Your 10 greatest movies of all time

Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Braveheart
The Hill
Ice Station Zebra
The Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape
To Have and to Have Not
The Green Berets
The Sand Pebbles

 

Local Hero
Station Agent
Room With a View
Network
Platoon
The Matrix
The Truman Show
Body Heat
Freedom Writers
The Conversation

 

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Star Wars
3. The Wizard of Oz
4. Broadway Danny Rose
5. Barton Fink
6. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
7. Touch of Evil
8. Turkish Star Wars (Dunyayı Kurtaran Adam)
9. Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (Invasion of Astro-Monster)
10. The Hustler

 

I don't know about greatest, or how that's defined, but my faves:

Star Wars (1977)
Groundhog Day
Alien (1979)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Back To The Future (all of them)
The Terminator
The Abyss
Easy A
Blade Runner
Rio Bravo

 

I just got finished watching Chinatown again. I haven't seen it in ages...what a great movie. I forgot how utterly depressing the ending was though, yikes!

 

wow, lots of great movies listed here guys!

 

Depressing as the ending is, i wouldn't change a thing. It's one of the reasons the movie stays with you long afterwards, also Jack getting a ''nose job'' from none other than Roman Polanski, i still have trouble watching that scene.

 

I could not find only 10...impossible. Nice lists guys!

 

2001 A Space O.
Blade Runner
Bridge over River Kwai
Young Frankenstein
Das Boot
Dr. Strangelove
The Great Escape
Rescue Dawn
The Exorcist
Von Ryan's Express

 

King Kong
The General (Buster Keaton)
The Godfather II
Bride Of Frankenstein
Citizen Kane
Wild Strawberries
On The Waterfront
The Wild Bunch
The Exorcist
Vertigo

I felt bad about not including a title by Kubrick, but his body of work is so significant that I find it difficult to choose just one. I was also tempted to include the film in my avatar (Performance), but I think it should remain one of those films that has little middle ground for viewers. Ken Russell also looms large in my mind, as Women In Love, The Music Lovers, and The Devils are all three remarkable films.

 

1 Vertigo
2 Touch of Evil
3 Apocalpyse Now
4 Sorcerer
5 Chinatown
6 Blade Runner
7 Patton
8 Jaws
9 Heat
10 The Prestige

Are among my most viewed so I suppose they are my favs. Kubrick is a tough one but I'd probably pick Strangelove.

 

Jaws
Highlander
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Blade Runner
Tremors
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
American Graffiti
The Big Lebowski
Deliverance

 

O Lucky Man!
Vertigo
Rear Window
Blade Runner
Deep End
Ed Wood
Blue Velvet
Heat
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Wars

 

Lawrence Of Arabia
The Third Man
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
The Naked Spur
Fargo
North By Northwest
To Catch A Thief
The Godfather I & II
The Shawshank Redemption
To Kill A Mockingbird

 

Blade Runner representing ! Didn't realize it's so popular.

Some of my favs

Blade Runner
Empire Strikes Back
The Player
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Caddyshack
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
To Live and Die in La
Pulp Fiction
Where Eagles Dare

 

In no particular order;

Goodfellas
Casino
The Time Machine
Vacation
Dumb and Dumber
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Little Giant
King Of New York

 

I like reading these lists because I have movies that make me think "No one could possible like that movie as much as me..." and then I see it in someone's top ten list and go, "Alright!"


On that note, here are my ten picked from other people's lists in this thread, using films I loved but didn't think they would appear.

Ice Station Zebra
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction
The Tree of Life
The General
Rosemary's Baby
Jaws
There Will Be Blood
The Searchers (well, yeah, the searchers should be here).

I also love this thread because of all the script development meetings I had to sit through and be told I HAD TO HAVE A STRONG LOVE STORY. Fock that! Look at these lists. How many have a goddurn corny, cliche love story as a major element? ALMOST NONE! Gdamn hollywood development execs!

 

It's pretty surprising how many are common to each post.

 

I can't believe I left off Dr. Strangelove. It's too hard coming up with just ten. I would have to add Miller's Crossing and The Big Lebowski to my list .

 

Can't possibly do just 10 -- I'll try to limit it to 25. Don't know if these are the "greatest," per se, but they are the ones that have fit most snugly into my frame of mind....


1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) Nashville
3) The Wild Bunch
4) Once Upon a Time in the West
5) Sans Soleil
6) The Unbearable Lightness of Being
7) Charulata
8) Jules and Jim
9) Duck Soup
10) Bonnie and Clyde
11) Blue Velvet
12) City Lights
13) Two or Three Things I Know About Her
14) Last Tango in Paris
15) McCabe & Mrs. Miller
16) Intolerance
17) Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors
18) A Hard Day's Night
19) Medium Cool
20) Petulia
21) Pandora's Box
22) Walkabout
23) Some Like It Hot
24) Psycho
25) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

 

Cool to see Duck Soup pop up. A huge fav of mine since I was a little kid.

 

I'll see you at the opera tonight. I'll hold your seat till you get there. After you get there you're on your own.

I could dance with you till the cows come home...But I would rather dance with the cows till you come home.

Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honour, which is probably more than she ever did.

I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it.

I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove.

 

Perfect. Thank Q.

 

In alphabetical order by the director:

Allen, Radio Days
Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux
Cocteau, Orphée
Hitchcock, North by Northwest
Lang, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Mankiewicz, Sleuth
Renoir, La Grande Illusion
Tati, Les vacances de M. Hulot
Tourneur, Night of the Demon
Wilder, Sunset Blvd.

 

Can't say they're the greatest, but these are my favorites:

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Dances With Wolves
5. Star Wars
6. The Empire Strikes Back
7. We Were Soldiers
8. Patton
9. The Great Race
10. Stand By Me