My Top 100 Favorite Movies

Well, I had planned to write a little something about my in-the-works novel for today’s post, but when I stumbled upon Nathan Bransford’s “Best 100 Movies Challenge,” I decided I had to give it a shot.

This was really, really hard. I enjoy watching movies, but I don’t actually sit down to watch them very often, and when I do it’s usually to rewatch something I’ve already seen. It was tough for me to come up with 100 movies I’ve seen, let alone 100 movies I liked.

Now, before you get all riled up about some iconic movie I left out, please note that I did not include any movie that I haven’t actually seen myself. That means you won’t find certain classics like “Gone With The Wind,” “Fight Club,” and “The Godfather.” It’s not that I don’t appreciate these movies, it’s just that I’ve never seen them.

Here’s my List, in no particular order:

1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
2. Boondock Saints
3. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
4. The Hobbit (Rankin/Bass 1977 animated version)
5. Joyeux Noel
6. All the President’s Men
7. Holes
8. How To Train Your Dragon
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. Charlotte’s Web
11. Mona Lisa Smile
12. The Land Before Time
13. Lawrence of Arabia
14. Titanic
15. The Prince of Egypt
16. Freedom Writers
17. Speak
18. V for Vendetta
19. The Sandlot
20. The Return of the Pink Panther
21. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
22. A Christmas Story
23. Spirited Away
24. Star Wars
25. Watchmen
26. I, Robot
27. Finding Nemo
28. Lord of War
29. Shrek
30. Legally Blonde
31. Dogma
32. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
33. Iron Man
34. Serenity
35. Jumanji
36. Pay It Forward
37. Men In Black
38. The Princess Bride
39. Matilda
40. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
41. Lost In Translation
42. The King’s Speech
43. Old Yeller
44. Big Fish
45. The Last Unicorn
46. The Lion King
47. Ip Man
48. Balto
49. Amadeus
50. Excalibur
51. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
52. The Dark Knight
53. Chocolat
54. Master and Commander
55. Schindler’s List
56. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
57. The Sound of Music
58. Reds
59. Let the Bullets Fly 《让子弹飞》
60. Mary Poppins
61. Jurassic Park
62. Spy Game
63. The Fox and the Hound
64. Down Periscope
65. He’s Just Not That Into You
66. The Iron Giant
67. The Year Without a Santa Claus
68. Lean On Me
69. Ever After
70. The Neverending Story
71. Mrs. Doubtfire
72. Annie (1982)
73. The Devil Wears Prada
74. The Wizard of Oz
75. Back to the Future trilogy
76. Fiddler on the Roof
77. Forrest Gump
78. Law Abiding Citizen
79. Hook
80. The Secret of NIMH
81. Fifty First Dates
82. All Dogs Go to Heaven
83. Julie and Julia
84. Moulin Rouge
85. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
86. The Last Emperor
87. A Knight’s Tale
88. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
89. Pete’s Dragon
90. Homeward Bound
91. Harry Potter series
92. The Jungle Book (Disney)
93. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
94. Ratatouille
95. Drunken Master

The last five on my list are not movies at all, but television shows. (Yes, I know, I’m cheating!) I’m not including these because I couldn’t think of five more movies—I definitely could—but because I’d rather list these five TV shows that I love than five mediocre movies that didn’t quite make the cut. Besides, isn’t a TV series just like a reeeeeally long movie?

So here they are, my top five favorite TV series.

1. Game of Thrones
2. The West Wing
3. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
4. Firefly
5. Price and Prejudice (1995 mini-series)

What movies would YOU include on your top 100 list? Share your favorite movies with me in the comments!