Favorite Films
Contains 98 title(s)
Definitely a work in progress. These are my favorite films that I thoroughly enjoy and would recommend to anyone.
1
30 Days of Night
2007
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 5.8/10
Hard Candy director David Slade takes the helm for this adaptation of Steve Niles' terrifying comic book series of the same name. In Barrow, Alaska, one night can last an eternity. One month every year, this town is plunged into darkness for thirty days due to its location on the far north of the...
2
300
2007
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 7.6/10
In the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, drawing a line in the sand for democracy.
3
A Christmas Story
1983
MPAA: PG
Avg. Rating: 7.8/10
The funniest thing about Christmas, according to Jean Shepherd's over-the-top holiday comedy, is spending it with your own family. In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Rider 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. But when gruff dad and doting mom...
4
A Clockwork Orange
1971
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 8.1/10
Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has his own way of having a good time. He has it at the tragic expense of others. Alex's journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen forms the dynamic arc of Stanley...
5
A Tale of Two Cities
1935
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 8.8/10
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." Charles Dickens' tale of love and tumult during the French Revolution comes to the screen in a sumptuous film version by the producer famed for nurturing sprawling literary works: David O. Selznick (DAVID COPPERFIELD, ANNA KARENINA, GONE...
6
Alien
1979
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 8/10
On the outer reaches of the galaxy a seven-member crew is returning to Earth. When the ship's computer receives a distress signal from a nearby planetary system, it wakes the crew from their cryo-sleep. It isn't until after the ship has landed on the planet named LV-426 and three crewmembers have...
7
Aliens
1986
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 7.9/10
After escaping from the Nostromo seconds before its destruction, Ripley floats in space for 57 years. Her pod is picked up by a deep space salvage team. Ripley is taken to a space station in Earth orbit only to learn that LV-426 has been colonized. Soon the communication with LV-426 is lost and...
8
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 7.4/10
Relive the drama, conflict and power of one of the most influential anti-war films ever made - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Universal's first Best Picture Academy Award winner is now available in its original glory with a digitally remastered picture restored by the Library of Congress. Follow...
9
All This, And Heaven Too
1940
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 6.7/10
Bette Davis at the height of her phenomenal screen stardom. Charles Boyer in his only screen pairing with la Bette. A plot rich in mystery and grand emotion. A powerful period drama honored with three 1940 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Fans get all this in "All This, and...
10
Angels With Dirty Faces
1938
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 8.2/10
Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien teamed for the sixth time in this enduring gangster classic. Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic ghetto tough whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks. O'Brien is Father Connolly, the boyhood chum-turned-priest who vows to end...
11
Armageddon
1998
MPAA: PG-13
Avg. Rating: 6.1/10
From the blockbuster-making team who produced and directed The Rock Comes the biggest movie of 1998 - ARMAGEDDON! Starring the explosive talents of Bruce Willis (DIE HARD), Academy Award® winners Ben Affleck (GOOD WILL HUNTING) and Billy Bob Thornton (SLING BLADE), Liv Tyler (INVENTING THE...
12
Batman Returns
1992
MPAA: PG-13
Avg. Rating: 6.7/10
The Bat, the Cat, the Penguin Gotham City faces two monstrous criminal menaces: the bizarre, sinister Penguin (Danny DeVito) and the slinky, mysterious Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer). Can Batman (Michael Keaton) battle two formidable foes at once? Especially when one wants to be mayor and the other...
13
Black Christmas
1974
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 6.8/10
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, a creature was stirring... In Bedford, several unsuspecting people are about to recive Season's Greetings -- of terror. BLACK CHRISTMAS is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone's favorite time of the year inside out....
14
Blue Hawaii
1961
MPAA: PG
Avg. Rating: 6.9/10
Elvis Presley is in paradise, playing an ex-G.I. who comes home to Blue Hawaii. His mother (Angela Landsbury) expects him to climb the corporate ladder. But Elvis would rather wear an aloha shirt than a white collar, so he goes to work as a tour guide. Lucky Elvis: his first customers are a carful...
15
Brokeback Mountain
2005
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 7.5/10
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is a sweeping epic that explores the lives of two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. The complications, joys and heartbreak they experience provide a testament to the endurance and power of...
16
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
1958
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 8.6/10
Nothing is ever what it seems in Big Daddy's house. The rich old man believes he's in perfect health, but the reality is he's dying of cancer. And then there's Brick (Paul Newman), Big Daddy's favorite son, whose drunken abusiveness threatens not only his inheritance, but also his marriage to the...
17
Clash Of The Titans
1981
MPAA: PG
Avg. Rating: 7.1/10
You've visited the lands where a cyclops roams (THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD), skeletons duel (JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS) and cowboys lasso dinosaurs (THE VALLEY OF GWANGI). They are the worlds of Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion effects master who creates another dazzling realm in CLASH OF THE TITANS....
18
Cloverfield
2008
MPAA: PG-13
Avg. Rating: 7/10
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
19
Clue
1985
MPAA: PG
Avg. Rating: 7.4/10
Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous "Clue" board game. And now, with this special DVD version, you can see all three surprise endings! Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all...
20
Crimes Of The Heart
1986
MPAA: PG-13
Avg. Rating: 6.8/10
Nominated for three Academy Awards and based on the acclaimed play, three eccentric Southern sisters come together for themost unlikely reunion in this tale of family loyalty and theiultimate sibling rivalry. Starring Academy Award Winners Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek, the Magrath...
21
Cube
1997
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 6.9/10
Six ordinary strangers awaken to find themselves in a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambers armed with lethal booby traps. Without food or water, they have only a few days to live. None of them knows how or why they've been imprisoned, but soon discover that each possesses a...
22
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 7.9/10
The game of conquest is underway. Anything goes when a predatory, wealthy widow (Glenn Close) challenges a notorious rake (John Malkovich) to seduce a beautiful young newlywed (Michelle Pfeiffer). But this time, a cardinal rule will be broken: two players will fall in love - with tragic results.
23
David Copperfield
1935
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 10/10
"We are friends for life." The man speaking: Micawber, played by W.C. Fields with great comedic charm and human warmth. The child addressed: David, played by Freddie Bartholomew in his Hollywood debut. The movie: DAVID COPPERFIELD, still one of the best-ever screen adaptations of a Charles Dickens...
24
Death Proof
2007
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 7.2/10
Director Quentin Tarantino delivers an adrenaline shot to the heart with DEATH PROOF, a "tribute to balls-out pedal-to-the-metal car chases" (Pete Hammond, Maxim). Featuring exhilarating high-speed action, jaw-dropping stunts, and some of the most quotable lines since PULP FICTION, DEATH PROOF...
25
Doctor Zhivago
1965
MPAA: PG-13
Avg. Rating: 7.6/10
Sweeping epic about a Russian doctor (Omar Sharif) pursuing the woman (Julie Christie) he loves during Russia's turbulent political changes of World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution and Communism's rise to power.
26
Dracula
1992
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 7.6/10
Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins star in Oscar winning director Francis Ford Coppola's (1974 Best Director, The Godfather: Part II) visually stunning, passionately seductive version of the classic Dracula legend. In BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, Coppola returns to the original source of the...
27
Evita
1996
MPAA: PG
Avg. Rating: 6.3/10
Few times in the history of Hollywood has a film been released with the scope and daring of EVITA! Now, experience this landmark achievement as entertainment megastar Madonna -- in the role of a lifetime -- joins Antonio Banderas (ASSASSINS, DESPERADO) for the year's most talked about motion...
28
Full Metal Jacket
1987
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 8.2/10
A superb ensemble cast falls in for action in Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers. Joker (Matthew Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Gomer (Vincent D'Onofrio), Eightball (Dorian Harewood), Cowboy (Arliss...
29
Glory
1989
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 7.7/10
The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. GLORY stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. Broderick and Elwes are the idealistic young Bostonians who lead the regiment; Freeman is the inspirational sergeant who...
30
Gorillas In The Mist: The Story of...
1988
MPAA: PG-13
Avg. Rating: 7.6/10
Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) who travels to the African mountains to study the rare gorillas. In this incredible paradise which she describes as being "as close to God as you can get", her interest in the gorillas turns to passion and finally to...
31
Halloween
1978
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 7.6/10
The most successful independent film of all time. On a black and unholy Halloween night years ago, little Michael Myers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy, knowing that he was safely locked away in a mental hospital......
32
Holiday
1938
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 8.7/10
Based on Philip Barry's Broadway play, HOLIDAY was stylishly directed by Oscarwinning George Cukor (1964 Best Director, My Fair Lady). The Classic film stars Oscarwinning screen legends Katherine Hepburn (Four-time Best Actress, Morning Glory [1934], Guess Who's Coming To Dinner [1967], The Lion...
33
Holiday Inn
1942
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 8/10
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire sing and dance their way into your heart in the sensational musical comedy HOLIDAY INN. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards®, this special edition features 13 holiday songs by famed composer Irving Berlin, including "White Christmas" - one of the biggest-selling recordings...
34
Ikiru
1952
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 9.5/10
In the very begining of the film, an agin bureaucrat learns that he has stomach cancer. Realizing that he has wasted his entire life bureaucracy, he sets out to find some meaning in his life.
35
Imitation Of Life
1959
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 9/10
Living a lie is a poor substitute for living the truth - sometimes it takes the harsh realities of life to help us discover who we truly are. The legendary Lana Turner stars in this 1959 version of Fannie Hurst's emotionally charged drama, which chronicles two widows and their troubled daughters...
36
Interview with the Vampire: The...
1994
MPAA: R
Avg. Rating: 7.3/10
In 1791, plantation owner Louis outside New Orleans has lost his courage to live. He gets bitten by the vampire Lestat and is himself turned into one. He hates being a vampire and refuses to kill humans. Louis and Lestat turn a little girl, Claudia, into a vampire, and together they live on...
37
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 8.4/10
George Bailey was a banker in the small town of Bedford Falls and devoted his life to helping out the local people. One Christmas Eve he finds him self talking to his guardian angel as he wallops in despair.
38
Jane Eyre
1944
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 7.4/10
After spending her childhood in an orphanage, young Jane Eyre (Fontaine) becomes governess to the ward of an imposing older man named Edward Rochester (Welles). Ultimately, Jane's gentle influence forces Rochester to drop his foreboding veneer, and he proposes to her. But the discovery that...
39
Jezebel
1938
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 8.5/10
Bette Davis was unhappy when Warner Bros. refused to loan her out to star in GONE WITH THE WIND. So Jack Warner gave her a Southern belle role in Jezebel - and she gave a fiery performance that won 1938's Best Actress Academy Award®. Davis plays Julie, an arrogant New Orleans beauty whose attempts...
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Jurassic Park
1993
MPAA: NR
Avg. Rating: 7.1/10