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This is a list of movies that have been recommended 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), it’s a shortlist from which you might be able to make a shortlist of your own.

Top Favorites (recommended by more than 5 Objectivists):

  • African Queen
  • Amadeus
  • Apollo 13
  • Ben Hur
  • Braveheart
  • Bridge on the River Kwai, The
  • Casablanca
  • Chocolat
  • Contact
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The
  • Cyrano de Begerac
  • Few Good Men, A
  • Flight of The Phoenix
  • Fountainhead, The
  • Godfather , The
  • Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The
  • High Noon
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Last of the Mohicans
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Life is Beautiful
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Love Letters
  • Matrix I
  • Miracle Worker, The
  • Name of the Rose, The
  • North by Northwest
  • Patton
  • Princess Bride, The
  • Ransom
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The
  • Seven Samurai, The
  • Shall We Dance? (Japanese)
  • Shane
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • Sound of Music, The
  • Star Wars
  • Titanic
  • "V" for Vendetta
  • We the living
  • Other Favorites (recommended by fewer Objectivists):

  • The Edge (with Anthony Hopkins)
  • Aviator (great except for the end)
  • 12 Angry Men
  • 1984
  • Adventures of Robin Hood, The
  • Airplane!
  • All About Eve
  • Amistad
  • An American in Paris
  • As Good As It Gets
  • Back to the Future (part 1 & 3)
  • Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
  • Beverly Hills Cop
  • Big Country, The
  • Big Easy, The
  • Big Trouble In Little China
  • Blade Runner
  • Boondock Saints
  • Born On The Fourth of July
  • Bridge Too Far, A
  • Bridges of Madison County
  • Brief encounter
  • Camille
  • Citizen Kane (Comment: Powerful acting)
  • Citizen X
  • City Slickers
  • Clockwork Orange, A
  • Crimson Tide"
  • Crying Game, The
  • Dangerous Beauty
  • Dead Poet's Society
  • Desparado
  • Dial "M" For Murder
  • Die Hard
  • Dirty Harry
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  • Double Indemnity
  • Dr No
  • Dr. Strangelove
  • Dr. Zhivago
  • Dragon
  • E.T.
  • Enter the Dragon
  • Fantasia 2000
  • Finding Neverland
  • Forrest Gump
  • From Russia With Love
  • Fugitive, The
  • Funny Girl
  • General (1927)., The
  • Gettysburg
  • Gigi
  • Gladiator
  • Glory
  • Good Fellas
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Gone With The Wind
  • Great Escape, The
  • Groundhog Day
  • Guns Of Navarone , The
  • Henry V
  • Hot Shots
  • Incredibles, The
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Jaws
  • Killer, The
  • King and I, The
  • King Arthur
  • Laura
  • Les Miserables
  • Liar Liar
  • Little Mermaid, The
  • Magnificent Seven, The
  • Man for All Seasons, A
  • Man From Snowy River, The
  • Man Who Would Be King, The
  • Memento
  • Men in Black
  • Minority Report
  • Miracle
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • 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
  • My Fair Lady
  • Naked Gun series, The
  • Natural, The
  • Ninotchka
  • October Sky
  • Othello
  • Out of Africa
  • Outlaw Josey Wales, The
  • Phantom of the Opera, The
  • Phenomenon
  • Philadelphia Story, The
  • Pink Panther movie
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Pleasantville
  • Pretty Woman
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The
  • Queen Christina
  • Quigley Down Under
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Rear Window
  • Regarding Henry
  • Remember the Titans
  • Rob Roy
  • Romeo and Juliet (Zeferelli)
  • Sabrina
  • Scent of a Woman
  • Schindler's List
  • Sea Hawk, The
  • Serpico
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • South Pacific
  • Spartacus
  • Spirited Away
  • Sting, The
  • Strictly Ballroom
  • Swing Kids
  • Tale Of Two Cities, A
  • Terminator, The
  • To Catch a Thief
  • To Have and Have Not
  • To kill a mocking bird
  • Tombstone," Kurt Russell
  • Top Gun
  • Truman Show, The
  • Unconquered
  • Undercover Blues
  • Vanilla Sky
  • War Wagon, The
  • When Harry met Sally
  • Where Eagles Dare
  • Whose Life Is It, Anyway"
  • Wicker Park
  • Winslow Boy, The
  • Yes, minister and Yes, Prime Minister
  • Yojimbo
  • Also rans (recommended by a single Objectivist):

  • 2001:A Space Odysey
  • /*COME ON PEOPLE!!*/

  • 12 Monkeys
  • /*THis is a GOOD MOVIE... better than most on the top rated crap list*/

  • 12 O'Clock High
  • 28 Days Later
  • 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
  • A Taxing Woman (Marusa no Onna) and A Taxing
  • A.I.
  • About a Boy
  • 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
  • American Beauty
  • American History X
  • Americanization of Emily
  • An Affair To Remember (1956)
  • Anatomy of a Murder (unparalleled courtroom
  • Angel
  • Anne of a Thousand Days
  • Annie Hall
  • Antigone
  • Antz
  • Apartment, The
  • Around The World In 80 Days
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
  • Aviator, The
  • Awakenings
  • Awful Truth, The
  • Before Sunrise
  • Being There (1979)
  • Best in the Show
  • Bugs Bunny
  • Babe Ruth Story, The
  • Babe
  • Bad Day at Black Rock
  • Bandwagon -- for the dancing, The
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Beau Geste
  • Beautiful Mind, A
  • Bedford Incident
  • Big Clock, The
  • Big Fish
  • 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
  • Bull Durham
  • Buster Keetonalamity Jane (Doris Day and Howard Keel)
  • Caine Mutiny, The
  • Captain Blood
  • Cat Ballou
  • Charge Of The Light Brigade, The
  • Chariots of Fire
  • Children of Dune (miniseries)
  • Christmas Carol, A (w/ Alistair Simm)
  • Christmas Story, A
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • City of Angels
  • Clear and Present Danger
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Cocoon
  • Cold Comfort Farm
  • Cold Mountain
  • Columbo (TV Series)
  • Commanding Heights on PBS
  • Coming to America
  • Conan the Barbarian
  • Conquest
  • Conspiracy Theory
  • Contender,The
  • Counterfeit Traitor, The
  • Courage Under Fire
  • Cousins
  • Crazies, The
  • Crossing Delancy
  • Damn The Defiant
  • Dances with Wolves
  • Dangerous Liaisons
  • Dangerous Minds
  • Dark Victory
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • Day after Tomorrow, The
  • Deadline - USA
  • Deliverance
  • Demolition Man
  • Desperate Journey
  • Destination Tokyo
  • Destry Rides Again
  • Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
  • Hercules (Disney)
  • Hunchback of Notredame, The (Disney)
  • Donnie Darko
  • Dr. Erlich's Magic Bullett
  • Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde (W/ Spencer Tracy)
  • Duck Soup
  • Edge, The
  • Educating Rita
  • Elephant Man , The
  • Elizabeth Rex (mini series)
  • Empire Strikes Back, The
  • Enchanted Cottage, The
  • Enemy Below, The
  • Enemy at the Gates
  • Envy
  • Equilibrium
  • Erin Brockovich
  • Escape From New York
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Excalibur
  • Face Off. (dir. John Woo)
  • Far and Away
  • Far country, The
  • Fate of Lee Khan , The
  • Father Goose
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • ffolkes
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Field of Dreams
  • Fifth Element, The
  • Fight Club
  • /*WHY IS THIS NOT ON THE TOP RATED LIST?*/

  • Finding Forrester
  • Firefly, The
  • Fist Full of Dollars
  • Fistful of Dollars, A
  • Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (series)
  • Flashdance
  • For Love of the Game
  • For Love or Money (1993)
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls
  • Forbidden Planet, The
  • Four Feathers
  • From Earth to the Moon
  • GWTW
  • Gaslight
  • Gattaca
  • /* This should be on the top-rated list -- it was recommended by at least five members */

  • Gentleman's Agreement
  • Ghost and the Darkness
  • Ghostbusters
  • Ghosts in the Shell
  • Giant
  • Girl Shy (1926)
  • Girl, Interrupted
  • Godfather Part I
  • Gods Must Be Crazy, II
  • Golden Eye
  • Good Earth, The
  • Good Luck
  • Goodbye Lenin
  • Goodbye Mister Chips
  • Grand Hotel
  • Great Waltz, The
  • Grosse Pointe Blank
  • Guess who's coming to dinner
  • Gunga Din
  • Guns of Navarone
  • HANGING TREE, The
  • Halloween
  • Hamlet (Branagh, or Zeffirelli, 1990)
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
  • Hard Day's Night, A
  • Harder They Fall, The
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  • Heaven Knows Mr. Allison
  • Heny VIII
  • High Plains Drifter
  • High and Low
  • High and the Mighty, The
  • Hobson's Choice (Susan Gless)
  • Holiday Inn (Fred Astaire)
  • Hombre
  • Home of the Brave
  • Hopscotch
  • Horseman on the roof
  • Hours, The
  • House II
  • Houseboat (Cary Grant, Sophia Loren)
  • How To Marry A Millionaire
  • How to Steal A Million
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Hustler, The
  • I Claudius
  • Icicle Thief, The
  • Immortal Beloved
  • Impromtu
  • In Country
  • In-Laws, The
  • Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
  • Indiana Jones movies
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • Iron Monkey
  • It Happened One Night
  • Ivanhoe
  • Jackie Chan movie
  • Jefferson in Paris
  • 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)
  • Jurassic Park
  • Key Largo
  • Kill Bill 1 & 2
  • Killing Fields, The
  • Kim
  • Kind Hearts And Coronets
  • King Solomon's Mines
  • King's Whore, The
  • Kino's Journey
  • Kiss Me Kate
  • Knight Riders
  • Knute Rockne Story, The
  • Lady Eye, The
  • Lady Hamilton
  • Lady Vanishes, The
  • Legends of Fall, The
  • Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
  • Les Paul: The Wizard Of Waukesha
  • Life of Brian, The
  • 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
  • Lost Horizon
  • Lost in Translation
  • M (An open door into that fatal German world--I can smell it)
  • Magic Christian, The
  • Magnum Force
  • Maltese Falcon, The
  • Man Hunt
  • Man Who Laughs, The (1928)
  • Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Man on Five
  • Man who shot Liberty Valance, The (John Wayne)
  • Mark Of Zorro, The
  • Martin
  • Masada - Great drama
  • Mask of Zorro, The
  • Master & Commander
  • Maytime
  • Meet Joe Black
  • Men of Honor
  • Michael Collins
  • Mifune.
  • Mirror Has Two Faces, The
  • Misery
  • Mission Impossible
  • Moby Dick (Peck)
  • Modern Times (Chaplin)
  • Momento
  • 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 Teacher, The
  • My Favorite Wife
  • My Name is Nobody
  • National Velvet
  • Network
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • Ninja Scroll (Japanese Animation)
  • Ninja Turtles movies,
  • No Highway in the Sky
  • Notorius
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou
  • Oliver! (1968)
  • Olympia (1938-39?)
  • Objective Burma
  • Oceans Eleven
  • Odd Couple, The
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  • One two three
  • Only angels have wings
  • Only the Valiant
  • Ordinary People
  • Other People's Money
  • Our Man Flint
  • Out of the Past
  • Outbreak
  • Paths of Glory (1957).
  • Paint Your Wagon
  • Palmetto
  • Papillon
  • Paradine Case, The
  • Passage to Marseilles
  • Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Paths of Glory”
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Piano, The
  • Pianist, The
  • Plan Nine From Outer Space
  • Pleasantville
  • Polar Express, The
  • Poltergheist
  • Possession
  • Pride and Prejudice (BBC, A&E)
  • Primer
  • Prince of Tides *
  • Prince of Foxes
  • Princess Caraboo
  • Princess Monoke
  • Private Parts
  • Psycho
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Qatsi Trilogy, The
  • Quo Vadis
  • Rudy (1994)
  • Raging Bull
  • Rain Man
  • Ran
  • Rashamon
  • Rebecca
  • Rebel Without a Cause
  • Red Beard
  • Red Dawn
  • Red October
  • Red Violin, The
  • Renaissance Man
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Richard III (Olivier)
  • Ridicule
  • Right Stuff, The
  • Rikki and Pete
  • Ring, The
  • Rio Bravo
  • Rise and fall of Reginald Perin, The (British TV comedy)
  • River Runs Through it, A
  • Road Warrior, The
  • Rock, The
  • Rocketeer
  • Rocky I, II & III
  • Roman Holiday
  • Ronin
  • Roots (TV series)
  • Rope, The
  • Royal Tenenbaums, The
  • Rudy
  • Ruggles Of Red Gap
  • Running Scared
  • Running on Empty
  • Russia House
  • Strangers on a Train (1951).
  • Saber Marionette J
  • Saint Joan
  • Samson And Delilah
  • Samura X
  • Samurai Trilogy
  • Sandbaggers, The
  • Sands of Iwo Jima
  • Sanjuro
  • Saw
  • Scarface
  • Scarlet Empress, The
  • Se7en
  • Secondhand Lions
  • Seven Days In May
  • Seven Samurai
  • Ship of Fools”
  • Shot in the Dark, A
  • Shrek
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • Silverado
  • Sinbad the Sailor
  • Singleton is my ideal!
  • Sister Kenny
  • Sixth Sense, The
  • Slap Shot--Goofy
  • Sleeper
  • Sleuth
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Son of Paleface
  • Sorcerer (1977)
  • Spiderman
  • Spiral
  • Spitfire
  • Spotless Mind
  • Spy Game
  • Stealing Heaven
  • Story of Louis Pasteur, The
  • Strangers on a Train
  • Stray dog
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Superman
  • Swingers
  • Swiss Family Robinson
  • THX1138 (1971)
  • Tamarind Seed, The
  • Team America: World Police
  • Ten Commandments, The
  • The 39 Steps-- A real thriller.
  • They Died With Their Boots On
  • Thief of Bagdad, The (1924 Silent)
  • Third Man, The
  • Thirty-Nine Steps, The
  • This is Spinal Tap
  • Thomas Crown Affair, The
  • Three Musketeers, The (w/ Gene Kelly)
  • Tin Cup," Kevin Costner
  • Tin Star, The
  • To Sir, With Love
  • Touching the Void
  • Town like Alice, A
  • Trainspotting
  • Tremors & Tremors 2
  • True Lies
  • Truth about cats and dogs , The
  • Tucker
  • Two Women
  • Untouchables
  • Upstairs/Downstairs
  • Usual Suspects
  • Verdict, The
  • Vertigo
  • Victory
  • View to Kill, A
  • Volunteers
  • WHITE NIGHTS
  • WORKING GIRLS
  • Wait Until Dark
  • Walk In The Clouds, A
  • We Were Soldiers
  • Wedding Singer, The
  • West Side Story
  • What Dreams May Come
  • What Lies Beneath
  • http://www.objectivismonline.net/content/view/29/33/

  • When the Clouds Roll By (1919)
  • While You Were Sleeping (1995)
  • Whispering Smith
  • Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocalate Factory
  • Without Limits
  • Without love
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • Wizard of Oz
  • Woman of the year
  • Wrath of Khan
  • X-Men
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Yearling, The
  • You Came Along
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Young Man with a Horn”
  • Your Show of Shows
  • Zardoz
  • Zelig
  • Zorro
  • Zulu
  • DONT WATCH or EXTREMELY MIXED REVIEWS

  • Blair Witch Project, The
  • Luther
  • Magnolia
  • Mystery Men
  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • Notebook, The
  • Pulp Fiction