Rest of the Best Films

REST  OF THE BEST SPIRITUALLY RELEVANT FILMS

All of Me, Altered States, Circle of Iron,  Contact, Defending Your Life, Ghost, High Plains Drifter, Highlander (original,) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (stepping off into the void,) It's A Wonderful Life, Made in Heaven, Michael, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, (+soundtrack,) Stargate, The Sixth Sense, The White Buffalo.-------- Probably added soon: Bell, Book, and Candle (play,) Blithe Spirit (play, comedy,) City of Joy, Phenomenon, Powder, Pleasantville, Shine, The English Patient, The Razor's Edge '46 (book.)

REST OF THE BEST CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING FILMS

50 First Dates, Animal Farm (book,) Artificial Intelligence: AI, Brazil, Destination Moon, Forbidden Planet, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan '84, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Junior (comedy,) Kung Fu '72 and that whole TV series with David Carradine wow, Solaris '72, What Women Want (comedy.) --------Probably added soon: 1984  '56 and '84 (book)

REST OF THE BEST INSPIRING, UPLIFTING FILMS     Special Mention ones are in Bold.

A League of Their Own, A Man for All Seasons (play) '66, A Tale of Two Cities '36 (book,) Awakenings (book,) Born on the Fourth of July, Bridge on the River Kwai, Chocolat, Cinema Paradiso, Dances with Wolves (book,) Dirty Dancing, Dumbo, Educating Rita, El Cid, Erin Brokovich, Fantasia, Field of Dreams, Forrest Gump, Gandhi, Good Will Hunting, Grand Canyon, Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (book,) Lilies of the Field, Nell, Our Town (play) '77 or '89 or '03, haven't seen them all, Patch Adams, Rocky (the first Rocky film, didn't see others,) Seabiscuit, Silence of the North, Silent Running, Sleepless in Seattle, The Aviator, The Elephant Man, The Little Mermaid, The Miracle Worker '62, The Never-Ending Story '84, The Tall Guy, Thelma and Louise, Tucker: The Man and His Dream.--------Probably added soon: Being There, Flipper '63, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Johnny Appleseed, The Horse Whisperer, Whale Rider.

REST OF THE BEST RECENT FILMS

Cast Away, Catch Me If You Can, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Far and Away, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Seven Years in Tibet, Space Cowboys, Star Wars series, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Manchurian Candidate '04 and '62, The Swan Princess (funny,) When Harry Met Sally. ---------Probably added soon: Mists of Avalon (book,) Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (about Jefferson's black "wife,") The American President

REST OF THE BEST COMEDY FILMS

Any Which Way You Can, Big, Crocodile Dundee '86, Earth Girls Are Easy (alien consciousness-raising,) Every Which Way But Loose, From Noon til Three, Ghostbusters, Grumpy Old Men, Kind Hearts and Coronets, M*A*S*H (the first,) Planes Trains and Automobiles, Shanghai Knights, Shanghai Noon, Sister Act '92, Some Like It Hot, The Gods Must Be Crazy '84 (first one,) The Mouse That Roared, The Odd Couple, The Pink Panther (original with Peter Sellers) (+soundtrack,) The Seven Year Itch, You've Got Mail. --------Probably added soon: Joe vs. The Volcano, Housesitter

REST OF THE BEST MUSICAL FILMS

Aladdin '92, Annie Get Your Gun, Camelot, Carmen Jones, Hello Dolly, High Society, Lili, Pagan Love Song, Pocahontas, Porgy and Bess, Singin' in The Rain, South Pacific, The Great Caruso, The Merry Widow, The Pajama Game, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Victory at Sea (+soundtrack.) --------Probably added soon: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Around The World in 80 Days, Multiplicity (conscioussness-raising?)

MUSICALS HONORABLE MENTION

42nd Street, Auntie Mame, Cabaret, Can-Can, Carousel, Funny Girl, Gigi,  Kiss Me Kate, Man of La Mancha, Maytime '37, Silk Stockings, The Desert Song, The King and I '56, The Magic Flute (opera,) The Marriage of Figaro (opera,) The Music Man, The Wizard of Oz (book,) Thoroughly Modern Millie.--------Probably added soon: Grease, Paint Your Wagon, Saturday Night Fever, That's Dancing, That's Entertainment (1,2,3,) Finian's Rainbow, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, On the Town, Piaf, The Fantasticks.

REST OF THE BEST OLDER FILMS   Special items in bold.

2001: A Space Odyssey, A Fistful of Dollars, Alive '93 (book,) Das Boot, Die Hard, Dr. No (book,) Dr. Syn Alias The Scarecrow '64, East of Eden, Empire of the Sun, For A Few Dollars More, From Here to Eternity (book,) Giant, Hard Times, High Noon, In The Heat of The Night, Island of Desire '52, King Solomon's Mines (book,) Logan's Run, Lost Horizon (book,) Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Mad Max, Metropolis '26, Miracle Mile '89, On The Beach '59 (book,) On The Waterfront, Ordinary People, Picnic, Play Misty for Me, Pretty Baby, Ragtime, Raiders of The Lost Ark '81, Rain Man, Rebel Without A Cause, Red Sun, Rider on The Rain, Roots (book,) Roxanne (play: Cyrano de Bergerac,) She '25 and '35 (book,) Spellbound (+soundtrack,) The African Queen (book,) The Bridges of Madison County (book,) The Fountainhead (book,) The Gauntlet, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Graduate, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Magnificent Seven, The Maltese Falcon '41, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Mechanic, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Quiet Man, The Red Balloon, The River Wild, The Road Warrior, True Lies, Waterworld, White Palace, You Light Up My Life. --------Probably added soon: Harold and Maude, Flight of the Phoenix, An Officer and A Gentleman.

I am typed out for now, but will add HONORABLE MENTION OLDER FILMS soon. A very long list. And someday I will add some comments to above. Feel free to ask me about any.