Mr. Jackson’s Recommended Movie List
Disclaimer
 These movies are listed in alphabetical order.
 There is no ranking.
 These are some of the movies that I have seen that
I would recommend.
 Some movies are not intended for young viewers.
Take the time to look up information about the
movies before viewing.
 Some of the movies are purely for fun. They are
dumb but I enjoyed them
ENJOY
Number through A
Adaptation
101 Dalmatians
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter
Brother
The 25th Hour
12 Angry Men
12 Monkeys
12 Years a Slave
1941
1984
2 Days in the Valley
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
200 Cigarettes
2001: A Space Odyssey
21 Grams
21/22 Jump Street
28 Days/Weeks Later
30 Days of Night
300
4 Weddings and a Funeral
40 Year Old Virgin
48 Hrs.
The A Team
Abbott and Costello (all)
Abre los Ojos
The Abyss
Accepted
Accidental Tourist
The Accused
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Adam
The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen
The African Queen
Air America
Airplane! I and II
Akira
Ali
Alien
Aliens
Alive
All the President’s Men
All that Jazz
All Buster Keaton
All Charlie Chaplin
All Hitchcock
All Marx Brothers
All Mel Brooks
Almost famous
Amadeus
The Amazing Spiderman
Amazon Women on the Moon
American Beauty
American Graffiti
American History X
An American in Paris
American Psycho
American Splendor
An American Werewolf in London
Armed and Dangerous
Amistad
Army of Darkness
The Amityville Horror
Around the World in 8o Days (1956)
Analyze This
Arthur
Anchorman
The Artist
And the Band Played on
As Good as it Gets
And Justice for All
Assault on Precinct 13
Animal House
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Annie Hall
Audition
Apocalypse Now
Austin Powers
Apocalypto
Auto Focus
Apollo 13
Awakenings
April Fool’s Day
Arachnophobia
Armageddon
B
Bachelor Party
A Beautiful Mind
Back to the Future I and II
Beetlejuice
Back to School
Being John Malkovich
Backdraft
Ben Hur
Bad News Bears (1976)
Best in Show
Bambi
Better Off Dead
Barton Fink
Beverly Hills Cop I and II
Batman (1989)
Big
Batman Begins
The Big Red One
Batteries Not Included
Big Trouble in Little China
Battle Royale
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
The Beastmaster
Biloxi Blues
The Birdcage/Les Cage aux Folles
Bourne Identity
The Birds
Boyz in the Hood
Black Dynamite
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Blade
Braveheart
Blade Runner
Brazil
Blades of Glory
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Blazing Saddles
Brick
Bloodsport
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Blow
A Bridge Too Far
The Blues Brothers
A Bronx Tale
Bond movie series
The Burbs
Bonnie and Clyde
Bull Durham
Boogie Nights
Bullets Over Broadway
The Boondock Saints
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Das Boot
C
The Cabin in the Woods
Cast Away
Cableguy
Casualties of War
Caddyshack
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Campaign
Catch-22
Canadian Bacon
CB-4
The Cannonball Run
Cedar Rapids
Cape Fear (both)
Chaplin
Captain America: The First Avenger
Chariots of Fire
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Chasing Amy
Carrie (1976)
Cheech and Chong Movies
Casablanca
Child’s Play
Casino
Children of the Corn
Chinatown
Crocodile Dundee
Christine
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
A Christmas Story
The Crow
Chronicles of Riddick
The Crucible
El Cid
A Cry in the Dark
Cinderella Man
Cry, the Beloved Country
Citizen Kane
Cujo
City of Lost Children
Curse of the Golden Flower
City Slickers
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Clerks
Cloak and Dagger
A Clockwork Orange
Club Dread
Clue
Clueless
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Cobra
Cocoon
The Color of Money
The Color Purple
Colors
Coming to America
Commando
Conan the Barbarian
Contact
Cool Hand Luke
Creepshow
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Critters
D
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dallas Buyers Club
Django Unchained
Dances with Wolves
Do the Right Thing
A Dangerous Method
Dr. Dolittle (1967)
Dark City (1998)
Doctor Zhivago
The Dark Crystal
Dodgeball
The Dark Knight
Dog Day Afternoon
The Dark Knight Rises
Dogma
Darkman
Don’t Be a Menace to South Central…
Dawn of the Dead (both)
Donnie Brasco
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Donnie Darko
Dazed and Confused
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned…
Dead Alive
Dragnet
Dead Man Walking
Dragonslayer
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Driving Miss Daisy
Dead Poet’s Society
Drunken Master
The Dead Zone
Dumb and Dumber
Dead Snow
Dumbo
Death to Smoochy
Dune
The Deer Hunter
Defending Your Life
Demolition Man
The Departed
Desperado
Despicable Me
The Devil’s Own
The Devil’s Rejects
Dial M for Murder
Die Hard I, II, III
Dirty Dancing
E
Farewell, My Concubine
E.T.
Fargo
Easy Rider
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ed Wood
Fat Man and Little Boy
The Edge
Father of the Bride
Edward Scissorhands
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Eight Legged Freaks
Le Femme Nikita
Eight Men Out
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Elephant Man
A Few Good Men
Elf
Fiddler on the Roof
Empire Records
Field of Dreams
Enemy at the Gates
The Fifth Element
Enemy Mine
Fight Club
Enter the Dragon
Firestarter
Equilibrium
First Blood
Erik the Viking
A Fish Called Wanda
Escape from Alcatraz
The Fisher King
Escape from L.A.
Fist of Fury
Escape from New York
A Fistful of Dollars
Event Horizon
Flags of Our Fathers
Everything is Illuminated
Flash Gordon (1980)
The Evil Dead (1981) and II
Flatliners
Evolution
Fletch
Excalibur
The Fly (1958 and 1986)
Footloose (1984)
F
For Your Consideration
F/X
Forrest Gump
The Falcon and the Snowman
Frailty
Falling Down
Frankenstein
Fantasia
Freaked
Freaks
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The French Connection
Godzilla (all)
Frida
The Golden Child
Friday
Gone with the Wind
Friday 13th
Good Morning Vietnam
Fright Night (1985)
Good Night and Good Luck
From Dusk til Dawn
The Good Shepherd
From Hell
Good Will Hunting
From Here to Eternity
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
Full Moon High
Goon
Goonies
G
Gorillas in the Mist
Galaxy Quest
The Graduate
Gallipoli
Gran Turino
Game of Death
Grand Budapest Hotel
Gandhi
Grand Canyon
Gangs of New York
The Grapes of Wrath
Gattaca
Grave of the Fireflies
Ghost
Grease
Ghost in the Shell
The Great Escape
Ghostbusters
The Great Outdoors
Gigi
The Green Mile
Gladiator
Gremlins
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Grey Zone
Glory
Gross Pointe Blank
Go
Groundhog Day
God Bless America
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Godfather I and II
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Gods and Monsters
The Gunfighter
Gung Ho
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Hero (2002)
H
Hidalgo
Hair
High Anxiety
Hairspray
High Fidelity
Half Baked
High Noon
Halloween
High Plains Drifter
Hamburger Hill
High School High
Hamlet (1948, 1996)
High Spirits
Hancock
Highlander
Hang ‘em High
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Hangover
A History of Violence
Hannibal
The Hitcher (1986)
Happy Gilmore
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Harakiri
The Hobbit (1977)
A Hard Day’s Night
Hoffa
Hard to Kill
Home Alone
Harlem Nights
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle
Hoodlum
Harry and the Hendersons
Hook
Harry Potter series
Hoosiers
Haunted Honeymoon
Horrible Bosses
The Haunting (1962)
Hot Fuzz
Heartbreak Ridge
Hot Shots I and II
Heat
Hot to Trot
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Hot Tub Time Machine
Heavy Metal
Hotel Rwanda
Heist
House
Hellraiser
House of 1000 Corpses
Henry V (1989)
House of Flying Daggers
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The Incredibles
House Party
Independence Day
House of Sand and Fog
Indiana Jones I-III
House of Wax (1953)
Infernal Affairs
Howard the Duck
Inglorious Basterds
Howl’s Moving Castle
Innerspace
The Howling
Inside Llewyn Davis
Hud
Inside Man
The Hudsucker Proxy
Insidious
Hugo
Insomnia (2002)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
The Invisible Man
Hunger Games series
The Iron Giant
The Hunt for Red October
The Iron Lady
The Hurricane (1999)
Iron Man
The Hurt Locker
Ironclad
It happened One Night
I
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
I Sell the Dead
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
J
I, Robot
Jacob’s Ladder
The Ice Pirates
Jakob the Liar
Ichi the Killer
Jane Austen’s Mafia!
Identity
Jarhead
Idiocracy
Jason and the Argonauts
Immortal Beloved
Jaws series
In Bruges
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
In the Heat of the Night
The Jazz Singer (1927)
In the Name of the Father
The Jerk
Inception
The Jewel of the Nile
The Incredible Hulk
JFK
Joe Dirt
L
Joe vs. the Volcano
L.A. Confidential
John Dies in the End
L.A. Story
Johnny Dangerously
La Bamba
Johnny Got His Gun
Labyrinth
Ju-On
Land of the Lost
Juice
Last Action Hero
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Last Dragon
Jurassic Park
The Last Emperor
The Last King of Scotland
K
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Karate Kid I-III
The Last Starfighter
The Kentucky Fried Movie
A League of their Own
Kick-Ass
Leaving Las Vegas
Kill Bill Vol. I and II
Lee Daniel’s The Butler
Killer Joe
Legend
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Legends of the Fall
The Killing Fields
LEGO Movie
Kindergarten Cop
Less than Zero
The King and I (1956)
Lethal Weapon series
King Kong
Letters from Iwo Jima
The King’s Speech
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Kingdom of Heaven
Life is Beautiful
Kingpin
Life of Brian
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Life of Pi
The Kite Runner
Life Stinks
Krull
Limitless
Kung Fu Hustle
Lincoln
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
The Lion King
Loaded Weapon I
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
The Man Who Knew Too Little
The Longest Day
Marathon Man
Look Who’s Talking
Mars Attacks
Lord of the Flies (1990)
MASH
Lord of the Rings series
Mask
Lord of War
Master of the Flying Guillotine
Lorenzo’s Oil
Matchstick Men
The Lost Boys
Matrix series
Lost in Translation
Max
Lucas
Me, Myself, and Irene
Mean Girls
M
Mean Streets
M. Butterfly
Meatballs
MacBeth
Memento
MacGruber
Memoirs of a Geisha
Machete
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
The Machinist
Memphis Belle
Mad Max series
Men in Black
The Madness of King George
Menace II Society
The Magnificent Seven
The Merchant of Venice
Magnolia
Midnight Run
The Majestic
Midway
Major League series
A Mighty Wind
Malcolm X
Million Dollar Baby
Mallrats
Miracle on 34th Street
The Maltese Falcon
Misery
Man on Fire (1987)
Mission Impossible series
The Man with One Red Shoe
Mississippi Burning
Man of Steel
Les Miserables
The Man with Two Brains
Moby Dick (1956)
Modern Problems
No Country for Old Men
Mom and Dad Save the World
Norma Rae
Mommie Dearest
North Dallas Forty
The Money Pit
Nosferatu
Monster
Not Another Teen Movie
The Monster Squad
Monty Python (all)
O
Moon
O, Brother Where Art Thou?
Mud
October Sky
Mullholland Drive
Odd Couple
Munich
Of Mice and Men
Murder by Death
Office Space
My Blue Heaven
An Officer and a Gentleman
My Cousin Vinny
Old School
My Fair Lady
Old boy (2003)
My Girl
The Omega Man
My Left Foot
The Omen I and II
Mystic River
On Golden Pond
On the Waterfront
N
Once Bitten
The Naked Gun series
Once Upon a Time in America
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
One Crazy Summer
National Lampoon’s European Vacation
One Hour Photo
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Othello (1995)
Natural Born Killers
The Other Guys
Neverending Story
Overboard
Night Shift
A Nightmare on Elm Street
P
Ninja Assassin
Pacific Rim
The Ninth Gate
Patch Adams
Patton
Predators
Patriot Games
Pretty in Pink
Paul
Pretty Woman
Payback
Primary Colors
PCU
The Princess Bride
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Princess Mononoke
The Pentagon Wars
The Professional
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Project X (1987)
Permanent Midnight
Psycho
Pet Sematary
Pulp Fiction
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Pursuit of Happyness
Philadelphia
Pi
Q
The Pianist
The Quick and the Dead
The Piano
Quicksilver
Pineapple Express
Quigley Down Under
The Pink Panther (1963)
Quiz Show
Pirate Radio
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black
Pearl
Pitch Black
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Platoon
Point Break
Police Academy series
Poltergeist I and II
Pootie Tang
The Poseidon Adventure
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Predator
R
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rain Man
Raising Arizona
Rambo series
Rashomon
Re-animator
Real Genius
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
REC
RED
Run Lola Run
Red Dawn (1984)
The Running Man (1987)
Red Dragon
Rushmore
Reefer Madness (1936)
Regarding Henry
S
Reign of Fire
Salem’s Lot
Repossessed
The Sand Lot
Requiem for a Dream
Saving Private Ryan
Reservoir Dogs
Saving Silverman
Resident Evil
A Scanner Darkly
Return of the Living Dead series
Scanners
Revenge of the Nerds
Scarface (1932 and 1983)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Scary Movie I and II
Road House
Schindler’s List
Road to Perdition
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Road Warrior
Scrooged
The Road to Wellville
The Secret of NIMH
Robin Hood (1922)
Semi Pro
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Serenity
RoboCop series
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Rock
Seven Samurai
Rocky I and II
Seven Years in Tibet
Romancing the Stone
The Seventh Seal
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
The Seventh Sign
Ronin
Shadow of the Vampire
The Room
Shakespeare in Love
Rooster Cogburn
Shallow Hal
Rosemary’s Baby
Shane
Roxanne
Shaun of the Dead
Rubber
The Shawshank Redemption
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Star Trek series
Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
Star Wars series
The Shining
Stardust
Shoot ‘em Up
Starman
Short Circuit
Starship Troopers
Shrek
Stay Tuned
Shutter Island
Steel Magnolias
The Silence of the Lambs
Step Brothers
Silent Movie
The Sting
Silver Bullet
Strange Brew
Sin City
A Streetcar Named Desire
Singin’ in the Rain
Stripes
Sixteen Candles
Student Bodies
SLC Punk
Summer School
Sling Blade
Superbad
SLITHER
Super Troopers
Slumdog Millionaire
Superman series
Smokey and the Bandit
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Snatch
The Sword in the Stone
Sneakers
So I Married an Axe Murderer
T
Soapdish
Taken
Soldier
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Sophie’s Choice
Tales from the Darkside
Spaceballs
Talladega Nights: Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Spartacus
Tango and Cash
Speed
Taps
Spiderman series
Taxi Driver
Spies Like Us
Team America: World Police
Spirited Away
Tears of the Sun
Ted
Touch of Evil
Teen Wolf
The Toy
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Toys
The Ten Commandments
Trading Places
Terminator series
Training Day
Terms of Endearment
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Tremors
Thank You for Smoking
Tristan and Isolde
That Thing You Do
Tron
Thelma and Louise
Tropic Thunder
There Will Be Blood
True Lies
There’s Something About Mary
True Romance
They Live
The Truman Show
The Thin Red Line
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
The Thing (1982)
Turner and Hooch
This is the End
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Thor
Three Amigos
U
Three O’Clock High
U-571
Time Bandits
UHF
The Time Machine (1960)
Unbreakable
Timecop
Uncle Buck
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Undercover Brother
To Kill a Mockingbird
Underworld (2003)
To Be or Not to Be (1983)
Unforgiven
Tommy Boy
Universal Soldier
Top Gun
The Untouchables
Top Secret
Up
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Urban Cowboy
Total Recall (1990)
The Usual Suspects
The Witches of Eastwick
V
Witness
V for Vendetta
The Wizard of Oz
Valkyrie
The Wolf of Wall Street
Valley of the Dolls
Vampire Hunter D
X
Vibes
X-Men series
Volunteers
Y
W
Young Frankenstein
Waiting for Guffman
Young Guns
Walk Hard
Young Sherlock Holmes
War Games
Watchmen
Z
The Waterboy
Zoolander
Wayne’s World
We Were Soldiers
Weekend at Bernie’s
Weird Science
West Side Story
Wet Hot American Summer
What About Bob?
What Dreams May Come
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
What’s Up, Doc? (1972)
When Harry Met Sally
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who’s Harry Crumb?
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory