Your 10 greatest movies of all time

thought this would be fun. Ten movies that are your all-time favorites. As you can see by my last two, music movies are fine. Here's mine:

1) Jaws
2) The Godfather Pt. 2
3) This is Spinal Tap
4) Apocalypse Now
5) The Godfather Pt. 1
6) The Shining
7) Goodfellas
8) Sideways
9) A Hard Days Night
10) The Song remains the Same

 

The third man




On the waterfront
Godfather 2
There will be blood
Citizen Kane
Strangers on a train
Blade runner
Raiders of the lost ark
Rebecca
Roman holiday

 

Chinatown
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Vertigo
Hombre
Mulholland Drive
Bad Day At Black Rock
The Exorcist
Night Of The Living Dead
Planet Of The Apes (original)
Jacob's Ladder

 

good list. I would probably amend mine to have the original Planet of the Apes in there. Forgot about it!

 

001 Before The Devil Knows You´re Dead (Sidney Lumet)
002 Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
003 Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
004 The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
005 Key Largo (John Huston)
006 Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
007 Laura (Otto Preminger)
008 Eraserhead (David Lynch)
009 Badlands (Terrence Malick)
010 The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)

And my favourite leisure time movie of all times: Ghostbusters.

 

The US or the european version ?

 

1. The Godfather
2. The Shining
3. Goodfellas
4. Blade Runner
5. After Hours
6. Army of Darkness
7. Aliens
8. Back to the Future
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark

If I had to pare my movie collection down to 10 movies, these are the ones I'd keep.

 

Blade Runner (The Final Cut)
Brazil (Gilliam's Director's Cut)
Apocalypse Now (Theatrical Cut)
Eraserhead
Taxi Driver
Blue Velvet
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Alien (Theatrical Cut)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)

 

I like that disclaimer! I don't know what I would consider the 10 greatest, but if I had to keep 10 of my DVD/BD's it would likely be:
1. Patton
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Gladiator
4. Braveheart
5. Jaws
6. Lord of the Rings (gotta treat as one!)
7. Big Jake
8. Troy
9. Thirteen Days
10. Pulp Fiction

Definitely all "Guy flicks!"

 

The Godfather I and II
Good Will Hunting
Scent Of A Woman
The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Sling Blade
The Breakfast Club
The Lord Of The Rings trilogy
The Departed
Gangs Of New York
Mystic River
Radio

 

U.S. - but both are good

 

1. The Double Life of Veronique
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Michael Clayton
4. The Third Man
5. Harakiri
6. My Favorite Year
7. The Godfather Part II
8. Raising Arizona
9. The Road Warrior
10. Children of Men

 

The Lost Weekend
Dark Passage
The Artist
Some Like It Hot
Predator
Apocalypto
Jerimiah Johnson
Road To Perdition
The World's End
Revolver

 

1. Star Wars (original only)
2. Road House
3. Conan the Barbarian
4. The Road Warrior
5. The Terminator
6. Big Trouble in Little China
7. The Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms (aka Crippled Avengers)
8. Evil Dead II
9. Psycho
10. Up in Smoke

 

In no particular order and leaving out musicals(and ten barely scratches the surface):
Privilege
Mean Streets
Citizen Kane
Velvet Goldmine
Fox and His Friends
Weekend
The 400 Blows
Five Easy Pieces
La Dolce Vita
Vertigo
The Last Picture Show (so it's eleven, who cares?)

 

Easy Rider
The Godfather
Goodfellas
The Untouchables
Road To Perdition
Man On Fire
Backdraft
Key Largo
Little Caesar
Casino

 

The Tree of Life
Mulholland Drive
Apocalypse Now
Chinatown
Mean Streets
Black Narcissus
Sunset Boulevard
Vertigo
Touch of Evil
A Clockwork Orange

 

The General
The Bridge On the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A Hard Days Night
Blade Runner
Jaws
Bed and Board
Hope and a Glory
The Godfather 1 & 2

 

In no special order, & the list would certainly change as my mood does.

Forbidden Planet - 1956

It's a Gift - WC Fields 1934

Touch Of Evil - Orson Wells 1958

Repulsion - Roman Polanski 1965

Casablanca - 1942

King Kong - 1933

American Graffiti - 1973

Duck Soup - Marx Bros -1933

Bride Of Frankenstein -1935

The Boogie Man Will Get You -Boris Karloff/Peter Lorre 1942

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Chinatown
Alien
Tokyo Story
Wizard of Oz
Duck Soup
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Bride of Frankenstein
Rosemary's Baby

 

No particular order except
Airplane is #1
Out of the Past
Vertigo
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Breaking Away
A Clockwork Orange
12 Angry Men
Lawrence of Arabia
Cinema Paradiso (shorter cut)
I guess I could put Shawshank Redemption here but it seems to cliche

 

Ten personal favorites? Something like this....

Midnight Cowboy
Jaws
There Will Be Blood
Rocky
Fletch
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Blue Velvet
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Vertigo
The Magnificent Ambersons

 

In no particular order:

Unforgiven
The Searchers
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Casablanca
Blade Runner
Once Upon a Time In the West
Chinatown
Pulp Fiction
Lawrence of Arabia
Bridge On the River Kwai

 

I've already put my top ten but there's so many favorites that I want to put my list from 11 to 20.

The Fly
Apocalypse Now
A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
Run Lola Run
Lost Highway
The Fisher King
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski
Heat

 

Boogie Nights
Pink Flamingos
Magical Mystery Tour
My Bodyguard
Easy Money
The Earthling
The Shining
Blazing Saddles
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Caveman