Introduction
This is a list of my favourite music and films. It's here for no paticular reason, just that I like them.
Music
The easiest way of showing some of my favourite music is a simple YouTube playlist.
Films
These are films or movies I could watch over and over. The links to go the IMDb entry.
Action / Adventure
- A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Apocalypto
- Arctic
- Die Hard
- Die Hard 2
- Die Hard with a Vengeance
- Enemy of the State
- Fall
- Freezer
- Gladiator
- Master and Commander
- The Edge
- The Grey
- The Man Who Would Be King
- Unstoppable
Comedy
- A Christmas Story
- Airplane!
- Airplane II
- Delicatessen
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Jumanji
- Mouse Hunt
- Nanny McPhee
- Planes, Trains & Automobiles
- RV
- Secondhand Lions
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- The Birdcage
- The Italian Job
- The Odd Job
Crime
- A is for Acid
- A Simple Plan
- Bad Lieutenant
- Blow
- Casino
- Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
- Cold Pursuit
- Flawless
- Get Carter
- Goodfellas
- Inside Man
- Layer Cake
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Lucky Number Slevin
- Man on Fire
- Mississippi Burning
- Mr. Brooks
- No Country for Old Men
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- Ronin
- Shallow Grave
- Shot Caller
- Sicario
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado
- Snatch
- Suicide Kings
- The Bank Job
- The Boondock Saints
- The Day of the Jackal
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- The Gentlemen
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Informant!
- The Internecine Project
- The Krays
- The Long Good Friday
- The Lord of War
- The Outfit
- The Taking of Pelham 123
- The Usual Suspects
- Vantage Point
- Wall Street
Drama
- 5 Flights Up
- 12 Angry Men
- A Beautiful Mind
- A Christmas Carol
- A Hidden Life
- All the President's Men
- Amistad
- Awakenings
- Big Eyes
- Buried
- Edna The Inebriate Woman
- Falling Down
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Gosford Park
- Green Book
- Hidden Figures
- K-19: The Widowmaker
- Midnight Cowboy
- Mr. Church
- Mr. Holland's Opus
- Philadelphia
- Quiz Show
- Raging Bull
- Requiem for a Dream
- Shattered Glass
- The Big Short
- The Bofors Gun
- The Cider House Rules
- The Crying Game
- The Elephant Man
- The Father
- The Ghost Writer
- The Girl with All the Gifts
- The Green Mile
- The Hill
- The Imitation Game
- The King's Speech
- The Name of the Rose
- The Ninth Gate
- The Prestige
- The Remains of the Day
- The Road
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Whisperers
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Trainspotting
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Drugs
Films that are about the drug world.
Finance
Films that are set in the world of finance.
Found Money
Films where a large amount of money is found and all that comes after.
Holidays
Films that are set over Halloween and Christmas.
Horror
Limited
Films that are set in a single space or with a limited set of characters.
Post-Apocalypse
Post-Nuclear
Science Fiction
- Alien
- Apollo 13
- Battlefield Earth
- Bicentennial Man
- Blade Runner
- Coherence
- Dark Star
- District 9
- Enemy Mine
- Interstellar
- Life
- Never Let Me Go
- Pitch Black
- Repo Men
- Robocop
- Seconds
- Soylent Green
- The Andromeda Strain
- The Butterfly Effect
- The Martian
- The Terminator
- West World
- Without Warning
Survival / Wilderness
Man against the elements.
War
- A Bridge Too Far
- Black Hawk Down
- Das Boot
- Fury
- Saving Private Ryan
- Schindler's List
- The Battle of Britain
- The Killing Fields
- The Longest Day
- The Pianist
- Valkyrie
- Waterloo
- Zulu
Western
- 3:10 to Yuma
- A Fistful of Dollars
- Django Unchained
- For a Few Dollars More
- High Plains Drifter
- Old Henry
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Pale Rider
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- The Hateful Eight
- The Magnificent Seven
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
- Tombstone
- Unforgiven
Never Again
These films made such an impression on me that I do not want to watch again. Some are acknowledged masterpieces, but I just can't connect with them. The weird thing is, I sometimes watch them again just to remind myself how much I don't like them.