Share My Top 20 Favorite Movies of All Time

By Jocelyn on August 30, 2010

I believe films are one of the ultimate art forms out there of our modern age.  It’s a mix of theater, paintings, poetry, literature, music, and much more.  I know there’s a lot of bad films out there, but when it’s done just right, you can’t deny the true art that was involved in the film’s creation.

I am almost always thinking about movies.  How they were made, how they made me feel a certain way, how they entertained me.  There’s no question why I decided to become a filmmaker.  Recently, while working on a new website for my company and talking with friends about our favorite movies, I’ve been thinking a lot about what my top 20 list would be.  I recall that I had created one a few years ago at my last day job, and that it was really fun to see what everyone else’s lists were.  I dug mine up and made a few changes, but it’s mostly the same.  You can really tell about someone’s taste in movies just by seeing their list!  What can you tell about me with my list?

1. Adaptation
2. Legends of the Fall
3. Gone With The Wind
4. Spider-man 2
5. The Fifth Element
6. Schindler’s List
7. V for Vendetta
8. The Apartment
9. Mother
10. Love Actually
11. Leon (The Professional)
12. Pride And Prejudice (Joe Wright version)
13. Unleashed
14. Ed Wood
15. Up
16. Iron Man
17. Ever After
18. Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog)
19. Barry Lyndon
20. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

What are your top 20 favorite movies of all time?

Johnny Depp as Ed Wood, this is one of Rene's and my favorite pictures depicting the excitement and magic of movies!

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  • Lizzy Yerke-Robins

    This is great! I added Mother to my instant queue a few days ago—maybe I’ll watch it sometime this week. Also, I LOVE Love, Actually and The Apartment. Billy Wilder is probably my favorite director: Sunset Boulevard, Sabrina, The Apartment, and Double Indemnity are all (in one of Ed’s terms) stone cold classics.
    My top 5 (because these haven’t changed in years and I’m too lazy/hungry to think of 16 more):
    1. Babe
    2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    3. It Happened One Night
    4. Animal House
    5. Mildred Pierce

  • http://unaccomplishedlady.com The Unaccomplished Lady

    Wow, I must be a major fail of a film lover since I’ve only seen 1 of your top 5 films, and I saw Babe when I was a young’un! Totally adding these films to my list of to watch. :)

    Mother is my favorite comedy, it’s really well written, and I’m betting you’re going to like it a lot! And I’m really glad that I’m not the only person who knows about The Apartment, not sure why that’s not as well known as the other “stone cold classics.”

  • Ali Villavicencio

    I’m going to have to go with:
    1. Godfather 2
    2. Godfather 1
    3. Goodfellas tied with Casino

    Just 3 for now I have to think about the others

  • http://unaccomplishedlady.com The Unaccomplished Lady

    Wow, not even a year later, I’m already needing to update this list. It’s getting tough, I might need to make a top 25 or 30 list soon. Plus, now I’m wondering why I never had Casino on there, I like that movie more than I give it credit for.