A List of Great Films
* Denote Foreign Film
** Denotes Documentary
2046*
A Love Song for Bobby Long
A Passage to India
A Prairie Home Companion
A Simple Plan
A Very Long Engagement*
About a Boy
After the Wedding
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams*
Alien
Aliens
Amadeus
Amelie*
American Beauty
American Splendor
Amistad
An Angel at My Table
And the Band Played On
Apollo 13
As Good as it Gets
Babette’s Feast*
Bagdad Cafe
Beaches
Beauty and the Beast* (Jean Cocteau 1946)
Beetlejuice
Bend it Like Beckham
Billy Elliot
Birdcage
Blood Diamonds
Bob Roberts
Born Into Brothels*
Born on the 4th of July
Bowling for Columbine**
Boyz N the Hood
Braveheart
Broken Flowers
Butterfly*
Calender Girls
Capote
Cast Away
Catch Me if You Can
Changing Lanes
Children of Heaven*
Chocolat
Cinema Paradiso*
Closer
Connie and Carla
Cool Hand Luke
Crash
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*
Dangerous Liasons
Das Boot*
Dead Man Walking
Death to Smoochy
Dirty Pretty Things
Do the Right Thing
Dogfight
Dogma
Dogtown and Z-Boys**
Door to Door
Driving Miss Daisy
Drumline
Educating Rita
Edward Scissorhands
Elizabeth
Empire of the Sun
Erin Brockovich
Europa Europa*
Everything is Illuminated
Fahrenheit 9/11**
Fairy Tale: A True Story
Fargo
Fearless
Festival Express**
Finding Forrester
Finding Neverland
Flying Daggers*
Forrest Gump
Frances
Frequency
Frida
Funny Girl
Gangs of New York
Garden State
Ghandi
Gigi
Gloomy Sunday
Glory
God Grew Tired of Us
Gorillas in the Mist
Grave of the Fireflies
Greenfingers
Hearts in Atlantis
Henry V
Hero*
Hotel Rwanda
Howard’s End
Howl’s Moving Castle
I am Sam
Il Postino*
In America
In Her Shoes
In the Name of the Father
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story**
Indochine
Into the Arms of Strangers**
Irma La Douce
Jackie Brown
Jean de Florette*
Jumanji
K-Pax
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Kundun
Kung Fu Hustle*
La Cage aux Folles*
Labryinth
Lady in the Water
Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man
Life as a House
Life is Beautiful*
Like Water for Chocolate*
Little Miss Sunshine
Lo Non ho Paura (I’m Not Scared)*
Long Way Round
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lords of Dogtown
Love Actually
Lucky #Slevin
Malcolm X
Manderlay
Manon of the Spring (Jean de Florette Part 2)*
March of the Penguins**
Maria Full of Grace*
Mary Reilly
Mask
Mediterraneo*
Meet Me in St. Louis
Michael Collins
Monsoon Wedding
Moonstruck
Much Ado About Nothing
Murderball**
Muriel’s Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Dog Skip
My Left Foot
My Neighbor Tortoro**
Mystic River
Nanny McPhee
Napolean Dynamite
Medicine Man
Nell
Nightmare Before Christmas
No End in Sight
Norma Ray
Nowhere In Africa*
O’ Brother Where Art Thou?
Off The Map
Old Yeller
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Omagh
Osama*
Pan’s Labryinth*
Papillon
Passion Fish
Philadelphia
Places in the Heart
Pollyanna
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Princess Bride
Promises*
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rambling Rose
Ratatouille
Rear Window
Reign Over Me
Riding Giants**
Rivers and Tides
Roots: The Series
Rory O’Shea Was Here
Running With Scissors
Shower*
Saving Grace
Scent of a Woman
Seabisquit
Searching for Bobby Fisher
Sense and Sensibility
Seven Years in Tibet
Shaolin Soccer*
Shaolin Ulysses - Kung Fu Monks in America**
Shine
Shirley Valentine
Shopgirl
Short Cuts
Sideways
Signs
Simon Birch
Sixteen Candles
Smoke Signals
Snatch
Snow Cake
Some Like it Hot
Something the Lord Made
Something’s Gotta Give
Spirited Away
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring*
Stand and Deliver
Steel Magnolias
Step Into Liquid**
Stranger Than Fiction
Strangers in Good Company
Swimming Upstream
Ten Canoes
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Beautiful Country
The Big Easy
The Birds
The Breakfast Club
The Big Chill
The Big White
The Cider House Rules
The Clearing
The Color of Paradise*
The Color Purple
The Commitments
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Education of Little Tree
The Elephant Man
The Divine Miss M
The Fisher King
The Flame Trees of Thika
The Full Monty
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Goonies
The Great Escape
The Green Mile
The Haunting (1963)
The Hours
The Illusionist
The Incredibles
The Insider
The Last Castle
The Last Samurai
The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou
The Life of David Gale
The Magdalene Sisters
The Matrix
The Matrix: Reloaded
The Mission
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Piano
The Player
The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio
The Real Dirt on Farmer John**
The Road to Perdition
The Russians are Coming
The Secret of Roan Inish
The Sound of Music
The Station Agent
The Story of the Weeping Camel*
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Tracker
The Trip to Bountiful
The Triplets of Belleville*
The Twilight Samurai*
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Upside of Anger
The Usual Suspects
The Way Home*
The Widow of St. Pierre*
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill**
The Wizard of Oz
The World’s Fastest Indian
Thelma and Louise
Three Kings
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Touching The Void
Trainspotting
Travellers and Magicians*
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Tsotsi*
Twelve Monkeys
Waking Ned Devine
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Water
Whale Rider
What the Bleep do We know!?
White Christmas
Who is Cletis Tout?
Winged Migration**
Wonder Boys
Wondrous Oblivian
Yentl
You Kill Me
Zoolander
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Good job on the list. Reminded me of a few I hadn’t included on mine and some I haven’t seen but want to. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Sat Nam!
Thanks Hari Bhajan. Folks, check out Hari Bhajan’s movie list at http://www.poetryevolution.com …as well as some great poetry .