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Hello there!

It's been a while since I made a list of my favourite films, and I've meant to update my previous one for ages now. So for the last two months, I've been painstakingly constructing this new Top 200 - coincidentally, having recently logged 2000 entries on Letterboxd.

However, there was a caveat to this new list. I deliberately restricted myself to things that I had seen at least twice. I couldn't consider a film a favourite until I had re-watched it. And so I compiled my choices based on that criteria, and initially came up with... 186. Far too few.

Consequently, I've bent my rule to accommodate: if I rated a film five stars in 2020 or 2021,…

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  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    1

  • The General

    2

  • Twentieth Century

    3

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood

    4

  • Only Angels Have Wings

    5

  • His Girl Friday

    6

  • The Mark of Zorro

    7

  • Road to Morocco

    8

  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    9

  • Rear Window

    10

  • Seven Samurai

    11

  • 12 Angry Men

    12

  • Vertigo

    13

  • North by Northwest

    14

  • Rio Bravo

    15

  • Some Like It Hot

    16

  • Dr. No

    17

  • From Russia with Love

    18

  • Mary Poppins

    19

  • For a Few Dollars More

    20

  • Django

    21

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    22

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    23

  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    24

  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

    25

  • The Man Who Haunted Himself

    26

  • Dirty Harry

    27

  • Duel

    28

  • The Godfather

    29

  • Live and Let Die

    30

  • Mean Streets

    31

  • The Last Detail

    32

  • The Offence

    33

  • Phantom of the Paradise

    34

  • The Conversation

    35

  • Jaws

    36

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    37

  • Carrie

    38

  • Rocky

    39

  • Taxi Driver

    40

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    41

  • Jabberwocky

    42

  • Star Wars

    43

  • Suspiria

    44

  • The Spy Who Loved Me

    45

  • Coming Home

    46

  • Superman

    47

  • The Deer Hunter

    48

  • The Driver

    49

  • The Fury

    50

  • Apocalypse Now

    51

  • Being There

    52

  • Mad Max

    53

  • Dressed to Kill

    54

  • Flash Gordon

    55

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    56

  • The Long Good Friday

    57

  • The Shining

    58

  • Blow Out

    59

  • Escape from New York

    60

  • Mad Max 2

    61

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    62

  • The Evil Dead

    63

  • Thief

    64

  • Blade Runner

    65

  • The Thing

    66

  • Project A

    67

  • Return of the Jedi

    68

  • Rumble Fish

    69

  • The Dead Zone

    70

  • Birdy

    71

  • Body Double

    72

  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

    73

  • Stop Making Sense

    74

  • Stranger Than Paradise

    75

  • Streets of Fire

    76

  • The Terminator

    77

  • Top Secret!

    78

  • Wheels on Meals

    79

  • After Hours

    80

  • Back to the Future

    81

  • Brazil

    82

  • To Live and Die in L.A.

    83

  • Witness

    84

  • Aliens

    85

  • Big Trouble in Little China

    86

  • Blue Velvet

    87

  • Down by Law

    88

  • Manhunter

    89

  • Evil Dead II

    90

  • Moonstruck

    91

  • Prince: Sign O' the Times

    92

  • Raising Arizona

    93

  • RoboCop

    94

  • The Living Daylights

    95

  • The Princess Bride

    96

  • The Untouchables

    97

  • A Fish Called Wanda

    98

  • Die Hard

    99

  • Dragons Forever

    100