Favorite Movies (from each category)

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I was wondering if everybody has a specific favorite movie from categories such as action, comedy, horror, etc? Here are my most favorite movies from each category that I can think of.

Action: My favorite action film is probably Kill Bill (I count volume 1 and volume 2 as the same movie).

Comedy: My favorite comedy film is Addams Family Values, which I have watched since I was a littl kid and still enjoy it.

Horror: My favorite horror movie is Night of the Living Dead.

Other (romance, westerns, scifi, etc): The only favorite movie I can think of in this category is The Craft. I don't think it fits any specific genre but it's a cool movie I like.

Action: Die Hard (all four of them, but 1 and 3 are the best), Leon (aka The Professional), Terminator 1 & 2

Comedy: Blazing Saddles, Ghostbusters

Crime/Mystery: Purple Noon, The American Friend***, The Maltese Falcon, any of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone

Fantasy: Highlander (no idea how to categorize this movie)

Horror: Nosferatu, The Thing**, The Shining, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead

Science fiction: Blade Runner*

Western: The Dollars Trilogy (pick one, they’re all the same)

* My favorite movie
** My second favorite movie
*** My third favorite movie

This is just a quick thing I typed up. There are way too many movies I love that I could talk about all day.

Action: ALIENS

Comedy: The Naked Gun Series


Horror: The Exorcist


Batman (live or animated--hey, it's a genre): Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker


Science Fiction: Blade Runner


Western (comedy): My Name is Nobody

Western (spaghetti): Fist Full of Dollars (very different from the two other equally unique films in the series)

Western (pre-spaghetti): The Searchers

Western (post-spaghetti): High Plains Drifter

War (traditional): The Dirty Dozen

War (nontraditional, Kubrick): Full Metal Jacket

Superhero/Comic (non-Batman): X-men: First Class

Action: Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy

Comedy: Sex Drive, Pineapple Express, Tommy Boy, Step Brothers

Romance: 7 pounds,

War: Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan

Drama: Changeling, Munich, Requiem for a Dream

Horror: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Son of Sam, and Saw

I like movies that have sick psychological themes, but I am drawing a blank for some examples.

Horror: The Evil Dead 2

Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Animation: The Nightmare Before Christmas

Sci-fi: Star Wars

Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Martial Arts: The Legend of Drunken Master or Chocolate, I can't decide

Anime: Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust

Superhero: Batman Begins

Comic Book Adaptation: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Movie Universe I Wished I lived In: Harry Potter

Other: Beetlejuice

I'm going to stop now before I keep making up categories to list everything I like.

Action: Aliens, The Warriors, Predator

Comedy: Dumb and Dumber, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Kick-Ass, Beavis and Butthead Do America

Drama: Silence of the Lambs, The Shawshank Redemption, Trainspotting

Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Pan's Labyrinth

Sci-Fi: Blade Runner, Inception, District 9, The Terminator

Horror: The Exorcist, The Thing, An American Werewolf in London, Dog Soldiers

Historical: Gladiator, Apocalypto

Crime: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Casino

Thriller: Memento, American Psycho

Superhero: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight

Comic-Book Adaptation: The Crow, Hellboy 2

War: Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Apocalypse Now

Animation: Batman: Under the Red Hood, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.

Movie Universe i wished i lived in: Sin City

Action: Die Hard, Superman, Batman
Adventure: Indiana Jones, King Kong '33, Jurassic Park
Animation: Toy Story, Up, Lion King
Comedy: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Crime: Pulp Fiction, Godfather, Goodfellas
Documentary: This Film Is Not Yet Rated, King Of Kong
Drama: King's Speech, Citizen Kane, Shawshank Redemption
Fantasy: Lord Of The Rings, Princess Bride, Harry Potter
Film-Noir: Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Last Seduction
Horror: Alien, Halloween, Shaun Of The Dead
Musical: Singin' In The Rain, Beauty & The Beast, Blues Brothers
Romance: Bull Durham, City Lights, When Harry Met Sally
Sci-Fi: Star Wars, Star Trek, Back To The Future
War: Inglourious Basterds, Patton, Letters From Iwo Jima
Western: Man W/ No Name Trilogy, Unforgiven, Tombstone

Not really a fan of crime, documentary, film noir, horror, romance, war or western.

Action: The Dark Knight
Adventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Animation: Toy Story 3
Comedy: Hot Fuzz
Drama: The Shawshank Redemption
Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Musical: The Wizard of Oz
Sci-Fi: Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

Some great recommendations so far, I'll post my list up.

Action: Predator, Total Recall, The Running Man

Comedy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz

Drama: Schlinder's List, The Shawshank Redemption, American History X, Requiem for a Dream, American Beauty

Sci-Fi: Terminator, The Matrix, Inception, Twelve Monkeys, Blade Runner

Horror: Alien

Historical: Valkyrie

Crime: Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, Scarface

Thriller: American Psycho, Collateral, From Hell

Superhero: Batman (1989)

Comic-Book Adaptation: Batman, Constantine, The Crow

War: Saving Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates

Animation: Avatar and Gamer, both really stunning on Blu-Ray, probably two of the most visually stunning movies you can get that could be considered mature animation if you're not keen on watching movies like Toy Story.

Sorry, I'm crap at categorising films. And really inconsistent. And terrible at decisions.
So it's long, messy and annoying. But noone will read it so it doesn't matter.


Action: Terminator/2, Die Hards, Pulp Fiction, Jaws, Braveheart (I know I know, it's terrible.)

Adventure: Indiana Jones and the doodah of wotsit. All of them, except the last one. Jurassic Park, The Matrix, Spartacus, Towering Inferno, Cassandra Crossing, Any 70s disaster film.

Animation: The Lion King, My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausica...

Children's: Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Ice Age, Matilda, The Snowman, Wall E, Finding Neverland, The Goonies, Flight of the Navigator.

Comedy: Back to the Future, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Mary and Max.

Crime: Taxi Driver, Leon, Silence of the Lambs, Shawshank Redemption, True Romance, The one with thingy thingy and Brad Pitt, Se7en, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave.

Documentary: Etre et Avoir. I'm sure there are others, I just can't think of them.

Drama: A Beautiful Mind, The Black Narcissus, Brief Encounter, Out of Africa (swoon at both), A Room with a View, A Passage to India, Maurice, The English Patient, To Kill a Mockingbird, Schindlers List, The Pianist, Fight Club, The Truman Show, Joyeux Noel (tears).

Eighties Nostalgia: Ferris Beuller's Day Off, War Games, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Tootsie, Karate Kid, Stand By Me, Rita Sue and Bob Too, My Beautiful Launderette, Fame, Croc Dundee, Bill and Teds, Beetlejuice, The Lost Boys.

Fantasy: Lord Of The Rings, Avatar (could be in sci fi, but it feels more fantasyish to me), Poltergeist.

Horror: Omen, Pretty much every zombie film ever made even the terrible ones, Let the Right One In, An American Werewolf in London, The Birds, Halloween, 28 Days/Weeks Later, Rosemary's Baby (shiver), The Shining, The Wicker Man.

Musical: Um.... The Von Trapp one. Oh and the Meryl Streep one, just cos she looked great in dungarees, The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Snow White, The Jungle Book.

Romance: When Harry Met Sally? Errrm. Oh, North and South, except that's more of a mini-series.

Sci-Fi: 12 Monkeys, 2001etc, Alien/s, Contact, Cube, E.T., Close Encounters..., Gattaca, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Logan's Run, Star Wars II-VI, Star Treks (I can't be bothered to go through the numbers, but all except the whales), Planet of the Apes.

Sentimental/ChickFlick: What Dreams May Come, Dirty Dancing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Grease. Most things with Jodie Foster or Meryl Streep. Gah.

War/Peace/Love/Hippies: The Great Escape, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Chocolat, Into the Wild, Forrest Gump.

Don't know where to stick it: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Gandhi, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (read the book if you haven't), Don't Look Now.

Action: Terminator 2
Horror: Halloween (John Carpenter)
Sci Fi: Alien
Comedy: Airplane
SuperHero: X-men 2
Supernatural: The Fog (John Carpenter)
Alternative: Donnie Darko
Surreal: Mullholland Drive
James Bond: Live and Let Die
Teen: The Breakfast Club
Kids: Super Mario Brothers
Thriller: The Pelican Brief
Musical: Oliver
Animation: Toy Story
CGI: Avatar
True: Erin Brokavich
Historic: Elizabeth
Christmas: A Nightmare Before Christmas
Hitchcock: The Birds

Horror - The Thing (Carpenter remake), Alien, Cthulhu, Reanimator, Angel Heart

Scifi - Original Star Wars Trilogy, Blade Runner

Fantasy - Conan The Barbarian (original and remake), Lord Of The Rings trilogy

Western - The Wild Bunch, Tombstone

War - Valkyrie, Night Of The Generals, Cross Of Iron, Full Metal Jacket

Comedy - The Big Lebowski, Chuck And Buck, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Comic Book Adaption - The Watchmen, Batman The Dark Knight, Captain America

Historical - JFK, The Alamo (remake)

Crime - The Usual Suspects, LA Confidential, Blue Velvet

Drama - The Whole Wide World, Bar Fly, Joe Gould's Book, Beat

Documentaries - Grizzly Man. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Defies Description[i] - Eraser Head, Naked Lunch, Brand On The Brain

This list is apt to change, and to have additions made to it.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Action: Crank
Horror: [Rec], Paranormal Activity and The Last Exorcism.
Comedy: Boat Trip, though I was a lot younger when I saw it.
Thriller?: The Departed

I'm not sure which category these fit into.. Requiem for a Dream and Sleuth (remake). Last one is Man Bites Dog. Fake documentary maybe? I don't know.

Just a short quick list

Action: Batman
Adventure: Jurassic Park
Comedy/fantasy: Little Nicky, Lord Of The Rings,Harry Potter
Horror: Halloween, Silent hill, jason
Sci-Fi: Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar, caprica