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A Lifetime of Favourite Films

Not necessarily the 'best' movies, but these are my favourites and often with memories attached. One film from each year of my life so far. My reasoning for each pick is in the notes for each entry.

[Last updated January 2025]

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  • Kes

    1

  • Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

    2

  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

    3

  • The Godfather

    4

  • The Exorcist

    5

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    6

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    7

  • Rocky

    8

  • A Special Day

    9

  • Superman

    10

  • Quadrophenia

    11

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    12

  • The Evil Dead

    13

  • Fanny and Alexander

    14

  • Nostalgia

    15

  • Paris, Texas

    16

  • Ran

    17

  • Aliens

    18

  • Where Is the Friend's House?

    19

  • Cinema Paradiso

    20

  • Back to the Future Part II

    21

  • GoodFellas

    22

  • Raise the Red Lantern

    23

  • The Player

    24

  • Three Colours: Blue

    25

  • Pulp Fiction

    26

  • Toy Story

    27

  • Trainspotting

    28

  • Funny Games

    29

  • The Thin Red Line

    30

  • Office Space

    31

  • American Psycho

    32

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    33

  • City of God

    34

  • Oldboy

    35

  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    36

  • V for Vendetta

    37

  • This Is England

    38

  • You, the Living

    39

  • Let the Right One In

    40

  • Mary and Max

    41

  • Black Swan

    42

  • Melancholia

    43

  • The Hunt

    44

  • The Wolf of Wall Street

    45

  • What We Do in the Shadows

    46

  • Victoria

    47

  • La La Land

    48

  • I, Tonya

    49

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    50

  • Corpus Christi

    51

  • Minari

    52

  • Petite Maman

    53

  • The Fabelmans

    54

  • Poor Things

    55

  • The Substance

    56

  • Bugonia

    57