Movie Recommendations

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This is a list of movies that have been recommended to me by people who claim to be students of Objectivism. While such a recommendation does not mean you'll like the movie (you might even hate it), its a shortlist from which you might be able to make a shortlist of your own. Personally, I'd like to have a list I can consult for ideas before I head to BlockBuster or navigate to NetFliks.

I'd love to be able to rank these in some way. For starters, all I have to go on is the number of Objectivists who have recommended the movie. Obviously fraught with problems, but it is only a starting point.

Top Favorites (recommended by more than 5 Objectivists): Shawshank Redemption Casa Blanca Cyrano Braveheart Ransom High Noon Star Wars Fountainhead, The In the Heat of the Night North by Northwest Princess Bride, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Shane Sound of Music, The African Queen Apollo 13 Few Good Men, A Last of the Mohicans Love Letters Miracle Worker, The Name of the Rose, The Shall We Dance? (Japanese) Singin' in the Rain Titanic

Other Favorites (recommended by fewer Objectivists): Amistad As Good As It Gets Beauty and the Beast (Disney) Dial "M" For Murder E.T. Gone With The Wind Groundhog Day Henry V Inherit the Wind Magnificent Seven, The To kill a mocking bird - Great depiction of the inner strength of a man When Harry met Sally - great romantic comedy. Billy Crystal is great! All About Eve Amadeus Back to the Future (part 1 & 3) Big Country, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Citizen Kane - "What did you know about him?" Powerful acting, Dirty Harry Flight of The Phoenix From Russia With Love Gettysburg Gigi Glory Godfather , The Good Will Hunting Guns Of Navarone , The King and I, The Little Mermaid, The Man for All Seasons, A Men in Black My Fair Lady Natural, The Patton Philadelphia Story, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Queen Christina Raiders of the Lost Ark Rear Window Rob Roy Sabrina Sting, The Strictly Ballroom Swing Kids To Catch a Thief Truman Show, The 12 Angry Men Adventures of Robin Hood, The Airplane! An American in Paris Ben Hur Beverly Hills Cop Big Easy, The Big Trouble In Little China BLADE RUNNER Born On The Fourth of July Bridges of Madison County Brief encounter Camille City Slickers Clockwork Orange, A Contact Crimson Tide" Crying Game, The Dangerous Beauty Desparado. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Double Indemnity Dr No Dr. Strangelove Dr. Zhivago Dragon Enter the Dragon Fugitive, The Funny Girl General (1927)., The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The Hot Shots Jaws Killer, The Laura Lawrence of Arabia Les Miserables Liar Liar Man From Snowy River, The Man Who Would Be King, The Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dreamhouse Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Much Ado About Nothing (Branaugh's) Murder on the Orient Express My Cousin Vinny Naked Gun series, The Ninotchka Othello Out of Africa Outlaw Josey Wales, The Phenomenon Pink Panther movie Pretty Woman Quigley Down Under Regarding Henry Romeo and Juliet (Zeferelli) Scent of a Woman Schindler's List Sea Hawk, The Seven Brides for Seven Brothers South Pacific Spartacus Tale Of Two Cities, A Terminator, The To Have and Have Not Tombstone," Kurt Russell Top Gun Unconquered Undercover Blues War Wagon”, The We the living Where Eagles Dare Whose Life Is It, Anyway" Winslow Boy, The Yes, minister and Yes, Prime Minister Yojimbo

Also rans (recommended by a single Objectivist): 12 O'Clock High 30 Seconds Over Tokyo A Taxing Woman (Marusa no Onna) and A Taxing Adams Rib Addicted to Love Affair to Remember Age of Innocence, The Agony and the Ecstacy, The Akira Kurosawa's films with Toshiro Mifune Aliens Almost any Mel Brooks movie Americanization of Emily An Affair To Remember (1956) Anatomy of a Murder (unparalleled courtroom Angel Annie Hall Antigone Apartment, The Around The World In 80 Days Arsenic and Old Lace Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Awakenings Babe Babe Ruth Story, The Bandwagon -- for the dancing, The Battlestar Galactica Bedford Incident BEING THERE (1979) Big Sleep, The Bill of Divorcement, A Birdcage, The Blues Brothers--Just nutty. Body Heat: Magnificent Noir style. Bond movies Breaking the Sound Barrier Broken Arrow (w/ Jimmy Stewart) Bronx Tale, A Brothers Karamozov, The Browning Version, The (original) Buddy Holly Story, The BUGS BUNNY Bull Durham Buster Keeton Movies CALAMITY JANE, Doris Day and Howard Keel Charge Of The Light Brigade, The Christmas Carol, A (w/ Alistair Simm) Cinema Paradiso Clear and Present Danger Close Encounters of the Third Kind Cocoon Cold Comfort Farm Coming to America Conquest Conspiricy Theory Count of Monte Cristo, The Counterfeit Traitor, The Courage Under Fire Crossing Delancy Damn The Defiant Dances with Wolves Dangerous Liaisons Dark Victory Deadline - USA Deliverance Demolition Man Desperate Journey Destination Tokyo Destry Rides Again Die Hard Disney movies (especially Beauty and the Beast Disney's Hercules Disney's The Hunchback of Notredame Dr. Erlich's Magic Bullett Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde (W/ Spencer Tracy) Edge, The Educating Rita Elephant Man , The Elizabeth Rex (mini series) Empire Strikes Back, The Enchanted Cottage, The Enemy Below, The Escape From New York Excalibur Face Off. (dir. John Woo) far country, The Fate of Lee Khan , The Father Goose ffolkes Firefly, The Fistful of Dollars, A Flashdance For Love or Money (1993) For Whom The Bell Tolls Forbidden Planet Forrest Gump Four Feathers Gaslight Gentleman's Agreement Ghost and the Darkness Ghostbusters Giant Girl Shy (1926) Godfather Part I Gods Must Be Crazy, II Good Earth, The Good Fellas Good Luck Goodbye Mister Chips Grand Hotel Great Escape, The Great Waltz, The Grosse Pointe Blank Guess who's coming to dinner Gunga Din GWTW Halloween Hamlet (Branagh) HANGING TREE, The Hannah and Her Sisters Hard Day's Night, A Harder They Fall, The Heaven Knows Mr. Allison Henry V (Branagh) Heny VIII High and the Mighty, The High Plains Drifter Home of the Brave Hopscotch Horseman on the roof House II Houseboat (Cary Grant, Sophia Loren) How To Marry A Millionaire How to Steal A Million Hunchback of Notre Dame I Claudius Icicle Thief, The Impromtu Indiana Jones movies In-Laws, The Ivanhoe Jackie Chan movie Jingle All the Way Joe vs. the Volcano John Paul Jones John Wayne's westerns Journey To The Center Of The Earth Jungle Book, The (Disney's cartoon version) Key Largo Kim Kind Hearts And Coronets King & I King Solomon's Mines King's Whore, The Kiss Me Kate Knute Rockne Story, The Lady Hamilton Lady Vanishes, The Les Parapluies de Cherbourg Les Paul: The Wizard Of Waukesha Life of Emile Zola, The Lifeboat Little Boy 10 Feet Tall , The Little Princess, A (1995 version) Little Romance, A Lonely are the Brave” Longest Day, The M: An open door into that fatal German world--I can smell it. Magic Christian, The Maltese Falcon, The Man Hunt Man Who Laughs, The (1928) Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Man who shot Liberty Valance, The - John Wayne Mark Of Zorro, The Masada - Great drama Mask of Zorro, The Maytime Michael Collins Mifune. Mirror Has Two Faces, The Mission Impossible Moby Dick (Peck) Moonstruck More the Merrier, The Movies of Fred Astaire Mr. Majestyk Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Murder Most Foul Murder She Said Music Man, The Music Man: ditto, and a more clever plot. Music Teacher, The My Name is Nobody National Velvet Network Ninja Scroll," Japanese Animation Ninja Turtles movies, No Highway in the Sky Notorius Objective Burma Odd Couple, The OLIVER! (1968) OLYMPIA (1938-39?) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest One two three Only angels have wings Ordinary People Other People's Money Our Man Flint Out of the Past Paint Your Wagon Palmetto Papillon Paradine Case, The Passage to Marseilles PATHS OF GLORY (1957). Paths of Glory” Plan Nine From Outer Space Poltergheist Pride and Prejudice (BBC, A&E) Prince of Tides * Princess Caraboo Private Parts Psycho Pulp Fiction Quo Vadis Raging Bull Rebel Without a Cause Red Dawn Red October Renaissance Man Reservoir Dogs Richard III (Olivier) right stuff, The Rikki and Pete Rio Bravo Rise and fall of Reginald Perin, The (British TV comedy) Rocketeer Rocky III Roman Holiday Roots (TV series) Rope, The RUDY (1994) Ruggles Of Red Gap Running Scared” Russia House Saint Joan Samson And Delilah Sandbaggers, The Sands of Iwo Jima Sanjuro Seven Days In May Seven Samurai Ship of Fools” Shot in the Dark, A Silverado Sinbad the Sailor Singleton is my ideal! Sister Kenny Slap Shot--Goofy Some Like It Hot Son of Paleface Sorcerer (1977) Spitfire Stealing Heaven Story of Louis Pasteur, The STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951). Sunset Boulevard Superman Swingers Swiss Family Robinson Tamarind Seed, The Ten Commandments, The Terminator I and II The 39 Steps-- A real thriller. They Died With Their Boots On Thief of Bagdad, The (1924 Silent) Thirty-Nine Steps, The This is Spinal Tap Three Musketeers, The (w/ Gene Kelly) THX1138 (1971) Tin Cup," Kevin Costner Tin Star, The To Sir, With Love Town like Alice, A Tremors & Tremors 2 True Lies Truth about cats and dogs , The Tucker Upstairs/Downstairs Usual Suspects Verdict, The Wait Until Dark Walk In The Clouds, A Wedding Singer, The West Side Story When the Clouds Roll By (1919) While You Were Sleeping (1995) WHITE NIGHTS Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? Willy Wonka and the Chocalate Factory Without love Witness for the Prosecution Wizard of Oz Woman of the year WORKING GIRLS Wrath of Khan Yankee Doodle Dandy Yearling, The Young Man with a Horn” Your Show of Shows Zardoz Zelig Zorro