Saturday 30 April 2011

Top 100 favourite films

A few months back I had a sudden urge to make a list of my 100 favourite films, this turned out to be much more of a challenge than I thought. My list took a lot of time; cutting down it down, adding films after I remembered them, then of course putting them in order was the toughest part of all.
If you are reading this, please do not expect this to be a list of 'good' films. Some films featured are known as awful films, most of which you will recognize for that, but all of these films I have seen more than 3 times*, if not more more and I can continue to watch these films again and again and that is why they are my favourite.
*with the exception of Tangled.


These are my 100 favourite films as of April 2011.

1. The Lion King (1994, dir. Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff)
2. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986, dir. John Hughes)
3. The Dark Knight (2008, dir. Christopher Nolan)
4. The Breakfast Club (1985, dir. John Hughes)
5. Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961, dir. Blake Edwards)
6. Aladdin (1992, dir. Ron Clements, John Musker)
7. The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (2005, dir. Ken Kwapis)
8. X2 (2003, dir. Bryan Singer)
9. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991, dir. James Cameron)
10. The Prestige (2006, dir. Christopher Nolan)
11. Winnie The Pooh (1977, dir. John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman)
12. Toy Story (1995, dir. John Lasseter)
13. Kick-Ass (2010, dir. Matthew Vaughn)
14. Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
15. The Little Mermaid (1989, dir. Ron Clements, John Musker)
16. Adventureland (2009, dir. Greg Mottola)
17. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961, dir. Clyde Geronimi Hamilton Luske Wolfgang Reitherman )
18. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010, dir. Edgar Wright)
19. Terminator Salvation (2009, dir. McG)
20. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993, dir. Lasse Hallström)
21. Up (2009, dir. Pete Docter, Bob Peterson)
22. Avatar (2009, dir. James Cameron)
23. Roman Holiday (1953, dir. William Wyler)
24. Beauty and the Beast (1991, dir. Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)
25. Toy Story 2 (1999, dir. John Lasseter)
26. Jerry Maguire (1996, dir. Cameron Crowe)
27. When Harry Met Sally (1989, dir. Rob Reiner)
28. Sleeping Beauty (1959, dir. Clyde Geronimi)
29. Some Like It Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder)
30. The Other Boleyn Girl (2008, dir. Justin Chadwick)
31. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008, dir. Peter Sollett)
32. Mulan (1998, dir. Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook)
33. Beetlejuice (1988, dir. Tim Burton)
34. Moulin Rouge (2001, dir. Baz Luhrmann)
35. Shrek (2001, dir. Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson)
36. The Lake House (2006, dir. Alejandro Agresti)
37. Fight Club (1999, dir. David Fincher)
38. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, dir. Steven Spielberg)
39. Toy Story 3 (2010, dir. Lee Unkrich)
40. North By Northwest (1959, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
41. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002, dir. Chris Columbus)
42. The Holiday (2006, dir. Nancy Meyers)
43. The Goonies (1985, dir. Richard Donner)
44. Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright)
45. 13 Going on 30 (2004, dir. Gary Winick)
46. Into the Wild (2007, dir. Sean Penn)
47. Tangled (2010, dir. Nathan Greno, Byron Howard)
48. Star Wars: Episode 1- The Phantom Menace (1999, dir. George Lucas)
49. Monsters, Inc. (2001, dir. Pete Docter)
50. Charlie Bartlett (2007, dir. Jon Poll)
51. Jackass Number Two (2006, dir. Jeff Tremaine)
52. Cloverfield (2008, dir. Matt Reeves)
53. Hercules (1997, dir. Ron Clements, John Musker)
54. Stardust (2007, dir. Matthew Vaughn)
55. A Walk To Remember (2002, dir. Adam Shankman)
56. The Social Network (2010, dir. David Fincher)
57. The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride (1998, dir. Darrell Rooney, Rob LaDuca)
58. Transformers (2007, dir. Michael Bay)
59. The Princess Bride (1987, dir. Rob Reiner)
60. A Bug’s Life (1998, dir. John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton)
61. Daddy Day Care (2003, dir. Steve Carr)
62. Jurassic Park (1993, dir. Steven Spielberg)
63. Finding Nemo (2003, dir. Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
64. Sabrina (1954, dir. Billy Wilder)
65. The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005, dir. Andrew Adamson)
66. Finding Neverland (2004, dir. Marc Forster)
67. X-men: The Last Stand (2006, dir. Brett Ratner)
68. Madagascar (2005, dir. Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath)
69. Bringing Up Baby (1938, dir. Howard Hawks)
70. Fanboys (2008, dir. Kyle Newman)
71. Shakespeare in Love (1998, dir. John Madden)
72. Tarzan (1999, dir. Chris Buck, Kevin Lima)
73. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, dir. David Yates)
74. Mamma Mia! (2008, dir. Phyllida Lloyd)
75. Little Miss Sunshine (2006, dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
76. Zombieland (2009, dir. Ruben Fleischer)
77. Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith (2005, dir. George Lucas)
78. Pineapple Express (2008, dir. David Gordon Green)
79. The Incredibles (2004, dir. Brad Bird)
80. Hot Fuzz (2007, dir. Edgar Wright)
81. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999, dir. Gil Junger)
82. Over The Hedge (2006, dir. Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick)
83. Prince of Persia (2010, dir. Mike Newell)
84. Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007, dir. Tim Story)
85. Iron Man (2008, dir. Jon Favreau)
86. The Wedding Singer (1998, dir. Frank Coraci)
87. The Princess and the Frog (2009, dir. Ron Clements, John Musker)
88. Tropic Thunder (2008, dir. Ben Stiller)
89. Ice Age (2002, dir. Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha)
90. High Fidelity (2000, dir. Stephen Frears)
91. A Knight’s Tale (2001, dir. Brian Helgeland)
92. Star Wars: Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back (1980, dir. Irvin Kershner)
93. Juno (2007, dir. Jason Reitman)
94. Blades of Glory (2007, dir. Josh Gordon, Will Speck)
95. Titanic (1997, dir. James Cameron)
96. Edward Scissorhands (1990, dir. Tim Burton)
97. 101 Dalmatians (1996 dir. Stephen Herek)
98. Batman (1989, dir. Tim Burton)
99. Raising Arizona (1987, dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
100. Down with Love (2003, dir. Peyton Reed)
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5 comments:

  1. WOW! Definitely have to watch the one's I haven't seen (which is ALOT)

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  2. How many have you seen?
    Because they're my favourite I would obviously reccomend them all, but some of them are't the greatest

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  3. this is amazing/beautiful

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  4. Thanks Judd, though I don't see how it's amazing or beautiful..I have a little obsession with creating lists.

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  5. oh wait I'll copy this list to see which movies I haven't seen...but just by seeing it Ive seen several of them! Just a thing I would have put Juno on a higher position but that's me...Great list. Your lists are always great.

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