100 Girls (2000)
American Beauty (1999)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
The Great India Railway (National Geographic)
The Hospital (1971)
Koyanisqatsi (1982)
The Matrix (1999)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Mojave Phone Booth (2006)
Network (1976)
Paris, Je T'aime (2006)
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Shawshank Redemption
Thunderheart (1992)
Winged Migration (Documentary)
Z (1969)

Movies to drink Scotch to
Because they invoke a certain notion of the void.

Blackthorn (2011)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Her
The Lives of Others (2007)
Lisbon Story (1994)
Mojave Phone Booth (2006)
Monsieur Hire (1989)
Sin City (2005)
Waltz with Bashir

Aeragon
Clueless (1995)
Crazy Heart (2009)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Darjeeling LImited
The Dish (2001)
Desperately Seeking Susan
Diner (1982)
Gloomy Sunday (1999)
The Grey Fox (1983)
10 Things I Hate about you (1999)
Kinky Boots
Jackie Brown (1997)
Joe vs. the Volcano (1990)
The King's Speech
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Le Femme Nikia (the 1990 French one)
Mediterraneo Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Moonstruck (1987)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Office Space
Il Postino
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Ronin
Shall We Dance? (the 1996 Japanese one)
Sideways (2004)
Sliding Doors (1998)

Tender Mercies (1983)
Up in the Air

Just Good

Amadeus (1984)
Bye Bye Brazil
Glory (1989)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Invictus (2009)
Michael Clayton (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)

Ordinary People (1980)
Rain Man
Third Person (2014)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Last Picture Show

Movies with no villain

A tip of the hat to Jeremy Rose for this concept.

Crazy Heart (2010)
The Dish (2001)
Night Flight (1933)
The Intern (2015)
The Way (2010)
World's Fastest Indian (2005)

Movies I can watch over and over again

I shudder to think what this list reveals.

The Dream is Alive (1985, NASA)
Major League (1989)
Mojave Phone Booth (2006)
Office Space
The Replacements (2000)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
White Christmas (1954)

About Greece

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Spy Movies

This list should be a lot longer. Overlaps with Action/Adventure but still... should be a lot more.

Arabesque (1966)
Black Book (Dutch, 2006)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Casablanca (1942)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
The Rhythm Section (2020)
Sneakers (1992)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Syriana (2005)
True Lies (1994)

Action Adventure / Crime

Casino (1995)
Desert Heat (1999)
Double Indemnity
Glory (1989)
The Great Escape
Haywire (2011)
Jackie Brown (1997)
L. A. Confidential (1997)
Le Femme Nikia (the 1990 French one)
The Narrow Margin
Rififi (1955)
Romancing the Stone
Ronin (1998)
Run, Lola, Run
Sin City
Sneakers (1992)
Terminator 2
The Train
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Thelma & Louise
Tightrope
Wonder Woman (2017)

Erotic

100 Girls (2000)
Body Heat (1981)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)
En la Cama (2005)
The Girlfriend Experience
Il Postino
Kama Sutra (A Tale of Love)
Nathalie (French, 2004)
Passione
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Sin City
White Palace

Coming of Age / High School

American Graffiti
Bandslam (2009)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Clueless (1995)
Easy A
Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)
Pump up the Volume (1990)

Science Fiction

2001 A Space Odyssey
Back to the Future (1985)
Blade Runner (1982)
Children of Men
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
District 9 (2009)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Host
Hunger Games
The Matrix (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Men in Black
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Serenity (2005)
Source Code (2011)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Total Recall (1990)
Tremors (1990)
True Lies (1994)
WarGames (1983)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Wonder Woman (2017)

Western

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Grey Fox (1983)
Heartland (1980)
Hannie Caulder (1971)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Pale Rider
Rio Bravo (1959)
Unforgiven (1992)

Comedy

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
The Gods Must be Crazy (1980)
Men in Black
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
Monty Python's Life of Brian
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Office Space
Ruthless People (1986)
Sneakers (1992)
Soapdish (1991)
This is Spinal Tap
The Valet

Railroad

Closely Watched Trains
The Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (1996)
The Narrow Margin
A Railway in the Cloud (2007)
The Train (1964)
The Great India Railway (National Geographic)

Transportation (other than rail)

Night Flight (1933)

Music

Amadeus (1984)
The Commitments (1991)
Crazy Heart
Rock Around the Clock (1956)
That Thing You Do! (1996)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)

The World of Men

Because, contrary to popular belief, this is rarely done well.

The Best Years of our Lives (1946)
Das Boot (1981)
The Full Monty (1997)
The Intern (2015)
Shall We Dance? (the 1996 Japanese one)
Super Bridge (1997 Nova, documentary)

The World of the Mind

Has this ever really been done well? To show creativity, and how it feels to be inside that creativity? As opposed to showing the creative person as just wonderfully wacky? Some partial successes.

A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Amadeaus (1984)

Political

All the King's Men (the 1949 one)
An Inconvenient Truth (Documentary)
The Battle of Algiers
The Breakfast Club
Children of Men (2006)
The China Syndrome
Control Room (2004 Documentary)
Dr. Strangelove
Gandhi
Hunger Games
Invictus
The Lives of Others (2007)
A Man for All Seasons
Missing (1982)
Network (1976)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Silkwood
Syriana (2005)
Thunderheart
Wag the Dog
Z (1969)

Religion

A Man for all Seasons (1966)
Life of Brian
Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)

Sports

Should probably be a subdivision of Guilty Pleasures

A League of their Own (1992)
Breaking Away (1979)
Bull Durham
Cool Runnings (1993)
Hoosiers (1986)
Major League
Million Dollar Baby
Moneyball (2011)
Invictus (2009)
The Replacements (2000)
Tin Cup

Guilty Pleasures

While normal standards of quality are omitted for this category, the movie still has to have some redeeming feature.

The American (2010) - Yea, a lot of cliches in this one. But the villages... and the use of tension rather than bullets.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) - Roger Ebert wrote it, for crying out loud. Also, the Strawberry Alarm Clock doing a song that isn't the one you know.

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989) - For the title, mostly, and for casting Shannon Tweed as a Feminist Studies Prof & Bill Maher as hopeless.

Desert Heat (1999) - Very cringe-worthy but Jean-Claude Van Damme as ... spiritual seeker?

Major League (1989) - For its realistic depiction of underdogs, but not for its sexual or tribal politics.

Psycho Beach Party (2000) - A hero named Chicklet and the world's best masked Mexican surf band
Sin City (2005)

The Tourist (2010) - It wasn't that bad! Light action adventure. The architecture was beautiful and seductive. And Venice also.

Starship Troopers - The politics are fascist; the uniforms Nazi, but just good clean fun. And Denise Richards before we knew what a dolt she is.

White Christmas (1954)