10 Favorite Movies Of All Time

[Troy Spiral (13)]

What are your suggestions for the best movies of all time?

Please list no more than 10 (if possible)

Feel Free to list less than 10

the idea being "best" by some critera to do with the film, not say "becasue it reminds me of my first date" or some such.

[Joey Deadcat]

These are the ones that immediately came to mind and are in no particular order (and this may help me in compiling a list for someone).

Listing a handful of my personal favorites though some of them could fall into a "best movies of all time" list.

1. The Third Man (1949)

2. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (1966)

3. World's Greatest Sinner (1962)

4. Stalag 17 (1953)

5. Breathless (1960)

6. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

7. Wings of Desire (1987)

8. Lolita (1962)

9. Night Of The Hunter (1955)

10. A Thousand Clowns (1965)

Edited July 5, 2011 by Joey Deadcat

[Troy Spiral (13)]

These are the ones that immediately came to mind and are in no particular order (and this may help me in compiling a list for someone).

Listing a handful of my personal favorites though some of them could fall into a "best movies of all time" list.

1. The Third Man (1949)

2. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (1966)

3. World's Greatest Sinner (1962)

4. Stalag 17 (1953)

5. Breathless (1960)

6. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

7. Wings of Desire (1987)

8. Lolita (1962)

9. Night Of The Hunter (1955)

10. A Thousand Clowns (1965)

Never saw Dr. Mabuse, A thousand Clowns nor Worlds Greatest Sinner. d/ling them now.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

1. All About Eve (1950)

2. Clockwork Orange (1971)

3. Splendor in the Grass (1961)

4. Goodfellas (1990)

5. The Princess Bride (1987)

6. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

7. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

8. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

9. Wall Street (1987)

10. The Usual Suspects (1995)

man that's a painful list to make

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I think i'll weight them like this:

1-5 = 3 points

6-10 = 1 point

(Total 20)

If you say "no particular order" then:

1-10 = 2

(total 20)

So by that measure (so far) the "master list" would look like:

1. All About Eve (1950)

2. Clockwork Orange (1971)

3. Splendor in the Grass (1961)

4. Goodfellas (1990)

5. The Princess Bride (1987)

6. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

7. Wings of Desire (1987)

8. Lolita (1962)

9. Night Of The Hunter (1955)

10. A Thousand Clowns (1965)

(having no way (yet) to "tie break" the movies that are all at 2 each, having to pick randomly until we get more data)

[pomba gira]

In no particular order....

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

2. Repo Man (1984)

3. Fantastic Planet (1973)

4. Tampopo (1985)

5. The Piano (1993)

6. Kill Bill vol. 1 (2003)

7. Young Frankenstein (1974)

8. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

9. Madame Sata (2002)

10. Quadrophenia (1979)

... oops, I missed the "English language part". I seriously don't feel like coming up with anything else right now so my two furrin ones will have to stay for the moment. Sorry. And I'm not tryna be some kind of film snob... these are the 10 best films 'cos I happen to like them best, and they all resonate deeply with me on multiple levels. So there!

Edited July 6, 2011 by pomba gira

[phee]

Okay... lets give it a try

1. Alien (1979)

2. The Shining (1980)

3. Pi (1998)

4. Blade Runner 1982)

5. Citizen Kane (1941)

6. Waking Life (2001)

7. Ran (1985)

8. M (1931)

9. El laberinto del fauno (2006)

10. Сталкер(1979)

[Invictus]

1. Hard Boiled (1992)

2. White Heat (1949)

3. The Shootist (1976)

4. 7 Samurai (1954)

5. Ghost Dog (1999)

6. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

7. Blade Runner (1982)

8. The Thing (1982)

9. They Live (1988)

10. Eight Iron Men (1952)

[Troy Spiral (13)]

At least something from Kurosawa be on the list but for whatever reason i threw "English language" in there, not sure what came over me.

[phee]

At least something from Kurosawa be on the list but for whatever reason i threw "English language" in there, not sure what came over me.

Want to take that out? (because I ignored it and there are 4 non english ones on my list.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Want to take that out? (because I ignored it and there are 4 non english ones on my list.

I'm not sure I can manually keep this going anyway, actually I know i cant, so probably should just turn it into a "list 10 favorite movies" type thread, with all the other crap I have going there's no way I can keep this updated by hand.