My Favorite Movies
I do not presume to make a list of the best movies ever made,
because I feel that is a very subjective area, but these are my favorites in several different genres.
Where the lists are alphabetized, I could not even choose one over another myself.
Notably absent are some movies generally considered to be the best ever made, such as Citizen Kane and Casablanca.
While I may greatly respect such movies, they are not necessarily numbered among my favorites.
In other cases, I may simply have temporarily forgotten to include it.
Therefore, if you see something you feel I must surely have overlooked, email me and we'll discuss it.
Be forewarned, though: I prefer movies made between 1932 and 1952.
Unless it was made by Steven Spielberg, anything before or after then really has to prove itself.
HEY! What happened to the massive lists of movies I had on this page?
There must have been about 250,000 of them, or a whole bunchalot at any rate.
Now, they're all GONE, and I have to do it all over again! That'll only take me forty-eleven YEARS!!!
Could it have been Evil Incarnate, also known as (Gasp!) REFORMATTING?!?
ARGHHH!!!!!
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World War II |
Home Front |
Post-War Home Front |
Mysteries |
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(first 10 in order of preference,
thereafter in alphabetical order)
1. Schindler's List (1993) ****
2. Saving Private Ryan (1998) ****
3. Operation Pacific 1951) ***
4. The Longest Day (1962) ****
5. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
6. So Proudly We Hail (1943) ****
7. The Great Escape (1963) ****
8. Crossfire (1947) ****
9. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) ****
10. Man Hunt (1941) ***
11. Across the Pacific (1942) ***
12. Against the Wind (British, 1948) ***
13. Anzio (Italian, 1968) **
14. Arch of Triumph (1948) ***
15. Assignment in Brittany (1943) **
16. Back to Bataan (1945) ***
17. Bataan (1943) ***
18. Battlecry (1953) ***
19. Battleground (1949) ****
20. Battle of the Bulge (1965)
21. The Captive Heart (British, 1946) ***
22. Clouds Over Europe (British, 1939) ***
23. Command Decision (1948) ***
24. Conspiracy of Hearts (British, 1960) ***
25. Corvette K-225 (1943) ***
26. D-Day, the Sixth of June (1956)
27. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
28. Desperate Journey (1942) ***
29. Destination Tokyo (1944) ***
30. The Dirty Dozen (1967) ***
31. Edge of Darkness (1945) ***
32. Fighter Squadron (1948) **
33. The Fighting Seabees (1944) ***
34. Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
35. Force Ten From Navarone (1978) **
36. From Here to Eternity (1953) ****
37. Go for Broke (1951) ***
38. The Great Escape (1963) ****
39. Gung Ho (1943) **
40. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
41. Halls of Montezuma (1950) ***
42. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) ***
43. Hell Is for Heroes (1962) ***
44. Hell to Eternity (1960) ***
45. The Heroes of Telemark (1966) ***
46. Homecoming (1948) **
47. In Harm's Way (1965)
48. Journey Into Fear (1942) ***
49. Kelly's Heroes (1970) **
50. The Master Race (1944) ***
51. Merrill's Marauders (1962)
52. Midway (1976) **
53. Ministry of Fear (1944) ***
54. Objective: Burma (1945) ***
55. Passage to Marseille (1944) ***
56. Patton (1970) ****
57. Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)***
58. Sabotage Agent (1943) ***
59. Salute to the Marines (1943)
60. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) ***
61. Somewhere I'll Find You (1942) ***
62. Suicide Squadron (British, 1941) ***
63. The Tenth Man (1988) ****
64. They Were Expendable (1945) ***
65. Twelve O' Clock High (1949) ****
66. Wake Island (1942) ***
67. Where Eagles Dare (1969)
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1. Mrs. Miniver (1942) ****
2. Since You Went Away (1944) ****
3.The Mortal Storm (1940) *** |
1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) ****
2. 'Til the End of Time ***
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Musicals |
Dramas |
Western |
Comedies |
(in alphabetical order)
1. Annie (1982) **
2. Brigadoon (1954) ***
3. Camelot (1967) ***
4. Carousel (1956) ***
5. Fiddler on the Roof (1971) ***
6. The Gay Divorcee (1934) ****
7. Guys and Dolls (1955) ***
8. Hans Christian Andersen (1952) ***
9. The Harvey Girls (1946) ***
10. Hello Dolly! (1969) ****
11. The King and I (1956)
12. The Lion King (1994)
13. Mary Poppins (1964)
14. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) ***
15. Moulin Rouge
16. The Music Man (1962) ****
17. My Fair Lady (1964)
18. Oklahoma! (1955)
19. The Prince of Egypt (1998)
20. 1776 (1972) ***
21. Shall We Dance? (1937) ****
22. Show Boat (1951)
23. Singing in the Rain (1952) ****
24. The Sound of Music (1965) ****
25. South Pacific
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(first 3 in order of preference,
thereafter in alphabetical order)
1. Bringing Up Baby ****
2. Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) ***
3. What's Up, Doc? (1972) *** |
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Feel Good |
Fantasies |
Science Fiction |
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1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
****
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"Hollywood...Hollywood...Fabulous Follywood...
Celluloid Babylon, glorious, glamorous."
~ Don Blanding, "Hollywood, Stanza I"
(1894 - ?)
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"The reason they made new movies is the old ones were bad."
~ Elder Simon Peter Mueller, 17 Jan 2003
(b. 25 Sep 1982)
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"NOT!!!"
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Me (b. 30 Aug 1947)
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