This a partial list—my brother listed his top 100 movies, & asked me to do the same. I didn't get to 100 because I wanted to leave some room for other films. And these are not in order!
For information about any of these films, see the Internet Movie Database, at http://us.imdb.com.
- Aliens (1986) James Cameron
- Animal House (1978) John Landis
- Annie Hall (1977) Woody Allen
- Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
- Apollo 13 (1995) Ron Howard
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Frank Capra
- Babe (1995) Chris Noonan
- The Bicycle Thief (1948) Vittorio De Sica
- Blazing Saddles (1974) Mel Brooks
- Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch
- The Blues Brothers (1980) John Landis
- Braveheart (1995) Mel Gibson
- Breaking Away (1979) Peter Yates
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935) James Whale
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) George Roy Hill
- Chariots of Fire (1981) Hugh Hudson
- Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski
- The Cider House Rules (1999) Lasse Hallstrom
- Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
- City Lights (1931) Charlie Chaplin
- Clerks (1994) Kevin Smith
- The Conversation (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
- Cool Hand Luke (1967) Stuart Rosenberg
- Dawn of the Dead (1978) George Romero
- The Dead Zone (1983) David Cronenberg
- Deliverance (1972) John Boorman
- Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey
- Dumb & Dumber (1994) Bobby & Peter Farrelly
- The English Patient (1996) Anthony Minghella
- The Evil Dead (1982) Sam Raimi
- Fargo (1996) Joel Coen
- Field of Dreams (1989) Phil Alden Robinson
- Five Easy Pieces (1970) Bob Rafelson
- Fright Night (1985) Tom Holland
- God Said "Ha!" (1998) Julia Sweeney
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Ford
- Henry V (1989) Kenneth Branagh
- High Noon (1952) Fred Zinneman
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra
- Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg
- The Last Picture Show (1971) Peter Bogdanovich
- The Last of the Mohicans (1992) Michael Mann
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
- Love & Death (1975) Woody Allen
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer
- Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen
- Midnight Cowboy (1969) John Schlesinger
- Midnight Run (1988) Martin Brest
- Miller's Crossing (1990) Joel Coen
- The Name of the Rose (1986) Jean-Jacques Annaud
- The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton
- North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Milos Forman
- The Piano (1993) Jane Campion
- Planet of the Apes (1968) Franklin J. Schaffner
- Platoon (1986) Oliver Stone
- Prince of Darkness (1987) John Carpenter
- The Princess Bride (1987) Rob Reiner
- Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
- Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Steven Spielberg
- Raising Arizona (1987) Joel Coen
- Reservoir Dogs (1992) Quentin Tarantino
- Rio Bravo (1959) Howard Hawks
- River's Edge (1986)
- The Road Warrior (1981) George Miller
- Ronin (1998) John Frankenheimer
- Salvador (1986) Oliver Stone
- Saturday Night Fever (1977) John Badham
- The Searchers (1956) John Ford
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Frank Darabont
- The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme
- Singin' in the Rain (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
- The Sixth Sense (1999) M. Night Shyamalan
- Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder
- Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick
- Stella Dallas (1937) King Vidor
- Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
- Terminator 2 (1991) James Cameron
- The Thing (1982) John Carpenter
- The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed
- Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre () John Huston
- True Romance (1993) Tony Scott
- Unforgiven (1992) Clint Eastwood
- The Usual Suspects (1995) Bryan Singer
- Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
- West Side Story (1961) Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise
- The Wicker Man (1973)
- The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah
- Witness (1985) Peter Weir
- Young Frankenstein (1974) Mel Brooks