CINEPHILIA: GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME LIST
“I’m a movie freak. a purist. I’ve seen thousands of films. Sometimes I watch 6 movies a night. When I was a kid I cut school and snuck into 4 movies a day at the local movie theatre. Films were my therapy from the dysfunction, trauma and child abuse I suffered as a child. In addition, being black in the United States of America didn’t help matters. It was my escape from the my parents, racism, and my low-self esteem. It was a one way ticket out of the reality of my World. My human behavioral studies course. My favorite movies are independent films. You can’t tell me anything about movies. I’ve watched a few films over 1,000 times and each time I notice something I didn’t notice before.”
This column/blog is dedicated to great films and those of us who are passionate about their movies. We might do a film review, an interview with an actor, director, or an essay of the current state of films.
Note: The films below are in alphabetical order.
12 Monkeys
2001
A Clockwork Orange
A Most Violent Year
A Pure Formality
A Room with a View
A Single Man
A Woman Under the Influence
Ali
Amadeus
Amelie
American Beauty
American Gigolo
American Psycho
American Splendor
Amour
Angel Heart
Assassination of Jesse James
Ballast
Barry Lyndon
Barton Fink
Basquiat
Being John Malkovich
Bicycle Thieves
Birdman
Bittermoon
Black Swan
Blue Caprice
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Blue Velvet
Brazil
Breathless
Broken Flowers
Buffalo 66
Cache
Carlito’s Way
Chinatown
City of God
Collateral
Delicatessen
Demonlover
Django
Do The Right Thing
Dog Day Afternoon
Dogville
Down By Law
Dressed to Kill
Drugstore Cowboy
Edmund
Easter Promises
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Falling Down
Fargo
Favourite
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Foxcatcher
Frida
Full Metal Jacket
Funny Games
Gangster No. 1
Get Out
Glengarry Glen Ross
Goodfellas
Groundhog Day
Hard Eight
Howard’s End
Hustle & Flow
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
In The Mood for Love
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Man
Irreversible
Jacob’s Ladder
Joker
Killing Them Softly
Kramer vs Kramer
La Haine
Layer Cake
Leaving Las Vegas
Libertine
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lost In Translation
Magnolia
Malcolm X
Memento
Misery
Mississippi Burning
Moonlight
My Own Private Idaho
Mystic River
Naked Lunch
Narc
Natural Born Killers
Network
No Country for Old Men
Old Boy
Oleanna
Parasite
Pickpocket
Pulp Fiction
Punch Drunk Love
Queen Margot
Raging Bull
Realms of the Senses
Rear Window
Red Sparrow
Requiem For a Dream
Reservoir Dogs
Romper Stomper
Rushmore
Safe (Juliet Moore)
Scarface
Seven
Seven Samurai
Sex, Lies & Videotape
Shame
Shawshank Redemption
Snatch
Sunset Limited
Swingers
Talented Mr. Ripley
Taxi Driver
The 400 Blows
The 7th Seal
The Bicycle Thief
The Color Purple
The Diving Bell & The Butterfly
The Godfather
The Green Knight
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Last Duel
The Piano Teacher
The Revenant
The Shining
The Spanish Prisoner
The Swimming Pool
The Trial
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
There Will Be Blood
The White Ribbon
Time Out
Tinker Tailor Soldier, Spy
Tokyo Decadence
Tous les matins du monde
Training Day
Tycoon
Uncut Gems
Under The Skin
Untouchables
Usual Suspects
Wall Street
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Whiplash
Wings of Desire
Note: If you can’t find titles below on streaming platforms do everything in your capacity to secure the film title for viewing. These movies are transformative and pitch perfect with the actor, writer and director all at the top of their game.
Please feel free to send us submissions to add to our greatest film of all time list.
