Great Watching: Top 50 Movies

So seems I did my fave books last weekend, might be time to name my fave films now!

I’m calling my fave movies the ones I repeated watched like again and again, not anything else! These are the ones, well the 50 that entertained me the most over many years and that’s about it so does that make sense? Trying to included something from every style of film but it’s top heavy on oddball stuff, pretty much and if your going to call it anything? Oddball might be the best word to use?

It includes films from 1977 to 2012 with 90’s/2000’s movies having my biggest views. Directors David Lynch and Wes Anderson both tied with four films each and as one of the main actor it might be Bill Murray who wins with three plus has some cameos/smaller parts too!

Alphabet order and NOT ranting or numbering them at all. So here’s what I watch the very most over all my bloody years on earth…

Apocalypse Now (1979) Director: Francis Ford Coppola Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Director: Andrew Dominik Stars: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck

Black Cat White Cat (1998) Director: Emir Kusturica Stars: Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan ‘Zika’ Todorovic, Branka Katic

Blue Velvet (1986) Director: David Lynch Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper

Brazil (1985) Director: Terry Gilliam Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist

The Big Blue (1988) Director: Luc Besson Stars: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette

Buffalo ’66 (1998) Director: Vincent Gallo Stars: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci

Candy (2006) Director: Neil Armfield Stars: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush

Chopper (2000) Director: Andrew Dominik Stars: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, Vince Colosimo

The City of Lost Children (1995) Directors: Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet Stars: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet

The Dark Knight (2008) Director: Christopher Nolan Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart

Dancer in the Dark (2000) Director: Lars Von Trier Stars: Björk, Catherine Deneuve

The Darjeeling Limited (2007) Director: Wes Anderson Stars: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman

Dead Man (1995) Director: Jim Jarmusch Stars: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer

Delicatessen (1991) Directors: Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet Stars: Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Pascal Benezech

Donnie Darko (2001) Director: Richard Kelly Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone

Dogville (2003) Director: Lars Von Trier Stars: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany

Down by Law (1986) Director: Jim Jarmusch Stars: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni

Eraserhead (1977) Director: David Lynch Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart

Fight Club (1999) Director: David Fincher Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton

Ghost Dog (1999) Director: Jim Jarmusch Stars: Forest Whitaker, John Tormey

Groundhog Day (1993) Director: Harold Ramis Stars: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell

The Hurt Locker (2008) Director: Kathryn Bigelow Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie

The Hangover (2009) Director: Todd Phillips Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper

Inception (2010) Director: Christopher Nolan Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) Director: Wes Anderson Stars: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson

Lost Highway (1997) Director: David Lynch Stars: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette

Love Serenade (1996) Director: Shirley Barrett Stars: Miranda Otto, Rebecca Frith, George Shevtsov

The Machinist (2004) Director: Brad Anderson Stars: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh

The Master (2012) Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix

Memento (2000) Director: Christopher Nolan Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Miller’s Crossing (1990) Directors: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro

My Own Private Idaho (1991) Director: Gus Van Sant Stars: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves

Naked (1993) Director: Mike Leigh Stars: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge

No Country for Old Men (2007) Directors: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin

Paris, Texas (1984) Director: Wim Wenders Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski

Pi (1998) Director: Darren Aronofsky Stars: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis

The Pillow Book (1996) Director: Peter Greenaway Stars: Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor

The Proposition (2005) Director: John Hillcoat Stars: Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce

Reservoir Dogs (1992) Director: Quentin Tarantino Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth

 The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Director: Wes Anderson Stars: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow

Rushmore (1998) Director: Wes Anderson Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams

Scarface (1983) Director: Brian De Palma Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer

Subway (1985) Director: Luc Besson Stars: Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani

Thank You for Smoking (2005) Director: Jason Reitman Stars: Aaron Eckhart

There Will Be Blood (2007) Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano

The Thin Red Line (1998) Director: Terrence Malick Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Director: David Lynch Stars: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise

Zombieland (2009) Director: Ruben Fleischer Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson

OK, I’ll be the first to say maybe not the greatest movies ever made but I enjoy them so much and that’s how I listed them and do love them all. Some very big names directors, male and female actors did miss out but 50 is very small number once you get going, you know? Maybe should have gone back in time more, past the late 70’s too? Maybe one day I’ll also blog about these films in more detail! Who what’s to say anything about all that? Anyone going share your fave or most watched movies will me now?

Cheers 🙂