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Bold_Fortune's "Bold_Fortune's The Very Best English-Speaking Movies I Own On DVD"

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This is a list of my favorite English-Speaking movies I own on DVD. I call them "The Very Best" because each of these movies is listed on more than one, credible Best Movies list. That’s how I make my decision to purchase them, by scouring credible movie lists. If a movie keeps showing up on lists, there’s a good chance I’ll buy it on DVD. (I just got tired of investing my money on low-rated movies that I thought would be good, only to be disappointed. These aren’t listed here.)

  1. 1.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan
  3. 3.
    Fugitive Kind

  4. 4.
    Hud
    by Martin Ritt
  5. 5.
    The Hustler
    by Robert Rossen
  7. 7.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell
  8. 8.
    The Rose Tattoo
    by Daniel Mann
  9. 9.
    Ice Station Zebra
    by John Sturges
  10. 10.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Robert Mulligan
  12. 12.
    ?
    Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Sidney Lumet
  13. 13.
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

  14. 14.
    Captains Courageous
    by Joseph Sherman
  15. 15.
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    by Stanley Kramer
  16. 16.
    Inherit the Wind
    by Stanley Kramer
  17. 17.
    Coming Home
    by Greg Carson
  18. 18.
    Blackboard Jungle
    by Richard Brooks
  19. 19.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler
  20. 20.
    East of Eden (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Ara Chekmayan
  21. 21.
    Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Nicholas Ray
  24. 24.
    Lost Horizon

  25. 25.
    Random Harvest
    by Mervyn LeRoy
  26. 26.
    Stella Dallas
    by King Vidor
  27. 27.
    The Little Foxes
    by William Wyler
  28. 28.
    Of Mice and Men
    by Lewis Milestone
  29. 29.
  30. 30.
    Tears Of The Sun (Director's Extended Cut)
    by Antoine Fuqua
  31. 31.
    Saving Private Ryan (Single-Disc Special Limited Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg
  32. 32.
    The Young Lions

  33. 33.
    From Here to Eternity
    by Fred Zinnemann
  34. 34.
    Apocalypse Now Redux
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  35. 35.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean
  36. 36.
    Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  37. 37.
    Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition)
    by Edward Zwick
  38. 38.
    Sergeant York (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks
  39. 39.
    The Great Escape (2-Disc Collector's Set)
    by John Sturges
  40. 40.
    Gunga Din
    by George Stevens
  41. 41.
    Die Hard (Widescreen Edition)
    by John McTiernan
  43. 43.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler
  44. 44.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Victor Fleming
  45. 45.
    Straw Dogs
    by Sam Peckinpah
  46. 46.
    Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
    by Alfonso Cuarón
  47. 47.
    Sahara
    by Zoltan Korda
  48. 48.
  49. 49.
    Gaslight
    by George Cukor
  50. 50.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  51. 51.
  52. 52.
    Seven Days in May

  53. 53.
    Anatomy of a Murder

  54. 54.
    Ray

  55. 55.
    The Buddy Holly Story

  56. 56.
    The Aviator (2-Disc Full Screen Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  57. 57.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Single-Disc Edition)
    by David Lean
  58. 58.
    Coal Miner's Daughter - 25th Anniversary Edition
    by Michael Apted
  59. 59.
    Cinderella Man (Widescreen Edition)
    by Ron Howard
  60. 60.
    The Pianist
    by Roman Polanski
  61. 61.
    Walk the Line (Full Screen Edition)
    by James Mangold
  62. 62.
    Seabiscuit (Widescreen Edition)

  63. 63.
    The Shawshank Redemption
    by Frank Darabont
  64. 64.
    The Natural
    by Barry Levinson
  65. 65.
    A Face in the Crowd
    by Elia Kazan
  66. 66.
    City for Conquest
    by Anatole Litvak
  67. 67.
    The Roaring Twenties
    by Lloyd French
  68. 68.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray
  69. 69.
    They Drive by Night (Keepcase)

  70. 70.
    The Desperate Hours
    by William Wyler
  71. 71.
    Key Largo (Snap Case)

  72. 72.
    Dark Passage (Snap Case)
    by Delmer Daves
  73. 73.
    The Big Sleep (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks
  74. 74.
    To Have and Have Not (Snap Case)
    by Arthur Davis
  75. 75.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston
  76. 76.
    High Sierra (Snap Case)
    by Raoul Walsh
  77. 77.
    Kiss of Death (Fox Film Noir)
    by Henry Hathaway
  78. 78.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger
  79. 79.
    Laura
    by Otto Preminger
  80. 80.
    Nightmare Alley (Fox Film Noir)
    by Edmund Goulding
  81. 81.
    Sudden Fear
    by David Miller
  82. 82.
    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Robert Aldrich
  83. 83.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  84. 84.
    Night and the City (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin
  86. 86.
  87. 87.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh
  88. 88.
    Angels With Dirty Faces
    by Bobby Connolly
  89. 89.
    Gilda

  90. 90.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang
  91. 91.
    The Lost Weekend
    by Billy Wilder
  92. 92.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by David Heeley
  93. 93.
    Requiem for a Heavyweight
    by Ralph Nelson
  94. 94.
    Cat People

  95. 95.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick
  96. 96.
    Brute Force (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin
  97. 97.
    Atlantic City

  98. 98.
    Bullitt

  99. 99.
    Scarface (1983)

  100. 101.
    The French Connection (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by William Friedkin
  101. 102.
    This Gun For Hire (Universal Noir Collection)
    by Frank Tuttle
  102. 103.
    ?
    The Asphalt Jungle

  103. 104.
    The Set-Up
    by Robert Wise
  104. 105.
    Kings Row
    by Sam Wood
  105. 106.
    Detective Story (1951)
    by William Wyler
  106. 107.
    The Bad and the Beautiful

  107. 108.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton
  108. 109.
    Out of the Past

  109. 110.
    Crossfire
    by Edward Dmytryk
  110. 111.
    The Lady from Shanghai
    by Orson Welles
  111. 112.
  112. 113.
    In Cold Blood
    by Richard Brooks
  113. 114.
    Flawless

  114. 115.
    GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  115. 116.
    Blood In, Blood Out

  116. 117.
    Black Rain (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Ridley Scott
  117. 118.
    Murder, My Sweet
    by Edward Dmytryk
  118. 119.
    Bad Day at Black Rock
    by John Sturges
  119. 120.
    Naked City - Criterion Collection

  120. 121.
    Witness For the Prosecution

  121. 122.
    The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)
    by Bryan Singer
  122. 123.
    Basic Instinct
    by Paul Verhoeven
  123. 124.
    Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
    by Lawrence Kasdan
  124. 125.
    The Departed (Single-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  125. 126.
    Seven (Single Disc Edition)
    by David Fincher
  126. 127.
    Angel Heart (Special Edition)

  127. 128.
    Heaven's Prisoners
    by Phil Joanou
  128. 129.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott
  129. 130.
    The Prestige
    by Christopher Nolan
  130. 131.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski
  131. 132.
    ?
    Mulholland Dr.
    by David Lynch
  132. 133.
    L.A. Confidential (Snap Case)

  133. 134.
    Pocketful of Miracles

  134. 135.
    Shall We Dance? (Widescreen Edition)
    by Peter Chelsom
  135. 136.
    Tin Men
    by Barry Levinson
  136. 137.
    Pretty Woman (15th Anniversary Special Edition)
    by Garry Marshall
  137. 138.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder
  138. 139.
    The Sting
    by George Roy Hill
  139. 140.
    One Night at McCool's

  140. 141.
    Born Yesterday
    by George Cukor
  141. 142.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  143. 144.
    Heaven Can Wait (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  144. 145.
    Easter Parade (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Walters
  145. 146.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges
  146. 147.
    Here Comes Mr. Jordan
    by Alexander Hall
  147. 148.
    The Apartment

  148. 149.
    The Birdcage

  149. 150.
    As Good As It Gets
    by James L. Brooks
  150. 151.
    The Big Lebowski
    by Ethan Coen
  151. 152.
    O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    by Ethan Coen
  152. 153.
    Jerry Maguire
    by Cameron Crowe
  153. 154.
    Young Frankenstein (Special Edition)
    by Mel Brooks
  154. 155.
    Love Actually [Region 2]
    by Richard Curtis
  155. 156.
    Journey to the Center of the Earth
    by Henry Levin
  156. 157.
    Days of Heaven
    by Terrence Malick
  157. 158.
    Dial M for Murder

  158. 159.
    North By Northwest
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  159. 160.
    Saboteur
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  160. 161.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  161. 162.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  162. 163.
    Lifeboat (Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  163. 164.
    Strangers on a Train
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  164. 165.
    Foreign Correspondent
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  165. 166.
    Shadow of a Doubt
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  166. 167.
    Suspicion
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  167. 168.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  168. 169.
    The Birds (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  169. 170.
    The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
    by William Friedkin
  170. 171.
    The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)
    by M. Night Shyamalan
  172. 173.
    Batman Begins (Single-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Christopher Nolan
  173. 174.
    Batman
    by Tim Burton
  174. 175.
  175. 176.
    King Kong (Full Screen Edition)
    by Peter Jackson
  176. 177.
    War of the Worlds (Full Screen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg
  177. 178.
    Sin City

  178. 179.
  179. 180.
    Open Range
    by Kevin Costner
  180. 181.
    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Sam Peckinpah
  181. 182.
    The Missouri Breaks
    by Arthur Penn
  182. 183.
    3 Godfathers

  183. 184.
  184. 185.
    Duel in the Sun

  185. 186.
    The Unforgiven
    by John Huston
  186. 187.
    Unforgiven (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Clint Eastwood
  187. 188.
  188. 189.
  189. 190.
    The Magnificent Seven (Special Edition)
    by John Sturges
  190. 191.
    Shane

  191. 192.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)

  192. 193.
    Yellow Sky
    by William A. Wellman
  193. 194.
    The Big Country

  194. 195.
    Red River
    by Arthur Rosson
  195. 196.
    Rio Bravo
    by Howard Hawks
  196. 197.
    The Alamo
    by John Wayne
  197. 198.
    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

  198. 199.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford
  199. 200.
    The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut
    by Sam Peckinpah
  200. 201.
    The Outlaw Josey Wales
    by Clint Eastwood
  202. 203.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz
  203. 204.
    The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Andrew Marton
  204. 205.
  205. 206.
    Raging Bull (Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  206. 207.
    Jackie Brown (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Quentin Tarantino
  207. 208.
  208. 209.
    Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Stevens
  209. 210.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder
  210. 211.
    Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)
    by John Schlesinger
  211. 212.
  212. 213.
    Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Quentin Tarantino
  214. 215.
    Schindler's List
    by Steven Spielberg
  215. 216.
    The Ten Commandments (Three-Disc 50th Anniversary Collection)
    by Cecil B. DeMille
  216. 217.
  217. 218.
  218. 219.
    Dark City

  219. 220.
    The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Philip Kaufman
  220. 221.
    Planet of the Apes (Widescreen 35th Anniversary Edition)
    by Franklin J. Schaffner
  222. 223.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra
  223. 224.
    Miracle on 34th Street

  224. 225.
    The Lemon Drop Kid
    by Frank Tashlin
  225. 226.
    O Henry's Full House

  226. 227.
    Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
    by Fritz Lang
  227. 228.
    Wait Until Dark
    by Terence Young
  228. 229.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn
  229. 230.
    ?
    Texas (1941)
    by George Marshall
  230. 231.
    The Defiant Ones
    by Stanley Kramer
  231. 232.
    A Star Is Born

  232. 233.
    The Enemy Below

  233. 234.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Deluxe Edition)
    by Richard Brooks
  234. 235.
    Sorry, Wrong Number

  235. 236.
    All the King's Men

  236. 237.
    The Time Machine
    by George Pal
  237. 238.
    Pursued

  238. 239.
  240. 241.
    The Boys From Brazil

  241. 242.
    Spartacus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Anthony Mann
  242. 243.
    Ed Wood (Special Edition)
    by Tim Burton
  243. 244.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis
  244. 245.
    Casino Royale (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Martin Campbell
  245. 246.
    The Story of G.I. Joe
    by William A. Wellman
  246. 247.
    On the Beach

  247. 248.
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    by Robert Altman
  248. 249.
    Don't Look Now
    by Nicolas Roeg
  249. 250.
    Paris, Texas

  250. 251.
    They Were Expendable
    by Robert Montgomery
  251. 252.
    The Trial
    by Orson Welles
  252. 253.
    The More the Merrier
    by George Stevens
  253. 254.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  254. 255.
    The Narrow Margin
    by Richard Fleischer
  255. 256.
    Where the Sidewalk Ends
    by Otto Preminger
  256. 257.
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

  257. 258.
    The Frighteners (Director's Cut)
    by Peter Jackson
  258. 259.
    Treasure Island
    by Byron Haskin
  272. 273.
    Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
    by Laurent Bouzereau
  274. 275.
    Jesse James

  275. 276.
    Tombstone - The Director's Cut (Vista Series)
    by George P. Cosmatos
  276. 277.
    The Terminator (Special Edition)
    by James Cameron
  277. 278.
    Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by James Cameron
  278. 279.
    Superman - The Movie
    by Richard Donner
  279. 280.
    Lethal Weapon (Director's Cut)

  280. 281.
    Lethal Weapon 2 (Director's Cut)

  281. 282.
    Alien (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott
  282. 283.
    Aliens (Special Edition)
    by James Cameron
  283. 284.
    Jaws (Widescreen Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    by Laurent Bouzereau
  285. 286.
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  286. 287.
    X-Men (Widescreen Edition)
    by Bryan Singer
  287. 288.
    X2: X-Men United (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Bryan Singer
  288. 289.
    Spider-Man (Full Screen Special Edition)
    by Sam Raimi
  289. 290.
    ?
  290. 291.
    The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition)
    by Doug Liman
  291. 292.
    The Bourne Supremacy (Widescreen Edition)
    by Paul Greengrass
  292. 293.
    Fort Apache
    by John Ford
  293. 294.
  295. 297.
    The Twilight Zone - Collection 1

  296. 298.
    The Twilight Zone - Collection 2

  297. 299.
    The Twilight Zone - Collection 3

  298. 300.
    Pitch Black (Full Screen Edition)
    by David Twohy
  299. 301.
  300. 302.
    Suddenly
    by Lewis Allen
  302. 304.
    We're No Angels
    by Michael Curtiz
  304. 306.
    Dead End
    by William Wyler
  305. 307.
    Body and Soul

  306. 308.
    Moonstruck

  307. 309.
    A Passage to India
    by David Lean
  308. 310.
    A Double Life
    by George Cukor
  309. 311.
    Criss Cross (Universal Noir Collection)
    by Robert Siodmak
  310. 312.
    The Last Detail
    by Hal Ashby
  311. 313.
    Dear Frankie
    by Shona Auerbach
  312. 314.
    Night Moves

  313. 315.
    Straight Time
    by Ulu Grosbard
  314. 316.
    Papillon
    by Franklin J. Schaffner
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