100 Films to iniatiate conversation

So this is my Top 100 films destined to elicit conversation. I’ve chosen through fantastic performances, controversial viewing, timeless classics or a beautifully directed film. Other opinions are available and I’ve only picked films that I have seen. The order was difficult but if you fly down the list I think they get a little less thought provoking! Incidentally I googled ‘thought provoking films’ and came quite close! Enjoy

Actors most featured:

Marlon Brando x3

Dustin Hoffman x3

Brad Pitt x 3

Clint Eastwood x3

Leonardo Di Caprio x 3

Robert De Niro x 8

1.       Oldboy

2.       We Need to Talk About Kevin

3.       Momento

4.       Crying Game

5.       Vertigo

6.       Prometheus

7.       Bronson

8.       Shame

9.       Last Tango in Paris

10.   Passion of the Christ

11.   The Evil Dead

12.   Straw Dogs 1971

13.   Lolita

14.   Seven

15.   Mystic River

16.   American History X

17.   American Psycho

18.   A Clockwork Orange

19.   Sleepers

20.   Casablanca

21.   The Third Man

22.   Pianist

23.   Imposter

24.   Citizen Kane

25.   The Wild One

26.   Sophie’s Choice

27.   Gran Torino

28.   All the President’s Men

29.   Battleship Potemkin

30.   Boy in Striped Pajamas

31.   Moon

32.   Full Metal Jacket

33.   2001 Space Oddessy

34.   Videodrome

35.   Zodiac

36.   Natural Born Killers

37.   Secrets in their Eyes

38.   Exorcist

39.   The Omen

40.   Don’t Look Now

41.   Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears

42.   Let the Right One In

43.   The Network

44.   My Left Foot

45.   Leaving Las Vegas

46.   The Wicker Man

47.   A Bronx Tale

48.   Frost/Nixon

49.   High Noon

50.   Dead Man Shoes

51.   Bad Lieutenant

52.   Kind Hearts and Coronets

53.   The General

54.   All About Eve

55.   True Romance

56.   Blue Valentine

57.   To Kill a Mockingbird

58.   Deer Hunter

59.   Once Upon a Time in America

60.   Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner

61.   8mm

62.   Tree of Life

63.   Inception

64.   Mean Streets

65.   Matrix

66.   Spartacus

67.   Psycho

68.   Good, Bad and the Ugly

69.   Godfather II

70.   Streetcar Named Desire

71.   Silence of the Lambs

72.   What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

73.   Monster

74.   Taxi Driver

75.   Leon

76.   Dirty Harry

77.   Cape Fear

78.   Truman Show

79.   African Queen

80.   Trainspotting

81.   It Happened One Night

82.   American Beauty

83.   Gone Baby Gone

84.   Planet of the Apes 2011

85.   Donnie Darko

86.   Get Carter (1971)

87.   Black Swan

88.   There Will Be Blood

89.   Annie Hall

90.   Sunset Boulevard

91.   Carrie

92.   Basketball Diaries

93.   I’m Not There

94.   No Country For Old Men

95.   12 Angry Men

96.   Once Upon a Time in the West

97.   Interview with the Vampire

98.   Brokeback Mountain

99.   Zombieland

100. Zodiac