Compared to some people, I haven't seen a lot of movies, but what I have seen is cherce.  Here's my pick of the one hundred best - picked by no criterion by my enjoyment factor. I've annotated my twelve favourite movies - just lick on those names and you'll see my write-up.

I find that my taste has changed over the years, and to a large extent I have left out movies I loved as a teen-ager (like Kaleidescope  with Warren Beatty or Susannah York), unless they have stood the test of time.

1.      The Abyss
2.      African Queen
3.      Ai no kasabi
4.      American Gigolo
5.      Arthur
6.      Asterix le Gaulois
7.      All That Jazz
8.      Batman
9.      Becket
10.      Bedrooms and Hallways
11.      Blown Away
12.      Born Yesterday
13.      Braveheart
14.     The Bodyguard
15.      Cabaret

     16.  Camelot
     17.  Cannery Row
     18.  Casablanca
     19.  Class Action
     20.  A Clear and Present Danger
     21.  Cold Comfort Farm
     22.  The Crow
     23.  The Crying Game
     24.  Cyrano
     25.  Dangerous Beauty
     26.  Dangerous Liaisons
     27.  Die Hard With a Vengeance
     28.  Electric Horseman
     29.  The Elephant Man
     30.  The Emerald Forest
     30.  The English Patient
     31.  Farinelli
     32.  A Few Good Men
     33.  Flatliners
     34.  Four Weddings and a Funeral
     35.  The Fugitive
     36.  The Full Monty
     37.  Ghost
     38.  Gladiator
     39.  The Go-Between
     40.  Hamlet
     41.  Hard Target
     42.  Haunted Summer
     43.  Henry V
     44.  Highlander: Endgame
     45.  An Ideal Husband
     46.  In and Out
     47.  Jane Eyre
     48.  L.A. Confidential
     49.  The Last of the Mohicans
     50.  Lawrence of Arabia
     51.  Lethal Weapon
     52.  The Lion in Winter
     53.  The Living Daylights
     54.  Medicine Man
     55.  A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2000)
     56.  A Midwinter’s Tale
     57.  The Miracle Worker
     58.  The Moonspinners
     59.  Moonstruck
     60.  More Than a Miracle
     61.  Much Ado About Nothing
     62.  The Mummy
     63.  The Music Man
     64.  My Beautiful Laundrette
     65.  My Fair Lady
     66.  The Pajama Game
     67.  Persuasion
     68.  Peter Pan
     69.  Pocohantas
     70.  Pretty Woman
     71.  Richard III
     72.  Risky Business
     73.  The Road Warrior
     74.  Robocop
     76.  The Rock
     77.  The Russia House
     78.  The Scarlet Pimpernel
     79.  Scent of a Woman
     80.  Sense and Sensibility
     81.  Shadow of the Raven
     82.  Six Days Seven Nights
     83.  The Sixth Sense
     84.  Sleuth
     85.  Sneakers
     86.  The Sound of Music
     87.  Starman
     88.  Star Trek: First Contact
     89.  Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
     90.  Swing Kids
     91.  Terminator
     92.  Terminator 2
     93.  The Third Man
     94.  The Three Lives of Thomasina
     95.  Timecop
     96.  Tomorrow Never Dies
     97.  Velvet Goldmine
     98.  Witness
     99.  The World is Not Enough
     100. X-Men

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