film
n 1: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.


Introducing 159 reasons to be a couch potato. If the word 'eclectic' didn't exist, we should have to invent it. Realism is not necessarily required. A happy ending is optional, but preferred if plausible and well introduced.

  1. Withnail and I (1987)
  2. Gregory’s Girl (1981)
  3. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
  4. Another Country (1984)
  5. Videodrome (1983)
  6. A Room with a View (1986)
  7. Georgy Girl (1966)
  8. Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970)
  9. Trainspotting (1996)
  10. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
  11. Educating Rita (1983)
  12. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
  13. My Beautiful Launderette (1985)
  14. Velvet Goldmine (1998)
  15. The Matrix (1999)
  16. Diner (1982)
  17. The Stepford Wives (1975)
  18. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  19. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  20. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
  21. Heathers (1989)
  22. Last House on the Left (1972)
  23. The Witchmaker (1969)
  24. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
  25. Pillow Talk (1959)
  26. Scanners (1980)
  27. Ghost World (2001)
  28. The Beyond (1981)
  29. A Shot in the Dark (1964)
  30. Driller Killer (1976)
  31. Room at the Top (1958)
  32. Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
  33. Run Lola Run (1999)
  34. My Life as a Dog (1985)
  35. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  36. House By The Cemetery (1981)
  37. My Left Foot (1989)
  38. Man From Deep River (1974)
  39. Asylum (1972)
  40. Howard’s End (1992)
  41. If… (1968)
  42. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920)
  43. Secrets and Lies (1995)
  44. The Remains of the Day (1993)
  45. Alfie (1966)
  46. A Taste of Honey (1961)
  47. Catholic Boys (1985)
  48. Phantasm (1978)
  49. Eaten Alive (1976)
  50. Calamity Jane (1953)
  51. The Godfather (1972)
  52. The Godfather Part II (1974)
  53. Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
  54. The Devil's Wanton (1949)
  55. Blow Up (1966)
  56. Amadeus (1984)
  57. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  58. Taxi Driver (1976)
  59. Private Benjamin (1980)
  60. Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
  61. The Apartment (1960)
  62. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  63. Attack of the Mushroom People (1963)
  64. Oliver (1968)
  65. Begotten (1991)
  66. Metropolis (1927)
  67. Night is my Future (1948)
  68. Dr No (1962)
  69. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  70. Terror Train (1980)
  71. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
  72. Funeral Home (1980)
  73. Dead Poets Society (1989)
  74. Dawn of the Dead (1979)
  75. Stand By Me (1986)
  76. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  77. Halloween (1978)
  78. Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
  79. Friday the 13th (1980)
  80. Star Wars (1977)
  81. Rebecca (1940)
  82. The Odd Couple (1968)
  83. Cannibal Ferox (1981)
  84. Grease (1978)
  85. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  86. American Beauty (1999)
  87. Moulin Rouge (2001)
  88. Carry on Camping (1969)
  89. Persona (1965)
  90. Quadrophenia (1979)
  91. As Good As It Gets (1997)
  92. Boy Meets Girl (1984)
  93. Kes (1969)
  94. The Outsiders (1982)
  95. Delicatessen (1991)
  96. Easy Rider (1969)
  97. The Wedding Singer (1998)
  98. There’s Something About Mary (1998)
  99. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  100. Amélie (2001)
  101. Terms of Endearment (1983)
  102. Cannibal Holocaust (1979)
  103. Being John Malkovich (1999)
  104. Werkmeister Harmonies (2001)
  105. The Corpse Grinders (1972)
  106. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  107. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  108. The Virgin Suicides (2000)
  109. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
  110. The Gruesome Twosome (1967)
  111. The Omen (1976)
  112. Clash of the Titans (1981)
  113. The Yards (2000)
  114. Maniac (1980)
  115. Lolita (1962)
  116. The Magician (1958)
  117. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  118. An Officer and a Gentleman (1981)
  119. Dead Alive (1992)
  120. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  121. Scream (1996)
  122. Pretty In Pink (1987)
  123. Tootsie (1982)
  124. Splatter University (1984)
  125. Giant (1956)
  126. Peter's Friends (1992)
  127. The Pink Panther (1964)
  128. I’m All Right Jack (1959)
  129. Ferris Beuller’s Day Off (1986)
  130. Forrest Gump (1994)
  131. Steel Magnolias (1989)
  132. The Shining (1989)
  133. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
  134. Good Will Hunting (1997)
  135. The Evil Dead (1982)
  136. The Dentist (1996)
  137. In the Name of the Father (1993)
  138. The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)
  139. The Graduate (1967)
  140. Dirty Harry (1971)
  141. This is Spinal Tap (1984)
  142. The Breakfast Club (1985)
  143. Rear Window (1954)
  144. Microwave Massacre (1983)
  145. Back to the Future (1985)
  146. War Games (1983)
  147. The Terminator (1984)
  148. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  149. Wilde (1997)
  150. Dracula Has Risen from his Grave (1968)
  151. High Fidelity (2000)
  152. Ground Hog Day (1993)
  153. Roman Holiday (1953)
  154. Planet of the Apes (1968)
  155. The Faculty (1998)
  156. Hellraiser (1987)
  157. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
  158. Pieces (1981)
  159. Strictly Ballroom (1992)