Worlds Best Films at Facebook

Please check out our new Facebook page for this blog, and click "like", and invite your friends!

I'm getting over 500 visitors a day on my two film blogs, so getting to 1000 'likes' (or even 100,000) shouldn't take much time with your help. thanks - let's go VIRAL, film fans!

Worlds Best Films page at Facebook

check out the post links there and the album of film stills..


Is Jane Fonda me?

World's Best War Films

A scene from David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, who used guerrilla tactics with a small army to sever communications and supply lines against the Ottoman Empire in WW1
Updated: 6.01.11 (* = new additions)

I’ve expanded this list to include civilian stories during wartime (A Canterbury Tale, Mrs. Miniver), to the “Indian Wars” (the U.S. vs Native Americans, ie Dances With Wolves, Into the West),

World's Best Westerns

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
The Big Country *
Broken Trail (mini-series)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The Claim
Dances With Wolves
The Grey Fox
Into the West (mini-series)
Heartland
Hidalgo
High Noon
Jeremiah Johnson
Lonesome Dove (mini-series)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Open Range
Shane
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Silverado
The Three Burials of Malquiades Estrada
Tom Horn
The Treasure of the Sierra

World's Best Crime Films

The worlds best crime and mystery films
Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars®


Atlantic City
Chinatown
Chungking Express (China)
City of God (Brazil)
The Conversation
The Departed
Diva (France)
Double Indemnity (bw)
Gangs of New York
The Godfather
The Godfather, Pt. II
Goodfellas
The Grifters
Heavenly Creatures
House of Games
La Femme Nikita (France)
The Lives of Others (Germany)
The Maltese

World's Best Action and Adventure

Action and / or adventure films
Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars®


The Adventures of Robin Hood
Around the World in 80 Days (original)
Batman
Ben-Hur (10 Oscars)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (China)
El Mariachi (Mexico)
The French Connection
The Game
Gladiator
Hero (Jet Li's, China)
La Femme Nikita (France)
The Man Who Would Be King
Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy
The Raiders of the Lost

World's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy

The worlds best fantasy and science fiction films
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Aliens
Back to the Future
Big Fish
Blade Runner
Brazil
Cocoon
Contact
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dune (SF-channel mini-series)
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial
The Empire Strikes Back
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Field of Dreams
Frequency
Gattica
Gormenghast (SF-channel mini-series)
Inception

World's Best Horror Films

Aliens American Werewolf in London
The Changeling
Jurassic Park
King Kong (bw)
The Lady in White
Nightmare on Elm St.
Poltergeist
The Ring
The Sixth Sense


Also: Thought not traditional horror, Requiem for a Dream from the brilliant David Aronofsky (only his 2nd film, Pi was the other) is the scariest film of the decade, and fans of hiding in the closet or even some gore won't be disappointed (