Stephen King Reveals His 10 Favorite Movies of All Time

King’s choices are pretty solid all around. Of course, almost all come from a certain era. Stephen King was born in September 1947, a mere nine months after another very influential American Steve, Steven Spielberg. So it’s fitting there are two stone-cold Spielberg classics on King’s top ten. So his taste runs very Boomer. It’s mostly films he grew up watching, like Casablanca and Double Indemnity. Also, others that were released in his twenties and thirties. Let us not knock him for that. After all, it’s likely your all-time favorites came from your childhood to your mid-to-late twenties, when one is at their most impressionable.

There’s only one straight-up comedy film in King’s top ten, and it’s the 1993 Bill Murray time loop movie Groundhog Day. It truly is one of the funniest movies of all time. So we can see why it made it on his list. Stephen King excluded anything based on his own work, which seems fair. So no Shawshank Redemption, no Stand By Me, no Green Mile, no Misery. And needless to say, no The Shining. Which, if we’re being honest, might actually wind up on a list of King’s most hated films. But definitely not ours. Sorry about it, Steve.