Movies - Top 10 of all time

[Bruno Dante]

Yojimbo
The Godfather (both parts - as far as I'm concerned III never happened).
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (all of the "Dollars' trilogy come to think of it)
Goodfellas
Old Boy
Withnail and I
Casablanca
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Blade Runner
Chinatown
Dog Day Afternoon
Pusher
Infernal Affairs
Glengarry Glen Ross
Some Like It Hot
The Producers
Sunset Boulevard
Rear Window
The Thing
Alien
2001
The Sting
Apocalypse Now
The Seventh Seal
The Ipcress File
Bullitt
Il Postino
12 Angry Men

I could go on and on to be honest.

 

[Mark73]

everything by the Muppet Show and Twilight.

 

[justin grimbol]

barfly
terms of endearmant
last temptation of christ
legends of the fall
hearts in atlantis
the big chill
superbad
texasville
crash by cronenberg
adventures of sebastion cole
whats eating gilbert grape

 

[Cowboy]

Once up on a time in america
Leon -The professional
Pulp Fiction
Angel Heart
Trainspotting
Full Metal Jacket
Quadrophenia
Perfomance
Hustler
Bang Boom Bang ( a german movie )

 

[Gerard K H Love]

barfly
terms of endearmant
last temptation of christ
legends of the fall
hearts in atlantis
the big chill
superbad
texasville
crash by cronenberg
adventures of sebastion cole
whats eating gilbert grape

This is quite a list. You have very diversified taste. Terms of Endearment and Superbad on the same list it must mean you have a very broad mind- I mean that in a good way.

 

[justin grimbol]

i'm sentimental and i like dick jokes. i also really liked the new star trek movie. it didnt make the top ten but i did see it twice in the theators. watching it on weed made the begining sequence really emotional.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

You are right some movies need the weed.

 

[buk babe]

hmmm....i am sure i will forget some faves but...

miller's crossing
fat city
goodfellas
raging bull
michael clayton
all about eve
chicago
lonesome dove (the huge long thing that is not really a movie)
moonstuck
and everything by mike leigh

 

[slimedog]

Willie Wonka Chocalate Factory (both)

Last Picture Show

Taxi Driver

American Beauty

Repo Man

All the Monty Python Movies

The Spice Girls Movie

gotta add all John Waters and Pedro Almadovar films

Bad Leuitenant

Wild At Heart

Sound of Music

 

[Ambreen]

In alphabetical order :

A room with a view, James Ivory
Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick
Ben-Hur, William Wyler
Control, Anton Corbijn
Der Himmel über Berlin, Wim Wenders
Full metal jacket, Stanley Kubrick
Gone with the wind, Victor Fleming
Howards End, James Ivory
Jules et Jim, François Truffaut
Kill Bill 1 + 2, Quentin Tarantino
La dolce vita, Federico Fellini
Lady Chatterley, Pascale Ferran
Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard
Les deux Anglaises et le Continent, François Truffaut
Les nuits fauves, Cyril Collard
Les sÅ“urs Brontë, André Téchiné
L'histoire d'Adéle H., François Truffaut
Nosferatu : Phantom der Nacht, Werner Herzog
Old Boy, Park Chan-Wook
Phenomena, Dario Argento
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Peter Weir
Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino
Sense & Sensibility, Ang Lee
Suspiria, Dario Argento
Tess, Roman Polanski
The dangerous liaisons, Stephen Frears
The death in Venice, Luchino Visconti
The last tango in Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci
The night of the living dead, Georges Romero
The piano, Jane Campion
The portrait of a lady, Jane Campion
Todo sobre mi madre, Pedro Almodovar
Trainspotting, Danny Boyle
Wuthering Heights, William Wyler

+

All the films from Éric Rohmer
All the films from Woody Allen with Diane Keaton

 

[chronic]

Is that ten in French?

:)

 

[1fsh2fsh]

and in alphabetical order ....

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Girls will be girls. Nice list Ambreen.

 

[Ambreen]

Is that ten in French?

:)

No. That's ten in urdu.
I was not the first one to go beyond the required number. And I've got a bunch of new titles which have come in my mind after reading the others' lists. Can I add them ? Can I ? :p
I see you quoted a film from Mario Bava. Being fond of giallos but having mainly seen Dario Argento's ones, I one day tried Mario Bava. It was Hatchet for the honeymoon and I would easily put it in my top 10 worst movies. :D

I didn't see Denys Arcand mentioned in other lists. He's Canadian and in my opinion one of the finest directors out there.

I saw Jésus de Montréal last week and it made me feel like viewing your top 3.

 

[bogdan]

I saw Jésus de Montréal last week and it made me feel like viewing your top 3.

I didn't see "Jésus de Montréal" yet, but I'm downloading it now. The three movies listed were the only ones I saw by Denys Arcand and I liked all of them a lot.

 

[pig ear press]

Before Night Falls - Julian Schnabel
The Dancer Upstairs - John Malkovic
Naked - Mike Leigh
Talk to Her - Pedro Almadovar
Black Cat, White Cat - Emir Kusturica
The Big Lebowski - Coen Bros.
The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Wes Anderson
Land and Freedom - Ken Loach

and of course...

Flesh Eating Mothers - James Aviles Martin
(it was a close call between that and Rabid Grannies, or even, Zachariah-the first hippy western!)

This is really more a list of films I love than a definative 'my top 10'. My memory has more holes than the Swiss army and its cheese.

crap, I forgot El Topo!

 

[Ronzo]

Well, these would be a good start;
Run Lola Run
Apocalypse Now
Chinatown
Godfather I
City of God
The Good,The Bad,And the Ugly
Breathless
The Emerald Forest
Catch 22
The Big Blue

 

[Bukfan]

Land and Freedom - Ken Loach

That's a great film! It gives a realistic view of the life of the militia's at the front during the Spanish Civil War. It reminded me a lot of Orwell's book, "Homage To Catalonia". It describes the life at the front in much the same way as the film.

 

[pig ear press]

This is true. Though I must admit it becomes quite taxing when you try and read through the complexities of the Spanish Civil War. Why couldn't the lefties just get along ;) I still find it amazing that people like Orwell left their homeland off their own back to face fascism head on. I couldn't imagine people doing that nowadays.

I watched Che Part 1 the other week and I thought that was another example of how to make a film about guerilla warfare realistic.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

crap, I forgot El Topo!

El Topo is nuts. I'm not sure if it's good or I like it, but I haven't stopped thinking about it since I watched it.

 

[pig ear press]

Shameless self promotion Mr Hines!

I threw that film in as a bit of a joke, it's not a film you can say you really love, just a film it's impossible not to react to. I felt something similar when I was taken to a naval hospital with concussion. And the halls were filled with thousands of dead rabbits...

 

[hoochmonkey9]

how did your navel get a concussion?

do rabbits have navels?

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Catch 22

Fantastic film, and so much better than M*A*S*H. I can't understand why Catch 22 lost out to M*A*S*H so badly.

 

[Rob.]

In no particular order:

Pee Wee's Big Adventure
The Princess Bride
Highlander
The Gods Must be Crazy
The Life Aquatic
Shawshank Redemption
Napolean Dynamite
Memento
Moty Python and the Holy Grail
Being John Malkovich
This Is Spinal Tap

Mine goes to 11.

Anyone care to give me a diagnosis?

 

[chronic]

Moty Python and the Holy Grail

Ahh, Monty Python's bastard stepchild.

 

[Rob.]

Yeah, I screwed up Napoleon too. I guess movie titles are my Water Lieu...

 

[Bukfan]

This is true. Though I must admit it becomes quite taxing when you try and read through the complexities of the Spanish Civil War. Why couldn't the lefties just get along ;) I still find it amazing that people like Orwell left their homeland off their own back to face fascism head on. I couldn't imagine people doing that nowadays.

I watched Che Part 1 the other week and I thought that was another example of how to make a film about guerilla warfare realistic.

I agree. I guess that's why Orwell wrote about the political complexities of the war in a chapter by itself, and said if you're not interested in the political aspects you can just skip the chapter and carry on with the rest of the book. :D

People still join wars and revolts in other countries nowadays. I think that's what's happening in Iraq and Afghanistan where other nationalities joins the war against the coalition forces. Of course, their agenda is a religious fascist agenda but in principle it's the same as what happened in the Spanish Civil War.

I have'nt seen the Che film. I better have a look at it on Youtube.

 

[Nihil]

no particular order:
-Los Olvidados
-Fargo
-Snatch
-Reservoir Dogs
-Old Boy
-Lost Highway
-The Life Of Brian
-Heaven
-Bananas
-Big Lebowski

*El Santo & Blue Demon V.S. The Monsters
*Mononoke Princess

 

[Ronzo]

Fantastic film, and so much better than M*A*S*H. I can't understand why Catch 22 lost out to M*A*S*H so badly.

I really don't know either. Robert Altman is a good director. Both movies are from books of the same title as their movie counterparts. I think it had something to do with the years that they were released in.
Catch 22 will always be one of my favorite book and movie.

 

[BicycleTragedy]

Harvey
Falling Down
Lolita (Lynne's, not Kubrick's)
There Will Be Blood
The Swimmer
My Dinner With Andre
Sweet and Lowdown
Three O'Clock High
Happiness
Donnie Darko


...probably omitting many crucial others, but these random ten came to mind first.

No one cares.