My Movie-list, 100 movies I enjoyed!

Hello friends,

I love movies and I watch lots of them too. I decided that I want to express my love for movies by writing a 100 GREAT MOVIES-list for this Blog-site. They are not in any specific order. These are just the films that came in to my mind first when I started to make this list. ( I might change this if and when I see new great films. ) I have also included the director of the movie in the brackets. I think the director is one major factor in the making of a great movie. I hope you enjoy it. Here it goes...

1. Amistad ( Director: Steven Spielberg )
2. Schindler's List ( Spielberg ),
3. E.T ( Spielberg )
4. Lord of the Rings , the whole trilogy! ( Peter Jackson )
5. Heavenly Creatures ( Jackson )
6. Star Wars, especially 4th, 5th and 6th episode! ( George Lucas )
7. About Schmidt ( Alexander Payne )
8. Sideways ( Payne )
9. Some Like It Hot ( Billy Wilder )
10. Magnolia ( Paul Thomas Anderson )
11. Punch drunk Love ( Paul Thomas Anderson )
12. Royal Tenenbaums ( Wes Anderson )
13. Rushmore ( Wes Anderson )
14. Shine ( Scott Hicks )
15. Truman Show ( Peter Weir )
16. Being John Malkovich ( Spike Jonze )
17. Adaptation ( Jonze )
18. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( Michel Gondry )
19. Elephant Man ( David Lynch )
20. Eraserhead ( Lynch )
21. Lost Highway ( Lynch )
22. Mulholland Drive ( Lynch )
23. Blue Velvet ( Lynch )
24. The Matrix ( Andy&Larry Wachowski )
25. Lost In Translation ( Sofia Coppola )
26. Godfather ( Francis Ford Coppola )
27. Paris, Texas ( Wim Wenders )
28. Der Himmel Uber Berlin ( Wenders )
29. Land of Plenty ( Wenders )
30. Million Dollar Baby ( Clint Eastwood )
31. Unforgiven ( Eastwood )
32. Crash ( Paul Haggis )
33. Friday Night Lights ( Peter Berg )
34. Three Colors: Red ( Kieslowski )
35. Three Colors: Blue ( Kieslowski )
36. La Double Vie de Veronique ( Kieslowski )
37. Heaven ( Tom Tykwer )
38. Apocalypse Now ( Francis Ford Coppola )
39. Piano ( Jane Campion )
40. Traffic ( Steven Soderbergh )
41. Ocean's Eleven ( Soderbergh )
42. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? ( Lasse Hallström )
43. Big Fish ( Tim Burton )
44. Edward Scissorhands ( Burton )
45. JFK ( Oliver Stone )
46. The Doors ( Oliver Stone )
47. One flew over the cuckoo's nest ( Milos Forman )
48. Man On the Moon ( Forman )
49. Amadeus ( Forman )
50. Of Mice and Men ( Gary Sinise )
51. 2001- Space Odyssey ( Stanley Kubrick )
52. Dances With Wolves ( Kevin Costner )
53. The Upside of Anger ( Mike Binder )
54. The Fugitive ( Andrew Davis )
55. Gegen Die Wand - Head-On ( Fatih Akin )
56. Amelie ( J-P Jeunet )
57. The Ice Storm ( Ang Lee )
58. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( Ang Lee )
59. Yi Yi ( 1+2 ) ( Edward Yang )
60. Mies vailla Menneisyyttä - Man without the Past ( Aki Kaurismäki )
61. Kivenpyörittäjän Kylä- The Last Wedding ( Markku Pölönen )
62. Wedding Crashers ( David Dobkin )
63. Dumb&Dumber ( Peter& Bobby Farrelly )
64. Bruce Almighty ( Tom Shadyac )
65. Groundhog Day ( Harold Ramis )
66. Elf ( Jon Favreau )
67. Reality Bites ( Ben Stiller )
68. Philadelphia ( Jonathan Demme )
69. 25th Hour ( Spike Lee )
70. Wonderboys ( Curtis Hanson )
71. The Last temptation of the Christ ( Martin Scorsese )
72. Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo ( Pier Paolo Pasolini )
73. Short Cuts ( Robert Altman )
74. Breaking The Waves ( Lars Von Trier )
75. Festen ( Thomas Vinterberg )
76. Mifune ( Anders Thomas Jensen )
77. Fucking Åmål ( Lukas Moodysson )
78. The Last Emperor ( Bernardo Bertolucci )
79. Forrest Gump ( Robert Zemeckis )
80. Son's Room ( Nanni Moretti )
81. Tierra ( Julio Medem )
82. Sex and Lucia ( Medem )
83. Autumn in New York ( Joan Chen )
84. Good Will Hunting ( Gus Van Sant )
85. Dead Poet's Society ( Peter Weir )
86. 12 Monkeys ( Terry Gilliam )
87. The Usual Suspects ( Bryan Singer )
88. Bagdad Cafe ( Percy Adlon )
89. As Good As It Gets ( James L. Brooks )
90. Four Weddings And a Funeral ( Mike Newell )
91. The Thin Red Line ( Terrence Malick )
92. The Straight Story ( David Lynch )
93. American Beauty ( Sam Mendes )
94. Hotel Rwanda ( Terry George )
95. Blade Runner ( Ridley Scott )
96. The Maltese Falcon ( John Huston )
97. Spirited Away ( Hayao Miyazaki )
98, The Incredibles ( Brad Bird )
99. Finding Nemo ( Andrew Stanton&Lee Unkrich )
100. Rain Man ( Barry Levinson )

There are so many films that I did not mention, maybe I'll get round to it one day! If you don't know what film to get.. the ones I mentioned here are all worth checking out! Of course, this list is being done only according to my taste ;-) !