Our all-time favorite films

These are  not a list of what we believe to be the best all time films.  Just the ones we have enjoyed the most, and ones we find ourselves frequently tossing into the DVD player to watch again rather than taking a chance on one we haven't seen.

1.  The Searchers

2.  Legends of the Fall

3.  Mary Poppins

4-6

Jules and Jim

Mountains of the Moon

Blade Runner

7-10

A Fairy Tale

Once upon a time in America

How Green was my Valley

Peggy Sue Got Married

Next group

True Grit remake w/Jeff Bridges

Magnificent Seven (original, not the dreadful remake)

Paper Moon

Meet me in St. Louis

Old Yeller

Lonesome Dove

As it is in Heaven

All the rest, in no particular order

Cider House Rules

Billy Elliott

Saving Private Ryan

Hoosiers

Friendly Persuasion

One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Lone Star

Flight of the Phoenix (original, 1965)

The man who would be king

All that Jazz

The Best of Times

Dark City

Children of Men

The Finest Hours
Vanilla Sky
The Sound of Music

Friendly Persuasion

Many Westerns:  

   Magnificent Seven (original, not the remake)
   Dances with Wolves

   Big Country

   She wore a Yellow Ribbon

   Bite the Bullet

   Scalphunters

   3:10 to Yuma (original 1957)

   Bravados

   High Noon

   Man who shot Liberty Valance

   Open Range

   Last Wagon West

   Outlaw Josie Wales 

   The Professionals
   Man in the Wilderness
   Red River
   The Shootist
   Stars in my Crown
   Cowboy
   Night Passage
   The Appaloosa  ("Appaloosa" is different, and also good)

This is Spinal Tap
Field of Dreams
Blazing Saddles
Breaking Away
Manhattan
Vacation
Wizard of Oz
Miller’s Crossing

Ed Wood
Julia

Easy Rider
Carousel
Oklahoma
The Grapes of Wrath
Paris, Texas

The Straight story

The Dish

Frailty

One False Move
Cabaret

Road Warrior

Young Frankenstein
Braveheart

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Rob Roy

Tropic Thunder

2001 A Space Odyssey

A Clockwork Orange

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dr. Strangelove

Titanic

Glory

Godfather I

Grease
Quick Change
What about Bob
Groundhog Day

Annie Hall
Miracle on 34th Street
An Officer and a Gentleman
The Sweet Hereafter

The Trip to Bountiful

Singing in the Rain

Pollyanna

Tender Mercies

Gone with the Wind

East of Eden

Thursday’s Game
American Graffiti

The Wizard of Oz

The Vikings

Brigadoon

Giant

Nashville
Master and Commander:  Far side of the earth

Memphis Belle

Delores Claiborne

Winter's Bone
Tomorrow

To Kill a Mockingbird

Singing in the Rain

Top horror:

Psycho--still the best

Housebound

House at the end of time

The Orphanage

Halloween

Let the right one in

Don’t Look Now

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

Sixth Sense

Signs

The Birds

The Shining
Unbreakable
The Other