Thank you, amazing The Next Half readers, for your enthusiastic contributions and replies from last week’s blog! The original Top 10 List has now grown to 100 entries! Talk about fabulous engagement! So, here it is..... (please note this list is ranked in no particular order - to minimise lengthy debates! 😉).
TOP 100 FILMS COMPILED BY THE NEXT HALF READERS:
1. The Pink Panther
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. Goldfinger
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. From Russia with Love
7. The Spy Who Loved Me
8. Live and Let Die
9. Passport to Pimlico
10. The Great Escape
11. The Third Man
12. The Day of The Jackal
13. The Italian job (original)
14. Three Days of The Condor
15. And Then There Were None
16. Forest Gump
17. Marathon Man
18. Death On the Nile (original)
19. Vertigo
20. Die Hard films
21. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
22. Toy Story I
23. Harry Potter films
24. The Shawshank Redemption
25. 39 Steps
26. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
28. The Godfather
29. The Kings Speech
30. The Bridge Too Far
31. The Imitation Game
32. Notting Hill
33. The Guns of Navarone
34. Where Eagles Dare
35. Top Gun
36. Thor: Ragnorak
37. Mission Impossible films
38. Platoon
39. West Side Story
40. The Bourne Identity
41. The Jungle Book
42. The Kingsman films
43. All the President’s Men
44. Love Actually
45. The Wizard of Oz
46. Singin’ in the Rain
47. Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
48. True Grit
49. Out of Africa
50. Vertigo
51. A Beautiful Mind
52. Good Will Hunting
53. Moneyball
54. Wall Street
55. ET
56. The Shawshank Redemption
57. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
58. Four Weddings and a Funeral
59. Sneakers
60. The Incredibles
61. A Star Is Born (2018)
62. Captain America: Civil War
63. Avengers: Infinity War
64. Seven
65. Rain Man
66. Guardians of the Galaxy
67. Chariots of Fire
68. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
69. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
70. Magnum Force
71. The Sound of Music
72. Dead Poet’s Society
73. Fish Called Wanda
74. The Fugitive
75. This is Spinal Tap
76. The Lord of The Rings
77. 12 Years of a Slave
78. Jaws
79. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
80. Finding Nemo
81. Yesterday
82. Les Misérables
83. Cabaret
84. Seven Samurai
85. Titanic
86. 2001: A Space Odyssey
87. Rocky
88. Back to The Future
89. Breakfast at Tiffany
90. The Thomas Crown Affair
91. Oceans 11
92. Face-Off
93. Lethal Weapon
94. Young Frankenstein
95. The Dark Knight
96. Goodfellas
97. Do the Right Thing
98. Dunkirk
99. The Silence of the Lambs
100. The Hunt for Red October