Zach Swee

After spending a lot of time and thought on this, I created a list of my 100 Favorite Movies.  This turned out to be really hard to do, since I love movies very much.  I decided to make a set of criteria to help me decide which movies deserved to be on the list.  The five things that I considered when making this list were:

• Rewatchability
• Memorability
• Enthusiasm For
• Artistic Appreciation
• Nostalgia

Since film is such a subjective medium (one of the things that makes it so great), my list is sure to be different than anyone else’s.  A lot of these movies are very personal to me.  Hopefully you can find some films on here that you love as well, or some that you’ve never heard of and want to give a try.  I certainly recommend them!

1.  Braveheart
2.  Good Will Hunting
3.  Disney’s Robin Hood
4.  Once
5.  Brick
6.  Children of Men
7.  Contact
8.  Gattaca
9.  The Postman
10.  Jurassic Park
11.  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (and Trilogy)
12.  Babe
13.  Matrix
14.  Primer
15.  Moulin Rouge
16.  Groundhog Day
17.  Fiddler on the Roof
18.  Me and You and Everyone We Know
19.  Clue
20.  Romeo + Juliet
21.  Aladdin
22.  Swingers
23.  Amadeus
24.  Bicycle Thieves
25.  It’s A Wonderful Life
26.  Miracle on 34th Street
27.  The Secret Garden
28.  Flight of the Navigator
29.  Phenomenon
30.  The Parent Trap
31.  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
32.  Gerry
33.  Shakespeare in Love
34.  Maverick
35.  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
36.  The Lion King
37.  This Is Spinal Tap
38.  Schindler’s List
39.  Swiss Family Robinson
40.  The Incredibles
41.  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
42.  The Shining
43.  Forrest Gump
44.  All the Real Girls
45.  Mulholland Drive
46.  Singin’ in the Rain
47.  Saving Private Ryan
48.  The Princess Bride
49.  There Will Be Blood
50.  Punch-Drunk Love
51.  Fight Club
52.  Full Metal Jacket
53.  The Godfather Part I
54.  I Am Sam
55.  Memento
56.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
57.  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (and Trilogy)
58.  Rounders
59.  Gladiator
60.  Back to the Future (and Trilogy)
61.  The Conversation
62.  The Neverending Story
63.  Fame
64.  Hook
65.  Spirited Away
66.  Garden State
67.  Spanglish
68.  Zoolander
69.  Tombstone
70.  Annie Hall
71.  The Passion of Joan of Arc
72.  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
73.  Lawrence of Arabia
74.  Almost Famous
75.  Atonement
76.  Serendipity
77.  The Usual Suspects
78.  The Dark Knight
79.  American History X
80.  Paris, je t’aime
81.  Glengarry Glen Ross
82.  Amorres Doggies
83.  Some Like It Hot
84.  The Shawshank Redemption
85.  The Sword and the Stone
86.  The Fugitive
87.  Wait Until Dark
88.  Stargate
89.  Ocean’s Twelve
90.  Toys
91.  The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
92.  Die Hard (and Trilogy)
93.  Cabaret
94.  Redbelt
95.  Apollo 13
96.  Glory
97.  Hero
98.  The Purple Rose of Cairo
99.  Swing Time
100.  Whale Rider