Movies of note

[The following list is based on my present memory of how I enjoyed and felt about the movies. Memory is deceptive, so the list might have been different, had I considered each movie at the very moment I watched it. When I started watching movies in my teens, I watched them at random and they were from Hollywood, Bollywood, or Dhallywood. Then I started watching movies that had familiar and favorite actors in them, still from Hollywood mostly. Eventually I became adventurous; I watched movies based on directors, from different countries, from different times.

     I have grown some intuition about IMDB's rating, e.g., I can feel the difference between ratings like: 7.2, 7.6, 8.0, 8.4, etc.; because I know a few movies of each of those ratings and I think a quick comparison takes place in my subconscious whenever a need arises. Although for me, IMDB (its rating and user reviews) has been a useful filter to sieve out bad movies, occasionally I have enjoyed a movie with a rating of 7.3 as much as I have enjoyed one with a rating of 8 or even higher. Finally I always watched a movie solely for my own enjoyment; so if you care to watch from my list, I am sorry if it fails to entertain you as much.]

Horror:

1. The Shining (1980): You do not see the mess (bloody innards, green excreta, etc.) so common in horror movies; you see the minimalistic art of Kubrick. I particularly love the scenes at the bar: the easy chitchat that shows Torrace's intimacy with Lloyd, the bartender, as if they know each other for ages; Grady's suggestive tone. The openning music is pregnant with omen. 
2. The Exorcist (1973): Slowly and surely it gets a grip on you, you feel helpless.  
3. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
4. The Omen (1976)
5. The Others (2001)
6. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
7. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
8. Diabolique (1955)
9. Repulsion (1965)

Mystery or Thriller:

1. Rear Window (1954): James Stewart is perfect for the character.
2. Sleuth (1972)
3. The 39 Steps (1935)
4. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
5. Black Swan (2010)
6. The Conversation (1974)
7. Blow-up (1966)
8. Buried (2010)

Crime:

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. Se7en (1995)
3. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
4. Fargo (1996)
5. To Kill a Mocking Bird (1962)

Drama:

1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959)
3. Barry Lyndon (1975)
4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
5. All the President's Men (1976)
6. A Separation (2011)
7. The King of Comedy (1983)
8. Scent of a Woman (1992)
9. Knife in the Water (1962)
10. Hud (1963)

Animation:

1. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
2. Spirited Away (2001)
3. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
4. Ratatouille (2007)
5. Up (2009)
6. Mary and Max (2009)
7. Wallace and Gromit (everything)
8. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
9. Finding Nemo (2003)
10. Ice Age (2002)
11. When the Wind Blows (1986)

Sci-Fi:

1. Jurassic Park (1993)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3. Alien (1979), Aliens (1986)
4. Terminator 2 (1991)
5. Back to the Future Trilogy (1985-1990)
6. The Matrix (1999)
7. Avatar (2009)

Romance:

1. City Lights (1931)
2. The Earrings of Madam de... (1953)
3. Brief Encounter (1945)
4. The Apartment (1960)
5. It Happened One Night (1934)
6. L'eclisse (1962)
7. Midnight in Paris (2011)
8. Sunrise (1927)

Adventure:

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
2. Jaws (1975)
3. Deliverance (1972)

Action:

1. Gladiator (2000)
2. Braveheart (1995)
3. The Bourne Trilogy (2002-2007)

Western:

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) 
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
3. High Noon (1952)

Comedy:

1. Carnage (2011)
2. Paper Moon (1973)
3. The Graduate (1967)
4. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
5. The Truman Show (1998)

Musical:

1. Les Misérables (2012)