Top 50 Movies of All-Time (YOUR Favorites)...

[HaventGotALife]

This is not a classic film discussion thread. This is about the most influential films in your life.

1. Good Will Hunting
2. Lady and the Tramp
3. Atonement
4. The Bicycle Thief
5. The Dark Knight
(EDIT): 6. Les Miserables (2012)
7.In Her Shoes
8. It's a Wonderful Life
9. In the Bedroom
9. Phenomenon
11. Mona Lisa Smile
12. Black Swan
13. 12 Angry Men
14. Lincoln
15. Doubt
16. I am sam
17. The Help
18. Milk
19. Philadephia
20. Normal
21. The Shawshank Redemption
22. My Sister's Keeper
23. The King's Speech
24. As Good as it Gets
25. Unbreakable
26. The Silence of the Lambs
27. All the President's Men
28. West Side Story
29. Crimson Tide
30. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
31. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
32. City of Angels
33. Blue Chips
34. Frost/Nixon
35. Road to Perdition
36. The Siege
37. Finding Forrester
38. The American President
39. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989)
40. The Cutting Edge
41. Superman II
42. Sister Act
43. Star Trek: Insurrection
44. The Other Woman
45. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
46. Die Hard
47. The Peace Maker
48. Coach Carter
49. Clerks
50. Hamlet (1990)

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Bicycle Thieves is my favorite all time. I'm happy to see it so high on your list considering most of your list is American films.

Not even going to try to order them, just in the order I think of them, with the best ones tending to be nearer to the top.

Bicycle Thieves
Persona
Taxi Driver
Sunrise
Chinatown
Children of Men
Andrei Rublev
The Mirror
M
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Chimes at Midnight
Vertigo
Chungking Express
Mulholland Drive
Diary of a Country Priest
Leon Morin, Priest
The Empire Strikes Back
Los Olvidados
The Human Condition
Stalker
Annie Hall
Satantango
Werckmeister Harmonies
Cleo From 5 to 7
Vagabond
Last Year In Marienbad
A idade da terra
Pulp Fiction
City Lights
Ran
Rashomon
Days of Heaven
Don't Look Now
Passion of Joan of Arc
Paris, Texas
All About Eve
8 1/2
A Woman Under The Influence
L'aventura
Napoleon (Gance)
Woman In The Dunes
The Traveling Players
A Brighter Summer Day
Eraserhead
THe Battle of Algiers
Sansho the Baliff
Fargo
Celine & Julie Go Boating
Touki Bouki

 

[HaventGotALife]

Bicycle Thieves is my favorite all time. I'm happy to see it so high on your list considering most of your list is American films.

It was hard not to include Amelie, another film I love, or Run Lola Run. I really liked the plays of Eugene O'Neill, but the movie adaptations were horrible. I just thought about films I could watch twice in one day.

 

[cardinal biggles]

In no particular order, though the ones near the top are my "comfort food" movies that I can watch over and over without getting sick of them. Also, to give myself a bit more room, I'm going to cheat and list certain trilogies as one entry.

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• The Right Stuff
• All the President's Men
• "Before" trilogy (Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight)
• Love Actually
• The Quiet Man
• Fantasia
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• The Shoes of the Fisherman
• Gettysburg
• Apocalypse Now Redux
• Field of Dreams
• Apollo 13
• Blazing Saddles
• The Blues Brothers
• Magnolia
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Star Wars (A New Hope)
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Cinema Paradiso
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Mission
• The Breakfast Club
• Toy Story trilogy
• The Godfather trilogy (yes, all three!)
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended editions)
• Henry V (1989 Branagh version)
• Shaft (1971 version)
• Duck Soup
• Cars
• Beauty and the Beast
• Harold and Maude
• Modern Times
• The Shawshank Redemption
• A Few Good Men
• Fantasia 2000
• Superman
• The Muppet Movie
• Notting Hill
• Enchanted
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Network
• Patton
• RoboCop
• Sabrina (1995 version)
• Spider-Man 2

 

[Starbreaker]

I just exported my spreadsheet from IMDB...

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Prestige
Star Trek
Adaptation
Inglourious Basterds
Alien
Pan's Labyrinth
The Descent
The Orphanage
Avatar
Aliens
Gravity
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
28 Days Later...
Children of Men
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Zodiac
Casino Royale
Match Point
Black Swan
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Silence of the Lambs
The Fountain
Match Point
The King's Speech
The Pianist
The Lion King
City of God
(500) Days of Summer
Spider-Man 2
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Wars
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
The Last Emperor
Frankenstein
Solaris
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th Part 2
Star Trek Into Darkness
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games
Inception
Into the Wild
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Amelie
Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

 

[Mistral]

50? Don't have time for that.
The World According to Garp
The Princess Bride
3 Days of the Condor
Pulp Fiction
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Citizen Kane
Its a Wonderful Life
Pretty Woman
There you go...

 

[Orac Zen]

These are in no particular order, though there are several scattered through the list I can watch over and over and over again (and have done) without ever tiring of them which should probably be somewhere near the top.

Casablanca
All About Eve
It Happened One Night
My Favourite Wife
Howards End
The Remains of the Day
The Women (original version)
Rear Window
Suspicion
Singin' in the Rain
When Harry Met Sally...
Alien
Aliens
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2001: A Space Odyssey
Forbidden Planet
Metropolis
The Philadelphia Story
The Manchurian Candidate (original version)
Ninotchka
Libelled Lady
To Kill a Mockingbird
The African Queen
The 3rd Man
The Best Years of Our Lives
Dead Again
The Wages of Fear
Laura
The Letter
Now, Voyager
Psycho
The Shop Around the Corner
Sense and Sensibility
Henry V (the Branagh version)
Bringing Up Baby
Born Yesterday
Lost Horizon
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Lantana
The Ice Storm
Sophie's Choice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources
Raise the Red Lantern
Red Sorghum
Ju Dou
Passion Fish
Love Affair (original version)
Goodbye, Mr Chips (original version)

 

[cardinal biggles]

The worst thing about putting together these lists? I've already thought of two films I neglected to mention.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

I could come up with literally hundreds of great movies I love, but these are the top fifty I actually own and can call up what I love about them most easily.

So, the Top Ten are roughly in descending order, but I really love them all almost equally.

1. The Thing
2. Die Hard
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Wrath of Khan
5. Alien
6. Predator
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. The Last Samurai
9. The Game
10. Conan the Barbarian
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The remaining forty are in alphabetical order, since putting any one above the other would take forever.

Aliens
Beauty and the Beast
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Crimson Tide
Cutthroat Island
Dredd
Galaxy Quest
Gladiator
Jaws
Kelly’s Heroes
Kingdom of Heaven
L.A. Confidential
Labyrinth
Moon
Rear Window
Return of the Jedi
Running Scared
Saving Private Ryan
Stardust
Star Wars
The Book of Eli
The Crazies (Remake)
The Ghost and the Darkness
The Hunt for Red October
The Last Boy Scout
The Last of the Mohicans
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Mummy
The Neverending Story
The Princess Bride
The Quick and the Dead
The Ring
The Secret of NIMH
The Shadow
The 13th Warrior
Tombstone
Unbreakable
We’re the Millers
Where Eagles Dare
Willow

 

[tomswift2002]

I don't have time for fifty, but here are some of my Favorites:

Dick Tracy (1990)
Home Alone
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
The Man Who Saved Christmas
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Apocalypse
Revelation
Tribulation
The Night Before Christmas (1905)
The Passion Of The Christ
Diamonds Are Forever
The Grinch
Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
Dick Tracy(1937)

 

[HaventGotALife]

The worst thing about putting together these lists? I've already thought of two films I neglected to mention.

I feel your pain.