Thread: Your top 20 favourite movies of all-time

Sans Soleil is a very interesting documentary about Japan, I saw it back in the 90s. La Jetee didn't impress me in comparison. Yeh Mirror has alot of poetry to it which is what I like. Of course Paradjanov who you list does too, in fact Pomegranates is about a poet from what I remember.

20 decent films............................

requiem for a dream
amores perros
chopper
once were warriors
the machinist
memento
romper stomper
21 grams
mulholland drive
the hours
babal
metropolis
house of fools
barry lyndon
wolf creek
the ring (both versions)
pi
apocalypse now (redux)
falling down
trainspotting

Crimson Tide
The Rock
Face Off (The epoch of action movies, unfortunately they ll never get better than this)
Red October
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers (it counts right?)
The Illusionist
Fight Club
Green Street Hooligans
Beautiful Mind
Lord of the Rings
Terminator
Pirates of the Carribean
Last of the Mohicans
Apocalypto
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Blood Diamond
Basketball Diaries
Shutter Island
Inception
Running Scared
American History X

top 3
1. The matrix trilogy (watched it who knows how many times, just a great balence of story dialogue and action)
2. K-Pax (Just a really great movie and very inspiring)
3. The Departed

Originally Posted by bdelykleon

1) La Grande Illusion
2) Sunrise
3) La règle du Jeu
4) Shadow of a Doubt
5) Les Enfants du Paradis
6) The Third Man
7) Nosferatu
8) M
9) Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
10) Once upon a time in America
11) Vertigo
12) Seven Samurai
13) Amadeus
14) Yojimbo
15) Some Like it hot
16) The seven year itch
17) Sunset boulevard
18) Tokyo Story

19) It's a wonderful life
20) Casablanca

you have amazing taste in films

I don't watch movies as much as I used to, so a lot of my favorites reflect what was popular when I was younger.

Some of my favorites (in no order)

Mullholland Drive
original Star Wars (episodes 4, 5, 6)
Indiana Jones (the first three)
What About Bob?
Groundhog Day
Ace Ventura Pet Detective I
Dumb and Dumber
The Lord of the Rings (all)
The Big Lebowski
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny
The Usual Suspects
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Pineapple Express
A Clockwork Orange
Secret Window
Spinal Tap

Have I seen 20 movies? Just kidding. Some of these might be cliche, but they're all important to me for some reason or another.

Goodfellas
The Beyond
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Ichi the Killer
The Seventh Seal
Vertigo
Tokyo Gore Police
2001
Stalker
Raging Bull
Do the Right Thing
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Unforgiven
Master of the Flying Guillotine
Taxi Driver
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Cannibal Holocaust
Dawn of the Dead (the original)
Gozu
Audition

I probably have more hates than likes...

The Tree of Life has already become my favorite movie. Move aside Shawshank, your reign is over.

A great movie I forgot to add to my list -- > Idiocracy. Hilarious!

I'm sure I will forget some gems but in no particular order:

Central Station
Tampopo
Y Tu Mam Tambien
Into the Wild
The Pillow Book
Jump Tomorrow
Le Diner de Cons
Three Seasons
Down by Law
Clerks
Young Frankenstein
Blade Runner
Kes
The Wicker Man
Withnail & I
Sleuth
Run Lola Run
Septej
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Ghost Dog

Very difficult to say, especially since I rarely watch movies at all:

1. Pixar (all of it)
2. It's a Wonderful Life

After that no particular order:

Father of the Bride (both)
Star Wars (the first three)
The Pianist
The Cinderella Man
That Darn Cat
Blackbeard's Ghost
Baby's Day Out

I can't think of many others, I'm more of a book guy.

My list changed a bit meanwhile:

1- The Phantom of the Opera
2- Inception
3- Immortal Beloved
4- Amadeus
5- Life is Beautiful
6- Edward Scissorhands
7- Pirates of the Caribbean
8- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9- Jurassic Park
10- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
11- City Lights
12- Amelie
13- The Pianist
14- E.T
15- The elephant man
16- Modern times
17- Spirited Away
18- American Beauty
19- Mulan
20- Donnie Darko

Originally Posted by Jeff N

The Tree of Life has already become my favorite movie. Move aside Shawshank, your reign is over.

Do you happen to like The Fountain as well? I heard it has similar themes with The Tree of Life.

Anyway my list (not in any order)

The Fountain
Black Swan
Cashback
Paprika
Moon
Ghost in the Shell
Kill Bill series
Pulp Fiction
My Neighbor Totoro
Castle in the Sky
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
A Clockwork Orange
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Oldboy
Thirst (Korean)
The White Ribbon
The Pianist

I will save the last two slots for The Tree of Life and Melancholia, both of which i have not watched but have high expectations.

My updated list:
Mind Game
Du Levande
2001: A Space Odyssey
Hausu
La Chute de la Maison Usher
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Rashomon
Cat Soup
The Draughtman's Contract
Grass Labyrinth
Dimensions of Dialogue
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
A Woman Under the Influence
Sedmikrásky
Der Siebente Kontinent
Sånger Från Andra Våningen
Un Homme Qui Dort
Duck Soup
Ko To Tamo Peva
The Taste of Tea

Originally Posted by Jeff N

The Tree of Life has already become my favorite movie. Move aside Shawshank, your reign is over.

I'm pretty sure it's my favorite as well. See it in theaters everyone, before it's too late! =)

It's a real masterpiece in my opinion, but even if you don't care for it the combination of visuals and classical music is worth the price of admission alone. The soundtrack includes Couperin, Smetana, Bach, Brahms, Gorecki, Holst, and a bunch of others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRYA1dxP_0

StlukesguildOhio and Dr. Mike are obviously people of class and taste, judging by their choice of films. I concur exactly with both of their lists, but would add "The Pianist" as a tour de force film of recent times.