspense/Mysteries/Espionage . TV Shows/Series . Visual . Westerns . War |
| Best Adventure Movies Castaway Gladiator Hunt for the Wilderpeople The Man Who Would Be King Pappion A Perfect World The River Wild Speed Thelma & Louise The War |
| Best Biography Movies (biopics) Amadeus Beautiful Dreamer (Walt Whitman) Behind the Candelabra (Liberace) Camille Claudel (Rodin) Crazy (Hank Garland) Dash and Lily (Dashiel Hammett and Lilian Hellman) Grizzly Man (Timothy Treadwell) Lovelace Made in America (Don King) Man Ray No Direction Home (Bob Dylan) The Notorious Bettie Page Francis (Francis Farmer) Pollack Story of Adele H. (daughter of Victor Hugo) Sylvia (Sylvia Plath) Vincent & Theo (Vincent Van Gogh) Walt Whitman Wilde (Oscar Wilde) The World’s Fastest Indian (Burt Munro) |
| Best Bizarre Movies The Island The Night Clerk |
| Best Camp Movies Girl Happy The Swinger Women in Cages |
| Best Character-Driven Movies Betty Death and the Maiden Kiss of the Spider Woman Lifeboat Perfect Host |
| Best Classic Movies All About Eve Another Man’s Poison Born Yesterday Bus Stop The Birds Casablanca Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Clambake Mr. Deeds goes to Town East of Eden Gaslight Gone With The Wind Grand Hotel Indiscreet Key Largo Kitty Little Miss Broadway The Little Princess Lovers and Lollipops Man in a Net Mary Poppins Niagara Picnic Pitfall Pollyanna Poor Little Rich Girl Rear Window Rope Sabrina Shirley Temple Collection Some Like It Hot Sound of Music Stowaway Sunset Blvd The Lift The Mating Season The Picture of Dorian Gray Vertigo Wizard of Oz |
| Best Comedies 10 Arthur As Good As It Gets Beaches Bedazzled Beverly Hills Cop Big Business Big Chill Blast From The Past Brady Bunch Movie Caddyshack 48 Hours Groundhog Day Harold & Maude Midnight Run Modern Romance Much Ado About Nothing My Cousin Vinny Mermaids Monkey Business One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Parenthood Reuben, Reuben Ruthless People Some Like It Hot Trading Places Tunnel of Love Victor Victoria |
| Best Crime Drama Movies American Pastoral The Destroyer River’s Edge Taken |
| Best Detective Movies 4 mm Summer of Sam |
| Best Documentaries Beckam Burlesque Q Breast Men Making a Murderer Marwencol Grizzly Man Loveless Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia |
| Best Drama Movies Bully Butterfield 8 The Country Girl Deliverance Dolores Claiborne Diary of a Chambermaid The Diary of Anne Frank Eve’s Bayou Firelight Flawless Frailty Frequency Gods & Monsters Hardcore How to Make An American Quilt Horse Whisperer The Kiss of the Spider Woman Life is a House Life of David Gale Living Outloud Matchstick Men The Man from Elysian Fields Nowhere to Run The Other Sister Place in the Sun Playing By Heart Ragtime Sling Blade Suddenly Last Summer Sweet Hereafter Time of Destiny Tin Drum Toys in the Attic 12 Angry Men The Vicious Kind The Winslow Boy Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Young One |
| Best Dramedies The Family Stone |
| Best Drinking Movies Barfly Days of Wine and Roses Drunks The Lost Weekend When a Man Loves a Woman Pay it Forward Woman Under the Influence |
| Best Film Noir Movies Alias Betty Another Man’s Poison Beat Blue Gardenia Burn, Witch, Burn Cause for Alarm Desire Fade to Black Headhunters High and Low The Naked Kiss Paris Blues Sudden Fear Supernatural Sweet Smell of Success Walk on the Wild Side |
| Best Food Movies Babette’s Feast Burnt Julie and Julia Chocolat |
| Best Foreign Movies Camille Claudel La Femme Nakita Les Miserables Tristania 200 Pounds Beauty Zero Focus |
| Best Gambling/Hustling Movies Cincinnati Kid Color of Money Emily, the Criminal Rounders The Gamber The Grifters The Hustler Lady Eve |
| Best Mythological Movies Beauty and the Devil Charlie What Dreams May Come Death Takes a Holiday Ghost |
| Best Heartwarming Movies The Postman The Crossing Guard |
| Best Horror Movies Mr. Sardonicus Twenty-Eight Days Later What Lies Beneath |
| Best Mini-Series Big Little Lies Making a Murderer Mrs. Foster |
| Best Musicals All That Jazz Blue Beat Cinderella Grease High School Musical Moulin Rouge My Fair Lady No Business Like Show Business Princess Tam Tam Viva Las Vegas The Rose |
| Best Musical Documentaries Amy (Winehouse) Backbeat (Beatles) The Blues Brothers (John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd) Bring on the Night (Sting) Charles Bradley: Soul of America The Commitments Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis) Respect (Aretha Franklin) Truth or Dare (Madonna) What Happened, Miss Simone? (Nina Simone) |
| Best Period Piece Movies Dangerous Beauty |
| Best Photography Movies Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens Finding Vivian Maier Guest of Cindy Sherman Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye Photographer Man Ray – A Film by Jean-Paul Fargier Quenivere William Eggleston in the Real World The Woodmans |
| Best Quirky Movies Auntie Lees Meat Pies Baghdad Cafe Baytown Outlaws Blast from the Past The Bra But I’m a Cheerleader Burnt by the Sun Butter The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz Desperately Seeking Susan El Eve’s Bayou Fargo Felicia’s Journey Fish in a Barrel Fish Tank Go God Help The Girl The Gods Must Be Crazy The Great Madcap He Got Game Hick Hillary & Jackie House of Games Johnny 100 pesos The Kindergarten Teacher Legend of 1900 Lawn Dogs Lars and the Real Girl Little Voice Lord Love a Duck (was all and more it was quacked up to be) Little Miss Sunshine Living Outloud Lucky Mad about Men The Mighty Miranda Mona Lisa Object of Beauty Out on a Limb Road Scholar Perfect Crime Punch Drunk Love Purple Noon Pretty Poison Psycho Beach Party Rid of Me Run Lola Run Scenes from a Mall Slingblade Small Apartments Soledad Strangers in Paradise Stuck Between Stations The Thief, the Stranger, her Lover and the Cook 2 Days in the Valley Valley of the Dolls |
| Best Revenge Movies The Bride Wore Black Lipstick Old Boy |
| Best Romantic Movies Beauty & the Beast Bridges Over Madison County Chalet Girl Cold Comfort Farm Ever After Fountainhead Girl on a Bicycle It Happened One Night Next Stop Wonderland Notting Hill Overboard The Perfect Husband Populaire Pretty Woman Princess Tam Tam (Josephine Baker) Romeo & Juliet Room with a View Runaway Bride Shirley Valentine Silver Linings Playbook Somewhere in Time Swann in Love Viva Las Vegas Wings of a Dove |
| Best Sci-Fi Movies 28 Days Back to the Future (all of them) Existenz Frequency Terminator The Day the Earth Stood Still |
| Best Sexy Movies Boogie Nights Eyes Wide Shut Full Body Massage Lolita (both versions) The Misadventures of Margaret Palmetto Orgazmo Woman on Top |
| Best Silent Movies Birth of a Nation Greed Quest of Fire Wind |
| Best Thriller Movies 21 grams American History X Apartment Zero Apt Pupil Arlington Road Bad Influence Blame It On Rio Breakdown The Call Cape Fear (1962 and 1991 versions) Dead Calm Die Hard (1) Double Jeopardy Evil The Fear Inside Final Analysis Fugitive The Hand That Rocks the Cradle The Hitcher Innocent Man In Order of Disappearance Lockup Manhattan Night Memento Midnight Lace Misery The Night of the Hunter No Way to Treat A Lady Positive I.D. Psycho (all of them) Read My Lips Red Corner Reservoir Dogs Romancing the Stone Shattered Single White Female Sleeping with the Enemy Someone to Watch Over Me A Simple Favor A Stranger is Watching Straw Dogs Targets Thirty-Six Hours to Die Thomas Crown Affair Training Day Wait Until Dark Weight of Water Woman of Straw |
| Best TV Shows/Series 24 All in the Family Antiques Road Show The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Better Call Saul Bill Maher Black Lightning Black Mirror Breaking Bad Charlie’s Angels Columbo Damages Dexter George & Tammy I Dream of Jeannie The End of the F***ing World Fargo The French Chef (Julia Child) Gilligan’s Island Grantchester I Love Lucy The Love Boat Married… with Children Mary Tyler Moore Show M*A*S*H The Minimalist Minx Murder, She Wrote Outer Limits Ozark The Queen’s Gambit Rich Man, Poor Man Rockford Files Roots Saturday Night Live Seinfeld Sex and the City Six Feet Under Sopranos Star Trek Suits The Tonight Show (Johnny Carson) The Twilight Zone |
| Best Visual Movies Koyaanisqatsi |
| Best Western Movies The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Searchers Winchester 73 |
| Best War Movies Gone with the Wind The Patriot |
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