What are your Top Five movies of all time?

I haven't seen this one in years. Good to see a Paul Cox film in your list.

 

1. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch)
2. Oedipus Rex (Pasolini)
3. Fanny And Alexander (Bergman)
4. Metropolis (Lang)
5. Le Mepris (Godard)

 

I was working at the video duplication facility that released that title to home video at the time. I must have seen it a dozen times when I worked there and grew to love it. I still watch it on occasion, and it does indeed hold up.

 

The Godfather
Citizen Kane
Badlands
The Conformist
Duck Soup/Its a Gift

 

His films are difficult to get on dvd, especially reg 2. The only film I have of his is The Golden Braid on vhs, but it's not on the same level as Man Of Flowers.

 

Five more...

The Thin Red Line
Diva
Pulp Fiction
Blow Up
Apocalypse Now

 

Today?

The Blues Brothers
Raising Arizona
Airplane
Trading Places
High Fidelity

Darryl

 

I am making you THINK ABOUT IT.

The FIVE you think are the TOP.

 

The taste in this thread is impressive. I'm seeing favorites of mine all over. If I've got to go with five only, here they are today.

Rio Bravo
The Big Lebowski
Vertigo
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
A Trip to the Moon

 

I'm cheating again:

Ran (Kurosawa)
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers ('56)
Scarlet Street
Intruder in the Dust
Planet of the Apes ('68)

 

It's a slippery slope...

I'm done sliding, though.

 

OK OK!!!

 

But really there's one guy who's up to 15 and I don't see any sign he's stopping. So...

 

Thanks, Mono.

6)La Dolce Vita
7)Good Will Hunting
8)Vertigo
9)Taxi Driver
10) Little Big Man......

 

But don't number them! You're making it too obvious!

I stopped at 10, btw.

 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Rear Window, Double Indemnity, Lawrence of Arabia, Le Samourai

 

Hmmm. Tough to single five out but here goes...

The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
Olympia (Riefenstahl)
Chinatown (Polanski)

Aaron

 

Jaws
The Thing
The Parallax View
Dirty Harry
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)

 

Top movies of all time? As opposed to my favorites? Hmm...

Citizen Kane
2001 A Space Odyssey
Lawrence of Arabia
Gone With the Wind
The Godfather

...not necessarily my favorites though.

 

Oh, there are so many, but off the top of my head:

Lost in Translation
A Hard Day's Night
This is Spinal Tap
Short Cuts
Blue Velvet

 

Hot Dog : The Movie
Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo
Leonard Part 6
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Rat Pfink a Boo Boo

 

The thread title "what are your top five movies of all time?" could just as easily mean "your favorites" as well as "top movies of all time". I was thinking more about personal favorites when I compiled my list - if I considered "top movies of all time", there'd be some overlap, but the resulting list would probably be a bit different.

 

"Please allow me to introduce myself/I'm a man of wealth and taste"

 

The Graduate
A Hard Days Night
Koyaanisqatsi
The Wall
A Clockwork Orange

 

Favorites:

Citizen Kane
Quiz Show
The Graduate
Glengarry Glenn Ross
Dr. Strangelove