Great Films for Adults
An asterisk (*) tells that the movie is all comedy or a partial comedy.
- Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) *
- All About Eve (1950)
- Amelie (2001) *
- Anari (1959) *
- Andrei Rublev (1966, Tarkovsky)
- As Good As It Gets (1997)
- Back to the Future 1 (1985) *
- Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Black
- Black Narcissus
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Brave New World (1980) *
- Bread and Chocolate *
- Brothers Karamazov, The
- Burnt by the Sun
- Casablanca (1942, dir. Michael Curtiz)
- Christmas Carol, A (1951) *
- Cinema Paradiso (1988, dir. Giuseppe Tornatore)
- Citizen Kane (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
- City Lights (Chaplin) *
- City of Lost Children (1995, dirs. Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) *
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (China, 2001)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1950, dir. Michael Gordon) *
- Day at the Races, A (1947, Marx Brothers) *
- Dead Poets Society (1989, dir. Peter Weir)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965, dir. David Lean)
- Duck Soup (1933, Marx Brothers) *
- English Patient, The
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind *
- Exodus
- Fanny and Alexander (1982, Bergman)
- Fences (2016)
- Fiddler on the Roof *
- 400 Blows, The (Truffaut)
- Fugitive, The (1993)
- Gandhi
- Gattaca (1997)
- General, The (1926) *
- Gold Rush (Chaplin) *
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Gone With The Wind (1939, dir. Victor Fleming)
- Grapes of Wrath, The
- Great Dictator, The (Chaplin) *
- Greatest Show on Earth, The
- Hans Christian Andersen (1952) *
- Harold and Maude (1971, dir. Hal Ashby) *
- Harrison Bergeron *
- Her (2013)
- His Girl Friday (1940) *
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- Illusionist, The (2006, dir. Neil Burger) *
- Immortal Beloved (1994, dir. Bernard Rose)
- Importance of Being Earnest, The *
- Indian Epic (by Fritz Lang. This is the 1959 edition, that runs
- for 201 minutes.)
- It’s A Wonderful Life (Capra) *
- Jean de Florette (1986)
- Jules and Jim (Truffaut) *
- Kaos (1984)
- Kid, The (Chaplin) *
- King of Hearts (1966, dir. Philippe de Broca) *
- Kiss Me Kate (1953) *
- Lady Eve, The (1941, dir. Preston Sturges) *
- Life Is Beautiful *
- Little Big Man (1970) *
- Little Women (three excellent films in 1949, 1994, 2019)
- Limelight (1952, dir. Charlie Chaplin) *
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2014)
- Lost Horizon (1937) *
- Man For All Seasons, A (1966, dir. Fred Zinnemann)
- Manon of the Spring (1986)
- Mary Poppins *
- Matrix, The (1999)
- Metropolis (1927, dir. Fritz Lang)
- Midnight in Paris (2011) *
- Midnight’s Children (2012, dir. Deepa Mehta)
- Modern Times (1936, dir. Charlie Chaplin) *
- My Dinner With Andre *
- My Fair Lady (1964) *
- My Man Godfrey (1936, dir. Gregory La Cava)*
- Network (1976, dir. Sidney Lumet)
- Night at the Opera, A (1935, Marx Brothers) *
- On The Waterfront (1954, dir. Elia Kazan)
- Our Mutual Friend (1998, novel by Charles Dickens, dir.
- Julian Farino)
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Pather Panchali (1954)
- Persepolis (2007)
- Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
- Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945, dir. Albert Lewin) *
- Plague Dogs, The (1982)
- Postman, The/IL Postino (1994, dir. Michael Radford) *
- Pygmalion (1938, dir. Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard) *
- Rab ni Bana di Jodi
- Rashomon (1950)
- RockStar
- Roman Holiday *
- SavingPrivateRyan(1998)
- Scent of A Woman
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- Seventh Seal, The (1957, Bergman)
- Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
- Siddhartha (1972, dir. Conrad Rooks)
- . Slumdog Millionaire
- Smiles of A Summer Night (Bergman)
- Sound of Music, The *
- Soylent Green
- Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki)
- Starmaker
- Spartacus (1960, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
- Spellbound (1945, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
- Sting, The (1973, dir. George Roy Hill) *
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1960)
- Sullivan’s Travels (1941, dir. Preston Sturges) *
- Taare Zameen Par
- Ten Commandments, The (1956)
- Things to Come
- Time After Time (1979, dir. Nicholas Meyer) *
- Tiger in the Snow *
- To Be or Not to Be (dir. Lubitsch) *
- To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
- To Live
- Tokyo Story (1953)
- Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945)
- Watership Down (1978)
- West Side Story (1961, dirs. Jerome Robbins, Robert
- Wise )
- Wings of Desire (1987, dir. Wim Wenders)
- Wizard of Oz, The (1939, dir. Victor Fleming) *
- Women in Love
- You Can’t Take It With You (1938, dir. by Capra) *
- Zorba the Greek (1964, dir. Michael Cacoyannis) *
TBW (To Be Watched) List
- Best Sellers (2021)
- The Green Knight (2021)
- Lady of the Manor (2021) *
- An American Pickle (2020) *
- Nomadland (2020)
- Curiosa (2019)
- 27 Steps of May (2018)
- Mirage (2018)
- Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)
- The Shape of Water (2017)
- The Teacher (2016)
- Mr. Nobody (2013)
- A Muse. Original title: Eun-gyo. Based on the novel Eungyo by Park Bum-shin. (2012)
- Shutter Island (2010)
- The Skin of Sorrow — Original title: La peau de chagrin –TV Movie (2010)
- True Grit (2010)
- Changeling (2008)
- Fiksi. (2008)
- Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007) APV
- Baabul (2006) APV
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- Life is a Miracle (2004) APV
- Veer Zaara (2004) APV
- Carmen (2003) APV
- Saathiya (2003) APV
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) *
- The Beach (2000)
- Gladiator (2000)
- The Fifth Element (1997)
- Time of the Gypsies (1990) APV
- Man of La Mancha (1972)
- True Grit (1969)
- A Man for All Seasons (1966)
- Becket (1964)
- Auntie Mame (1958)
- Shane (1953)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- Dead End (1937)
Lists of Great Films
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