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100 Great Movies for Men

2026/08/07

Del Rio typed something about stuff for chuds, and I mentioned that I didn't know what those were before remembering that I don't give a shit what most people want. However, the notion of a list comprising titles of 100 Great Movies for Men lingered in my noggin. I couldn't sleep, so I spent 90-odd minutes compiling such a list. You may notice that I enumerated trilogies and even a hexalogy as single entries among these "100" masculine movies with a cherished, time-honored technique known to men as "cheating."

If you seek out lists of great movies for men, you'll notice that they include hokums or inanities like Field of Dreams or Glory or Rudy or Gladiator or Hoosiers. There's none of that here, but there are lots of crime dramas, westerns, and chanbara. I could probably list 200 Great Movies for Men that would likely total 250 in full, but now I'm sort of tired.

  1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  2. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
  3. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  4. A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
  5. Boiling Point (1990)
  6. Branded to Kill (1967)
  7. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
  8. Bullitt (1968)
  9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  10. Chinatown (1974)
  11. Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (1962)
  12. The Color of Money (1986)
  13. The Conversation (1974)
  14. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  15. Dead or Alive (1999)
  16. Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000)
  17. Death Wish (1974)
  18. Deliverance (1972)
  19. Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (1963)
  20. Dirty Harry (1971)
  21. Escape from New York (1981)
  22. Eyes of the Spider (1998)
  23. Fireworks (1997)
  24. First Blood (1982)
  25. The First Great Train Robbery (A.K.A. The First Great Train Robbery) (1978)
  26. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
  27. The French Connection (1971)
  28. French Connection II (1975)
  29. The Fugitive (1993)
  30. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  31. The Getaway (1972)
  32. Get Carter (1971)
  33. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
  34. The Godfather (1972)
  35. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  36. Goldfinger (1964)
  37. Goodfellas (1990)
  38. Graveyard of Honor (1975)
  39. Graveyard of Honor (2002)
  40. The Great Escape (1963)
  41. The Hustler (1961)
  42. Kagemusha (1980)
  43. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  44. Lone Wolf and Cub:
    1. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
    2. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
    3. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
    4. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
    5. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
    6. Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
  45. Mandy (2018)
  46. Man with a Shotgun (1961)
  47. The Man with No Name/Dollars trilogy:
    1. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
    2. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
    3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  48. The Mechanic (1972)
  49. Miller's Crossing (1990)
  50. The Missouri Breaks (1976)
  51. Night Moves (1975)
  52. Noboru Ando's True Outlaw Tales: Raging Fire (A.K.A. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka; A.K.A. Violent Fire) (2002)
  53. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  54. North by Northwest (1959)
  55. Oldboy (2003)
  56. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
  57. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  58. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
  59. Paris, Texas (1984)
  60. Patton (1970)
  61. Point Blank (1967)
  62. Predator (1987)
  63. Raging Bull (1980)
  64. Rainy Dog (1997)
  65. Ran (1985)
  66. Red Beard (1965)
  67. RoboCop (1987)
  68. Rocky (1976)
  69. Ronin (1998)
  70. Samurai Trilogy:
    1. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
    2. Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
    3. Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
  71. Sanjuro (1962)
  72. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
  73. Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)
  74. The Savage (1975)
  75. Scarface (1983)
  76. The Searchers (1956)
  77. Serpent's Path (1998)
  78. Seven Samurai (1954)
  79. Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
  80. Shogun's Samurai (1978)
  81. Slap Shot (1977)
  82. Sorcerer (1977)
  83. The Sting (1975)
  84. Sword of Desperation (2010)
  85. Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (2002)
  86. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
  87. The Terminator (1984)
  88. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  89. There Will Be Blood (2007)
  90. They Live (1988)
  91. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
  92. Tom Jones (1963)
  93. Unforgiven (1992)
  94. Violent Cop (1989)
  95. The Wages of Fear (1953)
  96. The Wild Bunch (1969)
  97. Yojimbo (1961)
  98. Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
  99. Zatoichi on the Road (1963)
  100. Zatoichi's Revenge (1965)

© 2026 Robert Buchanan

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