THE EARLY RESEARCH
My early work into worthy cinema led me to compile a list of the 'Best movies of all time' some years ago in 2006-2007 with the help of my family and friends. It was weeks and weeks of emails and conversations, speckled with people's insane rants about the movies that they were willing to sell their next born to see on the list, and crazy late night calls from late entry people that were just leaving the cinema and needed to make sure that I put the movie that they had just seen on the list.
I still haven't seen everything on this list, and I never will, some of it is quite frankly utter shit, but, when you make a compilation you have to let everyone have a voice. Is it relevant to awesome cinema? Probably not, but it is an interesting little slice of research and well worth a peruse.
Below is a copy of the note that I attached with the final compilation of movies, it pretty much explains the list and my views on the list. This is what I consider to be the earliest research I had in 'must see' cinema and probably the foundation of all of my future obsessions.
A NOTE TO MY KIND CONTRIBUTORS:
Here it is everyone....in all of it's glory and I must say, it's pretty amazing.
There will be films here that you instantly identify with and others that will leave you wondering “How the hell did that get a vote?” I assure you that I only asked people that I believe to have intelligence and a thirst for decent cinema to submit, but we all have bad days! I admit, not everything on the lists are to my taste, but I have nowhere near seen all of the films listed and therefore, I cannot comment on a lot of them.
Thanks to everyone that submitted their most treasured films for me to add, it was interesting to see which movies had had the most impact on your lives.
The collection is pretty extensive, and I have tried to add everyone’s choices to the lists. However; if someone’s film got two votes on the Back Away Slowly listings, then it got axed. Sorry, but I figured if two out of twenty plus people that were polled hated it, then it didn’t deserve to make the list. So, if you cannot find something you nominated listed here, then I am afraid to say that means too many other people didn’t like it.
In all fairness to other people’s favourites, I did not add the axed movies to the Back Away Slowly (BAS) list, seeing your fave movie on that list is a bit of a slap in the face. We obviously all love our cinema or we wouldn’t have submitted, and I do not want to offend anyone for their choices.
Also, the other problem I had was genres. Some films quiet obviously blur the lines here, making it impossible to really know where they should belong. Horror/ comedy, romance/ comedy, gritty/ war, action/ drama, art house/foreign, it all gets pretty indistinguishable. I have tried to place films where I feel they belong, but this argument could go on for hours, so just live with it, or shuffle them around yourself if it really bothers you.
I have added an asterix next to the movies that got five or more votes in total, assuming that they are definite must sees, but you can judge that for yourself. Obviously, an asterix in Back Away Slowly category means it really sucks! Also, most of the foreign section has country references in brackets, which should help you locate them.
If you don’t find anything new to see on the list, you really aren’t looking hard enough. I doubt anyone has seen all of the films on here (990 odd in total, excluding BAS), so there should be plenty of stuff for your viewing pleasure. I also found that the list made me want to go back and re-watch some things I’d forgotten all about, and I am sure you will feel the same way.
Enjoy and happy viewing.
NOTE: THESE ARE NOT MY CHOICES - THESE ARE THE OFFERINGS COMPILED BY COLLECTING OTHER PEOPLE'S FAVOURITES.
FOR MY LISTS OF RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS- GO TO GENRE LISTS ON THE TOOL BAR AND GET VIEWING THE CREAM OF THE CROP!
GENRE: HORROR and SUPERNATURAL
13 Ghosts
28 Days Later *
1408
A Nightmare on Elm Street
An American Werewolf in London
Amityville Horror (re-make)
Carrie
Constantine
Darkness
Dawn of the Dead (re-make)
Dracula (Bram Stoker’s) *
Dusk ‘til Dawn
Event Horizon
Fallen
Flat liners
Frailty
Frankenstein
Friday the Thirteenth
Grindhouse Presents (Series)
Halloween
Hellraiser
Hide and Seek
Hitcher
House
I Am Legend
In the Mouth of Madness
Interview with the Vampire
IT
Jacob’s Ladder
Jaws
Misery
Mothman Prophecies
Nightbreed (Clive Barker)
Open Water
Pet Semetary
Phenomenon
Pin
Poltergeist
Powder *
Psycho *
Resident Evil Series
Rosemary’s Baby
Saw *
Scream
Serpent and the Rainbow
Session 9
Shadow of the Vampire
Signs
Silent Hill
Skelton Key
Sleepy Hollow
Stigmata *
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (re-make)
The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project 2: Book of Shadows
The Butterfly Effect
The Crow *
The Devil’s Advocate
The Evil Dead Trilogy *
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcist (Directors Cut) *
The Fly
The Frighteners
The Gift
The Green Mile
The Haunting
The House on Haunted Hill
The Omen
The Others
The Ring *
The Shining *
The Sixth Sense *
The Thing
The Village
Wolf
Wolf Creek
GENRE: ROMANCE/ LOVE STORY
10 Things I Hate About You
A Life Less Ordinary
A Room With A View
Angel Baby
As Good as it Gets *
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Benny and Joon *
Boys on the Side
Bridget Jone’s Diary *
Bridget Jone’s Edge of Reason
Candy
Chasing Amy
Chocolat *
City of Angels
Cyrano de Bergerac
Down With Love *
Emma
Endless Love
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ever After *
French Kiss
Fried Green Tomatoes
Garden State
Ghost
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Grease
Great Expectations
Heart and Souls
Heartburn
High Fidelity
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Immortal Beloved
Intolerable Cruelty
Legends of the Fall
Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico)
Little Women
Love Actually *
Love Story
Meet Joe Black *
Memoirs of a Geisha
Moonstruck
Moulin Rouge *
My Best Friend’s Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Never Been Kissed
Oscar and Lucinda
Persuasion
Pleasantville
Practical Magic
Pride and the Prejudice (original)
Romeo + Juliet *
Sabrina (original)
Sense and Sensibility
Serendipity
Shakespeare In Love
Shooting Fish
Sleepless in Seattle *
Something’s Gotta Give *
Sweet November
The Bridges of Madison County
The Good Girl
The Last of the Mohicans *
The Notebook
The Thorn Birds
The Truth about Cats and Dogs
The Upside of Anger
The Way We Were
The Year of Living Dangerously
Truly Madly Deeply *
Tristan + Isolde *
Under a Tuscan Sun
What Dreams May Come
What Women Want
When a Man Loves a Woman
When Harry Met Sally
Where the Heart Is
While You Were Sleeping
Wimbledon
Wuthering Heights
GENRE: ACTION and WAR
300
A Perfect Storm
A Simple Plan
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypto
Bad Boys (Sean Penn)
Ballistic
Basic
Blood Diamond
Die Hard Series
Black Hawk Down *
Boondock Saints *
Boyz n’ the Hood
Breaker Morant
Braveheart *
Casino
Casino Royale – 007 James Bond
Chopper
City of God
Con Air *
Dirty Deeds
Donnie Brasco
Downfall (Germany)
Empire of the Sun *
Enemy at the Gates
Enter the Dragon
Face Off
Fight Club *
Forrest Gump
Full Metal Jacket *
Gallipoli *
Gangs of New York
Getting’ Square
Gladiator *
Glory
Go
Goodfellas
Hard Boiled
Hart’s War
Heat
In the Cut
Independence Day
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade *
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Inside Man
Kalifornia
Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 *
Killer
Killing Zoe
Kiss of the Dragon
Kokoda
Ladder 49
Layer Cake
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels *
Lucky Number Slevin
Man on Fire
Master and Commander *
Mission: Impossible
No Man’s Land
Ordinary Decent Criminal
Out of Sight
Panic Room
Phonebooth
Platoon *
Pulp Fiction *
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark *
Reservoir Dogs *
Rocky
Romper Stomper *
Ronin
Saving Private Ryan *
Scarface
Seven Samurai (Japan) *
Se7en *
Shoot Em Up
Sin City *
Snatch *
The Bank
The Big Hit
The Bourne Identity
The Count of Monty Cristo
The Departed
The Hunted
The Interpreter
The Italian Job (Grey)
The Killing Fields
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Mask of Zorro
The Missing
The Negotiator
The One
The Patriot
The Peacemaker
The Professional (aka Leon) *
The Replacement Killers
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sting
The Warriors
The Yards
Three Kings *
Troy
True Romance *
Two Hands *
Twister
Way of the Gun
GENRE: SCI-FI and FANTASY
12 Monkeys *
2001: A Space Odyssey
A.I.
Alien Movie Series (except the 3rd)
Avalon
Batman Begins *
Beowulf
Blade Runner *
Blade Trilogy
Brazil
Chronicles of Riddick
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cloverfield
Code 46
Contact
Dark City
Donny Darko *
Dragonheart
Dune
E.T.
Excalibur
eXistenZ *
Gattaca
Ghost in the Shell
Ghostbusters
Harry Potter (All of them) *
Highlander *
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
I, Robot
Jurassic Park
King Kong *
K-PAX *
Lord of the Rings Trilogy *
Mad Max
Mars Attacks
Men In Black
Minority Report
Ninja Scrolls
Pitch Black *
Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2 *
Planet of the Apes
Scanner Darkly
Serenity *
Spawn
Spiderman Series
Spy Kids Trilogy
Stardust
Starman
Star Wars Movie Series
Starship Troopers
Strange Days
Titan AE
The Abyss
The Astronauts Wife
The Cell
The Cube *
The Fifth Element *
The Island *
The Lady in the Water
The Matrix Trilogy *
The Mist
The Mummy *
The Mummy Returns
The Terminator (1 and 2)
The Time Machine (re-make)
Transformers
Total Recall
Unbreakable *
War of the Worlds *
Willow *
Wings of Desire
V for Vendetta *
X-Men series
GENRE: GRITTY/ CHALLENGING and DOCUMENTARY
21 Grams *
A Brief History of Time
A History of Violence
American History X
American Psycho
An Inconvenient Truth
Baraka
Basketball Diaries *
Bastard out of Carolina
Black Rock
Bloody Sunday
Born into Brothels
Bowling for Columbine *
Boys Don’t Cry *
Brokeback Mountain
Capturing the Friedmans
Crumb
Das Experiment
Dead Man Walking
Dead Ringers
Death and the Maiden
Dogville
Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fahrenheit 9/11 *
Gods and Monsters
Grizzly Man
Happiness *
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Irreversible (France)
John Safran’s Music Jamboree
John Safran vs. God
Kids *
Life is Beautiful *
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Metalskin
Microcosmos
Mississippi Burning
Murderball
Mysterious Skin *
Night and Fog
Nil by Mouth
Once Were Warriors *
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
Paradise Lost
Pazae Lackeen (The Traveler Girl)
Requiem for a Dream *
Salo – The 120 Days of Sodom
Schindler’s List *
Spellbound
Super Size Me *
The Accused
The Acid House
The Boys
The Crying Game
The Corporation
The Elephant Man *
The Fog of War: Eleven lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
The House of Sand and Fog
The Last Exit to Brooklyn
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Passion of the Christ
The Pianist
The Thin Red Line
The Tracker
The War Zone
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
The Woodsman
Thirteen *
Touching the Void
Trainspotting *
Traveling Birds/ Winged Migration
U-Turn
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
What the Bleep Do we Know?
Why We Fight
GENRE: CHILDREN
5 Children and It
101 Dalmations
A Fairy Tale
A Little Princess
Aladdin (Disney) *
Alice in Wonderland
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Arthur and the Invisibles
Atlantis
Babe
Back to the Future Movie Series
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
Bridge to Terebithia
Bugs Life
Cars
Castle in the Sky
Cat in the Hat
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Burton) *
Charlotte’s Web
Cheaper by the Dozen 1 & 2
Chicken Lttle
Chicken Run *
Curious George the Movie
Danny, the Champion of the World
Dark Crystal
Dinosaurs
Elf
Emperor’s New Groove *
Fantasia *
Fern Gully
Finding Nemo *
Flushed Away
Fly Away Home
Hercules
Hoodwinked
Hook
Horton Hears a Who!
How to Eat Fried Worms
Howl’s Moving Castle *
Ice Age
Indian in the Cupboard
Labyrinth *
James and the Giant Peach *
Jumanji
Lemony Snickett’s A Series of Unfortunate Events *
Madagascar
March of the Penguins
Mary Poppins
Matilda
Meet the Robinsons
Millions *
Mirror Mask
Monster House
Monsters Inc.
Mousehunt
Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
My Girl
Nanny McPhee *
Narnia Chronicles
Never Ending Story
Nightmare before Christmas *
Over the Hedge
Peter Pan (Hogan) *
Princess Mononoke
Ratatouille
Robots
School of Rock *
Scooby Doo
Shrek (1&2) *
Small Soldiers
Spirited Away *
Spongebob Movie
Stand By Me
The Addams Family
The Bee Movie
The Bear
The Black Stallion
The Corpse Bride (Burton) *
The Golden Compass
The Goonies
The Grinch *
The Haunted Mansion *
The Incredibles
The Iron Giant
The Jungle Book
The Lion King
The Mask (Jim Carrey)
The Polar Express
The Prince of Egypt
The Princess Bride
The Rugrats Movies
The Secret Garden
The Storyteller Series
The Triplets of Belleville
The War of the Buttons
The Witches *
Toys Story (1 & 2 ) *
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Treasure Planet
Wallace and Gromit – A Close Shave
Wallace and Gromit – Curse of the Were-Rabbit *
Wallace and Gromit – The Wrong Trousers
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Zathura
GENRE: DRAMA
25th Hour
A Beautiful Mind *
A Few Good Men
A Home at the End of the World
A Love Song for Bobby Long
A River Runs Through It
About Schmidt
Ali
Almost Famous
American Beauty *
American Gangster
Amadeus
Amistad
Amy
Angela’s Ashes
Annie Hall
Awakenings
Being Julia
Big Night
Billy Elliot
Blood Simple
Blow
Boogie Nights
Born on the Fourth of July
Brassed Off
Breakfast on Pluto
Bringing Out the Dead
Cape Fear
Capote
Castaway *
Catch Me If You Can
Chaplin
Chariots of Fire
Charlotte Gray
Chicago *
Children of Men
Chinatown
Cider House Rules
Cinderella Man *
Closer *
Collateral *
Crash *
Croupier
Cruel Intentions
Dances with Wolves *
Dangerous Liaisons
Dead Poet’s Society *
Deliverance
Double Jeopardy
Elizabeth *
Erin Brokovich
Eyes Wide Shut
Falling Down
Far From Heaven
Finding Neverland *
Flirting
Frida
From Hell
Gandhi
Gia
Girl Fight
Girl Interrupted
Godfather Movie Series
Good Night and Good Luck
Good Will Hunting
Gosford Park
Hamlet (Branagh & Gibson)
Henry V
Her Majesty Mrs Brown
Hideous Kinky
Holy Smoke
Hotel Rwanda *
Hurly Burly
In America *
In the Bedroom
In the Name of the Father *
In My Father’s Den
Insomnia
Iris
Japanese Story
Just Cause
Kramer vs. Kramer
Kundun
LA Confidential
Ladies in Lavender
Lantana
Leaving Las Vegas
Life as a House
Little Fish
Little Man Tate
Little Voice
Lolita
Look Both Ways
Lord of the Flies
Lord of War
Lorenzo’s Oil *
Lovely and Amazing
Magnolia
Man on the Moon
Match Point
Mean Creek
Midnight Crossing
Millers Crossing
Million Dollar Baby *
Monster
Monsters Ball
Mullet
Munich
My Brilliant Career
Mystic River *
North Country
Oceans Eleven *
Oceans Twelve
Of Mice and Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One True Thing
Othello
Pacific Heights
Pay It Forward
Perfume
Philadelphia
Pollock
Praise
Primal Fear
Primary Colours
Proof (Moorhouse)
Pushing Tin
Quiz Show
Rabbit Proof Fence *
Rain (Jeffs)
Rain Man *
Ray
Richard III
Secrets and Lies
Sexy Beast *
Shattered Glass
Shawshank Redemption *
Shine *
Sling Blade *
Six Degrees of Seperation
Snow Falling on Cedars
Somersault
Sophie’s Choice
Swimming Upstream
Syriana
Tape
Taxi Driver *
Terms of Endearment
Thank God He Met Lizzie
The Aviator
The Big Chill
The Business of Strangers
The Cat’s Meow
The Color Purple *
The Constant Gardener
The Contender
The Cooler
The Crucible
The Da Vinci Code
The Deer Hunter
The English Patient
The Field
The Fisher King
The Game
The Grifters
The Hi-Lo Country
The Hours
The Insider *
The Interview
The Last King of Scotland
The Life of David Gale
The Man Who Wasn’t There
The Manchurian Candidate
The Mission
The New World
The Opposite of Sex
The People vs. Larry Flint
The Proposition *
The Quiet American
The Scent of a Woman
The Talented Mr Ripley *
The Truman Show *
The Usual Suspects *
The Winslow Boy
The Worlds Fastest Indian
Thelma and Louise *
Three Dollars
Titanic
To Die For *
Traffic
Unforgiven
Vera Drake
Veronica Guerin
Walk the Line
We Don’t Live Here Anymore
Wilde
Witness
Yentl
You Can Count on Me
Zodiac
GENRE: ARTHOUSE
A Clockwork Orange
Adaptation *
American Splendour
Animal Farm
Being John Malkovich *
Big Fish *
Blue Velvet
Cry Baby
Dead Man *
Delicatessen
Dogville
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands *
Elephant *
Evita
Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ghostworld
Harvie Krumpet
Heavenly Creatures
Hilary and Jackie
Jesus of Montreal
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Little Shop of Horrors
Lost Highway
Lost In Translation *
Man Bites Dog
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Memento *
Mulholland Drive *
My Left Foot
My Own Private Idaho
Naked Lunch
Natural Born Killers *
Palindromes
Pi
Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Primer
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Quills *
Raising Arizona
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Run Lola Run (Germany) *
Rushmore
Sample People
Shirley Valentine
Shopgirl
Sideways *
Sweeny Todd
The Bicycle Thief (China)
The Blues Brothers
The City of Lost Children
The Cook, The Thief, His wife and Her Lover
The Doors
The Ice Storm
The Machinist *
The Madness of King George
The Piano
The Secretary
The Straight Story
The Virgin Suicides *
Thumbsucker
United States of Leland
Velvet Goldmine
Waking Life
Whale Rider *
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? *
Wild at Heart
Young Adam
GENRE: FOREIGN
II Postino (Italy)
2046 (Hong Kong)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (Japan)
All About My Mother (Spain) *
A Ma Souer! (Fat Girl) (France)
A Very Long Engagement (France)
Amelie (France) *
Amores Perros (Mexico)
As it is in Heaven (Sweden)
Atanarjuat (Canada)
Atomica (Spain)
Babette’s Feast (France)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (China)
Belle De Jour (France)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (France) *
Buena Vista Social Club (Cuba)
Burnt By the Sun (Brazil)
Central Station (Brazil)
Children of Heaven (Iran)
Christine F (Germany)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (China) *
Dancer in the Dark * (Demark/ Iceland)
Das Boot (Germany)
DayWatch (Russia)
Divided We Fall (Czechoslovakia)
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Taiwan)
El Angel Exterminador (Spain)
Europa Europa (Germany/France/Poland)
Fallen Angels (Hong Kong)
Get Ready to be Boyzvoiced (Norway)
Goodbye Lenin! (Germany)
Hana-bi (Japan)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Germany)
Hero (China) *
Hidden (France)
Himalaya (Nepal)
House of Flying Daggers (China) *
Immortal – Ad Vitam (France)
In the Mood for Love (Hong Kong)
Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong)
Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources (France)
Jet Lag (France)
Kagemusha (Japan)
Kandahar (Afghanistan)
Kissed by Winter (Norway)
Kolya (Czechoslovakia)
Land and Freedom (Spain/UK/Germany/Italy)
Les Diabolique (The Devils) (France)
Le Quatre Cent Coups (The 400 Blows) (France)
M (Germany)
Maria Full of Grace (Columbia)
Monsoon Wedding (UK/India) *
My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle (France)
Nightwatch (Russia) *
Nikita (France)
No Man’s Land (Bosnia/ Herzegovina)
Nobody Knows (Japan)
Nowhere in Africa (Germany)
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Italy)
Oldboy (Sth Korea)
Osama (Afghanistan)
Prisoner of the Mountains (Russia)
Raise the Red Lantern (China) *
Ran (Japan)
Rang de Basanti (India)
Rashomon (In the Woods) (Japan)
Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (China)
Ridicule (France)
Salaam Bombay! * (India)
Sanjuro (Japan)
Second Sight (Norway)
Shall We Dance? (Japan)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
Solyaris (Russia)
Sophie Scholl – the Final Days (Germany)
Talk to Her (Spain)
The Bandit Queen (India)
The Barbarian Invasions (Canada)
The Beat that My Heart Skipped (France)
The Bicycle Thief (Italy)
The Chorus (France)
The Circle (Iran)
The Crazy Stranger (Romania)
The Dinner Party (France)
The Edukators (Germany)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (Japan)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Argentina) *
The Return (Russia)
The Ring (Japan)
The Road Home (China)
The Scent of Green Papaya (Vietnam)
The Sea Inside (Spain)
The Seventh Seal (Sweden)
The Shanghai Triad (China)
The Spanish Apartment (Spain/ England/France)
The Taste of Others (France)
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Vietnam)
The Wedding Banquet (Taiwan)
The Weeping Camel (Mongolia)
Three Colours (Red, White and Blue) * (France)
Three Seasons (Vietnam)
Tsotsi (Sth Africa)
Wild Reeds (France)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Mexico)
Yojimbo (Japan)
Z (France)
Zatoichi (Japan)
GENRE: COMEDY
40 Year Old Virgin
200 Cigarettes
A Fish Called Wanda *
A Mid Summer Nights Dream
A Prairie Home Companion
About a Boy
An Ideal Husband
Analyze This
Anger Management
Austin Powers Movie series
Bad Eggs
Bandits
Be Cool
Bedazzled
Beetlejuice *
Bend it Like Beckham
Best In Show *
Better Off Dead
Big
Borat
Bring it On
Bruce Almighty
Bubble Boy
Cable guy
Calendar Girls
Clerks *
Clueless
Cold Comfort Farm
Cookie’s Fortune
Cosi *
Death Becomes Her
Death to Smoochy
Deconstructing Harry
Dogma *
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Election
Even Almighty
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Fever Pitch
Four Rooms
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Full Monty
Get Shorty
Good Morning Vietnam
Groundhog Day
Grosse Point Blank
Happy Gilmore
Hear no Evil, See no Evil
Hot Fuzz
I ♥ Huckabees *
I Love You to Death *
Intermission
Josie and the Pussycats
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang *
Krippendorf’s Tribe
Last Supper
Legally Blonde
Little Miss Sunshine
Mallrats
Maverick
Me, Myself and Irene
Meet the Parents
Meet the Fockers *
Michael
Mighty Aphrodite
Monty Python – The Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Meaning of Life *
Mr Bean’s Holiday
Mr Deeds
Mrs Doubtfire
Much Ado About Nothing
Muriel’s Wedding *
My Cousin Vinny
Mystery Men
Nacho Libre
Napoleon Dynamite *
Nurse Betty
O’ Brother, Where Art Thou? *
Office Space
Old School
Orange County
Patch Adams
Peter’s Friends
Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion
Shanghai Knights
Shanghai Noon *
Shaun of the Dead *
Southpark (the movie)
Space Cowboys
So I Married an Axe Murderer *
Strictly Ballroom
Sweet and Lowdown
Team America: World Police
The Big Lebowski
The Bird Cage
The Breakfast Club
The Castle *
The Commitments *
The Dish
The Full Monty
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Producers
The Rage in Placid Lake
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Royal Tenenbaums *
The Simpsons Movie
The Sum of Us
There’s Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap
The Wedding Singer *
The Witches of Eastwick
Tootsie
Withnail and I
Wonderboys
Young Frankenstein
Zoolander *
GENRE: CLASSIC
12 Angry Men *
A Streetcar Named Desire
Adam’s Rib
All About Eve
An Affair to Remember
Arsenic and Old Lace
Ben Hur
Bonny and Clyde
Breakfast at Tiffany’s *
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca *
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Citizen Kane *
Cool Hand Luke
Doctor Zhivago
Double Indemnity
Duck Soup
Dr. Strangelove
Easy Rider
From Here to Eternity
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gone with the Wind
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Harvey
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
High Society
How Green Was My Valley
It’s a Wonderful Life
La Dolce Vita
Lawrence of Arabia *
Macbeth (Polansky)
Madam Bovery
Metropolis *
Midnight Cowboy
My Fair Lady
Nosferatu *
North by Nothwest
Notorious
On the Waterfront
Paths of Glory
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Rear Window
Rebecca
Rebel Without a Cause
Roman Holiday *
Romeo and Juliet (Zefferelli)
Singin’ in the Rain
Some Like it Hot *
Sophie’s Choice
Spartacus
Spellbound
Stalag 17
Sunset Blvd.
The African Queen *
The Big Sleep
The Birds
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Good the Bad and the Ugly *
The Graduate
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Escape
The Italian Job
The Long Long Trailer
The Lost Weekend
The Maltese Falcon
The Nutty Professor
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Sound of Music
The Taming of the Shrew
The Third Man
The Time Machine
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Wizard of Oz *
The Women
To Catch a Thief
To Kill a Mocking Bird *
Vertigo
West Side Story
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? *
Zorba the Greek
GENRE: BACK AWAY SLOWLY aka WORST FILMS EVER
2 Fast 2 Furious
8 Mile
Alexander
Aliens 3
American Pie movies
Anything with Claude Van Damm
Anything with Kevin Costner
Anything with Steven Segal
Anything with Johnny Knoxville
Anything with Arnold Schwarzenegger that claims to be a comedy
Basic Instinct (and any other film that involves women seducing and then killing Michael Douglas)
Battle Field Earth *
Blood Rayne
Body of Evidence
Cat woman
Charlie’s Angels 1 & 2
Chucky movies
Cliff Hanger
Cocktail
Coyote Ugly *
Crossroads (Spears version)
Daredevil
Days of Thunder
Dick Tracey
Dirty Dancing
Dude where’s My Car?
Dukes of Hazard *
Far and Away
Freddy Got Fingered
Ghost Ship
Gigli *
Glitter
Hackers
House of 1000 Corpses
House of the Dead
House of Wax (but seeing Paris get murdered is a must see moment!)
Hostel
Howard the Duck
Hudson Hawk
I Know What You Did….. (Any/all of them)
It’s Pat
Jingle All the Way *
Johnny Mnemonic
Look Who’s Talking (All)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
National Treasure
Notting Hill
Original Sin
Pearl Harbour
Police Academy Movies
Porky’s
Pretty Woman *
Red Eye
Revenge of the Nerds
Roller ball
Runaway Bride
Shanghai Surprise
Showgirls
Snakes on a Plane
Sound of Thunder
Spice World
Striptease *
Swept Away
The Body Guard
The Grudge
The Last Action Hero
The Last Samurai
The Postman
The Toxic Avenger
The Transporter (1 & 2 and any to come!)
Tin Cup
Tomb Raider 1 & 2
Twins
Waterworld
You’ve Got Mail
Vanilla Sky
XXX movies (The Porn and action ones!)
I still haven't seen everything on this list, and I never will, some of it is quite frankly utter shit, but, when you make a compilation you have to let everyone have a voice. Is it relevant to awesome cinema? Probably not, but it is an interesting little slice of research and well worth a peruse.
Below is a copy of the note that I attached with the final compilation of movies, it pretty much explains the list and my views on the list. This is what I consider to be the earliest research I had in 'must see' cinema and probably the foundation of all of my future obsessions.
A NOTE TO MY KIND CONTRIBUTORS:
Here it is everyone....in all of it's glory and I must say, it's pretty amazing.
There will be films here that you instantly identify with and others that will leave you wondering “How the hell did that get a vote?” I assure you that I only asked people that I believe to have intelligence and a thirst for decent cinema to submit, but we all have bad days! I admit, not everything on the lists are to my taste, but I have nowhere near seen all of the films listed and therefore, I cannot comment on a lot of them.
Thanks to everyone that submitted their most treasured films for me to add, it was interesting to see which movies had had the most impact on your lives.
The collection is pretty extensive, and I have tried to add everyone’s choices to the lists. However; if someone’s film got two votes on the Back Away Slowly listings, then it got axed. Sorry, but I figured if two out of twenty plus people that were polled hated it, then it didn’t deserve to make the list. So, if you cannot find something you nominated listed here, then I am afraid to say that means too many other people didn’t like it.
In all fairness to other people’s favourites, I did not add the axed movies to the Back Away Slowly (BAS) list, seeing your fave movie on that list is a bit of a slap in the face. We obviously all love our cinema or we wouldn’t have submitted, and I do not want to offend anyone for their choices.
Also, the other problem I had was genres. Some films quiet obviously blur the lines here, making it impossible to really know where they should belong. Horror/ comedy, romance/ comedy, gritty/ war, action/ drama, art house/foreign, it all gets pretty indistinguishable. I have tried to place films where I feel they belong, but this argument could go on for hours, so just live with it, or shuffle them around yourself if it really bothers you.
I have added an asterix next to the movies that got five or more votes in total, assuming that they are definite must sees, but you can judge that for yourself. Obviously, an asterix in Back Away Slowly category means it really sucks! Also, most of the foreign section has country references in brackets, which should help you locate them.
If you don’t find anything new to see on the list, you really aren’t looking hard enough. I doubt anyone has seen all of the films on here (990 odd in total, excluding BAS), so there should be plenty of stuff for your viewing pleasure. I also found that the list made me want to go back and re-watch some things I’d forgotten all about, and I am sure you will feel the same way.
Enjoy and happy viewing.
NOTE: THESE ARE NOT MY CHOICES - THESE ARE THE OFFERINGS COMPILED BY COLLECTING OTHER PEOPLE'S FAVOURITES.
FOR MY LISTS OF RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS- GO TO GENRE LISTS ON THE TOOL BAR AND GET VIEWING THE CREAM OF THE CROP!
GENRE: HORROR and SUPERNATURAL
13 Ghosts
28 Days Later *
1408
A Nightmare on Elm Street
An American Werewolf in London
Amityville Horror (re-make)
Carrie
Constantine
Darkness
Dawn of the Dead (re-make)
Dracula (Bram Stoker’s) *
Dusk ‘til Dawn
Event Horizon
Fallen
Flat liners
Frailty
Frankenstein
Friday the Thirteenth
Grindhouse Presents (Series)
Halloween
Hellraiser
Hide and Seek
Hitcher
House
I Am Legend
In the Mouth of Madness
Interview with the Vampire
IT
Jacob’s Ladder
Jaws
Misery
Mothman Prophecies
Nightbreed (Clive Barker)
Open Water
Pet Semetary
Phenomenon
Pin
Poltergeist
Powder *
Psycho *
Resident Evil Series
Rosemary’s Baby
Saw *
Scream
Serpent and the Rainbow
Session 9
Shadow of the Vampire
Signs
Silent Hill
Skelton Key
Sleepy Hollow
Stigmata *
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (re-make)
The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project 2: Book of Shadows
The Butterfly Effect
The Crow *
The Devil’s Advocate
The Evil Dead Trilogy *
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcist (Directors Cut) *
The Fly
The Frighteners
The Gift
The Green Mile
The Haunting
The House on Haunted Hill
The Omen
The Others
The Ring *
The Shining *
The Sixth Sense *
The Thing
The Village
Wolf
Wolf Creek
GENRE: ROMANCE/ LOVE STORY
10 Things I Hate About You
A Life Less Ordinary
A Room With A View
Angel Baby
As Good as it Gets *
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Benny and Joon *
Boys on the Side
Bridget Jone’s Diary *
Bridget Jone’s Edge of Reason
Candy
Chasing Amy
Chocolat *
City of Angels
Cyrano de Bergerac
Down With Love *
Emma
Endless Love
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ever After *
French Kiss
Fried Green Tomatoes
Garden State
Ghost
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Grease
Great Expectations
Heart and Souls
Heartburn
High Fidelity
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Immortal Beloved
Intolerable Cruelty
Legends of the Fall
Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico)
Little Women
Love Actually *
Love Story
Meet Joe Black *
Memoirs of a Geisha
Moonstruck
Moulin Rouge *
My Best Friend’s Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Never Been Kissed
Oscar and Lucinda
Persuasion
Pleasantville
Practical Magic
Pride and the Prejudice (original)
Romeo + Juliet *
Sabrina (original)
Sense and Sensibility
Serendipity
Shakespeare In Love
Shooting Fish
Sleepless in Seattle *
Something’s Gotta Give *
Sweet November
The Bridges of Madison County
The Good Girl
The Last of the Mohicans *
The Notebook
The Thorn Birds
The Truth about Cats and Dogs
The Upside of Anger
The Way We Were
The Year of Living Dangerously
Truly Madly Deeply *
Tristan + Isolde *
Under a Tuscan Sun
What Dreams May Come
What Women Want
When a Man Loves a Woman
When Harry Met Sally
Where the Heart Is
While You Were Sleeping
Wimbledon
Wuthering Heights
GENRE: ACTION and WAR
300
A Perfect Storm
A Simple Plan
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypto
Bad Boys (Sean Penn)
Ballistic
Basic
Blood Diamond
Die Hard Series
Black Hawk Down *
Boondock Saints *
Boyz n’ the Hood
Breaker Morant
Braveheart *
Casino
Casino Royale – 007 James Bond
Chopper
City of God
Con Air *
Dirty Deeds
Donnie Brasco
Downfall (Germany)
Empire of the Sun *
Enemy at the Gates
Enter the Dragon
Face Off
Fight Club *
Forrest Gump
Full Metal Jacket *
Gallipoli *
Gangs of New York
Getting’ Square
Gladiator *
Glory
Go
Goodfellas
Hard Boiled
Hart’s War
Heat
In the Cut
Independence Day
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade *
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Inside Man
Kalifornia
Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 *
Killer
Killing Zoe
Kiss of the Dragon
Kokoda
Ladder 49
Layer Cake
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels *
Lucky Number Slevin
Man on Fire
Master and Commander *
Mission: Impossible
No Man’s Land
Ordinary Decent Criminal
Out of Sight
Panic Room
Phonebooth
Platoon *
Pulp Fiction *
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark *
Reservoir Dogs *
Rocky
Romper Stomper *
Ronin
Saving Private Ryan *
Scarface
Seven Samurai (Japan) *
Se7en *
Shoot Em Up
Sin City *
Snatch *
The Bank
The Big Hit
The Bourne Identity
The Count of Monty Cristo
The Departed
The Hunted
The Interpreter
The Italian Job (Grey)
The Killing Fields
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Mask of Zorro
The Missing
The Negotiator
The One
The Patriot
The Peacemaker
The Professional (aka Leon) *
The Replacement Killers
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sting
The Warriors
The Yards
Three Kings *
Troy
True Romance *
Two Hands *
Twister
Way of the Gun
GENRE: SCI-FI and FANTASY
12 Monkeys *
2001: A Space Odyssey
A.I.
Alien Movie Series (except the 3rd)
Avalon
Batman Begins *
Beowulf
Blade Runner *
Blade Trilogy
Brazil
Chronicles of Riddick
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cloverfield
Code 46
Contact
Dark City
Donny Darko *
Dragonheart
Dune
E.T.
Excalibur
eXistenZ *
Gattaca
Ghost in the Shell
Ghostbusters
Harry Potter (All of them) *
Highlander *
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
I, Robot
Jurassic Park
King Kong *
K-PAX *
Lord of the Rings Trilogy *
Mad Max
Mars Attacks
Men In Black
Minority Report
Ninja Scrolls
Pitch Black *
Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2 *
Planet of the Apes
Scanner Darkly
Serenity *
Spawn
Spiderman Series
Spy Kids Trilogy
Stardust
Starman
Star Wars Movie Series
Starship Troopers
Strange Days
Titan AE
The Abyss
The Astronauts Wife
The Cell
The Cube *
The Fifth Element *
The Island *
The Lady in the Water
The Matrix Trilogy *
The Mist
The Mummy *
The Mummy Returns
The Terminator (1 and 2)
The Time Machine (re-make)
Transformers
Total Recall
Unbreakable *
War of the Worlds *
Willow *
Wings of Desire
V for Vendetta *
X-Men series
GENRE: GRITTY/ CHALLENGING and DOCUMENTARY
21 Grams *
A Brief History of Time
A History of Violence
American History X
American Psycho
An Inconvenient Truth
Baraka
Basketball Diaries *
Bastard out of Carolina
Black Rock
Bloody Sunday
Born into Brothels
Bowling for Columbine *
Boys Don’t Cry *
Brokeback Mountain
Capturing the Friedmans
Crumb
Das Experiment
Dead Man Walking
Dead Ringers
Death and the Maiden
Dogville
Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fahrenheit 9/11 *
Gods and Monsters
Grizzly Man
Happiness *
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Irreversible (France)
John Safran’s Music Jamboree
John Safran vs. God
Kids *
Life is Beautiful *
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Metalskin
Microcosmos
Mississippi Burning
Murderball
Mysterious Skin *
Night and Fog
Nil by Mouth
Once Were Warriors *
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
Paradise Lost
Pazae Lackeen (The Traveler Girl)
Requiem for a Dream *
Salo – The 120 Days of Sodom
Schindler’s List *
Spellbound
Super Size Me *
The Accused
The Acid House
The Boys
The Crying Game
The Corporation
The Elephant Man *
The Fog of War: Eleven lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
The House of Sand and Fog
The Last Exit to Brooklyn
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Passion of the Christ
The Pianist
The Thin Red Line
The Tracker
The War Zone
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
The Woodsman
Thirteen *
Touching the Void
Trainspotting *
Traveling Birds/ Winged Migration
U-Turn
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
What the Bleep Do we Know?
Why We Fight
GENRE: CHILDREN
5 Children and It
101 Dalmations
A Fairy Tale
A Little Princess
Aladdin (Disney) *
Alice in Wonderland
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Arthur and the Invisibles
Atlantis
Babe
Back to the Future Movie Series
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
Bridge to Terebithia
Bugs Life
Cars
Castle in the Sky
Cat in the Hat
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Burton) *
Charlotte’s Web
Cheaper by the Dozen 1 & 2
Chicken Lttle
Chicken Run *
Curious George the Movie
Danny, the Champion of the World
Dark Crystal
Dinosaurs
Elf
Emperor’s New Groove *
Fantasia *
Fern Gully
Finding Nemo *
Flushed Away
Fly Away Home
Hercules
Hoodwinked
Hook
Horton Hears a Who!
How to Eat Fried Worms
Howl’s Moving Castle *
Ice Age
Indian in the Cupboard
Labyrinth *
James and the Giant Peach *
Jumanji
Lemony Snickett’s A Series of Unfortunate Events *
Madagascar
March of the Penguins
Mary Poppins
Matilda
Meet the Robinsons
Millions *
Mirror Mask
Monster House
Monsters Inc.
Mousehunt
Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
My Girl
Nanny McPhee *
Narnia Chronicles
Never Ending Story
Nightmare before Christmas *
Over the Hedge
Peter Pan (Hogan) *
Princess Mononoke
Ratatouille
Robots
School of Rock *
Scooby Doo
Shrek (1&2) *
Small Soldiers
Spirited Away *
Spongebob Movie
Stand By Me
The Addams Family
The Bee Movie
The Bear
The Black Stallion
The Corpse Bride (Burton) *
The Golden Compass
The Goonies
The Grinch *
The Haunted Mansion *
The Incredibles
The Iron Giant
The Jungle Book
The Lion King
The Mask (Jim Carrey)
The Polar Express
The Prince of Egypt
The Princess Bride
The Rugrats Movies
The Secret Garden
The Storyteller Series
The Triplets of Belleville
The War of the Buttons
The Witches *
Toys Story (1 & 2 ) *
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Treasure Planet
Wallace and Gromit – A Close Shave
Wallace and Gromit – Curse of the Were-Rabbit *
Wallace and Gromit – The Wrong Trousers
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Zathura
GENRE: DRAMA
25th Hour
A Beautiful Mind *
A Few Good Men
A Home at the End of the World
A Love Song for Bobby Long
A River Runs Through It
About Schmidt
Ali
Almost Famous
American Beauty *
American Gangster
Amadeus
Amistad
Amy
Angela’s Ashes
Annie Hall
Awakenings
Being Julia
Big Night
Billy Elliot
Blood Simple
Blow
Boogie Nights
Born on the Fourth of July
Brassed Off
Breakfast on Pluto
Bringing Out the Dead
Cape Fear
Capote
Castaway *
Catch Me If You Can
Chaplin
Chariots of Fire
Charlotte Gray
Chicago *
Children of Men
Chinatown
Cider House Rules
Cinderella Man *
Closer *
Collateral *
Crash *
Croupier
Cruel Intentions
Dances with Wolves *
Dangerous Liaisons
Dead Poet’s Society *
Deliverance
Double Jeopardy
Elizabeth *
Erin Brokovich
Eyes Wide Shut
Falling Down
Far From Heaven
Finding Neverland *
Flirting
Frida
From Hell
Gandhi
Gia
Girl Fight
Girl Interrupted
Godfather Movie Series
Good Night and Good Luck
Good Will Hunting
Gosford Park
Hamlet (Branagh & Gibson)
Henry V
Her Majesty Mrs Brown
Hideous Kinky
Holy Smoke
Hotel Rwanda *
Hurly Burly
In America *
In the Bedroom
In the Name of the Father *
In My Father’s Den
Insomnia
Iris
Japanese Story
Just Cause
Kramer vs. Kramer
Kundun
LA Confidential
Ladies in Lavender
Lantana
Leaving Las Vegas
Life as a House
Little Fish
Little Man Tate
Little Voice
Lolita
Look Both Ways
Lord of the Flies
Lord of War
Lorenzo’s Oil *
Lovely and Amazing
Magnolia
Man on the Moon
Match Point
Mean Creek
Midnight Crossing
Millers Crossing
Million Dollar Baby *
Monster
Monsters Ball
Mullet
Munich
My Brilliant Career
Mystic River *
North Country
Oceans Eleven *
Oceans Twelve
Of Mice and Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One True Thing
Othello
Pacific Heights
Pay It Forward
Perfume
Philadelphia
Pollock
Praise
Primal Fear
Primary Colours
Proof (Moorhouse)
Pushing Tin
Quiz Show
Rabbit Proof Fence *
Rain (Jeffs)
Rain Man *
Ray
Richard III
Secrets and Lies
Sexy Beast *
Shattered Glass
Shawshank Redemption *
Shine *
Sling Blade *
Six Degrees of Seperation
Snow Falling on Cedars
Somersault
Sophie’s Choice
Swimming Upstream
Syriana
Tape
Taxi Driver *
Terms of Endearment
Thank God He Met Lizzie
The Aviator
The Big Chill
The Business of Strangers
The Cat’s Meow
The Color Purple *
The Constant Gardener
The Contender
The Cooler
The Crucible
The Da Vinci Code
The Deer Hunter
The English Patient
The Field
The Fisher King
The Game
The Grifters
The Hi-Lo Country
The Hours
The Insider *
The Interview
The Last King of Scotland
The Life of David Gale
The Man Who Wasn’t There
The Manchurian Candidate
The Mission
The New World
The Opposite of Sex
The People vs. Larry Flint
The Proposition *
The Quiet American
The Scent of a Woman
The Talented Mr Ripley *
The Truman Show *
The Usual Suspects *
The Winslow Boy
The Worlds Fastest Indian
Thelma and Louise *
Three Dollars
Titanic
To Die For *
Traffic
Unforgiven
Vera Drake
Veronica Guerin
Walk the Line
We Don’t Live Here Anymore
Wilde
Witness
Yentl
You Can Count on Me
Zodiac
GENRE: ARTHOUSE
A Clockwork Orange
Adaptation *
American Splendour
Animal Farm
Being John Malkovich *
Big Fish *
Blue Velvet
Cry Baby
Dead Man *
Delicatessen
Dogville
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands *
Elephant *
Evita
Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ghostworld
Harvie Krumpet
Heavenly Creatures
Hilary and Jackie
Jesus of Montreal
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Little Shop of Horrors
Lost Highway
Lost In Translation *
Man Bites Dog
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Memento *
Mulholland Drive *
My Left Foot
My Own Private Idaho
Naked Lunch
Natural Born Killers *
Palindromes
Pi
Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Primer
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Quills *
Raising Arizona
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Run Lola Run (Germany) *
Rushmore
Sample People
Shirley Valentine
Shopgirl
Sideways *
Sweeny Todd
The Bicycle Thief (China)
The Blues Brothers
The City of Lost Children
The Cook, The Thief, His wife and Her Lover
The Doors
The Ice Storm
The Machinist *
The Madness of King George
The Piano
The Secretary
The Straight Story
The Virgin Suicides *
Thumbsucker
United States of Leland
Velvet Goldmine
Waking Life
Whale Rider *
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? *
Wild at Heart
Young Adam
GENRE: FOREIGN
II Postino (Italy)
2046 (Hong Kong)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (Japan)
All About My Mother (Spain) *
A Ma Souer! (Fat Girl) (France)
A Very Long Engagement (France)
Amelie (France) *
Amores Perros (Mexico)
As it is in Heaven (Sweden)
Atanarjuat (Canada)
Atomica (Spain)
Babette’s Feast (France)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (China)
Belle De Jour (France)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (France) *
Buena Vista Social Club (Cuba)
Burnt By the Sun (Brazil)
Central Station (Brazil)
Children of Heaven (Iran)
Christine F (Germany)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (China) *
Dancer in the Dark * (Demark/ Iceland)
Das Boot (Germany)
DayWatch (Russia)
Divided We Fall (Czechoslovakia)
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Taiwan)
El Angel Exterminador (Spain)
Europa Europa (Germany/France/Poland)
Fallen Angels (Hong Kong)
Get Ready to be Boyzvoiced (Norway)
Goodbye Lenin! (Germany)
Hana-bi (Japan)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Germany)
Hero (China) *
Hidden (France)
Himalaya (Nepal)
House of Flying Daggers (China) *
Immortal – Ad Vitam (France)
In the Mood for Love (Hong Kong)
Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong)
Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources (France)
Jet Lag (France)
Kagemusha (Japan)
Kandahar (Afghanistan)
Kissed by Winter (Norway)
Kolya (Czechoslovakia)
Land and Freedom (Spain/UK/Germany/Italy)
Les Diabolique (The Devils) (France)
Le Quatre Cent Coups (The 400 Blows) (France)
M (Germany)
Maria Full of Grace (Columbia)
Monsoon Wedding (UK/India) *
My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle (France)
Nightwatch (Russia) *
Nikita (France)
No Man’s Land (Bosnia/ Herzegovina)
Nobody Knows (Japan)
Nowhere in Africa (Germany)
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Italy)
Oldboy (Sth Korea)
Osama (Afghanistan)
Prisoner of the Mountains (Russia)
Raise the Red Lantern (China) *
Ran (Japan)
Rang de Basanti (India)
Rashomon (In the Woods) (Japan)
Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (China)
Ridicule (France)
Salaam Bombay! * (India)
Sanjuro (Japan)
Second Sight (Norway)
Shall We Dance? (Japan)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
Solyaris (Russia)
Sophie Scholl – the Final Days (Germany)
Talk to Her (Spain)
The Bandit Queen (India)
The Barbarian Invasions (Canada)
The Beat that My Heart Skipped (France)
The Bicycle Thief (Italy)
The Chorus (France)
The Circle (Iran)
The Crazy Stranger (Romania)
The Dinner Party (France)
The Edukators (Germany)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (Japan)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Argentina) *
The Return (Russia)
The Ring (Japan)
The Road Home (China)
The Scent of Green Papaya (Vietnam)
The Sea Inside (Spain)
The Seventh Seal (Sweden)
The Shanghai Triad (China)
The Spanish Apartment (Spain/ England/France)
The Taste of Others (France)
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Vietnam)
The Wedding Banquet (Taiwan)
The Weeping Camel (Mongolia)
Three Colours (Red, White and Blue) * (France)
Three Seasons (Vietnam)
Tsotsi (Sth Africa)
Wild Reeds (France)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Mexico)
Yojimbo (Japan)
Z (France)
Zatoichi (Japan)
GENRE: COMEDY
40 Year Old Virgin
200 Cigarettes
A Fish Called Wanda *
A Mid Summer Nights Dream
A Prairie Home Companion
About a Boy
An Ideal Husband
Analyze This
Anger Management
Austin Powers Movie series
Bad Eggs
Bandits
Be Cool
Bedazzled
Beetlejuice *
Bend it Like Beckham
Best In Show *
Better Off Dead
Big
Borat
Bring it On
Bruce Almighty
Bubble Boy
Cable guy
Calendar Girls
Clerks *
Clueless
Cold Comfort Farm
Cookie’s Fortune
Cosi *
Death Becomes Her
Death to Smoochy
Deconstructing Harry
Dogma *
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Election
Even Almighty
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Fever Pitch
Four Rooms
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Full Monty
Get Shorty
Good Morning Vietnam
Groundhog Day
Grosse Point Blank
Happy Gilmore
Hear no Evil, See no Evil
Hot Fuzz
I ♥ Huckabees *
I Love You to Death *
Intermission
Josie and the Pussycats
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang *
Krippendorf’s Tribe
Last Supper
Legally Blonde
Little Miss Sunshine
Mallrats
Maverick
Me, Myself and Irene
Meet the Parents
Meet the Fockers *
Michael
Mighty Aphrodite
Monty Python – The Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Meaning of Life *
Mr Bean’s Holiday
Mr Deeds
Mrs Doubtfire
Much Ado About Nothing
Muriel’s Wedding *
My Cousin Vinny
Mystery Men
Nacho Libre
Napoleon Dynamite *
Nurse Betty
O’ Brother, Where Art Thou? *
Office Space
Old School
Orange County
Patch Adams
Peter’s Friends
Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion
Shanghai Knights
Shanghai Noon *
Shaun of the Dead *
Southpark (the movie)
Space Cowboys
So I Married an Axe Murderer *
Strictly Ballroom
Sweet and Lowdown
Team America: World Police
The Big Lebowski
The Bird Cage
The Breakfast Club
The Castle *
The Commitments *
The Dish
The Full Monty
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Producers
The Rage in Placid Lake
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Royal Tenenbaums *
The Simpsons Movie
The Sum of Us
There’s Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap
The Wedding Singer *
The Witches of Eastwick
Tootsie
Withnail and I
Wonderboys
Young Frankenstein
Zoolander *
GENRE: CLASSIC
12 Angry Men *
A Streetcar Named Desire
Adam’s Rib
All About Eve
An Affair to Remember
Arsenic and Old Lace
Ben Hur
Bonny and Clyde
Breakfast at Tiffany’s *
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca *
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Citizen Kane *
Cool Hand Luke
Doctor Zhivago
Double Indemnity
Duck Soup
Dr. Strangelove
Easy Rider
From Here to Eternity
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gone with the Wind
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Harvey
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
High Society
How Green Was My Valley
It’s a Wonderful Life
La Dolce Vita
Lawrence of Arabia *
Macbeth (Polansky)
Madam Bovery
Metropolis *
Midnight Cowboy
My Fair Lady
Nosferatu *
North by Nothwest
Notorious
On the Waterfront
Paths of Glory
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Rear Window
Rebecca
Rebel Without a Cause
Roman Holiday *
Romeo and Juliet (Zefferelli)
Singin’ in the Rain
Some Like it Hot *
Sophie’s Choice
Spartacus
Spellbound
Stalag 17
Sunset Blvd.
The African Queen *
The Big Sleep
The Birds
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Good the Bad and the Ugly *
The Graduate
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Escape
The Italian Job
The Long Long Trailer
The Lost Weekend
The Maltese Falcon
The Nutty Professor
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Sound of Music
The Taming of the Shrew
The Third Man
The Time Machine
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Wizard of Oz *
The Women
To Catch a Thief
To Kill a Mocking Bird *
Vertigo
West Side Story
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? *
Zorba the Greek
GENRE: BACK AWAY SLOWLY aka WORST FILMS EVER
2 Fast 2 Furious
8 Mile
Alexander
Aliens 3
American Pie movies
Anything with Claude Van Damm
Anything with Kevin Costner
Anything with Steven Segal
Anything with Johnny Knoxville
Anything with Arnold Schwarzenegger that claims to be a comedy
Basic Instinct (and any other film that involves women seducing and then killing Michael Douglas)
Battle Field Earth *
Blood Rayne
Body of Evidence
Cat woman
Charlie’s Angels 1 & 2
Chucky movies
Cliff Hanger
Cocktail
Coyote Ugly *
Crossroads (Spears version)
Daredevil
Days of Thunder
Dick Tracey
Dirty Dancing
Dude where’s My Car?
Dukes of Hazard *
Far and Away
Freddy Got Fingered
Ghost Ship
Gigli *
Glitter
Hackers
House of 1000 Corpses
House of the Dead
House of Wax (but seeing Paris get murdered is a must see moment!)
Hostel
Howard the Duck
Hudson Hawk
I Know What You Did….. (Any/all of them)
It’s Pat
Jingle All the Way *
Johnny Mnemonic
Look Who’s Talking (All)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
National Treasure
Notting Hill
Original Sin
Pearl Harbour
Police Academy Movies
Porky’s
Pretty Woman *
Red Eye
Revenge of the Nerds
Roller ball
Runaway Bride
Shanghai Surprise
Showgirls
Snakes on a Plane
Sound of Thunder
Spice World
Striptease *
Swept Away
The Body Guard
The Grudge
The Last Action Hero
The Last Samurai
The Postman
The Toxic Avenger
The Transporter (1 & 2 and any to come!)
Tin Cup
Tomb Raider 1 & 2
Twins
Waterworld
You’ve Got Mail
Vanilla Sky
XXX movies (The Porn and action ones!)