What are your Top Five movies of all time?

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Goodfellas
The Big Lebowski
The Godfather
The Godfather II

 

Chilly Scenes Of Winter
This Is Spinal Tap
Brazil
Chinatown
Interiors

 

Superman: The Movie
The Blues Brothers
Goodfellas
The Godfather
The Godfather Pt.II

 

Top five:
The Searchers
Harvey
Dr. Strangelove
The President's Analyst
Team America: World Police

Next five (these lists are usually "top-ten":
Rio Bravo
Goodfellas
Chinatown
The Harder They Come
Rear Window

 

Star Wars
Repulsion
Blow Up
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Alien

 

Road Warrior
The Warriors
Taxi Driver
Planet Of The Apes (original)
Alien/Aliens

 

The Graduate
Dr Strangelove
Patton
Planet Of The Apes
A Few Good Men

 

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Godfather
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction

 

The Godfather
The Searchers
The Last Picture Show
Broadway Danny Rose
The Outlaw Josey Wales

 

1.One Eyed Jacks(w/Brando)
2.Performance(w/Jagger)
3.A Hard Days Night
4.The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
5.All Quiet On The Western Front(orig 1930)

 

I've got over forty on my personal list, but here are the top five:

1) Being There. It's nice to see that this turns up on other people's lists as well. It's such a profoundly uplifting film: yes, it's funny & wry & well-observed but through the veneer of cynicism there's such faith in humanity (and, arguably, in something more than humanity).

2) Groundhog Day. Sure, it's a funny film but - as with Being There - this film questions the entire nature of human life and comes to its own benign conclusion. This one has started to show its age but it's still so mercurial and easy to watch that it earns its spot as a personal favourite.

3) North by Northwest. For me, this is almost interchangeable with The Thirty-Nine Steps (just outside my top five) which has more charm but fewer grand set pieces. For simply shimmerimg dialogue you can hardly get better.

4) Almost Famous. The long version of this film is too long ... but that's the one you have to watch because that's the version that works best as a movie about rock music.

5) Seven Samurai. I've got four of Kurosawa's movies in my full list, including the heavy tragedies (Ran & Kagemusha) and the, lighter, Hidden Fortress. But Seven Samurai has to go top five due to its supreme visual storytelling.

 

U.S.A.
-To Have And To Have Not = A film with something for just about everyone
-Rio Bravo (or The Searchers) = What a western should be
-Harvey = Jimmy Stewart at his very best
-The President's Analyst (or Dr. Strangelove) = The "60s" films that endure
-Die Hard (1988) = The ultimate template for the modern action film

Elsewhere
-I'm All Right Jack = A timeless parable, with Peter Sellers at his best
-Help = The most "fun" Beatles film of all
-One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing = What a war move can/should be
-Knife In The Water = Genius minimalism from a dodgy director
-The Harder They Come = a 'third world' rock & roll outlaw parable par excellence

 

1. The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick
2. Solaris (1971) - Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Persona (1966) - Ingmar Bergman
4. Nights of Cabiria (1957) - Federico Fellini
5. Three Colours: Red (1994) - Krzysztof Kieslowski

honourable mention

Wings of Desire (1987) - Wim Wenders
The Conformist (1970) - Bernardo Bertolucci
Vivre Sa Vie (1962) - Jean Luc Godard
If .... (1968) - Lindsay Anderson
The Servant (1963) - Joseph Losey
Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola
I am Cuba (1964) - Mikhail Kalatozov

docs-

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) - Werner Herzog
My Best Fiend (1999) - Werner Herzog
Woodstock (1970) - Michael Wadleigh
When We Were Kings (1996) - Leon Gast
Project Grizzly (1996) - Peter Lynch

trailer for 'project grizzly' lol


btw NFB seems to be streaming 'project grizzly' for FREE in HD ..... it hasn't even been released on BR!!
Project Grizzly


btw sorry i saw the 'ONLY FIVE' request from the OP a little too late lol

 

Right at this moment

Pillow Book
Almost Famous
That Thing You Do
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Armageddon (that's right, Arma F-----g geddon with Bruce Willis and the stupidest premise for a movie ever).

 

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
The Godfather Part II
After Hours
Lawrence of Arabia
Sweet Smell of Success

 

2 from the 1940s
2 from the 1970s
And ONE since the 1990‘s.. till present.

 

1. Midnight Cowboy
2. Jaws
3. Rocky
4. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
5. There Will Be Blood

 

Godfather, the best ever
Barton Fink, unreal
The Wizard Of Oz, 80 years old now
Little Shop Of Horrors, original by Roger Corman
Thunder Road,... the law they said would get him but the Devil got him first

 

Jaws is by far my #1
Star Wars (the original, before any retouching)
Dark Knight
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction

 

Sure there are a couple dozen movies I could choose, that I've only seen once (speaking of which, Once...), but I'm so over-movie'd out it's honestly hard to keep them straight. Based on how many times I've come back to see them, or purchased them, or always stopped dead in my Saturday because one was playing on cable, or I've put 'em on a list before...

Thunderball
Help
2001
My Favorite Year
Contact

-It's hard comparing a film that only came out 2-3 years ago with one I've come back to 7 or 7 times in my life already
-It's hard determining if a film deserves to be on the list merely because I believe in the subject matter or how they treat the subject matter editorially
-It's hard keeping recent films straight anyway, since I've been seeing at least 3 a month nowadays that I didn't know anything about before I went into the theater
-and on average one a week is it is
-and I'm a former film student, so my standards had changed
-also I'm an animation fan and there're literally thousands of them to narrow-down (how had I not even put one into that list for that matter)
-plus television has improved to the point it's really competing with both cinema technique and scope, and just time spent investing in enjoying it
-as has watching widescreens and computer monitor screens at home, in private
-besides, the auditorium experience has been diminished by Management not letting you bring in your own remotes from home

 

Seven Samurai
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Shenandoah
The Godfather
Silence of the Lambs

 

I never saw that Movie, but did buy the Soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood(Radiohead) on CD. He has done some really great Soundtrack Work in recent years.

 

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Time Bandits

Young Frankenstein

Signs

Just Friends

 

Vertigo
Pulp Fiction
NxNW
Slap Shot
The Commitments

Honorable mention:

Goodfellas
Major League
Fletch

 

The Godfather, L’Avventura, Psycho, Ran, El Dorado