Films I Give 5 Stars (Babylon Ending Style)

I have seen nearly 3,000 films and there are some true greats that I give 4 1/2 stars. I would love to have included them in the video, but then it would be over 30 minutes long. But for now, here is the selection that have brought me the most cinematic joy over my life :)

This selection does not include Documentaries.

As requested, here is the list of films (in video order).

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
The Women (1939)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
A Matter of Life and Death (1945)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
All About Eve (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Rear Window (1954)
Rififi (1955)
The Ladykillers (1955)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
La Verite (1960)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Persona (1966)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Dougal and the Blue Cat (1970)
The Devils (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
The Godfather Part 2 (1974)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Shining (1980)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Ran (1985)
Back to the Future (1985)
The Colour Purple (1985)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Castle in the Sky (1986)
Die Hard (1988)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Time of the Gypsies (1988)
Dead Poet’s Society (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Piano (1993)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Chungking Express (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Leon: The Professional (1994)
Underground (1995)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Fallen Angels (1996)
Scream (1996)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Life is Beautiful (1998)
Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
Mulan (1998)
The Matrix (1999)
All About my Mother (1999)
American Beauty (2000)
Yi Yi (2000)
Chicken Run (2000)
Amelie (2001)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
Spirited Away (2001)
Monster’s Inc. (2001)
Bend it Like Beckham (2002)
Lilo and Stitch (2002)
Memories of Murder (2003)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Love Actually (2003)
OldBoy (2003)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
Shrek 2 (2004)
2046 (2004)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
The Incredibles (2004)
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
Mamma Mia (2008)
Rec (2007)
St. Trinian’s (2007)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inglorious Basterds (2009)
Fish Tank (2009)
Confessions (2010)
Biutiful (2010)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Inception (2010)
Black Swan (2010)
A Separation (2011)
The Skin I Live in (2011)
The Help (2011)
Frances Ha (2012)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
About Time (2013)
Her (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Birdman (2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Interstellar (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
A Man Called Ove (2015)
The Handmaiden (2016)
American Honey (2016)
La La Land (2016)
Arrival (2016)
The Florida Project (2017)
The Shape of Water (2017)
Lady Bird (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017)
Paddington 2 (2017)
Shoplifters (2018)
BlackkKlansman (2018)
Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Booksmart (2019)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Midsommar (2019)
Parasite (2019)
Uncut Gems (2019)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Knives Out (2019)
Queen & Slim (2019)
Marriage Story (2019)
Little Women (2019)
Wolfwalkers (2020)
Nomadland (2020)
The Father (2020)
Malignant (2021)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
The Northman (2022)
Enys Men (2022)
Everything, Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Aftersun (2022)
Babylon (2022)