Favorite filmmakers: Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, Charlie Chaplin, Mel Brooks, Jean Cocteau, Terry Gilliam, Makoto Shinkai, Billy Wilder, Christopher Nolan, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Tim Burton, Sidney Lumet, Darren Aronofsky, Guillermo del Toro, Ingmar Bergman
(For names that refer to multiple films, generally presume I'm referring to the older one.)
Favorite Horror Films
Begotten, Sleepy Hollow, The Ring, Silent Hill, One Hour Photo, Session 9, Jacob's Ladder, Cube, Cube Zero, Red Dragon, Gaslight, Cat People (1942), Ringu, M, The Body Snatcher, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Orpheus, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, The Silence Of The Lambs, Witchfinder General, Psycho, And Then There Were None
Favorite Mystery Films
The Conversation, Woman In The Dunes, The Bad Sleep Well, Stray Dog, Rashomon, Memento, Gaslight, Shadow Of A Doubt, The Seventh Victim, Witness For The Prosecution, Dark City, All The President's Men, The Third Man, Charade, Les Diaboliques, Lifeboat, 12 Angry Men, Crossfire, Mulholland Drive, Eyes Wide Shut, Lost Highway, Eraserhead
Favorite Noir Films
The Lady From Shanghai, Touch Of Evil, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, The Killing, Gaslight, The Mortal Storm, Laura, Les Diaboliques, Suspicion, Shadow Of A Doubt, The Wrong Man, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, Rope, Lifeboat, Dial M For Murder, Rear Window, The Cheap Detective, Shadow On The Wall, Johnny Guitar, Charade, The Stranger, Murder My Sweet, Cornered, Out Of The Past, The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, 99 River Street, The Hustler, The Tall Target, The Blue Gardenia, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Night Of The Hunter, Sunset Boulevard
Favorite Romance Films
East Of Eden, The Little Shop Around The Corner, The Awful Truth, Charade, Roman Holiday, A Patch Of Blue, Laura, The Apartment, Walk Don't Run, The Philadelphia Story, Holiday, Coal Miner's Daughter, At Close Range, Cat People (1982), The Goodbye Girl, City Lights, Casablanca, Bonnie And Clyde, The Fault In Our Stars, Tarzan The Ape Man, The Red Shoes
Favorite Comedy Films
The Odd Couple, The Cheap Detective, California Suite, Grumpy Old Men, Mister Roberts, The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, To Be Or Not To Be, High Anxiety, A Christmas Story, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, A Night At The Opera, City Lights, The Great Dictator, Bringing Up Baby, The Awful Truth, The Goodbye Girl, Mrs. Doubtfire, The In-Laws, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Ninotchka
Favorite Modern Films
Fight Club, Memento, At Close Range, Suicide Kings, Session 9, The Silence Of The Lambs, The Ring, Sleepy Hollow, Begotten, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Cat People (1982), Blade Runner, Taxi Driver, Eraserhead, Freeway, Silent Hill, Pan's Labyrinth, Constantine, American History X, Wristcutters: A Love Story
Favorite Silent Films
City Lights, Metropolis, The Unholy Three, The Phantom Of The Opera, The Kid, Laila, Laugh Clown Laugh, The White Sister, The Birth Life And Death Of Christ, A Page Of Madness, The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari, Haxan, Wild Orchids, Safety Last, Across To Singapore, The Adventures Of Prince Achmed, Nosferatu, West Of Zanzibar, Diary Of A Lost Girl, A Dog's Life, Broken Blossoms, Modern Times, Souls For Sale, A Story Of Floating Weeds, The Blackbird, The Cabbage Fairy
Movies With The Greatest Acting
The Lion In Winter, 12 Angry Men, Rope, M, Patton, The Great Dictator, Eyes Wide Shut, Dr. Strangelove, The Hustler, Paris Texas, Casablanca, Planet Of The Apes, The Miracle Worker, One Hour Photo, Gaslight, Seven Samurai, Bonnie And Clyde, Eyes Wide Shut, Dog Day Afternoon
Movies With My Favorite Scripts
City Lights, East Of Eden, The Red Shoes, Shadow Of A Doubt, The Killing, Cat People (1942), Johnny Guitar, A Christmas Carol, Tarzan The Ape Man, Bringing Up Baby, Snow White, Ninotchka, Gaslight, Frankenstein, The Blue Gardenia, Touch Of Evil, 12 Angry Men, Orpheus, The Shop Around The Corner, And Then There Were None, Casablanca, Vertigo, Psycho, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove, The Time Machine, The Lion In Winter, The Hustler, Charade, Witchfinder General, Bonnie And Clyde, Lolita, Planet Of The Apes, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Patton, Taxi Driver, Klute, Blazing Saddles, Carrie, Young Frankenstein, Eraserhead, The Jerk, The Shining, Beetlejuice, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Thing, At Close Range, Cat People (1982), The Secret Of NIMH, The Wall, The Fox And The Hound, Clash Of The Titans, Memento, Sleepy Hollow, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Fight Club, Jacob's Ladder, Cube, Session 9, Dark City, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Eyes Wide Shut, The Silence Of The Lambs, Se7en, Silent Hill, Constantine, Pulp Fiction, Aladdin, The Big Lebowski, The Truman Show, 12 Monkeys, V For Vendetta, City Of God, Almost Famous, The Ring, Lost In Translation
Movies I've Watched More Than Once
Johnny Belinda, The Awful Truth, Shadow Of A Doubt, The Public Enemy, It's A Wonderful World, Gaslight, A Patch of Blue, The Lion In Winter, And Then There Were None, The Red Shoes, Dog Day Afternoon, You Know Jessica, The Blue Gardenia, Adam's Rib, Frankenstein, Village Of The Damned, All The President's Men, Bonjour Tristesse, 12 Angry Men, Cat People (1942), And Then There Were None, The Candidate, Charade, No Country For Old Men, Out Of The Past, City Lights, The Killing, East Of Eden, Bringing Up Baby, Manhunt, Lust For Life, The Long Hot Summer, The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, North By Northwest, Ben-Hur, A Christmas Carol, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lolita, The Shop Around The Corner, Lawrence Of Arabia, Being There, Bonnie And Clyde, The Apartment, Brute Force, A Story Of Floating Weeds, The Kid (1921), The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, Young Frankenstein, The Seventh Victim, Bedlam, Crossfire, The Lost Weekend, The Lady From Shanghai, The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, Shaft, Orpheus
Best Movies – Gold Award In My Notebook
Gaslight, City Lights, The Odd Couple, Johnny Belinda, California Suite, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Citizen Kane, East Of Eden, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Miracle Worker, One Hour Photo, Bonnie And Clyde, Planet Of The Apes, Casablanca, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Truman Show, Sleepy Hollow, Persona, A Time To Kill, Edge Of Tomorrow, The Unholy Three, The Theory Of Everything, Clash Of The Titans, Dr. Strangelove, Ringu, Blue Velvet, Ghost In The Shell, The Red Shoes, David And Lisa, The Philadelphia Story
More Great Films - Silver Award In My Notebook
Paris Texas, The Awful Truth, A Christmas Carol, The Shop Around The Corner, The Wrong Man, The Cheap Detective, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, The Warped Ones, The Mortal Storm, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Mister Roberts, The Goodbye Girl, Johnny Guitar, Patton, 2001: A Space Odyssey, M, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, Murder My Sweet, Rashomon, V For Vendetta, Dark City, Red Dragon, The Fault In Our Stars, Tarzan The Ape Man, The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, Metropolis, Klute, 99 River Street, Bonjour Tristesse, The Hustler, The Catered Affair, Dial M For Murder, Manhunt, The Secret Garden, Witness For The Prosecution, Pickpocket, Laugh Clown Laugh, Cat People (1942), The Body Snatcher, The Mouse That Roared, Grand Illusion, The Night Of The Hunter, Bedlam, Being There, Beetlejuice, Chaplin, The Sixth Sense, Until They Sail, The Imitation Game, Stage Door, White Heat, Double Indemnity, Meet John Doe, A Beautiful Mind, The Longest Day, Goodfellas, Spartacus, Stray Dog, Sense And Sensibility, Four Bags Full, Steel Magnolias, Woman In The Dunes, The Bad Sleep Well, Dallas Buyers Club, Lifeboat, Clockwork Orange, The Conversation, Broken Blossoms, Mulholland Drive, Trances, Old Acquaintance, Angel's Egg, Harakiri, Woodstock: The Director's Cut, The Seventh Cross, Charade, The Mask Of Zorro
Even More Great Films - Bronze Award In My Notebook
Three Wise Fools, Brief Encounter, The Constant Nymph, The Last Voyage, Shadow On The Wall, Going Good Then, Bringing Up Baby, To Be Or Not To Be, The Man Who Came To Dinner, A Night At The Opera, Suspicions, Sylvia Scarlett, You Can't Take It With You, Murder By Death, Young Frankenstein, The Great Train Robbery, Colorado Territory, Gravity, Divergent, And Then There Were None, The Defiant Ones, A Raisin In The Sun, 12 Years Of Slave, Sheree, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, To Kill A Mockingbird, Roman Holiday, Biloxi Blues, Superfly, Little Women, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Edison The Man, Lust For Life, The Great Dictator, Laura, All The President's Men, Gone With The Wind, The 400 Blows, No Country For Old Men, The Lady From Shanghai, A Patch Of Blue, Barry Lyndon, The Lion In Winter, The Stranger, Ocean's Eleven, Yojimbo, Ben-Hur (1959), Dog Day Afternoon, Tess, Gandhi, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, Cornered, Gone Girl, Soylent Green, Out Of The Past, Lost In Translation, Haxan, Sanjuro, Kiss Me Deadly, Tarzan's New York Adventure, Bridge To The Sun, The Fly, The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, The In-Laws, Wild Orchids, Journey To Italy, Ninotchka, Let There Be Light, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, Pierrot De Fou, A Man Escaped, Autumn Sonata, A Page Of Madness, The Iron Petticoats, The Haunting, The Tall Target, The White Sister, The Long Hot Summer, Children Of The Damned, The Curse Of The Cat People, Little Shop Of Horrors, The Nanny, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Escape, The Kid (1921), Run All Night, Great Expectations (1946), Breathless, Morning For The Osone Family, The Life Of David Gale, Pollock, Hannibal, Cooley High, Babel, The Blackbird, Equinox Flower, A Story Of Floating Weeds, It Happened One Night, The Mark, Crossfire, The Lost Weekend, Jane Eyre, Altered States, Mystery Of The Wax Museum, A Bill Of Divorcement, The Adventures Of Prince Achmed, Crest Of The Wave, The Seventh Seal, Safety Last, F For Fake, Hi Love, The Lower Depths, Some Like It Hot, Before The Rain, Ballad Of A Soldier, Saturday Night Fever, The Little Foxes, A Dog's Life, Samurai Rebellion, Firecreek, Through A Glass Darkly, Anatomy Of A Murder
(Rankings are subject to change – The Red Shoes originally had a Silver Award. White Heat originally had a Bronze Award.)
Other Notable Films I've Watched
Carol For Another Christmas, Strangers On A Train, My Favorite Wife, The Philadelphia Story, Little Women (1933), North By Northwest, Walk Don't Run, High Anxiety, Tommy, Adam's Rib, Young Doctor Kildare, Plaza Suite, Rebel Without A Cause, The Blue Gardenia, The Purge, Annie Hall, Lawrence Of Arabia, To Sir With Love, Edge Of The City, Thunder Road, Foreign Correspondent, The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, The Godfather, The Public Enemy, The Birds, The Sunshine Boys, Poltergeist, The Apartment, The Third Man, Days Of Wine And Roses, In Cold Blood, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Orpheus, A Room With A View, Full Metal Jacket, Grand Hotel, House Of Wax, The Blue Dahlia, The Makioka Sisters, Lolita, The Immortal Story, The Hunger Games, King Kong, Mean Streets, Shaft, Mr. Arkadin, Ginza Cosmetics, The Big Sleep, Enter The Dragon, The Purge: Anarchy, Disturbia, Criminal, Duck Soup, Carrie, A Fistful Of Dollars, Lady In The Lake, 5 Centimeters Per Second, Conflict, Government Girl, Freebie And The Bean, Stromboli, December 7th, The Swan, The Cabbage Fairy, A Summer Place, Spirit Of The Beehive, Leave Her To Heaven, Anatomy Of A Murder, The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, The Phantom Of The Opera (1925), The Seventh Victim, The Leopard Man, Six Men Getting Sick, The Moon And Sixpence, I Want To Live, The Ghost Ship, Marie: A True Story, Jarhead, Annie Oakley, Laila, A Streetcar Named Desire, Fifty Shades Of Grey, Isle Of The Dead, Gilda, Stage Fright, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, A Nightmare On Elm Street, King Of Kings, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Sunset Boulevard, Broadcast News, The Wyoming Kid, Brother Rat, The Whip Hand, From Here To Eternity, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Sunset At Campobello, Random Harvest, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, West Of Zanzibar, No Regrets For Our Youth, Nosferatu, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Across To Singapore, I Walked With A Zombie, Diary Of A Lost Girl (1929), Song Of Love, A Song To Remember, The Importance Of Being Earnest, The Graduate, Kris Kross, Good Morning (1959), Modern Times, Souls For Sale (1923), Veiled Aristocrats, Passage To Marseille, Lilith, Firecreek, The Producers, The Thin Man, Ben-Hur (1959), Shock Corridor, Now Voyager, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian
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