Yes you read it right. Not to be outdone by “top 100” lists, no stone was left unturned in presenting you with a list of 200 flicks with guy appeal. If you’re looking for sophomoric fare like “Dumb And Dumber” keep moving, you won’t find it here. Movies for men are more than just a string of frat house hijinks. And while hyper-kinetic action is great, being mentally engaged ups the ante tenfold.
Good films for men are an acute distillation of the male experience, boiled down to the bare essentials. Loners, guys with no name and straightforward morals with little to no shades of gray. The lack of political correctness in most of the films listed increases their appeal tremendously. Or you can ask yourself the simple question: are you a Captain Kirk guy or a Captain Jean-Luc Picard kind of guy? Cowboy diplomat or Calvinist minister? I rest my case.
Even at 200 films, this list is still missing quite a few entries like “Westworld”, “The Omega Man” and many others. For those of you looking for the latest string of 3D extravaganzas, keep moving. If you like your actions scenes with real people (where all the moves aren’t blurry) and not CGI then you may find much to enjoy!
Submitted for your approval in no particular order, 200 movies for guys:
1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
3) Ben-Hur
4) Apocalypse Now
5) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
6) High Noon
7) Jaws
8) King Kong (1933)
9) Lawrence Of Arabia
10) The Graduate
11) The Godfather I & II
12) Easy Rider
13) The Bridge On The River Kwai
14) Bonnie And Clyde
15) Chinatown
16) Citizen Kane
17) The Wild Bunch
18) The Third Man
19) The Shawshank Redemption
20) Shane
21) The Searchers
22) Star Wars films (1977-1983)
23) Raging Bull
24) Psycho
25) Paths Of Glory
26) On The Waterfront
27) Pulp Fiction
28) Die Hard films
29) Terminator I & II
30) Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
31) The Big Red One
32) The Dirty Dozen
33) Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
34) Dawn Of The Dead (1978)
35) Planet Of The Apes (1968)
36) The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
37) Emperor Of The North
38) The French Connection
39) The Seven-Ups
40) Death Wish
41) High Plains Drifter
42) The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
43) Fistful Of Dollars
44) For A Few Dollars More
45) Dog Day Afternoon
46) The Mechanic (1972)
47) Hard Times
48) The Valachi Papers
49) Shaft (1971)
50) Superfly
51) Unforgiven
52) Tombstone (1993)
53) 12 Angry Men
54) The Defiant Ones
55) The Seven Samurai
56) The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
57) Ice Station Zebra
58) Platoon
59) Menace II Society
60) Network
61) Scarface (1983)
62) Taxi Driver
63) Goodfellas
64) Ronin
65) The Expendables
66) The Silence Of The Lambs
67) Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
68) Full Metal Jacket
69) Glory
70) A Soldier’s Story
71) Escape From New York
72) Halloween
73) Henry V (1944 and 1989 versions)
74) Mean Streets
75) Reservior Dogs
76) Bruce Lee films
77) John Woo films (Hong Kong only)
78) Jet Li films
79) Jackie Chan films
80) Marty
81) The Matrix
82) Predator
83) Monty Python And The Holy Grail
84) Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
85) Patton
86) Mad Max
87) The Road Warrior
88) Bullitt
89) The Great Escape
90) Stalag 17
91) Rocky
92) Saving Private Ryan
93) Spartacus
94) The Shining
95) Robocop
96) Total Recall
97) Starship Troopers
98) The Thing (1951 and 1982 versions)
99) Blazing Saddles
100) Deliverance
101) In The Heat Of The Night
102) The Vikings
103) L.A. Confidential
104) Road To Perdition
105) Master Killer
106) Rollerball (1975)
107) Death Race 2000
108) Young Frankenstein
109) Patterns (1956 film version)
110) The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit
111) Indiana Jones (first 3 films)
112) Rambo films
113) Alien I & II
114) The Running Man
115) Commando
116) Desperado
117) Lethal Weapon
118) James Bond (first 3 Connery films)
119) Iron Man
120) Bourne films
121) Hunt For Red October
122) Das Boot
123) Downfall
124) North By Northwest
125) Rear Window
126) Forbidden Planet
127) Speed
128) Braveheart
129) Sin City
130) The Wrestler
131) Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
132) Flight Of The Phoenix (1965)
133) The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
134) Spider Man I & II (2002 – 2004)
135) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
136) Blade Runner
137) Once Upon A Time In The West
138) Prince Of The City
139) Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
140) Cool Hand Luke
141) The Conversation
142) The Parallax View
143) Three Days Of The Condor
144) 28 Days Later
145) Get Carter (1971)
146) Guns Of Navarone
147) Pork Chop Hill
148) Twelve O’Clock High
149) Major Dundee
150) El Cid
151) Ride The High Country
152) Straw Dogs
153) The Killer Elite
154) The Caine Mutiny
155) The Wild One
156) Paint Your Wagon
157) Birdman Of Alcatraz
158) Seven Days In May
159) The Train
160) Seconds
161) Grand Prix
162) Barry Lyndon
163) A Clockwork Orange
164) Minority Report
165) Dirty Harry
166) Sudden Impact
167) Gran Torino
168) Space Cowboys
169) Thunderbolt And Lightfoot
170) Hard Times
171) The Green Berets
172) The Road
173) Platoon
174) Se7en
175) American History X
176) Black Hawk Down
177) Battleground
178) The Usual Suspects
179) The Maltese Falcon
180) The Longest Yard (1974)
181) North Dallas Forty
182) The Untouchables
183) The Hustler
184) The Right Stuff
185) The Three Stooges (with Curly or Shemp)
186) The Marx Brothers (1930’s)
187) Papillon
188) Billy Jack
189) Slap Shot
190) The Getaway
191) The Sting
192) Sahara (1943)
193) Dead End (1937)
194) The Shootist
195) Once Upon A Time In The West
196) The Magnificent Seven
197) Willard (1971)
198) Ride The High Country
199) Tombstone (1993)
200) Roger Corman’s Edgar Allen Poe films
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