This past year I watched 84 movies, some long and some short, the majority of them made before 1960.
At the end of this post, I’ll list them all, but for now, here are my favorites from the bunch. I did not include any movies that were rewatches for me in my favorites list, but I did include rewatches in the overall list.
- Without Reservations
- KPop Demon Hunters
- It Happened One Night
- Superman (2025 version)
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame
- They Got Me Covered
- The Strawberry Blonde
- Another Man’s Poison
The movies I watched in 2025:
- Morning Glory
- The Stranger
- Gunga Din
- The Power of the Press
- The Prisoner of Zenda
- The Young in Heart
- The Exile
- Angles Over Broadway
- Sinbad The Sailor
- The Rise of Catherine The Great
- The Sun Never Sets
- Almost Heroes
- The Quiet Man
- The Barkleys of Broadway
- Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
- How to Steal A Million
- The Intouchables
- Paris Blues
- Hugo
- Charade
- Paddington in Peru
- The Assassination Bureau
- The Honey Pot
- The Manchurian Candidate (original)
- Herbie Goes to Morocco
- National Velvet
- The Rains Came
- Gaslight
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Abbott and Costello: Jack and The Beanstalk
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- The Pirates of Penzance
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame
- A Hole in the Head
- The Canary Murder
- Please Murder Me
- Without Reservations
- Death on the Nile
- The Court Jester
- They Got Me Covered
- Raffles
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- A Life At Stake
- The Long, Hot Summer
- Find Me Falling
- KPop Demon Hunters
- The Celtic Riddle
- Nonnas
- Benny and Joon
- The Talk of the Town
- The Bishop Murder Case
- Autumn Harvest
- It Happened One Night
- What’s One More?
- Pennie’s From Heaven
- A Green Journey
- Superman (2025)
- Topper
- Pfffft!
- The Mummy
- Iron Man
- Iron Man 2
- Thor
- Storm in A Teacup
- The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill and Came Down A Mountain
- The Storied Life of AJ Fickery
- Iron Man 3
- The Avengers
- I’ll Take Sweden
- Another Man’s Poison
- The Strawberry Blonde
- Meet Me In St. Louis
- Condemned to Devil’s Island
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Winter Soldier
- Ball of Fire
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue
- A Christmas Story
- The Falcon Takes Over
- Tenth Avenue Angel
- The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
- The Thin Man
- The Bishop’s Wife
- The Benson Murder Case
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
Have you seen any of these movies? Which ones did you enjoy?
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It’s amazing, isn’t it, when you sit down and list the movies you’ve watched in a year? I have no idea how many or which ones. I’m afraid to count them! I loved Benny and Joon as well as Death on the Nile (the old and the new ones). I really need to look for the Picture of Dorian Gray as it’s one of my favorite books.
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This past year was the first year I wrote down the movies I watched throughout the year. It was kind of fun to do.
The actor for The Picture of Dorian Gray was creepy and gave me nightmares!
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Lisa, I appreciate how extensive your film viewing has been for the past year. There are several which I have viewed. Here are a couple of favorites.
“The Talk of the Town” allows Cary Grant to play off of the humor-filled scenes with Jean Arthur. I have enjoyed several of her films.
“Superman” with Christopher Reeve in the title role takes me back to viewing the film at a small drive-in years ago. The film came out in the late 1970s, and the supporting cast added the finishing touches.
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What did you think about the ending of The Talk of the Town? Who would you say she should have “ended up with”? My husband and I didn’t agree with the ending! Ha!
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OOOOOOOOOH! So many good movies here!
Prisoner of Zenda is obviously a gem. Both Manchurian Candidate and Gaslight are superb. I like that version of Scarlet Pimpernel a lot too, but my husband finds Sir Percy so grating he runs away screaming whenever I watch it.
I go back and forth loving and disliking Without Reservations. It Happened One Night is a gem. I adore How to Steal a Million and Meet Me in St. Louis. Haven’t seen Yankee Doodle Dandy in too long.
From your longer list, I love The Quiet Man and Charade. Both Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Pirates of Penzance are good fun. Benny and Joon made me a Johnny Depp fan when I was a teen. Topper is… quirky. I love Ball of Fire and The Thin Man.
I love the MCU up through Endgame.
Which version of Death on the Nile did you watch? And which Superman? And which The Mummy?
BTW, I tagged you with an Oddly Specific book tag 🙂 Play if you want to!
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I watched the one with Peter Ustinov and. as we discussed on Instagram and ironed out, I didn’t like him at first but he grew on me and I ended up really liking the movie and him much better than I thought!
Superman was the 2025 version and The Mummy was the more modern one with Brendon Frasier. I have not seen the original but my husband wants to watch it with me.
I will check out that tag. I was on my way to your blog to look at that post about movies that I wanted to read the other day anyhow.
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