This is a list of my 100 favorite movies of all time. This is an ever changing list but this is the list as of June 2026.
This list was first made in the summer of 2020. Only 36 films from the original list remain. The highest currently ranked is Dr. Strangelove (1). The lowest is Singin' in the Rain (84). The lowest ranked on the original to remain on the list is The Truman Show (80) which was originally ranked at 63. The film that has moved up the most from the original is Harvey (28) which moved up 19 spots total. The film that has moved down the most from the original is Citizen Kane (60) which moved…
This is a list of my 100 favorite movies of all time. This is an ever changing list but this is the list as of June 2026.
This list was first made in the summer of 2020. Only 36 films from the original list remain. The highest currently ranked is Dr. Strangelove (1). The lowest is Singin' in the Rain (84). The lowest ranked on the original to remain on the list is The Truman Show (80) which was originally ranked at 63. The film that has moved up the most from the original is Harvey (28) which moved up 19 spots total. The film that has moved down the most from the original is Citizen Kane (60) which moved down 58 spots total. The highest ranked film from the original to drop out entirely is Rebel Without a Cause which originally ranked at 18 and fell off in 2024.
For this revision of the list, a total of 14 films dropped out from the last iteration. The highest ranking film to drop was Seven Samurai from 52. Of the films that joined in, the highest ranking one is Resurrection (36). 13 of the 14 films to join the list were first time watches since June 2024.
The newest film on the list is The Bride! (100) while the oldest is The Doll (93).
Only 1 films has kept its placement across all six iterations of this list: Dr. Strangelove. 21 films kept their placement between June 2025 and June 2026, the highest being Dr. Strangelove and the lowest being Poor Things (66). The film that moved down the most spots was On the Waterfront (55) which moved down 19 spots. The film that moved up the most spots was Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (26) which moved up 5 spots.
Every decade starting from the 1910s is represented on this list:
1910s: 1
1920s: 4
1930s: 5
1940s: 3
1950s: 7
1960s: 8
1970s: 6
1980s: 10
1990s: 10
2000s: 14
2010s: 12
2020s: 18
Along with this, 2024 is the most represented year with 5 films.
24 countries are represented on this list:
United States: 70
United Kingdom: 15
Japan: 13
France: 7
Germany: 5
Sweden: 4
Ireland: 3
Italy: 3
New Zealand: 2
South Korea: 2
Australia: 2
Taiwan: 2
Mexico: 2
China: 2
Switzerland: 2
Luxembourg: 2
Hungary: 1
Spain: 1
South Africa: 1
Denmark: 1
Guatemala: 1
West Germany: 1
Belgium: 1
Canada: 1
92 directors are represented on this list. The following are directors with multiple films on this list:
Stanley Kubrick: 4 (Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Lolita)
Charlie Chaplin: 4 (The Kid, Limelight, The Great Dictator, City Lights)
Zack Snyder: 4 (Zack Snyder's Justice League, Watchmen, Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Curse of Forgiveness, Sucker Punch)
Orson Welles: 3 (Chimes at Midnight, Citizen Kane, The Trial)
Francis Ford Coppola: 2 (The Godfather: Part II, Megalopolis)
Hayao Miyazaki: 2 (Spirited Away, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)
John Carpenter: 2 (Halloween, In the Mouth of Madness)
Martin Scorsese: 2 (Silence, The King of Comedy)
Peter Weir: 2 (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show)
Ingmar Bergman: 2 (The Seventh Seal, Persona)
These films earned a total of 166 Oscar nominations and won 57 of them. These nominations include 16 for Best Picture, 4 of which won.
The average length of the list is 123.73 minutes with the longest film being Napoleon (15) at 425 minutes and the shortest being Look Back (44) at 58 minutes.
The average letterbox score of the list is 3.90 with the highest rated film being The Godfather: Part II (3) with a 4.6 and the lowest rated film being Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Curse of Forgiveness (78) with a 1.9. I personally gave the top 62 of these films 5 stars and the rest 4.5.
