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Jeffrey Melvin Hutchins
Jeff's 310 Favorite Films by Genre
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Here are my favorite films in each of 26
genres. Genres and films are in alphabetical order. Each genre lists at least 10 movies. Some movies I’ve omitted because
I didn’t see them; others because I enjoyed them but didn’t think them equal to the best in the genre. Some great
films are not listed because while I loved them, I could not remember enough about them to make a judgment. And, of course,
there are countless films whose titles I don’t remember at all. Still, watch any movie on this list and you are sure
to be entertained.
ACTION MOVIES (10) Black Panther Blade Runner (1982 version) Raiders of the Lost Ark Spider-Man 2 Superman (1978) The Dark Knight The French Connection The Great Escape The Hunger Games Wonder Woman (2017 version)
ANIMATED FEATURES (10) Aladdin Chicken Run Fantasia Inside Out Snow White and the Seven Dwarves The Lion King Toy Story Up Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Yellow Submarine
BIOPIX (11) 12 Years a Slave A Beautiful Mind Capote Gandhi Lincoln (2012 version) Man on the Moon Milk My Left Foot The Benny Goodman Story The Imitation Game The Theory of Everything
CHILDREN’S MOVIES (LIVE-ACTION) (10) A Christmas Story Akeelah and the Bee Annie Babe Big Hugo Splash The Muppet Movie The NeverEnding Story Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
COMEDIES (PRIMARILY NON-ROMANTIC) (14) A Mighty Wind Airplane American Graffiti Bedazzled (1967 version) Blazing Saddles Ghostbusters Gold Rush Groundhog Day Hannah and Her Sisters Monty Python and the Holy Grail Raising Arizona Sleeper The Princess Bride Tootsie
COMING OF AGE STORIES (13) Boyhood Fried Green Tomatoes Harold and Maude Juno Lady Bird Pleasantville Precious Stand By Me The Last Picture Show The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Spectacular Now The Sterile Cuckoo The Way, Way Back
COURTROOM DRAMAS (10) 12 Angry Men A Few Good Men Denial Erin Brockovich I Am Sam Inherit the Wind My Cousin Vinny Philadelphia The Verdict Witness for the Prosecution
DOCUMENTARIES (10) 20 Feet from Stardom 5 Broken Cameras Fahrenheit 9/11 Inside Job March of the Penguins RBG Sicko Spellbound (2002) Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Young @ Heart
DOOM AND GLOOM MOVIES (10) Away from Her Doubt Fail-Safe Mudbound On the Beach Snowpiercer Still Alice Testament The Matrix Waterworld
EPICS / SPECTACLES (10) Dr. Zhivago Forrest Gump Gone with the Wind Lawrence of Arabia Letters from Iwo Jima Lord of the Rings trilogy The Last of the Mohicans (1992 version) The Poseidon Adventure Titanic Walkabout
FABLES (LIVE ACTION) (10) Edward Scissorhands Hunt for the Wilderpeople King of Hearts Lars and the Real Girl Legend (1985 version) Local Hero Moonrise Kingdom Stranger Than Fiction The Shape of Water Waitress
FUN FEEL-GOOD MOVIES (12) Back to the Future Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Elf It’s a Wonderful Life M*A*S*H Miracle on 34thStreet (1947 version) Slumdog Millionaire Some Like It Hot The Graduate The Sting The Pink Panther (1963 version) Young Frankenstein
HISTORICAL FICTION (14) A Man for All Seasons All the President’s Men Amadeus Battleship Potemkin Belle Fruitvale Station Hidden Figures Hotel Rwanda Life Is Beautiful Out of Africa Schindler’s List Spotlight The Lion in Winter The Pianist
INSPIRATIONAL MOVIES (12) Freedom Writers Gigot Lost Horizon Mister Roberts Mr. Smith Goes to Washington One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Best Years of Our Lives The Color Purple The Grapes of Wrath The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner The Shawshank Redemption To Kill a Mockingbird
INTIMATE HUMAN-INTEREST STORIES (13) A Thousand Clowns Being There Casablanca Children of a Lesser God Kramer vs. Kramer Nebraska On Golden Pond Philomena Privilege Room Taxi Driver The Cider House Rules The Visitor
LIVE-ACTION ANIMAL MOVIES (11) Born Free Free Willy Harry and Tonto Jungle Book (1942 version) Lassie Come Home Moby Dick (1956) National Velvet Sounder War Horse Whale Rider Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken
MUSICALS (10) All That Jazz Cabaret Carousel La La Land Les Miserables (2012 version) My Fair Lady Oliver! Singin’ in the Rain The King and I The Wizard of Oz
NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILMS (26) A Man Called Ove (Sweden 2015) A Separation (Iran 2011) Amélie (France 2001) Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (Israel 2003) Caramel (Lebanon 2007) Closely Watched Trains (Czechoslovakia 1966) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Taiwan 2000) Das Boot Gloomy Sunday (Germany 1999) Il Sorpasso (Italy 1962) Incendies (Canada 2010) I’ve Loved You So Long (France 2008) La Strada (Italy 1954) Lemon Tree (Israel 2008) Mustang (Turkey 2015) Persona (Sweden 1966) Sarah’s Key (France 2010) Tanna (Vanuatu 2015) The 400 Blows (France 1959) The Band’s Visit (Israel 2007) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden 2009) The Insult (Lebanon 2017) The Intouchables (France 2011) The Lives of Others (Germany 2006) The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina 2009) The Syrian Bride (France, Israel 2004)
ROMANTIC COMEDIES (11) Annie Hall Breakfast at Tiffany’s Four Weddings and a Funeral It Happened One Night L.A. Story Moonstruck Notting Hill Silver Linings Playbook The African Queen The Big Sick When Harry Met Sally
SCI-FI (11) 2001: A Space Odyssey Arrival Blade Runner (1982 version) Close Encounters of the Third Kind Contact E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ex Machina Minority Report Moon The Empire Strikes Back
SPORTS MOVIES (10) A League of Their Own Bend It Like Beckham Breaking Away Chariots of Fire Field of Dreams Million Dollar Baby Remember the Titans The Hustler The Natural The Pride of the Yankees
SPY MOVIES (10) Bridge of Spies From Russia With Love Goldfinger Inception North by Northwest Spy The Ipcress File The Third Man Three Days of the Condor Zero Dark Thirty
TEAR-JERKERS (12) Awakenings Beaches Beasts of the Southern Wild Dead Poets Society My Girl Sophie’s Choice Stand By Me Steel Magnolias Terms of Endearment The Fault in Our Stars The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Notebook
THRILLERS / MYSTERIES (17) Blow-up Chinatown Deliverance Gone Girl Klute Match Point Memento Munich Rear Window Seven Days in May Sleuth The Birds The Maltese Falcon The Prestige The Sixth Sense The Usual Suspects Z
WAR / ANTI-WAR MOVIES (12) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 version) Apocalypse Now Born on the Fourth of July Coming Home Dr. Strangelove Full Metal Jacket Glory Saving Private Ryan The Bridge on the River Kwai The Deer Hunter The Guns of Navarone The Victors
WESTERNS (11) Cat Ballou Dances with Wolves Hell or High Water High Noon Little Big Man Shane Stagecoach The Magnificent Seven The Treasure of the Sierra Madre True Grit (2010 version) Unforgiven |
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