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This user-contributed list of movies is compiled based on its value (both artistic and thematic) to Objectivists. Such a recommendation does not mean you'll like the movie (you might even hate it), but it is a shortlist from which you might be able to make a shortlist of your own.

How to contribute to the list: The method for ordering movies has changed, so read carefully: Each Wiki user gets a single vote for every movie he likes or dislikes. Movies are grouped into two sections: good movies and bad movies. To vote on a movie, add 1-5 asterisks after the movies name, or the last vote, followed by a space. (At some later point, the votes may be processed for a more Amazon-like interface.)

Note: website administrators and moderators have the power to override any vote by making a particular vote bold, thus keeping it in a particular category regardless of the average vote. You can still add your vote, but it will not affect the movie's position.

Please check for or start a discussion on the forum and create a link to it from this list.

The initial order of this list will reflect the ordering of the prior system and the initial ranking given to each movie. As you rank movies, move up-higher ranked movies.

See the first movie for an example of good formatting.

Five-Star Movies (Must See)

  • African Queen (1962 Adventure) *****
  • Amadeus
  • Apollo 13
  • Ben Hur
  • Braveheart
  • Bridge on the River Kwai, The
  • Casablanca
  • Chocolat
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The
  • Cyrano de Begerac
  • Flight of The Phoenix
  • Fountainhead, The
  • Godfather , The
  • Gattaca
  • Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The
  • High Noon
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Last of the Mohicans
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Love Letters
  • Matrix I
  • Miracle Worker, The
  • Name of the Rose, The
  • North by Northwest
  • Patton
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The
  • Seven Samurai, The
  • Shall We Dance? (Japanese)
  • Shane
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • Sound of Music, The
  • Star Wars
  • "V" for Vendetta
  • We the living

Three–Four Star Movies (Recommended)

  • 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
  • Casino Royale (2006) ***
  • 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
  • Contact
  • Few Good Men, A
  • Life is Beautiful
  • Princess Bride, The
  • Ransom
  • Titanic

Two Star Movies (Recommended by One Person)

  • 12 Monkeys
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I (Heart)Huckabees
  • 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
  • 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
  • Samurai 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

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  • 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

One Star Movies (I hated it)