What makes great guilty pleasure movies? This is a movie that you love to watch, but won't display on your DVD shelf... or maybe you will stop to watch when you flip by it on TV, but never if someone else is in the room. These movies are not always bad movies per se, but our cultural zeitgeist has determined that they are corny, dumb, or cheesy movies - badly done horror flicks, overdone dramas, overwrought or made entirely of syrup. But, still, these movies draw you in. You love them. Secretly. You're not exactly bragging about how many times you've watched them—or maybe you are, if self-deprecation is your thing.
What are the best guilty pleasure movies? This list of guilty pleasures is bound to be emotionally personal, so odds are, your #1 might not even be listed! Vote on this list and then rank your own list and add your missing faves.
1
1,8181,160Ghostbusters
Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver
2
1,236530Alita: Battle Angel
Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz
- 31,215848
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley
- 41,034669
Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin Williams, Pierce Brosnan
- 5939536
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford, Alfred Molina
- 61,223862
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Chevy Chase
- 71,331784
Home Alone
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci
- 81,078664
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson
- 9760411
The Mummy
Rachel Weisz, Brendan Fraser
- 101,8441,397
Independence Day
Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum
- 111,3791,084
Point Break
Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey
- 121,064630
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Harrison Ford, Sean Connery
- 131,3491,032
The Lost Boys
Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman
- 14525379
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley
- 15989793
The Karate Kid
Elisabeth Shue, Ralph Macchio
- 161,3731,086
Armageddon
Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis
- 171,3681,086
Top Gun
Tom Cruise, Meg Ryan
- 181,5981,327
Grease
John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
- 19382243
Underworld
Kate Beckinsale, Michael Sheen
- 201,4181,150
Starship Troopers
Neil Patrick Harris, Denise Richards
- 211,015726
Pretty Woman
Julia Roberts, Richard Gere
- 22353176
Cool Runnings
John Candy, Malik Yoba
- 23690548
School of Rock
Sarah Silverman, Jack Black
- 24585299
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg
- 25357256
Tommy Boy
Dan Aykroyd, Rob Lowe