Top 10 Movies of all time?

[fugitive]

Following on from over-rated movie thread here's my list of 10 movies I rate as the best ever:

1. Blade Runner
2. Alien
3. The Exorcist
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. Aliens
6. Predator
7. Blue Velvet
8. Silence of the Lambs
9. Deliverance
10. Videodrome

Which movies do you rate as your top 10?

 

[fitzy's_eyes]

Of all time....

10.Grease
9. Save The Last Dance
8. Legally Blonde
7. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
6. Billy Madison
5. Saving Private Ryan
4. Never Been Kissed
3. Bring It On
2. A Knights Tale
1. 10 Things I Hate About You

Special mention to...
Boyz in da Hood
Armageddon
A walk to remember
and probably heaps of others I can't remember right now!

Oh The Pirate Movie!!!!!

 

[Lionel Lyon]

Wouldn't say best ever, but these are some modern films that I liked (in no particular order):

Big Kahuna
Commandments
Shawshank Redemption
Swimming with Sharks
The Madness of King George
Eighth Day
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet
Magnolia (weird end, but here T. Cruise shows he can seriously act)

 

[FreoDocker]

I'd go with:

10. Swingers
9. Memento
8. Braindead
7. Die Hard
6. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
5. A Bronx Tale
4. Waynes World
3. Fight Club
2. Ferris Buellers Day Off
1. The Usual Suspects

 

[Clark Griswold]

1. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
2. National Lampoon's European Vacation
3. National Lampoon's Vacation
4. National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation
5. Fletch
6. Fletch Lives
7. The Three Amigos
8. Caddyshack
9. Cops and Robbersons
10. Funny Farm

 

[vergs]

can't call these the best movies of all time, but some of my favorites are -

The Matrix, Remember the Titans, Scream trilogy, Red Dragon, A Beautiful Mind.

 

[fitzy's_eyes]

Originally posted by vergs
can't call these the best movies of all time, but some of my favorites are -

The Matrix, Remember the Titans, Scream trilogy, Red Dragon, A Beautiful Mind.

See I knew that would happen....
Remember the Titans was a good movie........and a beautiful mind reminded me of Crazy Beautiful....

 

[Dan26]

A magazine correlated the votes of thousands of people and came up with the folliwng list.

1. Citizen Kane
Orson Welles (1941)

2. Vertigo
Alfred Hitch**** (1958)

3. Casablanca
Michael Curtiz (1943)

4. Schindler’s List
Steven Spielberg (1993)

5. The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola (1972)

6. It’s a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra (1946)

7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston (1948)

8. Sherlock, Jr.
Buster Keaton (1924)

9. Sunset Blvd.
Billy Wilder (1950)

10. Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn (1967)

11. On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan (1954)

12. Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder (1959)

13. JFK
Oliver Stone (1991)

14. The Searchers
John Ford (1956)

15. The Wild Bunch
Sam Peckinpah (1969)

16. The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin (1925)

17. The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola (1974)

18. E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Steven Spielberg (1982)

19. Psycho
Alfred Hitch**** (1960)

20. Gone With the Wind
Victor Fleming (1939)

21. Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean (1962)

22. The Graduate
Mike Nichols (1967)

23. Great Expectations
David Lean (1946)

24. Rear Window
Alfred Hitch**** (1954)

25. Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese (1980)

26. The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford (1940)

27. The Wizard of Oz
Victor Fleming (1939)

28. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Frank Capra (1939)

29. Dances With Wolves
Kevin Costner (1990)

30. Glory
Ed Zwick (1989)

31. Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick (1964)

32. Star Wars
George Lucas (1977)

33. The Maltese Falcon
John Huston (1941)

34. Red River
Howard Hawks (1948)

35. Raiders of the Lost Ark
Steven Spielberg (1981)

36. North By Northwest
Alfred Hitch**** (1959)

37. His Girl Friday
Howard Hawks (1940)

38. The General
Buster Keaton (1927)

39. Singin’ in the Rain
Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen (1952)

40. Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder (1944)

41. Shakespeare In Love
John Madden (1998)

42. Annie Hall
Woody Allen (1977)

43. The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler (1946)

44. The Big Sleep
Howard Hawks (1946)

45. Wuthering Heights
William Wyler (1939)

46. The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean (1957)

47. High Noon
Fred Zinnemann (1952)

48. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick (1968)

49. Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray (1955)

50. Field of Dreams
Phil Alden Robinson (1989)

51. Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino (1994)

52. East of Eden
Elia Kazan (1955)

53. Bringing Up Baby
Howard Hawks (1938)

54. From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann (1953)

55. The African Queen
John Huston (1951)

56. It Happened One Night
Frank Capra (1934)

57. Shadow of a Doubt
Alfred Hitch**** (1943)

58. Twelve Angry Men
Sidney Lumet (1957)

59. Duck Soup
Leo McCarey (1933)

60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Milos Forman (1975)

61. Paths of Glory
Stanley Kubrick (1956)

62. Midnight Cowboy
John Schlesinger (1969)

63. Anatomy of a Murder
Otto Preminger (1959)

64. The Day the Earth Stood Still
Robert Wise (1951)

65. Jaws
Steven Spielberg (1976)

66. All the President’s Men
Alan J. Pakula (1976)

67. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
George Roy Hill (1969)

68. Out of the Past
Jacques Tourneur (1947)

69. Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg (1998)

70. City Lights
Charlie Chaplin (1931)

71. Touch of Evil
Orson Welles (1958)

72. Chinatown
Roman Polanski (1974)

73. Seven
David Fincher (1995)

74. Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton (1979)

75. The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino (1978)

76. The Empire Strikes Back
Irvin Kirshner (1980)

77. Network
Sidney Lumet (1976)

78. Patton
Franklin Schaffner (1970)

79. King Kong
Merian C. Cooper (1933)

80. The Quiet Man
John Ford (1952)

81. The Adventures of Robin Hood
Michael Curtiz (1938)

82. Gandhi
Richard Attenborough (1982)

83. Lone Star
John Sayles (1996)

84. Viva Zapata!
Elia Kazan (1952)

85. The Killing
Stanley Kubrick (1956)

86. Strangers on a Train
Alfred Hitch**** (1951)

87. Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis (1994)

88. The Thin Man
W.S. Van Dyke (1934)

89. Pride of the Yankees
1942, Sam Wood (1942)

90. The Untouchables
Brian DePalma (1987)

91. A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan (1951)

92. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg (1977)

93. The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme (1991)

94. The Ox-Bow Incident
William A. Wellman (1943)

95. Fargo
Joel Coen (1996)

96. Modern Times
Charlie Chaplin (1936)

97. In a Lonely Place
Nicholas Ray (1950)

98. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Mervyn LeRoy (1932)

99. Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee (1989)

100. Pleasantville
Gary Ross (1998)

 

[Dan26]

The internet movie databse (which is the biggest movie site on the web) lists their top 250 movies of all time as voted by the users. Interestingly, they also list their 100 worst!

Internet Movie Database's top 250 movies

Internet Movie Database's bottom 100 movies

 

[hourn]

Originally posted by Dan26
The internet movie databse (which is the biggest movie site on the web) lists their top 250 movies of all time as voted by the users. Interestingly, they also list their 100 worst!

Internet Movie Database's top 250 movies

Internet Movie Database's bottom 100 movies

i was gonna post that link as well when i saw the title of the thread.

for me.


1 - Seven
2 - Silence of the Lambs
3 - Philadelphia
4 - The Omen
5 - Saving Private Ryan
6 - Mississipi Burning
7 - Shawshank Redemption
8 - The Day of the Jackal
9 - The Green Mile
10 - Gladiator
11 - Falling Down
12 - Fight Club
13 - The Rock
14 - Apocolypse Now
15 - Forrest Gump
16 - The Dirty Dozen
17 - Apollo 13
18 - Marathon Man
19 - Hunt for Red October
20 - A Few Good Men

 

[Watto]

Some of them may not be the best movies, but i enjoyed them.

My top 10....

1. Jurassic Park (1993) - Steven Spielberg - imdb rating 73% (im amazed it isn't in the top 250)
2. Lord of the rings (2001)- Peter Jackson- imdb rating 89%
3. Tremors (1990)- Ron Underwood- Just a fun filled non-think movie. genre-horror/comedy - not really horror - just a little gross. Trust me, there is nothing scary here! Hardly a horror. imdb rating 68%
4. Predator (1987) - John McTiernan - imdb rating 72% - Lean mean action with arnie, has to be in my top 3 sci-fi's.
5. Star wars: ROTJ (1983) - Richard Marquand - imdb rating 81%
6. Star wars: ANH (1977) - George Lucas - imdb rating 88% - hey, it's star wars!
7. Star wars: TESB (1980) - Irvin Kershner - imdb rating 87%
8. True Lies(1994) - James Cameron - imdb rating 70%
9. The fifth element(1997) - Luc Besson - imdb rating 70%
10. Die hard: With a Vengeance(1995) - John McTiernan - imdb rating 70% Better than all the other die hards, I think.

Although I expect to see it change a little when the two towers comes out, have great expectations of it.

Other great ones I enjoyed....

Terminator 2 (1991) - imdb rating 80% although a little depressing
Rat Race (2001) imdb rating 67% good comedy with big names
Back to the future 1(79%) and 2(67%). The third is a little boring towards the end.

 

[PrincessPark]

Going for a broad cross section of my favourites here:

1. Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
2. Gone With The Wind
3. The Blues Brothers
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5. Titanic
6. Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
7. Licence To Drive
8. My Fair Lady
9. Back To The Future(s)
10. Wayne's World

* Anything with Edward Norton
** Almost anything with Nicolas Cage

 

[Teagueybabe]

1.Dumb and Dumber
2.Ace Ventura(both of them)
3.Billy Madison
4.Now and Then
5.Saving Private Ryan
6.Not another teen movie
7.Forrest Gump
8.National Lampoons(wally world one)
9.Titanic
10.Ten things I hate about you.

 

[Sinkers_9]

1. The Castle
2. Dumb and Dumber
3. Happy Gilmore
4. The Wedding Singer
5. Duece Bigalow : Male Gigalo
6. A Night At The Roxbury
7. Ace Ventura
8. Waynes World
9. Legally Blonde
10. Cruel Intentions

 

[S.J Rollin]

Dead Poets Society should be in the top 100.

...as well as Police Academy VII "Mission to Moscow"

 

[WoeyFanclub]

1. american pie 2
2. Red dragon
3. american pie
4. Road Trip
5. Van Wilder
6. jay and silent bob strike back
7. austin Powers 3
8. Dumb and dumber
9. children of the corn
10.silence of the lambs

 

[Hawkers_here]

I have two favourites...

The Shawshank Redemption

&

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (already a classic in my eyes)

 

[clucas91]

10. Snatch
9. The Ninth Gate (Try and find that one)
8. Breaker Morant
7. The Matrix
6. Fight Club
5. Planet of the Apes (Charlton Heston one, not the new one)
4. The Blues Brothers
3. Schindlers List
2. Zulu (Michael Caine was fantastic)
1. -----

I have no idea what my first choice would be, I have seen so many movies, I have so many favourites, so many that I hate...I can't pin down one movie really.

 

[GFC MAD!]

Top 10 [in no particular order]

1. Jurrasic Park [First one only. A great story, plenty of action, and groundbreaking special effects. A great addition to my DVD collection]

2. Back To The Future Trilogy [All 3 movies are excellent]

3. The Mummy & The Mummy Returns [These movies are great. The Mummy was fantastic and The Mummy Returns was even better - great CGI, great visuals, and a storyline that keeps you interestd until the final credits]

4. The Gods Must Be Crazy [Ranks as one of the best comedies ever made. Low budget and simple slapstic - who knew a film about a coke bottle would be so funny!!]

5. Superman [The original 1978 movie. Fantasy at its best]

6. The Star Wars Series [All the Star Wars films are great - they are the perfect example of the ultimate cinema experience. The original trilogy is the best, of course, but I also add in here episodes I and II [and proably III] - as they are very good as well]

7. National Lampoon's Vacation series [All of them fit in here. They are all excellent comedy. The last one [vegas], fades away a bit, but I still love these movies [childhood favourites]]

8. The Lion King [Disneys best animated film ever. The animation is breathtaking - and it is probably the last fantastic visual film that was animated without too much aid of computer generation]

9. The James Bond series [All the James Bond flims are great - the older ones with Sean Connery even better. Great locations, plenty of action and plenty of girls - what more could you want? All plans are put on hold when a 007 movie comes on - a fantastic genre]

10. Titanic [Surprisingly, alot of people dont like this movie. I find it fantastic - the viual effects of the great ocean liner at sea were wonderfly done, the last hour sinking scenes were very well done, and the mood is set with some chilling images. Ignore the love story if you want - it is not too anoying to be honest - and just enjoy 3 hours of great cinema. Sure, we all know the ending, but I feel they made this film very well, and it is one of my all time favourites]

Special mention goes to Jaws, Planet of the Apes, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spiderman, Heart and Souls [great flick!], the Blues Brothers and most of the other classic 80's comedies.

 

[Jeffers]

my 10 all time faves are


1. Die Hard
2. There's Something about Mary
3. Starship Troopers
4. Die Hard: With a Vengence
5. Terminator 2
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. The Rock
8. Fame
9. Spiderman
10. Die Hard 2

And yes i love my action flicks!!!!

 

[Hawkers_here]

Originally posted by GFC MAD!

4. The Gods Must Be Crazy [Ranks as one of the best comedies ever made. Low budget and simple slapstic - who knew a film about a coke bottle would be so funny!!]

Jesus, you just reminded me!

MY all time favourite movie is The Gods Must Be Crazy II!

I have seen that movie approx. 200 times+

Literally, when I was a kid I would watch it once a day!

Hire it from a video store

 

[Mooster7]

10. A Clockwork Orange
9. Psycho
8. Scrooge (Allistair Simm version & only at X-Mas time)
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. Monty Python Life of Brian
5. The Godfather
4. Gone With the Wind (yes, I'm serious)
3. Patton
2. Saving Private Ryan
1. Lord of the Rings


I agree with the sentiments about 'The Gods Must Be Crazy.'

Also, any flick with lots of action, destruction, death and female nudity is a keeper straight off.

 

[Z_K]

Seven
Good Will Hunting
LOTR
Goodfellas
Godfather 1 and 2. The third was a crime.
Platoon
Caddyshack. When Bil Murray gives his "Lama" speel, I cry.

Giving and order is pointless, though Seven is no.1.

 

[Stocka]

Of course there are quite a lot of films that I have enjoyed over the years, but the following 10 would probably rank as my favourites (although it is a pretty hard job deciding really):

Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
Dr.Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
The Great Escape (John Sturges)
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie)
Heat (Michael Mann)
The 49th Parallel (Michael Powell)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchc-ck)
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah)

Other films that I rate highly include:

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
Ben Hur (William Wyler)
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
Snatch (Guy Ritchie)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchc-ck)
Read Window (Alfred Hitchc-ck)
North by North-West (Alfred Hitchc-ck)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Star Wars (George Lucas)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kirshner)
Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
Fargo (Joel Coen)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
The Dam Busters (Michael Anderson)
Two Hands (George Jordan)

And of course there are a lot more . . .

 

[tails]

Originally posted by S.J Rollin
Dead Poets Society should be in the top 100.

...as well as Police Academy VII "Mission to Moscow"

dead poets society, would be in my bottom hundred. most depressing movie of all time.