Best Films of All Time

Choosing the best films of all time proved to be harder than I thought it would be. I didn't choose these movies because they made huge breakthroughs in film … blah … blah … this is not a film history class! Citizen Kane is not on my list. I chose them because they are my personal favorites. I can watch them over and over again (except Shindler's list which I only saw once and I'm not sure I could ever sit through it again.) These are the smartest and most entertaining films I could think of. They showcase great acting and I would recommend them to anyone. I've decided to list only the top 50 because any less than that excluded some of my very favorites, but more than 50 made the process too easy. This number seemed to force me to list only the best of the best.

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Top Fifty Best Films (in alphabetical order)

1. 8 ½ (1963)
2. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
3. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
4. Amadeus (1984)
5. Amélie (2000)
6. American Beauty (1999)
7. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
8. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
9. As Good as it gets (1997)
10. Beau Geste (1939)
11. Big Fish (2003)
12. Casablanca (1942)
13. Chocolat (2000)
14. ET - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
15. Fantasia (1940)
16. Forrest Gump (1994)
17. Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
18. Gone With The Wind (1939)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
20. Harvey (1950)
21. His Girl Friday (1940)
22. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
23. It Happened One Night (1934)
24. Life is Beautiful (1997)
25. Little Big Man (1970)
26. Moonstruck (1987)
27. Out of Africa (2000)
28. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
29. Rear Window (1954)
30. Safety Last (1923)
31. Schindler's List (1993)
32. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
33. Some Like It Hot (1939)
34. The Cider House Rules (1999)
35. The French Connection (1971)
36. The Notebook (2004)
37. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
38. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
39. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
40. The Sixth Sense (1999)
41. The Thin Man (1934)
42. The Tramp (1915)
43. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
44. The Usual Suspects (1995)
45. To Have and Have Not (1944)
46. Tootsie (1982)
47. Vertigo (1958)
48. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
49. You Can't Take it With You (1938)
50. Young Frankenstein (1974)