- Action and Adventure:
- Inglourious Basterds
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Dark Knight
- The Dirty Dozen
- Batman Begins
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Goldeneye
- Kill Bill
- Bad Boys
- II6 Underground
- Haywire
- Patriot Games
- Classics:
- Raging Bull
- Rosemary’s Baby
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- Tootsie
- Dirty Harry
- Comedy:
- Monty Python’s Life of Brian
- Goundhog Day
- Kicking and Screaming
- A Serious Man
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Step Brothers
- Scott Pilgrim vs the World
- TheOther Guys
- The Naked Gun
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Kingpin
- Crime:
- Goodfellas
- Zodiac
- The Irishman
- City of God
- Drive
- Mystic River
- The Place Beyond the Pines
- Hell or High Water
- Blow
- Drama:
- There Will Be Blood
- Howard’s End
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Roma
- Philadelphia
- Magnolia
- The Pianist
- Marriage Story
- Steve Jobs
- 20th Century Women
- The Squid and the Whale
- A Single Man
- Romance:
- Silver Linings Playbook
- As Good as It Gets
- About Time
- Theory of Everything
- She’s Out of My League
- Sci-Fi and Fantasy:
- Blade Runner
- The Lord of the Rings
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Under the Skin
- Spiderman Into the Spiderverse
- Inception
- Her
- Avengers
- War
- Moon
- Equilibrium
- Back to the Future Part III
- limitless
- Thriller:
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- GoodTime
- The Talented Mr Ripley
- The Crying Game
One Comment
Gina
Thanks, John. This is an especially useful gift during these confining times. If only we could have Carter explain why he chose each of those films. Nevertheless, I’m copying his list onto my list of films to watch. Please thank Carter for me.