I am adding this prequel, to offer my apologies. I’ve left out great and wonderful films I’m sure by accident, or worse for not having seen them. I chose not to look up films and relying on memory so I will add as I go on I’m sure.
Anyway. This list represents the films that had the greatest effect on me both growing up and as an adult. Or they Were Movies I particularly enjoyed. Some movies have to be seen even if they are difficult to watch over and over, but they have to be seen.
Hollywood was great for reminding us who we were. It Tugged at us to stay on course to be the kind of people we ought to. The movies can be escapism or a mirror to catch our own foolish behavior. Its propaganda for better and for worse. I’m thankful to have grown up in the era that respected such great work
I left out intentionally all:
1) Animated
2) Musicals
3) Holiday
4) Foreign
5) Superhero
Because they are to be their own lists
I Look forward to additions and suggestions. There might be a few dups. I need to go through it more closely. Enjoy.
A Thousand Clowns Jason Robards *
BUTCH Cassidy and the Sundance Kid… Paul Newman,Robert Redford *
North By Northwest Cary Grant ,Grace Kelly
Casablanca Humphry Bogart, Ingrid bergman, *
A River Runs through It Brad Pitt
Papillion Steve McQueen
Night of the Living Dead
To Kill A Mockinbird Gregory Peck, Robert Duval *
12 Angry men Henry Fonda
For Whom the bell Tolls henry Fonda , john Carradine
Treasure of Sierre Madre Bogart, Sam Houston
African Queen Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn
Being there Peter Sellers
American Grafitti *
City Lights Chaplin
Annie Hall W. Alan
Sleeper W. Allan
Born Yesterday Judy Holiday
True Grit ( both John Wayne
2001 A space Odyssey
ET *
Close Encounters
Schindler’s List
The Graduate
Dr. Calagari’s Cabinet
Never Cry Wolf
The Producers
The Crying Game
The color of Money
The colour Purple
Tora Tora Tora
Cool Hand Luke Paul Newman
Mr. Smith goes to Washington Jimmy Stewart
Meet John Doe Gary Cooper
Glen Gary Glen Ross
The Sting
Apocolypse Now
Stand by me
To Catch a Thief Cary Grant and Grace Kelly
Rear Window Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly *
The Best years of our Lives Dana Andrews *
The Fly Vincent price
Key Largo Humphrey Bogart, Carole Lombard, Edward G Robinson
Maltese falcon Bogie
Dolores Clayborne
Misery
Fried Green Tomatoes
Titanic
Logans Run
Soylent Green
Silent Running
Blade Runner
The Day of the Trifids
Forbidden Planet Leslie Nielson
The Four Feathers
Rebel wihout a cause James dean
Bridge over the river Kwai
Contact
Usual Suspects
Moonstruck
Rain Man
The Big Chill
Taxi
Gone With the Wind
The Godfather 1, and 2 at Least
Horse feathers Cocconuts, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, A day at the Races, Room Service, A night at the Opera
Roxanne
Splash
The Money Pit
War Games
The Birdman of Alkatraz Burt Lancaster
The Shawshank redemption Tim Robbins
Shane Alan Ladd
High Noon Gary Cooper
The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
Intersteller
Streetcar Named Desire Marlon Brando
Raging Bull De Niro
Bull Durham Kevin Costner
Glory Denzel and Mathew Broderick
Fallen Denzel and John Goodman
The Scarlet Pimpernel Leslie Howard
American history X
The Great Escape Steve McQueen
The Invisible Man B/W
The Rocketeer
The Natural Robert Redford *
To Sir With Love Sydney Portier
A League of their Own Gina Davis Tom hanks
Great Expectations …Freddy Bartholomew Lionel Barrymore
Treasure Island
Wuthering heights merle Oberon and Sir Lawrence Olivier *
A passage To India
Regarding Henry
Serpico
Here Comes Mr. Jorden
Giant Rock Hudson, Elizabeth taylor James Dean *
Fargo
Groundhog Day
Life of Pi Might _be considered animation
When Harry Met sally
M Peter lorrre
Good fellas
The Birds
Planet of The Apes Charlton Hesston
Deer hunter
Stranger on a train
Time Bandits
Apocolypto
Brave Heart
The Sixth sense
The Dead Zone
Ben hur
Lillies of the Field Sydney portier *
Shenendoah Jimmy Stewart
Marathon man Dustin Hoffman
Jaws Richard Dreyfus, *
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dances With Wolves
The Others
The Uninvited Ray Miland
Summer of 42
At Least I BOB Hope/Bing Crosby ie Road to Moracco
Field of Dreams
Life is Beautiful
Tootsi
Amadeus
Gladiator
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
No Country for Old Men
Space Balls
Uncle Buck
Summer rental
Meatballs
Stripes
Ghostbusters
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Dead poets Society
Awakenings
Rounders
Good Morning Vietnam
The Killing fields
In Cold Blood
Rosemary’s Baby
Midnight Express
Blue Velvet
Mister Rogers Henry Fonda James Cagney, Jack lemon
Seventh Sign
Terminator 1 and 2
Forrest Gump
Elephant Man
Duel
The Shining
The Game Michael Douglas and Sean Penn
Wallstreet
Caine Mutiny… original
Clockwork Orange
The Untouchables
The Thing
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill 1 and 2
My Cousin Vinny
A Spinal tap
The Royal Tannenbaums
The Princess Bride
Casino Royal Ne
Monty python and the Holy grail
Halloween
Ocean’s eleven
The Magnificent seven Yul Brenner
Catch me if you can
Saving Private Ryan
American psycho
Poltergeist
Die Hard Bruce Willis
Armageddon Bruce
Independence Day
Bullit - Steve Mcqueen
Top Gun
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Origanal
What dreams May Come Robin Williams
Broadcast News William Hurt and Holly Hunter *
Good Will Hunting matt Damon and Robin Williams
Chinatown Jack Nicholson Fay Dunaway Sam Houston
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest Jack
The Departed
Mash Elliot Gould …. Donald Sutherland
Signs
Unbreakable
Mcabe and Mrs.Miller
Westworld Yul Brenner, Richard Benjamin
Total Recall Arnold
Alien and Aliens Sigourney Weaver
Rocky Stallone
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Back to The Future
The Martian matt damon
Ex Machine
Edward Scissorhands Vincent price Johnny Depp
Troy
The Blob
Gremlins
The Lost Boys
28 Days Later
Home Alone
Taps Sean Penn a very young Tome Cruise… George C Scott
Captain Blood Errol Flynn
Ordinary people Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore,
Home Alone
Footloose
Karate Kid
The Dirty Dozen Clint
Gran Torino Eastwood
The Importance of Being Ernest
Hold that Ghost An Abbott and Costello Joan Davis
Or Meets the Mummy
Citizen kane
Life Boat original
Babes in Toyland
Little Caeser Edward G Robinson
I am Sam Sean Penn
Poseiden Adventure original
Jason and the Argonauts
Moby Dick Gregory Peck
Marty
Poppi - Alan Arkin
The Red Shoes
Peter Pan Robin Williams
From here to Eternity Lancaster
All Quiet on the western front Gary Cooper
Inception
Raising Arizona
What About Bob
Ground Hog day
Jacob’s Ladder Tim Robbins
The Day the earth stood Still Original
The Oxboe Incident.. Henry fonda, Anthony Quinn
Meet the Parents
Blar Witch Project
Paranormal Activity
Dr. Strangelove
Bonnie and Clyde faye dunaway
Hoosier
Rudy
The Longest yard Burt Reynalds
Petrified Forrest Bogart
Easy Rider
My Left Foot
Driving Miss Daisy
A fish Called Wanda
Sophie’s Choice Merryl Streep
Wait Until Dark Alan Arkin and Audrey hepurn
The Post man always rings twice
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr. Zivago
Frankenstein
The Philadelphia Story Katheryn Hapurn
Metropolis
All About Eve
The Third man
Brother Where Art Thou
Reservoir Dogs
Dog Day Afternoon Pacino
Babe
Ghost
Arsenic and Old Lace Cary Grant
The Good bad and the Ugly Eastwood
High Noon
Stage Coach
Chariots of Fire
Midnight Cowboy Dustin Hoffman
The Boys From Brazil
Brazil
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Bad seed
The Burbs
Something About Mary
Gunga Din Gary Cooper
Beu Jest
The Defiant Ones
The Wild Ones
The Black Board Jungle
Some Like It Hot Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon
White heat Jimmy Cagney
Snake Pit
Night of the Hunter
Picnic with Kim Novak and William Holden
Night of the Iguana
Portrait of Jenny
Zelig
Purple Rose of Cairo
Sinbad
The Bible
The Robe
A few Good Men
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Duel Steven Bruce Dern
Superbad
Plains Trains and Automobiles
Sixteen Candles
The breakfast Club
Castaway
Silence of the Lambs Saturday night Fever
Jumanji
Bridge over the river Kwai
Taking of Pelham 123 Carl malden
King Kong Fay Raye
The Patriot Mel
The Hunt for Red October Connery
State of Fear
Starwars
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
The Exorcist
Radio day
The the Money and Run
Lion In Winter
Paper Moon
Airplane
The Paper Chase
Cape fear both Robert Mitcham and Dinero
Animal House
The Black Stallion
October Sky
Hidden Figure
The Unforgiven Eastwood
Brian’s Song
The Sandlot
Do the Right Thing
The matrix
I am Legend
Yankee Doodle Dandy James Cagney
Indian in the Cupboard
Gangs of New York
Philadelphia Denzel and Hanks
The Big Lebowski
The Gods must be Crazy
Source Codes
Defending Your Life Albert Brooks
The Perfect Storm George Clooney
Men In Black The Ring
Cary Sissy Spasik
Psycho
The French Connection
The Bird cage
Journey to the Center of the World
Benjamin, Britt Pitt
The Last of the Mohegan’s
Legends of the Fall
In Modern Times Chaplin
The Gold Rush Chaplin
Edward silient films….?
Network
Little Big Man Dustin Hoffman Jane Fonda
Whatever Happened to baby Jane Betty Davis and Joan Crawford
Now Voyager Bette Davis
Mildred Pierce Joan Crawford
On the Waterfront Marlon Brando
Rebecca
Suspicion
Notorious Hitchcock
Awakenings Robin William
Honey I shrunk the Kids
The day of the dolphin
The Manchurian Candidate
The Untouchables
The Thin Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
AI
Barton Fink
Point Blank
Then there were none or Ten Little Indians B/W
War of the Worlds Tom Cruise
Mean streets
District 13
Arrival
Last Emperor
Before the Revolution
The Conversation
Birth of a Nation
Bullets over Broadway
Sleeper
Annie Hall
The Red Balloon
Personal favorites
Not great movies per se
But ones I still like or liked
In Like Flint
Our Man Flint
Altered States- William Hurt
Song of Bernadette Vincent Price
Brian Song
Cabin in the woods
The day after tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow
People want Added
Scarface- Pacino
Jim Thorp Story
The Goonies
Five Easy pieces-- Nicholson
400 Blows
This List has not been updated to 2019
Again apologies as this is not anyone’s definitive list. But this is mostlty individualized to me although I did include a few I would not have were it not for a general insistence to include them. you will see a few errors as to films not being allowed. Sorry I felt the need to include them and rule… you know.