Best movies I have ever watched so far

Last updated on October 12, 2023

As rating and criticizing a movie is not an easy task for a non-film critic, this list is just a compilation of the movies that I consider the best. It is not arranged in any particular order.

The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola

1974

O Auto da Compadecida

Guel Arraes

2000

Cidade de Deus

Fernando Meirelles

2002

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

1979

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick

1971

American History X

Tony Kaye

1998

Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino

2009

Sorcerer

William Friedkin

1977

Top Gun

Tony Scott

1986

Top Gun - Maverick

Joseph Kosinski

2022

Legends of the Fall

Edward Zwick

1994

Casino

Martin Scorsese

1995

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese

1976

7 Prisioneiros

Alexandre Moratto

2021

Shutter Island

Martin Scorsese

2010

The Wolf of Wall Street

Martin Scorsese

2013

Fight Club

David Fincher

1999

Forest Gump

Robert Zemeckis

1994

The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont

1994

Bicho de Sete Cabeças

Laís Bodanzky

2000

Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg

1993

Erin Brockovich

Steven Soderbergh

2000

Saving Private Ryan

Steven Spielberg

1998

Heat

Michael Mann

1995

Carandiru

Hector Babenco

2003

The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme

1991

Gladiator

Ridley Scott

2000

The Departed

Martin Scorsese

2006

A Beautiful Mind

Ron Howard

2001

Good Will Hunting

Gus Van Sant

1997

Catch Me If You Can

Steven Spielberg

2002

Cidade Baixa

Sergio Machado

2005

Pretty Woman

Garry Marshall

1990

L.A. Confidential

Curtis Hanson

1997

Casa Grande

Fellipe Barbosa

2014

Collateral

Michael Mann

2004

Rain Man

Barry Levinson

1998

Ray

Taylor Hackford

2004

Malcolm X

Spike Lee

1992

Flight

Robert Zemeckis

2012

Fences

Denzel Washington

2016

Sully

Clint Eastwood

2016

Querô

Carlos Cortez

2007

Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan

2017

Captain Phillips

Paul Greengrass

2013

American Sniper

Clint Eastwood

2014

Sleepers

Barry Levinson

1996

Hacksaw Ridge

Mel Gibson

2016

The Imitation Game

Morten Tyldum

2014

Fury

David Ayer

2014

The Revenant

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

2015

The Theory of Everything

James Marsh

2014

Wasp Network

Olivier Assayas

2019

The Great Gatsby

Baz Luhrmann

2013

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino

2019

Apocalypto

Mel Gibson

2006

Apollo 13

Ron Howard

1995

300

Zack Snyder

2006

Pearl Harbor

Michael Bay

2001

Robin Hood

Ridley Scott

2010

Titanic

James Cameron

1997

Sergio

Greg Barker

2020

Richard Jewell

Clint Eastwood

2019

The Flowers of War

Yimou Zhang

2011

The Human Stain

Robert Benton

2003

The Long Walk Home

Richard Pearce

1990

A Time to Kill

Joel Schumacher

1996

Platoon

Oliver Stone

1986

Dead Man Walking

Tim Robbins

1995

Capote

Bennett Miller

2005

The Pianist

Roman Polanski

2002

The Hunt

Thomas Vinterberg

2012

Fracture

Gregory Hoblit

2007

Girl, Interrupted

James Mangold

1999

The Bone Collector

Phillip Noyce

1999

Vanilla Sky

Cameron Crowe

2001

The Big Short

Adam McKay

2015

Moneyball

Bennett Miller

2011

Primal Fear

Gregory Hoblit

1996

Hidden Figures

Theodore Melfi

2016

Spotlight

Tom McCarthy

2015

Ronin

John Frankenheimer

1998