Name your favourite top ten films?

[Dr Rick]

The first one is in there as a childhood favourite I still occasionally watch. In no particular order, then:

1 Roadhouse
2 Pirate of the Caribbean (first one - an accidental work of unmixed genius)
3 Serenity
4 Pan's Labyrinth
5 Dark Knight
6 City of God
7 Withnail and I
8 Kick Ass
9 When Harry Met Sally
10 Die Hard

But I could easily have listed different ones. I see over 100 films a year at the cinema, and I like quite a lot of them.

 

[Jack Force]

Errmmm off the top of my head, in no particular order, apart perhaps from the first ones:

Time Bandits
Lord of the Rings
Unbreakable
A Matter of Life and Death
Goodfellas
Casino
Almost Famous
Anchorman
Gladiator
Excalibur

Special Mentions to films that could be in there on any given day:

Princess Bride,Sexy Beast, Iron Giant, Highlander, Snatch, Its All Gone Pete Tong, Perfect Storm, Carlitos Way, Layer Cake, Roadhouse, Lost in Translation, Gran Torino, Inception, Life of Brian plus numerous Carry on Films, particularly Dont Lose Your Head and Up the Khyber.

Still think I've forgotten to put something I really like in!

 

[Blyth Spirit]

1. North by Northwest
2. Twelve o'Clock High
3. Command Decision
4. White Heat
5. El Dorado
6. Godfather Trilogy (I really like part III)
7. Where Eagles' Dare
8. Lawrence of Arabia
9. North West Frontier
10. Brief Encounter.

I really don't do modern films, I'm afraid.

:icon_wink:

 

[missingskin]

In no particular order:-
Irreversable
Love Honour and obey
12 Monkeys
The Italian Job (not the crap remake!!!)
Bullitt
Kes
Taste of Honey
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Nil by Mouth
Scum (original version)

 

[N_Architect]

1. Heat
2. Manhunter
3. Once upon a time in America
4. Risky Business
5. The Insider
6. Kill Bill
7. Pulp fiction
8. Shrink
9. Scarface
10. Thief

 

[SoapAlchemist]

In no particular order, and no doubt with many omissions:

1. Taxi Driver
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Don't Look Now
4. American Beauty
5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
6. The Green Mile
7. Silence of the Lambs
8. Amélie
9. My Life as a Dog
10. Fight Club

Blyth Spirit - you might be interested in this if you're not already familiar with it http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=7039

 

[Blyth Spirit]

Thanks Sharon, it's the ultimate gangster film. In White Heat, Cagney just oozes menace as Cody Jarrett. Rarely see it in any lists though...

...made it Ma: top of the world!!!

In no particular order, and no doubt with many omissions:

1. Taxi Driver
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Don't Look Now
4. American Beauty
5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
6. The Green Mile
7. Silence of the Lambs
8. Amélie
9. My Life as a Dog
10. Fight Club

Blyth Spirit - you might be interested in this if you're not already familiar with it http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=7039

 

[SoapAlchemist]

One definite omission - The Piano

 

[jhclare]

10 is going to be very difficult....

1) Goodfellas
2) Shawshank Redemption
3) Jaws
4) Audition (Japanese)
5) The Fly (Goldblum)
6) Blood Simple
7) American Beauty
8) Let The Right One In (Swedish)
9) Duel
10) Ferris Bueller's Day Off

11) Ok, cheating now, but can't forget The Breakfast Club!

...or Leon! ;-)

Seen way too many films lately (all genres) with really bad acting and terrible scripts - how do these ever get approved to be made?!

And, why do they keep remaking foreign films? Can Americans not read subtitles?

John

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In no particular order:-
Irreversable

That's a very disturbing film. Worth seeing, but not sure I could call it a favourite! :s

 

[cubert]

Tron
Day after tomorrow
Wargames
Donnie Darko
Flight of the navigator
The breakfast club
The matrix
Star wars (IV, V, VI)
American pie
This is spinal tap

 

[GOLDCREST]

In no particular order....

Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Bullit
Thomas Crown affair..(the Steve Mcqueen version)
Predator
No Country for old men
Amelie
Alien
Resident Evil
Gladiator
The BFG

 

[Dave]

Tough to narrow it down to 10 and no particular order.

The Big Lebowski.
Withnail and I.
The majority of the Kevin Smith films.
The Shawshank Redemption.
Harvey.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Stir Crazy.
Young Frankenstein.
Blade Runner.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

To name but a few.

 

[Hammers81]

Probably missed loads but.....

1) Gladiator
2) Dumb & Dumber
3) Cool Hand Luke
4) Ronin
5) High Noon
6) The Hustler
7) Rocky 1-4
8) Die Hard 1-4
9) Remember the Titans
10) Love Honour and Obey

 

[cheese_dave]

Of the top of my head, and in no particular order cept for the first one...

1) LOTR without a doubt
2) Star Wars IV - A New Hope
3) Moon
4) Manhunter
5) It's A Wonderful Life
6) Alien
7) Jaws
8) Blade Runner
9) Goodfellas
10) Die Hard, The Terminator, Cloverfield, Shawshank, Pulp Fiction, Inception, blah blah blah.

If I was going to be trapped on a desert island, I'd also take the re-imagined BSG series to watch. Assuming there was electricity.

 

[amnesia]

In no particular order :

Alien
2001 - A Space Odyssey
Full Metal Jacket
Hurt Locker
Casino Royale (Daniel Craig version)
Stargate
Attack Force Z (yes, really)
Apocalypse Now
Superbad
The Money Pit

 

[Drroly]

Here's the ten that first came to my mind, so I guess theyre the most memorable:

Fv all-time: One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest
Fv Horror: The Shining
Fv war film: Stalingrad edit: tied with The Pianist
Full Metal Jacket
Dr Strangelove
Aliens
Pan's Labyrinth (I know that's not he correct translation)
The City of Lost Children
Time Bandits
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Just seen 'Up in the Air'; that's an amazing film and may make it on to my list after another viewing.