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This is not a “100 Best Movies” list, or even a “100 Favorite Movies List”, because I don’t play favorites. It’s just a list of movies which I’ve had the pleasure of watching and enjoying. My only hope in writing this is that I help some young cinephile out there find a new movie they love. This is a work in progress, so if it’s not “finished” when you read this, I apologize.

1. Donnie Darko, dir. Richard Kelly, starring Jake Gyllenhall, Maggie Gyllenhall, Drew Barrymore

2. Sucker Punch, dir. Zach Snyder, starring Emily Browning, Jena Malone, Abbie Cornish

3. Watchmen, dir. Zach Snyder, starring Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matther Goode

4. Gran Torino, dir. Clint Eastwood, starring Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her

5. Some Like It Hot, dir. Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

6. The Dark Knight, dir. Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman

7. The Nightmare Before Christmas, dir. Tim Burton, starring Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O’Hara, Ken Page

8. Edward Scissorhands, dir. Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Anthony Michael Hall, Vincent Price

9. Planet Terror, dir. Robert Rodriguez, starring Rose McGowan, Freddie Rodriguez, Marley Shelton

10. Pulp Fiction, dir. Quentin Tarantino, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Bruce Willis 

11. Kill Bill Vol. 1, dir. Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox

12. Kill Bill Vol. 2, dir. Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michale Madsen

13. Moon, dir. Duncan Jones, starring Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey

14. A Clockwork Orange, dir. Stanley Kubrick, starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Tarn, Warren Clarke

15. 2001: A Space Odyssey, dir. Stanley Kubrick, starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain

16. Fight Club, dir. David Fincher, starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf

17. Amélie, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, starring Audrey Tautou, Mathie Kassovitz, André Dussollier

18. Back to the Future, dir. Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson

19. Big Fish, dir. Tim Burton, starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Helena Bonham Carter, Billy Crudup, 

20. The Boondock Saints, dir. Troy Duffy, starring Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flannery

21. Psycho, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins, Jent Leigh, Vera Miles

22. Die Hard 2: Die Harder dir. Renny Harlin, starring Bruce Willis, William Sadler, Dennis Franz, John Amos

23. The Big Lebowski, dir. The Coen Brothers, starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemei, Sam Elliot

24. Office Space, dir. Mike Judge, starring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, Gary Cole

25. The Matrix, dir. The Wachowski Brothers, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

26. District 9, dir. Neil Blomkamp, starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James

27. Sin City, dir. Robert Rodriguez, starring Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke

28. Kick-Ass, dir. Matthew Vaughn, starring Aaron Johnson, Chloe Grace-Moretz, Nicolas Cage

29. Network, dir. Sidney Lumet, starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

30. Tangled, dir. Nathan Greno/Byron Howard, starring Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy

31. Sixteen Candles, dir. John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Justin Henry, MIchael Schoeffling, Anthony Michael Hall, Gedde Watanabe

32. Saving Private Ryan, dir. Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon

33. Lost in Translation, dir. Sofia Coppola, starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Farris

34. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, dir. Michel Gondry, starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood

35. Being John Malkovich, dir. Spike Jonze, starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich

36. Wristcutters: A Love Story

37. V For Vendetta

38. The Silence of the Lambs

39. Hellboy 2

40. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

41. Forrest Gump

42. Shaun of the Dead

43. Hot Fuzz

44. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

45. Lethal Weapon

46. Lethal Weapon 2

47. Men in Black

48. Slumdog Millionaire

49. Evil Dead 2

50. Princess Mononoke

51. Spirited Away

52 Requiem for a Dream

52. Annie Hall

53. Black Swan

54. Midnight in Paris

55. Hugo

56. Dead Poets Society

57. A Scanner Darkly

58. Dan in Real Life

59. Howl’s Moving Castle

60. American Beauty

61. 8 Mile

62. Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back

63. Star Wars Episode 6: Return of the Jedi

64. Hackers

65. They Live

66. Memento

67. Across the Universe

68. Airplane!

69. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

70. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

71. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

72. Thank You For Smoking

73. Cherry

74. Following

75. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

76. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

77. The Prestige

78. Rocky

79. Ed Wood

80. Citizen Kane

81. Full Metal Jacket

82. Platoon

83. The Machinist

84. The Departed

85. Ip Man

86. The Usual Suspects

87. Up

88. Toy Story

89. Dance of the Dead

90. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

91. Night of the Living Dead

90. The Elephant Man

91. Mullholland Drive

92. Schindler’s List

93. The Social Network