Top 25 Movies

In my current lifetime, I have seen over 1.500 different movies. Starting in 2006, I created a history of cinema document where I type small reviews towards every film I ever saw afterwards. This list continues to grow, and occassionally I share one review on this blog.

Without further ado, I will now try to present my current top 25 movies. The words "favorite" and "best" movies apply likewise for this list, and I will attempt to count down from the top entry towards the bottom. Enjoy my opinion!

25.

1931, Fritz Lang

Extended investigation by German authorities and even local criminals is executed in order to find a child murderer, which happens to be rather unstable mentally. The detective work was all over the place, well thought and effective.

Yet it was by a certain memory, a certain classical theme, that the murderer got heavily suspected by a blind balloon selling old man. M has a unique trait in that both the police force and other criminals are trying to find the murderer, making it definitely a classic movie to remember.

The wonderful cinematography was impressive, some of the voices were a bit loud but I could live with that during this drama crime movie. The climax was exciting regarding the motivation and verdict. And the child murderer himself was well portrayed. In overall, a much better movie than Metropolis(1927) for me. And the man with the black gloves was awesome.

 24.

1993, Rolf de Heer

The mood and atmosphere inside Bubby's room feels like a warm, familiar but twisted place. Baaaaadddd booooooy Bubby is full of real comedy gold for me, but you gotta have dry humor like me in order to like this underground movie probably!

Seriously, I laughed a lot of times during this movie just because of the bizarre fact that Bubby is not familiar with the outside world. It really is a very simple movie really with an unusual premise, but it is so much fun experiencing what Bubby does.

This is like a combination of Forrest Gump(1994) and Rain Man(1988) but in a darker atmosphere. Another movie where it is not meant for everyone, I believe that this movie is hidden very deeply underground, and more people need to go see it right away. I was truly surprised and content with Bad Boy Bubby after watching it.

23.

 1985, Elem Klimov

Also known as Idi I Smotri, this is a Russian World War II based movie, that cruelly displays the anguish of victims, but it’s more than that. Come and See is also a haunting bizarre tripping movie that shows morbid scenes at times, while a soundtrack keeps you on your toes.

The imaginary marshlands that the main character, a Belorussian boy travels to comes paired with a sense of unseen warning, meaning that the things we do not see are sometimes fantasized the worst when using our imagination. 

Furthermore, during the second half of this, many humiliating, dramatic sad scenes happen, including a barn of some kind full of panicking Russians, Nazi’s goofing around with their power, anarchism and destruction. Though many violence is interpreted and it’s up to our imagination to fulfill the macabre experience.

It features interesting camerawork, emotional closeups, effective chaos and a true sense of dread. Come and See is in overall a very interesting Russian film depicting the Eastern front with strong imaginary. The ending scene is bizarre, showing many German occupied Nazi scenes in reverse speeding up faster while the kid continuously shoots at Adolf Hitler’s portrait.

22.

2010, José Padilha

The scale of storytelling has deepened, where as politics and paramilitaries have now also entered the ring of violent roundups and manipulative games. Roccho, a paramilitary who is corrupt to the bone takes profit of BOPE’s reputation of dealing with the drug dealers and criminals, while a group of politicians closely works together in order to take control of Rio de Janeiro.

They feint their conflicts with each other through television, while the public and press are confused about this whole ordeal, and votes are worthy of gold. Roberto Nascimento, now a colonel working for the Public Safety Department struggles further with his private problems, but continues to uphold his important mission steady.

He has divorced his wife and son, and the latter has become influenced by his stepfather, who is a prominent figure in Brazilian human rights and a leftist idol. After a hectic opening during a prison riot, Nascimento gets this new position while Andre Mathias, the former elite BOPE soldier, is enlisted under the State Military Police, and feels that his former commander has betrayed him during the process.

During the course of the story, the corrupt ones eventually uphold so much power over the state that characters such as Roberto and Andre get in even more intricate situations, as Andre is once again acquired as a leader of BOPE and Roberto is trying to prevent an assault on the last drug ruling region, as it seems that the operation feels unfair.

As Mathias has successfully routed out a dangerous group of dealers in that specific region and confronts their leader in the old fashioned way of BOPE, Roccho with his followers and buyouts decides he cannot wait any longer and proceeds to kill him.

All in all, I consider both Brazilian movies outstanding ones, the first for it’s action and chaos mainly, the second for it’s deep roots with basically evil itself. Highly recommended.

21.

1964, Stanley Kubrick

Superb black comedy which is crazy with it's ideas. Sure, the hypothesis that a nuclear war can happen by our human hands is scary, but to think that there exist such a weird black comedy movie like this, based on a fictional nuclear war that in reality could yet come!

Perhaps not at this moment, but never say the word never, because it might come in the future. Not being optimisic or pessimistic here, just stating the possibility. Anyway, there are parts where I actually laughed, but I forgot why.

I think it's just the absurd idea that a satirical movie like this happens to exist, during the Cold War! Peter Sellers did 3 roles for this movie, and I didn't even notice that he also played Dr.Strangelove himself! What a familiar voice this ex nazi scientist has...his words are insane but also perhaps logical.

The guy who played the cop in The Godfather(1972) was also here, as the man who initiated the nuclear holocaust in the first place. The ending depicts pretty much the downfall of humanity, with happy accompanied music. The irony that Stanley Kubrick has made an unusual movie such as this...clearly makes life more interesting. And I will never forget "Mein Führer, I CAN WALK!".

20.

  1958, Orson Welles

A bomb goes off in a car, killing 2 people, and the American and Mexican authorities start to work together on solving this case. Mike Vargas is a narcotics officer investigating together with the police chief, district attorney and the police captain, Hank Quinlan, who together with his partner, is famous for their reputation of solving crimes.

A great deal of excellent detective work happens in Touch of Evil, the story is marvelous, the characters are well written and best of all, the dialogue is greatly involved, which sucked me right into Orson Welles’s movie. In overall, it is the greatest film noir movie I have seen yet.

19.

1985, Akira Kurosawa

The lust for power is largely implied throughout this beautiful war movie, which is also full of betrayals and corrupted characters who swore loyality to the Ichimonji clan.

Hidetora going mad because of his 2 oldest sons disagreeing with being loyal to him(Although not showing it in the beginning of the movie, only Saburo spoke open minded, although with an obvious different ambition), not to mention the death of his personal best warriors and concubines as well by Jiro and Taro's armies, was interesting to see.

It was also a pleasure of seeing the big samurai armies marching around the fields with their cavalry, infantry and arquebus units. Then there's also a certain woman who is lost because of her vengeful ideas to destroy the Ichimonji clan, because her entire family was killed because of the clan, and thus, uses manipulation for the events to transpire all the way through the end of the movie itself.

And even though she was an obsessive woman about those ideas, there was another woman whose family was also entirely killed by Hidetori's family, yet she forgives him because she believes in Buddha, just like her blind brother who lost his eyes because of Hidetori as well.

Ran, or Chaos translated, is a strong war movie entirely different from the first Akira Kurosawa movie I saw, Rashômon(1950), and is another great movie to experience.

18.

1976, John G. Avildsen

Rocky Balboa is a small time boxer who gets food on the table by doing little errands for Gazzo, some kind of small time gang business. He’s a very caring man in his own way, trying to help others with his wisdom and he’s just a great guy to watch communicate with others, Sylvester Stallone really made him memorable.

Next to his part time job and his boxing career, he’s been continuously trying to get a date with the shy Adriana from the animal shop. Her brother, Paulie, is able to get them together, but he himself is short on temper and is in some desperate need for love, money and maybe more. One day, news comes out at the boxing gym that people are looking for Rocky.

It turns out that the heavyweight world champion, Apollo Creed, has put his eyes onto Balboa because he likes the way he boxes plus he has an Italian background. Once the agreement has been made to get a boxing match against the champ, Rocky is then personally trained by Mickey, a manager that has seen it all in the world of boxing and he’s had a prime time as well.

Personally, I really liked the romance between Rocky and Adriana, Talia Shire was much more beautiful for me here than in the Godfather movies. Rocky’s training scene is of course awesome to this day, as it motivates me to keep trying plus everyone’s favorite moment of that seems to be when he raises his arms at the top of those long stairs towards a culture building.

The boxing match itself was also very well done, genuine, exciting and thrilling. This was a real one folks, but anyway, I was surprised that the match and the movie ended with a draw between the two! Sure afterwards, I get it that Rocky endured all of the 15 rounds, which was his personal goal, but I thought he would win the match here.

Rocky really is a great movie in general for me. There’s this energy source coming out of it, the pumping music, Stallone’s character, the simple yet humane scenes, I think I really love this movie for what it represents and what it has achieved. A true classic for me, and many others.

17.

1984, James Cameron

Surprisingly, I had never seen The Terminator as a kid, but I have watched T2 plenty of times. To summarize, I was always confused about the storyline because I kept watching the sequel. And to be honest, the whole time travel theme is still confusing for me in The Terminator franchise.

In any case, The Terminator was delightful and splendid, with a great movie theme that grew on me now, an 80's feeling at its purest, very well done action scenes and other magnificent scenes such as the "I'll be back" scene, combine that with chasing scenes of an unstoppable cyborg, a background story which is pretty interesting and unusual, above average characters and an intriguing atmosphere, and you got yourself one hell of a movie.

With memorable quotes, a deep message about a nuclear war and technology turning against its creators and great stunts, The Terminator is rightfully a classic Sci-Fi movie from the 80's. And I am glad to have finally seen it in its full glory, and now that I think of it, it has become my most favorite Terminator movie yet. In overall, one of the best Sci-Fi movies out there.

 16.

2002, Peter Jackson

The middle part of this trilogy features the most intense battles and the most interesting characters for me, as Peter Jackson with his team has created the equivalent of Star Wars regarding impact and fan communities in these times.

The Two Towers has jaw dropping cinematography and eargasm music such as The Riders of Rohan which is an unforgettable and masterful song, providing me with goose bumps in retrospect. Central characters such as Gollum and Saruman make for a very strong antagonism side towards the plot, and the film reeks of genuine epic moments.

It's one of the most powerful immersive movies which can easily suck you into it's world full of magical yet serious events, and I can't get enough out of it. The battle of Helm's Deep continues to impress immensely.

15.

1946, Frank Capra

A movie full of spirit, It’s a Wonderful Life is of course a classic one with the incredible actor James Stewart in a timeless story of drama, fantasy and romance. A stunning flick while Stewart kept carrying it, the people are alive in this story and it’s just wonderfully done.

Mr.Potter also seems to be a character based of the famous Mr.Scrooge in a way. In overall a great movie of both sadness and happiness at parts. It is indeed a wonderful life, I am glad for this existence and to experience the endless amount of wonders found in life.

14.

1968, Sergei Parajanov

 

One of the most beautiful surreal movies I have ever seen. Also known as Sayat Nova, it features juxtaposition scenes sticking out, immersive images, a curious pace and unbeatable powerful symbolism for me. You might have seen pieces of this during Juno Reacter's God is God video montage, but otherwise, consider this one of the lost diamonds from the 20th century of cinema.

It's a visual masterpiece for me personally because of the surreal and religious objects being portrayed so exquisite, not to mention the sounds. The movie was done before I knew it, I cannot praise the immersion enough. About the storyline? Really, it doesn't matter, it's all about the experience. This was such a mysterious and beautiful movie for me, that it has become an inspiration source for me.

13.

1954, Kenji Mizoguchi

  

A powerful dramatic film but with beautiful cinematography, Sanshô dayû, or Sansho the Bailiff is a very sad tale to tell about oppression and slavery. Surprisingly, Sansho the Bailiff has little to do about the character Sansho, although you could say that he is the key character for antagonism.

The tale is instead centered on Zushio, son of an exiled governor, who ventures into misery and is finally able to recover the province of Tango from slavery, for as long as this sparkle of hope lasts. It also has strong messages to tell about mercy, morale, religion and rebellion.

In overall a well balanced drama movie where I had sympathy for the separated family. I'd consider it the most beautiful movie of the 50's I have seen so far.

 12.

1982, John Carpenter

An incredible upgrade from the pretty average Halloween(1978) movie both directed by John Carpenter. Situated in an isolated area, similar to Alien(1979), it was enjoyable to watch the movie unfold.

Featuring an all unknown male cast for me at the time, a high sense of who dun it, or in this case, who is it and freaky, and I mean freaky mutation scenes from the shape shifting alien itself, taken from the title. The simple yet effective song playing through the beginning and the end was good, plus that is one crazy ending, which will let viewers speculate as to whether the remaining humans survive, or if The Thing itself is still alive.

The movie is disturbing because of the freaky/gore scenes, and it has a lot of suspense, not just because we don't know who The Thing is/are, but also because of the cold atmosphere and also the song itself.

The fear of the unknown is pretty visible in this movie for me, because it has one hell of a messed up monster looking for a warm, fuzzy place. In overall, a good paranoia movie, just try to guess who could be human and who could be IT!

Aside from being an amazing sci-fiction horror of the highest caliber, I love rewatching the scenes unfold in their effective settings, plus it has intriguing mysteries never answered.

I can safely say that The Thing is an intelligent horror movie with amazing gore effects back in 1982, good dialogue, a creepy cold location, a disturbing ending and the overall undeniable non-trust feeling this movie brings. It truly is one of the best horror movies yet.

11.

1990, Martin Scorsese

Goodfellas is an amazing gangster movie and in general gangster movies are so far, never boring to view. It has a familiar buildup to gangster movies, tells the life of these wiseguys in good details and they control their locations with fear in the air.

That is, if you disagree with something, you are gonna get whacked. It would be a great world to live in should I happen to have been introduced and involved in their affairs, but it's ruled with fear and there is always danger involved. 

So I prefer a normal life with endless opportunities more than being chained inside a big criminal family. But of course Goodfellas is only a movie. In overall an essential gangster movie with a high record of foul language, a story with many happenings, great typical gangster characters and great dialogue.

10.

2002, Fernando Meirelles, Katía Lund

In the city of God it all started with a trio of gangsters and a very young apprentice attacking a motel for money. Basically this young fellow had a lust for a killingspree and thus, killed everyone in the motel after the trio left to run from the police. Then he, or Ze'tje as he would be called in the future, killed one of the trio and the other quit the gangsterlife while the third one got shot to death by the police.

And so the history of the City of God had finally started for real, letting Ze'tje liquidate every big drug dealer in the city with his fellow followers and best mate Benny, and thus he became the big boss of the city. Only one drug dealer was left alive, Wortel, because he was a friend of Benny.

Eventually, a huge drug war is invoked by 2 main sides attempting to take control of the city. Near the end of the war, several revenge sequences take place, the opposing leader and Ze'tje both get killed, as well as many of both gangs, and Wortel is taken in by a corrupted Police Officer who had a buddy of his killed, because he thought someone would find out he and his buddy were selling weapons to Ze'tje and perhaps other gangsters as well.

And basically this whole story gets told by a photographer named Rocket, who is the brother of the boy who got killed by Ze'tje long ago because he was one of the trio and he coldy killed him, perhaps as to say "I am the boss now".

This photographer makes some very important pictures such as Ze'tje's death and the corrupted Police Officer taking Ze'tje's money, but also pictures of Zet'je and his gang, posing with their weapons. Anyway there are many things happening in the story of City of God, it was a good ride, and an interesting movie, showing how dangerous this place was in the 70's of Brasil.

9.

2000, Christopher Nolan

 

A prime example of how uncertain life can be, especially for a man suffering from short-term memory loss. Memento is in my opinion a very intelligent movie where throughout the movie, neither the audience or Leonard, the main character himself, knows what will happen next.

That's because for the audience, the story is told in reverse chronology, and Leonard keeps forgetting everything he had done in roughly 10 minutes every time. Several times Leonard, or Lenny, will get manipulated by the very people intending to help him find the killer of his wife, or so he thinks, according to his mementos.

About the climax though, I think it is an interesting way of getting rid of Teddy, in an "innocent" way, namely, the suffering from Anterograde amnesia that Leonard has. Because of that form of amnesia Leonard really believes later in the future that Teddy is the true killer, or should I say rapist of his wife. 

Other interesting moments in the story were about Sammy Jankis, although at the moment I am not even sure if he really exists or not. Memento is in overall a very interesting movie about what memory and lies can do with humans, and is recommended to see with an open sharp mind. 

8.

2003, Park Chan-wook

The best revenge story I have ever seen, with two incredible performances by Choi Min-sik and Yoo Ji-tae. It is the mysterious story about a man who gets what appears to be randomly kidnapped and spends the next 15 years in isolation from the rest of the world.

Once Oh-Dae-su is finally released without a reason, he is filled with rage, insanity and loss of the human touch, as the next few scenes provide for these emotions. As his mysterious captor starts taunting him about finding out about the truth, he proceeds with it.

Old Boy's best moment is when one of the greatest twists in cinema history is revealed towards him, which in turn makes him completely insane of the lengths the captor had gone in order to extract his revenge upon him.

And even knowing the twist after seeing it, Old Boy remains an engrossing picture to delve into, where violent but beautiful scenes are also a norm to see here, aside from detective work, romance and the unmistaken heavy drama at the climax.

7.

1974, Francis Ford Coppola

Only this movie could triumph over Goodfellas(1990) regarding the premise. The Godfather II, which already resides in an excellent trilogy of films, is a stunning so called "rise and fall" story about how a young Don or leader of a crime family handles family affairs after his notorious father passed away.

Al Pacino is usually a hothead in many of his iconic roles, but here he slowly starts turning from a charming young man towards a cold and calculating leader where not even his own family or members are safe from his grip.

The most memorable scene for me is when Michael Corleone orders to get his unstable brother assassinated, because he has been messing up way too much and he was also doing business with rivals.

This also plays out not only as a sequel, but a prequel too, as we go back to the past in order to see Robert De Niro play a young Vito Corleone in Sicily and New York, where we see how it all started for the family business.

The Godfather II is simply a powerful crime movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola about power, deception, family, the crime world and the infamous revenge sequences that happen near the end for all three parts.

6.

1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky

The strangest movie I might have ever seen, but it is most certainly not for every target audience.

The beauty of The Holy Mountain is that it all is so random upon viewing it for me personally, even though I know that there are two options after I saw this movie: that it does make sense or that it doesn't make sense at all.

In any case I win, because when I will read other people's collective consciousness about the movie, I will probaply figure out the movie better, or not. Understanding it or not, as long as it was interesting I am content, and in the end it was.

What else can I say about this? Watch it for yourself alone, with an open mind, while you don't get distracted by other things. It resembles the movie below this one in some ways because both movies have a lot of symbolism in them and for any person it could mean something different for them. Overall a truly extraordinary movie, and it also had a mind blowing ending.

5.

 1977, David Lynch

The scariest horror movie which can be decribed in many different intrepretations and remains the most haunting flick I ever saw, which continues to be scary on many levels including nightmares, industrialization, abortion and more.

In fact, Eraserhead really feels as if the movie itself is an actual nightmare playing out. The plot is never too clear, there is a dreadful atmosphere, bizarre situations play out and it has disturbing horror effects and sounds.

Nothing makes sense at first, however I have read through very in depth several theories as to what it all means. All I can say for now is that I was frozen to fear, really, whenever Henry Spencer looked into a dark spot and I would never expect what would happen next.

I strongly urge you to watch this truly horrific movie alone in the dark, with a big headphone and the volume up in order to be sucked inside in perhaps David Lynch's most messed up realm he has created yet before he went on to create other great movies such as The Elephant Man (1980) and Mulholland Drive (2001). 

Eraserhead is my personal best horror movie out of everything I have ever seen.

 4.

1957, Sidney Lumet

A masterful courtroom drama technically not even taking place in the main courtroom, 12 Angry Men is actually a very simple movie, about a simple case that looks like the verdict is so clear that 11 jurors immediately announce the defendant to be guilty. But it is the doubt inside Juror#8's mind which will slowly convince the other Juror's of changing their opinions to not guilty.

This is done in a very exciting way, with Juror#8 making good guesses and explaining theories to the others, while he constantly fights against the arguments of his 3 most opposite opponents, Juror#3, 4 and 10. 

All of the other Jurors are not as active as these 4, some of them even do not care really about the case itself or simply just follow behind the others with no arguments to back up. In the beginning of the movie, it's 11 against 1, but at the end, all 12 of them say not guilty.

It is the middle part however that made this movie very worthy to watch. I usually never say something about the acting inside the movies, but in here, it is superb, interesting and exciting to follow. It is also the essential part of the movie that MADE the movie excellent.

Before I knew it, the movie was over already. Part of the reason why I liked this movie is because I also really enjoy the Ace Attorney franchise, otherwise known as the Phoenix Wright and the Apollo Justice games. Because of those games, I could pretty much follow and understand every sentence inside this movie. In overall, I can recommend this movie to just about anyone, even when he or she does not understand how the judicial system works. 

 3.

1971, Peter Watkins

This is my most controversial entry on this list, and it basically has one of the strongest messages found in cinema for me ever made. As a pseudo documentary, being banned in the United States and having piss poor graphical qualities(from the version I saw), the majority probably won't like this.

A group of "political" criminals(and "social" criminials according to the politicians and police as well) chose for Punishment Park instead of spending in jail for about 20 years each of them. But because the jails at that time were almost full from prisoners already and the criminals themselves never knew anything about PP, both parties(or sides) choose for PP.

Punishment Park is basically a "game" trying to let the criminals, or the minorities in society, turn into violent people, just like the politicians and the police. Upon viewing this movie I was really impressed with how everything felt so real and how a game like PP can or could basically exist at one point in humanity, in real life.

As for my opinion about violence, violence is okay, as well as the people who oppose violence, because in the end having a small conflict or competitive measures is more interesting than letting everyone agree on war. And who knows what will happen with wars in the future? 

People even assume that once politicians find out about this movie, that they will burn all the copies of them and then say it was a hoax. Good thing though that this movie is very underrated and hard to find, or maybe not? What would happen to the world if people started showing a movie like this to not only politicians, but to many other humans as well? Great fictional movie, which is very controversial and provokes discussions immediately. 

I can definitely see how important a movie like this is, as it continues to be relevant even today. Punishment Park might not be my favorite movie for obvious cinematic reasons, but it singlehandedly has the most powerful anti-war code for me and that's why it has a special place all the way in the top. 

If I had to pick a regular classic anti-war movie, I would probably put Apocalypse Now(1979) on this spot instead of Punishment Park. But I really prefer Aguirre: The Wrath of God(1972) over that for adaptation reasons, but enough of this off-topic rant.

2.

2008, Christopher Nolan

Next to being part of an excellent trilogy, this is the best super hero movie and one of the greatest crime thrillers ever made. Sometimes I prefer The Dark Knight Rises(2012) even more, so it fluctuates.

Words of wisdom engulf abound this highly graphical movie. This sequel has raised the bar of super hero movies beyond recognition, and The Dark Knight delivers entirely with it's chaotic story, the brilliant and engrossing characters, an epic soundtrack and an unbelievable great climax and ending.
 

Christopher Nolan really blew my mind when I watched this unfold at the premiere. I was never that intensified as before in any other movie when speaking of the performances, sounds, action scenes and memorable quotes. A very strong cast of actors made The Dark Knight a timeless classic and truly unforgettable for me.

1.

1958, Alfred Hitchcock

 

First off, Vertigo sounds very cool as a title. It happens to be translated dizziness, and in the movie, John Ferguson, the main character, develops acrophobia, and as a side effect, gets vertigo when he experiences his fear. 

The story first develops with John investigating on a mysterious woman, a wife of his old college acquaintance, after he heard from him that he presumes that she is "possessed". After telling him that what he claims is nonsense, he lets him see her at a restaurant called Ernie's. At that moment, John sits there, with blank eyes, fixed only on Madeleine, the mysterious woman.

After that moment of interest, he starts investigating upon her more, following her through a few locations. As he gathers and remembers the clues during his trip as to what Madeleine is doing while her husband is hard at work, she suddenly decided to jump into San Fransisco Bay attempting a suicide.

After John saves her, he takes her to his apartment. After she wakes up, they develop a nice relationship, and John questions her about the incident. As foretold by the acquaintance, when she is asked of unusual behaviour, she claims not to remember anything at all from it. After she suddenly leaves while John was talking with her husband through a phone, they meet each other again the next day.

Madeleine explains her sudden department, and the two decide to wander off together, and find themselves inside Muir Woods. After a strange mention of her explaining when she was born and when she died, something happens to her, and John worries. Then she starts talking about a dream she has gotten more than once. After explaining the dream to John, he almost is certain that every place she(and he in the background hiding)was in during the investigation of John, can be found back in her dream.

Then after John and Madeleine kiss each other, John is convinced that he can help her out of her nightmare, and so they travel to the location of her dream, a certain tower with a bell. At the location, after kissing each other for the last time, telling each other that they love him/her, Madeleine says she has to do something, and runs of into the nearby church, but not before looking upwards at the tower with the bell. After John witnessed that, he suddenly gets the frightening feeling that she may attempt suicide again.

He runs of after her, inside into the tower, but then his acrophobia prevents him from moving on, and then he is too late, as he sees Madeleine falling to her death. As the only witness of the incident, inside a court room, John does not get blamed for her death, as it is very clear for the judge that he fears heights, while he remembers another incident John experienced in which he was unable to catch a criminal, and unable to free his collegaue in the end.

After that, John develops a very strong guilty feeling of Madeleine's death, and his depression of having lost the one he loved, makes him develop nightmares at night. After all of that happening, John starts getting obsessive, no, starts developing madness, into continueing the investigation about Madeleine.

It seems all hope and meaning has lost for John, as he goes back to the locations Madeleine was in and examines replica objects she was using back then, he suddenly sees a woman which bears a very striking look to her. As he follows, or should I say stalks her back to her apartment, the two develop a relationship which turns into love, but it happens to be a love of madness, as John tries to change Judy's appearance, the woman who looks like Madeleine, into Madeleine.

After it seems the obsession and madness do not seem to stop, a brilliant twist occurs, and the only evidence of knowing the truth is seen by John again after Madeleine died, and the film ends with a powerful ending. That is all I have to say about the last part of the movie, but honestly, I am really happy to have seen such a masterpiece. In overall, Vertigo is a perfect classic movie about a man who delves into obsession and madness as he struggles to find out about the truth.

And there you have it, my current top 25 movies. Here's to living through life the next 25 years and hopefully seeing even better films! But to be honest, opinions and feelings change all the time, so most importantly, let's celebrate and enjoy life together.