# 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.