MY 100 FAVORITE FILMS OF ALL-TIME

In 2012 I broke down my favorite movies from each decade. To start off the new year I thought it would be interesting to gather my 100 favorite movies for a list. I was going to make the list according to preference, but that just was too difficult. So here are my 100 all-time favorite movies in chronological order...

Al Jolson and May McAvoy in The Jazz Singer

1. The Jazz Singer (1927)
2. City Lights (1931)
3. The Public Enemy (1931)
4. Frankenstein (1931)
5. Dracula (1931)
6. Freaks (1932)
7. King Kong (1933)
8. 42nd Street (1933)
9. Show Boat (1936)
10. Follow The Fleet (1936)
11. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
12. Of Mice And Men (1939)
13. The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939)
14. The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
15. The Great Dictator (1940)
16. Citizen Kane (1941)
17. The Face Behind The Mask (1941)
18. Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
19. Holiday Inn (1942)
20. Pride Of The Yankees (1942)
21. To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
22. Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)
23. Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)
24. Going My Way (1944)

Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend

25. The Lost Weekend (1945)
26. Blue Skies (1946)
27. The Boy With The Green Hair (1948)
28. White Heat (1949)
29. Harvey (1950)
30. Limelight (1952)
31. The Country Girl (1954)
32. Rear Window (1954)
33. Love Me Or Leave Me (1955)
34. Marty (1955)
35. High Society (1956)
36. Twelve Angry Men (1957)
37. Paths Of Glory (1957)
38. Silk Stockings (1957)
39. A Face In The Crowd (1957)
40. Vertigo (1958)
41. North By Northwest (1959)
42. Some Like It Hot (1959)
43. The Music Man (1961)
44. The Hustler (1961)
45. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
46. Gigot (1962)
47. Whatever Happened To Baby Jane (1962)
48. The Great Escape (1963)
49. It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason in Soldier In The Rain

50. Soldier In The Rain (1964)
51. In Cold Blood (1967)
52. Planet Of The Apes (1968)
53. The Odd Couple (1968)
54. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
55. Cool Hand Luke (1969)
56. The Godfather (1972)
57. Blazing Saddles (1974)
58. The Towering Inferno (1974)
59. The Godfather II (1974)
60. Young Frankenstein (1974)
61. Jaws (1975)
62. One Who Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
63. Network (1976)
64. Taxi Driver (1976)
65. The Omen (1976)
66. Star Wars (1977)
67. National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
68. The Jerk (1979)
69. Kramer VS Kramer (1979)
70. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
71. Caddyshack (1980)
72. The Shining (1980)
73. Raging Bull (1980)

Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack in Airplane!

74. Airplane! (1980)
75. The Elephant Man (1980)
76. Scarface (1983)
77. Return Of The Jedi (1983)
78. The King Of Comedy (1983)
79. A Christmas Story (1983)
80. Back To The Future (1985)
81. The Breakfast Club (1985)
82. Stand By Me (1986)
83. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
84. Goodfellas (1990)
85. Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
86. JFK (1991)
87. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
88. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
89. Forrest Gump (1994)
90. Casino (1995)
91. Donnie Brasco (1997)
92. Being John Malkovich (1999)
93. The Green Mile (1999)
94. Any Given Sunday (1999)

Catherine Zeta Jones in Chicago

95. Chicago (2002)
96. Big Fish (2003)
97. Beyond The Sea (2004)
98. Crash (2005)
99. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
100. Sweeney Todd (2007)

Again, these are my favorite movies and not what critics or the public are saying are the best films. Some of these 100 films might be horrible bombs, but they are ones that I like personally. What films did I leave off? Comments are greatly appreciated...