What are your Top Five movies of all time?

Being John Malkovich
The Maltese Falcon
Sunset Boulevard
Ed Wood
Bladerunner

 

Good choices!

 

Thanks, I thought of 5 more right after I typed those but those were the first to come to mind so they must have meant the most to me.

 

Today's list:

Miller's Crossing
Princess Mononoke
Lawrence of Arabia
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Rushmore

 

I couldn't do five.

 

Here's five, but I could think of 25 pretty easily:

1. Indiana Jones & Temple of Doom
2. Jaws
3. Dirty Harry
4. King Kong original
5. Fargo

 

The Godfather
Psycho
Citizen Kane
The Apartment
2001 A Space Odyssey

 

Lonely Are The Brave <1962>
Hombre <1967>
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning <1961>
Peeping Tom <1960>
A Taste Of Honey <1961>

 

I'm gonna pretend there is a Round Two

North By Northwest
Alien
Die Hard
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
Rebecca

 

Too difficult to reduce a list to only five, but today's picks:

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Chungking Express
Last Night at the Alamo
Hard-Boiled
The Wild Bunch

On any given day any of these could be in my top five as well:

Tokyo Story (or any of at least a dozen of Ozu's other films)
Ashes of Time
Dazed and Confused
Scorpio Rising
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Pink Flamingos
A Clockwork Orange
Modern Times
Sherlock Jr.
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
Sunset Boulevard
8 1/2
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Lawrence of Arabia
Chinatown

Many others I'm sure I'll wonder why I forgot to include later, but these are the ones that immediately occurred to me.

 

1. Godfather II
2. The Matrix
3. Princess Mononoke
4. Knocked Up
5. Trading Places

 

I'd swap out Citizen Kane for Veronica Mars...

 

1 The Apartment (Wilder)
2 It's a Wonderful Life (Capra)
3. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
4. The Third Man (Reed)
5. Withnail and I (Robinson)

 

1. West Side Story
2. Pinky
3. Norma Rae
4. Pinnochio (1940)
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

 

Apocalypse Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Lost in Translation
Midnight Cowboy

 

Singin' In The Rain
The Love Bug
North By Northwest
From Russia With Love
Animal House

 

Godfather I
Godfather II
Shawshank Redemption
Scent of a Woman
Goodfellas

 

"You talkin' to me? There's no one else here."

 

Five is so small, c'mon.

 

So am I:

Nashville
Jules and Jim
The Godfather Part II
Before Sunrise
The Manchurian Candidate

 

Local Hero
Station Agent
Unbearable Lightness of Being
Room With A View
Three/Four Musketeers (1973)

 

1) Casablanca
2) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4) Jaws
5) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

 

I hope that's the one with Sinatra?

 

Oh yes. I almost wrote "original" after the title.

 

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather II
3. Goodfellas
4. Raging Bull
5. The Shawshank Redemption