Bobby’s blogs on the best movie characters of all time inspired me to share this list. For the past few years, I’ve kept a running list of movies I think everyone should watch at one point in their life. There’s no particular order to this list. I’ve just been adding movies as I think of them or as I see them, and right now we’re at 125. I’ve even included the genre of each kind of movie so that if you end up deciding to pick some off of this list, you can go based on your feel. Enjoy.
- The Departed – Crime/Drama/Thriller
- The Shawshank Redemption – Drama/Thriller
- Goodfellas – Crime/Drama/Thriller
- Good Will Hunting – Drama
- Reservoir Dogs – Crime/Drama/Thriller
- Dead Poets Society – Drama
- The Wolf of Wall Street – Drama/Biopic
- The Hangover – Comedy
- Step Brothers – Comedy
- Superbad – Comedy
- National Lampoon’s Animal House – Comedy
- Old School – Comedy
- We’re the Millers – Comedy
- Wedding Crashers – Comedy
- The Bourne Series – Action/Thriller
- Batman Trilogy (Christopher Nolan) – Crime/Thriller/Action
- Star Wars (Original Trilogy) – Sci-fi/Action
- Indiana Jones Series – Action/Adventure
- Die Hard – Action/Adventure
- The Fugitive – Action/Adventure
- Air Force One – Action/Adventure
- Braveheart – Drama/War/Action
- Forrest Gump – Drama/Comedy
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Drama
- The Silence of the Lambs – Mystery/Thriller
- Se7en – Mystery/Thriller
- Rocky – Sports/Drama
- Gladiator – Drama/Action
- The Terminator – Action/Sci-fi
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy – Comedy
- Napoleon Dynamite – Comedy
- Tommy Boy – Comedy
- Happy Gilmore – Comedy
- Billy Madison – Comedy
- Saving Private Ryan – War/Action/Drama
- Fight Club – Drama/Thriller/Mindfuck
- The Usual Suspects – Drama/Thriller/Mindfuck
- The Godfather Trilogy – Drama/Crime
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… Drama/Comedy/Action
- No Country for Old Men – Drama/Thriller
- A Few Good Men – Drama/Thriller
- Inception – Thriller/Mindfuck
- Shutter Island – Thriller/Mindfuck
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Drama
- Interstellar – Sci-fi/Action/Thriller/Drama
- Back to the Future Trilogy – Comedy/Drama/Action/Sci-Fi
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Comedy
- The Grand Budapest Hotel – Comedy/Drama
- The Sixth Sense – Paranormal/Thriller/Mindfuck
- The Big Lebowski – Comedy
- Stand by Me – Comedy/Drama
- Blade Runner – Sci-fi/Action/Thriller
- Little Miss Sunshine – Drama/Comedy
- Taken Trilogy – Action
- Toy Story – Children’s movie
- Up – Children’s movie
- The Incredibles – Children’s movie
- Monsters, Inc. – Children’s movie
- The Breakfast Club – Drama/Comedy
- Sixteen Candles – Comedy/Drama
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Comedy
- Rain Man – Drama
- Office Space – Comedy
- The Outsiders – Drama
- The Forty-Year-Old Virgin – Comedy
- Mystic River – Crime/Mystery/Thriller/Drama
- Knives Out – Mystery/Thriller/Comedy
- Caddyshack – Comedy
- The Blues Brothers – Comedy
- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles – Comedy/Drama
- Uncle Buck – Comedy/Drama
- Mean Girls – Comedy/Drama
- Mrs. Doubtfire – Comedy/Drama
- 21 Jump Street/22 Jump Street – Comedy
- American Pie – Comedy
- Stripes – Comedy/War
- Tropic Thunder – Comedy/War
- Good Morning, Vietnam – Drama/Comedy
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby – Comedy
- Dumb and Dumber – Comedy
- Ghost Busters – Comedy/Paranormal
- There’s Something About Mary – Comedy
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story – Comedy
- Meet the Parents – Comedy
- Yes Man – Comedy
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop – Comedy
- Gone Baby Gone – Mystery/Crime/Drama/Thriller
- Remember the Titans – Sports/Drama
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective – Comedy
- Ocean’s Trilogy – Crime/Action
- Field of Dreams – Sports/Drama
- The Sandlot – Sports/Comedy
- Wayne’s World – Comedy
- Austin Powers Trilogy – Comedy
- Shrek – Children’s movie
- Finding Nemo – Children’s movie
- Zoolander – Comedy
- Memento – Mystery/Thriller/Mindfuck
- Elf – Christmas/Comedy
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation – Christmas/Comedy
- A Christmas Story – Christmas/Comedy
- Space Balls – Comedy
- Miracle – Sports/Drama
- Hoosiers – Sports/Drama
- Invincible – Sports/Drama
- The Blind Side – Sports/Drama
- The Natural – Sports/Drama
- Major League – Sports/Comedy/Drama
- The Bad News Bears (1976) – Sports/Comedy
- Cinderella Man – Sports/Biopic/Drama
- This Is 40 – Comedy/Drama
- I Love You, Man – Comedy
- The Hateful Eight – Drama/Crime/Comedy
- Harry Potter Series – You should know what that is
- Get Out – Thriller/Drama
- Us – Thriller/Drama/Mindfuck
- Home Alone – Comedy/Christmas
- The Goonies – Comedy/Adventure/Drama
- The Gentlemen – Crime/Action/Comedy
- Tenet – Thriller/Mindfuck
- Hall Pass – Comedy
- Due Date – Comedy
- Vacation (2018) – Comedy
- The Way Way Back – Comedy/Drama
- Django Unchained – Western/Drama
