Joe’s Movie Club: My All-Time Favorite Movies List

by | Sep 3, 2022

UPDATED: For a look at the list of the lists of the top 100 films, please watch Moviewise’s video: The Top 10 Best Top 100 Best Movies of All Time of All Time. It will open your eyes and make you smile. If you love movies, subscribe to this channel and my humble YouTube channel. I also a new movie The April Fools that’s sadly only available as a DVD. I didn’t bump anything from the list; There was a duplicate there that I removed and replaced it with The April Fools.

Today’s Post by Joe Farace

Everybody and their cousin’s friend has published or YouTube-ed a “best of” movie/DVD/Blu-ray/4K list. What follows is not my list of the best 100 movies that were ever made or ones that are available on physical media. Instead it’s a list of my favorite one hundred movies and they are not in order of my favorite-ness of even best on the list. It’s just an order that poured out of my brain while I was clicking away on a keyboard. These are a bunch of movies, some—but not all—of which I own in DVD, Bu-ray and a few in 4K, like Citizen Kane. And I’ve included a few links for those who might want to pick up one or two of these movies from Amazon, Kino Lorber, Criterion Collection or one of the others, including import, boutique producers of physical media.

It’s my intention to create future editions of Joe’s Film Club as videos for my YouTube channel, Joe Farace’s Videos. My first Joe’s Movie Club video—about region-based Blu-rays and region free discs and players was uploaded and you can see it here. In later videos I feature reviews of some of the movies on this list in an upcoming videos, plus I’ll be looking at with interesting new Blu-ray and 4K movies coming from Paramount Presents, Warner Archives and the Criterion Collection. Look for videos on one or all of these new special releases, like the King Kong (1933) Blu-ray.

I you like, you can send me movies—DVD, Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray— to review that can be used in these videos by emailing me via the CONTACT link. Just ask for my mailing address and I will promptly reply.

 

The List
  1. The Third Man
  2. Lawrence of Arabia
  3. The Dark Knight
  4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  5. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  6. Anatomy of a Murder
  7. Memories of Murder
  8. Zodiac
  9. Saboteur
  10. The Philadelphia Story
  11. Destry Rides Again (1939)
  12. Blazing Saddles
  13. Vanishing Point
  14. Grand Prix
  15. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  16. Lilies of the Field
  17. Vertigo
  18. Taxi Driver
  19. Goodfellas
  20. Sleepers
  21. Cool Hand Luke
  22. The Verdict
  23. King Kong (1933)
  24. Silence of the Lambs
  25. Harvey (1950)
  26. The Parallax View
  27. All the Presidents Men
  28. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
  29. The Sting
  30. Easy Rider
  31. Rain Man
  32. The Hustler
  33. Smokey & The Bandit
  34. Boogie Nights
  35. She Done Him Wrong
  36. My Darling Clementine
  37. Tombstone
  38. Stagecoach (1939)
  39. North by Northwest
  40. Lost Horizon
  41. Contact
  42. Back to the Future
  43. Unforgiven
  44. Escape from New York
  45. Citizen Kane
  46. The Thin Man
  47. The Great Zigfeld
  48. Heaven’s Gate
  49. The Shawshank Redemption
  50. Top Hat
  51. The April Fools
  52. Gojiro
  53. Call Northside 777
  54. The Bridge over the River Kwai
  55. Moneyball
  56. City of Life and Death
  57. The Conspirator
  58. Sullivan’s Travels
  59. The Lady in the Lake
  60. It Happened One Night
  61. Schindler’s List
  62. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (any version)
  63. Casablanca
  64. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  65. The Wizard of Oz
  66. Sunset Boulevard
  67. Some Like it Hot
  68. Sabrina (1954)
  69. Network
  70. Chinatown
  71. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  72. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  73. Full Metal Jacket
  74. Amadeus (not the Director’s Cut)
  75. Blade Runner (theatrical release)
  76. To Kill a Mockingbird
  77. Inherit the Wind
  78. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World
  79. The Searchers
  80. Patton
  81. Once Upon a Time in the West
  82. Duck You Sucker
  83. The French Connection
  84. Midnight Cowboy
  85. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  86. Fargo
  87. The African Queen
  88. Blancanieves
  89. All Quiet on the Western Front
  90. Wings
  91. Metropolis
  92. Seven Samurai
  93. The Magnificent Seven
  94. Cinema Paradiso (either version)
  95. The Red Shoes
  96. Pulp Fiction
  97. Heat
  98. LA Confidential
  99. The Wild Bunch
  100. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)