The Godfather 1&2
The Conversation
The French Connection
Jaws
The Dark Knight
Goodfellas
Seven
Casablanca
The Prestige
Cinema Paradiso
Memories of Murder
Hidden (Cache)
Incendies
Once upon a time in Anatola
Predator
Chinatown
The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos)
Blade Runner
No Country for Old Men
Boogie Nights
Stalker
Amores Perros
Before Sunrise Trilogy
Prisoners
The African Queen
La Haine
In the Mood For Love
I Saw The Devil
The Chaser
Battle Royale
Fight Club
Mulholland Drive
Children of Men
The Social Network
Brokeback Mountain
Boyhood
Under the Skin
Dog Day Afternoon
The Shining
The Third Man
My Left Foot (1989)
Footloose (1984)
Save Your Legs! (2012)
Tre uomini e una gamba (1997)
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
Finding Your Feet (2017)
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
One Foot in Hell (1960)
Stump (2002)
Happy Feet (2006)
Borat is one of the worst, most obnoxious films I’ve ever seen. I despisethat style of “humour”, thus explaining why I’m not a Ricky Gervais fan either.
You must mean the 2005 movie directed by Steven D’Iorio and starring Kevin Cirone and Grady Justice. It’s ok, but it doesn’t make my best list. I thought it dragged on…
I feel as if I should add in a couple more Capra movies
It’s a Wonderful Life
It Happened One Night
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
A couple more Hitchcocks
Rebecca
North by Northwest (which is really a rehash of The Thirty-Nine Steps)
Shadow of a Doubt
Dial M for Murder
To Catch a Thief
Notorious
Coen Brothers
O Brother Where Art Thou
I regret that there are too many films from the 60s and 70s that I just haven’t seen, eg The Conversation
Pretty good on 30s, 40s and 50s, although there are classics like The Little Foxes I haven’t seen
For some reason I’ve never really liked North by Northwest (except for the sequence in the train that the Hayes code prevented from ending as it should have). I’ve always loved To Catch a Thief, which is often underrated. But my favourite is Vertigo. The sequence where he follows the woman for days is like a dream.
First I scanned through the above lists and copied the ones I loved. Then I went through my movie collection and listed the rest. This is impossible, really.
Contact
Donnie Darko
Matrix triology
Aliens
Rear Window
Dances with Wolves (Dad’s fav - used soundtrack for funeral)
Singing in the Rain
Shawshank Redemption
Fargo
Life of Brian
Inception
The Court Jester
The Great Dictator
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brazil
Forrest Gump
Slumdog Millionaire
L.A Confidential
Pale Rider
Amelie
Great Expectations
Memento
Awakenings
Life is Beautiful
The Usual Suspects
S n a t c h
Raging Bull
Cinema Paradiso
Avalon
Mulholland Drive
Angel Heart
Artificial Intelligence
Being There
Flatliners
Gattaca
Mississipi Burning
Pans Labyrinth
Papillion
Punch-Drunk Love
Seven Psychopaths
The Man From Earth
There Will Be Blood
Gangs of New York
Edit (adding):
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
12 Monkeys
My Cousin Vinny
A Fish Called Wanda
Bad Boy Bubby
Vanilla Sky (the original)
Unforgiven
Groundhog Day
Big Trouble in Little China
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Ravenous
Memento
The Usual Suspects
Fallen
The Game
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
The Matrix
No Country for Old Men
The Big Lebowski
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Alien
Terminator 2
The Thing
12 Monkeys