Clint Eastwood - Your 5 Favorite Movies

I'm watching "High Plains Drifter" and I just realized how much I enjoy Clint Eastwood's acting. And of course he's also a great director!

What are your 5 favorite movies starring Eastwood?

Mine are (in no particular order):

In The Line Of Fire
Dirty Harry
A Perfect World
The Gauntlet
The Outlaw Josey Wales

.....hard to choose!

 

A Perfect World (for his direction)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Unforgiven
In the Line of Fire

 

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Unforgiven
Dirty Harry
Grand Torino
The Outlaw Josey Wales

 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dirty Harry
Bronco Billy
White Hunter Black Heart
Unforgiven

Honorable mentions:
Play Misty for Me
The Beguiled
Outlaw Josey Wales
Million Dollar Baby

 

The Good, the bad and the ugly
High Plains Drifter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
For A Few Dollars More
Gran Torino

 

The Outlaw Josey Wales
Every Which Way but Loose
Escape from Alcatraz
Gran Torino
Sudden Impact

 

The Good The Bad And The Ugly
High Plains Drifter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
For A Few Dollars More
A Fistfull Of Dollars

 

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Heartbreak Ridge
Sudden Impact
Escape From Alcatraz

So hard to pick just 5.

I could easily swap in:

In The Line Of Fire (but John Malkovich steals this movie)
Dirty Harry
Pale Rider
Gran Torino
Hang 'Em High
High Plains Drifter

and so on and so on.

I like most of his movies.

(Didn't care much for Unforgiven, Bronco Billy and a couple of the silly ones with the Orangutan.)

 

Gauntlet
Josey Wales
Dirty Harry
Heartbreak Ridge
Honky Tonk Man

 

I have all of his films up to Million Dollar Baby (plus Grand Torino) on the blu-ray. I always loved watching Eastwood marathons on TBS when I was growing up. He made so many great films, it's hard to narrow it down to five, but at the moment I'd say -

The Good The Bad and The Ugly
In The Line of Fire
Unforgiven
Dirty Harry
Bronco Billy

I could also have chosen Alcatraz, Kelly's Heroes, Few Dollars More, High Plains Drifter, Josey Wales , Tightrope, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Hang 'em High.... all great.

I haven't seen any of his recent films. Gran Torino was the last. It's amazing how active he is at his age.

 

Ok, Hang Em High..Play Misty For Me..Dirty Harry..Unforgiven..Bronco Billy.

 

Anybody like "The Eiger Sanction" or "Where Eagles Dare?"

 

A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven

The Dollars Trilogy is one of the greatest in cinematic history.

 

Unforgiven
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
High Plains Drifter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
For A Few Dollars More

 

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
A Fistful of Dollars
The Outlaw Josey Wales
For a Few Dollars More
Unforgiven

 

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly - for my money (a few $ more? ), this was the best of those "spaghetti westerns"
Magnum Force - my favorite of the Dirty Harry Callahan features
Escape From Alcatraz - based on a true story, but if anyone could escape from there, it would be him
Unforgiven - he deserved to win multiple Oscars for this
Gran Torino - similar to Falling Down, but Eastwood was ultimately more sympathetic than Michael Douglas

 

I think the only Eastwood movie I have seen is Gran Torino, but I think it is a great movie.

I might have seen Unforgiven, but I don't remember anything about it.

 

And if I can have Honourable Mentions:

Honky Tonk Man
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Mystic River
Bird
High Plains Drifter

and five more:
Dirty Harry
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
Two Mules for Sister Sarah
Escape from Alcatraz

 

Escape from Alcatraz
In the Line of Fire
Dirty Harry
Unforgiven
Million Dollar Baby

Trivia: early in Dirty Harry, when he foils the bank robbers and has that iconic scene ('You feel lucky today, punk? Well, do ya?') there's a cinema nearby. The movie playing there is Play Misty for Me.

And I'm sure the movie he most regrets taking the role in: Paint Your Wagon. Gotta give him credit for trying a singing role, though.

 

I have to think about this, but Kelly's Heroes belongs just for the way he sneers at archetypal hippie Donald Sutherland

 

Fistfull of dollars
For a few dollars more
The good, the bad & the ugly
Hang Em' High
High plains drifter
The outlaw Josey Wales
Joe Kidd

(I'm counting the trilogy as one)

 

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Gran Torino
In The Line Of Fire
Unforgiven
Dirty Harry
Play Misty For Me
Bronco Billy (incredible corn that somehow works)

More than 5 but that's just how I roll and I wanted to give Bronco Billy and Play Misty (not in his 5 best) some props

 

Magnum Force
Dirty Harry
Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Gran Torino

 

Dirty Harry (...although I like all of the series)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
The Eiger Sanction (NOT a good movie but damned if I don't end up watching the whole thing every time it's on)

Honorable mentions:
Man With No Name Trilogy
Where Eagles Dare
In the Line of Fire
High Plains Drifter

Amazing how similar the lists all are.

 

I'm intentionally leaving out his Westerns, because that could be another list unto itself.

Kelly's Heroes
The Gauntlet
Dirty Harry
The Eiger Sanction
Heartbreak Ridge

Honorable Mention - Play Misty For Me