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100 Movies the Siren Loves

Notice, please, that I do not say these are all-time greats. Some of them are, some of them probably aren't, some definitely aren't. All I am saying is, I could watch any movie on this list again and again. I could watch one of these right now.

Les Enfants du Paradis
Rules of the Game
Fanny and Alexander
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Leopard
Night of the Hunter
My Man Godfrey
The Apartment
Sunset Boulevard
Witness for the Prosecution
One, Two, Three
Singin' in the Rain
The Third Man
The Fallen Idol
Odd Man Out
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Crowd
Rashomon
Yojimbo
The Searchers
Stagecoach
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
My Darling Clementine
Unforgiven
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Bonnie and Clyde
Imitation of Life (Sirk version)
All About Eve
A Letter to Three Wives
Red River
Sweet Smell of Success
Paths of Glory
All This, and Heaven Too
Mr. Skeffington
The Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
Thief of Baghdad (Powell-Pressburger version)
I Know Where I'm Going!
The Four Feathers (Korda version)
Footlight Parade
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Duck Soup
A Night at the Opera
Double Indemnity
The Awful Truth
Shadow of a Doubt
The Best Years of Our Lives
Roman Holiday
A Geisha
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Lola Montes
The Earrings of Madame de ...
Le Plaisir
Trouble in Paradise
The Shop Around the Corner
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch version)
Ninotchka
Sullivan's Travels
Viridiana
The Battle of Algiers
Giant
The Wind
Goodfellas
La Strada
The Ox-Bow Incident
Laura
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
On the Waterfront
Libeled Lady
The Women
Dinner at Eight
A Star is Born (Judy Garland version)
The Manchurian Candidate
The Gay Divorcee
Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Yi-yi (A One and a Two)
The Blue Kite
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Modern Times
Broken Blossoms
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Band Wagon
Jules and Jim
The Last Metro
Contempt
Atlantic City
Scaramouche
Quai des Orfevres
Do the Right Thing
The Godfather, Parts 1 & 2 (is this cheating?)
Portrait of Jennie
Viaggio in Italia
Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Court Jester
The Adventures of Robin Hood

What the Siren Has Learned From Making This List:

1. She's an old-fashioned gal.
2. She really, really needs to see some more silent movies.
3. She has never seen a Max Ophuls she didn't take to her heart. La Ronde barely missed the list.
4. She is a sucker for romance.
5. She should have made a longer list.

Some Movies That Form Gaping Holes in the Siren's Viewing History, and That She Wanted to Wait to See on a Big Screen, but Then She Had Kids and Moved to Toronto, So DVD It Probably Will Be:

La Dolce Vita (bought, but unviewed)
Day for Night (ditto)
Tokyo Story
Seventh Heaven
The Big Parade
Sunrise
Before the Revolution
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (silent)
Le Cercle Rouge
Touchez Pas au Grisby
Ashes and Diamonds
Aparajito and The World of Apu
Marius/Fanny/Cesar
Senso (WHY isn't this on DVD?)
Talk to Her
The Decalogue (saw only the first one)

Six Movies That the Siren Is, in All Honesty, Highly Unlikely to See Anytime Soon Because Lately She Doesn't Want Her Heart Ripped Out of Her Chest:

Shoah
Au Hasard Balthasar
Umberto D
The Bicycle Thief
City of God
Los Olvidados

Five Movies That the Siren Just Plain Doesn't Want to See, So There:

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Audition
Fight Club