Movies I Like
This is a work in progress. I expect to add many more titles (and have so seen and collected so many, I may have forgotten some). It's also a purely personal list, including movies I know are bad, but which I still like to watch. Updated November 2009. More or less alphabetically, then:
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24 Hour Party People
-30- (Jack Webb)
300
All That Jazz
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
All the President's Men
Almost Famous
The Americanization of Emily
Animal House
Annie Hall
The Apostle
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Avalon
Bad Santa
Bang the Drum Slowly
Barry Lyndon
Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
Beautiful Girls
Beauty and the Beast (animated)
Bedazzled (Cook-Moore version)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Best in Show
Big
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
The Big Sleep (Bogart)
Bonnie & Clyde
Boogie Nights
Brewster McCloud
Bowfinger
Cabaret
California Split
Casablanca
Casino
Children of Men
A Christmas Story
The Cincinnati Kid
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
The Color of Money
Con Air
The Conversation
Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Dark Knight
Deadline USA
The Deer Hunter
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Diner
Dirty Harry
Dragnet (1954)
Dreamgirls
Dr. No
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
East of Eden
Enchanted
Every Little Step
The Exiles
A Face in the Crowd
Fail-Safe
Fargo
Flags of Our Fathers
For Your Consideration
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Fountainhead
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Freshman (Brando, Broderick)
Frenzy
From Here to Eternity
The Gauntlet
Ghostbusters
Giant
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part 2
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Goldfinger
Goodfellas
Gran Torino
Grease
The Great Escape
Hairspray (John Waters version)
Hairspray (musical)
A Hard Day's Night
Heat
Help!
His Girl Friday
A History of Violence
How Green Was My Valley
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Hurt Locker
The Hustler
The Idolmaker
I'm All Right, Jack
Intolerable Cruelty
It's a Wonderful Life
The Jericho Mile
Juno
The King of Kong
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Knocked Up
L.A. Story
La Dolce Vita
The Last Days of Disco
The Last Hurrah
A League of Their Own
Little Big Man
The Little Mermaid
The Longest Yard (original version, please!)
The Lookout
Lord of the Rings
Love, Actually
The Magnificent Seven
Magnolia
The Maltese Falcon
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Manhattan
Manhunter
Meet John Doe
A Mighty Wind
Milk
Million Dollar Baby
Mister Roberts
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Saturday Night
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
My Cousin Vinny
My Darling Clementine
My Favorite Year
Nashville
Network
Nobody's Fool (Paul Newman)
No Country for Old Men
No Direction Home
North By Northwest
North Dallas Forty
Nothing in Common
Once
Once Upon a Time in The West
On the Waterfront
The Paper
Parenthood
Paths of Glory
The Player
The Producers (Zero Mostel-Gene Wilder)
The Quiet Man
Rebel Without a Cause
Ride the High Country
Road House
Rocky (all right, all six of them)
Saturday Night Fever
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface (Pacino version)
Schindler's List
School Daze
School of Rock
Scrooged
The Searchers
Shaft (both versions)
Shall We Dance (U.S. remake)
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shootist
Silence of the Lambs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Spartacus
Star Trek (2009 version)
Star Trek II
Star Trek VI
Star Wars
The Sting
Stripes
Sullivan's Travels
Sunset Boulevard
Superbad
Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp)
Talk to Me
Taxi Driver
Tender Mercies
That Thing You Do
There Will Be Blood
A Thousand Clowns
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tombstone
Tommy Boy
Touch of Evil
Trading Places
Unforgiven
The Untouchables
The Usual Suspects
The Verdict
Waiting for Guffman
Waiting to Exhale
WALL-E
Waltz With Bashir
White Heat
The Wizard of Oz
A Woman Under the Influence
Wonder Boys
The World According to Garp
Young Frankenstein

