What are your top 10 movies of all time?

[LarryLEB]

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

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?  YOWZA!  Excellent choice!  Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Gig Young.

[Logosone]

The Odd Couple!!!!!

 

With Jack Lemon!

[LarryLEB]

2 hours ago, Baht Simpson said:

In no particular order:

 

Tasogare Seibei

Maboroshi no Hikari

Umarete wa mita keredo

Tokyo monogatari

Shichinin no samurai

Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi

Biàn Liǎn

Xích Lô

Hachi no su no kodomotachi

Ugetsu monogatari

 

Tokyo monogatari, better known as Tokyo Story in the West, is top of my list.  Yasujiro Ozu is my favourite director, bar none.

[GalaxyMan]

19 minutes ago, LarryLEB said:

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?  YOWZA!  Excellent choice!  Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Gig Young.

I couldn't sleep or talk to anyone for two days after seeing that movie. Incredibly disturbing. One of Jane Fonda's best.

Edited April 24, 2020 by GalaxyMan

[LarryLEB]

• Tokyo Story
• The Battle of Algiers
• Ali:  Fear Eats the Soul
• Fanny and Alexander
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Seven Samurai
• Pater Panchali
• Children of Paradise
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Olympia

[GalaxyMan]

Just now, LarryLEB said:

• Tokyo Story
• The Battle of Algiers
• Ali:  Fear Eats the Soul
• Fanny and Alexander
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Seven Samurai
• Pater Panchali
• Children of Paradise
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Olympia

LOL. I can honestly say that I haven't seen any of them. ????

[Lokie]

Lawrance of Arabia (Cinamatography & Score)

Spartacus (Steller Cast)

Ben Hur (Epic)

The Great Escape (boys own stuff, heroes)

The Battle of Britain (ariel sequences)

Platoon (definatly not in the rear with the gear!)

Forest Gump (Just a great movie, Hanks at his best)

Star Wars (1977 as a kid watching that first Star Destroyer Battle Cruiser slowly move right across and fill the movie theater screen - Wow)

Last of the Mohicans (awsome picture)

No Country for Old Men (Scary assasin) 

Edited April 24, 2020 by Lokie

[spidermike007]

50 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Why stop at ten? Gladiator, Youth, Saving Private Ryan, Godfather, Wind River, Harry Brown, 42, Hands of Stone, the Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, Seven, Moon, Alphaville, The Fly, Children of Men, Ex-Machina, Solaris, Alien, The Terminator, Enemy of the State, Gravity, The Great Beauty, Across the Universe, The Revenant, The Secret life of Walter Mitty, This must be the place, Mystic River, The Natural, The River runs through it, An unfinished life, All the President's men, Million dollar baby, The Wrestler, Anna, Angel Heart, In the electric mist, No country for old men, Fargo, Barton Fink, Lady Vengeance, Dreams, Seven Samurai, Ran, Kagemusha, High and Low, Field of Dreams, Mr. Brooks, Open Range, The 3:10 to Yuma, True Grit, Crash, City of Ghosts, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red line, Ghost Dog, Mystery Train, Down by Law, Only lovers left alive, Dead man, Night on earth, American sniper, Letters from Iwo Jima, Unforgiven, Pale Rider, I could go on and on and on. 

And I could add a History of Violence, Frontera, and Sicario. 

[Lokie]

Yeah Enemy of the State... Theres some great movies... I struggled with my ten..., Id need at least ten of each Genre lol

[Odysseus123]

The Seven Samurai-Kurosawa

La Grande Illusion-Renoir

The Wages of Fear-the original with Yves Montand

The Wild Bunch-Peckinpah

The Searchers-John Ford

The Dam Busters-Michael Anderson.

War and Peace-Bondarchuk

Gone With the Wind-Victor Fleming

Full Metal Jacket-Kubrik

Close Encounters..Spielberg.

 

It is great to see so many posters nominating 'Les Enfants du Paradis'-it certainly appears on my top list.

Jean-Louis Barrault..what an actor!

Edited April 24, 2020 by Odysseus123

[Skallywag]

On 4/23/2020 at 8:56 AM, Liverpoolfan said:

1. Pulp Fiction

2. Fight Club

3. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

4. The Godfather

5. Apocalypse Now

6. Interstellar 

7. 12 Angry Men

8. A Clockwork Orange

9. There Will Be Blood

10. Se7en

 

+1,  great top ten list. 

WIll have to try and download "There will be blood" as have not seen that one.   You almost need to categorize.  Top 10 War movies, top 10 comedies, etc..

Edited April 24, 2020 by Skallywag

[fredwiggy]

There Will Be Blood is a good movie. I'll add more, Dambusters, 633 Squadron, Mrs. Doubtfire, Interstellar, Whiplash, Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, Godfather 2 1nd 3, Unforgiven, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Dances with Wolves, How the West Was Won, The Vikings, The Long Ships, The Pacific and Band of Brothers, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Revenant, The Thin Red Line, Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan, Colors, The Omen, Mississippi Burning, too many........................

[cyril sneer]

3 hours ago, Baht Simpson said:

In no particular order:

 

Tasogare Seibei

Maboroshi no Hikari

Umarete wa mita keredo

Tokyo monogatari

Shichinin no samurai

Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi

Biàn Liǎn

Xích Lô

Hachi no su no kodomotachi

Ugetsu monogatari

 

look at me!!

[Logosone]

Vertigo

 

North by Northwest 

 

Bhowani Junction

 

Barefoot in the Park

 

Love Story

 

 

[AlfonsV]

5 hours 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

may you forget the Italians Visconti and Bertolucci ?

[rumak]

I always seem  to like the movies where the lone  misfit, downtrodden, oppressed, bullied,

or something of that nature........... rises up and defeats the evil oppressor   555

 

Magnificent Seven  (of course )         and like all the personalities

Rambo                                            don't laugh

School of Rock                                funny......  and love the kids song at the end

Forrest Gump                                  stupid is as stupid does

Finding Forrester                              ok, not great,  but different

The Great Dictator                            Chaplin....amazingly talented.   A final 

                                      speech that somehow depresses me.....                      

Green Mile

Chinatown

Gladiator                                        there was Spartacus before 

 

actors:   Steve,  Clint,    bruce lee,   jackie chan  gerard butler,  

 

Edited April 24, 2020 by rumak

[AlfonsV]

Allow me 15 ....

 

Apocalypse now

Girl with a Pearl Earring

1900

The Damned

Last Tango

The Sheltering Sky

The great dictator

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Around the World in 80 Days

Cabaret

Gandhi

Gorillas in the mist

Amadeus

Out of Africa

Cyrano de Bergerac

 

[MJKT2014]

4 hours ago, Baht Simpson said:

In no particular order:

 

Tasogare Seibei

Maboroshi no Hikari

Umarete wa mita keredo

Tokyo monogatari

Shichinin no samurai

Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi

Biàn Liǎn

Xích Lô

Hachi no su no kodomotachi

Ugetsu monogatari

How about alphabetical order?

 

Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi
Biàn Liǎn
Hachi no su no kodomotachi
Maboroshi no Hikari
Shichinin no samurai
Tasogare Seibei
Tokyo monogatari
Ugetsu monogatari
Umarete wa mita keredo
Xích Lô

 

[Logosone]

Magnificent Seven, yes! 

 

Chinatown, sure.

 

Rambo, absolutely.

[newnative]

1 hour ago, Lokie said:

Lawrance of Arabia (Cinamatography & Score)

Spartacus (Steller Cast)

Ben Hur (Epic)

The Great Escape (boys own stuff, heroes)

The Battle of Britain (ariel sequences)

Platoon (definatly not in the rear with the gear!)

Forest Gump (Just a great movie, Hanks at his best)

Star Wars (1977 as a kid watching that first Star Destroyer Battle Cruiser slowly move right across and fill the movie theater screen - Wow)

Last of the Mohicans (awsome picture)

No Country for Old Men (Scary assasin) 

    Oh, my yes!  That first Star Wars opening scene!  Wow is right!   My second favorite opening scene; my favorite being the opening scene from The Sound of Music.  

[newnative]

So many favorites, I'm sure I'm forgetting some.  These are 10 I'd watch more than once:

 

The Sound of Music

Gone with the Wind

Casablanca

Titanic

The Way We Were

Star Wars

Bourne series

South Pacific

Gosford Park

A Room with a View

 

[Daffy D]

One of my favorite moves is "Play Dirty" with Michael Caine.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063443/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

 

The opening sequence is great, go to love that Jeep 

 

 

Edited April 24, 2020 by Daffy D

[peleid]

Here goes

Ryan's Daughter

Bridget Jones (all)

Jason Bourne films (all)

Italian Job

Doctor Zhivago

Private Benjamin

Pretty Woman

Gregory's Girl

Every which way but loose

Billy Elliot

 

Edited April 24, 2020 by peleid
Forgot that one

[Peter Denis]

20 minutes ago, newnative said:

    Oh, my yes!  That first Star Wars opening scene!  Wow is right!   My second favorite opening scene; my favorite being the opening scene from The Sound of Music.  

Among my all-time favorites are the firework-scenes in that Wild Disney movie about a giraffe with larynx-problems. ????

[Hank Gunn]

Wow, so hard to limit a list to just 10, but here's my list (also in no particular order):

• 2001, A Space Odyssey (one of Kubrick's best; still blows away many modern SciFi flicks with their CGI)
• Apocalypse Now (arguably the best Vietnam war film and one of the best war films of all time; brilliant overlay of an existing story (Heart of Darkness) onto a screenplay)
• Jeremiah Johnson (one of my favorite westerns; the sound and cinematography here, from the screech of a hawk, the bugling elk, to the wind blowing through the trees, and the location shots are amazing, plus a great story)
• On The Waterfront (arguably Brando's greatest, with one of the best scenes (Rod Steiger and Brando in the back of the taxi) in film of all time; "Not my NIGHT? I coulda torn Wilson apart!")
• Patton (a tour de force performance by George C. Scott; as much a biography as it is a war film)
• Raging Bull (Scorsese and De Niro at their zenith in my opinion; plus brilliant cinematography and musical score)
• The Sand Pebbles (probably Steve McQueen's best movie, although Bullit is close)
• Spartacus (a true epic with an amazing ensemble cast)
• The Game (a few others have mentioned Se7en, another David Fincher film but I think this is a little better; not quite as dark but a bit more cerebral and M. Douglas' portrayal of an investment banker is brilliant)
• Total Recall (nice mix of Action/Adv. and Sci Fi; Arnold at the top of his game; nice, "keep you on the edge of your seat" entertainment without being too deep/heavy)

Those are just from my personal collection and I could have put a few more in, in addition to a bunch of others I don't have. So hard to limit to just 10.

Some honorable mentions:

• Miller's Crossing (Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, say no more) and The Big Lebowski - two great Cohen brother works.
• Three Days of the Condor (another R. Redford film, with outstanding supporting cast: Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max Von Sydow, John Houseman) - a great espionage/thriller
• Ronin
• Star Wars (the first one; Lucas lost me on his toy-selling/marketing ploys he called sequels)
• Terminator-2 (need to have seen the first one to fully enjoy this, but I think this is a slightly better film)
• The Shining (another Kubrick classic, with Nicholson chewing up his scenes)
• To Live and Die in LA (gritty action/adv. with a great performance that put Willem Dafoe on the map)
• True Lies (another Arnold action/adv. with a brilliant straight man performance by Tom Arnold)
• The Matrix
• Thunderball, Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Dr. No, You Only Live Twice (there's Sean Connery's Bond, then there's everyone else; this is the order of my personal preference for his Bond films)

 

[Jip99]

The above lists are all great, but none are truly valid if they don't include:-

 

 

Shawshank Redemption.

[Maybole]

Top of the List.

 

Les Vacances de M. Hulot

[lust]

1 hour ago, Jip99 said:

The above lists are all great, but none are truly valid if they don't include:-

 

 

Shawshank Redemption.

My parents snuck me into this movie at the cinema in Vancouver after we watched The Quick and The Dead. I was 9 years old. I’ll never forget this. 

[Tigger01]

There's some great films there, how about It's a wonderful life? Anyone seen They call me Trinity??? 

[sharksy]

Can't believe "The Brothers Grimsby" hasn't been mentioned?  Certainly not for everyone, love or hate it film.

If you are "WOKE" you will will probably hit the roof after only a minute.