After finding a few surprises on someone else’s list of top-100 films, I decided to see how closely my presumed tastes align with the real list in my head (with an extra for luck!). Well unsurprisingly the list ended up coinciding with many of my best-loved written pages. My YA love shines strong as I had to include generous hours of teen turmoil. That’s where I start my catalogue, with all genres-teenager (after a first nod to my timeless love The Princess Bride, because when someone else was my age television was called books and this one formed the basis of one of life’s few perfect films). The list continues as the mood struck; and accordingly it is arranged not in numerical order but by sentiment.

My always no. 1 -

The Princess Bride

all that teenage goodness: extremely silly, and incredibly universal …

2. Ferris Beuller’s Day Off

3. 10 Things I Hate About You

4. Can’t Hardly Wait

5. American Pie

6. Easy A

7. Mean Girls

9. Camp Nowhere

10. 17 Again

11. Sixteen Candles

12. The Duff

i love punkrock and roll …

13. Pump Up the Volume

14. Rebel Without a Cause

15. The Breakfast Club

16. Footloose (1984)

to be a teenage fangirl …

17. The Rocker

18. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

the big game’s after school today …

19. The Mighty Ducks

20. Johnny Tsunami

a little bit of wonder … 

21. Return of the Jedi

22. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

23. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

24. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

25. The Pirates of the Caribbean

26. Stardust

a little bit of young adult wonder …

27. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

28. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

29. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

30. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

31. Alice Through the Looking Glass (1985)

32. The Wizard of Oz 

33. The Goonies

34. Matilda

35. Ella Enchanted

oh, the style …

36. Le Samourai

37. Pulp Fiction

38. Moonrise Kingdom

39. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

40. Super 8

41. Breakfast at Tiffany’s

what in the world could that be …

42. Spellbound

43. Scream

44. Mars Attacks!

45. Assassination of a High School President

my heroes …

46. To Kill a Mockingbird

47. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

48. 12 Angry Men

everyone’s hero …

49. Superman Returns

50. Batman Begins

51. Batman: The Dark Knight

everyone’s villain …

52. Dangerous Liaisons

campfire tales …

53. The Shining

54. What Lies Beneath

55. Psycho

dark and stormy …

56. Rear Window

57. Strangers on a Train

58. Vertigo

59. The Big Sleep

60. Witness for the Prosecution

drive-in-esque suspense …

61. Saboteur

62. Night Train to Munich

63. Foreign Correspondent

64. Anatomy of a Murder

wear your heart on your sleeve …

65. Before Sunrise

66. Good Will Hunting

when a soul soars …

67. The Rainmaker

68. Slumdog Millionaire

the world through someone’s paintbrush …

69. Song of the Sea

70. Beauty and the Beast (Disney)

71. Sleeping Beauty (Disney)

72. Aladdin (Disney)

73. Hercules (Disney)

74. Monster’s Inc.

75. The Incredibles

76. Ratatouille

77. Lava (Pixar short)

78. The Secret of the Kells

with the smell of pine needles and ripped paper …

79. A Charlie Brown Christmas

80. Scrooged

i get by with a little help from my friends …

81. Reality Bites

82. My Fair Lady

83. Newsies

aren’t you clever …

84. To Catch a Thief

85. The Scarlett Pimpernel (1982)

86. His Girl Friday

my huckleberry friend …

87. You’ve Got Mail

88. Bridget Jones’ Diary

89. French Kiss

90. Never Been Kissed

91. Simply Irresistible

92. Love Actually

93. Sleepless in Seattle

94. Emma (1996)

95. Kissing Jessica Stein

96. When Harry Met Sally

i swoon …

97. Dirty Dancing

98. Pride and Prejudice (BBC miniseries)

a face to launch a thousand ships …

99. Casablanca

100. Jane Eyre (2011)

101. Chocolat