At the moment there are actually 83 on the list and another 18 on the "need to see again" list. I'll be watching Bonnie & Clyde again soon and I wonder if it will hold up. I've seen the top 15 fairly often and that part of the list does change much. #16 is Dances with Wolves which I own, but haven't see in years. The fact that I've choose not to watch it indicates it will fall from #18, but I need to actually see it again first. There's my list:

1 Casablanca
2 Shawshank Redemption
3 Shakespeare in Love
4 Godfather
5 Stand By Me
6 It’s a Wonderful Life
7 Pulp Fiction
8 Cool Hand Luke
9 Gone with the Wind
10 Forest Gump
11 Lincoln
13 Schindler’s List
14 Green Mile
15 Great Escape
16 One Flew Over the Cockoo’s Nest
17 Lives of Others
18 Dances With Wolves
19 Raiders of the Lost Ark
20 Sixth Sense
21 North by Northwest
22 Cold Mountain
23 Argo
24 Joe Versus the Volcano
25 Outlaw Josie Wales
26 Star Wars
27 Dr. Zhivago
28 The African Queen
29 Breakfast at Tiffiny's
30 The Natural
31 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
32 Rain Man
33 Maltese Falcon
34 Fried Green Tomatoes
35 Titanic
36 Field of Dreams
37 Top Gun
38 Young Frankenstien
39 Little Big Man
40 Ghost
41 Don Juan Demarco
42 The Ghost and Mrs Muir
43 An Officer and a Gentleman
44 Back to the Future
45 The Sting
46 M*A*S*H
47 Serpico
48 Vertigo
49 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
50 Jurassic Park
51 Catch 22
52 Apollo 13
53 The Big Short
54 Tombstone
55 Arsenic and Old Lace
56 Lord of the Rings
57 Salmon Fishing on the Yemen
58 A League of Their Own
59 Dunkirk
59.5 Patton
60 Thelma & Louise
61 12 Angry Men
62 Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
63 Unforgiven
64 Papillon
65 Rear Window
66 Dirty Dozen
67 RED
68 The Birds
69 Saving Private Ryan
70 Kelly’s Heroes
71 Nevada Smith
72 Laura
73 Die Hard
74 Bonnie and Clyde
75 Hunt for Red October
76 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
78 Ghost Busters
79 Thr King's Speech
80 Mask of Zorro
81 Up
82 Captain Fantastic

Wow no goonies

Did u see yhe zookeepers wife ? Or sully?

I believe that Bonnie and Clyde and Dances With Wolves both deserve spots in the top 100. I would love to see Bonnie and Clyde on the big screen. I have trouble with " rating" movies within my top 100. Movies like Casablanca and Reds are so different from something like Some Like it Hot or Kelly's Heros. Dramas and comedies are so different in pacing and visuals. ( in my opinion) And of course many of the very best dramas have those elements of humor ( like Casablanca, or The Great Escape) I could probably make two lists of top 100 dramas and top 100 comedies! And then where do you put a movie like Up or Die Hard? Comedy or drama? I need another 100 for animated movies and another 100 for action movies :-)
I have a huge collection of DVD's and at one point I was going to try to cull them down to the top 100 or so....but I just cannot do it. And I do enjoy watching movies again and again. Often we will have house guests who have not seen something that I consider a " top 100" movie. So luckily I can pop in the DVD and hopefully the movie gains another fan! :-)

Amanda from Seattle.

I would not use the term "rating" to describe my top 100 movies list. It is more of a comparison of the movies I like. Casablanca is #1 because of the acting, charactor development, the drama, the significance of the story, the music, the ability to inject wonderfully humorous lines*, and of course, the ending. No other film compares. I don't see any reason to sub-classify movies. I really only have 83 on my top 100 list. Where would Casablanca fit anyway?

*"I came to Casablanca for the waters.” “The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.” “I was misinformed.”

Another factor is: does it stand the test of time? I loved Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the first time I saw it, but the last time I watched it, it was so dated that it fell completely off the list.

As I said the list represents my comparisons of one film vis-a-vis the others. The list is fluid and often changes when I see a movie again that's on the list. I recently watched Catch-22 and dropped it ten notches to #52. It left me a little flat. The last time I saw Cool Hand Luke, it moved from #14 to #8. The top 20 are pretty solid in my mind, but below that the placement on the list is not fixed. There isn't much difference between #40 and #50.

So what are your favorite movies?

Old Blue
Humm I definitely liked Dunkirk better than Patton, so I inserted the latter at #59.

Wow no goonies. Did u see the zookeepers wife ? Or sully?

Goonies was good, but I saw it enough times when our kids were young to decide it wasn't "top 100". Sully too was good, but 2/3rds of it was Hollywood creating drama that didn't actually happen. I haven't see The Zookeeper's Wife, I'll add it to our Netflix list. MLW doesn't like any animal movies, so I'll watch it when she's not home.

Old Blue

In contemplating my own personal "favorites", I happened to notice that a lot of movies I think are wonderful were written/screenwritten by William Goldman. "Princess Bride" (of course), but also "Butch Cassidy", "All The President's Men", "Maverick" (LOVE that movie), "Magic", "Marathon Man", "The Great Waldo Pepper", "The Ghost and the Darkness"... once I started looking up his movies, I was astounded by how many of his movies I love!

Amanda's Favorites in no particular order:

1. Cool Hand Luke
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (I still like it, even tho the musical sequence slows it down so much!!)
3. Dances With Wolves
4. Bonnie and Clyde
5. Casablanca
6. Rope
7. North by Northwest
8. Death on the Nile (I prefer it to Murder on Orient Express)
9. Die Hard
10. The Ballad of Little Jo (if you have not seen this, I highly recommend!!)
11. Braveheart
12. Some Like it Hot
13. How to Beat the High Cost of Living
14. Seems Like Old Times
15. The Great Escape
16. Reds
17. A Place in the Sun
18. French Kiss
19. High Road to China
20. Fandango
21. Fargo
22. The Princess Bride
23. Inside Man
24. Groundhog Day
25. Galaxy Quest
26. Good Fellas
27. Heat
28. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
29. That Touch of Mink
30. Up
31. Roman Holiday
32. Shakespeare in Love
33. Pulp Fiction
34. Raiders of the Lost Ark
35. Joe Vs. The Volcano
36. Star Wars
37. Young Frankenstein
38. Little Big Man
39. An Officer and a Gentleman
40. Tombstone
41. Thelma and Louise
42. A League of Their Own
43. Unforgiven
44. Rear Window
45. Kelly's Heroes
46. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
47. True Romance
48. Iron Giant
49. Wonder Boys
50. Robin Hood (Disney animated 1973)
51. What a Way to Go
52. The Sting
53. A Perfect Murder (remake of Dial M for Murder and I really do like this one better!)
54. American Dreamer
55. Rango
56. Wall-E
57. Valmont (it is the Dangerous Liaisons story with different actors came out a year later, I much prefer this version)
58. Amadeus
59. Home for the Holidays
60. Romancing the Stone
61. Out of Africa
62. Office Space
63. Out of Sight
64. Valley Girl
65. No Way Out
66. Night Shift
67. Blazing Saddles
68. Body Heat
69. The Usual Suspects
70. Tootsie
71. Three Kings (Kelly's Heroes for the modern age)
72. When Harry Met Sally
73. Working Girl
74. Searching for Bobby Fischer
75. Clueless
76. Howard's End
77. Sixth Sense
78. Misery
79. The Sound of Music
80. Irma La Douce
81. The Shining
82. A Room with a View
83. Raising Arizona
84. Reservoir Dogs
85. The Italian Job
86. The Commitments
87. Four Weddings and a Funeral
88. Alien
89. The Breakfast Club
90. St. Elmo's Fire
91. So I Married an Axe Murderer
92. Stand By Me
93. Say Anything
94. Dirty Harry: Magnum Force (really the entire set of movies, but Magnum Force is my favorite)
95. Toy Story 2 (as a children's book collector, this one was the best of the Toy Story trilogy)
96. Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
97. Ocean's Eleven (2001)
98. The Godfather
99. Chinatown
100. Logan Lucky (my favorite move in 2017)

My list is big on 1980's movies which was when I was in college and taking film classes and watching the popular movies at the time. A few classics, some more recent stuff. I am big on comedies, but I have some of everything I think, except foreign films. I have some I do like, but they are not in my top 100. And I could adjust this list on a weekly basis if I really think about it!! LOL These are just the top 100 off the top of my head today. :-)

-Amanda from Seattle

William Goldman is a MASTER!! LOVE LOVE LOVE all his movies. He has a book, Adventures in the Screen Trade. Get it, read it, love it!! The man can do no wrong in my eyes!!

-Amanda from Seattle

Also, I see that we are both fans of Joe Vs. The Volcano which is one of my all time favorite movies and no one has seen it!!! The whole shopping for luggage and stuff is of course my favorite part and how about Meg Ryan playing so many roles??!!! So much to love about that movie!!!

-Amanda from Seattle

I see that we are both fans of Joe Vs. The Volcano

Its a terrifically bizarre movie. We first watched it after reading one of your answers on your AQ profile, you were the initiator. =-)

Old Blue
"Its all about good luggage"

We'll be watching Death on the Nile next week, its one of our movie group movies this month. The other is The Post. We liked the new Murder on the Orient Express much more than the original.

Old Blue

I loved David Suchet's version of Hercule Poirot! Just love, love, love him!

And I really loved Murder on the Oriental Express with him.

And I was shocked- just shocked at Albert Finney crappy version of Hercule Poirot in the movie. Everyone was superb but Finney. And he is a fine actor. But his portrayal of Poirot was a nightmare. His hair. His up-turned jackets. Oh, what a ruined movie!

And I have been looking forward to the current release. Unfortunately, movies only last a week in this small town and I was boggled down with family obligations that I really could not make it to the movies.

So, I have been contemplating a fancy Murder Dinner Party Movie Night when they finally release it. But no release date as of yet!

Ohh, I am fit to be tide!

They are going to remake Death on the Nile too (since Murder on the Orient Express did so well) and I am leery.....I absolutely adore the Mia Farrow, Peter Ustinov version. (Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Jack Warden, George Kennedy....really a master class on acting....)

-Amanda from Seattle

"Joe, nobody knows anything. We'll take this leap and we'll see. We'll jump and we'll see. That's life!"

basically my mantra

-Amanda from Seattle

Would you believe that despite my grandfather showing several black and white films as a child, I never saw Casablanca from start to finish.

And I am a little surprise that my favorite movie of all time is not on anyone's list, anywhere. But maybe it's because I have a soft spot for the "little guy".

Rocky

When he takes Adrian back to his place and he offers to "call" her brother and he goes to the window, opens it up and says "Yo, Paulie, your sister's with me. I will call you back later" . . . that is out of this world classic! "I'll call you back later", folks. Through an open window. You can't beat that!

csk

DoubleSaj's mantra is at the top of our AQ Profile page. I guess that's why you and she get along so well.

Old Blue

I never saw Casablanca from start to finish.

Only you can do something about that.

Rocky

Good movie, but the fight scene is too over the top for me. You can't get hit like they do, over and over and over, and then get up and give it right back.

You're not the only one who liked it; they don't make 7 sequels if nobody's watching them. It won 3 Academy Awards: best picture, best director & best editing and should have won best music too. It also grossed $225 million when tickets cost 2 bucks!

OB
Here's lookin' at you, kid ;-)

THANKS A LOT! For starting this thread. It is driving me crazy!
I don't have a lot of favorite movies, but I was thinking about it while I was on my walk today, came up with a few, Fanny and Alexander and To Have and Have Not and then I thought of this Swedish movie, the one about a young boy in the 50's who's mother got sick, maybe died, and he went to live with a relative in the country. Toward the end of the movie he and a girl are listening to the heavyweight boxing match between Ingemar Johansson and Floyd Patterson? on the radio.
I was POSITIVE I had a copy of this movie, probably on VHS, but if I do I sure can't find it, and still can't remember the name of it. I have looked through several boxes of tapes that I tried to sell at a garage sale, even though I don't know why I would sell it. I have looked through the movies I am keeping. Can't even find the list of the movies I own that I used to have.
I don't expect anyone to tell me where the movie is, but I would be happy if someone can come up with the name of it. I think it is from the 80's.
And if anyone is looking for old movies on VHS I got a lot to get rid of! :)
Bokmal

The movie I am looking for is a movie called "That Certain Summer" it was a TV movie in 1972 starring Martin Sheen and Hal Holbrook. Supposedly it is not available anywhere...streaming or VHS or youtube or whatever.

-Amanda from Seattle

Rocky is a good movie, but it is not in my top 100...I would love to see your TOP 100 Captain Slick Kitty!! What I like to see in the 100, is that yeah there is that movie, that movie that movie, we agree on so much and then, there is that movie that I have never seen, never heard of....what the heck??!! now I have another movie that I must see!!

-Amanda from Seattle

Sorry, but I don't have that one in my collection.

Bokmal

Okay, late to the party but . . .

1) Rocky
2) Notorious

And in no particular order
3) Say Anything
4) Romancing the Stone
5) Vacation
6) The Conjuring
7) Woman in Black
8) To Catch a Thief
9) Bringing up Baby
10) Silver Streak
11) Blazing Saddles
12) Topper Returns
13) The Scarlet Pimpernel W/ Leslie Howard
14) Wuthering Heights W/ Merele Oberon
15) The Three Amigos
16) Maltese Falcon
17) Persuasion ~ Oh, that Captain Wentworth!!!
18) Immortal Beloved
19) The Game
20) Cold Comfort Farm
21) The Cat and the Canary~ 1927 Silent Version
22) The Cat and the Canary W/Bob Hope
23) Star Wars
24) Return of the Jedi
25) Miracles W/ Tom Conti & Teri Garr
26) American Dreamer
27) Holes
28) Young Frankenstein
29) It's A Wonderful Life
30) Christmas Story
31) Christmas Vacation
32) ELF
33) The Quiet Man
34) Raiders of the Lost Ark
35) Bridget Jones' Diary
36) Tremors
37) Best In Show ~ "Get the Busy BEE!"
38) Harvey
39) Sound of Music
40) It's A Mad, Mad World
41) The Birds
42) The Postman
43) Frequency
44) The Lady Vanishes ~1938
45) I Remember Mama
46) The Kid
47) Gold Rush
48) Big Trouble In Little China
49) Ghostbreakers
50) The Burbs
51) Sleepy Beauty
52) Double Wedding
53) After the Thin Man
54) Pollyana
55) The House of Fear
56) Stir Crazy
57) Bustin' Loose
58) The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
59) My Big, Fat Greek Wedding
60) Ghostbusters
61) Heart and Souls
62) Princess Bride
63) Momma Mia
64) Trading Places~ "Many New Year! Hahahahah!"
65) Conjuring 2
66) DC Cab
67) Jaws~ "We are going to need a bigger boat."
68) 50 First Dates
69) Shrek
70) Strictly Ballroom
71) The Hounds of the Baskerville
72) The Curse of the Were Rabbit
73) The Godfather
74) Sherlock Holmes
75) Sherlock Homes: Game of Shadows
76) Nacho Libre
77) The Crew
78) Blackbeard's Ghost
79) Signs
80) Napoleon Dynamite
81) Star Wars: Rouge One
82) Holes
83) The Karate Kid W/ Ralph Macchio
84) The Best of Times
87) The Untouchables~ "What are you prepared to do?"
88) The Parent Trap
89) The Black Swan
90) The Count of Monte Cristo
91) Rare Breed
92) The Pearl of Death
93) The Scarlet Claw
94) Robin Hood W/Errol Flynn
95) In the Heat of the Night
96) Funny Girl
97) Table 19
98) Sweet Home Alabama
99) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
100) Revenge W/ Kevin Costner

You must really love Holes.
It's both#27 and #82.

I must! ;o)

A good list with many movies I've never seen. I love Bob Hope, but don't have any of his movies on my list, so I'll watch a few off yours (Ghost Breakers, The Cat and the Canary). I also need to see To Catch a Thief, Notorious and Blazing Saddles again. I'm surprised that Forrest Gump is not on your list... I think it would fit right in, as would Casablanca.

You are such a romantic!!

Old Blue

How did my list come about? For 30+ years, I worked for the California Department of Transportation (aka Caltrans). At one point I was in charge of a seminar, the Project Engineers' Academy. This was a week-long, off site class for 40 engineers from all over the State who were newly responsible for developing contract plans for highway projects. No minor feat, as there are literally 1000s of tasks that must be done to complete a large project.

Anyway, a few of my goals for the week were to get the attendees to work together, collaborate in completing tasks and for them get to know each other... and maybe have some fun. They were already broken up into teams of 10; their homework for the evening was to get together with their team and decide what were the 3 best movies of all time and why. I knew how hard it was do pick a specific "favorite" film (witness the "in no particular order" lists of Amanda and CSK), so I thought this was a good exercise to meet my goals and not bury them in more procedures & technical stuff.

It also meant I would need to give them my top ten list, to be presented after they announced theirs. That's how my list got started.

Old Blue
If you make your list, you'll not regret it, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Amanda's Favorites in no particular order:

If you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further. From your list now pick 30 movies that are your favorites and put them at the top... in no particular order. I know that Joe vs the Volcano is in your top 30; what 29 will join it?

Andy
i mean Old Blue

Wassa - Give us a list of your favorite movies. I'm expecting Bob Hope, Lewis & Martin, Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and the Marx Brothers :-) you don't have to give 100... but you can.

Old Blue
and I don't mean 100 Rifles.

Wassa - Give us a list of your favorite movies.

The problem is, I LOVE movies. I look at your list, and CSK's list, and Amanda's list, and I love every one of them; and in my head, I think "yeah, that's definitely in my top 100". So now I have about 237 in my Top 100 List, just based on yours.

But, that is all just an excuse. And as I have no list already made, over the next week or so I will jot down movies as they occur to me.

One of my “top criteria” is will I watch this movie again and again and again. There are usually about ten movies sitting by the machine that never get put away because I can watch them again and again. Also I do that thing, if I were on a desert island and this is all I had for the rest of time to watch.... so I like a balance of comedy, drama , action etc. So. A top 30.

1. Seems Like Old Times
2. American Dreamer
3. A Perfect Murder
4. How to Beat the High Cost of Living
5. Body Heat
6. Joe vs. The Volcano
7. North by Northwest
8. Death on the Nile
9. The Princess Bride
10. Inside Man
11. Galaxy Quest
12. That Touch of Mink
13. Fargo
14. A Room With A View
15. Howard’s End
16. Sixth Sense
17. No Way Out
18. Office Space
19. Out of Africa
20. Raising Arizona
21. Tootsie
22. When Harry Met Sally
23. Toy Story 2
24. Four Weddings and a Funereal
25. Amadeus
26. Valmont
27. True Romance
28. Fandango
29. A Place in the Sun
30. High Road to China

Omg that was grueling !!!! Don’t make me narrow it down again , I don’t think I could do it. BUT. ( I’m not at home now. ). But when I get home. I should tell you the stack of about 10 DVDs that are sitting by the machine. The ones that don’t get put back on the shelf because I’ll be watching it again soon. However I know one of them. Oops two of them did not even make top 100. Maybe they’ll make the list next year. One is What Lies Beneath. Which is one of my favorite ghost stories ( right behind Sixth Sense) and the other is The Way, which Ryan and I love because of its Camino hike locale.

I also want to see Cat and Canary now and Miracles with Tom Conti and Teri Garr. Which reminds me of another movie that I never put away but I watch over and over.....Let it Ride. Heck. I gotta bump something off the top 100 and put that on there. Best Horse Racing/ Gambling movie EVER. and there were a few others on CSK’s list that I need to check out. :-).

Amanda from Seattle