Best movies
Here are my favourite 20 movies in various categories.
When asked to name my favourite movie I will say Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.
Top 20 science fiction movies
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Adjustment Bureau
- Batman Begins
- Blade Runner
- Brazil
- Dark City
- Dr. Strangelove
- Galaxy Quest
- Gattaca
- Inception
- Last Night (1998)
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Matrix
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Predestination
- Serenity
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- The Truman Show
- Twelve Monkeys
- WALL-E
Top 20 fantasy movies
- Babe
- Being John Malkovich
- Big Fish
- Chicken Run
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Field of Dreams
- The Green Mile
- Hero
- The Incredibles
- Inside Out
- The Lego Movie
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Monsters, Inc.
- The Princess Bride
- Shrek
- The Sixth Sense
- Spider-man 2
- Stardust
- Toy Story 2
- Unbreakable
Top 20 comedy movies
- Amelie
- The Big Lebowski
- Bowfinger
- Broken Flowers
- Bulworth
- Clerks
- Crocodile Dundee
- Dave
- Dr. Strangelove
- Drowning Mona
- Fargo
- Grumpy Old Men
- Life is Beautiful
- Maverick
- Napoleon Dynamite
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Strictly Ballroom
- The Triplets of Belleville
- Tropic Thunder
- Zoolander
Top 20 dramatic movies
- American Beauty
- Backdraft
- Citizen Kane
- The Color Purple
- Dances With Wolves
- Dead Again
- Dead Poets Society
- Forrest Gump
- The Fugitive
- Good Will Hunting
- Gran Torino
- A Love Song for Bobby Long
- Rain Man
- The Reader
- The Secret Life of Words
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Sweet Hereafter
- Water
- Win Win
- Witness
Top 15 action/adventure movies
- The Bourne Identity
- The Bourne Supremacy
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Hero
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Italian Job
- Leon
- Mission Impossible 3
- Ocean’s Eleven
- Ocean’s Twelve
- The Rock
- Seraphim Falls
- Skyfall
- Speed
- The Sting
Top 15 romance movies
- 50 First Dates
- As Good As It Gets
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
- Definitely, Maybe
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- It Could Happen to You
- Jerry Maguire
- Notting Hill
- One Day
- Pride and Prejudice (2005)
- Shakespeare in Love
- Sommersby
- The Wedding Singer
- While You Were Sleeping
- You’ve Got Mail
Top 20 movies based on a true story
- Apollo 13
- The Aviator
- Awakenings
- A Beautiful Mind
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Capote
- Catch Me If You Can
- Changeling
- Chaplin
- Erin Brockovich
- Finding Neverland
- Freedom Writers
- Gandhi
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Infamous
- Kundun
- The Mission
- October Sky
- Ray
- Walk the Line
Top 10 musicals
- Enchanted
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Grease
- Mary Poppins
- My Fair Lady
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Singin’ in the Rain
- The Sound of Music
- West Side Story
- The Wizard of Oz
Top 13 documentaries
- Bowling For Columbine
- Capitalism: A Love Story
- The Corporation
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- The Fog of War
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Lost in La Mancha
- Roger & Me
- Walking With Cavemen
- Walking With Dinosaurs
- Walking With Prehistoric Beasts
- Where to Invade Next
Top 3 seeing-the-world-in-a-new-way movies
- Baraka
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Powaqqatsi