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MY FAVOURITE MOVIES

Top Three

• Gladiator
• The Godfather
• Shawshank Redemption

Thriller

• Seven
• Jaws
• The Usual Suspects
• The Silence of the Lambs

Action / Adventure

• Gladiator
• Indiana Jones (trilogy )
• Die Hard 1 & 2
  
• Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
• Highlander
• The Dark Knight
• The Matrix
• Terminator 2
• The Departed
  

Drama

• Awakenings
• Forest Gump
• American Beauty
• Cinema Paradisio
• Witness
• Amilie
• Shawshank Redemption
• Trainspotting
• Slumdog Millionaire
  

Biography

• Schindler's List
• Brave Heart
• A Beautiful Mind
• Into the Wild
• Lawrence of Arabia
  

Sci Fi

• Terminator 2
• The Matrix
• Blade Runner
• Dark City
• A Clockwork Orange
• Alien
• Back to the Future
  

Romance

• Notting Hill
• 4 Weddings and a Funeral
• When Harry Met Sally
• The Notebook
• The Apartment
• Groundhog Day
• Roman Holiday
• When Harry Met Sally
  

Martial Arts

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Kill Bill 1 & 2

Comedy

• A Fish Called Wanda
• Monty Python's Meaning of Life
• Life of Brian
  

Gangster

• Pulp Fiction
• Once Upon a Time in America
• Goodfellas
• True Romance
• Bonnie and Clyde
  

Musical

• The Commitments
• Chicago
• Once
  

Horror

• Sixth Sense
• 28 days
• Alien
• The Ring
• The Shining
• Night of the Living Dead
• The Thing

Twists

• Sixth Sense
• The Others
• The Usual Suspects
• Fight Club
• Presumed Innocent

Western

• Unforgiven
• The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• High Noon
  

Thought provoking / insightful

• La Dolce Vita

Animated

• Shrek
• Finding Nemo
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
  
• The Incredibles
• The Lion King
  

Most Original

• Being John Malkovich
• Dogville
• Memento
• Dancer in the Dark

War

• Bridge on the River Kwai
• Saving Private Ryan
• Schindler's List
• Apocolypse Now
  

Fantasy

• Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Mystery

• Chinatown
• Double Indemnity
• The Big Sleep
• Vertigo
• Laura
• North by North West
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Usual Suspects
  

Sports

• Raging Bull
• Rocky
• Jerry Maguire

Courtroom Drama

• Witness for the Prosecution
• 12 Angry Men
• Kramer vs Kramer
• Judgement at Nuremberg
• A Few Good Men
  

MOVIE DAIRY

2009

Doubt
Children of Men
Ryan's Daughter
Sin City
Being There
The Birds
The Killing Fields
Rocco and his Brothers
The Ring
A Star is Born
Batman Begins
Rock n Rolla
Funny Games
The Office
Fame
The Office 2
The Dark Knight
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
The Duchess
The Green Mile
Frost / Nixon
Sex Lies and Videotape
Duplicity
Once Opon a Time in the West
The Wrestler
Vicky Christina Barcelona
London to Brighton
For A Few Dollars More
Changeling
My Best Friends Wedding
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Saving Private Ryan
Revolutionery Road
Appaloosa
Watchmen
Erin Brockovich
My Best Friend's Wedding
Shakespeare in Love
Seven Yers in Tibet
Changeling
My Best Friends Wedding
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Saving Private Ryan
Revolutionery Road
Watchmen
The Verdict
Extras (1&2)
Reds
The Philadelphia Story
Lethal Weapon
All About Eve
Sullivan's Travels
Scarface
The Caine Mutiny
Unforgiven
Gone with the Wind
Beauty and the Beast
Scarface
The Hustler
A Soldier's Story
Les Diaboliques
My Darling Clementyne
Arsonic and old Lace
How Green Was My VAlley
The Office
The Reader
East of Eden
Fiddler on the Roof
Where Eagles Dare
Key Largo
The Killers (1946) xx
Goodbye Children (French)
Grande Hotel
Roman Holiday (9)
The Last Picture Show
Repulsion
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Anatomy of a Murder
Double Indemnity
The Maltese Falcon
Boogie Nights
Hellboy
Escape From Alcatraz
Fischer King
The Bridge
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Witness for the Prosecution (8)
In the Heat of the Night
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
The Colour Purple
The Wild Bunch
Touch of Evil
Sense and Sensibility
Naked
Cape Fear (1962)
The 400 Blows
It Happened One Night
The Princess Bride
Mr Deeds Goes to Town
Rescue Dawn
Gaslight
Murder on the Orient Express
Ride with the Devil
The Fly
Vertigo (9)
Bonnie and Clyde
The Minority Report (8)
Rosemarie's Baby
The Lady Vanishes
Copying Beethoven
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
My Fair Lady
The Apartment (9)
Glengarry Ross
Kramer vs Kramer (8)
Ordinary People
Tsotsi
Cross of Iron
Judgement at Nuremberg (8)
Spellbound
A Streetcar Named Desire
Coal Miners Daughter
Back to the Future (1, 2, 3)
The Bicycle Thief
ChinaTown (9)
Caberet
The Red Shoes
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Love Story
Rope
Laura
The Last Tempation of Christ
Sunrise
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
The Sting
Mutiny of the Bounty (1935)
Mad Max (1, 2)
Big Fish
Ghost Dog
Magnolia (8)
Cries and Whispers
Badlands
A Star is Born
Groundhog Day (9)
Secrets and Lies (8)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Three Colours White
Dances with Wolves
Gigi
Mircle on 31st Street
Harvey
Bride of Frankenstein
The Big Sleep (9)
The African Queen
Three Colours Red (8)
The Lives of Others (9)
Christine
Rambo
Flag of Our Fathers
Cinema Paradisio (10)
The Family Man
Barton Fink
Dusk Till Dawn
Bobby
Cash Back
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Keeping Mum
Romulus, My Father
Letters from Iwo Jima
Goodfellas (10)
The Terminator 1 & 2
Road to Perdition
On a Clear Day
Total Recall
Dark City (9)
Tom Brown's School Days
My Super Ex Girlfriend
Rock
Rocky Balboa
To Sir with Love
Sexy Beast
Happy Go Lucky (9)
Full Metal Jacket
Shawn of the Dead
On Golden Pond (8)
Apocolypse Now (9)
Taken (8)
Interview with a Vampire
Heat
V for Vandetta
Seraphim Falls
Kingdom of Heaven
Collateral
Mystic River
Mad Max
Chicago
Amadeus
First Blood

2008

Reality Bites
Eyes Wide Shut
The Big Le Bowski
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I Love Huckabees
Mysterious Skin
Once We Were Kings
Broken Flowers
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Age of Innocence
The Man from Snowy River
The Corpse Bride
Hellboy
Escape from Alcatraz
The Fisher King
The Bridge
Boogie Nights
Slumdog Millionaire (10)
Volver (7)
Hancock (6)
The Peaceful Warrior (7)
Rails and Ties (7)
Brick Lane (6)
Mongul (7)
Gone Baby Gone (8)
Beauwulf (6)
Casandra's Dream (7)
Elizabeth - Golden Age (7)
Lions for Lambs (4)
Ripley's Game (6)
Hard Candy (7)
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (9)
The New World (8)
Little Children (9)
Jerry Maguire (9)
The Last Castle (5)
A River Runs Through It (8)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (8)
A Hard Day's Night (8)
The Quiet American (8)
Casino (9)
Goal! (7)
Good Will Hunting (9)
Code 46 (7)
As it is in Heaven (9)
Jack and Jill vs The World (6)
Conversations with Other Women (7)
Just like Heaven (8)
Never Back Down (6)
Reservation Road (7)
Vantage Point (6)
Rendition (7)
The Mist (7)
Sleuth (6)
Un Secret (7)
The Counterfeiters (8)
Days and Clouds (6)
What the Bleep do we Know (6)
Music Within (7)
Leatherheads (6)
Gracie (7)
Closing the Ring (7)
Body of Lies (8)
Burn After Reading (7)
Untraceable (5)
Silk (7)
10,000 BC (5)
2 Days in Paris (6)
The Princess Dairies (5)
Ironman (9)
No Country for Old Men (9)
City of God (9)
The Dark Knight (10)
Mamma Mia! (6)
Get Smart (6)
Lord of the Rings (all 3) (10)
Incredible Hulk (7)
Indianna Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (7)
Spooks (season 1, 2) (9)
Once (9)
The Notebook (9)
24 series 4&5 (8)
Rome (10)
Pulp Fiction (9)
Casino Royale (9)
Deathproof (6)
Planet Terror (7)
City of God (8)
Bandit Queen (5)
LA Confidential (8)
When Harry Met Sally (8)
Bridgette Jones Dairy (7)
Eastern Promises (9)
In the Valley of Elah (7)
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber (8)
Enemy at the Gates (8)
GoldenEye (6)
Constantine (3)
The Count of Montechristo (5)
There Will be Blood (8)
Juno (9)
No Country for Old Men (9)
Atonement (8)
The Golden Compass (7)
American Gangster (9)
A Room with a View (8)
I am Legend (7)
Mona Lisa Smile (6)
Death Proof (6)
3:10 to Yuma (8)
A History of Violence (9)

2007
1408 (6)
Jessica 8 (5)
American Wherewolf in London (7)
Jaws 2 (2)
Into the Wild (9)
Breakfast Club (6)
The Contract (3)
The Ninth Gate (8)
Ratatooli (9)
Terms of Endearment (7)
The Contract (5)
Oceans 13 (7)
Disturbia (5)
Music and Lyrics (6)
The Buterfly Effect (7)
The Illusionist (10)
Imagine You and Me (6)
The In-Laws (5)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (7)
Hannibal Rising (4)
Little Children (8)
24 (series 2)
24 (series 3)
Transformers (6)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (10)
Pan Labyrinth (9)
Life of Brian (9)
Mrs Hendersson Presents (7)
Beyond the Sea (6)
The Proposition (7)
The Prestige (10)
The Prince and Me (3)
Something's Gonna Give (8)
Take the Lead (5)
Children of Men (9)
Fight Club (9)
Blood Diamond (8)
The Devil Wears Prada (7)
Wah Wah (6)
Lady in the Water (5)
Little Miss Sunshine (9)
Spiderman 3 (6)
3 Burials (7)
Napolean Dynamite (7)
Wolf Creek (7)
De Ja Vu (6)
300 (8)
Charlotte's Web (6)
A Good Year (6)
Layer Cake (7)
Rob Roy (8)
American Beauty (10)
Apocolypso (9)
The Sentinel (5)
Stepford Wives (6)
High Crimes (5)
The Village (6)
Syriana (6)
Ghost (7)

2006
Borat (7)
Casino Royale (10)
An Inconvenient Truth (9)
The Departed (10)
Match Point (7)
March of the Penguins (9)
Hidden (6)
Wolf Creek (7)
Superman Returns (5)
Thank You for Not Smoking (8)
Brokeback Mountain (7)
Pirates of the Carribean 2 (7)
V for Vendetta (7)
Good Night and Good Luck (9)
The da Vinci Code (7)
X-Men 3 (6)
Matador (7)
King Kong (8)
Munich (6)
Memoirs of a Geisha (7)
Harry Potter (4th) (7)
Mission Impossible 3 (8)

2005

Crash (2005)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Duck Soup (1933)
Dogville (2003)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Straight Story, The (1999)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Wild Bunch, The (1969)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Hustler, The (1961)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Conversation, The (1974)
Charade (1963)
Gold Rush, The (1925)
Festen (1998)
Amores perros (2000)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
Sling Blade (1996)
Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
Brazil (1985)
All the President's Men (1976)
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Smultronstället (1957)
Killing, The (1956)
Ed Wood (1994)
Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Stand by Me (1986)
Harvey (1950)
Lion in Winter, The (1968)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Stagecoach (1939)
8½ (1963)
Henry V (1989)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Todo sobre mi madre (1999)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Ikiru (1952)
Iron Giant, The (1999)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
JFK (1991)
Sin city (2005)
Batman Begins (2005)
Old Boy (2003)
The Sea Inside (2005)
Garden State (2004)
Sideways (2004)
Scarface (1983)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (2003)
Saw 1 (2004)
Saw 2 (2005)
Oliver (1949)
24 series
Band of Brothers
Charade
Dogville
Jamon Jamon

2004

Yojimbo (1961)
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Chinatown (1974)
High Noon (1952)
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
Shining, The (1980)
Sixth Sense, The (1999)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Amadeus (1984)
Big Fish (2003)
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
Casablanca (1942)
City of God (2002)
Mononoke-hime (1997)
Once Upon a Time in the West
Se7en (1995)
Shrek (2001)
Spartacus (1960)
Elephant Man, The (1980)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Others, The (2001)
39 Steps, The (1935)
African Queen, The (1951)
All About Eve (1950)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Psycho (1960) 8.5/10
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Usual Suspects, The (1995)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Spellbound
Gandhi (1982)
Graduate, The (1967)
Great Dictator, The (1940)
Great Escape, The
Manhattan (1979)
MASH (1970) 7.7/10
Notorious (1946)
Run Lola, Run (1998)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
The Seventh Scroll (1957)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
Goodfellas (1990)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Untouchables, The (1987)
Hable con ella (2002)
King Kong (1933)
Beautiful Mind, A (2001)
Memento (2000)
Rear Window (1954)
Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Apartment, The (1960)
Big Sleep, The (1946) 8.0/10
Open Water (cinema)
Metropolis (1927)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Rebecca (1940)
Sting, The (1973)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
21 Grams (2003)
Annie Hall (1977)
Boot, Das (1981)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
City Lights (1931)
Godfather, The
Godfather: Part II, The
M (1931)
Manchurian Candidate, The (1962))
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Modern Times (1936)
Patton (1970)
Ran (1985)
Rashômon (1950)
Searchers, The (1956)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Ying xiong (2002)
General, The (1927)
Glory (1989) Ghandi
Ghandi
Name of the Rose
Highlander
Shrek 2
Dr Zhivago

2003

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Matrix, The (1999)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
North by Northwest (1959)
Pianist, The (2002)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Third Man, The (1949)
Vertigo (1958)
Whale Rider (2002)
Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
X2 (2003)
Finding Nemo (2003)
28 days
Deliverance (1972)
The Ring (Cinema)
Pirates of the Carribean (cinema)

2002

The GodFather (trilogy)
Adaptation. (2002)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Chicago

2001

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

2000

Almost Famous (2000)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Traffic (2000) 7.8/10

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