My Top 500 Movies (At the Moment)

I have far too much time on my hands, rather than spend my free time doing something productive, I have instead decided to make of list of my top 500 movies. This is by no means a "Greatest Movies of All Time" list; while it does include some of the usual suspects (The Godfather, Dr. Strangelove, etc.), it also includes a lot of guilty pleasures and even a few bad movies.  Not to mention there are many "classics" that I dislike (Forrest Gump, The Graduate, Saving Private Ryan, Taxi Driver, to name a few); whenever I see these movies pop up in Top 100 lists, I usually groan. This list has been in constant flux; there are many movies that I still have to see, so this list could easily change next month, next week, or even tomorrow. Without further ado, here is my list: 

1.      Jaws (1975)

2.      The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

3.      Rear Window (1954)

4.      The General (1927)

5.      Dr. Strangelove Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)

6.      The Godfather (1972)

7.      Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

8.      The Seven Samurai (1954)

9.      King Kong (1933)

10.   The Searchers (1956)

11.   American Graffiti (1973)

12.   The Kid Brother (1927)

13.   The Thing (1982)

14.   Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001 – 2003)

15.   Some Like It Hot (1959)

16.   It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

17.   The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

18.   Modern Times (1936)

19.   Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

20.   Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

21.   The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

22.   Psycho (1960)

23.   M (1931)

24.   Ghostbusters (1984)

25.   Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

26.   The Blues Brothers (1980)

27.   A Christmas Story (1983)

28.   Gremlins (1984)

29.   Stop Making Sense (1984)

30.   Patton (1970)

31.   City Lights (1931)

32.   The Shining (1980)

33.   Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

34.   Evil Dead II (1987)

35.   Way Out West (1937)

36.   The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

37.   Back to the Future (1985)

38.   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

39.   Mary Poppins (1964)

40.   War of the Worlds (1953)

41.   Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

42.   Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

43.   The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

44.   Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

45.   The Great Escape (1963)

46.   Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)

47.   Stagecoach (1939)

48.   Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

49.   Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

50.   Ben – Hur (1959)

51.   Out of the Past (1947)

52.   The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

53.   12 Angry Men (1957)

54.   The Maltese Falcon (1941)

55.   Sunset Boulevard (1950)

56.   Napoleon (1927)

57.   Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

58.   Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

59.   Red River (1948)

60.   Apocalypse Now (1979)

61.   White Heat (1949)

62.   Double Indemnity (1944)

63.   Island of Lost Souls (1933)

64.   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

65.   Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)

66.   M. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)

67.   Them (1954)

68.   From Russia With Love (1963)

69.   Pinocchio (1940)

70.   Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

71.   Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

72.   Metropolis (1927)

73.   Coraline (2009)

74.   The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

75.   Better Off Dead (1985)

76.   The Exorcist (1973)

77.   The Ten Commandments (1956)

78.   Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

79.   Wizard of Oz (1939)

80.   Alien (1979)

81.   Sunrise (1927)

82.   The Terminator (1984)

83.   Halloween (1978)

84.   It’s a Gift (1934)

85.   The Bandwagon (1953)

86.   Casablanca (1943)

87.   Night of the Hunter (1955)

88.   Aliens (1986)

89.   The Conversation (1974)

90.   A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

91.   The Godfather, Part II (1974)

92.   Belle de Jour (1967)

93.   House of Wax (1953)

94.   Five Easy Pieces (1970)

95.   Poltergeist (1982)

96.   Die Hard (1988)

97.   Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

98.   Two Lane Blacktop (1971)

99.   Dawn of the Dead (1978)

100.       Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

101.       Predator (1987)

102.       Gone With the Wind (1939)

103.       Playtime (1967)

104.       North by Northwest (1959)

105.       Duck Soup (1933)

106.       Citizen Kane (1941)

107.       Intolerance (1916)

108.       There Will Be Blood (2007)

109.       The Wild Bunch (1969)

110.       Matter of Life and Death (1946)

111.       Silence of the Lambs (1991)

112.       Solaris (1972)

113.       Pulp Fiction (1994)

114.       Our Hospitality (1923)

115.       It Happened One Night (1934)

116.       E.T The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

117.       8 ½ (1963)

118.       Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

119.       Foreign Correspondent (1940)

120.       O’ Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)

121.       Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

122.       Trading Places (1983)

123.       Royal Tenenbaums (2000)

124.       Mon Oncle (1958)

125.       The Safety Last (1923)

126.       A Face in the Crowd (1957)

127.       The Road Warrior (1981)

128.       Chinatown (1974)

129.       Enter the Dragon (1973)

130.       Bringing Up Baby (1938)

131.       My Fair Lady (1964)

132.       Frankenstein (1931)

133.       Notorious (1946)

134.       Godzilla (1954)

135.       The Longest Day (1962)

136.       Spider-Man 2 (2004)

137.       The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

138.       Kwaidan (1964)

139.       Where Eagles Dare (1968)

140.       Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

141.       Pee – Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

142.       The Parent Trap (1961)

143.       Superman: The Movie (1978)

144.       Jurassic Park (1993)

145.       The Dirty Dozen (1967)

146.       The House of Usher (1960)

147.       The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

148.       Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

149.       The Gold Rush (1925)

150.       The Goonies (1985)

151.       Young Frankenstein (1974)

152.       Kill Bill (2003, 2004)

153.       First Blood (1982)

154.       National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

155.       The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

156.       Onibaba (1965)

157.       Brides of Dracula (1960)

158.       The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

159.       Dumbo (1941)

160.       The Last Waltz (1978)

161.       Nashville (1975)

162.       The Shooting (1967)

163.       Stalag 17 (1953)

164.       The 39 Steps (1935)

165.       Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

166.       The Invisible Man (1933)

167.       Groundhog Day (1993)

168.       Wall – E (2008)

169.       The Labyrinth (1986)

170.       Beauty and the Beast (1991)

171.       The Mummy (1999)

172.       The Third Man (1949)

173.       Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

174.       Head (1968)

175.       Fists of Fury (1972)

176.       Nosferatu (1922)

177.       Zodiac (2007)

178.       The Mark of Zorro (1940)

179.       Batman Returns (1992)

180.       Why Worry (1923)

181.       The 7^th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

182.       Paths of Glory (1957)

183.       The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

184.       Miracle on 34^th Street (1947)

185.       Blazing Saddles (1974)

186.       The Palm Beach Story (1942)

187.       Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

188.       In Cold Blood (1967)

189.       Beetlejuice (1988)

190.       Deliverance (1972)

191.       The Sea Hawk (1940)

192.       Rashomon (1950)

193.       High Noon (1952)

194.       The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

195.       Aladdin (1992

196.       Black Christmas (1975)

197.       Ed Wood (1994)

198.       Sons of the Desert (1933)

199.       Carnival of Souls (1962)

200.       Night of the Living Dead (1968)

201.       Charade (1963)

202.       Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

203.       Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

204.       For a Few Dollars More (1965)

205.       Quartermass and the Pit (1967)

206.       Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)

207.       Rocky (1976)

208.       Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

209.       Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

210.       Godzilla Minus One (2023)

211.       The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

212.       Vertigo (1958)

213.       Guys and Dolls (1955)

214.       Tangled (2010)

215.       Spartacus (1960)

216.       Planet of the Apes (1968)

217.       Horror of Dracula (1958)

218.       The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

219.       A Shot in the Dark (1964)

220.       Coming to America (1988)

221.       Wild Strawberries (1957)

222.       Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

223.       Wayne’s World (1992)

224.       King of Kings (1927)

225.       Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

226.       On the Waterfront (1954)

227.       On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

228.       The Public Enemy (1931)

229.       Jules and Jim (1963)

230.       The Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

231.       Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

232.       Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

233.       Blade Runner (1982)

234.       The Bells of St. Marys (1945)

235.       Speedy (1928)

236.       Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

237.       The French Connection (1971)

238.       The Big Lebowski (1998)

239.       The Naked Gun (1988)

240.       House on Haunted Hill (1958)

241.       Jackie Brown (1997)

242.       Ghost World (2000)

243.       The Mummy (1959)

244.       Contempt (1963)

245.       Black Sabbath (1963)

246.       Goldfinger (1964)

247.       The Lost World (1925)

248.       Dirty Harry (1971)

249.       Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

250.       West Side Story (1961)

251.       Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

252.       20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

253.       The Hidden Fortress (1958)

254.       Teen Wolf (1985)

255.       The Lady Vanishes (1938)

256.       The Yellow Submarine (1968)

257.       Ugetsu (1953)

258.       Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

259.       Heathers (1989)

260.       Gimme Shelter (1970)

261.       A Night at the Opera (1935)

262.       42^nd Street (1933)

263.       Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

264.       Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

265.       Up (2009)

266.    Rio Bravo (1959)

267.       Monterey Pop (1967)

268.       The Circus (1928)

269.       Skyfall (2012)

270.       Ratatouille (2007)

271.       Duck, You Sucker (1972)

272.       The Seventh Seal (1957)

273.       The Fugitive (1993)

274.       Batman (1989)

275.       Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster (1964)

276.       Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

277.       All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

278.       Fistful of Dollars (1964)

279.       Insomnia (2002)

280.       Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

281.       Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

282.       The Prestige (2007)

283.       The Pink Panther Strike Again (1976)

284.       The Big Sleep (1946)

285.       Pride of the Yankees (1941)

286.       The King and I (1956)

287.       The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

288.       She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

289.       The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)

290.       Little Caesar (1930)

291.       Monsters, Inc (2001)

292.       Lost in Translation (2003)

293.       The Great Dictator (1940)

294.       For Heaven’s Sake (1925)

295.       Grand Illusion (1937)

296.       The Cameraman (1928)

297.       101 Dalmatians (1961)

298.       The Magnificent Seven (1960)

299.       Battle Royale (2000)

300.       In the Heat of the Night (1967)

301.       All That Heaven Allows (1955)

302.       The Hateful Eight (2015)

303.       Mean Streets (1973)

304.       Blow Out (1981)

305.       The Living Daylights (1987)

306.       Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

307.       Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

308.       It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

309.       The Sixth Sense (1999)

310.       The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

311.       Audition (1999)

312.       The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

313.       The Thin Man (1934)

314.       Valley Girl (1983)

315.       The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

316.       The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1953)

317.       The Dark Knight (2008)

318.       Strangers on a Train (1951)

319.       Kelly’s Heroes (1970)

320.       Chicago (2002)

321.       A Nous La Liberte (1930)

322.       Shin Godzilla (2016)

323.       On the Town (1949)

324.       National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)

325.       White Christmas (1954)

326.       Judgment on Nuremberg (1961)

327.       Monkey Business (1931)

328.       Babes in Toyland (1934)

329.       The Great Dictator (1940)

330.       Bullitt (1968)

331.       Targets (1968)

332.       Edward Scissorhands (1990)

333.       The Raven (1963)

334.       The 400 Blows (1959)

335.       Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

336.       The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

337.       Moonraker (1979)

338.       Full Metal Jacket (1987)

339.       Mad Max (1979)

340.       Dracula – Prince of Darkness (1966)

341.       Lady Snowblood (1973)

342.       The Mummy (1932)

343.       Return of the Jedi (1983)

344.       The Bicycle Thieves (1948)

345.       Memories of Murder (2003)

346.       Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)

347.       The Devil’s Bride (1968)

348.       Point Blank (1967)

349.       The Incredibles (2004)

350.       Sweeney Todd (2007)

351.       Bill & Ted’ s Excellent Adventure (1989)

352.       Hold That Ghost (1941)

353.       Son of Frankenstein (1939)

354.       From Here to Eternity (1953)

355.       Hamlet (1948)

356.       Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

357.       Animal House (1978)

358.       The Producers (1968)

359.       The Fog (1980)

360.       Schlinder’s List (1993)

361.       Dr. No (1962)

362.       Seven (1995)

363.       The Killing (1956)

364.       The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

365.       Return of Godzilla (1984)

366.       A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987)

367.       Superman II (1980)

368.       Encino Man (1992)

369.       Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)

370.       Return of the Living Dead (1985)

371.       War Games (1983)

372.       The Scarlet Claw (1944)

373.       Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)

374.       The Haunting (1963)

375.       A Christmas Carol (1938)

376.       The Freshman (1925)

377.       Hondo (1953)

378.       Home Alone (1990)

379.       Murder, My Sweet (1944)

380.       Holiday Inn (1942)

381.       The Wolf Man (1941)

382.       I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

383.       This is Spinal Tap (1984)

384.       Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

385.       The Towering Inferno (1974)

386.       Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

387.       Captain Blood (1935)

388.       The Sting (1973)

389.       Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)

390.       The Jungle Book (1967)

391.       The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

392.       Frenzy (1972)

393.       Dick Tracy (1990)

394.       The Golem (1920)

395.       Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

396.       Moana (2016)

397.       Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

398.       Sisters (1973)

399.       The African Queen (1951)

400.       The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

401.       Bucket of Blood (1959)

402.       The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

403.       Stripes (1981)

404.       X2: X-Men United (2003)

405.       The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

406.       Total Recall (1990)

407.       A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

408.       The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

409.       Empire of Passion (1977)

410.       Police Story (1985)

411.       Airplane (1980)

412.       The Blob (1958)

413.    High and Low (1962)

414.       Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)

415.       13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats (1975)

416.       Die Nibelungen: Krimheld’s Revenge (1924)

417.       Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)

418.       Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)

419.       The Howling (1981)

420.       My Darling Clementine (1946)

421.       The Way of the Dragon (1972)

422.       Captain America: The Winter Solider (2014)

423.       A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

424.       Lilo & Stitch (2002)

425.       Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)

426.       Woodstock (1970)

427.       Who Done It (1942

428.       The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

429.       Suspiria (1977)

430.       Tokyo Drifter (1964)

431.       The Cat and the Canary (1927)

432.       Coffy (1974)

433.       The Navigator (1924)

434.       Animal Crackers (1930)

435.       After the Thin Man (1936)

436.       His Kind of Woman (1951)

437.       Rambo: First Blood, Part II (1985)

438.       True Grit (2010)

439.       The Evil Dead (1983)

440.       The Night of the Comet (1984)

441.       The Raven (1935)

442.       The Lady Killers (1955)

443.       The Time Machine (1960)

444.       The Alamo (1960)

445.       20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

446.       The Witchfinder General (1968)

447.       The Muppet Movie (1979)

448.       The Kid (1921)

449.       Spider-Man (2002)

450.       Spies (1928)

451.       L’Age D’Or (1930)

452.       The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

453.       The Three Godfathers (1948)

454.       Footlight Parade (1933)

455.       Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)

456.       The Seventh Victim (1943)

457.       Mysterious Island (1961)

458.       Girl Shy (1924)

459.       Ben – Hur (1925)

460.       Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

461.       Faust (1926)

462.       Robin Hood (1922)

463.       The Thin Red Line (1999)

464.       Wonder Woman (2017)

465.       Black Sunday (1960)

466.       Dead Alive (1992)

467.       Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

468.       Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

469.       Mrs. Miniver (1942)

470.       The Untouchables (1987)

471.       True Stories (1986)

472.       Jailhouse Rock (1957)

473.       Back to the Future, Part II (1989)

474.       Magnolia (1999)

475.       Midnight Cowboy (1969)

476.       The Dark Crystal (1982)

477.       For Your Eyes Only (1981)

478.       House (1977)

479.       Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

480.       Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)

481.       King Kong (1976)

482.       She’s All That (1999)

483.       The Spider Woman (1944)

484.       Oliver (1968)

485.       True Grit (1969)

486.       Delicatessen (1991)

487.       Gunga Din (1939)

488.       Saps at Sea (1940)

489.       One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

490.       Speed (1994)

491.   10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

492.   Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

493.       Westworld (1973)

494.       The Cocoanuts (1929)

495.       The Black Cat (1934)

496.       Battles Without Honors and Humanity: Hiroshima Death Match (1973)

497.       Glen or Glenda (1953)

498.       The Tomb of Ligeia (1965)

499.       Diabolique (1955)

500.       The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)