Bonus Blog: Best Movies and Shows

This is like the world’s longest blog entry, and it’s just one enormous list. Also, it’s not something that I am particularly qualified to address you about, but it is, after all, just a list of suggestions. Except not really suggestions, because the list here–of best movies and shows–is culled from various lists online, which means I haven’t even seen the majority of the recommendations. (Okay, occasionally I threw one in, but not actually that often.) At the end of the looooooooong list, I did list my favorite movies and shows, as well. Because anybody cares.

I plan on using this list, so I thought I would share it with you in case you’re looking for a list to use to pick your next year’s worth of movies or TV series (which would mean you only pick one subset of this list–like a particular genre) or just movies for the rest of quarantine. I’m looking forward to checking off several of them for family movie night and during my alone, down-time before bed. I might even get around to reviewing some of them, maybe a month at a time like I used to do. And maybe I could star the ones I agree with. (Note: there are a few genres missing, because I simply don’t watch them, like horror.)

(Musical movies list can be found HERE.)

DRAMA

Forrest Gump *
The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather
American Beauty
Schindler’s List
Batman Begins
The Godfather series
Goodfellas
American History X
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Leon: The Professional
The Green Mile
No Country for Old Men
A Clockwork Orange
City of God
The Truman Show (1998) ***
Crash
Taxi Driver
Casablanca
Scarface
Good Will Hunting
Trainspotting
Gran Torino
Dr. Strangelove
Million Dollar Baby
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Catch Me If You Can (2002) *
Groundhog Day
There Will Be Blood
A Beautiful Mind
Citizen Kane
12 Angry Men
The Social Network
Into the Wild
Magnolia
Gangs of New York
Rain Man
American Gangster
Casino
Castaway
Being John Malkovich
The Wrestler
Unforgiven
3:10 to Yuma
The King’s Speech
Zodiac
Amadeus (1984) ***
Seven Samurai
Hotel Rwanda
Babel
Dark Knight
The Lord of the Rings (2001) ***
Fight Club
City of God
Sunset Boulevard
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) *
Momento
City Lights
Apocalypse Now
West by Northwest
Paths of Glory
The Human Condition I
Saving Private Ryan
Modern Times
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lives of Others
The Shining
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Pianist
Satantango
Das Boot
The Bicycle Thief
All About Eve
Requiem for a Dream
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Cinema Paradiso
Chinatown
Rashomon
Life is Beautiful
Rear Window
Rebecca
Bicycle Thieves
The Graduate
Almost Famous (2000) ***

COMEDY

A Night at the Opera
The Blues Brothers
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Tommy Boy
Caddy Shack
Doctor Strangelove
The Burbs
National Lampoon’s Vacation
The Big Lebowski
Airplane!
Meet the Parents
Mean Girls
Local Hero
Booksmart
There’s Something About Mary
Popstar
School of Rock
Waiting for Guffman
The Big Sick
Old School
Slapshot
The Pink Panther and The Return of the Pink Panther
Office Space
Charlie Chaplain movies
As Good as It Gets
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
The Royal Tenenbaums
Kingpin
Best in Show
Laurel and Hardy movies
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
The Cable Guy
The Death of Stalin
Take the Money and Run
Wayne’s World
A Fish Called Wanda
Midnight Run
Clueless (1995) *
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mrs. Doubfire
The Man with Two Brains
The Odd Couple
Raising Arizona
In the Loop
The King of Comedy
Austin Powers
The Producers
Rushmore
Woody Allen films
His Girl Friday
Napoleon Dynamite
Coming to America
Nuts in May
The General
National Lampoon’s Animal House
When Harry Met Sally…
Groucho Marx films
Three Amigos!
Shaun of the Dead
South Park
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Zoolander
Blazing Saddles
The Castle
Bridesmaids
Play It Again, Sam
Tootsie
Ghostbusters
Young Frankenstein
Four Lions
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Trading Places
Some Like it Hot
Dumb and Dumber
The Naked Gun
Anchorman
Borat
Team America
The Jerk
Life of Brian
Annie Hall
Groundhog Day
This Is Spinal Tap
Some Like It Hot
Superbad
The Hangover
Stepbrothers
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
His Girl Friday

ROM-COM and ROMANCE

The Philadelphia Story
It Happened One Night
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Before Sunrise (1995)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
The Shape of Water
Slumdog Millionaire
Titanic
The Big Sick
Moonstruck
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) *?
Dirty Dancing
Love and Basketball
Elizabethtown
The Bodyguard
Carol
Crazy Rich Asians
When Harry Met Sally
Jerry Maguire
Notting Hill
The Notebook
West Side Story
Ghost
Casablanca
Juno
Her
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Bull Durham
Crazy, Stupid Love
San Junipero
A Star is Born (2018) *
Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001) ***
Pretty Woman
10 Things I Hate About You
Sleepless in Seattle
Valentines Day
Four Weddings and a Funeral
You’ve Got Mail
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
The Wedding Singer
There’s Something About Mary
While You Were Sleeping
The Proposal
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Roman Holiday
The Holiday
Set It Up
Love, Actually (2003) ***
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Something’s Gotta Give
Gone with the Wind
Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
Kissing Jessica Stein
Some Kind of Wonderful
Much Ado About Nothing
Amelie (2001) ***
The Apartment
Down with Love
Broadcast News
Love Jones
Desire
Splash
About Time
Cold War
To Catch a Thief
Sliding Doors
Circle of Friends
Best Man
Il Mare
Monsoon Wedding
Moulin Rouge!
All the Real Girls
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
I am Love
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Top Five
Loving
Love Affair
Brief Encounter
Singin’ in the Rain
Roman Holiday
Vertigo
The Apartment
The Last of the Mohicans
Sense and Sensibility (1995) ***
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
In the Mood for Love
Punch Drunk Love
Brokeback Mountain
Away from Her
Once
Away We Go
Up in the Air
Like Crazy
Weekend
Ruby Sparks
Moonrise Kingdom
Cutie and the Boxer
The Spectacular Now
The Lunchbox
Brooklyn
Testament of Youth
Anomalisa
La La Land
Sing Street
Southside with You
Call Me By Your Name

ANIMATED

Toy Story
Up
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Incredibles
Spirited Away
Wall-E
Snow White
Inside Out
The LEGO Movie
Ratatouille
Rango
Coraline
Charlotte’s Web
The Lion King (1994)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Hercules
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) *
The Fox and the Hound
Cloudy with a a Chance of Meatballs
Paddington 2
Coco
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse (2018) ***
Bambi
The Triplets of Belleville
Ghost in the Shell
Frozen
The Secret Life of Arrietty
Ernest and Celestine
Alladdin (1992)
The Red Turtle
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Persepolis
Your Name
Yellow Submarine
Antz
Waltz with Bashir
Song of the Sea
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Iron Giant
The LEGO Batman Movie
Monsters, Inc.
Tower
Fantasia
101 Dalmations
My Life as a Zucchini
Chicken Run
Only Yesterday
Ponyo
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Finding Dory
Pinocchio
Finding Nemo
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Zootopia
Wreck-It Ralph
Shrek

ADVENTURE

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jurassic Park
Lord of the Rings (series, 2001) ***
Pirates of the Caribbean (series)
The Goonies
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jaws
Back to the Future
The Avengers: Endgame
Star Wars movies
Romancing the Stone
Cast Away
Stand By Me
Life of Pi (2012) ***
Moonrise Kingdom
The Hidden Fortress
The Peanut Butter Falcon
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Annihilation
Thor: Ragnarok
Spy
North by Northwest
Terminator and Terminator 2
Alien and Aliens
Die Hard
The Hunt for Red October
Speed (1994) *
Apollo 13
Casino Royale
Inglourious Basterds
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
The Avengers
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
John Wick
Wonder Woman
Atomic Blonde
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) *
King Kong
The 39 Steps
Seven Samurai
The French Connection
Bad Boys
Braveheart
The Matrix (1999) *
Kill Bill Vol 1
Oldboy
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Dark Knight
The Hurt Locker
District 9
Raid
The Hunger Games (series) *
Snowpiercer
Mad Max: Fury Road

THRILLERS AND MYSTERIES

The Conversation
Inside Man
Rififi
Widows
Assault on Precinct 13
Berberian Sound Studio
Uncut Gems
Gaslight
You Were Never Really Here
Utoya
Rear Window
The Manchurian Candidate
North by Northwest
Blood Simple
The Silence of the Lambs
Seven
Momento
No Country for Old Men
Prisoners
Vertigo
Peeping Tom
Locke
Sorcerer
The Night of the Hunter
Duel
The French Connection
Nightcrawler
Parasite (2019) *–see review
The Prisoners
Mystic River
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Goodtime
Drive
Burning
Source Code
Blue Velvet
Blowout
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Gone Girl (2014) *
The Game
Fargo
Ex Machina
Get Out
Zodiac
Mulholland Dr.
Psycho
Knives Out (2019) *
Death on the Nile
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Charade
Happy Death Day
Chinatown
Gosford Park
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
The Fugitive
A Simple Favor
And Then There Were None
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
The Mirror Crack’d
Clue (1985)
The Big Sleep
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Usual Suspects
Dial M for Murder
The Maltese Falcon
Primal Fear
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

SCI-FI

Alien
Bladerunner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars (series)
The Matrix (1999) *
Ex Machina
The Terminator
Inception
La Jetee
A Clockwork Orange
The Andromeda Strain
Solaris
Westworld
Logan’s Run
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Stalker
Alien
Altered States
E.T.
Tron
Brazil
Back to the Future
Robocop
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Monkeys
Star Trek: First Contact
Fifth Element
Gattaca
Contact
Men in Black
The Truman Show (1998) ***
eXistenZ
A.I.
Minority Report
Primer
Serenity
Children of Men
A Scanner Darkly
Sunshine
Cloverfield
Wall-E
Moon
District 9
Source Code
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Looper (2012) *
Snowpiercer
Her
Gravity
Under the Skin
Ex Machina
The Edge of Tomorrow
Interstellar
The Martian
Mad Max-Fury Road
Arrival (2017) *
Midnight Special
Annihilation
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

FANTASY

The Witches
Legend
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Excalibur
Time Bandits
The Neverending Story
Labyrinth
The Princess Bride (1987) *
The Thief of Baghdad
The Dark Crystal
The Spirit of the Beehive
Edward Scissorhands (1990) ***
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) * (and Charlie and the Chocoolate Factory (2005) *)
Orpheus
Mary Poppins
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
The Shape of Water
Donkey Skin
Harry Potter (series, 2001) ***
Ugetsu
Pan’s Labyrinth
La Belle at la Bete
Spirited Away
The Lord of the Rings (series, 2001) ***
The Wizard of Oz
Being John Malkovich
Big Fish
The Cabin the Woods
The Fall
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Hellboy
The Hobbit (series, 2012) *
Jumanji (1995) * (along with Welcome to the Jungle and The Next Level)
Mirror Mask
The Muppets
Pirates of the Caribbean (series)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Princess Mononoke
Reign of Fire
The Chronicles of Narnia
Krull
Alice in Wonderland (1951 or 2010?)
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings

DOCUMENTARY

Paris is Burning
13^th
Amy
Three Identical Strangers
Honeyland
The Work
Pina
The Act of Killing
The Central Park Five
Man on Wire
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
The Overnighters
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
I Am Not Your Negro
Capturing the Friedmans
Gleason
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Life, Animated
The Fog of War
Sound and Fury
Koyaanisqatsi
Dear Zachary
Bill Cunningham NY
How to Survive a Plague
O.J.: Made in America
The Times of Harvey Milk
Harlan County, USA
The Thin Blue Lines
Hoop Dreams
Up (series)
Man with a Camera
Shoah
Sans soleil
Night and Fog
Chronicle of a Summer
Nanook of the North
The Gleaners and I
Don’t Look Back
Grey Gardens
The Sorrow and the Pity
Grizzly Man
A Poem is a Naked Person
American Movie (1999) *
Blackfish
Bowling for Columbine
The Buena Vista Social Club
Burden of Dreams
Cameraperson
Crumb
Citizenfour
City of Gold
Dark Money
Don’t Look Back
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Exit Through the Gift Shop
F for Fake
Gimme Shelter
Going Clear
Hearts of Darkness
Jane
Kate Plays Christine
Kedi
McQueen
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
The Queen of Versailles
Restrepo
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Head
Salesman
Searching for Sugarman
The September Issue
Sherman’s March
Spellbound
Stories We Tell
Super Size Me
Twenty Feet from Stardom
Waltz with Bashir
Weiner
West of Memphis
When the Leeves Broke

HISTORICAL AND PERIOD DRAMA

Schindler’s List
Ben Hur
12 Years a Slave
Braveheart
Glory
Gandhi
Apollo 13
Lawrence of Arabia
Sophie’s Choice
Judy
Saving Private Ryan
Lincoln
Joyeux Noel
The Messenger
All the President’s Men
Bonnie and Clyde
Frida
Gangs of New York
Elizabeth
Amistad
Gladiator
The Great Debaters
Patton
Suffragette
Black Hawk Down
Born on the Fourth of July
Hotel Rwanda
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
JFK
Letters from Iwo Jima
Milk
Jackie
Mississippi Burning
Munich
Titanic
Spartacus
Kingdom of Heaven
The King’s Speech
The Iron Lady
The Patriot
Das Boot
Cold Mountain
Master and Commander
Amadeus (1984) ***
The Last of the Mohicans
Sense and Sensibility (1995) ***
The Duchess
Young Victoria
Little Women (1994 and 2019)
A Room with a View
The Other Boelyn Girl
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Atonement
The French Lietnetant’s Woman
Brideshead Revisited
Life is Beautiful
Bright Star
Hacksaw Ridge

EPIC

Apocalypse Now
Forrest Gump *
The English Patient
The Last Emporer
Ben-Hur
Dr. Zhivago
War and Peace (1966)
The Lord of the Rings (trilogy, 2001) ***
Andrei Rublev
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Gone with the Wind
Fitzcarraldo
Intolerance (1916)
Seven Samurai
Lawrence of Arabia
2001: A Space Odyssey
1917
Midway
Dunkirk
Outlaw King
Interstellar
Shadow
Padmavaat
Exodus
Star Wars (series)
Indiana Jones (series)
Avatar
Titanic
Spartacus
Dances with Wolves
Gladiator
Glory
The Godfather (series)
Mi Familia
The Irishman

FAMILY

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
The Princess Bride (1987) *
Say Anything
The Incredibles
Inside Out
Shrek
Toy Story
The Sandlot
Finding Nemo
Beauty and the Beast
Mary Poppins
The Sound of Music
The LEGO Movie
Aladdin
The Muppet Movie
The Lion King
Hook
Jurassic Park
Homeward Bound
Wreck-It Ralph
Back to the Future
The Little Mermaid
Ghostbusters
Akelah and the Bee
ET
The Karate Kid
Remember the Titans
The Land Before Time
Toy Story
Spirited Away
Duck Soup
The Iron Giant
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (2018) ***
Super 8
Earth to Echo
Jumanji (1995) *
Zathura (2005) *
Matilda
School of Rock
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Edward Scissorhands (1990) ***
The Rocketeer
Phineas and Ferb (2007-) ***
Cool Runnings
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Goonies
Big
Mrs. Doubtfire
Brewster’s Millions
Homeward Bound
Harry Potter (series, 2001) ***
Back to the Future
Up
Pan
Freaky Friday
All the other Muppet movies
Cheaper by the Dozen
Frozen
The Emoji Movie
Bedtime Stories
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day
Evan Almighty
The Incredibles
Moana
Paddington 2
Ratatouille
Flushed Away
Sing
The Secret Life of Pets
Zootopia
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2005) *
Tangled
The Addams Family
Annie
The Lion King
Space Jam
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Milo and Otis
A Bug’s Life
Arthur
Totoro
Happy Feet
March of the Penguins
My Fair Lady
Small Foot
Hotel Transylvannia
Singin’ in the Rain
Big Hero Six
The Lorax
Home
The Wizard of Oz
Mighty Joe Young
Old Yeller
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Princess Diaries
Spellbound
Zarafa
Fiddler on the Roof
Hidden Figures
Holes
Chariots of Fire
The Peanuts Movie
Soul (2020) *

HOLIDAY

Elf (Christmas, 2003) ***
A Christmas Story (Christmas, 1983) ***
Home Alone (Christmas, 1990) *
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) ***
It’s a Wonderful Life (Christmas, 1946) *
One Magic Christmas
Last Holiday *
White Reindeer
Office Christmas Party
The Night Before
Jack Frost
Four Christmases
Batman Returns
Just Friends
Happy Christmas
The Holiday
Love, Actually (Christmas, 2003) ***
Jingle All the Way
Prancer
Mixed Nuts
Deck the Halls
Christmas with the Kranks (Christmas, 2004) *
The Family Stone (2005)
Metropolitan
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Edward Scissorhands (1990) *** (but as a holiday movie? I dunno)
The Santa Clause
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas
Die Hard
While You Were Sleeping *
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Shop Around the Corner
A Christmas Tale
Black Christmas
Eyes Wide Shut
Meet Me in Saint Louis
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Christmas 1939) *
A Charlie Brown Christmas ***
The Apartment
The Nightmare Before Christmas ***
A Christmas Carol (1951)
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Bad Santa
Miracle on 34^th Street (Thanksgiving to Christmas, 1947)
Scrooged *
White Christmas
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) ***
Anna and the Apocalypse ***
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Thanksgiving, 1987) ***
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving, 1964) *
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Halloween, 1964) ***
The Grinch (Christmas, 2018) *
Jingle Jangle (Christmas, 2020) *
Klaus (2019) ***
Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) *
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) *

TV SHOWS

Games of Thrones
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos
The Simpsons
Mad Men
Seinfeld
Friends
The X-Files
The Office (both versions)
Saturday Night Live
The Wire
Downton Abbey
Ugly Betty
Arrested Development
All in the Family
Cheers
The West Wing
Parks and Recreation
Twin Peaks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Wonder Years
Orange is the New Black
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Deadwood
I Love Lucy
The Twilight Zone
Phineas and Ferb (2007-) ***
M.A.S.H.
Lost
Veep
Eastbound and Down
Oz
The Golden Girls
Portlandia
Gunsmoke
The Supersizers Go…
The Great British Baking Show/The Great British Bake Off (2010s)
Naked and Afraid
Making It
Wife Swap
Peele and Key
MST3K
Jeopardy
American Idol
Broad City
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Homeland
Party Down
Doctor Who
Sherlock
Good Times
The Real World
House of Cards
The Jeffersons
Dallas
The Fugitive
In Living Color
Thirtysomethings
The Walking Dead
Late Night with Conan O’Brien
The People Vs. O.J. Simpson
The Ren and Stimpy Show
Daria
Transparent
Girls
Mr. Show
Roseanne
The Ed Sullivan Show
The State
The Odd Couple
Sesame Street
Happy Days
Chapelle’s Show
Sex and the Cityy
Your Show of Shows
Oprah
The Ellen Show
Beevis and Butthead
Hill Street Blues
Roots
Fawlty Towers
24
Six Feet Under
The Muppet Show
The Bob Newhart Show
The Colbert Report
Fargo
Veep
Friday Night Lights
Louie
The Office (UK)
Star Trek
The West Wing
The Larry Sanders Show
Late Night with David Letterman
Freaks and Geeks
The Daily Show
Saturday Night Live
Breaking Bad
The Good Wife
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Happy Days
Will & Grace
Justified
Golden Girls
Frasier
Good Times
Soap
Rome
Boardwalk Empire
The Real World
Oz
Rick and Morty
Alias
The
Hannibal
ER
I, Claudius
Survivor
House of Cards (US)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Shield
The Andy Griffith Show
The Honeymooners
Sex and the City
Law and Order
Mr. Show with Bob and David
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Cowboy Bebop
24
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Better Call Saul
Veep
Community
Sanford and Son
In Living Color
The Prisoner
Batman: The Animated Series
The Leftovers
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Six Feet Under
Monty Python’s Flying Curcus
Roots
Futurama
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
30 Rock
NYPD Blue
Band of Brothers
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
The West Wing
Fawlty Towers
Chapelle’s Show
Battlestar Galactica
The Cosby Show
Arrested Development
South Park
I Love Lucy

OSCAR WINNERS DURING MY LIFETIME (MULTIPLE OR BEST PICTURE)

Parasite
Ford V Ferrari
Joker
1917
Green Book
Bohemian Rhapsody
Roma
Black Panther
The Shape of Water
Dunkirk
Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Misouri
Darkest Hour
Coco
Moonlight
La La Land
Hacksaw Ridge
Manchester by the Sea
Spotlight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Birdman
The Great Budapest Hotel
Whiplash
Argo
Life of Pi
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Django Unchained
Skyfall
The Artist
Hugo
The Iron Lady
The King’s Speech
Inception
The Social Network
The Fighter
Toy Story 3
Alice in Wonderland
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Precious
Seven Years a Slave
Up
Crazy Heart
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Milk
The Dark Knight
No Country for Old Men
The Bourne Ultimatum
There Will Be Blood
La vie en rose
The Departed
Pan’s Labyrinth
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
An Inconvenient Truth
Crash
Brokeback Mountain
Memiors of a Geisha
King Kong
Million Dollar Baby
The Aviator
Ray
The Incredibles
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Master and Commander
Mystic River
Chicago
The Pianist
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Frida
A Beautiful Mind
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
Moulin Rouge!
Blackhawk Down
Gladiator
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Traffic
American Beauty
The Matrix
The Cider House Rules
Shakespeare in Love
Saving Private Ryan
Life is Beautiful
Titanic
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential
As Good as It Gets
The English Patient
Fargo
Braveheart
Apollo 13
Pocahontas
The Usual Suspects
Restoration
Forrest Gump
The Lion King
Speed
Ed Wood
Schindler’s List
The Piano
Jurassic Park
Phildelphia
Unforgiven
Howard’s End
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Aladdin
The Silence of the Lambs
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Bugsy
JFK
Beauty and the Beast
Dances with Wolves
Dick Tracy
Ghost
Driving Miss Daisy
Glory
Born on the Fourth of July
My Left Foot
The Little Mermaid
Rain Man
Dangerous Liasons
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Last Emporer
Moonstruck
Platoon
A Room with a View
Hannah and Her Sisters
Aliens
Out of Africa
Witness
Cocoon
Amadeus (1984) ***
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart
Terms of Endearment
The Right Stuff
Fanny and Alexander
Tender Mercies
Gandhi
ET
An Officer and a Gentleman
Chariots of Fire
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Red
On Golden Pond
Arthur
Ordinary People
Tess
Raging Bull
Fame
Melvin and Howard
Kramer vs. Kramer
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
Norma Rae

MY FAVORITE MOVIES

Yesterday
The Farewell
Slumdog Millionaire
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990)
Safety Not Guaranteed
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Life of Pi (2012)
Frances Ha
The Truman Show (1998)
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
Anna Karenina (2012)
Les Miserables (1998)
Evita
The Great Gatsby
Girl Most Likely (2012)
Fiddler on the Roof
The Sound of Music
Babette’s Feast
La Huitiemme Jour
Magnolia
Ruby Sparks
While You Were Sleeping
Runaway Bride
Return to Me
Smoke Signals
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
All About Steve
Eagle Vs. Shark
500 Days of Summer
About a Boy (2002)
About Schmidt (2002)
Amelie (2001)
Amadeus (1984)
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Beaches (1988)
Bend It Like Beckham
Big Fish
Billy Elliot
Bottle Rocket
Bridesmaids
Chicago
The Chronicles of Narnia
Cloverfield
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Coraline
The Corpse Bride
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Death to Smoochie
Donny Darko
Dumb and Dumber
Duplex
Evan Almighty
Ever After
Forrest Gump
Garden State
Ghost Town
Ghost World
The Good Girl
Good Will Hunting
Grease
Hairspray
Hero
The Imposters
The Invention of Lying
Juno
Kung Fu Hustle
Life is Beautiful
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit (2001…)
Star Wars
The Neverending Story
The Matrix (1999)
Momento
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Mighty Wind
Monsoon Wedding
Moulin Rouge
Much Ado About Nothing
My Best Friend’s Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Napoleon Dynamite
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Notting Hill
Now You See Me
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Office Space
Once
Penelope
The Princess Bride (1987)
Rachel Getting Married
Rat Race
Return to Me
Romeo + Juliet
The Royal Tennenbaums
Run Lola Run
Rushmore
School of Rock
Bend it Like Beckham
Scott Pilgrim Against the World
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2014) ***
Sense and Sensibility (1995) ***
Signs
Smoke Signals
The Station Agent
Stranger than Fiction
Tommy Boy
Trekkies
Twister
Waiting for Guffman
The Wedding Singer
Yes Man
Cloverfield
Looper
Remains of the Day
Wayne’s World
Black Sheep
Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
Amazing Grace (2016)
Rocketman (2019)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Emma. (2020)

OTHER RECOMMENDED MOVIES

I, Tonya (2017)
Radioactive (2020)
The Social Dilemma (2020)
Cinderella (2015)
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Aladdin (2019)
Arrival
The Rebel in the Rye (2017)

MY FAVORITE KIDS/FAMILY MOVIES

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Annie
Beauty and the Beast (and Beauty and the Beast (2020))
Big Hero Six
Book of Life
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Croods
Harry Potter
Finding Nemo
Flushed Away
The Goonies
Goosebumps
Happy Feet
Home
Willie the Pooh
Hoodwinked
Horton Hears a Who
Hotel Transylvania
How to Train Your Dragon
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Lorax
The LEGO Movie
Maleficent
Megamind
A Monster in Paris
Mirror Mirror
Monsters Inc.
The Muppet movies
Peanuts holiday movies
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
Mr. Peabody and SHerman
Ponyo
Ramona and Beezus
Ratatouille
Shrek
Sing
Tangled
Up
Wreck It Ralph
Jumanji
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Jumanji: Next Level (2019)
Zathura
Pan
Hook
Earth to Echo
Super 8
The Muppets
Monsters University
School of Rock
Winnie-the Pooh
Live action Disney: Cinderella (2015), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Aladdin (2019), Mirror Mirror, Maleficent, Mulan (2020)…
Disney “Princess” movies: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Brave, Frozen, Pocahontas, Mulan, Moana (2016)…

MY FAVE TV SHOWS

Ugly Betty
Lost
The Office (UK)
The Office (USA)
Blossom
Punky Brewster
Daria
The Simpsons
The Supersizers Go…
Wifeswap
Naked and Afraid
Making It
Iron Chef America
The Great British Baking Show/The Great British Bake Off (2010s)
Seinfeld
Glee
Freaks and Geeks
The X-Files
Sherlock
Phineas and Ferb (2007-) *** (plus The Movie: Across the Second Dimension and Candace Against the Universe)
ER
Downton Abbey
Fringe
New Girl
Friends
Modern Family
Merlin
Battlestar Gallactica
Kimmy Schmidt
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Stranger Things
Somebody Feed Phil/I’ll Have What Phil’s Having (2016-)