Here’s the fifth set of movies in my onging Patrick’s 100.

Sometimes the fun of a list of movies you like comes in just throwing out ten titles that aren’t of the same genre and have no real connection to each other at all. I’ve done a few sets that were all sci-fi, for example. This set, is a little of many genres just for fun.

As before, these are in no particular order. In fact, these are about as random as they come.

61. Carbon Copy (1981) - George Segal is a successful businessman (thanks to his wife’s father’s company) when a young Denzel Washington shows up on his door and calling him “daddy.” Hilarity ensues as Segal finds himself kicked out of the wife’s house and forced to live in the slums with his son…and learn a little about prejudice along the way.

62. The Caine Mutiny (1954) - As a general rule, I hate war pictures. This one is a rare exception. Humphrey Bogart is great at Captan Queeg, the paranoid soldier who puts his ship at risk leaving his senior crew members no choice but to take command of the ship.

63. The Cannonball Run (1981) - Yes, I’m serious. It is what it is, and that’s mindless entertainment, which we all need once in a while. And the bloopers during the credits are worth watching the whole movie for.

64. All The President’s Men (1976) - The story of the Watergate break-in from the vantage point of the reporters who wouldn’t stop searching for the truth. There are genuine scary moments in this tense drama, and that, I think is part of the point: Nixon’s White House was accused of almost everything under the sun, and finding yourself on the wrong side of that Oval Office was supposed to be scary.

65. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - Who’d want to hijack a subway train? A group of heavily-armed men with a plan to make their crazy idea work. Some of the wisecracks are a little dated today, but it’s still a great film, headed by Walter Matthau as the New York City transit detective who’s determined to track down the hijackers down to the last Gesundheit.

66. A Christmas Story (1983) - Need I say more?

67. Outbreak (1995) - This is probably not a film that a hypochondriac should enjoy, but this medical thriller about a deadly virus on the loose in a California town is definitely on my list. There’s even a government conspiracy plot here. What’s not to love?

68. The Fugitive (1993) - One of the best movies Harrison Ford ever did, and Tommy Lee Jones steals the show repeatedly as the quick-witted marshall who is trailing the man wrongly accused of killing his wife. This is a long movie, but it pulls you in and doesn’t feel long at all.

69. Quiz Show (1994) - Robert Redford directed this movie about the quiz show scandals of the 1950s and the story of an American hero who fell hard after admitting that all was not as it appeared.

70. Wag the Dog (1997) - This is probably one of my all-time favorite comedies. A president gets involved in a sex scandal, so his secret advisers hire a Hollywood producer to fabricate a small world to unite the country around him and ignore the accusations. Despite all the laughs — and there are lots of them — it’s a little scary how plausible this made-up scenario seems to be.

Look for the remaining 30 in my list over the next couple of weeks.