My All-Time Favorite Movies

Cinema is such a fascinating means to express thoughts and actions, regardless of the degree of complexity it requires to be understood. I feel like a movie, much like a book, has that unique power to draw you into a parallel world and, in a few occasions, make you never want to leave. Throughout the years, I therefore started collecting some movies which have managed to capture my attention even (and especially) after watching them multiple times, and have yet to let me go ever since. That is how I personally know I am watching a good movie.

When looking for a movie to watch, I usually try to go by these rules:

1. Don't choose a movie just because you liked one similar to it (I have never been a fan of a specific category probably because I have always found it quite restraining to confine myself to just one genre, given that so many movies that I loved belong to more than one).

2. Don't choose a movie simply because it is (or was) a blockbuster (this is another restriction which I generally tend to avoid since I have often found some true hidden gems while looking for major successes).

3. Don't watch a trailer; watch the first twenty minutes or so of the actual movie (I have started doing this in the last few years because very often trailers tend to give away much more than what is needed to have a general knowledge of the plot; I also prefer to actually watch the movie because, in the first half an hour, you will be able to tell whether the pace of the production and the themes are your thing or not. If you don't like it by then, chances are you never truly will).

This list, like all of my 'Favorites' ones, gets updated constantly, so look out for more every now and then.

BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee, 2018

Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg, 2015

Darkest Hour, Joe Wright, 2017

Elizabeth, Shekhar Kapur, 1998

Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino, 2009

Intouchables, Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano, 2011

La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful), Roberto Benigni, 1997

Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen, 2011

Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg, 1998

Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese, 2010

The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino, 1978

The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, 2013

The Hurricane, Norman Jewison, 1999

The King's Speech, Tom Hooper, 2010

The Shining, Stanley Kubrick, 1980

The Terminal, Steven Spielberg, 2004

The Untouchables, Brian De Palma, 1987

To discover more about my favorite movies and the ones still on my Watchlist, check out my IMDb profile here.