very good films:

These movies are very good, even great, but just don't affect me on the same level as the movies on my favorite movies page. people will perhaps relate to these films more because they tend not to have as much of my personal baggage, or maybe not.

movie

year

director

runtime(s)

in minutes

on DVD?

blu-ray?

aspect ratio  color?
grand hotel 1932 edmund goulding 112 yes no ? b&w
mr. smith goes to washington 1939 frank capra 125 yes no 1.37:1 b&w
gone with the wind 1939 victor fleming 220-234 yes yes 1.37:1 color
the philadelphia story 1940 george cukor 112 yes no 1.37:1 b&w
his girl friday 1940 howard hawks 92 yes no 1.37:1 b&w
citizen kane 1941 orson welles 119 yes yes 1.37:1 b&w
sullivan's travels 1941 preston sturges 90 yes no 1.37:1 b&w
magnificent ambersons 1942 orson welles 88 yes no 1.37:1 b&w
the more the merrier 1943 george stevens 104 yes no 1.37:1 b&w
spellbound 1945 alfred hitchcock 107-111 yes yes 1.37:1 b&w
rear window 1954 alfred hitchcock 107-113 yes no 1.37:1 color
written on the wind 1956 douglas sirk 99-100 yes no 1.77:1 color
baby doll 1956 elia kazan 110-114 yes no ? b&w
some came running 1958 vincente minnelli 137 yes no 2.35:1 color
pillow talk 1959 michael gordon 105 yes soon 2.35:1 color
psycho (1960) 1960 alfred hitchcock 108-109 yes yes 1.37ofm/1.85:1 b&w
this sporting life 1963 lindsay anderson 134 yes no 1.66:1 b&w
patch of blue 1965 guy green 105 yes no 2.35:1 b&w
the pawnbroker 1965 sidney lumet 116 yes no ? b&w
seconds 1966 john frankenheimer 100 yes no ? b&w
the ear (ucho) 1970 karel kachyna 94 yes no ? b&w
dirty harry 1971 don siegel 102 yes yes 2.35:1 color
gandhi 1982 richard attenborough 188 yes yes 2.35:1 color
tron 1982 steven lisberger 96 yes yes 2.20:1 color
nostalghia 1983 andrei tarkovsky 120-130 yes no 1.66:1 color
koyaanisqatsi 1983 godfrey reggio 86-87 yes no ? color
paris, texas 1984 wim wenders 146-150 yes yes ? color
something wild 1986 jonathan demme 113-114 yes yes ? color
withnail and i 1987 bruce robinson 107 yes yes ? color
drowning by numbers 1987 peter greenaway 119 import no ? color
akira 1988 katsuhiro otomo 124 yes yes 2.20:1 color
letters from a dead man 1989 konstantin lopushansky 88 no no ? color
la femme nikita 1990 luc besson 112-115 yes yes 2.35:1 color
prime suspect 1 1990 christopher menaul 207 yes no ? color
delicatessen 1991 m caro/j-p. jeunet 99-100 yes yes ? color
anima mundi 1991 godfrey reggio 28 yes no 1.85:1 color
silence of the lambs 1991 jonathan demme 115-118 yes yes 1.85:1 color
defending your life 1991 albert brooks 112 yes no ? color
supercop 1992 stanley tong 95 yes yes 2.35:1 color
visions of light 1992 a. glassman/t. mccarthy 92 yes no 1.33-2.35:1 color
the player 1992 robert altman 123-124 yes yes 1.85:1 color
a heart in winter 1992 claude sautet 104-105 yes no ? color
tales of the city 1993 alastair reid 360 yes no ? color
groundhog day 1993 harold ramis 101 yes yes 1.85:1 color
barcelona 1994 whit stillman 101 yes no 1.85:1 color
leon: the professional 1994 luc besson 106-130 yes yes 2.35:1 color
strange days 1995 kathryn bigelow 139/145 yes no 2.35:1 color
so wrong they're right 1995 russ forster 92 yes no ? color
heavy 1995 james mangold 104-115 yes no 1.85:1 color
shine 1996 scott hicks 104-105 yes no 1.85:1 color
chasing amy 1997 kevin smith 105/111 yes yes 1.85:1 color
liar liar 1997 tom shadyac 86-99 yes yes 1.85:1 color
clockwatchers 1997 jill sprecher 96 yes no 1.85:1 color
lewis and clark 1997 ken burns ? yes no ? color
unmade beds 1997 nicholas barker 95 yes no 1.66:1 color
gadjo dilo 1998 tony gatlif 100 yes no ? color
elizabeth 1998 shekhar kapur 121-124 yes yes 1.66:1 color
eyes wide shut 1999 stanley kubrick 159 yes yes 1.85:1 color
an ideal husband 1999 oliver parker 97 yes no ? color
american beauty 1999 sam mendes 117-122 yes yes 2.35:1 color
memento 2000 christopher nolan 113 yes yes 2.35:1 color
cinemania 2002 christlieb/kijak 83 yes no ? color
my flesh and blood 2003 jonathan karsh 83 yes no ? color
oldboy 2003 chan-wook park 120 yes yes 2.35:1 color
head-on 2004 fatih akin 121 yes no 1.85:1 color
conversations with other women 2005 hans canosa 84 yes no 2.35:1 color
perfume 2006 tom tykwer 147 yes import 2.35:1 color
after the wedding 2006 susanne bier 120 yes no 1.85:1 color
           

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