Favourite Music and Films

Introduction

This is a list of my favourite music and films. It's here for no paticular reason, just that I like them.

Music

The easiest way of showing some of my favourite music is a simple YouTube playlist.

Films

These are films or movies I could watch over and over. The links to go the IMDb entry.

Action / Adventure

• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Apocalypto
• Arctic
• Die Hard
• Die Hard 2
• Die Hard with a Vengeance
• Enemy of the State
• Fall
• Freezer
• Gladiator
• Master and Commander
• The Edge
• The Grey
• The Man Who Would Be King
• Unstoppable

Comedy

• A Christmas Story
• Airplane!
• Airplane II
• Death at a Funeral
• Death at a Funeral
• Delicatessen
• Florence Foster Jenkins
• Go
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Jumanji
• Kinky Boots
• Mouse Hunt
• Nanny McPhee
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• RV
• Secondhand Lions
• Shaun the Sheep Movie
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• The Bed Sitting Room
• The Birdcage
• The Italian Job
• The Odd Job
• The Princess Bride
• Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave
• Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

Crime

• A is for Acid
• A Simple Plan
• Bad Lieutenant
• Blow
• Casino
• Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
• Cold Pursuit
• Flawless
• Get Carter
• Goodfellas
• Inside Man
• Kill the Irishman
• Layer Cake
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Lucky Number Slevin
• Man on Fire
• Mississippi Burning
• Mr. Brooks
• No Country for Old Men
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• Ronin
• Shallow Grave
• Shot Caller
• Sicario
• Sicario: Day of the Soldado
• Snatch
• Suicide Kings
• The Bank Job
• The Boondock Saints
• The Day of the Jackal
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle
• The Gentlemen
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Hatton Garden Job
• The Informant!
• The Internecine Project
• The Krays
• The Long Good Friday
• The Lord of War
• The Outfit
• The Taking of Pelham 123
• The Usual Suspects
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Vantage Point
• Vengeance
• Wall Street

Drama

• 5 Flights Up
• 12 Angry Men
• A Beautiful Mind
• A Christmas Carol
• A Hidden Life
• All the President's Men
• Amistad
• Awakenings
• Big Eyes
• Buried
• Dallas Buyers Club
• Edna The Inebriate Woman
• Everybody's Fine
• Falling Down
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Gosford Park
• Green Book
• Hidden Figures
• K-19: The Widowmaker
• Midnight Cowboy
• Mr. Church
• Mr. Holland's Opus
• Philadelphia
• Quiz Show
• Raging Bull
• Requiem for a Dream
• Shattered Glass
• Shutter Island
• The Big Short
• The Bofors Gun
• The Cider House Rules
• The Crying Game
• The Elephant Man
• The Father
• The Firm
• The Ghost Writer
• The Girl with All the Gifts
• The Green Mile
• The Hill
• The Imitation Game
• The King's Speech
• The Name of the Rose
• The Ninth Gate
• The Prestige
• The Remains of the Day
• The Road
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The War Game
• The Whisperers
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• To Sir, with Love
• Trainspotting
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Drugs

Films that are about the drug world.

• Blow
• Dallas Buyers Club
• Go
• Requiem for a Dream
• The Gentlemen
• Trainspotting

Finance

Films that are set in the world of finance.

• Glengarry Glen Ross
• The Big Short
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Wall Street

Found Money

Films where a large amount of money is found and all that comes after.

• A Simple Plan
• No Country for Old Men
• Shallow Grave

Holidays

Films that are set over Halloween and Christmas.

• A Christmas Carol
• A Christmas Story
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• The Nightmare Before Christmas

Horror

• Below
• Flatliners
• Ghost Ship
• Interview with the Vampire
• La Cabina
• Old
• Planet Terror
• The Crow
• Word War Z

Limited

Films that are set in a single space or with a limited set of characters.

• Buried
• Fall
• Freezer

Mental Illness

• A Beautiful Mind
• Awakenings
Edna The Inebriate Woman
• Falling Down
• Requiem for a Dream
• Shutter Island
• The Father
• The Whisperers

Post-Apocalypse

• The Girl with All the Gifts
• The Road

Post-Nuclear

• On the Beach
• Testament
• The Bed Sitting Room
• The Day After
• The War Game
• Threads
• When the Wind Blows

Science Fiction

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Alien
• Apollo 13
• Battlefield Earth
• Bicentennial Man
• Blade Runner
• Coherence
• Dark Star
• District 9
• Enemy Mine
• Interstellar
• Life
• Never Let Me Go
• Pitch Black
• Repo Men
• Robocop
• Seconds
• Soylent Green
• The Andromeda Strain
• The Butterfly Effect
• The Martian
• The Terminator
• Westworld
• Without Warning

Survival / Wilderness

Man against the elements.

• Arctic
• The Edge
• The Grey

War

• A Bridge Too Far
• Black Hawk Down
• Das Boot
• Fury
• Saving Private Ryan
• Schindler's List
• Sisu
• The Battle of Britain
• The Killing Fields
• The Longest Day
• The Pianist
• Valkyrie
• Waterloo
• Zulu

Western

• 3:10 to Yuma
• A Fistful of Dollars
• Django Unchained
• For a Few Dollars More
• High Plains Drifter
• Old Henry
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Pale Rider
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• The Hateful Eight
• The Magnificent Seven
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Tombstone
• Unforgiven

Never Again

These films made such an impression on me that I do not want to watch again. Some are acknowledged masterpieces, but I just can't connect with them. The weird thing is, I sometimes watch them again just to remind myself how much I don't like them.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Aeon Flux
• Cherry 2000
• Into the Wild
• Jury Duty
• Quintet
• Snowpiercer
• Solaris
• Survive
• Swiss Army Man
• The Divide
• The Sweeney
• The Worm Eaters
• Vanilla Sky
• Zardoz