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[JackChase007]

Grrr....I really should have put RoboCop on my list...

Although, I'm not sure which movie I'd replace with that...

[Jim]

Some very interesting choices already made. Drop Dead Fred? Wow.

But for what it's worth - on the burning building test

The Wages of Fear
Goodfellas
Peeping Tom
Ran
The Right Stuff
Lawrence of Arabia
Richard III (Olivier version)
The Night of the Hunter
The Conversation
The Sweet Smell of Success

[ray t]

FAVOURITE movie-going experiences on THE BIG SCREEN:

chronologically:

you only live twice
jaws
star wars
superman
moonraker
batman
the hunt for red october
terminator 2: judgement day
gladiator
die another day

the lion king (the animated disney movie)


favourite movies first seen on t.v./video

casablanca
samson and delilah
north by northwest
ben hur
from russia with love
thunderball
where eagles dare
on her majesty's secret service
magnum force
apocalypse now

[Genrewriter]

1. Casablanca
2. Godfather
3. Goodfellas
4. Star Wars
5. Nosferatu (1922)
6. Halloween
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Jaws
9. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
10. Frankenstein (1931)

[Athena007]

I'm adding "Equilibrium" to my list

If you've not seen that movie I HIGHLY recommend it!!!!

[Evil Doctor Cheese]

Great topic and it also gives you a good idea of what films people recommend so you can go watch them yourselves.

I'm a Hitchcock fan so I'll stick those in a seperate list!! Basically they're all fantastic... top ten though...

1. Rear Window
2. Vertigo
3. Psycho
4. Rebecca
5. Marnie
6. Rope
7. North-by-Northwest
8. Notorious
9. The Birds
10. The Trouble With Harry

Outside of those...

Clockwork Orange
Barbarella
Blow Up
Holy Smoke and The Piano by Jane Campian (wonderful, clever moving films)
The Apartment, Some Like It Hot and especially The Front Page all by Billy Wilder
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Goodfellas
Rocky Horror Picture Show and my girlfriend's favourite Clue both with Tim Curry
Erin Brocovich
and of course it never hurts to mention Raiders of The Lost Arc!

[Qwerty]

Originally posted by Evil Doctor Cheese


4. Rebecca
6. Rope
8. Notorious

Boy, I really have to see Rebecca! I almost added Rope to my list, but It's just not the very best Hitchcock can do. As for Notorious, I just bought it and love it! (It's the Criterion Collection DVD and I had no clue why Bergman was holding a cup of tea, but now I do, nasty!)

[CommanderBond]

1) Scarface (1983)
2) ANY JB MOVIE
3) Star Wars (the older ones)
4) The Ten Commandments
5) any Bruce Lee movie
6) Terminator 2: Judgement Day
7) The Bourne Identity
8)Batman Returns
9) The Matrix
10) Superman

[CommanderBond]

Originally posted by Athena007
I'm adding "Equilibrium" to my list

If you've not seen that movie I HIGHLY recommend it!!!!

i totally agree. piece of art (pun intended) if you watch the movie youll understand. Best gun fight scenes ever in my point of view. Christian Bale did an awesome job in this movie.

[Kingdom Come]

My top ten must see films - I have already seen!

[Tanger]

"Must See" as in what do you recommend other people to see, not what you WANT to see.

[americanbond]

My List - no order:

North By Northwest
Star Wars
Wall Street
Apocalypse Now
Field of Dreams
Last of the Mohicans
Goldfinger
Animal House
The Graduate
Ben-Hur

[Harmsway]

In alphabetical order:

Alien
The Elephant Man
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Mary Poppins
The Phantom of the Opera (1929 Restored Version with score by Carl Davis)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Spartacus
Vertigo
Young Frankenstein

[Almadjian]

What a great thread! I've enjoyed reading others likings of films I really enjoy. Glad to know some of us are on the same page. Here's my list of my personal favourites. I grouped them by actor. i know that there are more than one movie listed, so feel free to take your pick, one per actor:

1 CARY GRANT: TO CATCH A THIEF or NORTH BY NORTHWEST, or NOTOROIUS
2 ERROL FLYNN: ROBIN HOOD, or CAPTAIN BLOOD
3 HUMPHREY BOGART: CASABLANCE or TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, or THE MALTESE FALCON
4 WILLIAM POWELL: THE THIN MAN (SERIES)
5 JIMMY STEWART: REAR WINDOW, VERTIGO, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE
6 STEVE MCQUEEN: BULLITT, THE GREAT ESCAPE
7 LAWRENCE OLIVIER: REBECCA, WUTHERING HEIGHTS
8 ROBERT REDFORD/PAUL NEWMAN: bUTCH cASSIDY, or THE STING
9 DAVID NIVEN: PINK PANTHER
10 SEAN CONNERY THUNDERBALL or ANY CONNERY BOND MOVIE (Whoops-thanks for the spell ckeck!)

These are maybe not the "best" movies, but they are the ones I like to watch the most.

Edited by Almadjian, 08 May 2005 - 12:33 AM.

[Tanger]

Wow. I'd forgotten all about this thread. Reading through I noticed that I never even told you my Top Ten.
It's probably changed a lot since I started the thread but here goes, in alphabetical order:

Assault On Precinct 13
Goodfellas
Hard-Boiled
Jaws
North By Northwest
Reservoir Dogs
Taxi Driver
El Mariachi
The Searchers
You Can't Take It With You

[Prav_007]

Assault On Precinct 13

Interesting choice .

[trumanlodge89]

Keep in mind, I havn't been around long... so here is a group of my favorite movies...... (not in order od cinematic value, rather, in order of my personal preferance, which would explain why the godfather is third, etc...)

1) The Graduate
2) Licence to Kill
3) The Godfather
4) Chasing Amy
5) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
6) Goldfinger
7) Rudy
8) Snatch
9) Garden State
10) Best in Show (although any Christopher Guest movie will do)

[Agent 76]

no particularly order:

1 - Scarface
2 - The Godfather
3 - Gladiator
4 - Rain Man
5 - Scent of a Woman
6 - Nikita
7 - Look Who's Talking
8 - The Bourne Identity
9 - The Fugitive
10 - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

[MI-6 Director]

There are a lot of really good films out there and I always have a hard time choosing a favorite. Here is my list, in no particular order, of some top quality films.


- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

- Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

- Stalag 17

- Lawrence of Arabia

- Unforgiven

- Band of Brothers (it's actually a miniseries)

- The Deer Hunter

- Twelve Angry Men (the Henry Fonda original)

- Insomnia

- Million Dollar Baby



There are so many more great films out there I wish I could add more but the ten I listed are films I give nothing but top marks to.

I always love it when these film lists get posted on the forums. They're a big help as they remind me of the good films I've seen which I always end up putting on my shopping list. These posts also give me an idea of what to rent next time I go to the rental place.

[MI-6 Director]

Since we are all enjoying seeing other members' picks, I thought it would be interesting to put up the top 10 list from IMDb so we can do some more comparing and contrasting.


1) The Godfather

2) The Shawshank Redemption

3) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

4) The Seven Samurai

5) The Godfather PT II

6) Casablanca

7) Schindler's List

8) Pulp Fiction

9) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

10) Citizen Kane





I can't believe I completely forgot about Schindler's List, especially when I own a copy.

[00-FAN008]

10. Independence Day
9. A Time To Kill
8. Clear And Present Danger
7. Back To The Future III
6. The Chamber
5. The Invisible Man
4. Dirty Harry
3. Black Hawk Down
2. The Birds
1. 28 Days Later

[00-FAN008]

5.  Nosferatu (1922)

Very good choice.

Jaws

Now why didn't I think of that???

[Qwerty]

- Batman returns, Tim Burton is awesome in his vision of the Dark Night

Outstanding choice. Always good to see fellow admirers of that one.

[Almadjian]

Chimera01 included The Mark of Zorro (1940). Great flick! Highly recommended! You may also wish to see the 1927 version with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. A silent film, it endures because of Fairbanks himself. He performed his own stunts that are truly amazing.

Querty--Rebecca is a masterpiece.

Honorable mentions on my list include:

HARRISON FORD--Indiana Jones,(#1 and #3,--hated #2)
ORSON WELLES--The Third Man--yes Citizen Kane is the definitive Orson Welles film, but The Third Man is more of a favorite.

[Qwerty]

Querty--Rebecca is a masterpiece.

Quite. Really love that one.

[crashdrive]

Essential viewing (alphabetical):

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Bronenosets Potjomkin
• Citizen Kane
• The Exorcist
• The Godfather Part II
• The Graduate
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Raging Bull
• The Seventh Samurai
• Vertigo

Personal favorites (alphabetical):

• Die Hard
• Field of Dreams
• Fight Club
• The Godfather Part II
• Goldfinger
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Rebel Without a Cause
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Usual Suspects
• Vertigo

[crashdrive]

Best list so far: Jim's. Top notch original choices.

[freemo]

I'll now add my list of 'Must See Hitchcock' films here. (I know a couple made my other list)

In no particular order:
-North By Northwest
-The Birds
-Rear Window
-Psycho
-To Catch A Thief
-The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
-Vertigo
-Marnie
-Shadow Of A Doubt
-Dial 'M' For Murder

There's a serious lack of Rope on that list.

[Kingdom Come]

Sorry not 10! 37 instead!


The Lion In Winter (1968)
La Cabina
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Family Life
Paper Moon
Masque Of The Red Death
THX 1138
Blade Runner
Being There
Midnight Cowboy
Network
Hannibal
Wilde
Deathtrap
Sleuth
Wit
Barbarella
Scarecrow (1973)
Song Of Bernadette
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
The Game
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
On Golden Pond
What Dreams May Come
Young Frankenstein
Grey Gardens
Bad Company (1972)
Wag The Dog
Rosemary's Baby
The Name OF The Rose
The Thing [1982]
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Dead End [1937]
Seance On A Wet Afternoon
White Christmas
Wizard Of Oz
The Shining

[Catspaw]

Like everyone else, I could list dozens here. A personal list in no particular order:

Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Spartacus
The Searchers
High Noon
La Dolce Vita
Giant
Lawrence of Arabia
The Maltese Falcon
Three/Four Musketeers (Richard Lester version)

And two bonus films:

Meet John Doe
The Game