Thread: Your top 20 favourite movies of all-time

Originally Posted by bdog

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

just an fyi, it (The Tree of Life) is now out on blu-ray/dvd. I've already purchased my copy

The Loved One
The Magic Christian
Patton
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Apocalypse Now
A Passage to India
Lawrence of Arabia
Fargo
The Game
De-Lovely
Bridges of Madison County
Barry Lyndon
Lolita I
Matrix Trilogy
Titanic
Goodfellas
Goldfinger
Ripley's Game
Sideways
To Catch a Thief

Tree of Life
Lord of the Rings
Magnolia
Lawrence of Arabia
Seven Samurai
Andrei Rublev
Ballad of Cable Hogue
El Topo
The Important Thing is To Love (L'Important C'est D'aimer)
Fitzcarraldo
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Days of Heaven
Werckmeister Harmonies
2001: A Space Odyssey
Princess Mononoke
Before Sunrise, Slacker
La Roue
Meek's Cutoff
Ivan the Terrible
Star Wars
The Idiot (Kurosawa)
Ride the High Country
Fistful of Dollars

Pineapple Express
A Clockwork Orange
The American President
Amadeus
Donnie Darko
A Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween (Carpenter and Zombie)
The Elephant Man
The Empire Strikes Back
Dazed and Confused
12 Angry Men (original, although showtime remake was pretty good)
School of Rock
The Godfather Part II
Brewster's Millions
Akira
Tron
Heathers
Wargames
The Fifth Element
Just about every film released in 1985


I think I hit 20 but these are in no order and simply were some of the first to come to mind...I've got over 2,000 dvd's and bluerays and I reckon my true top 20 list is somewhere in there; although it would have to be at least top 200 to get all the movies I truly love in there.

Originally Posted by regressivetransphobe

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Although I love the movie and anything with Conrad Veidt, what's most marked in my memory is the DVD menu — Cesare opening his eyes (this scene's so good!) with green fire behind him.

• VERTIGO (Hitchcock)
• OBSESSION (De Palma)
• COME AND SEE (Klimov)
• TAXI DRIVER (Scorsese)
• STOLEN KISSES (Truffaut)
• OPENING NIGHT (Cassavetes)
• THE WAGES OF FEAR (Clouzot)
• REPULSION (Polanski)
• SUSPIRIA (Argento)
• POINT BLANK (Boorman)
• THE RED SHOES (Powell and Pressburger)
• 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Kubrick)
• CHARLEY VARRICK (Siegel)
• DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg)
• SALESMAN (Maysles Brothers)
• THE SEARCHERS (Ford)
• THE THIRD MAN (Reed)
• ALIEN (Scott)
• MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (Corman)
• TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (Lynch)

Im so glad nearly everyones listing a Kubrick film, hes my absolute favourite.

My top 10:

Barry Lyndon
The Shining
Dr Strangelove
Heat
2001 A space odyssey
True Grit
No Country for Old Men
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Das leben der anderen
Reservoir dogs

I may post another ten after some more thought

Add Annie Hall to my list; watching Midnight in Paris reminded me how great Woody Allen is.

In no particular order:

Braveheart
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Desparado
Jaws
The Exorcist
Enter The Dragon
The Talented Mr Ripley
Rear Window
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Star wars: The Empire Strikes Back
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
Leon
Pans Labrynth
Rope
American Beauty
Snatch
The birds
Point Break
Predator

A fish called Wanda
Casablanca
Death in Venice
Dodgeball
Golden eye
Indiana Jones and the last crusade
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Star Wars Episodes IV-VI
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Matrix
The shining

Originally Posted by emiellucifuge

Im so glad nearly everyones listing a Kubrick film, hes my absolute favourite.

My top 10:

Barry Lyndon
The Shining
Dr Strangelove
Heat
2001 A space odyssey
True Grit
No Country for Old Men
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Das leben der anderen
Reservoir dogs

I may post another ten after some more thought

Ligeti

Originally Posted by ComposerOfAvantGarde

Ligeti

Strauss!

Originally Posted by emiellucifuge

Strauss!

Both Strauss's!!

Originally Posted by emiellucifuge

Strauss!

Originally Posted by Jeff N

Both Strauss's!!

Eh, I'll give this a go. Off the top of my head:

Amelie
Pierrot Le Fou
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Godfather
Il conformista
Annie Hall
Rear Window
Double Idemnity
Alphaville
Belle De Jour
Une Femme Est Une Femme
Il Gattopardo
The Stranger
La Jetee
Rope
North by Nortwest
Strangers on a Train
Notorious
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Stardust Memories
Manhattan
Zelig
Et Dieu… créa la femme
Psycho
Anatomy of a Murder
Casablanca
Duck Soup
The Last Emperor
Shichinin no Samurai
Sunset Boulevard
His Girl Friday
Masculin, féminin
Lolita

Kind of hard to limit it to 20? I'd have to add in others like M, The Third Man, 8 1/2, as well as Touch of Evil and Shoot The Piano Player, The Graduate, Eraserhead, and I quite liked Night of the Hunter.