So. You ready to take the best 100 movie challenge?
This has been a random procrastination activity of mine for quite some time, and now I’m ready to share my list with the world. I have spent way, way too much time thinking about this.
Behold… my 100 favorite movies of all time!
But this isn’t all! It would be great if we could all share our own list for the Top 100, because I love looking at these lists. If you create your 100 and post it in the comments section I’ll add the links to this post.
- Casablanca
- The Godfather
- City of God
- The Godfather Part II
- Citizen Kane
- The Up Series
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Rushmore
- Jules and Jim
- Schindler’s List
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Star Wars
- The Battle of Algiers
- Vertigo
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- Trouble in Paradise
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Warriors
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Rebecca
- The Usual Suspects
- Children of Men
- Sunset Boulevard
- Giant
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Raging Bull
- Clockers
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Before Sunrise
- Goodfellas
- Groundhog Day
- The 25th Hour
- Manhattan
- E.T.
- Hoop Dreams
- Back to the Future
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- The Last Picture Show
- Before Sunset
- Stagecoach
- The Big Lebowski
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Gone With the Wind
- Office Space
- Into the Wild
- Ghost Dog
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- The Graduate
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Yojimbo
- Pulp Fiction
- Chinatown
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Edward Scissorhands
- North By Northwest
- Duck Soup
- Saturday Night Fever
- The Truman Show
- Playtime
- Pinocchio
- A Hard Day’s Night
- Le Samourai
- The Double Life of Veronique
- The Big Sleep
- Stray Dog
- The Philadelphia Story
- Charade
- Midnight Cowboy
- The Lives of Others
- True Grit
- Do the Right Thing
- Elf
- Rebel Without a Cause
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- From Here to Eternity
- Apocalypse Now
- Coming to America
- Breathless
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Funny Face
- Serpico
- Frankenstein
- Hud
- Wings of Desire
- Dr. Zhivago
- His Girl Friday
- Patton
- Mildred Pierce
- Run Lola Run
- Suspicion
- Point Blank
- This is Spinal Tap
- Anchorman
T.L. Bodine
Cathy Central
Deconstruction of the Fables
A Frugal Heart
Naja Tau
Lori
Maya Prasad
Dawn
Mary
Quills and Ink Stains
Stela Pasic
Coffee and Dragons
Bryan Russell
Ted Cross
in principio erat verbum
Jenna St. Hilaire
Literary Lily Cate
Ls Hawker
Deborah Brasket
Catherine Baldau
Tatiana Dleif
Catherine Ryan Howard
Karen Peterson
Margo Berendsen
Magdafied
Jimmetta Carpenter
Christy Luis
Vanessa Barger
Kip Wilson Rechea
Michael Nye
Dawn Treader
Celluloid Heroes and Stuff
Pieces of Me
ladyknightthebrave
Lauren Kinney
Lost on a Bicycle
Photo: Colusa Theatre (my hometown). Source.
Bryan Russell says
Okay, here's my list: https://www.alchemyofwriting.blogspot.ca/2013/01/100-favourite-movie-challenge.html
Though it would probably change drastically if I did it tomorrow. Or the day after.
Anonymous says
I can't even remember the titles of my own books, let alone 100 movies…lol.
Ted Cross says
I posted mine here — https://tedacross.blogspot.com/2013/01/100-favorite-movies-challenge.html
cbh says
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! It actually wasn't as difficult as I'd originally thought–but I'm pretty happy with my list! Check it out here:
https://christopherhusberg.blogspot.com/2013/01/challenge-accepted.html
Tiffany N. York says
I would add:
Impromptu
Young Frankenstein
Murder by Death
Lily Cate says
Alright, I had to play, too.
And this is just a list of movies I like – no higher qualifiers required 🙂
https://literarylilycate.blogspot.com/2013/01/bransford-dared-me-to-do-it.html
Ls Hawker says
My favorite hundred in alphabetical order:
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
A Few Good Men
A Knight's Tale
A Streetcar Named Desire
Airplane
Aliens
Almost Famous
American Graffitti
Animal House
Annie Hall
Apollo 13
The Big Lebowski
Blazing Saddles
Blood Simple
Bull Durham
Caddyshack
Casablanca
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Commitments
Contact
Dazed and Confused
The Descendants
Dodgeball
Drugstore Cowboy
Dumbo
Ed Wood
The Emperor's New Groove
Erin Brockovich
Fail Safe
Fight Club
Galaxy Quest
The Godfather
Goodfellas
Grease
Groundhog Day
Half Nelson
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Incredibles
Independence Day
Iron Man
It Happened One Night
It's a Wonderful Life
Jacob's Ladder
Jaws
Jurassic Park
LA Confidential
Last of the Mohicans
Lords of Dogtown
Lost in Translation
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Marty
The Matador
The Matrix
Meatballs
Memento
Midnight Run
Monsters Inc.
Moonrise Kingdom
Mulan
My Favorite Year
Napoleon Dynamite
Ocean's Eleven
The Philadelphia Story
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Pleasantville
Poltergeist
Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction
Radio Days
Raising Arizona
The Right Stuff
Rocky
Rosemary's Baby
School of Rock
Sense and Sensibility
Series 7
Shakespeare in Love
The Shootist
Signs
Sixteen Candles
Slumdog Millionaire
The Social Network
Stagecoach
Stand by Me
Star Trek (2009)
The Sting
The Straight Story
Swimming to Cambodia
Tangled
Titanic
Tombstone
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Training Day
Unforgiven
Up
Walk the Line
Wedding Crashers
The Wizard of Oz
Jenna St. Hilaire says
Could. Not. Resist. I tried. I'm supposed to be writing. 😛
Here's my list! That was way too much fun…
deborahbrasket says
I took up your challenge–quite a lot of fun. My list is posted here:
https://deborahbrasket.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/popcorn-anyone-my-favorite-100-movies-challenge/
deborahbrasket says
I had to change my address for my top 100 movies to meet your challange, so please disregard the last msg I left here and use this one:
https://deborahbrasket.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/popcorn-anyone-my-top100-movies-challenge/#respond
Catherine Baldau says
Of course as soon as I finish I think of a few more! I need to squeeze in Hugo. And Crazy, Stupid, Love. https://www.catherinebaldau.com/confluence/
Tatjana Dleif says
Great idea!
My Favorite Movies – Top 100
1. Top Gun
2. The Princess Bride
3. Must Love Dogs
4. Return of the Jedi
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
6. The Shining
7. Labyrinth
8. Teen Witch
9. Under the Tuscan Sun
10. Pretty Woman
11. Count of Monte Cristo
12. The Man from Snowy River
13. Chicago
14. True Lies
15. View from the Top
16. What Women Want
17. The Wedding Singer
18. Twister
19. Three Amigos
20. Transformers
21. The Day After Tomorrow
22. Sweet Home Alabama
23. Sideways
24. Moulin Rouge
25. Super 8
26. Practical Magic
27. The Sound of Music
28. Steven King’s It
29. Sleepy Hollow
30. Serenity
31. Stir of Echoes
32. Shag the Movie
33. Office Space
34. Men at Work
35. Never Been Kissed
36. Mona Lisa Smile
37. Mean Girls
38. The Grey
39. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
40. The Never Ending Story
41. Miss Congeniality
42. Memento
43. My Cousin Vinny
44. Jurassic Park
45. Congo
46. Just Friends
47. The Lion King
48. The Holiday
49. Jaws
50. Jaws 2
51. Legally Blond
52. Just One of the Guys
53. The Last Unicorn
54. The Sweetest Thing
55. Mary Poppins
56. The Village
57. Hitch
58. The Hours
59. Her Alibi
60. Halloween (Original w Jamie Lee Curtis)
61. Batman Begins
62. Stand By Me
63. A Fish Called Wanda
64. Coming to America
65. Ever After
66. French Kiss
67. Crocodile Dundee
68. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
69. The Devil Wears Prada
70. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
71. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
72. Erin Brockovich
73. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
74. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
75. Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Arc
76. The Goonies
77. Anne of Green Gables
78. 27 Dresses
79. National Lampoon’s Animal House
80. Center Stage
81. The Cutting Edge
82. The Book of Eli
83. The Craft
84. Bridget Jones’ Diary
85. Easy A
86. Superman (Original w Christopher Reeves)
87. Dirty Dancing
88. Arachnophobia
89. Naked Gun
90. What Lies Beneath
91. The Mummy (Remake w Rachel Weisz)
92. Gone with the Wind
93. Sliver
94. Vertigo
95. The Shawshank Redemption
96. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
97. Christmas Vacation
98. Finding Nemo
99. The Silence of the Lambs
100. …and last but certainly not least, A Few Good Men
Lesley says
THAT'S IT!!!! I'm having a movie watch fest…just got reminded about some truly awesome films. Thanks guys!!
I have to say Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was a total classic!
Also, Total Recall the old and new versions have been great.
As a Woemance (read Romance) wannabe author, I have loved 'The lives of Others', 'PS I Love You', 'The Lake House', 'Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood', 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe' and my guilty pleasure is… (don't throw virtual stuff at me) the Twilight Saga. ARRR its out!
Happy film watching!!
Ted Cross says
I'm just dumbfounded at how few people list Blade Runner, the best movie of all time!
Catherine Ryan Howard says
After much (read: excessive) consideration, I've posted my list:
https://catherineryanhoward.com/2013/02/01/the-100-best-movies-challenge/
Thanks for the fun challenge!
Karen Peterson says
This was so hard! But I finally managed to do it:
https://www.apeekatkarensworld.com/2013/02/the-best-100-movies-according-to-karen.html
Margo Berendsen says
Am I too late?? This was so much fun (and suprisingly challenging).
Here's my 100:
https://margoberendsen.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-top-100-movies-nathan-bransfords.html
Jimmetta Carpenter says
Hope it's not too late for this challenge but it took me some time to think about all of the great movies that I've seen
1.) The Shawshank Redemption
2.) It’s a Wonderful Life
3.) Pretty Woman
4.) Dirty Dancing
5.) Entire Twilight Series
6.) Entire Harry Potter Series
7.) The Bone Collector
8.) The Wizard of Oz
9.) The Sound of Music
10.)The Pursuit of Happiness
11.)The Princess Diaries
12.)The Devil Wears Prada
13.)Fresh
14.)Alex Haley’s Queen
15.)The Women of Brewster Place
16.)Save the Last Dance
17.)Sex and the City (1 & 2)
18.)Miss Potter
19.)To Kill a Mockingbird
20.)Of Mice and Men
21.)A Few Good Men
22.)Men of Honor
23.)Losing Isaiah
24.)Speed
25.)Titanic
26.)I can do bad all by myself
27.)Poetic Justice
28.)Enemy of the State
29.)Kiss the Girls
30.)Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
31.)Love Story
32.)Edward Scissorhands
33.)Cry Baby
34.)Coming to America
35.)America’s Sweethearts
36.)The Sixth Sense
37.)Don’t Say a Word
38.)The Lovely Bones
39.)I Am Sam
40.)The Secret Life of Bee’s
41.)The Parent Trap (the original one)
42.)Steel Magnolias
43.)Riding in Cars With Boys
44.)Little Women
45.)Beaches
46.)The Long Kiss Goodnight
47.)The Little Mermaid
48.)A Time to Kill
49.)The Negotiator
50.)Million Dollar Baby
51.)The Bodyguard
52.)Good Deeds
53.)For Colored Girls
54.)The Hours
55.)Uptown Girls
56.)Murder by Numbers
57.)Salt
58.)Girl, Interrupted
59.)Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
60.)The Man in the Moon
61.)Lean on Me
62.)Set It Off
63.)Their Eyes Were Watching God
64.)Malcolm X
65.)Mary Poppins
66.)The Color Purple
67.)Moonwalker
68.)The Pelican Brief
69.)The Firm
70.)Panic Room
71.)Corina, Corina
72.)Ghost
73.)Sleeping with the Enemy
74.)Secret Window
75.)Ray
76.)John Q
77.)Remember the Titans
78.)A Raisin in the Sun
79.)Sparkle (the original)
80.)Bridget Jones’ Diary
81.)Disappearing Acts
82.)The Lady and The Tramp
83.)Waiting To Exhale
84.)A League of Their Own
85.)Cast Away
86.)Dangerous Minds
87.)What’s Love Got to Do With It
88.)The Five Heartbeats
89.)The Jackson 5: An American Dream
90.)What Lies Beneath
91.)The Talented Mr. Ripley
92.)Precious
93.)Little Shop of Horrors
94.)Waitress
95.)Abandon
96.)Where the Heart Is
97.)Cruel Intentions
98.)Stepmom
99.)Daddy’s Little Girls
100.)White Oleander
Christy Luis says
Well, that was fun! Here's my list–hopefully it's not too late? Thanks for the challenge!
https://christy-luis.blogspot.com/2013/02/top-100-movies.html
Ellen M. Gregg says
I couldn't resist: https://ellenmgregg.com/2013/100-favorite-movies-challenge/
🙂
C says
My list will be ready tomorrow afternoon; is that too late?
Mira says
What a fun post!
I'm impressed, Nathan, that you not only listed your top 100, but you LINKED THEM! That is dedication! 😀
It was fun to see Funny Face on your list – I adore that movie, but I rarely find anyone else who has seen it.
I can't do the 100, it would take me weeks, because I would have to be extremely meticulous and fair. I'd weigh and balance and drive myself nuts.
Besides, it would overlap with yours. But I will add a couple films I love that aren't on your list:
Juno
12 Angry Men
The 6th Sense
Waitress
Sideways
Beauty and the Beast
Spiderman 2
I can't say these are the BEST movies, but movies that I love.
Vanessa Barger says
You've got some great movies on yours! Bridge on the River Kwai? Yes! I'm a bit late, but I've posted my own list. So hard to choose!
https://www.vanessabarger.com/1/post/2013/02/top-100-movies.html
Cassandra says
Some of my favorites :
Stromboli,Roberto Rossellinni
The Easy life, Dino Risi
To Be or Not to Be, Ernst Lubitsch
The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin
Nosferatu, F. W Murnau
M, Fritz Lang
The Seven Samouraïs, Akira Kurosawa
The son's room, Nanni Morreti
Rosemary's baby, Roman Polanski
The Exterminating Angel, Luis Buñuel
Living in Oblivion, Tom DiCillo
Solaris & Stalker,
AccueilStarsToutes les starsRussieAndreï Tarkovski
Andreï Tarkovski
Cassandra says
Sorry, meant to say :
Solaris & Stalker, Andreï Tarkovski
and I forgot
The fearless vampire killer, Roman Polanski
Cría cuervos, Carlos Saura
kiperoo says
Oh wow, so fun! I've been toying with a list for a while, so this was a perfect excuse to post. A lot of yours made it on my list too, although mine is kind of heavy on the foreign films and musicals. 😉
https://kiperoo.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/the-best-100-movies-challenge/
halcyon78 says
This was a blast to do. As I scanned down the page, though, to add my comment and let you know my top 100 is up on my site, I realized that I somehow missed "Hoop Dreams." I guess this list is always in flux, isn't it?
Here they are:
https://mpnye.com/blog/my-100-favorite-movies/
Thanks, Nathan!
Jennifer says
I finally posted my list! https://neyhart.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-top-100-movies.html
Turquoise blog says
59. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Father of the Bride
Anna Karenina
The Parent Trap
Groundhog Day
Driving Miss Daisy
The Devil Wears Prada
The Duchess
The Princess Diaries
The Bridge on the River Kwai
A Room with a View
Funny Face
Get Smart
The Breakfast Club
True Grit
Inception
Motorcycle Diaries
Under the Tuscan Sun
Dumbo
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
About a Boy
Argo
Star Wars
Sense and Sensibility
Wimbledon
Shakespeare in Love
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Notting Hill
An Affair to Remember
Beauty and the Beast
My Fair Lady
We Bought a Zoo
Midnight in Paris
August Rush
Out of Africa
Casablanca
Die Hard
The Lion King
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Les Miserables
Snow White
The Princess Bride
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Cinderella
The Sound of Music
Roman Holiday
How to Steal a Million
The Last of the Mohicans
The Incredibles
The Adjustment Bureau
Pride and Prejudice
The Notebook
Titanic
Good Will Hunting
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
kmaeser says
I love this idea as a blog topic! Is it too late to add my list?
devilschasinme says
I love these lists! It took me a while to get all mine together, but I wanted to share mine as well 🙂 Thanks for the idea, Nathan!
devilschasinme says
blerg… forgot the link to mine 🙂
https://celluloidheroesandstuff.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/best-100-movies-challenge/
kmaeser says
Just in case here is my list,
https://kellymaeser.blogspot.com/2013/02/lights-camera-action.html
ladyknightthebrave says
Hey I did the challenge thing. Link is here https://ladyknightthebrave.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/the-best-100-movies-challenge/ ^_^
giorgioleone says
Salve a tutti, sono Italiano, è la prima volta che partecipo a questo blog. Volevo esordire dicendo che a mio modestissimo parere tra le primissime posizioni mancano: "i sette samurai" di Kurosawa, "Luci della ribalta" di Charlie Chaplin, "Il buono, il brutto e il cattivo" e "C'era una volta in America" di Sergio Leone. Mi sembra strano che non ci siamo questi capolavori assoluti, pezzi d'oro della storia cinematografica. ps: prometto che a breve commenterò in inglese 😉
Lauren Kinney says
Here's my list, full of movies about teachers and writers, and plenty from the 90s.
https://laurenkinney.net/2013/02/100-movies-challenge-my-personal-favorites/
Jeremy says
I've been intending to get this here when I first saw the blog post. Alas, I'm only a year late. 🙁
Here is my list. I try to pop a rating in IMDB right after I see a movie. This leaves me with a mixture of blockbusters, classics and obscure foreign films. I included year and director because I preferred different versions. (As somebody who loved Dahl books, I found Burton's style seemed to be perfectly suited to his books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.)
https://jeremysbike.blogspot.com/2014/01/top-100-movies.html
Somerset Wedding Girl says
You've got seriously good taste friend! I don't think I could even think of 100 films I'd seen!
jenn says
done. https://www.smartassdirect.com/2017/05/the-best-hundred-movies-challenge.html.