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brilliant films ]

 

I graduated with a degree in Film Studies from UC Berkeley. I love movies and was delighted to study them for four years. They can be fantastic works of art or priceless entertainment. I like all kinds of cinema, especially documentaries and action flicks (Arnold Schwarzenegger!).

Here is a list of [115] brilliant films:

  • Monsoon Wedding (2002)
  • Amelie (2001)
  • Bread and Tulips (2000)
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  • Wonder Boys (2000)
  • Memento (2000)
  • X-Men (2000) [entry]
  • The Virgin Suicides (1999)
  • American Beauty (1999)
  • The Sixth Sense (1999)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • The Insider (1999)
  • Limbo (1999)
  • Run Lola Run (1998)
  • Enemy of the State (1998)
  • Elizabeth (1998)
  • Wild Things (1998)
  • Croupier (1998)
  • The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
  • Karakter (1997) aka Character [entry]
  • L.A. Confidential (1997)
  • Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
  • Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
  • As Good As It Gets (1997)
  • Fargo (1996)
  • Bound (1996)
  • Lone Star (1996)
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders
    at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
  • Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe (1996)
  • Kolya (1996)
  • Waiting for Guffman (1996)
  • Sling Blade (1996)
  • Dead Man (1995)
  • Synthetic Pleasures (1995)
  • The Usual Suspects (1995)
  • To Die For (1995)
  • City of Lost Children (1995)
  • Ghost in the Shell (1995) aka Kokaku kidotai
  • Sense and Sensibility (1995)
  • Heavenly Creatures (1994)
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • The Professional (1994) aka Léon
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • Clerks (1994)
  • The Age of Innocence (1993)
  • The Remains of the Day (1993)
  • The Firm (1993)
  • Sneakers (1992)
  • The Player (1992)
  • Sólo con tu pareja (1991)
  • Delicatessen (1991)
  • The Lover (1991) aka L' Amant
  • Thelma & Louise (1991)
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) aka T2
  • Total Recall (1990)
  • The Hunt for Red October (1990)
  • Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
  • Dead Poets Society (1989)
  • When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
  • Ilha das Flores (1989) aka Island of Flowers
  • Die Hard (1988)
  • Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
  • Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
  • Big (1988)
  • The Princess Bride (1987)
  • Tampopo (1987)
  • The Running Man (1987)
  • RoboCop (1987)
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
  • True Stories (1986)
  • The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986)
    aka Koneko monogatari
  • Tron (1982)
  • The Last Unicorn (1982)
  • Das Boot (1982)
  • Alien (1979)
  • Life of Brian (1979)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
  • Hercules in New York (1970)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to
    Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    (1964)
  • The Birds (1963)
  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  • Lolita (1962)
  • West Side Story (1961)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • Some Like It Hot (1959)
  • Touch of Evil (1958)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • Le Mystère Picasso (1956)
    aka The Mystery of Picasso
  • The Killing (1956)
  • The Court Jester (1956)
  • To Catch a Thief (1955)
  • Shichinin no samurai (1954) aka The Seven Samurai
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • Roman Holiday (1953)
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  • The Third Man (1949)
  • Rope (1948)
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
  • Gilda (1946)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Rebecca (1940)
  • The Lady Vanishes (1938)
  • Camille (1937)
  • The Scarlet Empress (1934)
  • Queen Christina (1933)
  • The Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
  • The General (1927)
  • Metropolis (1927)

 

the list of lists
the 30 October 1999 list
the 26 January 2000 list
scary movies I have seen
movies I saw in 2001
movies I saw in 2002
books, films, music, and shows
the internet movie database

current films in the Bay Area
current films at Piedmont Theatre
current films at Jack London Cinemas

other evolving entries
created 26 January 2000
updated 27 May 2002
return to Rachel's Daily Diary
rachel@cinemaspace.berkeley.edu

 

Several readers have felt that I have missed some great flicks. Here are their recommendations:

  • Fight Club (1999)
  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  • Fucking Åmål (1998) aka Show Me Love
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
  • Good Will Hunting (1997)
  • Chasing Amy (1997)
  • Face/Off (1997)
  • Scream (1996)
  • Get Shorty (1995)
  • Braveheart (1995)
  • Hard Boiled (1992) aka Lashou shentan
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • Rain Man (1988)
  • Spaceballs (1987)
  • Aliens (1986)
  • A Room with a View (1986)
  • This is Spinal Tap (1984)
  • The Big Chill (1983)
  • The Outsiders (1983)
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  • The Wild One (1954)
  • Wild Thing ( ? ) aka Sex Crimes

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