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Top 10 Favorite Films of all Time

Top 10 Favorite Films of all Time 12 years ago
What is your top 10 Favorite Films of all Time
there is no Right or Wrong Answer Mine Are

1: Gandi (1982)

2: The Last Emperor (1987)

3: The 400 Blows (1959)

4: In the Mood For Love (2000)

5: The Pianist (2002)

6: Braveheart(1995)

7: Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

8: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

9: Peeping Tom (1960)

10: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
12 years ago
Top ten lists are always a function of my current psychological disposition and BCC (blood caffeine content). But I can unequivocally recommend these films, all of which I have watched multiple times and could watch over and over again:

The Third Man (Carol Reed)
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
Le chagrin et la pitié [The Sorrow and the Pity]
All Quiet on the Western Front (the first one)
Godfather II (the original version--not the director's cut!)
Plein Soleil [Purple Noon]
Citta Aperta [Open City]
Lawrence of Arabia
Fargo
Glengarry Glenn Ross
Strangers on a Train
The Wizard of Oz
A Bout de Souffle [Breathless]
Dr. Strangelove

whoops==that's more than ten! Sorry!!!!

Twisted Evil
Off Topic 12 years ago
Really not the Directors cut of the Godfather? II
I allways love the director's Cut of Films IMHO
YOU See more of the story
Re: Off Topic 12 years ago
Lola82:
Really not the Directors cut of the Godfather? II
I allways love the director's Cut of Films IMHO
YOU See more of the story

Really. If it's not broken, don't fix it! The original was perfect; the director's cut rambles.

It's a bad idea, in general, I think to cut and paste new material into a masterpiece. They should include the random footage (often excluded from the original FOR A VERY GOOD REASON) as a DVD extra, but not re-do the film, IMNSHO.

The same thing happened to Apocalypse Now. The original is MUCH better than the DC.

Cool
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12 years ago
1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. City of God
3. Ben Hur
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Goodfellas
6. The Untouchables
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. Fight Club
10. Casino
11. Memento
12 years ago
Godfather II

The Empire Strikes Back

Raging Bull

The Wizard of Oz

The Sound of Music

The Graduate

Dog Day Afternoon

Sophie's Choice

Do the Right Thing

American Graffiti

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Platoon

Blue Velvet

Sorry 13....
12 years ago
oh wow, great but overwhelming question for a film fanatic such as I am... but I try. Laughing

(no specific order)

Little Murders
Love and Death
Death at a Funeral
Vertigo (I'm a big Hitchcock fan)
Sabotage (I hugely enjoy the humor in Hitchcock's British films)
Face behind the Mask (representative for quite some Peter Lorre films)
Persona (or Hour of the Wolf)
So many film noirs such as The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Anniversary (LOVE Bette Davis)
Harold and Maude

Not bad for starters, but I bet I forgot some 'can't live without-s'!
Off Topic 12 years ago
Sherapop:
Top ten lists are always a function of my current psychological disposition and BCC (blood caffeine content). But I can unequivocally recommend these films, all of which I have watched multiple times and could watch over and over again:

The Third Man (Carol Reed)
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
Le chagrin et la pitié [The Sorrow and the Pity]
All Quiet on the Western Front (the first one)
Godfather II (the original version--not the director's cut!)
Plein Soleil [Purple Noon]
Citta Aperta [Open City]
Lawrence of Arabia
Fargo
Glengarry Glenn Ross
Strangers on a Train
The Wizard of Oz
A Bout de Souffle [Breathless]
Dr. Strangelove

whoops==that's more than ten! Sorry!!!!

Twisted Evil

sTANGELY I can never sit down and watch the godfather through the begining to the end i rented one and two but i only sat though 1hr and 40 min or 2hrs of that movie this is part one it's also with lawrence of arabia i don't mind long movies because i sat though the last emperor maybe it's that Sonny Santino Cheractor that irritated me but i loved Marlon Brando in that Film but that's my only bone to pick
12 years ago
In no particular order, and, whoops!, 11:

Trouble in Paradise (1932)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
El ángel exterminador (1962)
2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967)
Performance (1970)
Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974)
Blue Velvet (1986)
La double vie de Véronique (1991)
In the Mood for Love (2000)

EDIT: Make that 12: Duck Soup (1933)
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Off Topic 12 years ago
IS there more people out there?
12 years ago
In no particular order:

War of the Roses
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Leon (The Cleaner)
Requiem for a Dream
K-PAX
Immortal Beloved
Land and Freedom
House of Sand and Fog
Donnie Darko
District 9
12 years ago
There has to be more people out there who can share
thier favorite films Wink
12 years ago
My favorite films are (in no particular order)

Metropolis
Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens
2001
Matrix
Intouchables
Trainspotting

...
12 years ago
I do not go to the movies a lot, so I do not have a top ten list.

My favorites so far:

Stalker by Tarkowski,
Querelle by Fassbinder
Matrix I
12 years ago
Sherapop:
Top ten lists are always a function of my current psychological disposition and BCC (blood caffeine content) :


Just ten? Man, this is difficult...

Night on Earth
Rope
Cinema Paradiso 
To Kill a Mockingbird
Arsenic and Old Lace
Elling
The Magic Flute
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 
Pathfinder
The Usual Suspects 

I can't believe I did this without films by the Cohen brothers, Terry Gilliam or any Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns...
11 years ago
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Silence of the Lambs
Funny Face
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990-French)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa-Japanese)
Samurai Trilogy (Hiroshi Inagaki-Japanese)
La Belle et la Bete (1946-French)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Chinese)
Raise the Red Lantern (Chinese)
House of Flying Daggers (Chinese)
Dances With Wolves
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Sunset Boulevard
Psycho
Godfather I & II
Rear Window
Wuthering Heights (1939)
All About Eve
Well there is no way it can be just 10! I could just go on and on...
11 years ago
This is a tough one, so my list is off the top of my head (with some serious editing involved), the order doesn't necessarily reflect preference, and these are strictly commercial:

Some Like It Hot
Auntie Mame
Arsenic and Old Lace
The List of Adrian Messenger
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The Usual Suspects
Gaslight
Godfather Series
All About Eve
Love Actually
11 years ago
Gone with the wind
Harold and Maude
Dead Poets Society
Fried Green Tomatoes
Driving Miss Daisy
Ben Hur (the original one with Charlton Heston)
Planet of the Apes (also the original with Ch.Heston)
The Birds
Rear window
The handmaid´s tale
11 years ago
My list will always be changing because my favourites change with my moods, but here's today's list.
The Manchurian Candidate (original version)
The Wicker Man (original version)
Trainspotting
A Clockwork Orange
Grave of the Fireflies
Sunset Boulevard
The Seventh Seal
Kes
Dog Day Afternoon
The Graduate
11 years ago
The Fifth Element
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Matrix
Dogma
REPO the Genetic Opera
Sin City
Lola Rennt
Quills
Donnie Darko
Ginger Snaps

I feel a little out of place as my list is much more modern than most listed here. My partner is slowly getting me into older, classic movies, I never grew up with good movies around; like music, most films were shunned for being "the devil's work". Yes, mothers like that actually exist.
That said, many of the movies here are etched on my heart, so while I may appreciate many movies - classic, niche, arthouse etc - for their cinematography or story, it's these ones I turn to for comfort and happiness. If you were to put The Fifth Element on for me in a coma, I would smile.
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