Top 10 Movies...

Nick Cave

Nick Cave

Wrexham fan for my sins...
10 July 2004
Non football league waste land...
Wrexham AFC
As the Movie thread is so popular, to save time searching through for good picks we(I) may have missed, could you please list your top ten of all time and your top five recent films..

There are a few with similar tastes on here to me so hopefully I'll get some good calls and knowing how hard it is when people ask me to list my 10 it will take some thinking of..

I'll copy and paste all the completed lists in here to keep it tidy so any ideas and thoughts just post away..

(I'm out of ideas and films on my love film list so hopefully this will spring some I've forgotten or missed :P)...
 
Older ones like most, Shawshack, Usual Supsects, Goodfellas ect

Seven is in my top 10 with the ones above, Catch me if you Can, Blood Diamond, 300, Donnie Brasco, Memento, and Life of David Gale need a mention as well

More recently Inglorious Bastards, Hangover, The Other Guys, Superbad, Gran Torino, Slumdog Millionaire, Taken, Dark Knight

Oh and Jackass 3 if worth watching as well if you have followed them since they stared on MTV

i would have added more comedys like Step Brothers, Anchorman, Oldschool ect and filsm like Inside Man which i enjoyed but i would be here for ages :LOL:
 
Nice thread Nicholas. :)

Hmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnn.... Here we go then .......


1. Jaws
2. Goodfellas
3. Stand by Me
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Oceans Eleven
6. Midnight Run
7. Human Traffic
8. The Illusionist (Ed Norton)
9. The Score
10. Catch me if you can ​
 
1 Brassed Off
2 Novecento
3 Apocalyse Now
4 The Usual Suspects
5 Millar's Crossing
6 The Shawshank Redemption
7 One Flew over the Cucco's Nest
8 Il Meglio Giuventu
9 O Brother where Art Thou
10 Loft

*** Hoop Dreams
 
Great thread this will be....

Some real film buffs on this site...

Love the movies thread... I'll have a think about this and post soon... Important to me to get mine correct ... sad I know but hope to give some decent reccommendations to people here as well as grab some off other peoples lists.

Sod it... Here's my list but I could have named 50, these popped in to my head the quickest which must mean they made a big impact...

Se7en
Fight Club
Casino
Empire Strikes Back
I Saw The Devil
The Prestige
The Machinist
Memento
Reservoir Dogs
American History X
 
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Ouch, I just can't do a top 10 list! I have to do many of them! Don't kill me for what I'm going to do... Some may not be as good now as they were when I first watched them, but...

Top 10 western movies
- Unforgiven
- The good, the bad, the ugly
- Once upon a time in the west
- How the west was won
- The man who shot Liberty Valance
- Rio Bravo
- The searchers
- The wild bunch
- Pat Garrett & Billy the kid

Top 10 popcorn movies
- Terminator 2
- True lies
- Jaws
- Star wars
- Indiana Jones (any of the 3... the 4th doesn't exist)
- Back to the future
- Snatch
- The italian job
- Die hard
- Gremlins
- First blood (Rambo 1)
- Total recall

Top 10 Animation
- Totoro
- Porco rosso
- Mononoke
- Spirited away
- A ghost in the shell
- Akira
- Up
- Wall-e
- Shrek
- Heavy metal

Top 10 american cinema
- The quiet man
- Blade Runner
- Apocalypse Now
- Taxi Driver
- Once upon a time in America
- Raging bull
- Godfather (all 3)
- The man from earth
- Bullit
- Fight club
- Unforgiven
- A perfect world
- The sweet hereafter
- Bonnie & Clyde
- The graduate
- Modern times

Top 10 french cinema
- Any film by Jacques Tati
- Pickpocket
- La grande illusion / Pepe le Moko (or any film with Jean Gabin)
- Les yeux sans visage
- Les diaboliques
- Le cercle rouge / Le samurai (and many others from Melville)
- Bleu / Blanc / Rouge (Kieslowski trilogy)
- Les quatre cents coups
- A bout de souffle
- L'emploi du temps / Ressources humaines
- Jean de florette (and the sequel as well)
- La haine
- The professional
- La cérémonie / Rien ne va plus
- Delicatessen
- Cyrano de Bergerac

Top 10 european (non french) films
- Funny games (the original version)
- Aguirre, wrath of god
- Sommaren med Monika
- Wild strawberries
- Ordet
- Let the right one in (the original version)
- Metropolis
- Das Leben der Anderen (The life of others)
- Der Untergang (Downfall)
- Das woot
- Europa

Top 10 Italian films
- Novecento
- Cinema paradiso
- Umberto D
- Il ladro di biciclete
- Il generale della Rovere
- Stromboli
- Amarcord
- La notte
- Caro diario
- Rocco e i suoi fratelli

Top 10 Spanish films
- Placido
- El verdugo
- El sur
- El espíritu de la colmena
- Los santos inocentes
- El día de la bestia
- Pa negre
- Matador
- El orfanato
- Celda 211

Top 10 Asian films
- Panther Panchali
- Any from Kurosawa
- Any from Mizoguchi
- Any from Ozu
- Mongol
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

It's unfinished, and that's athreat!
 
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My Top 30

Once Upon a Time in America
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
Unforgiven
Stand by me
The Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
Unbreakable
The Untouchables
JFK
Die Hard
Seven
Alien
The Empire Strikes Back
Fight Club
Braveheart
Casino
The Usual Suspects
Evil Dead 2
Full Metal Jacket
Sleepy Hollow
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
The Prestige
Minority Report
Saving Private Ryan
The Silence of the Lambs
Back To The Future
Heat
The Wizard of Oz
Snatch
 
So many good films in the list of drekkard and tuta.
How could i forget Heat, one of the best movies i've ever seen.
Same for The Godfather, La Colomena, Amarcord, Der Untergang, Das Boot, La Haine and all the films of a particular french director: Louis Malle.
 
:CONFUSE: holy shit Drekkard, u have the most sophisticated taste!! some of the movies in your lists are among the most misunderstood masterpieces in cinema's history (especially Umberto d and ladri di biciclette). i also see u have a thing for italian neorealism, wich is extremely unusual for the average movie theatres public (but then again that list itself proves your taste is everything but "average" ;) ).
just one little remark though. i would classify "once upon a time in america" as an italian movie. the production was american, sure, but the director (Leone), the screenplay (Benvenuti and Gastaldi), the music (Morricone) and the editing was italian, so... :))

anyway, here's mine
la vita è bella (Benigni 1997)
modern times (Chaplin 1935?)
the great dictator (Chaplin 1940)
8 1/2 (Fellini 1963)
rear window (hitchcock mid '50s)
nuovo cinema paradiso (Tornatore 1988)
the last emperor (Bertolucci 1987)
barry lyndon (Kubric mid '70s?)
the good, the bad and the ugly (Leone 1965)
honorable mentions to: the seventh seal, on the waterfront, blade runner, il sorpasso, the usual suspects, sunset boulevard, fight club, seven, rashomon, amarcord and the first chapter of the godfather trilogy. sorry nick, but i just couldn't limit my picks to 10 movies :P
as for the top 5 recent movies list, i can't quite single out 5 movies right now, but i'll think about it and get back at u nick :))
btw what do u mean by "recent movies"? last 5 years? or maybe 10 years?

Gerd, u know i'm a good friend (although we haven't seen each others for years) of Luigi Lo Cascio, the starring actor in "la meglio gioventù". great movie btw :))
 
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Well, I studied and had a degree on cinema history. I've watched literally thousands of films, and neorrealism was a very important movement that I like a lot. I could have added a lot there: "Roma, città aperta", "Terra trema", "Otto e mezzo"...

I doubted wether put Leone last films in italian or american category. Finally I decided production was american, and since the movies talk about american history... Leone was an incredible jedi master.

But let me add some things there...

Top 10 kubrick films
- The killing
- Paths of glory
- Lolita
- Dr. Strangelove
- 2001
- The shining
- A clockwork orange
- Full metal jacket
- Barry Lindon
- Espartaco

Top 10 "I missed those in previosu lists":
- Hotaru no haka (Grave of the fireflies, the movie that made me cry the most in my life)
- Alien & Aliens
- The deer hunter
- The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
- The winslow boy
- The outlaw Josey Wales
- Capturing the friedmans
- Master and Commander
- Picnic at hanging rock
- The king of kong
- 24 hour party people
- The dead (john houston masterpiece)

Top 10 comedies:
- The life of Bryan
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Airplane
- Top secret
- The naked gun
- Duck soup
- A night at the opera
- Some like it hot
- Groundhog day (one of my fav films!)
- The sting
- Annie Hall

Top 10 Classic B/W films:
- Brief encounter
- The wages of fear
- The great dictator
- Casablanca
- Sunset boulevard
- All about eve
- Citizen kane
- The third man
- Witness for the prosecution
- Touch of evil
- The asphalt jungle
- The maltese falcon

Top 10 war films:
- Patton
- The longest day
- Platoon
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Bridge over the river Kwai
- Braveheart
- The great escape
- Army of shadows
- Ran
- Hotel Rwanda
- Cross of iron

I stop here because you maybe don't like such large posts and I'm abusing. It's just that I could make a lot of lists, it's unfair to have so many amazing titles out!
 
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Bit of a fantasy boy myself, but instead of putting in each individual move and taking up the whole 10 spots :D :-

1. Star Wars Original Trilogy (Return of the Jedi my fav)
2. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Return of the King best)
3. Aliens
4. Predator
5. Pirates of the Caribbean (Black Pearl fav)
6. Goodfellas
7. Casino
8. Perfect World
9. The Green Mile
10. Ace Ventura (fav comedy)

Some other fantastic movies such as Memento, Castaway, Unforgiven, Ace Ventura (fav comedy), Heartbreak Ridge, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Enemy Mine, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Dark Knight (not a big super-hero fan, but that was awesome, Spiderman has been excellent too).

In term of recent films, I'm not the biggest movie fan out there, so don't go trawling for movies, so can't really put a list down as I don't watch enough and haven't really saw a lot of recent movies.


FD
 
In no particular order:

  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Die Hard
  • Anchorman
  • Back to the Future
  • Indiana Jones
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Ghostbusters
  • Iron Man
  • The Dark Knight (IMAX scenes on blu-ray are stunning)
  • 3 10 to Yuma (2007)
I'm definitely what you'd call a movie connoisseur :P

Sure there's better movies out there, first one that comes to mind is The Fighter which I thought was superb, but these are ten movies I'm happy to watch over and over... and over.
 
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Master & Commander
Herz aus Glas
Stroszek
Nosferatu (both)
2001
Shaun of the Dead
I hired a Contract Killer
Kagemusha
Fellowship of the Rings
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb
 
lo zio said:
well, that explains a lot. :D :TU:
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And you also know all those films, so your taste is not average neither. :APPLAUD:

If you like neorrealism and you haven't seen much of the franch movement "poethic realism", which is a precursor before the war of the many "realisms" that would come afterwars, I think you'll love it! The movement goes on until the nouvelle vague in the 50s. The "nouvelle vague" became quickly very famous but personally find it more flashy than meaty so to speak.

Why don't people make a Top 10 of their own country? That would be great to remember films now forgotten.
 
drekkard, we are so alike in our choices of films it's not even funny.

The only difference being one of my all time favourites is Pulp Fiction.
 
In no particular order:

- There Will Be Blood
- The Empire Strikes Back + Return of the Jedi
- Kill Bill
- Event Horizon
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Beautiful film)
- Aliens
- Apocalypse Now
- Silence of the Lambs
- 3 10 To Yuma
- Kick Ass
- Inglorious Basterds
- The Darjeeling Limited
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- Jurassic Park
 
I also like the movies of the Taviani brothers...
Padre Padrone
Kaos
La Notte di San Lorenzo
Good Morning Babylon
 
mjsmith2k said:
drekkard, we are so alike in our choices of films it's not even funny.

The only difference being one of my all time favourites is Pulp Fiction.
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I liked Pulp Fiction a lot when I first watched it! But watching it again and again didn't resist as well as with classics like Blade runner, to say something. It's a bloody good movie anyway, and Tarantino is a good director. The first scene of Inglorious Bastards is a masterpiece. Great to find people with similar tastes around!

gerd said:
I also like the movies of the Taviani brothers...
Padre Padrone
Kaos
La Notte di San Lorenzo
Good Morning Babylon
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Nice movies too! I missed those in my lists... Any recommendation from Belgium that we may not know?
 
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From Belgium:

Everything from the Dardenne brothers (Rosetta is the best known, i think).
You can buy them all in al DVD-box. The Dardenne brothers can be compared with another great director i forgot to mention: Ken Loach.

Loft: a thriller which resembles some of the better De Palma movies (Body double, which i liked a lot). Director Van Looy is currently in Hollywood to do an American remake (usually those remakes suck, but since this time the original director makes the American version, there is hope).

De zaak Alzheimer (also by Van Looy)

Wait until Spring Bandini (De Ruddere) an adaptation of a John Fante novel (one of my favourite writers).

Brussels by night

Malpertuis (by Harry Kummel): a Belgium film featuring Orson Welles

Eline Vere (Harry Kummel)

Daens (Stijn Coninx)

Animation movies:

Everything from Raoul Servais and from Picha
 
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Wow, Gerd, I really didn't know anyone from that list, except the Dardenne ones and "Brussels by night". Going to check the list and try to watch some of those in May (my list of films to watch is already packed right now, so I do myself lists with things to watch alone and things to watch with my wife).
 
To be honest with you drekkard, i don't think there are really master pieces in that list except for the films by the Dardenne brothers and maybe Malpertuis.

Personally i like a good thriller and enjoyed Loft.
 
I studied cinema and did some shortfilms when I was very young. I got my degree at 21, but then I didn't find any decent job and I needed the money, so I started working in Advertising. Now I do multimedia programming and producing (from programming a game to shooting and post-producing ads and things)....

http://www.badabing.es
(that's our portfolio, though it's not updated and doesn't include TV ads).

To stay on-topic, I am downloading Malpertuis and Loft and plan to watch them next weekend!
 
Extremely difficult to choose from over a century of cinema.

Cinema Paradiso
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Korol Lir (Kozintsevs version of King Lear)
Empire Of The Sun
Donnie Darko
Amadeus
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Gandhi
Apollo 13
Alien

So many other great films that come close though.
 
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