CINEPHILIA: GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME LIST

“I’m a movie freak. a purist. I’ve seen thousands of films. Sometimes I watch 6 movies a night. When I was a kid I cut school and snuck into 4 movies a day at the local movie theatre. Films were my therapy from the dysfunction, trauma and child abuse I suffered as a child. In addition, being black in the United States of America didn’t help matters. It was my escape from the my parents, racism, and my low-self esteem. It was a one way ticket out of the reality of my World. My human behavioral studies course. My favorite movies are independent films. You can’t tell me anything about movies. I’ve watched a few films over 1,000 times and each time I notice something I didn’t notice before.”

This column/blog is dedicated to great films and those of us who are passionate about their movies. We might do a film review, an interview with an actor, director, or an essay of the current state of films.

Note: The films below are in alphabetical order.

12 Monkeys

2001

A Clockwork Orange

A Most Violent Year

A Pure Formality

A Room with a View

A Single Man

A Woman Under the Influence

Ali

Amadeus

Amelie

American Beauty

American Gigolo

American Psycho

American Splendor

Amour

Angel Heart

Assassination of Jesse James

Ballast

Barry Lyndon

Barton Fink

Basquiat

Being John Malkovich

Bicycle Thieves

Birdman

Bittermoon

Black Swan

Blue Caprice

Blue Is the Warmest Color

Blue Velvet

Brazil

Breathless

Broken Flowers

Buffalo 66

Cache

Carlito’s Way

Chinatown

City of God

Collateral

Delicatessen

Demonlover

Django

Do The Right Thing

Dog Day Afternoon

Dogville

Down By Law

Dressed to Kill

Drugstore Cowboy

Edmund

Easter Promises

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Falling Down

Fargo

Favourite

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Foxcatcher

Frida

Full Metal Jacket

Funny Games

Gangster No. 1

Get Out

Glengarry Glen Ross

Goodfellas

Groundhog Day

Hard Eight

Howard’s End

Hustle & Flow

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

In The Mood for Love

Inside Llewyn Davis

Inside Man

Irreversible

Jacob’s Ladder

Joker

Killing Them Softly

Kramer vs Kramer

La Haine

Layer Cake

Leaving Las Vegas

Libertine

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Lost In Translation

Magnolia

Malcolm X

Memento

Misery

Mississippi Burning

Moonlight

My Own Private Idaho

Mystic River

Naked Lunch

Narc

Natural Born Killers

Network

No Country for Old Men

Old Boy

Oleanna

Parasite

Pickpocket

Pulp Fiction

Punch Drunk Love

Queen Margot

Raging Bull

Realms of the Senses

Rear Window

Red Sparrow

Requiem For a Dream

Reservoir Dogs

Romper Stomper

Rushmore

Safe (Juliet Moore)

Scarface

Seven

Seven Samurai

 Sex, Lies & Videotape

Shame

Shawshank Redemption

Snatch

Sunset Limited

Swingers

Talented Mr. Ripley

Taxi Driver

The 400 Blows

The 7th Seal

The Bicycle Thief

The Color Purple

The Diving Bell & The Butterfly

The Godfather

The Green Knight

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Last Duel

The Piano Teacher

The Revenant

The Shining

The Spanish Prisoner

The Swimming Pool

The Trial

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

There Will Be Blood

The White Ribbon

Time Out

Tinker Tailor Soldier, Spy

Tokyo Decadence

Tous les matins du monde

Training Day

Tycoon

Uncut Gems

Under The Skin

Untouchables

Usual Suspects

Wall Street

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Whiplash

Wings of Desire

Note: If you can’t find titles below on streaming platforms do everything in your capacity to secure the film title for viewing. These movies are transformative and pitch perfect with the actor, writer and director all at the top of their game.

Please feel free to send us submissions to add to our greatest film of all time list.