Ones worth watching at least 2-3 times; and studying a few even more...
1. The Stand Original Miniseries
(not the recent inferior, at times hokey, one)
2. North and South Miniseries
3. Breaking Bad
(best dramatic tragedy TV series ever)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(endlessly thematically deep movie though it has
a few unnecessary bad scenes)
5. On the Waterfront
6. Star Wars-Empire Strikes Back duo
7. Dr. Zhivago
8. Original Star Trek, (some amazing episodes) and Star Trek:NG (a few powerful episodes)
8. Casablanca
(didn't get tired of this amazing classic,
until I had re-watched, studied the film 11 times!)
9. Sommersby
(very creative script and great acting; at times overly idealistic take on post-Civil War
South that has deeply moral themes
10. States of Grace
(deeply spiritual drama, powerful except for very long excessively slow ending)
11. A Stranger Among Us
(powerful moral story of devout Jewish view of reality versus secular police officers’ view)
12. Time Cop
(great futuristic time travel movie with unexpected plot twists)
13. The Sixth Day
14. Total Recall
(despite gratuitous scenes and excessive lethal violence)
15. Terminator 2
(despite intense over-done violent attack by mother of hero)
16. Sleepy Hollow
(intriguing adaption of the classic American literature story
by Washington Irving)
17. Savior
(powerful moral story of modern war in former Yugoslavia,
at times too realistic such as its constant gross cursing in every scene;
so weird that almost all indviduals in the military constantly use profanity and obscenity
in their speech:-( AFter I retired from teaching, I drove--moved cars around California for rental
agencies; but the 4 drivers I wroekd with constantly cursed and told me that the only reason I didn't
is because I hadn't been in the army.)
18. Bruce Almighty
(best comic, thematic, moral, spiritual movie ever)
19. Oblivion (s-f wonder
(but has brief gratuitous swim scene and unbelievable, anachronistic ball-glove-50’s episode)
20. Interstellar
21. Face-Off
(fascinating s-f story with deep moral dilemmas, contrasting a law-focused, though rigid, police
with an sociopathic, though fascinating, terroist;
despite extreme graphic slaughter and hard-to-believe abusive futuristic prison episode)
22. Contact
23. District 9
(most creative, suspenseful, at times tragic, and comic
by South African director)
19. Flight of the Navigator
(very best s-f Disney movie back when there wasn't CGI)
20. By the Sword Divided Miniseries,
(intense BBC English Civil War drama)
21. The Mask
(hilarious way-out-there creative comedy,
despite one brief gross scene)
22. Roads to Freedom BBC/PBS Miniseries
from Jean-Paul Sartre's complex novel trilogy
(about 20th century Europe's politcal, philsophical, moral dilmenas;
though I feel ambivalent including it now that I know the horrific facts of Sartre's
and Simone deBeauvoir’s immoral and unjust lives
—including her grooming many girl students
for his sexual exploitation, and her own,
and their horrific—almost impossible to understand
strong support of Stalin and the Soviet Union!)
23. A Sound of Thunder
(s-f short story by Ray Bradbury)
24. Modern Times
25. The Time Machine (original)
26. What Dreams May Come
27. Lost
(1st season only;
after that it became cheesy with contradictions and lame stuff)
28. Logan’s Run
29. Planet of the Apes
(liked this classic; watched it 2 or 3 times in a row when I 1st
saw it in the theatre in 1968)
30. Centennial Miniseries
31. Shogun Miniseries
(dated now, but when 1st shown was powerful)
32. The Terminator
(despite extreme graphic slaughter)
33. Romeo and Juliet
(60’s, 1st version)
34. The Outer Limits TV series
(some creative s-f episodes)
35. The Twilight Zone
(many s-f episodes)
36. The Expanse TV Series
(1st season only)
37. a few episodes of the terror drama, 24
38. V Minseries (1983)
39. Heroes (1st season though too episodic)
40. The Walking Dead
(1st season only)
41. The Piano and Who’s on First --Abbot and Costello
42.Sense8
(creative plot/characters/themes but ruined by
nearly constant graphic immoral behavior)
43.The Fugitive
44. The Day the Earth Stood Still
45.Easy Rider
46. Combat TV series
(WW2 war drama)
47. Sea Hunt
48. Kindergarten Cop
(intriguing comedy-thriller, but
the climatic conclusion is way-too-excessively violent)
49. Falling Down
50. Oh God!
(classic comedy with Burns as 'God')
51. Dead Poet Society
(Robin Williams as the creative teacher,
a coming-of-age story,
though it is too 60ish cliched)
52.Over There
(realistic Iraq war story, a few episodes)
53. China Beach TV Series
(a few episodes, especially
one about the moral dilemma of whether or not medical staff
ought to try and save the life of a Viet Cong terrorist leader
54. Boys in Company C/Born on the 4th of July/Deer Hunter
(powerful Vietnam War movies)
55. Ghost in the Shell
(amazingly original Japanese anime movie
56. Simpsons
(a few hilarious episodes)
57. Rocky and Bullwinkle
(cartoon with hidden allusions and jokes for
parents watching with their kids)
58. Wizard of OZ
58. The Flinstones
58. Top Cat
(60's animation popular with us kids back then)
59. Shane
(most famous classic western)
60. Z
(intense politcal drama about the modern Greek dictatorship)
ALSO MENTIONS:
The Sound of Music
some Woody Allan creative movies such as Annie Hall
(though now I avoid his movies because of his immoral actions that have come out)
The China Syndrome
The Winds of War Miniseries
(based upon Herman Wouk's WW2 novels)
Testimony of 2 Men
Against the Wind Miniseries
Titanic
The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
Dr. Who British fantasy-sf series
(a few episodes)
Zorro TV series
(my dad and I used to watch that when I was a kid)
In the Light,
Dan Wilcox
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