Every so-called "Greatest Movies" list has two inherent problems. 1) it's all the same movies, (Casablanca, Citizen Kane.. need I go on?) so the lists rarely give the reader an opportunity to discover new movies. And 2) movies are art, so ranking them is an endless arbitrary endeavor. Like many cinephiles, I have spent countless hours rearranging, tweaking and adding to my list of the greatest movies of all time - but recently I've found myself less interested in academic qualities of filmmaking, and more in the movies that still linger on my mind after years of rewatches. The intention of this list is to inspire the reader to rediscover a movie they've seen in a new light, or to try a movie they have never seen or even heard of. There certainly are better movies than the ones you see on this list - innumerable masterpieces in fact - however the movies on this list are, for whatever reason, the movies that have never left my mind. Listed in the most scientific way possible; alphabetically. Thank you for reading, and I hope this list serves its purpose.

Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Edward Binns, John Fiedler, E.G. Marshall, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Jack Warden, and Robert Webber in 12 Angry Men (1957)

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