Your Top 10 Greatest Films

[mippus]

Trois couleurs: Bleu
Platoon
Bin Jip
Festen
Reservoir Dogs
A Clockwork Orange
Apocalypse Now
The Matrix
12 Angry Men
The Name of the Father

 

[Falcarius]

I know next to nothing about films. I think watching most films are like being locked in a public toilet; you're trapped in a dark room with a funny lighting system, and you so want to find something more enjoyable to do. Having said that, I liked Spirited Away, Pan's Labyrinth, Leon, and Dead Man's Shoes

 

[Sarcasticus]

Dr. Strangelove
2001
8 1/2
Fight Club
Matrix I
Amelie
Office Space
The Big Lebowski
There Will be Blood
Blade Runner

 

[Totenkindly]

I feel like I've answered this somewhere else.

I can't keep it to ten, really. Many of the ones already appearing here are movies I really really liked.

Hmm, I will instead choose to mention movies that are on my list that NO one else mentioned so far:

- Alien
- My Best Friend's Wedding
- Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- A Fish Called Wanda
- The Prestige
- Memento
- 28 Days Later
- The Ring
- A.I.
- The Sixth Sense

 

[matmos]

In no particular order; the first 10 that came to mind:

Apocalypse Now
Dr Strangelove
Taxi Driver
Citizen Kane
Carry On Up The Khyber
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Good The Bad & The Ugly
Judgement At Nuremberg
The Ruling Class
Last Year in Marienbad

 

[aeon]

In violation of the thread parameters, I have expanded my list of favorites.

1. La Cite des Enfants Perdus
2. Blade Runner
3. Breaking the Waves
4. The Piano
5. Aliens
6. American Beauty
7. Goodfellas
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. Requiem for a Dream
10. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
11. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
12. A Clockwork Orange
13. Raising Arizona
14. Pulp Fiction
15. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
16. The Silence of the Lambs
17. Dead Man Walking
18. Fight Club
19. Amadeus
20. The Wizard of Oz
21. Blue Velvet

my apologies,
Ian

 

[Jasz]

some other ones that haven't been mentioned:

Little Children
The Good Girl
The Insider
Heat
Once Upon a Time in the West
You Can Count on Me

 

[Valiant]

Your second choice! Do you also like "Captain Blood"?

I like Captain Blood I love most pirate/privateer/naval stories and movies
(And i'm the shantyman in a group that sings sea shanties)
Does this make me a nerd?

I like The Seahawk, Tresure Island, Hornblower, Captain Blood, Blackbeard the Pirate, Cutthroat Island and many others

 

[Recoleta]

In no particular order...and the first ones that came to mind:

10 Things I Hate About You
Heavyweights
Nueve Reinas (9 Queens)
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
The Kite Runner
City Slickers
Office Space
The Prestige
American Beauty
Crash

 

[ladypinkington]

Life is Beautiful
The Picture of Dorian Grey- the one with George Sanders
Death of a Scoundrel
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Best In Show
Thank You for Smoking
V for Vendetta
Dumb and Dumber
Auntie Mame- Rosalind Russell version
Pillow Talk

 

[heart]

I like Captain Blood I love most pirate/privateer/naval stories and movies
(And i'm the shantyman in a group that sings sea shanties)
Does this make me a nerd?

I like The Seahawk, Tresure Island, Hornblower, Captain Blood, Blackbeard the Pirate, Cutthroat Island and many others

Damn the Defiant!

Tai Pan

Age of Sail geekism! ya!

 

[Sarcasticus]

Hmm, I will instead choose to mention movies that are on my list that NO one else mentioned so far:
...
- Memento
...

Can't believe we got this far in the thread without someone naming that one.

 

[colmena]

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[Jeffster]

The Shawshank Redemption
Philadelphia
The Neverending Story
Back to the Future
50 First Dates
Speed
Finding Nemo
Field of Dreams
Austin Powers
Airplane!

Way, way too hard narrowing it down to 10.

 

[Samuel De Mazarin]

No qualitative ordering:

- The Star Wars Trilogy <-- I don't remember seeing this listed! What?!
- Fight Club
- Wings of Desire
- The Apu Trilogy (by Satyajit Ray... if you haven't seen this, then you don't know classic film)
- Hara Kiri (Kobayashi)
- A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey... (Kubrick flicks)
- Godfather I & II and Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
- Death of a Salesman (the Dustin Hoffman one... amazing...)
- The Rocky films (I - IV)
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... Spring (a film by Korean director Kim-Ki Dok... a wonderful filmic summary of Buddhist philosophy)
- pretty much all Kurosawa (particularly his Shakespeare adaptations)
- Man Bites Dog (a French film)
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- Mary Poppins
- The Jungle Book, Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Sword and the Stone, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty (best of Disney! they're so GOOD!)

FILMS I DIDN'T LIKE BUT KNOW ARE GOOD

Citizen Kane
Chinatown

FILMS I HATED AND UNREPENTANTLY THINK ARE SHIT

Wizard of Oz
Sound of Music

 

[Samuel De Mazarin]

I like Captain Blood I love most pirate/privateer/naval stories and movies
(And i'm the shantyman in a group that sings sea shanties)
Does this make me a nerd?

I like The Seahawk, Tresure Island, Hornblower, Captain Blood, Blackbeard the Pirate, Cutthroat Island and many others

If you like these films... and you don't burn from touching books... you should read Rafael Sabatini... he was a very wonderful writer of classy adventure-romance potboilers... I say romance in the sense of "high adventure", though all of his novels have reasonably well-done love stories intertwined in the plot...

RAFAEL SABATINI:

An absolute original... you may recognize many of his titles ... three of your favorite films are based on his work!!! Some of my favorite books by him include:

The Trampling of the Lilies (1906)

The Gates of Doom (1914)

The Sea Hawk (1915)

Scaramouche (1921)

Captain Blood (1922)

Fortune's Fool (1923)

The Carolinian (1924)

Bellarion the Fortunate (1926)

Scaramis (1936)

The Sword of Islam (1939)

Master-At-Arms (1940)

I'd start with Captain Blood and Scaramouche... also Master-At-Arms, Bellarion---, The Sea Hawk... ... the Carolinian is sweet... the rest are all great fun... very stylish writer...

 

[pure_mercury]

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A big boo-urns to Carlito's Way being so far down your list! :steam: Your top 20 or so are all great, though.

 

[colmena]

A big boo-urns to Carlito's Way being so far down your list! :steam: Your top 20 or so are all great, though.

It's really not my kind of film. And I hate how much I'm supposed to like Al Pacino. DDA was good, though.

I have 8 1/2, The Godfather, and Wild Strawberries ready and waiting to be watched, I'm getting some headphones this weekend. I'm looking forward to those films, among others.

Have you seen Time of the Gypsies? That's one I'm certainly looking forward to. That and Mahanagar, but I don't know how I'm going to get hold of the latter.

 

[colmena]

- The Apu Trilogy (by Satyajit Ray... if you haven't seen this, then you don't know classic film)

I have this on DVD. I love Ray (his b+w films, anyway). Haven't seen it yet, though. Ooh, but I'm eager and looking forward to it.

Have you seen Mahanagar?

 

[pure_mercury]

It's really not my kind of film. And I hate how much I'm supposed to like Al Pacino. DDA was good, though.

I have 8 1/2, The Godfather, and Wild Strawberries ready and waiting to be watched, I'm getting some headphones this weekend. I'm looking forward to those films, among others.

Have you seen Time of the Gypsies? That's one I'm certainly looking forward to. That and Mahanagar, but I don't know how I'm going to get hold of the latter.

No, I haven't. When I worked at Hollywood Video in high school, I would get free rentals, so I went on a foreign film binge. I am working my way through Hollywood classics, '80s movies, documentaries, and new movies on Netflix right now, but I have a lot of European and Japanese stuff in the queue. I am one of those people with a full queue at all times. Just added Reds and Sleeping Beauty (saved for DVD release).