My Picks For Best Ever Movies

[JoeyJ]

The checked items I have acquired for my library. This is a work in progress.

JOEY JAY TOP MOVIE PICKS

1922-1944

- [ ] Our Gang - The Little Rascals (short films)

1941

- [x] Citizen Kane

1960

- [ ] Psycho

1961

- [ ] The Hustler

1963

- [ ] The Great Escape

1964

- [ ] Doctor Strangelove

1966

- [x] Blow-Up

1967

- [ ] Bonnie And Clyde
- [x] The Graduate

1968

- [ ] 2001 - A Space Odyssey
- [ ] Rosemary’s Baby
- [x] Night Of The Living Dead

1969

- [ ] Midnight Cowboy
- [ ] Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

1970

- [ ] Woodstock
- [ ] Gimme Shelter
- [x] M*A*S*H

1971

- [ ] The Last Picture Show
- [x] A Clockwork Orange
- [x] Harold And Maude

1972

- [ ] Cabaret
- [ ] Deliverance
- [ ] Play It Again, Sam
- [ ] Solaris
- [x] The Godfather

1973

- [ ] The Sting
- [ ] The Exorcist
- [x] Badlands

1974

- [ ] Young Frankenstein
- [ ] The Conversation
- [ ] Blazing Saddles
- [x] Chinatown
- [x] The Godfather, Part 2

1975

- [ ] One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
- [ ] The Holy Grail
- [x] Barry Lyndon
- [x] The Man Who Would Be King
- [x] Dog Day Afternoon
- [x] Jaws

1976

- [ ] Taxi Driver
- [ ] Network
- [ ] The Song Remains The Same
- [ ] The Omen
- [ ] Carrie
- [x] All The President’s Men

1977

- [ ] Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
- [ ] Exorcist 2 - The Heretic
- [ ] Saturday Night Fever
- [x] Rocky
- [x] Annie Hall
- [x] Star Wars

1978

- [ ] The Deer Hunter
- [ ] Midnight Express
- [ ] Superman - The Movie
- [ ] Dawn Of The Dead
- [ ] Days Of Heaven
- [ ] Damien - Omen 2
- [ ] Halloween
- [ ] Grease
- [ ] Interiors
- [x] Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
- [x] Animal House
- [x] Jaws 2

1979

- [ ] Apocalypse Now
- [ ] Star Trek - The Motion Picture
- [ ] Rocky 2
- [ ] Manhattan
- [ ] Kramer Versus Kramer
- [ ] Escape From Alcatraz
- [ ] Life Of Brian
- [ ] The China Syndrome
- [x] Mad Max
- [x] Breaking Away
- [x] All That Jazz
- [x] Being There
- [x] The Stunt Man
- [x] Alien

1980

- [ ] The Shining
- [ ] Inside Moves
- [ ] Superman 2
- [ ] Heaven’s Gate
- [ ] Raiders Of The Lost Ark
- [ ] Raging Bull
- [ ] The Elephant Man
- [ ] The Blues Brothers
- [ ] Airplane!
- [ ] Stardust Memories
- [x] Altered States
- [x] Ordinary People
- [x] The Empire Strikes Back
- [x] Fame

1981

- [ ] Scanners
- [ ] My Dinner With Andre
- [ ] On Golden Pond
- [ ] Blow Out
- [ ] Thief
- [x] Body Heat
- [x] The Road Warrior
- [x] Halloween 2

1982

- [ ] Blade Runner
- [ ] The King Of Comedy
- [ ] Star Trek 2 - The Wrath Of Khan
- [ ] Sophie’s Choice
- [ ] The World According To Garp
- [ ] Tootsie
- [ ] Poltergeist
- [ ] Gandhi
- [ ] Missing
- [ ] Airplane! 2 - The Sequel
- [ ] Frances
- [x] The Thing
- [x] Fast Times At Ridgemont High
- [x] Pink Floyd - The Wall

1983

- [ ] Psycho 2
- [ ] Videodrome
- [ ] Scarface
- [ ] The Right Stuff
- [ ] Zelig
- [ ] Trading Places
- [ ] The Meaning Of Life
- [ ] Terms Of Endearment
- [ ] Staying Alive
- [x] Vacation

1984

- [ ] 2010 - The Year We Make Contact
- [ ] Body Double
- [ ] The Terminator
- [ ] Once Upon A Time In America
- [ ] Amadeus
- [ ] Paris, Texas
- [ ] The Killing Fields
- [ ] Blood Simple
- [ ] Stranger Than Paradise

1985

- [ ] Back To The Future
- [ ] The Color Purple
- [x] The Breakfast Club
- [x] Brazil

1986

- [ ] Aliens
- [ ] Manhunter
- [ ] Platoon
- [ ] The Color Of Money
- [ ] Hannah And Her Sisters
- [ ] Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- [ ] The Fly
- [ ] Salvador
- [ ] The Mission
- [x] Blue Velvet
- [x] Stand By Me

1987

- [ ] House Of Games
- [ ] The Last Emperor
- [ ] Empire Of The Sun
- [ ] Swimming To Cambodia
- [ ] The Untouchables
- [ ] Planes, Trains, And Automobiles
- [ ] Wall Street
- [ ] The Princess Bride
- [x] Full Metal Jacket

1988

- [ ] Things Change
- [ ] The Naked Gun
- [ ] The Big Blue
- [ ] A Fish Called Wanda
- [x] Die Hard

1989

- [ ] Batman
- [x] The Abyss
- [x] Dead Poets Society
- [x] Drugstore Cowboy

1990

- [ ] Goodfellas
- [ ] After Dark, My Sweet
- [ ] Rocky 5
- [ ] The Two Jakes
- [ ] The Hunt For Red October
- [ ] Texasville
- [ ] Jacob’s Ladder
- [x] Misery
- [x] The Godfather, Part 3

1991

- [ ] Thelma And Louise
- [ ] My Own Private Idaho
- [ ] Terminator 2 - Judgment Day
- [ ] JFK
- [ ] Hearts Of Darkness
- [ ] The Fisher King
- [x] Barton Fink
- [x] Silence Of The Lambs

1992

- [ ] The Last Of The Mohicans

1993

- [ ] Schindler’s List

1992

- [ ] Raising Cain
- [ ] Husbands And Wives
- [ ] Reservoir Dogs
- [ ] Glengarry Glen Ross
- [ ] The Player
- [ ] Unforgiven

1993

- [ ] True Romance
- [ ] Carlito’s Way
- [ ] The Fugitive
- [ ] What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
- [ ] Philadelphia
- [ ] Short Cuts
- [x] Falling Down

1994

- [ ] The Shawshank Redemption
- [ ] Leon - The Professional
- [x] True Lies
- [x] Forrest Gump
- [x] Pulp Fiction

1995

- [ ] The Usual Suspects
- [ ] Casino
- [ ] Jurassic Park
- [ ] 12 Monkeys
- [ ] Heat
- [x] Before Sunrise
- [x] Seven
- [x] Dead Man Walking

1996

- [ ] Swingers
- [ ] Fargo
- [ ] The Evening Star
- [ ] Trainspotting
- [x] Beautiful Thing

1997

- [ ] Good Will Hunting
- [ ] Boogie Nights
- [ ] Gattaca
- [ ] Titanic
- [ ] The Fifth Element
- [ ] Lost Highway
- [ ] Jackie Brown
- [ ] LA Confidential
- [x] The Ice Storm
- [x] Contact

1998

- [ ] The Big Lebowski
- [ ] Saving Private Ryan
- [ ] Cinema Paradiso
- [ ] American History X
- [ ] Rushmore
- [ ] Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
- [ ] The Truman Show

1999

- [ ] Eyes Wide Shut
- [ ] Fight Club
- [ ] Office Space
- [ ] Magnolia
- [x] American Beauty

2000

- [ ] High Fidelity
- [ ] Billy Elliott
- [ ] Traffic
- [ ] Gladiator
- [ ] Requiem For A Dream
- [x] Almost Famous

2001

- [ ] Made
- [ ] Donnie Darko
- [ ] Hedwig And The Angry Inch
- [ ] Y Tu Mama También
- [ ] The Royal Tenenbaums
- [ ] Blow
- [x] Ocean’s 11
- [x] Mulholland Drive

2002

- [ ] Gangs Of New York
- [ ] Bowling For Columbine
- [ ] 25th Hour
- [ ] 28 Days Later
- [ ] Minority Report
- [ ] Catch Me If You Can
- [ ] Solaris

2003

- [ ] Kill Bill (Volume 1)
- [ ] Big Fish
- [ ] Lost In Translation
- [ ] 21 Grams

2004

- [ ] Kill Bill (Volume 2)
- [ ] The Motorcycle Diaries
- [ ] Sideways
- [x] Before Sunset
- [x] Team America - World Police

2005

- [ ] The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
- [ ] Transamerica
- [ ] Match Point
- [ ] Batman Begins
- [x] Brokeback Mountain

2006

- [ ] The Prestige
- [ ] The Departed
- [ ] The Illusionist
- [ ] An Inconvenient Truth

2007

- [ ] There Will Be Blood
- [ ] No Country For Old Men
- [ ] Into The Wild
- [ ] 3:10 To Yuma
- [ ] 28 Weeks Later
- [ ] The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

2008

- [ ] Grand Torino
- [x] Burn After Reading

2009

- [ ] Inglourious Basterds
- [ ] Taking Woodstock
- [ ] Up In The Air
- [x] Avatar

2010

- [ ] The Social Network
- [ ] Inception
- [ ] Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps
- [ ] Shutter Island
- [x] Black Swan

2011

- [ ] The Tree Of Life

2012

- [ ] Life Of Pi
- [ ] Moonrise Kingdom

2013

- [ ] Gravity
- [ ] The Wolf Of Wall Street
- [ ] Her
- [x] 12 Years A Slave
- [x] Before Midnight

2014

- [ ] Whiplash
- [ ] The Grand Budapest Hotel
- [ ] Ex Machina
- [ ] Interstellar
- [ ] Gone Girl
- [x] Birdman
- [x] Boyhood
- [x] Billy Elliott - The Musical - Live

2015

- [ ] The Hateful Eight
- [ ] Bridge Of Spies
- [ ] The Martian
- [ ] The Revenant
- [x] Mad Max - Fury Road

2016

- [ ] OJ - Made In America

2017

- [ ] T2 Trainspotting
- [ ] Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- [x] Call Me By Your Name

2018

- [ ] Green Book

2019

- [ ] Joker
- [x] Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

2020

- [ ] Nomadland
- [ ] The Father

Unseen Candidates:

Let The Right One In (2008)
Servicing
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Civil War
Rope
Papillon
Babylon 5 Saga
Firefly Saga
Opening Night
The Killing
Kagemusha
Doctor Zhivago
Dances With Wolves
Blood Diamond
8 1/2
Winter Light
The Virgin Spring
Persona
Fanny And Alexander
America’s Little Italy - The Hill
Firefly Saga
Middle Earth Saga
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Parasite
Seven Samurai
George Smiley Saga
Stop Making Sense
Rear Window
John Adams
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Pianist
Memento
Paths Of Glory
Scenes From A Marriage
Vertigo
Braveheart
North By Northwest
1917
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Lawrence Of Arabia
Das Boot
A Woman Under The Influence
Pan’s Labyrinth
Family Reunion
Ran
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Rebecca
Ford Versus Ferrari
Laurel Canyon - A Place In Time
The 400 Blows
Departures
On The Waterfront
Gone With The Wind
Stalker
Mirror
Fleabag
I May Destroy You
The Leftovers
BoJack Horseman
The Thick of It
Sherlock
Line of Duty
The Bridge
Borgen
Peep Show
Money Heist
Inside No 9
The Bureau
Small Axe
This is England 86, 88 and 90
Call My Agent!
Happy Valley
Dark
The Underground Railroad
Avatar - The Last Airbender
The Good Place
Pose
Detectorists
Mare of Easttown
Enlightened
Utopia
Babylon Berlin
The Killing (Denmark)
Insecure
Normal People
The OA
Show Me a Hero
Luther
Catastrophe
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Steven Universe
His Girl Friday
Avatar - The Way Of Water