This is not a “Top 25 Best Movies of All Time” list. These are just my favorites.
- Casablanca (1942)
- Blade Runner (1982)
And the rest by year of release:
- The Thin Man (1934)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Vertigo (1958)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- 2001 (1968)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Tron (1982)
- The Terminator (1984)
- Aliens (1986)
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
- Edward Scissorhands (1990)
- LA Story (1991)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- Ed Wood (1994)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Fifth Element (1997)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Honorable Mentions
- Little Caesar (1931)
- The Public Enemy (1931)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- The Blue Dahlia (1946)
- Key Largo (1948)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Rear Window (1954)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Psycho (1960)
- The Birds (1963)
- Clockwork Orange (1971)
- THX 1138 (1971)
- Alien (1979)
- The Abyss (1989)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
- William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet (1996)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)