The 100 films that influenced you the most

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This is actually the idea of a film critic- go to her page for her top 100 plus a more eloquent discription of the concept.

Basically, it’s not the 100 films you think are the greatest, or even your favourites- just ones that had a strong impact on you, or were especially memorable for whatever reason. Maybe it was the first film you remember watching in the cinema, or maybe it had a really horrifying torture sequence that turned your stomach- any reason is valid. Here’s mine in (very) rough chronological order of viewing.

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  1. E.T. (first film I saw in the cinema)
  2. The Jungle Book (second)
  3. The Flight of Dragons
  4. The Dark Crystal
  5. Neverending Story
  6. Gremlins
  7. Star Wars
  8. Batman
  9. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
  10. Jaws
  11. The Lost Boys
  12. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  13. The Posiedon Adventure (possible cause of my clautrophobia)
  14. Poltergeist
  15. Goldfinger
  16. Terminator
  17. Hellraiser
  18. Beetlejuice
  19. Mad Max
  20. Robocop
  21. The Running Man
  22. Rollerball (the original!)
  23. Predator
  24. Ghostbusters
  25. Die Hard
  26. Aliens (no it’s not a typo- I really saw this one first)
  27. Delicatessan
  28. Barbarella
  29. The Crow
  30. Flash Gordon
  31. Alien
  32. The Usual Suspects
  33. Terminator 2
  34. Goodfellas
  35. Leon
  36. The Shining
  37. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  38. The Shawshank Redemption
  39. Scream
  40. Schindlers List
  41. Thelma and Louise
  42. The Godfather
  43. Trainspotting
  44. Austin Powers- International Man of Mystery
  45. Jacob’s Ladder
  46. Bladerunner
  47. Apocalypse Now
  48. The Thing
  49. L.A. Confidential
  50. Fargo
  51. Seven
  52. La Haine
  53. Beavis and Butthead Do America
  54. Lost Highway (first David Lynch)
  55. Toy Story
  56. Bound
  57. Romeo and Juliet
  58. Dr. Srangelove
  59. Serial Mom
  60. This is Spinal Tap
  61. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  62. Akira
  63. Don’t Look Now
  64. The Big Lebowski
  65. American Beauty
  66. The City of Lost Children
  67. Dawn of the Dead
  68. The Blair Witch Project
  69. Brazil
  70. The Sixth Sense
  71. The Matrix
  72. Clerks
  73. Gladiator
  74. Pitch Black
  75. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  76. Meet the Feebles
  77. Once Upon a Time in China
  78. Fight Club
  79. Rear Window
  80. High Fidelity
  81. The Fellowship of the Ring
  82. Once Upon a Time in the West
  83. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  84. Amelie
  85. Hidden Fortress (first Akira Kurosawa)
  86. X- Men 2
  87. The Two Towers
  88. Spirited Away
  89. Withnail and I
  90. Picasso’s Adventures (hilarious Swedish film- worth tracking down)
  91. The Holy Mountain (first Alejandro Jodorowsky)
    92 A Tanú (The Witness) (Hungrain film- a classic satire of communism)
  92. Donnie Darko
  93. Mystery Men
  94. His Girl Friday
  95. Kontroll (recent Hungarian film)
  96. Dolls (first Takeshi Kitano)
  97. La Femme Nikita
  98. Finding Nemo
  99. Return of the King
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Feel free to elaborate for reasons of certain picks.