Favorite of The Year
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- DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceStarsAnnie HartleyAdolphe Le PrinceJoseph WhitleyIn the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsWith the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.Honorable mentions: The Arrival of a Train, The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin
- DirectorGeorges MélièsIn one of his numerous reconstructed newsreels, the indefatigable French director, Georges Méliès, reenacts a fictional scene taking place in a fort at Tyrnavos during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsMlle BarralBleuette BernonCarmelliA fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorCecil M. HepworthPercy StowStarsMay ClarkCecil M. HepworthBlairThis is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.Honorable mentions: The Great Train Robbery, Life of an American Fireman
- DirectorÉmile CohlThe first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
- DirectorRomeo BosettiÉmile CohlA film of more than unusual interest. Those who are familiar with the length of time it takes to make a picture wherein oil the furniture in the house moves out automatically, will appreciate the great labor of making this film.Honorable mentions:
A Trip to Mars - DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishRobert HarronMae MarshThe story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
- DirectorErich von StroheimStarsSam De GrasseFrancelia BillingtonErich von StroheimAn Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.
- DirectorPaul WegenerCarl BoeseStarsPaul WegenerAlbert SteinrückErnst DeutschIn 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.Honorable mentions:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmHilda BorgströmTore SvennbergOn New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.Honorable mentions: Destiny, The Kid, Seven Years bad Luck
- DirectorFritz LangStarsRudolf Klein-RoggeAud Egede-NissenGertrude WelckerArch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.Honorable Mentions:Nosferatu, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerSam TaylorStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisBill StrotherA boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
- DirectorBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireJoe KeatonA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.Honorable mentions:Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, Greed, The Hands of Orlac, The Last Laugh
- DirectorRupert JulianLon ChaneyErnst LaemmleStarsLon ChaneyMary PhilbinNorman KerryA mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.Honorable mentions:
Battleship Potemkin - DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGösta EkmanEmil JanningsCamilla HornThe demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.Honorable mentions:
The General - DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.Honorable mentions: Sunrise, Napoleon, Wings
- DirectorFritz LangStarsRudolf Klein-RoggeGerda MaurusWilly FritschThe mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.Honorable mentions: The Man Who Laughs, The Cameraman, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Sadie Thompson
- DirectorFritz LangStarsWilly FritschGerda MaurusKlaus PohlA tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.Honorable mentions: Man with a Movie Camera, White Hell of Piz Palu, Diary of a Lost Girl, Pandora's Box
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsCharles FarrellMary DuncanDavid TorrenceA Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.Honorable mentions: Hell's Angels, People on Sunday
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.Honorable mentions: Frankenstein, Dracula
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsJulian WestMaurice SchutzRena MandelA drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.Honorable mentions:The Most Dangerous Game, Scarface
- DirectorFritz LangStarsRudolf Klein-RoggeOtto WernickeThomy BourdelleA criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.Honorable mentions: Baby Face, The Invisible Man, King Kong
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersEdward Everett HortonAn American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.Honorable mentions:Alice Adams, Mad Love, Dante's Inferno, Bride of Frankenstein
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersVictor MooreRoguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.Honorable mentions:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre FresnayDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.Honorable mentions: Stella Dallas, Lost Horizon, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantCharles RugglesWhile trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.Honorable mentions:A Woman's Face, Angels with Dirty Faces, Mr. Wong, Detective
- DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.Honorable mentions: Destry Rides Again, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Intermezzo: A Love Story, Rules of the Game
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsCary GrantRosalind RussellRalph BellamyA newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.Honorable mention: They Drive By Night, The Great Dictator, Pinocchio
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'Honorable mentions: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Man Hunt, Dumbo
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.Honorable mentions: Holiday Inn, You were Never Lovelier
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsPierre FresnayJosseline GaëlNoël RoquevertRoland Brissot bought for a nickel a talisman that gives him love, fame, and wealth. The talisman is a cut left hand, and it works perfectly. Of course, there is nothing free in this world, and after one year, the devil comes and asks for his due.Honorable mentions:
Don't Be A Sucker - DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsGene TierneyDana AndrewsClifton WebbA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.Honorable mentions: Torment, The Uninvited, Double Indemnity
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsRay MillandJane WymanPhillip TerryThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.Honorable mentions: Spellbound, Ivan the Terrible Part I, Scarlet Street
- DirectorJean CocteauRené ClémentStarsJean MaraisJosette DayMila ParélyA beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.Honorable mentions: GildaIt's, a Wonderful Life, The Strange Woman, Paisan, Let There Be Light, Crisis, The Big Sleep, The Killers
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsRita HayworthOrson WellesEverett SloaneFascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.Honorable mentions: Gentleman's Agreement, Odd Man Out
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTakashi ShimuraToshirô MifuneReizaburô YamamotoA drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.Honorable mentions: Germany Year Zero, The Red Shoes, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bicycle Thieves, Rope, Key Largo, Abbott and Castello meet Frankenstein
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsHoward VernonNicole StéphaneJean-Marie RobainIn occupied France, an elderly man and his niece are forced to give shelter to a German army lieutenant who seemingly loves their country and culture.Honorable mentions: The Heiress, White Heat, Stray Dog, Whirlpool
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenGloria SwansonErich von StroheimA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.Honorable mentions:
All About Eve
Beauty and the Devil
Rashomon
Gun Crazy
The Men
Orpheus - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsFarley GrangerRobert WalkerRuth RomanA psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.Honorable mention:
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Steel Helmet
The Thing from Another World
A Streetcar Named Desire
Summer Interlude
A Place in the Sun
Ace in the Hole - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTakashi ShimuraNobuo KanekoShin'ichi HimoriA bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.Honorable mentions:
Secrets of Women
The Bad and the Beautiful
Othello
Monkey Business - DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsMasayuki MoriMachiko KyôKinuyo TanakaA tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.Honorable mention:
Roman Holiday
The War of the Worlds
Pickup in South Street
Glen or Glenda - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsEva DahlbeckGunnar BjörnstrandYvonne LombardAfter a 15-year marriage, the spouses are going to divorce, but suddenly find out that their feelings have not vanished yet.Honorable mention:
Dial M for Murder
On the Waterfront
Seven Samurai
Rear Window
Sabrina
Ulysses - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsUlla JacobssonEva DahlbeckHarriet AnderssonIn Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.Honorable mention:
East of Eden
The Seven Year Itch
Diabolique
Bad Day at Black Rock
Lola Montès
Dreams - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsCharlton HestonYul BrynnerAnne BaxterMoses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.Honorable mentions:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Killing
...And God Created Women
Bob le Flambeur
Lust for Life
Forbidden Planet
The Searchers
Street of Shame - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsVictor SjöströmBibi AnderssonIngrid ThulinAfter living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.Honorable mentions:
Throne of Blood
The Cranes Are Flying
The Seventh Seal
The Three Faces of Eve
Man of a Thousand Faces
Paths of Glory
12 Angry Men - DirectorLouis MalleStarsJeanne MoreauMaurice RonetGeorges PoujoulyA self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.Honorable mention:
The Defiant Ones
The Magician
Ivan the Terriable Part II
The Hidden Fourtress
Touch of Evil
Le Beau Serge - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMillie PerkinsShelley WintersJoseph SchildkrautDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.Honorable mention:
The Twilight Zone
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Ballad of a Soldier
Anatomy of a Murder
Some Like it Hot
North by North West
Compulsion
Pickpocket
The Bridge
Imitation of Life
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love - DirectorStanley KubrickAnthony MannStarsKirk DouglasLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.Honorable mentions:
The Sinners of Hell
The Virgin Spring
The Apartment
Eyes Without a Face
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Song Without End
Black Sunday
Psycho
L'Avventura
The Time Machine
The Bad Sleep Well
Les Bonnes Femmes
Letter Never Sent
Peeping Tom - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneEijirô TônoTatsuya NakadaiA crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.Honorable mentions:
Judgement at Nuremberg
A Woman is a Woman
La Notte
The Hustler
Divorce Italian Style - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTatsuya NakadaiKeiju KobayashiA crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.Honorable mentions:
Birdman of Alcatraz
Pressure Point
Harakiri
The Tale of Zatoichi
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
La Jetée
The Miracle Worker
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mutiny on the Bounty
Jules and Jim
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Vivre Sa Vie
Lolita
The Manchurian Candidate
Ivan's Childhood - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYutaka SadaTatsuya NakadaiAn executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.Honorable mentions:
Winter Light
Lillies of the Field
Shock Corridor
From Russia with Love
Judex
Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
The Silence
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Contempt
The Great Escape
La Petit Soldat - DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodGian Maria VolontèMarianne KochA wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.Honorable mentions:
The Naked Kiss
Soy Cuba
Charulata
The Soft Skin
Band of Outsiders
Mary Poppins
It's Not Just You, Murray! - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYûzô KayamaTsutomu YamazakiIn 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.Honorable mentions:
A Patch of Blue
For a Few Dollars More
Pierrot le Fou - DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsTatsuya NakadaiMikijirô HiraKyôko KishidaA businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.Honorable mentions:
Persona
Young Tortless
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Tokyo Drifter
Alfie
Django
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Le Deuxieme Souffle
Chafed Elbows - DirectorMike NicholsStarsDustin HoffmanAnne BancroftKatharine RossA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.Honorable mentions:
Branded to Kill
Cool Hand Luke
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Belle de Jour
In the Heat of the Night
Le Samurai
Who's That Knocking at My Door
Bonnie and Clyde
The Dirty Dozen - DirectorSergio LeoneStarsHenry FondaCharles BronsonClaudia CardinaleA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.Honorable mentions:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Kuroneko
Planet of the Apes
Rosemary's Baby
Hour of the Wolf
Pretty Poison
No Way to Treat a Lady - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJohn WayneKim DarbyGlen CampbellA drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.Honorable mentions:
The Rite
The Passion of Anna
Z
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Putney Swope - DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJean-Louis TrintignantStefania SandrelliGastone MoschinA weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.Honorable mentions:
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
The American Soldier - DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsTimothy BottomsJeff BridgesCybill ShepherdIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.Honorable mentions:
Dirty Harry
Pretty Maids All in a Row
Harold and Maude
Carnal Knowledge - DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsMarlon BrandoMaria SchneiderMaria MichiA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.Honorable mention:
The Godfather
Solaris
Cries & Whispers
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise
Lady Sings the Blues
Buck and the Preacher
Deliverance
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Five Fingers of Death - DirectorToshiya FujitaStarsMeiko KajiToshio KurosawaMasaaki DaimonA strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.Honorable mentions:
Westworld
Day for Night
Magnum Force
World on a Wire
The Sting
The Exorcist
Paper Moon
Dillinger
Mean Streets - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannErland JosephsonBibi AnderssonScenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.Honorable mentions:
The Godfather: Part II
A Woman Under the Influence
Italianamerican
Towering Inferno
The Longest Yard
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanIn the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.Honorable mentions:
The Mirror
Jaws
Nashville
Let's Do It Again
Dog Day Afternoon - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.Honorable mentions:
Chinese Roulette
Network
The Omen
All the President's Men
Coup de grâce - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.Honorable mentions:
Star Wars
That Obscure object of Desire
Smokey and the Bandit
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Saturday Night Fever - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngrid BergmanLiv UllmannLena NymanA devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.Honorable mentions:
The Deer Hunter
The Making of Autumn Somata
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince
Goin' South
The Wiz
Superman
Halloween - DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaKlaus LöwitschIvan DesnyMaria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.Honorable mentions:
Alien
Kramer Vs. Kramer
Camera Buff
Apocalypse Now
The Tin Drum
Manhattan
Fårö-dokument
The Jerk
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsGena RowlandsBuck HenryJulie CarmenWhen a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.Honorable mentions:
The Shining
The Elephant Man
Ordinary People
The Big Red One
Star Wars: Episode V
Urban Cowboy
Stir Crazy - DirectorMark RydellStarsKatharine HepburnHenry FondaJane FondaNorman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.Honorable mentions:
Escape from New York
My Dinner with Andre
Lola
Vincent (TV Movie)
Scanners
Raiders of the Lost Ark - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBertil GuvePernilla AllwinKristina AdolphsonTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.Honorable mentions:
The Thing
E.T
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
Tootsie
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Blade Runner
Sophie's Choice
Poltergeist
Gandhi
The Atomic Cafe
Burden of Dreams - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenMia FarrowPatrick Horgan"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.Honorable mentions:
Star Wars Ep VI
Terms of Endearment
The Big Chill
Scarface
National Lampoon's Vacation
The Outsiders
Risky Business - DirectorWes CravenStarsHeather LangenkampJohnny DeppRobert EnglundTeenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.Honorable mentions:
Dreamscape
Amadeus
Purple Rain
Love Streams
The Terminator
Blood Simple
1984 - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.Honorable mentions:
The Color Purple
Back to the Future
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Re-Animator
The Breakfast Club
No End
Mask - DirectorJames CameronStarsSigourney WeaverMichael BiehnCarrie HennDecades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.Honorable mentions:
The Color of Money
Big Trouble in Little China
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
Stand By Me - DirectorWim WendersStarsBruno GanzSolveig DommartinOtto SanderAn angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.Honorable mentions:
Au Revoir Les Lenfants
Broadcast News
Full Metal Jacket
Raising Arizona
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
The Untouchables
Lethal Weapon
Fatal Attraction
Wall Street
La Bamba - DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsDustin HoffmanTom CruiseValeria GolinoAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.Honorable mentions:
They Live
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vampire's Kiss
Die Hard
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Cinema Paradiso - DirectorJim SheridanStarsDaniel Day-LewisBrenda FrickerAlison WhelanChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.Honorable mentions:
Seinfeld
The Killer
For All Mankind
Back to the Future Part II
Dead Poets Society
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
When Harry Met Sally...
Harlem Nights
Lethal Weapon 2
See no Evil, Hear no Evil
Weekend at Bernie's - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.Honorable mentions:
Miller's Crossing
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Ghost
Awakenings
Pretty Woman
Total Recall
Misery
Mo' Better Blues - DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsRichard LinklaterRudy BasquezJean CaffeineA day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.Honorable mentions:
The Silence of the Lambs
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Double Life of Veronique
JFK
The Double Life of Veronique
Boyz n the Hood
Barton Fink
Jungle Fever
Not Without my Daughter
New Jack City
The Stranger - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsHarvey KeitelTim RothMichael MadsenWhen a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.Honorable mentions:
The Crying Game
Dracula
Juice
The Best Intentions
Hard Boiled
Chaplin
Malcolm X
Basic Instinct
Honeymoon in Vegas
Man Bites Dog
A Few Good Men
Baraka - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.Honorable mentions:
In the Name of the Father
The Age of Innocence
Jurassic Park
Philadelphia
Naked
True Romance
Poetic Justice
Cronos
Menace II Society
This Boy's Life
Three Colors: Blue
Malice
Groundhog Day - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.Honorable mentions:
Reality Bites
Léon: The Professional
Forrest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
Quiz Show
Chungking Express
Immortal Beloved - DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsEthan HawkeJulie DelpyAndrea EckertA young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.Honorable mentions:
La Haine
The Basketball Diaries
Se7en
Casino
Devil in a Blue Dress
Crimson Tide
Heat
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese
The Usual Suspects
Friday
Leaving Las Vegas
Desperado - DirectorMike LeighStarsTimothy SpallBrenda BlethynPhyllis LoganFollowing the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.Honorable mentions:
Fargo
The Rock
Primal Fear
Sling Blade
Set It Off
Michael Collins
Space Jam
Jerry Maguire
Thesis
Gray's Anatomy
From Dusk Till Dawn
Sydney
A Time to Kill - DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsMark WahlbergJulianne MooreBurt ReynoldsBack when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.Honorable mentions: Good Will Hunting, Jackie Brown, Open Your Eyes, The Game, Liar Liar, Mimic, As Good as it Gets, Face/Off, Gridlock'd, Titanic, Con Air, The Butcher Boy
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsJeff BridgesJohn GoodmanJulianne MooreJeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.Honorable mentions:
Belly
The Newton Boys
Following
Permanent Midnight
Rounders
Rush Hour
Waking Ned Devine
The Mask of Zorro
American History X - DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsTom CruiseJason RobardsJulianne MooreAn epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.Honorable mentions:
Fight Club
The Matrix
Audition
Eyes Wide Shut
The Cider House Rules
The Ninth Gate
The Boondock Saints
The Green Mile
Flawless
The Sixth Sense
Girl, Interrupted
Life
Any Given Sunday - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsGuy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe PantolianoA man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.Honorable mentions:
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Love & Basketball
Snatch
American Psycho
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Gladiator
Remember the Titans
Final Destination
Mission Impossible II
Meet the Parents - DirectorRon HowardStarsRussell CroweEd HarrisJennifer ConnellyA mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.Honorable mentions:
Waking Life
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ichi the Killer
A.I Artificial Intelligence
The Devil's Backbone
Das Experiment
Vanilla Sky
I Am Sam
Monster's Ball
Donnie Darko
Training Day
The Others
Rush Hour 2
Don's Plum - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLeonardo DiCaprioTom HanksChristopher WalkenBarely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.Honorable mentions:
Minority Report
The Bourne Identity
In America
Spider-Man
The Magdalene Sisters
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Better Luck Tomorrow
Punch-Drunk Love
Road to Perdition
Talk to Her
The Ring
Insomnia
8 Mile - DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodViggo MortensenIan McKellenGandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.Honorable mentions:
The Nazi Officer's Wife
Kill Bill: Vol I.
Tokyo Godfathers
Monster
Anger Management
Oldboy
Mystic River
Underworld
X2
Matchstick Men
Intermission - DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsJavier BardemBelén RuedaLola DueñasThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.Honorable mentions:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Aviator
Ray
House
Downfall
The L Word
Bad Education
Rory O'Shea Was Here
Kinsey
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Ocean's Twelve
The Bourne Supremacy
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Layer Cake
Before Sunset
Hellboy
Saw
The Notebook
National Treasure - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleMichael CaineKen WatanabeAfter witnessing his parents' death, Bruce learns the art of fighting to confront injustice. When he returns to Gotham as Batman, he must stop a secret society that intends to destroy the city.Honorable mentions:
Breakfast on Pluto
Little Miss Sunshine
Cinderella Man
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Supernatural
Capote
Hostel
Saw II
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Unleashed - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHugh JackmanScarlett JohanssonAfter a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.Honorable mentions: Pan's Labyrinth Death Note The Fountain Dexter The Departed After The Wedding The Lives of Others Mission: Impossible III Candy The Da Vinci Code Saw III Home of the Brave, The Holiday
- DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsTommy Lee JonesJavier BardemJosh BrolinViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.Honorable mentions:
There Will Be Blood
Atonement
Zodiac
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Ratatouille
Once
Superbad
Reign Over Me
The Bourne Ultimatum
American Gangster
Fracture
The Great Debaters
Things We Lost In the Fire
Sunshine
Next
Rabbit Without Ears
I'm Not There - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHeath LedgerAaron EckhartWhen the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.Honorable mentions:
Doubt
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Reader
Wanted
Rocknrolla
Milk
Changling
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Burn After Reading - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsBrad PittDiane KrugerEli RothIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.Honorable mentions:
Up
The Soloist
Brothers
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Mr. Nobody
Bad Lieutenant
Adventureland
The Soloist
Zombieland
Avatar
Angels & Demons
I Killed My Mother