Entertain|Mental Movie Master Guide
- Ilana Davis
- 2 days ago
- 13 min read
Every movie I can remember watching, from childhood favorites and blockbusters to existential sci-fi and films I’d rather forget.
Last updated: August 2026
I have watched a lot of movies. How many? This is my attempt to find out.
What began as scattered lists across Letterboxd, old articles, entries from my AMC app, and whatever titles I can recover from the grips of my memory has become this: a (hopefully) comprehensive collection of every movie I have ever seen.
The categories are loose, because movies - like people - might transcend rudimentary definition. Some are organized by genre, others by studio, franchise, or cinematic universe. There is no real science to it.
There are almost certainly movies missing. There may be movies I watched fifteen years ago and have since wiped entirely from my consciousness. I’ll add them when they come back to me in a brief wave of nostalgia.
This is less a definitive list than a running record of movies I loved, movies I hated, movies I barely remember, and the hundreds of fictional worlds I have willingly disappeared into for approximately two hours at a time.
The Movie Master Guide at a Glance
· 700+ listed movies
· 16 major sections
· 1902: earliest film represented: A Trip to the Moon
· Always growing: collection/franchise entries may represent multiple individual films, so the true film count is higher than the number of listed entries.
How to Use This Guide
Inclusion is not endorsement. Some of these movies are favorites. Some I never need to see again. This is an archive, not a ranking - a record of what I’ve watched rather than a declaration of what everyone else should.
★ = also appears in my All-Time Favorites guide.
Science Fiction / Cerebral / Mind-Bending
Space, consciousness, artificial intelligence, alternate realities and the occasional existential crisis.
· 2001: A Space Odyssey
· The Adam Project
· Akira
· Annihilation
· Another Earth
· Arrival ★
· Asteroid City
· Being John Malkovich ★
· Blade Runner
· The Butterfly Effect
· Cloud Atlas
· Cloverfield
· The Creator
· Disclosure Day
· Donnie Darko ★
· Elysium
· Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
· Everything Everywhere All at Once
· Ex Machina ★
· The Fifth Element
· The Fountain
· Free Guy
· Frequencies
· Her ★
· I Origins ★
· I, Robot
· Inception
· Independence Day
· Interstellar ★
· K-PAX
· Life ★
· The Mandela Effect
· The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
· Megalopolis
· Mickey 17
· Moon
· Mr. Nobody
· Other Life
· The Platform
· Predestination
· Project Hail Mary ★
· Project Power
· Prometheus
· Self/less
· Sound of My Voice
· Stargate
· Tau
· Tenet
· They Cloned Tyrone
· TRON: Legacy
· The Truman Show
· V for Vendetta
· Voyagers
· Waking Life ★
· What Happened to Monday
· Until the End of the World
Drama / Emotional / Character-Driven
Complicated people, complicated lives, and enough emotional damage to last well beyond the credits.
· 2 Hearts
· 8 Mile ★
· A Beautiful Mind
· Aftersun
· Anora
· The Assistant
· Babylon
· Big Eyes
· Black Swan
· A Complete Unknown
· Captain Fantastic
· Dallas Buyers Club
· Dead Poets Society
· Diary of a Teenage Girl ★
· Eat Pray Love
· The Elephant Man
· The Fallout
· Fatherhood
· F1
· The Fault in Our Stars
· The Florida Project
· Forrest Gump ★
· Garden State ★
· Gifted
· Good Will Hunting
· The Green Mile
· Hamnet ★
· The Help
· Hillbilly Elegy
· His Three Daughters
· Honey Boy
· The Holdovers ★
· Hunt for the Wilderpeople
· If Anything Happens I Love You
· Inside Llewyn Davis ★
· Instant Family
· Into the Wild
· It's Kind of a Funny Story
· Judas and the Black Messiah
· The King of Staten Island
· Lars and the Real Girl
· Let Them All Talk
· The Life Ahead
· The Lobster
· Manchester by the Sea
· Malcolm & Marie
· Marty Supreme
· Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ★
· Mile End Kicks
· Moonlight
· My Suicide/Archie’s Final Project
· One Battle After Another
· One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
· The Only Living Boy in New York
· The Perks of Being a Wallflower ★
· Penguin Bloom
· The Pursuit of Happyness
· Rain Man
· Remarkably Bright Creatures
· Requiem for a Dream ★
· Room
· The Royal Tenenbaums
· Saturday Night
· The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ★
· Spencer
· Synecdoche, New York
· The Theory of Everything
· To the Bone
· The Tree of Life
· The Two Popes
· The Virgin Suicides
· Whiplash
· What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Romance / Romantic Drama / Rom-Com
Meet-cutes, breakups, impossible timing and people making extremely questionable decisions in the name of love.
· (500) Days of Summer ★
· 2:22 ★
· 27 Dresses
· 365 Days
· 50 First Dates
· About Time ★
· The Age of Adaline ★
· Anna Karenina
· Anyone But You
· Before Sunrise (Trilogy) ★
· Before We Go ★
· The Big Sick
· Brokeback Mountain
· Call Me by Your Name
· Challengers
· Charlie St. Cloud
· Crazy, Stupid, Love.
· Dan in Real Life
· Dirty Dancing
· Eternity
· Fifty Shades of Grey
· Happiest Season
· High Fidelity ★
· It Ends with Us
· Like Crazy
· Little Women
· Love Actually
· The Lovebirds
· Materialists
· Melancholia ★
· The Nanny Diaries
· Never Let Me Go ★
· Newness
· No Strings Attached
· The Notebook
· Notting Hill ★
· One Night Only
· Pretty Woman
· Pride & Prejudice
· The Proposal
· A Rainy Day in New York
· Remember Me ★
· Romeo + Juliet
· Safe Haven
· Sex and the City
· The Secretary
· The Shape of Water ★
· Silver Linings Playbook ★
· Sylvie's Love
· The Time Traveler's Wife
· Titanic
· Water for Elephants
· West Side Story (2021)
· When Harry Met Sally... ★
· Winter's Tale
· The Worst Person in the World
· Wuthering Heights
Comedy / Dark Comedy / Satire
Absurd people, uncomfortable situations, social commentary and varying degrees of secondhand embarrassment.
· 21 Jump Street
· Afterlife of the Party
· American Pie
· American Ultra
· Asteroid City
· Barbie
· Between Two Ferns: The Movie ★
· Boogie Nights
· Borat
· Bottoms
· The Bubble
· Bugonia
· Click
· Coming 2 America
· Dinner for Schmucks
· Don't Look Up ★
· Elf
· Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
· 5 Star Christmas
· Friendship ★
· The French Dispatch
· Funny People
· The Grand Budapest Hotel
· Groundhog Day
· The Hangover
· Idiocracy ★
· The Interview
· The Invite
· I Love Boosters
· Inglorious Basterds
· Jojo Rabbit
· Little Miss Sunshine
· Meet the Parents ★
· Monty Python and the Holy Grail
· Napoleon Dynamite
· No Hard Feelings
· Novocaine
· The Oath
· One of Them Days
· Palm Springs
· The Royal Tenebaums
· Shallow Hal ★
· The Skeleton Twins ★
· Sorry to Bother You
· Spaceballs
· Stranger Than Fiction ★
· Superbad
· Superintelligence
· Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
· Ted ★
· The 40-Year-Old Virgin
· This Is the End
· The Simpsons Movie
· Tropic Thunder
· Uptown Girls ★
· What We Do in the Shadows
Teen / Coming-of-Age / Youth
First loves, bad decisions, identity crises and the general horror of figuring out who you are.
· 10 Things I Hate About You
· Almost Famous ★
· Aquamarine
· Booksmart
· Boy ★
· Boyhood
· Clueless
· Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
· Easy A ★
· The Edge of Seventeen
· Eighth Grade
· The Female Brain
· He's All That
· Heathers ★
· Ingrid Goes West
· Jennifer's Body ★
· Juno
· Lady Bird ★
· Legally Blonde
· Manic
· Mean Girls
· Not Another Teen Movie ★
· Project X ★
· Seventeen Again
· Sex Appeal
· Sixteen Candles
· Stand By Me ★
· The Spectacular Now
· Thirteen ★
Horror / Psychological Horror
Less about the jump scare; more about the feeling that something is deeply, irreparably wrong.
· 10 Cloverfield Lane
· American Psycho
· Backrooms
· Bodies Bodies Bodies
· The Bride!
· The Blair Witch Project
· The Devil All the Time
· The Devil's Advocate
· Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
· False Positive
· Frankenstein (2025) ★
· Get Out
· Halloween ★
· Heretic
· Horns
· In the Tall Grass
· Insidious
· Last Night in Soho ★
· MaXXXine
· M3GAN
· Midsommar
· The Monkey
· The Neon Demon
· Nightmare Alley
· Nope
· Nosferatu
· The Other Lamb
· Pearl ★
· Rosemary's Baby ★
· Run ★
· Sinners
· Speak No Evil
· The Shining
· The Silence of the Lambs
· The Substance
· Train to Busan
· Us ★
· X ★
Crime / Thriller / Suspense
Murder, mystery, obsession, conspiracy and people who really should have minded their own business.
· A Simple Favor
· Before I Go to Sleep
· Blink Twice
· Catch Me If You Can ★
· Civil War
· Conclave
· Contagion ★
· The Da Vinci Code ★
· The Departed ★
· Eyes Wide Shut ★
· The Girl on the Train
· The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
· Gone Girl
· The Happening
· The Hateful Eight
· The Housemaid
· The Killing of a Sacred Deer
· The Little Things
· Momento
· Mulholland Drive
· Nightcrawler
· Obsession (2025) ★
· Old ★
· Olympus Has Fallen
· Parasite
· The Prestige ★
· The Purge
· Saltburn ★
· Se7en
· The Shawshank Redemption
· Shutter Island
· Trap ★
· Tower Heist
· The Usual Suspects
· The Voyeurs
· The Wave
· White House Down
· Zodiac
Disaster / Dystopia / Adventure
The world is ending, society is collapsing, nature is fighting back—and somehow there is still time for a little adventure.
· 2012 ★
· Apocalypto
· Children of Men
· The Day After Tomorrow ★
· Divergent
· Dunkirk
· Greenland ★
· The Impossible ★
· Isle of Dogs ★
· Jungle Cruise
· Life of Pi
· Love and Monsters
· The Maze Runner
· The Odyssey ★
· The Princess Bride
· Red Notice
· San Andreas
· Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
· The Sorcerer's Apprentice ★
· World War Z
· Zombieland
Cult / Alternative / Auteur
Strange people, stranger worlds and movies that seem largely uninterested in behaving like normal movies.
· A Clockwork Orange ★
· Animal House ★
· Dazed and Confused ★
· Fight Club
· The Menu
· Phantom of Liberty
· Poor Things ★
· Pulp Fiction
· Trainspotting ★
· Vanilla Sky
· Withnail and I
Historical / Biographical / Epic
Real people, reconstructed histories, larger-than-life figures and the occasional creative liberty.
· A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
· Amadeus ★
· Apocalypse Now
· The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
· Elvis ★
· The Great Gatsby ★
· Gladiator II
· House of Gucci
· Inglourious Basterds
· O Brother, Where Art Thou? ★
· Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ★
· Oppenheimer
· The Post
· Saving Mr. Banks
· Schindler's List ★
· The Social Network ★
· Sully
· Taxi Driver
· Train Dreams
· The Trial of the Chicago 7
Musical / Music-Centered
Big voices, bigger emotions, memorable soundtracks and the firm belief that sometimes dialogue simply isn't enough.
· Annette
· Bohemian Rhapsody
· Burlesque
· Chicago
· Dicks: The Musical ★
· The Greatest Showman
· Hadestown: The Musical
· In the Heights
· Into the Woods
· La La Land
· Les Misérables ★
· Mamma Mia!
· Mary Poppins
· Moulin Rouge! ★
· Pitch Perfect ★
· The Phantom of the Opera ★
· Rent ★
· Rocketman
· The Rocky Horror Picture Show ★
· School of Rock
· The Testament of Ann Lee
· Tick, Tick... Boom!
· Wicked ★
· Wicked: For Good ★
· Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
· Wonka
· Yesterday ★
Classics
The movies that helped make movies what they are—and a few reminders that people have always been weird.
· A Trip to the Moon
· Back to the Future
· The Breakfast Club
· Citizen Kane ★
· Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
· E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
· Gone with the Wind
· The Graduate ★
· It's a Wonderful Life ★
· Jason and the Argonauts
· Metropolis ★
· Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
· Psycho
· Rebel Without a Cause
· Romeo and Juliet
· To Kill a Mockingbird
· Vertigo
· The Wizard of Oz ★
· West Side Story (1961)
A BRIEF INTERMISSION
At some point, keeping a list of movies becomes less about remembering what you've watched and more about realizing how many fictional universes you've voluntarily entered.
Family / Animation
The childhood archive: animated kingdoms, museums that come alive, and a substantial Disney Channel Original Movie education.
· Anastasia
· Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
· Coraline ★
· Enola Holmes
· Fantastic Mr. Fox
· Happy Feet
· Ice Age ★
· The Iron Giant
· Marley & Me ★
· Night at the Museum ★
· The Nightmare Before Christmas
· The Parent Trap ★
· Peter Pan (2003) ★
· The Polar Express
· The Secret Garden
· The Sheep Detectives ★
· Smallfoot ★
· Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ★
· Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
· We Bought a Zoo
DreamWorks
· Antz
· The Bee Movie ★
· The Road to El Dorado
· Flushed Away
· How to Train Your Dragon
· Kung Fu Panda (Collection)
· Madagascar ★
· Megamind
· Minions (Collection)
· The Prince of Egypt
· Puss in Boots ★
· Puss in Boots: The Last Wish ★
· Shark Tale
· Shrek (Collection) ★
· Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas ★
· Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron
· The Wild Robot ★
Disney/Pixar
Disney Animation/Walt Disney Studios
· Alice in Wonderland ★
· Atlantis: The Lost Empire ★
· The Aristocats
· Bambi
· Big Hero 6
· Brother Bear
· Disney Princesses (Collection)
· Dumbo
· The Emperor's New Groove
· The Fox and the Hound
· Hercules
· The Hunchback of Notre Dame
· The Jungle Book
· Lady and the Tramp
· The Lion King ★
· Meet the Robinsons
· Oliver & Company
· One Hundred and One Dalmatians
· Peter Pan ★
· Pinocchio
· Tarzan ★
· Treasure Planet
· Zootopia ★
Pixar
· A Bug’s Life
· Cars
· Finding Nemo
· Finding Dory
· Hoppers
· The Incredibles
· Inside Out ★
· Monsters, Inc.
· Ratatouille
· Soul ★
· Up ★
· WALL-E ★
Disney Channel Original Movies (DCOMS)
· Avalon High
· Cadet Kelly
· Camp Rock
· The Cheetah Girls ★
· The Color of Friendship ★
· Halloweentown ★
· High School Musical (Collection) ★
· Jump In!
· Lemonade Mouth
· Minutemen
· Pixel Perfect ★
· Smart House
· Stuck in the Suburbs ★
· The Thirteenth Year ★
· Twitches
· Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century ★
Studio Ghibli
· The Boy and the Heron
· Castle in the Sky
· Grave of the Fireflies ★
· Howl’s Moving Castle ★
· Kiki’s Delivery Service
· My Neighbor Totoro
· Princess Mononoke
· Spirited Away ★
Superhero/Comic Book
Superpowers, secret identities, several Batmen and enough alternate timelines to make continuity increasingly questionable.
MCU (Multiverse)
· Iron Man
· Iron Man 2
· Thor
· Captain America: The First Avenger
· The Avengers
· Iron Man 3
· Thor: The Dark World
· Captain America: The Winter Soldier ★
· Guardians of the Galaxy
· Avengers: Age of Ultron
· Ant-Man
· Captain America: Civil War
· Doctor Strange
· Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
· Spider-Man: Homecoming
· Thor: Ragnarok
· Black Panther
· Avengers: Infinity War
· Ant-Man and the Wasp
· Captain Marvel
· Avengers: Endgame ★
· Spider-Man: Far From Home
· Black Widow
· Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
· Eternals
· Spider-Man: No Way Home ★
· Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
· Thor: Love and Thunder
· Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
· Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
· Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
· The Marvels
· Captain America: Brave New World
· Thunderbolts* ★
· The Fantastic Four: First Steps
· Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Spider-Man (Raimi)
· Spider-Man ★
· Spider-Man 2
· Spider-Man 3
The Amazing Spider-Man
· The Amazing Spider-Man
· The Amazing Spider-Man 2
X-Men
· X-Men ★
· X2: X-Men United
· X-Men: The Last Stand
· X-Men: First Class ★
· X-Men: Days of Future Past ★
· X-Men: Apocalypse
· Dark Phoenix
Wolverine
· X-Men Origins: Wolverine
· The Wolverine
· Logan ★
Deadpool
· Deadpool
· Deadpool 2
· Deadpool & Wolverine
DCEU
· Man of Steel
· Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
· Suicide Squad
· Wonder Woman
· Justice League
· Aquaman
· Shazam!
· Birds of Prey
· Wonder Woman 1984
· The Suicide Squad
· Black Adam
· Shazam! Fury of the Gods
· The Flash
· Blue Beetle
· Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Batman (Burton/Schumacher)
· Batman
· Batman Returns
· Batman Forever
· Batman & Robin
The Dark Knight Trilogy
· Batman Begins
· The Dark Knight ★
· The Dark Knight Rises ★
Standalone/Other
· The Batman (2022)
· Joker
· Kick-Ass ★
· Superman (2025)
· Supergirl (2026)
· Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ★
· Sky High ★
Major Franchises
The worlds that refused to end after two hours—and that I willingly kept returning to anyway.
· 007 / James Bond (Collection)
· 28 Days/Weeks/Years Later ★
· Alien
· Avatar
· Dune
· Fast & Furious
· Final Destination (Collection)
· Harry Potter ★
· Indiana Jones
· The Hunger Games ★
· The Lord of the Rings
· The Matrix
· Narnia ★
· Pirates of the Caribbean
· Planet of the Apes ★
· Scary Movie
· Scream
· Star Wars
· Twilight Saga
Documentaries
Real people, real events and occasional proof that reality can be stranger than anything in the sections above.
· The AI Doc: Or How I Learned to Become an Apocaloptimist ★
· The American Meme
· Bigger Stronger Faster*
· Death to 2020 ★
· A Glitch in the Matrix
· In & of Itself
· Jonestown: Paradise Lost
· Life in a Day
· Life, Animated
· Lorne ★
· RBG
· Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain ★
· Seaspiracy
· The Social Dilemma ★
· Stans ★
· Three Identical Strangers ★
· United States of Conspiracy
· WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
· White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch
The End (For Now)
The list isn’t finished. It probably never will be. I’ll keep adding new movies as I watch them and old ones as they return from whatever corner of my memory they’ve been hiding in.
View/download the complete Master Guide of Movies
Explore the separate All-Time Favorites guide
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