Sunday, October 27, 2013

My Top 150 Movies

In 2006, I blogged about my top-100 movies list. 7 yrs later and countless movies after, I figure it's time to do another top movies list post, except that I find it soooo hard, even painful, to drop movies from the list to make way for new ones. So I decided to just expand the list to 150 movies!!! And the award goes to (not ranked in any order).....


1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Finding Nemo
4. 12 Angry Men
5. Notting Hill
6. Tonari no Totoro
7. Dr Strangelove
8. Memento
9. City of God
10. Vita è bella, La (Life is beautiful)
11. Great Escape
12. The Incredibles
13. Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring
14. Crash
15. Twilight Samurai
16. Motorcycle Diary
17. Untergang, Der (Downfall)
18. Salvador
19. The Man who Copied
20. Laputa Castle in the Sky
21. Mar adentro (The Sea Inside)
22. The Killing Fields
23. 無間道 (Infernal Affairs)
24. Gandhi
25. The Corporation
26. March of the Penguins
27. Spirited Away
28. Kolya
29. Ocean's Eleven
30. Winged Migration
31. Sjunde inseglet, Det (The Seventh Seal)
32. Sin City
33. Sideways
34. Ran
35. Waking Life
36. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
37. Monsieur Ibrahim
38. 龍鳳鬥 (Yesterday Once More)
39. The Pianist
40. The Sting
41. 英雄 (Hero)
42. Boot, Das
43. Back to the Future
44. 螢の墓(Graves of the Fireflies)
45. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
46. 唐伯虎點秋香
47. The Godfather
48. The Man who would be King
49. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
50. To Kill a Mockingbird
51. The Manchurian Candidate
52. The Apartment
53. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
54. The Graduate
55. The Hustler
56. Vertigo
57. Rashômon
58. Dead Poets Society
59. The Bridge on the River Kwai
60. Reservoir Dogs
61. Batoru rowaiaru (Battle Royale)
62. It's a Wonderful Life
63. The Minority Report
64. Forrest Gump
65. The Lion King
66. Beauty and the Beast
67. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
68. Bowling for Columbine 
69. Shrek
70. The Never Ending Story
71. Chicken Run
72. An American Tail
73. Shine
74. Before Sunrise
75. Magnolia
76. The Big Chill
77. Sunst Blvd.
78. Marathon (Korean movie in 2005)
79. V for Vendetta
80. Rear Window
81. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
82. Gladiator
83. Titanic
84. 2001: A Space Odyssey
85. Jerry Maguire 
86. Mr Smith goes to Washington
87. 醉拳 (Drunken Master)
88. 賭神 (God of Gamblers)
89. 最佳拍襠
90. Band of Brothers (arguably not a movie, but I have to put this in the list!)
91. Hotel Rwanda
92. Almost Famous
93. 九品芝麻官
94. Oldboy
95. Donnie Darko
96. 搭錯車
97. Pride and Prejudice (1940)
98. Mickey Blue Eyes
99. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
100. Toy Story 2
101. Kick-ass
102. 世界の中心で愛を叫ぶ 
103. The Good, The Bad, The Weird (Korean movie)
104. The Dark Knight
105. Inception
106. 歩いても 歩いても
107. How to Train Your Dragon
108. Slumdog Millionaire
109. District 9
110. Amores Perros
111. Into the Wild
112. The Usual Suspects
113. Avatar
114. North by Northwest
115. Wall-E
116. A Clockwork Orange
117. The Lives of Others
118. The Prestige
119. Inglourious Bastards
120. Up
121. Groundhog Day
122. All the President's Men
123. American Gangster
124. Double Indemnity
125. Pulp Fiction
126. Memories of Murder (Korean movie)
127. My Sassy Girl (Korean movie)
128. 竊聽風雲 
129. 少林足球
130. Incendies
131. The Artist
132. Django Unchained
133. The Secret World of Arrietty
134. 3:10 to Yuma
135. Tropic Thunder
136. K-20 怪人二十面相・伝
137. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
138. Wanted
139. A Big Hand for the Little Lady
140. Yojimbo
141. 時をかける少女
142. サマーウォーズ
143. Silver Linings Playbook
144. Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie version)
145. Sliding Doors
146. Zoolander
147. Once
148. Hurt Locker
149.Y Tu Mamá También
150. A fistful of dollars