Was thinking about this in the car the other day (so now you know what those wandering people in front of your car are thinking)…
What’s the best movie ever made that does NOT have a letter A in the title? So, that means no Citizen KAne, nor CAsAblAncA, nor StAr WArs, nor The GodfAther…
Gone with the Wind, maybe? The Princess Bride?
Fight Club? I know, but my options are limited!
The trilogy:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(I doubt if you’ll get other such long titles without the given letter).
To crib like a mother, and to get us started, here are 31 movies on the AFI’s “100 Years … 100 Movies” list without “a” in the title:
Schindler’s List
Some Like It Hot
Psycho
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
High Noon
Midnight Cowboy
Double Indemnity
North by Northwest
West Side Story
King Kong
From Here to Eternity
The Sound of Music
Vertigo
Tootsie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Network
The French Connection
Forrest Gump
Ben-Hur
Wuthering Heights
The Gold Rush
City Lights
Rocky
The Deer Hunter
The Wild Bunch
Modern Times
Duck Soup
Mutiny on the Bounty
Pulp Fiction
Unforgiven
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Duck Soup
City Lights
Psycho
Notorious
Red River
M
The Big Sleep
North by Northwest
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Z
Touch of Evil
Damn. I came in here to say Close Encounters.
The Incredibles
You. You’re good.
The Big Sleep
The City of Lost Children
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contempt
Do the Right Thing
The Double Life of Veronique
Duck Amuck
L’Eclisse
The General
Greed
In the Mood for Love
Intruder in the Dust
King Kong
Love Me Tonight
Meet Me in St. Louis
Modern Times
Night of the Hunter
Ordet
Pinocchio
Shoeshine
Some Like It Hot
The Spirit of the Beehive
Sunrise
Sweet Smell of Success
Topsy-Turvy
Underground
Vertigo
The Wild Bunch
The Wind
I don’t think those fit.
8 1/2
You’re right. :smack: Too quick on the draw. Then how about Sherlock Jr. and One Froggy Evening to replace them? 
A borderline case: Sunset Blvd. (Depends on whether you think this is the correct title or not.)
Memento
Tombstone
The Lion in Winter
Here are my favorites:
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Moonstruck
You guys have already listed some critical faves, so I’ll round it out with some fun titles for a cornball night:
Gold Diggers of 193_
Swing Time
Ben-Hur
The Producers
The Dirty Dozen
Sleeper
The Sting
Telefon
The Towering Inferno
The Right Stuff
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Hunt for Red October
Fight Club
Ed Wood
Erin Brockovich
The Bourne Identity
and a surprising number of James Bond titles [in chrono. order]:
Dr. No
Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
The Spy Who Loved Me
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
License to Kill
GoldenEye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World is Not Enough
… or 10 out of 22 titles. Weird, no?
Gone With the Wind?
Since the classics are already listed, I think I’ll go with my personal favorites too.
Brick
Go
Bye Bye Love
Clerks
The Crow
The Quiet Room
Suicide Kings
If Lucy Fell
Empire Records
eXistenZ
Leon
Light It Up
Little Boy Blue
Foolproof
Mononoke-hime
It
Here’s the non-A movies from my collection:
1776
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Hot Fuzz
Juno
Moulin Rouge!
The Princess Bride
The Producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder version)
School of Rock
UHF
If you made me list my favorites of all the movies I own, that’d be a pretty close list. (Though Shaun of the Dead and most of the Mel Brooks is missing.)