My Favorite Movies
Two websites I highly recommend for movie lovers are:
The Internet Movie Database
The Movie Review Query Engine
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favorite movies (& TV series) by genre
listings are alphabetical - my favorite favorites are hi-lighted
adventure
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Lonesome Dove
Pulp Fiction
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
animated
Futurama
Laputa, Castle in the Sky
The Simpsons
Spirited Away
comedy
Being There
Deconstructing Harry
Dr. Strangelove
Fawlty Towers
Mrs. Doubtfire
documentary
Taxi to the Dark Side
Sicko
F for Fake
The Blue Planet (BBC)
Hearts and Minds
The Human Body (BBC)
Planet Earth (BBC)
drama
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Goodfellas
The Green Mile
Jackie Brown
The King of Comedy
Last Tango in Paris
Manhattan
September
The Shawshank Redemption
Short Cuts
Six Degrees of Separation
The Tin Drum
To Have and Have Not
Tokyo Story
Ukigusa (Drifting Weeds)
horror
Jacob's Ladder
Nosferatu Phantom Der Nacht
The Shining
The Dead Zone (original movie, not TV series)
Kwaidan
musical
Everyone Says I Love You
Round Midnight
mystery & suspense
Blue Velvet
Chinatown
The Silence of the Lambs
Twin Peaks
science fiction
Blade Runner
Solaris (original Russian version)
war
Apocalypse Now
Johnny Got His Gun
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favorite directors
Woody Allen
Robert Altman
Bernardo Bertolucci
Werner Herzog
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Yasujiro Ozu
Martin Scorsese
Orson Welles
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favorite actors
Lauren Bacall
Marlon Brando
Robert DeNiro
Faye Dunaway
Jodie Foster
Anthony Hopkins
Klaus Kinski
Jack Nicholson
Sean Penn
Peter Sellers