Favorite Movies

Greg Austen

Continuing my Storyworth project, here’s how I answered, “What are your favorite movies? This is almost an impossible task, and it’s missing so many greats, but here are my top 100 plus:

  • The Philadelphia Story (in my top three movies of all time)
  • About Time
  • Casino Royale-2006
  • Skyfall (may be the best of the James Bond franchise)
  • Thunderball
  • Dr. No
  • Wake Up Dead Man (my favorite portrayal of a Christian minister in a recent film)
  • The Reader
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Flight
  • Man on Fire- 2004
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  • Mississippi Burning
  • Gran Torino
  • The Great Escape
  • The Getaway-1972
  • Three Days of the Condor
  • Jeremiah Johnson
  • A River Runs Through It
  • All the President’s Men
  • JoJo Rabbit
  • Singin’ in the Rain
  • Top Hat
  • Key Largo
  • Secret Life of Walter Mitty- 2013
  • Slum Dog Millionaire
  • Karate Kid II
  • Heat
  • The Equalizer
  • The Equalizer 3
  • Deja Vu
  • The Bourne Identity
  • The Bourne Ultimatum
  • Mission: Impossible III
  • Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation
  • Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy- 2009
  • Salt
  • Ava
  • True Grit- 1969
  • North to Alaska
  • McClintock
  • The Sons of Katie Elder
  • Rio Bravo
  • Red River
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales
  • Pale Rider
  • Tombstone
  • Big Country
  • Open Range
  • A Fairy Story
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Stranger- 1946
  • Some Like It Hot 
  • Monkey Business
  • The Misfits
  • My Man Godfrey
  • Bringing Up Baby
  • Topper
  • The Thin Man
  • The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
  • The Major and the Minor
  • Arsenic & Old Lace
  • Naked Gun 33&⅓
  • Dumb and Dumber
  • Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
  • Master of Disguise (pretty silly but I have a special memory of watching it with my kids)
  • Nacho Libre
  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday
  • Napoleon Dynamite (this is one you either love or hate)
  • Vertigo
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • Rear Window
  • North by Northwest
  • What Lies Beneath
  • Picnic
  • Forest Gump
  • Schindler’s List
  • An Officer and a Gentleman
  • Message in a Bottle
  • Age of Innocence
  • Little Women- 1994
  • Les Misérables- 1978 (a favorite because it is the first version I saw)
  • David Copperfield-1970 (a favorite because it is the first version I saw)
  • Holiday Inn
  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • The Mask of Zorro
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Batman Begins
  • X-Men
  • X2: X-Men United
  • The Wolverine
  • Wonder Woman- 2017
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Iron Man
  • Black Widow
  • Alien
  • Aliens
  • Terminator 2
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers- 1956
  • Get Out

What is your favorite, or what might be in your top three? I’d love to hear from you! And, btw, if you are looking for a fun Halloween movie and aren’t as familiar with the screwball comedy genre, I recommend Arsenic and Old Lace.

Greg Austen is President of Equal Rights Institute, an organization that equips everyday people to have smarter, kinder conversations that transform culture and save unborn lives. A former church planter with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), Greg is the author of several books, including How I Became a Christian Despite the Church, Christian Nationalism: A Constructive Conversation, and Irreplaceable: Recovering God’s Heart for Dads. He writes a regular blog at carpentertheologian.com and lives in the Greater Philadelphia area with his wife, Pam, near their three children and eight grandchildren.