MovieGuide Top 100 Films of All Time

This week sees another Spielberg film, another John Ford/John Wayne collaboration (which also appeared on the MoFo Top 100), another silent classic, a couple more Best Picture winners and nominees, and the first Pixar entry. I'm glad to see Witness on the list. It's an excellent film that I think tends to get overlooked a lot.

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Week 6 - #50-41
http://www.movieguide.org/articles/m...own-50-41.html

50. Little Women tie
LITTLE WOMEN (1933)
Dir: George Cukor
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett
(Academy Award Nominee - Best Picture)
LITTLE WOMEN (1994)
Dir: Gillian Armstrong
Starring: Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Claire Danes, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale

49. THE MIRACLE WORKER (1962)
Dir: Arthur Penn
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke

48. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951
Dir: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn

47. POLLYANNA (1960)
Dir: David Swift
Starring: Haley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead

46. SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (1960)
Dir: Ken Annakin
Starring: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk

45. BURKE & WILLS (1987)
Dir: Graeme Clifford
Starring: Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi

44. THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985)
Dir: Woody Allen
Starring: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello

43. THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER (1941)
Dir: William Dieterle
Starring: James Criag, Walter Huston, Edward Arnold

42. FIRST KNIGHT (1995)
Dir: Jerry Zucker
Starring: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond

41. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)
Dir: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery

There's more of the kind of films I expected to see - Pollyanna, Swiss Family Robinson, Little Women. Rather surprised to find The Last Crusade on here. I don't know why, it's certainly on my all-time favorites list, but for some reason I wasn't really expecting to see Indiana Jones on this list.

This must be a mistake. Surely, this should say The Dark Knight or First Blood?

The Best Years of Our Lives is a great pick. So is Casablanca, but that is way too high as previously stated.

Week 7 - #40-31
http://www.movieguide.org/articles/m...own-40-31.html

40. HOOSIERS (1986)
Dir: David Anspaugh
Starring: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper

39. A MAN CALLED PETER (1955)
Dir: Henry Koster
Starring: Richard Todd, Jean Peters

38. THE GRANDFATHER (1998)
Dir: Jose Luis Garci
Starring: Fernando Fernan Gomez, Rafael Alonso

37. GLORY (1989)
Dir: Edward Zwick
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman

36. GETTYSBURG (1993)
Dir: Ronald F. Maxwell
Starring: Tom Beringer, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen

35. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)
Dir: Ang Lee
Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant
(Academy Award Nominee - Best Picture)
(#41 on MoFo 100 2010)

34. JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING (1986)
Dir: Claude Berri
Starring: Yves Montad

33. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1942)
Dir: Preston Sturges
Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake

32. DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (1939)
Dir: John Ford
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda

31. MEET JOHN DOE (1941)
Dir: Frank Capra
Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan

Some great Civil War dramas, another Best Picture Nominee/MoFo 100 match, Movies from Spain and France, another John Ford film (his fouth on the list), and my second favorite Capra picture (his second entry) all make the list this week. I love seeing Meet John Doe on the list. It seems to me like it often gets overlooked.

Some stats from the list so far:

Best Picture Nominees - 11
On the 2010 MoFo 100 - 9
Best Picture Winners - 6
Directed by John Ford - 4
Directed by Steven Spielberg - 3
Directed by Frank Capra - 2
Directed by Akira Kurosawa - 2
Directed by Michael Curtiz - 2

these two

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Anyone know of any other good lists like this one? I have approximately 1,500 movies and I must confess it's getting harder to find good gems.

Just take a look at the top 100's and/or members dvd collections.

I can pretty much guarantee that if you go through these lists and mark the films you've seen, you'll find a bunch more you should see:

http://www.movieforums.com/lists

And here's the link to the member "Top 100" lists Honeykid mentioned, though there may be a few new ones out there, too:

http://www.movieforums.com/community...ad.php?t=15884

And the member DVD collections, but again, there may be some newer ones out there as well:

http://www.movieforums.com/community...ad.php?t=23243

That should make it easier for you. Good luck.

Thanks!

awesome post. thanks

Week 8 - #30-21
http://www.movieguide.org/articles/m...own-30-11.html

30. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)
Dir: John Ford
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Roddy McDowall
(Academy Award Winner – Best Picture)

29. A Christmas Carol tie
SCROOGE (1951)
Dir: Brian Desmond Hurst
Starring: Alistair Sim

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992)
Dir: Brian Henson
Starring: Michael Caine, The Muppets

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1999)
Dir: David Hugh Jones
Starring: Patrick Stewart

28. Shakespeare tie
HENRY V (1944)
Dir: Laurence Olivier
Starring: Laurence Olivier
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

HENRY V (1989)
Dir: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh

HAMLET (1948)
Dir: Laurence Olivier
Starring: Laurence Olivier
(Academy Award Winner – Best Picture)

HAMLET (1990)
Dir: Franco Ziffirelli
Starring: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close

27. ELENI (1985)
Dir: Peter Yates
Starring: John Malkovich

26. THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (1998)
Dir: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells
Starring: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Patrick Stewart

25. DEAD MAN WALKING (1995)
Dir: Tim Robbins
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn

24. BRAVEHEART (1995)
Dir: Mel Gibson
Starring: Mel Gibson
(Academy Award Winner – Best Picture)
(#21 on the MoFo 100 2010)

23. THE TREE OF THE WOODEN CLOGS (1978)
Dir: Ermanno Olmi
Starring: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi

22. QUO VADIS (1951)
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

21. THE KING OF KINGS (1927)
Dir: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: H.B. Warner

This week we see several more Best Picture winners and nominees. Also, more ties (those are a bit annoying). And this week we see the films with the strong religious content start showing up, as I had anticipated. The Prince of Egypt, Quo Vadis, and Demille's The King of Kings aren't pictures that typically populate top 100 lists. Of those, I've only seen The Prince of Egypt, but it would be on my list somewhere.

Keep em comin Mikey

Week 9 - #20-11

http://www.movieguide.org/list/top-1...own-20-11.html

20. WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)
Dir: Byron Haskin
Starring: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson

19. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
Dir: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury

18. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
Dir: Victor Fleming
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh
(Academy Award Winner – Best Picture)

17. HIGH NOON (1952)
Dir: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Gary Cooper
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

16. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
Dir: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

15. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956)
Dir: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brenner
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

14. TENDER MERCIES (1983)
Dir: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Robert Duvall
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

13. PLACES IN THE HEART (1984)
Dir: Robert Benton
Starring: Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

12. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
Dir: Robert Wise
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
(Academy Award Winner – Best Picture)

11. A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966)
Dir: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Paul Scofield, Orson Welles
(Academy Award Winner – Best Picture)

Lots of Best Picture Oscar Nominees this week. And another Capra picture, which is always a good thing.

Revisiting the stats with one week to go...

Best Picture Nominees - 17
On the 2010 MoFo 100 - 10
Best Picture Winners - 12
Directed by John Ford - 5
Directed by Steven Spielberg - 3
Directed by Frank Capra - 3
Directed by Akira Kurosawa - 2
Directed by Michael Curtiz - 2
Directed by Cecil B. Demille - 2
Directed by Fred Zinnemann - 2

Gotta give love for Gone With The Wind and The Manchurian Candidate.

Week 10 - #10-1

http://www.movieguide.org/list/top-1...down-10-1.html

10. REPENTANCE (1987)
Dir: Tengiz Abuladze
Starring: Avtandil Makharaze, Dato Kemkhadze, Ya Ninidze

9. WWII tie
THE HIDING PLACE (1975)
Dir: James F. Collier
Starring: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift George, Eileen Heckart, Arthur O’Connell

WEAPONS OF THE SPIRIT (1987)
Dir: Pierre Sauvage
Starring: Pierre Sauvage, Henri Heritier, Emma Heritier

SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993)
Dir: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
(Academy Award Winner – Best Picture)
(#86 on the MoFo 100 2010)

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959)
Dir: George Stevens
Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelly Winters, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

8. CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981)
Dir: Hugh Hudson
Starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Cheryl Campbel, Alice Krige, Ian Holm
(Academy Award Winner – Best Picture)

7. BABETTE’S FEAST (1987)
Dir: Gabriel Axel
Starring: Stephane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer

6. THE ROBE (1953)
Dir: Henry Koster
Starring: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

5. BEN-HUR (1959)
Dir: William Wyler
Starring: Charlton Heston
(Academy Award Winner – Best Picture)

4. SERGEANT YORK (1941)
Dir: Howard Hawks
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

3. A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1935)
Dir: Jack Conway
Starring: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone

2. LES MISERABLES (1935)
Dir: Richard Boleslawski
Starring: Fredric March, Charles Loughton
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)

1. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
Dir: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed
(Academy Award Nominee – Best Picture)
(#56 on the MoFo 100 2010)