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[Osahi]

1. Casablanca
2. Once Upon a Time in America
3. In the Mood for Love
4. Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Spirited Away
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Rear Window
9. Lost in Translation
10. The Empire Strikes Back

I'll probably bang my head later for forgetting a title that could rank higher than some on this list, but as these are the first that popped in my head, they deserve their place. Stuff like 12 Angry Men, Jaws, Seven Samurai, Heat, Paths of Glory, 2001, Toy Story 3, Up, The Thin Red Line, ... spring to mind

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Comes a point where...

Pish posh!

 

[milena87]

This is extremely difficult.

1. Contact
2. Alien
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. The Seventh Seal
5. Mulholland Drive
6. Pinocchio
7. Ratatouille
8. Citizen Kane
9. Dark City
10. Serenity

edit: switched my top 3 a bit. I love them all so much, but maybe Contact is my favourite movie right now.

 

[ChryZ]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Lost in Translation
3. Pulp Fiction
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. Some Like It Hot
6. Blade Runner (Final Cut)
7. Big Trouble in Little China
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. Amélie
10. Old Boy

 

[Divius]

You're allowed to edit your list anytime within the voting period.

With this in mind, is it a smart thing you are already keeping track in a sheet? You could end up having to go back and check everything again.

 

[kinoki]

1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
3. No Country for Old Men (2007)
4. Pulp Fiction (1994)
5. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
6. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
7. Låt den rätta komma in (2008)
8. Rear Window (1954)
9. Watchmen (2009)
10. Fanny och Alexander (1982)

 

[Team Filler]

I want to make a list but I'm just so paralyzed with choice. There are so many amazing movies, I'm having an impossible time whittling it down

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

1) The Human Condition
There Will Be Blood
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ran
Boyhood
12 Years a Slave
Make Way for Tomorrow
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
La Strada
10) Late Spring


This was difficult. I wanted to limit my list to one film per director. I knew I wanted either M or Dr. Mabuse and ultimately went with Dr. Mabuse because I find the parallels with what was happening in Germany at the time to be really interesting, although I think M has one of the strongest third acts in cinema.

It was really tempting to include Kobayashi's Harakiri, which I think is a tighter and more focused film than The Human Condition, but overall safer and less ambitious.

 

[GoutPatrol]

1. Groundhog Day (1993)
2. Wall-E (2008)
3. Airplane! (1980)
4. Do the Right Thing (1989)
5. Star Wars (1977)
6. Casablanca (1942)
7. City Lights (1931)
8. The Grand Illusion (1937)
9. The Godfather (1972)
10. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

Getting a list is pretty easy with Flickchart.

 

[Randomizer123454444]

1 - The Shawshank Redemption
2 - Requiem for a Dream
3 - Blade Runner
4 - Kill Bill: Vol. 1
5 - The Fifth Element

Not as good as top 5, but still worth mentioning:

6 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7 - The Dark Knight
8 - The Matrix
9 - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
10 - The Sixth Sense

Fifth Element is a special entry, it's my most watched movie of all time. I have watched it literally 100+ times.

 

[Jables Swan]

My list:

1. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Children of Men
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. 12 Angry Men
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
7. Blade Runner
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Die Hard
10. The Lion King

I found it impossible to make a top 10 and then rank them. Some were easier than others. My top 5 is probably perfect but the others could have been swapped in and out for plenty of movies.

Honourable mentions:

The Matrix
Schinder's List
Terminator 2
The Big Lebowski
The Princess Bride
The Truman Show

And more recently:

Big Hero 6
Bird Man
Lego Movie
Boyhood
Guardians of the Galaxy

 

[peakish]

These threads always make me want to watch more movies, there are so many directors I should watch more of. This list is somewhat from winging it based on how much they've stuck with me. I think Robocop is just as fun a watch as Brazil but the latter made a much stronger impression on me even with a single viewing.

1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) A tense and terrifying gate into the hell of man.
2. Ikiru (1952)
3. Rear Window (1954) This and 12 Angry Men are great in how simple they are, doing so much with so little.
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Together with Ran made me appreciate cinematography.
5. Millennium Actress (2001)
6. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
7. Rififi (1955) Has the best pulled off heist I've seen, which also doubles as one of the most suspenseful scenes ever.
8. Brazil (1985) Bitingly bizarry, funny and frighteninig. One of my favorite things are de Niro's character, and what role he really plays (

Spoiler

none whatsoever, he's just someone in that world who actually tries doing his job

).
9. 12 Angry Men (1957)
10. Love Exposure (2008)

 

[PayOffWizard]

1. Die Hard
2. Memento
3. Aladdin
4. Leon
5. Terminator 2
6. Unforgiven
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. Drunken Master
9. Blade Runner
10. She's All That

 

[BlueDogAnchorite]

1) Return of the Jedi
2) Whiplash
3) The Dark Knight
4) Life of Pi
5) Captain America: The Winter Solder
6) Magnolia
7) The Godfather
8) Jurassic Park
9) Gone Girl
10) The Perks of Being a Wallflower

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

1-Fast & Furious 6

 

[Chainsawkitten]

1. Stalker (1979)
2. Nostalghia (1983)
3. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
4. Solaris (1972)
5. Andrei Rublev (1966)
6. Winter Light (1962)
7. Satantango (1994)
8. The Mirror (1975)
9. The Sacrifice (1986)
10. Persona (1966)

 

[EliCash]

1. Badlands (1973)
2. Annie Hall (1977)
3. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
4. The 400 Blows (1959)
5. Taxi Driver (1976)
6. The General (1928)
7. Manhattan (1979)
8. The Big Lebowski (1998)
9. Kes (1969)
10. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

11-20
Down by Law (1986)
La Strada (1954)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Wise Blood (1979)
Psycho (1960)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
The Producers (1967)

21-30
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Radio Days (1987)
After Hours (1985)
A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Raging Bull (1980)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Les Valseuses (1974)

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

1. Lilo & Stitch
2. The Lion King
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Spirited Away
6. Oldboy
7. Jurassic Park
8. Aliens
9. American Psycho
10. The Incredibles

All of them are so fucking good, and are very hard to order, but Lilo and Stitch will always be number 1 in my heart.

 

[ferrasvansen]

Damn this is hard my top 10 varies on my current mood.

1) The Shawshank Redemption
2) Schindler's List
3) Once upon a time in America
4) Midnight Cowboy
5) Ameliè
6) Ran
7) Dead Poet's Society
8) Beauty and the Beast
9) Blade Runner
10) The Day the Earth Stood Still(original not the dodge remake).

Right that's my current top 10.

 

[StopMakingSense]

1. Fargo
2. The General (Keaton)
3. Wonder Boys
4. Her
5. Ed Wood
6. Manhattan
7. Casino
8. The Long Goodbye
9. Die Hard
10. Y Tu Mamá También

 

[Dpp1978]

1 Star Wars

Empire is arguably the better film, but it needs Star Wars and Jedi to tell a complete story. Star Wars is perfectly self contained, so it is my choice.

2 Raiders of the Lost Ark

3 Jaws

4 Casablanca

5 Lawrence of Arabia

6 Charade

7 North by Northwest

8 2001: A Space Odyssey

But with the caveat it has to be seen on a huge screen. I saw it on Video and DVD several times and was luke-warm to it. But when I saw it screened at the BFI (using a 70mm print supervised and approved by Stanley Kubrick) it was one of the best cinematic experiences of my life.

9 The Incredibles

10 Once Upon a Time in the West

 

[hobblygobbly]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. The Matrix
6. Pulp Fiction
7. No Country for Old Men
8. Django Unchained
9. Inglorious Basterds
10. The Iron Giant

(yes I love Quentin Tarantino's movies)

 

[ruslandgaga]

This is so freaking hard...but here goes.

1. The Seventh Seal (Bergman)

2. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)

3. Stalker (Tarkovsky)

4. The Godfather Part I (Coppola)

5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)

6. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)

7. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)

8. Mulholland Drive (Lynch)

9. The Tree of Life (Malick)

10. Caché (Haneke)

 

[supernormal]

Top-10-Movies-Wide by S R V A S Q U E Z | instagram @DOSARTE, on Flickr


10. Wall E
9. Collateral
8. Punch Drunk Love
7. Inception
6. Se7en
5. The Wrestler
4. Up
3. The Social Network
2. Memento
1. Fight Club

 

[edotherocket]

1 The Court Jester [1955]
2 Casablanca [1942]
3 12 Angry Men [1957]
4 The 39 Steps [1935]
5 Fargo [1996]
6 Rear Window [1954]
7 Master and Commander: Far Side of the Earth [2003]
8 Ace In The Hole [1951]
9 Alien [1979]
10 Seven Brides For Seven Brothers [1954]

 

[udiie]

1. No Country For Old Men
2. Fargo
3. Die Hard
4. The Shining
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Memento
7. Zodiac
8. Alien
9. Hoop Dreams
10. Rear Window

 

[Cheebo]

Man the amount of lists in this thread that don't list any movies pre-1990 or just big blockbusters is shockingly high. To those of you, I BEG you go watch some more films. It will change your life for the better.

1. Apocalypse Now (1979)

2. Jaws (1975)

3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

5. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

6. Blade Runner (1982)

7. Rashomon (1950)

8. Taxi Driver (1976)

9. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

10. Pierrot le Fou (1965)

Bonus! 11-15 because I can't leave these guys out:

11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

12. Vertigo (1958)

13. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)

14. Annie Hall (1977)

15. Mean Streets (1973)

 

[Percy]

I'm not sure if I'd definitively call these the 'best' movies I've ever seen, but off the top of my head, the top movies that I can rewatch multiple times and not get bored with them (Which I guess amounts to the same thing) would go something like:

1. Seven Samurai
2. Predator
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. The Thing
5. Armor of God
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Battle Royale
8. Police Story
9. The Ring (Original, not the shitty US remake)
10. Star Trek 2

 

[Phinor]

1. Almost Famous
2. Lost in Translation
3. Before Sunrise
4. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
5. Gravity
6. The Departed
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Ronin
9. Into the Wild
10. Inception

Completely insane to try and create this list. A week from now I would replace half of those movies with one of the other 50 or so I had on my list of nominees. Top 4 would probably remain regardless, though positions would change. And now to watch all the movies from your top 10 lists I haven't seen yet...

 

[Mr. Sam]

Alright, I've got a list of about fifty sitting around here for situations just like this - I'll pick ten out of it and see if I can get a nice mix of genres and directors in there:

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Jaws
3. The Godfather
4. The Matrix
5. Spirited Away
6. Empire Strikes Back
7. The Evil Dead (1981)
8. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
9. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
10. The Thing (1982)

Order is almost completely random.

Honorable mentions: Blade Runner, The Big Lebowski, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Shaun of the Dead, Aliens

 

[Bearthgar]

1. Braveheart
2. Titanic
3. Empire Strikes Back
4. Conan the Barbarian (1982 of course)
5. Guardians of the Galaxy
6. There will Be Blood
7. The Addams Family
8. Terminator 2
9. The Rock
10. Avengers

 

[SuperInuit]

1. Magnolia
2. Mulholland Drive
3. The Long Goodbye
4. Throne of Blood
5. Big Trouble in Little China
6. Once Upon a Time In The West
7. Dr Zhivago
8. In A Lonely Place
9. Inherent Vice
10. McCabe and Mrs Miller

 

[Grieves]

2001
Dr Strangelove
The Thing
Jacob's Ladder
The Name of the Rose
Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolfe
Alien
Spirited Away
Full Metal Jacket
The Incredibles

 

[jesu]

1) The Deer Hunter
2) Pulp Fiction
3) Taxi Driver
4) Reservoir Dogs
5) Once Upon A Time In America
6) The Godfather Part 2
7) Goodfellas
8) The Godfather
9) Mean Streets
10) The Usual Suspects

 

[spuit*11]

 1. Yojimbo			(1961)
 2. Lawrence of Arabia		(1962)
 3. Triumph of the Will		(1935)
 4. In The Mood For Love	(2000)
 5. The Sword of Doom		(1966)
 6. Ballad of a Soldier		(1959)
 7. Late Autumn			(1960)
 8. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly	(1966)
 9. Speed Racer			(2008)
10. Casablanca			(1942)

 

[Oersted]

1. Persepolis

2. M

3. Once

4. Totoro

5. Duck Soup

6. Novelle Vague

7. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums

8. Timbuktu

9. Spring in a Small Town

10. Birds

I'm getting the sense ALIEN & Blade Runner are gonna do really well.

Its almost like this forum is full of nerds

 

[Yaponchik]

1-Fight Club
2-Requiem for a Dream
3-The Godfather
4-Donnie Darko
5-The Godfather 2
6-Passion of the Christ
7-Excalibur
8-Star Wars IV
9-Star Wars VI
10-Forrest Gump

 

[Kusagari]

1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. Seven Samurai (1954)
3. No Country For Old Men (2007)
4. Pulp Fiction (1994)
5. WALL-E (2008)
6. Oldboy (2003)
7. There Will Be Blood (2007)
8. Goodfellas (1990)
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
10. Amélie (2001)

 

[HagiG7]

1. The good the bad and the ugly
2. Once upon a time in the west
3. The Matrix
4. Forrest Gump
4. Jurassic Park
5. Lock stock and two smocking barrels
6. Oldboy (2003)
7. The Killer (1989)
8. Godfather 2
9. The Empire strikes back
10. Heat

 

[IAmRandom31]

Wow ... this is going to be HARD

I will probably rewrite this list a million times.

But ill give it my best shot.

1.) Braveheart

2.) The Goonies

3.) Blade Runner

4.) Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

5.) Willow

6.) Terminator 2

7.) The Matrix

8.) Goodfellas

9.) Tombstone

10) How to Train Your Dragon 2

Edit 1: Terminator 2 added, TDK dropped

 

[Gnome Scat]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Blade Runner
3. Shindler's List
4. Apocalypse Now
5. American Beauty
6. The Empire Strikes Back
7. Inception
8. Dr. Strangelove
9. The Godfather
10. Taxi Driver

List changes every month, I gotta watch more movies.

 

[kerotan_eater]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) - Something that needs to be seen to be understood. It defies logic. It's been a year and I still think about this film which never happens.

2. The Dark Knight (Nolan )- The action is incredibly intense, that introduction, that tunnel action sequence, the Joker.

3. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)- An action adventure drama is just to this day still amazing. I particularly love the way it manages to be subtle in so many ways.

4. The Social Network (Fincher)- An truly tense drama that works so incredibly with Sorkin's dialogue and Fincher's clinical and sharp direction.

5. Tokyo Story (Ozu) - Not a moment of this drama is not perfect in its execution.

The rest I'll just mention because I really don't have an exact order for them but I pretty much equally love all these films and ... I'm bored.

L'Atalante (Vigo) Rashomon (Kurosawa), Mulholland Drive (Lynch), Her (Jonze), Spirited Away (Miyazaki), Terminator 2 (Cameron), Titanic (Cameron) 8 and 1/2 (Fellini), Lolita (Kubrick), Barry Lyndon (Kubrick), Letters From Iwo Jima (Eastwood), Gone Girl (Fincher) The Breakfast Club (Hughes), LOTR trilogy (Jackson), 12 Angry Men (Lumet), Back to The Future 1 (Zemeckis), Adaptation (Jonze) Inglorious Basterd (Tarantino) Zodiac (Fincher) Se7en (Fincher) Fight Club (Fincher) Watchmen (Snyder) Dr Strangelove (Kubrick) Psycho (Hitchcock) Vertigo (Hitchcock) The Lion King (Allers/Minkoff), Beauty and the Beast (Trousdale/Wise) Aladdin (Clements/Musker) Anastasia (Bluth/Goldman) Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman) Donnie Darko (Kelly) Mean Girls (Waters) Nightcrawler (Gilroy) Whiplash (Chazelle) The Matrix (The Wachowski's) Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory the old one (Stuart) 10 Things I Hate About You (Junger) The Avengers (Whedon) Blade Runner (Scott) Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg) The Graduate (Nichols) Memento (Nolan) Inception (Nolan) Taxi Driver (Scorsese) The Wrestler (Aronofsky)

Welp that's about a million recommendations and I could probably gone on for a while longer ... I have no life. Anyway I'd say if you agree with 8 out of 10 of the movies that you have seen, the rest of my list might be pretty good and worth checking out

 

[allftw]

1. Fight Club (1999)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
4. A Clocwork Orange (1971)
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
6. Pulp Fiction (1994)
7. Annie Hall (1977)
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
9. In Bruges (2008)
10. Chungking Express (1994)

 

[Expendable.]

1. The Tree of Life
2. In the Mood For Love
3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
4. Au Hasard Balthazar
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
7. The Godfather
8. High and Low
9. Last Year at Marienbad
10. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

 

[mxgt]

1. Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder - 1944

2. High and Low - Akira Kurosawa - 1963

3. Harakiri - Masaki Kobayashi - 1962

4. Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky - 1979

5. Late Spring - Yasujiro Ozu - 1949

6. Blade Runner - Ridley Scott - 1982

7. Chinatown - Roman Polanski - 1974

8. Memories of Murder - Bong Joon-Ho - 2003

9. Love Exposure - Sion Sono - 2008

10. Paris, Texas Wim Wenders - 1984

 

[higgsboson1997]

1. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. The Dark Knight
4. Inception
5. The Departed
6. Birdman
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
9. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
10. Avatar

 

[higgsboson1997]

2. The Dark Knight (Nolan )- The action is incredibly intense, that introduction, that tunnel action sequence, the Joker.

What do you think about the Hong Kong sequence? I always find it stunning, and probably one of the best parts about the movies, and all my friends love it too. However, I hear very little mention of it on the internet.

 

[Extra Sauce]

1. Back to the Future
2. Groundhog Day
3. Alien
4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5. The Fly (1986)
6. The Terminator
7. Moon
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
9. Robocop
10. Evil Dead 2

 

[harSon]

With this in mind, is it a smart thing you are already keeping track in a sheet? You could end up having to go back and check everything again.

It's better to stay up to date on everything IMO. I'll know if people made edits to their posts based on the 'edited by _' at the bottom of their posts. I figure it'll be easier to make changes to 10-15% of the results I've already added, than to do hundreds of them at once

 

[omgkitty]

1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott - 1982)
2. The Third Man (Carol Reed - 1949)
3. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson - 2012)
4. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville - 1967)
5. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick - 1956)
6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman - 1966)
7. Barry Lyndon - (Stanley Kubrick - 1975)
8. 8 1/2 - (Federico Fellini - 1963)
9. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski - 1968)
10. The Red Shoes - (Powell and Pressburger - 1948)