At 92, Michael Caine Names His 6 Favorite Movies

At 92, Michael Caine Names His 6 Favorite Movies Studio Backlot Secrets 1.4K subscribers Subscribe 733 Share Ask Download 36,081 views Oct 16, 2025 UNITED STATES 🎬 At 92, Michael Caine Names His 6 Favorite Movies Few actors have lived a life in film as rich as Sir Michael Caine. From the working-class streets of London to Hollywood’s grandest stages, his career has spanned seven decades, touching nearly every era of modern cinema. But even after all the awards, blockbusters, and unforgettable roles, Caine still looks back with the wonder of a movie-mad kid — at the films that shaped him, inspired him, and taught him what great acting really means. In this video, we explore the six movies Michael Caine calls his all-time favorites — the films that defined his taste, his craft, and even his philosophy on life. From Marlon Brando’s raw power in On the Waterfront to the effortless charm of Cary Grant in Charade, these are the stories that taught Caine what truth on screen could look like. They aren’t just his favorite films — they’re the blueprint of everything he became as an actor and as a man. 📌 Chapters: 0:00 – Intro 1:28 – The Performance That Redefined Acting 4:50 – The Stylish Thriller He Couldn’t Stop Rewatching 8:24 – The Noir Classic That Taught Him Morality 11:57 – The Love Story He Calls “Perfect Cinema” 15:36 – The Moral Adventure That Exposed Human Nature 19:12 – The Film That Made Him an Actor 22:40 – Outro 💬 Which of these timeless classics is your favorite? Do you agree with Caine’s picks, or would your list look different? Share your thoughts in the comments below! 👍 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and join us at Studio Backlot Secrets for more legendary Hollywood stories and cinematic deep dives. ⚠️ Disclaimer: The stories shared on Studio Backlot Secrets are based on a mix of publicly available information, industry reports, interviews, and in some cases, speculation or rumors. While we aim to present these tales as accurately as possible, not all details may be verified. This content is intended for entertainment and storytelling purposes. #MichaelCaine #StudioBacklotSecrets #ClassicHollywood #FilmHistory #CinemaLegends #HollywoodIcons #FavoriteMovies #MovieLegends #OnTheWaterfront #Casablanca #TheMalteseFalcon #TheThirdMan #Charade #TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre #ActingIcons #BehindTheScenes #CinematicHistory #MovieFans Chapters View all Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript Studio Backlot Secrets 1.4K subscribers Videos About At 92, Sir Michael Caine shares six films that shaped their career and philosophy. This insightful video explores classic cinema through Caine's personal lens, highlighting impactful performances and enduring storytelling. Each selection reveals a distinct element of Caine's appreciation for cinematic artistry. Summary 100 Comments rongmaw lin Add a comment... @dannyboy6002 1 hour ago Loved The Man Who Would Be King 7 Reply @pigdroppings 14 hours ago All my favorite movies.....Michael Caine has good taste 12 Reply @biffmarcum5014 15 hours ago The Third man has some of the greatest black and white camera shots of all time! You talk about camera shots that pull you into the movie this one has it!!! I originally watched Casa Blanca for Humphrey Bogart. I re-watch it over and over again for Claude Rains! Michael Caine's performance at the end of The Man Who Would Be King won me over! 10 Reply 3 replies @kengruz669 18 hours ago All great films. I've rewatched "The Maltese Falcon" the most, by far, though. The masterful way humor is revealed and acknowledged as it unspools within the obvious noir atmosphere, plot, characters, performances, relationships, and plot set it apart as unique. 7 Reply @pankajshah3422 15 hours ago All his favourite movies are class apart n masterpiece at every department.Great selection n choice. 7 Reply @pankajshah3422 15 hours ago Very talented n versatile English actor since sixties n seventies.Great performance in Sleuth opposite Sir Lawrence Olivier,The Last Vally opposite Omar Sharif n Italian Job.In Zulu he acted very nice opposite another two greats of England Stanely Baker n Jack Hawkins!Salute with respect to Sir Micheal Caine.❤ 9 Reply 1 reply @jeromepudwill 19 hours ago Impeccable taste. The Third Man is #3 on my top ten favorites list. Treasure Of the Sierra Madre my #5. Casablanca #7. 6 Reply @steenraaschou8768 10 hours ago Charade is a wonderful film! 3 Reply @ThomasPinter-vm8pl 12 hours ago Judgment At Nuremberg is one of my all time favorites. 2 Reply @joannerondell5099 23 hours ago (edited) "On the Waterfront" had our best director, best cinematographer, best costume designer, the best actor, and Eva Marie Saint in the performance of a lifetime. Everything comes together. It's also one of Spike Lee's favorite movies. 8 Reply 2 replies @RedSinter 21 minutes ago I have always loved Michael as a man and actor and I will weep like a baby when he's gone no less than his family. Reply @SundraTanakoh 8 hours ago The last 3 films with Bogart are my absolute favorites. 1 Reply @opencurtin 3 hours ago The treasure of sierra madre is one of the best moral tale movies of all time ! 1 Reply @rosezingleman5007 2 hours ago Caine is great in everything but I especially love Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Man Who Would Be King. Also, Hannah and Her Sisters. 1 Reply @RedSinter 29 minutes ago Nothing is impossible just possibly not probably concerning recreating that chemistry you address between Cary and Audrey. Reply @craigkdillon 9 hours ago I could name over 20 films that are great, and arguably flawless. Movies that entertain and surprise. All of Caine's selections could be in my list, or I could have 20 others. After 100 years, there have been a LOT of great films. 1 Reply @tomcartwright7134 10 minutes ago Casablanca, watch how the camera moves and follows characters when they arrive at Rick’s bar. Stunning photography and some of the best writing in cinema history. 1 Reply 1 reply @oliviafox6745 41 minutes ago Maltese Falcon. Amazing dialogue. Reply @joseortiz3582 20 hours ago 'The Third Man'? Excellent choice. One of my favorite. The final scene where Anna Schmidt* ignore the hero in the cemetery is a classic! 😁 *I still think Anna Schmidt was more rotten than the guy played by Orson Welles. She KNEW he was up to no good. Being his boy friend is no excuse!🤔😐😠😠 3 Reply @bobhoye5951 20 hours ago I have a relatively thin paperback book on the making of Casablanca. It was not intended to be a great movie. It just happened. 5 Reply 2 replies @hittitecharioteer 6 minutes ago "Sleuth" (1972) when Michael acted opposite Lawrence Olivier. Mesmerising. Reply @keithmackenzie3280 18 hours ago If this is true, Michael has good taste in great movies, although I would like to hear it from his own mouth. There is not one clip of Michael commenting on any of these films. There are many videos like this on YouTube, some are totally inaccurate or unbelievable, but this one is possible, I suppose. 4 Reply @davidanthony4845 1 day ago Well tell my old grandmother ! 1 Reply @ColinTillman 12 hours ago Gandy Laurence of Arabia Bridge on the River kwai The Godfather Gone with the Wind all Fantastic 3 Reply @johnkaufman5474 1 day ago The best "Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made" is Witness for the Prosecution.(1957, Billy Wilder). 9 Reply @Bogie0315 8 hours ago Have to agree with Sir Michael, Bogie was the best! He was gold standard. 1 Reply @marktombazian6490 20 hours ago (edited) Great movies...from another time. Another world...another reality. Casablanca has no mistakes. Madre two.. Maltese Falcon three. Few movies do not... Madre none Falco none..one, two, three. Lol 3 Reply @bbhalstead 1 hour ago (edited) Animal house. One of the greatest films. Reply @jackfrance728 25 minutes ago (edited) Mr. Caine has great taste in movies. Reply @rosezingleman5007 2 hours ago Except that in The Quiet American, Caine didn’t play the spy. He played the dissipated journalist who befriends the spy. Reply @user-rc7gz4ok4e 5 hours ago Bogart and Welles--can't go wrong there. Reply @stevenhanson6057 1 day ago Always the story. 1 Reply @ueno1 24 minutes ago The Dark Knight needs to be one. Reply @monumentofwonders 1 hour ago Great films. The Maltese Falcon is a film that I will watch whenever I get the chance. Every scene is necessary! And Bogart became the Bogart of legend in this film. No one has ever created a character that so indelibly created a type that may be fictional, but also universal. Reply @RedSinter 25 minutes ago Well, Bogart and Loren Becal...The Big Sleep, Key Largo, Dark Passage...my faves, but The Maltese Falcon is my Top Flix. Reply @ronaldfournier6303 3 hours ago Wow! Sir Michael Caine and I share the same great taste in movies. Casablanca has been my favourite since the very first time I saw it and this is reconfirmed every single rewatch. Bogie was the greatest star of all time and AFI agrees. It is one thing to be a great star but I truly believe that because he is regarded as such it detracts from his superlative acting abilities. Interesting fact about Charade, Cary Grant felt that he was too old to be playing opposite to Audrey Hepburn and almost refused the role. Thankfully he did not. I just can't imagine that film without the Grant-Hepburn chemistry. Reply @jeffparsons2744 8 hours ago Not disputing Michael’s choice, I think he vastly and humbly underrates ‘Zulu’, his first major film, where he says he thought he would be sacked everyday, and for me his first and best. There were so many great performances in ‘Zulu’ , made under so much political pressures and prejudices rounded off with Ivor Emmanuel, not a well known actor, giving that one 5 minutes of pure battle emotion. 1 Reply @stevescafidi6692 19 hours ago I love Michael Caine, but I have different taste in great movies!Spectacles are my bag. El Cid, The Sandpebbles, The Big Country, Spartacus, Ben Hur, The Godfather and so many others! 2 Reply 1 reply @charlesfenwick6554 19 hours ago LAURENCE OF ARABIA 4 Reply 2 replies @HartmutJagerArt 16 hours ago Michael Caine = TOP ! 1 Reply @punishstudiosx 32 seconds ago Love his work Reply @MichaelHorn-l8e 4 hours ago The Searchers Reply @NickiSmith-h3v 1 day ago On the Waterfront Charade The Third Man Casablanca Treasure of Sierra Madre The Maltese Falcon 6 Reply @Gregory_McIntosh 10 hours ago Three of the six are Bogey! 1 Reply @jamesgriffin2341 12 hours ago All great films but nothing beats Zulu ! Reply @kestrel09 2 hours ago Across Caine's movies, I loved The Man Who Would Be King 3 Reply @hollytooker507 7 hours ago You know what’s wrong with CHARADE? Nothing. 2 Reply @2GunRock 3 hours ago (edited) It was obvious Bogart would be a great leading man when he co-starred with Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces & The Roaring Twenties. Reply @brucewalker5890 20 hours ago I was glad to see The Third Man on the list. The Cuckoo speech was written by Orson Welles. 6 Reply 4 replies @chrisweidner4768 44 minutes ago Happy to have “Youth “in my collection. ‘I think that’s God.’ Reply @LeslieMilligan 12 hours ago This is spooky for me. It's as though Cain had walked into my bedroom and noted my bedside DvD collection. I am waiting for Beat the Devil to arrive, a film I've never seen, but it has Bogart. Although, I must confess that Blade Runner is my favourite film, probably because it carries so much of the rest of my bedside collection buried in every frame. 1 Reply 3 replies @lindaabraham8715 21 hours ago I have watched the first, pre-code, "Maltese Falcon" and in many ways it was more interesting. Another should be made, an amalgam of both... less noir and sexier than Bogart's, but with better cinematography than the first version. 2 Reply 1 reply @joseortiz3582 21 hours ago 'I could have been a contender'? Ok. He is admitting he was a loser [but won at the end battling the bad guys!] Oh I was a small kid living in Newark, New Jersey, when this flick was made!😁😁 Reply @edmorales3951 2 hours ago Michael has great taste in film, I have Casablanca as my number one also. One caveat, I got to see The Third Man for the first time this year on TMC. This film is usually on everybody's top ten list. Must admit I was completely underwhelmed. Is it just me? For one I found the music score annoyingly distracting. Every time I heard that ukulele music I thought of a Hawaiian luau not a great film noir picture. I would add Chinatown to any top ten movie list. Reply @Jean-rg4sp 8 hours ago 6. I never watched On The Waterfront. 5. I did see Charade but it made no impression on me. 4. Watching The Third Man meant I had to break lights out at our boarding school where I was a senior student. As I began to watch with the TV on a low volume, a junior student quietly entered the TV room. I was supposed to tell him to go to bed but since I was breaking the rules I said nothing to him and acted as though he was not there. When the film was over. I stood up and switched off the set. He left the room and neither of us said as much as "Goodnight". We both acted like Valli who passed Joseph Cotten at the end, without as much as a glance. I loved the picture and I hope it made as much of an impression on that junior as it did on me. It became one of my ten favorite films then and it remained on my list for more than half a century since. 3. The first time I saw Casablanca I was babysitting my younger brother who was in bed. As a reward, I was smoking a cigar given to me by my mother. I was enjoying the movie until I felt a bit nauseous and then I had to fight the temptation to vomit. How could I enjoy the end when Rick believes he and Captain Renault were going to have a beautiful friendship. Casablanca is high on my list of favorites too. 2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was another entertaining tale. Not such a great film for me, it nevertheless had some interesting characters especially the "Federales. You know, the Mounted Police." They didn't even have badges. Ha! 1. Perhaps one of my Top Ten is The Maltese Falcon so much so that I bought a replica bird which I set down next to my sofa and it was so menacing that my dog on first seeing it stopped in his tracks and was not sure how to act. I always like film noir since first seeing them on TV. They draw us in to a ripping good yarn full of tension, intrigue, and danger while we are sitting safely at home. Reply 4 replies @petermcculloch4933 41 minutes ago (edited) I do not understand how anyone can make a greatest fims list.How do we compare a film like Hitchcock's Dial M With Murder, which has five speaking parts and just about the entire movie is shot in the living room of a flat with Altman's Nashville?A movie with something like 16 lead characters, multiple extras and is filmed at a variety of locations around the city. I think the best we can do is device films into genres and then make best ever lists Reply @maryrosekent 4 hours ago I wanted to watch this clip, but the A.I. mispronunciations are so annoying that I’m bailing five minutes in. 1 Reply @craigkdillon 9 hours ago Interesting that most of his selected films are B&W. I wonder why? Reply 1 reply @TomSnyder-y7u 3 hours ago THE SEARCHERS, RED RIVER, SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON, and THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. Kudos to DOUBLE INDEMNITY and STALAG 17. 1 Reply 1 reply @TomSnyder-y7u 3 hours ago I prefer THE BIG SLEEP with Bogart to MATESE FALCON, though Bogart would never have become a big star without THE MALTESE FALCON and HIGH SIERRA. Reply @Gawainer 11 minutes ago All these are dramas. "Best movie" has to be broken down by genre. Reply @Phelanmcdonald-z9d 7 hours ago Back in the days of classic movie making, there was a treasure trove of material to draw from. Classic literature and actually creative and original screenplays. What has happened since then? Has the creative well gone dry? Films used to be made for their content and redeeming social value without an overly concern for the studio profits. Nowadays, Hollywood seems to only be concerned with formulas for profits. 1 Reply @robinchiang3197 17 hours ago Most of today's scripts are written by children-- people who have had no meaningful life experience., 1 Reply @Benny2Steakz 16 hours ago I didn't get The Third Man. Sorry. Reply @ruyaal 33 minutes ago Stop talking!!!!! You are annoying!! Reply @allanb52 13 hours ago I like Caine, but don't like any of these rather boring films, save one. Mine:- Shawshank, Dr.Zhivargo, Lawrence of Arabia, Snatch, Casablanca and The silence of the lambs. 2 Reply @christiansfortruth5953 25 minutes ago You know I am getting sick and flaming tired of you nerds advertising how MC tells all .... so to speak.....and YOU do all the yapping. Shut up and let MC do it...will you!!!😢😢😢😢 Reply @superlyger 18 hours ago This is now known as the dead era. Hollywood is dead. AI will deal it its death blow. 1 Reply @keefbeef2002 15 hours ago So we don't listen to Caine at all, just you.... Knobhead 1 Reply