Man, this was a tough one. I’m making a DVD of my final cut for my exec producers to view and while I author it, I have a bit of down time waiting for certain renderings and exports. So, I started thinking about films, as my mind mostly gravitates to, and then I started thinking about my favorites and decided, hell, I have some time right now, why not make a list of my top 5.

Well… that quickly became impossible so I broke the list down into genres. And while this was most difficult to decide on “favorites”, I created a list of top 5’s for most popular genres, except for Gangster/Crime, I listed ten. This genre tends to have more of my favorite films than others so I chose to expand it…

Here goes!

Top 5… FILMS

DRAMA
1. You Can Count On Me (hands down my favorite film of ALL TIME)
2. American Beauty
3. Lost In Translation
4. The Machinist
5. The Truman Show

GANGSTER/CRIME
1. The Godfather Part I
2. The Godfather Part II
3. The Professional
4. Heat
5. Casino
6. Carlito’s Way
7. Scarface
8. Jackie Brown
9. Goodfellas
10. Pulp Fiction

COMING OF AGE
1. Breakfast Club
2. Pretty In Pink
3. Rushmore
4. Better Off Dead
5. Just One Of The Guys

THRILLER
1. Seven
2. Primal Fear
3. The Shining
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Fargo

ACTION/ADVENTURE
1. The Bourne Identity
2. Rocky I
3. Iron Man I
4. Gladiator
5. Gangs Of New York

ROMANCE
1. When Harry Met Sally
2. Modern Romance
3. Say Anything
4. Good Will Hunting
5. Only You

WAR
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Braveheart
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Life Is Beautiful

COMEDY
1. Mother
2. Father Of The Bride (1991)
3. Home For The Holidays
4. Swingers
5. Crimes & Misdemeanors

MISC(couldn’t quite categorize them, which is awesome!)
1. Following
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Beautiful Girls
4. Amelie
5. Harold & Maude

Feel free to share yours, I love movie talk and am ALWAYS looking for recommendations!!