46. Favorite movies

Every so often, I google "long-term apartment rentals in ______"—typically some locality in Europe, because anywhere in Europe is surrounded by Europe, meaning travel opportunities; plus, I more or less can get by in some of the European languages. Tonight the winning city was Bruges, Belgium, where I found small but cozy flats in the €1,000 range. I could afford that. Why Bruges? Because it's a charming city, the climate might be not quite so hot in summer as southern France, I can speak some Flemish, and... why not? In any case, it's important to dream. 

That brought to mind the movie In Bruges, which is one of my all-time favorites. And that got me to thinking about other all-time favorites. So here's an off-the-cuff list, just because. (Not in any particular order. The numbers are meaningless, but I feel they're needed for "a list.")

And need I say: "all-time favorite" doesn't necessarily mean a masterpiece. It's just something that if I were stranded on a desert island (with electricity and a TV) I could watch over and over and over and, yes, over again. I have certainly done that already with all of these.

(I did have a little help, after I got to #9, from the iMDB list of the Top 250 movies. The rankings below reflect that list, which also explains the order of titles after #9. But then occasionally another favorite title, one not in the list, would hit me, disrupting the flow.)

1. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
2. Strictly Ballroom
3. Wings of Desire
4. Dirty Dancing
5. Looper
6. African Queen
7. The Music Man (I like to sing along)
8. The Matrix (#16)
9. Rashomon (#169)
10. The Usual Suspects (#48)
11. WALL-E (#56)
12. Singin' in the Rain (if only for the title-song scene) (#89)
13. North by Northwest (#105)
14. Die Hard (#115)
15. Mad Max: Fury Road (#184)
16. Beautiful Days 
17. The Great Escape (#159)
18. Bridge over the River Kwai (#174)
19. Fargo (#177)
20. The Sound of Music (again, to sing along) (#229)
21. The Wizard of Oz—of course (#234)
22. Back to the Future (#30)
23. Se7en (#20)
24. Casablanca (#45)
25. Diva

Btw, the iMDB rankings are calculated thus:

• The list is ranked by a formula which includes the number of ratings each movie received from users, and value of ratings received from regular users
• To be included on the list, a movie must receive ratings from at least 25000 users

As you may have noted, many of my favorites that came straight out of my head, not from a list, are not on said list. I'm not sure what that means. If anything. But it definitely makes me wonder what other favorite movies just aren't popping into my mind. I'll add any that do.