No order

Shawshank redemption

The green mile

A few good men

Scent of a woman

Brave heart

Full metal jacket

Forest gump

Dead poets society

Avatar

Silence of the lambs

With you toolpush - Kelly's Heroes. On a posting to Greece 1987/88 we had a VDO player but only had 2 movies, "KH" and "The Blues Brothers". Next best (and surprised nobody mentioned it) is "The Magnificent Seven". Lastly, "The African Queen". Luckily, got all four on DVD in Tachilek market for 30 baht each when doing the ubiquitous Non-O visa runs about ten years ago. I also like the original B/W movie "Dunkirk" which is far more believable and much better watching than the new Dunkirk (I hate computer graphics).  

No Apollo 13?

I couldn't narrow it down to 10 but these always are top movies for me.

The Shawshank Redemption

Pulp Fiction.

Snatch.

The good the bad and the ugly

 

 

 

Bambi, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Peter Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, Free Willy, The Muppets, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Movies can be "special" not just because they are great movies but because they are postcards in time, and have other kinds of "special" about them.

 

some of mine....

 

633 Squadron

Great Escape

True Grit (69)

Grease

Jaws

To kill a mocking bird

Se7en

Silence of the Lambs

 

 

3 hours ago, malt25 said:

I can't believe no one has nominated Shawshank Redemption !

Overrated in my opinion.  A good yarn but nothing special.

Singing in the Rain

11 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said:

Bambi, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Peter Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, Free Willy, The Muppets, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Interesting selection.  But surely you don't mean the recent James Corden 'Peter Rabbit' monstrosity?

Here's my choices,

IF

Clockwork Orange

Naked Prey (not porn)

Easy Rider

Pulp Fiction

Good,Bad and the Ugly

Silence of the Lambs

Fight Club

Psycho

Riders of the lost ark. 

Regards Worgeordie ????

 

ZULU

 

 

and several of those above

12 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Overrated in my opinion.  A good yarn but nothing special.

Very overrated film IMO.

Green Mile is 10x better.

 

7 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Here's my choices,

IF

Clockwork Orange

Naked Prey (not porn)

Easy Rider

Pulp Fiction

Good,Bad and the Ugly

Silence of the Lambs

Fight Club

Psycho

Riders of the lost ark. 

Regards Worgeordie ????

 

some classics there mate.

'Cabbages, knickers, err, it's not got a beak." ???? 

Good call but very very hard to narrow it down to 10 mate. Trued it, easy ten best bands.

Too many different gendres - great British films by Ken Loach Mike Leigh etc that many non Brits wouldnt get.

Many of those named above all good, some great and should be in any list. IMHO theres only a few actors who ve never made a bad film Russell Crow, Denzel Washington are among them.

 

Going through the posts in this thread I wonder if members didn't watch a movie in the last 20 years, or all live in the past.

 

I'm sure nobody want to claim that no good movies were made after the year 2000.

 

I don't have a list of 10 best, but just to name a few of really quality movies, from the last 20 years

 

The Pianist

 

Slumdog Millionaire

 

The Departed

 

There will be blood

 

No country for old men

 

Lion

 

Hotel Rwanda

 

The grand budapest hotel

 

Inception

 

12 years a slave

 

1 minute ago, 19DL86 said:

Good call but very very hard to narrow it down to 10 mate. Trued it, easy ten best bands.

Too many different gendres - great British films by Ken Loach Mike Leigh etc that many non Brits wouldnt get.

Many of those named above all good, some great and should be in any list. IMHO theres only a few actors who ve never made a bad film Russell Crow, Denzel Washington are among them.

 

Kes is my Number 11 ???? 

no arlington rd yet ? 

 

come on the bad guy wins for once. 

Only ONE guy mentioned THE PIANIST which I think is one of the best movies ever made.

 

And NOBODY mentioned THE SLEEPING DICTIONARY which is my go-to movie for escaping the problems of these modern times!

no order, the green mile, the shawshank redemption, lord of the rings, avatar, lethal weapon, hildalgo,  the hitmans bodyguard, olympus has fallen, django unchained & star wars

 

Edited April 24, 20206 yr by seajae

On 4/23/2020 at 10:13 AM, GalaxyMan said:

In no particular order:

 

Avatar
2001: A Space Oddessy
The Fifth Element
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
A.I. - Artificial Intelligence
I, Robot
Bicentennial Man
Interstellar
The Day The Earth Stood Still

So you like Scifi . What about Event Horizon ?

16 minutes ago, 19DL86 said:

Good call but very very hard to narrow it down to 10 mate. Trued it, easy ten best bands.

Too many different gendres - great British films by Ken Loach Mike Leigh etc that many non Brits wouldnt get.

Many of those named above all good, some great and should be in any list. IMHO theres only a few actors who ve never made a bad film Russell Crow, Denzel Washington are among them.

Just like there are actors/actresses that are almost a guarantee for a worthwhile movie (e.g. Robert de Niro, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, ...) there are also directors which provide consistent quality in their movie projects.

You cannot go wrong with movies by

- the Coen brothers

- Stanley Kubrick

- Akira Kurosawa

- Milos Forman

- Lars von Trier

or in the more popular genre, movies directed by

- Ridley Scott

- Quentin Tarantino

- Steven Spielberg

A Thai film is actually among the best of all time, can't believe I forgot about it:

 

Chocolate, with the amazing Yanin Vismistananda, maybe the best martial arts action movie of that decade.

 

Superb film.

 

 

Cool Hand Luke!

ya'll just embarrassed to be first to say debbie does dallas.

See many Tom Hanks films afforded credit, great actor one of the best in the last 30 years. A few pap films to start off his career, but 3-4 master pieces. 

 

Fractured with Anthony Hopkins is a very clever slick film which doesn't get as much acclaim as it should. Not Top 10 though but just thought I did give it a shout.

 

So too The Life of Walter Mitty, very much a feel good movie and an unusual coupling.

1. Cloud Atlas

2. Inception

3. Interstellar

4. The Big Lebowski

5. Leon: The Professional 

6. Terminator 2

7. Heat

8. No Country for Old Men

9. Donnie Darko

10. Snatch
 

 

10 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Just like there are actors/actresses that are almost a guarantee for a worthwhile movie (e.g. Robert de Niro, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, ...) there are also directors which provide consistent quality in their movie projects.

You cannot go wrong with movies by

- the Coen brothers

- Stanley Kubrick

- Akira Kurosawa

- Milos Forman

- Lars von Trier

or in the more popular genre, movies directed by

- Ridley Scott

- Quentin Tarantino

- Steven Spielberg

Yes agreed with the above, maybe deNiro being the exception. Made a few dire movies perhaps to finance his TriBeCa projects but can be forgiven as he's provided excellent ones righ up until The Irishman

One more, The Italian Job (original) with Michael Caine.

regards Worgeordie

4 hours ago, malt25 said:

I can't believe no one has nominated Shawshank Redemption !

It was in a previous thread.

In no particular order:

 

Kurosawa's "Kagemusha"

Marcel Carne's "Children of Paradise"

Chris Marker's "La Jettee", but also "Tokyo Ga"

Joseph Strick's "Ulysses"

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amelie", but also "Delicatessen"

Ariane Mnouchkine's "Moliere"

Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire", but also "Alice in the Cities"

Guy Richie's "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels", but also "Snatch"

Nikita Mikhailkov's "Oblomov", but also "Unfinished Piece for Player Piano"

Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise", but also "Down by Law"

Yasuhiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story", but also "Late Spring"

F. W. Murnau's "Sunrise"

Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction"

Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon"

 

Edited April 24, 20206 yr by cmarshall